Guest Post by Stalky McTurk
The Battle of the Sexes has been raging now for all of my life.
I was born in 1970 and started Kindergarten in 1975. In those days Kindergarten was just a half day long. It fell out that I attended school in the afternoon, which meant that I used to watch television in the mornings. I was an avid fan of a program called The New Zoo Revue, which featured live action adults in costumes singing and dancing and generally being groovy all over the set.
I have very clear memories of one song called ‘You Lucky, Lucky Girl!’ It was all about how wonderful it was to have been born female. And I recall being extremely puzzled by it all. I had an older sister who seemed ordinary in every way. Why would the TV make such a fuss about girls? Was it somehow less fantastic to be born a boy? It confused me to the extent that it’s still seared into my mind 43 years later.
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It was my first contact with the cult of Feminism. This toxic mind rot has taken root in the souls of Western women to the detriment of us all–men, women, and children. Even those lucky, lucky girls.
Oceans of ink have been spilled on this topic, with the result that no one has drawn appreciably closer to the shores of Resolution. A lot of theories are advanced: Feminism is a gigantic test in which Western men have been challenged to prove themselves to be Alpha, and have failed. Female dysfunction comes about as a result of hormone imbalance coupled with SSRI prescription. Female nature is inherently solipsistic and parasitical. The flower of Western manhood was decimated in the meat grinders of World Wars 1 and 2, leaving a dearth of men with leadership qualities and stoic inner strength.
All of these theories may contain elements of truth, but none of them are concerned with the method by which the gyno-centric virus is transmitted in the first place, and as such are only an examination of the symptoms. Once it was understood that malaria was transmitted by mosquitos it became pointless to go on writing reams of documents detailing the fevers, chills, and attendant deaths. Instead, it was time to drain the swamps, clear cut the jungles, and build the Panama Canal. What is the primary vector by which Western women are being exposed to the disease?
I mentioned that as a young boy I was a television watcher, but in 1980 I moved into a Mennonite family and left television and the public school system behind. This was a very conservative group of people. It is probable that many would mistake them for Amish; the women of this group all wear homemade dresses and white prayer coverings. They forbid television, radio, movies, and a host of other activities considered normal forms of harmless entertainment.
Single women from this group do hold jobs outside their homes, oftentimes as a CNA or similar care giving position that doesn’t require extensive certification. Their private schools are taught by single young women of their church as well; normally the teachers quit once they get married in order to focus on homemaking. Married women virtually never work outside the home, unless they assist with their husband’s business, most typically in a clerical position. Stay at home motherhood is the norm. Higher education, as it is laughingly called, holds no interest for the majority of both sexes.
Divorce is almost nonexistant in these circles. Only one couple from that church who I knew as a young man got divorced, and it’s still a scandal 20 years later. Nearly all my friends and acquaintances from that period are married with four to six children. The men work while their wives are home raising children, tending gardens, sewing, cooking, baking, canning their own vegetables.
I don’t wish to idealized these people. They are human too, and they have their troubles and their besetting sins like everybody else. But what they DON’T have is a bunch of daughters dressing like whores and spitting in their parent’s faces. They don’t have junkies and unwed mothers; things like that are virtually unheard of. No tattoos, no piercings, no webcams. Instead they have functioning families, healthy relatiobships, and homegrown sweet corn in the late summer.
These are people who adamantly and consciously repudiate popular culture. It is my opinion that this is the reason they have escaped the scourge of Feminism as well as they have.
It’s a funny thing about television. You criticize its content, it’s vacuity, it’s time wasting propensities, and EVERYONE will agree with you. Oh yes, you’re right, it’s garbage! they all cry. Then, their loud agreements hot on their lips, they race home. To watch television.
It has been criticized virtually from its inception as a vast howling wasteland. Intelligent, passionate books have been written on its pernicious effects by Neil Postman, Jerry Mander, et al. As far as I know, no attempt has ever been made to refute the points these thoughtful men have raised. And yet…
My purpose here is not to proselytize for Christianity (although I think the Christian West can only be saved by a sincere resurrection of its Christian underpinnings). That said, there is much genuine wisdom to be found in the Bible. Consider:
But godliness with contentment is great gain. I Timothy 6:6a.
What is the goal towards which everyone is striving, if not contentment? And where is it likely to be found? In hedonism and social decay, or in quiet, orderly lives that hinge on virtue?
I keep saying television, but really it’s nearly all pop culture. Movies, music, modern books– what is the bulk of it but an engine for creating Discontent on a global scale? Children feed their minds on this comic book nonsense almost as soon as they draw breath. Everything is flashy, loud, overwhelming. Everyone is glamorous, gorgeous, and sexually surfeited. How can real life ever hope to compete? How can their own lives be satisfying when they are fed a never-ending diet of rancid fantasy?
