Guest Post by The Zman
The defining characterization of second-wave feminism, according to feminists, is that the “personal is political.” The phrase comes from an essay by feminist Carol Hanisch with the title “The Personal is Political.” Hilariously, she claimed the phrase was something all women knew and said, but was a secret until the late 1960’s. The most likely reason for her refusal to claim ownership is that she stole the idea from someone else, but feminists have always been nutty, so there’s no way to know.
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The argument is that personal experience is intertwined with larger social and political structures. One’s personal choices reveal one’s politics. Consequently, one should make personal choices that are consistent with one’s politics. Put another way, your life is your politics, so therefore politics defines your life. This was a roundabout way of attacking normal family life and traditional female roles, but it did not stop there. Defining people by their politics, and only their politics, meant that there is no escape from politics.
The irony of this is that this is perfectly consistent with how men have always understood women. Women compete with one another to establish their status in relation to men. That means for women, it is an endless competition. Therefore, politics is all consuming. Men, on the other hand, establish their status among one another. Once the pecking order is set, that’s the end of the competition. Politics is for when it is time to reset the pecking order. Otherwise, men define themselves by their role in society and their deeds.
As our society has become feminized, everything is drenched in politics. You see it with the NFL protest debacle. Men watch sports to enjoy seeing men compete with one another in ritualized combat. Men don’t care about what the combatants think about anything, including the combat. Interviews with coaches are to be focused on the strategy of the game, not the guy’s feelings about life. Player interviews are only interesting because most players are black now, so they say wacky and stupid things.
Of course, the zeal of NFL owners to include the girls is due to the understanding that their sport is never going to be popular with girls or sissies. Like boxing, it takes guts to play football. Anyone who played the game knows the risks, as they saw teammates carted off with broken bones or on backboards. Girls don’t like seeing that and they really don’t want their children doing it. The pinking of sports like football is an effort to distract the girls from the reality of the game so they don’t shut it down.
In a feminine society like ours, it is just a matter of time before masculine things like sports are either made girlish or relegated to the fringe. Boxing, for example, still exists, but only as a fringe sport done by foreigners. UFC has managed to gain an audience, but again, it is as a renegade activity, done underground and on pay-per-view. White mothers will never be taking their sons to UFC camp. They can tolerate martial arts, just as long as it is white boys in bathrobes, safely pretending to be Jackie Chan.
This is why football is so much trouble. Peak professional football was probably a dozen years ago. It was around then that white mothers, especially divorced middle-class mothers, started turning against youth football. They did not want their little baby being run over by black kids. That’s why the concussion hysteria gained traction. It’s a ready made excuse for pulling the white kids out of football, that lets white women pretend it is not racism driving their decision. After all, they loved Will Smith in the concussion movie!
It’s why the NFL’s decision to let their blacks kneel during the anthem is going to be a disaster for them. The owners signed off on it thinking it added drama and would therefore draw in girls, because girls and girly-men like drama. Instead, those kneeling black players are a stark reminder to white women that the sport of football is for violent black men, not nice suburban white boys. Youth participation in football is collapsing and this will only serve to accelerate it. The NFL has now made football anti-white and un-American.
The root cause is not the inherent danger of playing sports like football. The root is the same as it is for everything in the current crisis. The feminization of the West is turning politics into a never ending soap opera for no purpose than the perpetuation of petty gripes among the participants. Nothing gets done, because girls don’t care about deeds. They care about attention. Swedish women have turned their country into rape land, in order to get the attention of their men, who have been feminized to the point of no return.
Aristophanes wrote The Assemblywomen in 391 BC. it is a comedic play about what would happen if women assumed control. The women immediately ban private wealth and enforce sexual equality for the unattractive. It reads like an inter-sectional co-convening of the feminist study department at any university. The play was intended to use humor to criticize the Athenian ruling class. It relied on the basic understanding of the female mind and on the widely held understanding that you can never put women in charge.
For thousands of year, people understood the different roles of the sexes. Human societies, for good and ill, were organized on this understanding. Then all of a sudden, the West went crazy. Men stopped playing their role and instead handed off authority to the women. The women have set about politicizing everything and feminizing everything, including the men. They are now forcing their boys to dress as girls and pretend to be women. Everything is political, even the biology of their children
This will not end well.
Z, you are the brainy man with the words; I can’t put it in words but my guts tell me Feminization of the Military has got to end badly.
zman wrote many of HSF’s recent points regarding the pinking of this place…
“This will not end well.”