Coca Cola spends about 5 million dollars for 30 seconds of ad time during the Super Bowl. That’s still a lot of money to 99.9% of the world’s population. Why would they do that? Spend so much money on an ad? Do they believe that tens of millions of viewers have never heard of their product, and that the ad will garner an equal number of new customers?
Of course not. They do it BECAUSE IT WORKS; because exposure to mass media still has the ability to sway opinion and manage behavior. Even among a population who has been imbibing its product since birth.
Are we to imagine that the constant Feminist themes and social programming, the violent images and so-called antiheroes, the moral rot and hedonism paraded as a prize to be sought after, will not affect the attitudes and outlook of those marinating in the garbage? Of course they will; indeed they must!
The only people who would try to peddle that ridiculous notion of harmlessness have something to sell you, and they don’t care if your children are drowning in the toilet of their creation
And now for Feminism. I believe women are far more susceptible to Group think and peer pressure than men. Pop culture has been subverting young girls into the ranks of the cult for many decades now. OF COURSE young women fall under its spell; their parents sit them down at the mouth of the sewer pipe day in and day out for all of their formative years, then fling their hands up in dismay: What could POSSIBLY have gone wrong!? Pop culture is all predicated on vanity, ego, and the elevation of the Self into quasi-godhood, with millions of screaming fans to serve as acolytes. It is uniquely designed to subvert the female psyche. In addition, the Victimhood narrative feeds into the Drama addiction, another common Achilles womb.
It is equally harmful to males but manifests itself differently in the male life; moreover, Feminism destroys men and women both since it is so destructive to family and marriage. Thus, both sexes are harmed by its poison
If one spends any time at all reading Right-leaning blogs it won’t be long until one comes across some variation of the following theme: “I’ve got my own water filtration system rigged from the carburetor of an old Kharmann Ghia, 17 semi-autos, a re-loader I machined from an empty Folger’s can, and 127 bolts of canvas and denim! Bring it on!!”
i am always struck by this kind of thing. Firstly, this attitude is largely derived, I suspect, from the very Eternal Daydream Machine I have been discussing. They are going to be Robinson Crockett, hearty and indomitable Mountain Man….just like on TV! (This is not to belittle or minimize people who have made preps for a possible Doomsday scenario. Given the state of the world such preparations show good sense. It is an attitude I am speaking of.)
Second, they are willing to go to such great lengths to prep but can’t be bothered to create a space for their families free of the influence of this degenerate pop culture that has been inflicted upon us
Now, I am aware that many people HAVE discontinued their cable subscription and so on. But it is not a widespread message, or a goal being worked toward with any kind of organization or purpose. There are dozens of websites devoted to such issues as MGTOW, Men’s Rights, PUA’s, critiques of Feminism and Western decline. And yet, anazingly, there is no disciplined, reasoned calls to abstain from the influences of pop culture, or even a very strong sense that it would be desirable to do so.
It is indispensable to genuine change to first quarantine yourself and your family from the decadence presented as entertainment as thoroughly as feasible.
This is not some crackpot theory or pie in the sky solution. As I have said, I was part of a group who did, and do, exactly what I am advocating here. It CAN be done. Indeed, it must be done or there’s little chance anything will change, or that Feminism will be overthrown and discredited.
The question posed was, What Happened To Wonen? Hostile elites working for our destruction happened to Women, and they followed the Siren song that led us here.
And now another question: where are the MEN who are willing to first discipline themselves to do what is painful and difficult? And having brought themselves into subjection to a higher goal and a nobler purpose, to enforce that new mode of living in their homes in the face of the hostility and resistance they will face initially from their wives and their children?
Anyone can buy an AK 47. It takes balls to refuse to participate in your own sugar-sprinkled spiritual suicide.
Cast down the modern idols! That is how you defeat Feminism.
There is no other way.
As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people, they which lead thee cause thee to err, and destroy the way of thy paths. Isaiah 3:12
As I said, there is much wisdom to be gleaned from the Bible. I believe this verse is an opportunity to learn from history; it certainly seems we are currently repeating it at breakneck speed.
Finally, at the risk of undermining my own message, I leave you with this. Every word of It is true.
Research who owns the media and you will have your answer. The debasement of the culture has been going on for a very long time and seems to be successful in the destruction of western society.
Yet another exceptional read posted by the administrator of TBP !
Imagine, if you will, what harm has been done to the young minds of today with over 50 ‘genders’ presented for them to ‘identify’ with !!
Feminism is akin to communism, but with female commissars whose dicta change every day…It is a product of Western abundance, and does not exist in most 3d world countries…As the Administrator has written so eloquently, Winter is coming, and with that the brutal end of feminism and the multi-genderist fantasies.
If you look into the history of communism and feminism, you’ll find some common threads leading back to the beginning of both. If you look into every socially destructive movement in our history, you will find those same threads in every last one of them.
What a great analysis of a deadly pathology that infects the West. You address two issues that cause me consternation.
Like blacks, women have been solidly placed in the Victim class to serve the interests of a power structure. Subsequently both groups have been played; legitimate grievances have been bloated and diffused to successfully inculcate a perspective of unending abuse by innumerable agents of racism and misogyny. In the wide choice of life paths now available to women, the ones who might like to focus on home and child-rearing are explicitly and implicitly mocked for being hopelessly out of touch and perhaps stupid. Should they follow their dream anyway, most will spend lonely weekdays in neighborhoods devoid of other moms and their offspring.
The Mennonites are an example of how communities used to function: children were taught by “the village” and absorbed the values of their elders. In more conventional communities, when television came along, strangers were invited into the home to become powerful teachers of values that were foreign. Over time, the teachers have become more bold in their seductive repudiation of values which lend stability to a culture. The success of their attempts coupled with the same efforts in the arts, education, politics, and other purveyors of social values have brought us the loss of cohesion which is currently manifesting quite dramatically.
To make matters worse, kids now carry in their palms television x1000. Their complete subduction into the Web of voices and teachers and entertainments is a situation whose ultimate consequences have yet to fully develop. The willing hive, I imagine, will be managed well in the not too distant future.
This SGTreport is so packed full of information about the media and propaganda I can’t begin to even summarize it. It’s well worth listening to. At about 5:30 minutes they talk about the Netflix cartoon, Big Mouth, which I posted a while back in a remark about one of Yohimbos culture posts. If you thought Netflix was sick you haven’t seen anything until you have seen a few minutes of that trash. This doesn’t really get into that part of the Big Mouth storyline, it’s just a clip to example propaganda.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6s4Yq_y2BFY
The people who own and Control the media are Jews /Liberal Progressive Anglo-Saxons who both hate Western Civilization because its foundational underpinnings are Christian which is based upon Christ Jesus who they hate with a passion.They can’t Destory Christ but they can Destory the Western Societies based upon his Principles and his Bible. They will probably be successful but the society that rises will hate Jews like the other 109 times in History when Jews have been violently removed from that given society. Apparently Jews Never learn from History.
That was great Stalky. Thank you.
Regarding feminism, women’s rights, and TV:
On the one hand, I am proud of Americans like Laura Ingraham and Sara Carter who have more balls than a lot of men I know. On the other, I tend to view TV (and technology in general) as fire. It can be both useful and dangerous.
I use various “screens” to seek knowledge but, at the same time, those screens are “programming” the deluded masses to obey.
Some believe it was Elvis Presley shaking his hips on the Ed Sullivan Shew that marked the beginning-of-the-end of culture in America. Was it that? Or was Marshall McLuhan correct and the the medium has been the message all along?
I hope you write and post more. In the meantime, your essay reminded me of the following story. I read this so long ago, I can’t remember where I first saw it, but it is an allegory I’ll never forget:
Wow, a Mennonite referencing Zappa! Strange times indeed.
Good read and great advice. He struggle with this with our own small kids – so far no TV, radio and no phones, but they do watch the occasional disney movie. I haven’t seen one yet that didn’t have some kind of message that undermines what we try to teach (and live by example.) It’s truly scary to see how active/unruly/loud/whatever kids become immediate zombies, quietly glued to the screen once it’s lit up. There’s no wonder parents have the TV raise their kids, because at least for the short term, it’s so much easier.
It’s not the gun, it’s the criminal’s use of a gun. It’s not the TV, it’s the criminal ZOG’s use of Television (and Hollywood, Banking, Corporations, the MIC, R&D, Colleges, etc). America and most everything here would be a positive asset if it was not all owned by the Evil Money Masters who serve their Lord Lucifer: John 8:44 “You are of your Father the Devil…” “They have become Death, the Destroyer of Worlds”.
TV was supposed to be a positive force in the home, and for a while, for some, it was. The early TV shows brought culture, theater, live musical performances by talented artists, and more.
Somewhere in the 60’s maybe? The people who wrote for TV decided their mission was to IMPROVE society. To reduce the racism, sexism, xenophobia and so on that marked Western societies as imperfect, backward, less than what they could be.
Unfortunately, they were wrong – the values they sought to destroy were not replaced with anything worthwhile. Instead of racism, they adopted mindless tolerance – and some things should NOT be tolerated! Instead of sexism, they adopted women’s liberation – and women who did not work outside the home were shamed. Instead of xenophobia they adopted limitless immigration – and destroyed societal cohesion.
Then the evil ones moved in and went FURTHER. To “diversity”, “social justice” and “open borders”, trying to destroy what they did not understand so greater chaos could rule. And we are reaping their whirlwind (worldwind?)