But it will end, as will all the other unsustainable exercises in futility and fantasy that are in current vogue. They are all unsustainable – and the root driver of feminine unease is a lack of _security_ . ALL women feel insecure for various reasons, some good and some bad. I would list feminine competition as a bad reason – theoretically at least, every human has some inherent worth. All can be appreciated for whom they are, as we appreciate diamonds, emeralds, rubies and so forth. But the good reasons to feel insecure are swept under the rug, considered inappropriate for public conversation, and so forth. Let’s list a few:
Foreigners are coming here and out-breeding us, so that our children must compete (and eventually conflict) with theirs
Bad decisions lead to bad outcomes, so that indulging the procreative instinct leads to poverty, ill health and early death
Government is taking so much out of the private economy that every day brings collapse closer, and it’s hard enough to garner enough resources to be comfortable NOW let alone after the mobs control the streets
But, but, but, wait – DIVERSITY is our STRENGTH, right? Sexual freedom is our RIGHT, right? The Government guarantees our freedoms, right?
Of course it will end poorly – if you can’t even talk about the problems openly using accurate and correct language, how can it end otherwise? The very tools of conversation needed to negotiate a peaceful solution are shouted down with cries of “Racist, sexist, xenophobic haters!”
It will not end well, but it will indeed end. Prepare accordingly.
In the beginning, FM, was the Word.
Accurate and correct language is kind of hard to come by these days. Especially if you want to derive meaning out of it.
BTW, I do not mind your referring to ALL Women in the manner you have done. I grew up in the 70s (aged 10 December 1971). I saw what happened on the road to equality for women. They tried to do this with the Equal Rights Amendment in 1972. Instead, the feministification* of our country has been incremental.
http://www.equalrightsamendment.org/states.htm
*I prefer feministify to feminize. I think it is more accurate and correct.
perfect comment.
” …the root driver of masculine unease is a lack of _security_. ALL men feel insecure for various reasons, some good and some bad. I would list masculine competition as a bad reason …”
“if you are male and do not feel insecure about SOMETHING then all the efforts of the Madison Avenue advertising agencies, Democratic party organizers, socialist agitators, religious leaders, governmental agents and spyops prevaricators have gone for naught.”
See below; you aren’t going to get an argument from me.
I cannot refer to ALL women, at all, and remain perfectly accurate, as each woman is her own jewel. Some are diamonds, some emeralds, some rubies … some march in the street protesting oppression they perceive as the personal has become political. Some stay home and raise their families; some are ferocious businesswomen (remember Christie Hefner? A woman running Playboy?) and some are legal eagles. You cannot lump all women any more than you can lump all men. If I over-simplified and neglected to mention that the female equivalents of Green Berets need no protection from men, then I likewise omitted the male equivalents of Polly Purebread who need protection from everyone.
Trying to communicate brings out every limitation in language, but I feel persuaded to try. If any of what I say does not apply to you personally, please realize that I did not intend it personally, and am not really trying to offend anyone at the moment. (I will anyway, but then that’s the chance you take when you roll the bones and write comments).
But then again, if you are female and do not feel insecure about SOMETHING then all the efforts of the Madison Avenue advertising agencies, Democratic party organizers, socialist agitators, religious leaders, governmental agents and spyops prevaricators have gone for naught. GOOD FOR YOU!
Hmm, time for reflection –
ALL humans tend to feel insecure. It’s both a feature and a bug – if you lived your life in total complacency you’d likely get eaten by something / someone. But it can be used to manipulate you, as all advertisers / religious leaders / politicians know (and take advantage of).
Maybe this should become an article?
I’m a teacher. Most teachers are liberal white women. Most are scared of black males because black males refuse to be beta or metrosexual wimps. Any white males that show masculine characteristics, they try to get to be less, but they aren’t afraid to interact with them as much. Liberal white women also claim they aren’t racist, but I find them to be more racist than 99.9% of white males. They also tend to be elitist and have Trump Derangement Syndrome (any white males that show support for Trump are labeled racist, even as I’ve seen some hanging out with their black and hispanic friends!).
Most white males seem to be increasingly divorced or look beaten down now by their “liberal” wives. The happy males have either a foreign traditional wife or are lucky to have found a white woman that’s not a tiring feminist. This is also why white males are starting to die off younger. Minority women have mostly been excluded from this feminist movement as their men do not have “white privilege”, but they do suffer wrath just for being male.
A world in which the men have been made insignificant is turning white families, especially poorer, into disasters just like in black families.
Many other white guys I know are starting to see it, question is will white women give up this idiocy as “liberalism” is ruining white people, black people, and the USA? My guess is no.
Liberal white women, who seem to always claim they are socialists, are the true stupid people that must be stopped.
Feminist come in two varieties: human Nitro-glycerin or incurable cancer.