When the grid crashes their grip will be broken – but so many innocents will die. Of course, that is also what “they” wanted, so if “they” die as well it will only be justice.
The show “Married With Children” was the culmination of all of this. The man of the house being derided as a “loser shoe salesman” while his family picked his pocket. His only solace in life was porno-mags and a titty bar. Although watching Christina Applegate make her entrance (again to steal her dad’s money) only to head out again was pretty funny. What set that show apart was the characters’ vicious mocking of each other.
Every generation shakes its fist and says “these kids today!” when in reality it’s not that bad. As a kid from the 80’s and 90’s I have to say that teenagers today are quite polite. We were dropping F bombs like mad, incredibly rude, especially to each other. We should also be thankful that we have a million different outlets of entertainment and not “the cable package” of 30 years ago. That was junk TV. If you’ve ever seen these kids watch other people play video games while commenting it’s all harmless fun. If anything, they’re being raised to be TOO boring.
Yo: Yes, I’ve been Noticing all over the place for some time now. Mostly it makes me wretched, but I can’t seem to switch it off (haha!). For the record, I agree with what I gather is your overall analysis of our underlying (((Problem))).
Gayle: You bring up a good point–most communities used to function as the Mennonites still do today. Not terribly long ago they weren’t all that far out of the mainstream. I’m genuinely grateful I spent most of my early life in a community that forbade imbibing pop culture; it really puts into stark relief how low we have been brought. Also it turned me into a reader, to which I give credit for whatever independent thinking I possess.
Uncola: An excellent story! I’m saving it for future reference.
Steve: I never said I was a GOOD Mennonite 🙂
Thanks for the feedback, everyone! I was reading this website for about a year before I began posting / commenting, and I really enjoyed the discussions. I look forward to more.
Now go kill your neighbor’s TV! It will provide them with genuine novelty and they’ll thank you later on.
Feminism and pop culture = letting Toonces The Driving Cat take control of the wheel.
@ JR Wirth
“Every generation shakes its fist and says “these kids today!” when in reality it’s not that bad.”
People like to cite Socrates, who allegedly criticized the youth of Athens for their laziness and disrespect.
“The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for
authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place
of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their
households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They
contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties
at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers.”
“You see!” people exclaim. “Old fuddy-duddys have ALWAYS criticized the youth! Settle down, Rip Van Winkle! In reality it’s not that bad!”
To which I can only ask, “Where ARE Athens and the classical Greek civilization today?” Oh, that’s right– they were both destroyed and absorbed by the Romans! Maybe Socrates had a point?
Maybe the rejection of what a civilization regards as virtue and decorum is the harbinger of doom? Of a civilization in decline? An early warning system, if you will?
In short, those who use Socrates to demonstrate that all is well, and critique of the youth is pointless, are short sighted at best.
“As a kid from the 80’s and 90’s I have to say that teenagers today are quite polite. We were dropping F bombs like mad, incredibly rude, especially to each other.”
Did you regularly watch Television? R rated movies? Attend a public school? Spend a lot of time unsupervised in the company of kids with a life experience similar to your own? Have close, positive interactions with your parents?
“We should also be thankful that we have a million different outlets of entertainment and not “the cable package” of 30 years ago. That was junk TV.”
Say JR! I begin to fear that you’ve misunderstood me!
“If you’ve ever seen these kids watch other people play video games while commenting it’s all harmless fun. If anything, they’re being raised to be TOO boring.”
What you describe as “polite” and “boring” I perceive to be creepily passive. Have you ever read Letters From The Earth? It’s by Mark Twain; it was extremely funny but unfortunately quite subversive. Anyway, it’s one of the few books from the 19th century to frankly acknowledge the nearly irresistible power of lust and sexual intercourse.
Then of course you have the early pornography of the Marquis De Sade and the Memoirs of Fanny Hill, which I believe were both written in the 18th century.
The point I’m driving at is that people have been consumed with sex since Always. But recently there has been a spate of articles proclaiming that Mlillennials are having less sex. There is no evidence to suggest that this has come about as a result of a renewed interest in morality or self control.
This toxic culture is literally stripping people’s Humanity from them. These young people have lost all concept of Meaning in life, and are content to sit around playing children’s games rather than wanting to become adults in their own right. To the extent that they are having less sex! That’s a very powerful motivator; disinterest in it signals something is seriously awry in the operating system.
I find myself in the very strange position of decrying less promiscuity while holding that kind of abstinence in the highest regard.
This passivity and obsession with childish things is really quite alarming. When I was young we all wanted to be GROWNUPS. Apparently the daydream now is to play Mario Karts in flannel pajamas while ignoring girls and cars and all tokens of traditional masculinity.
The polite and boring children in great, hulking adult bodies ought to scare you. Badly.
They’re killing people’s souls. It’s criminally evil.
Stalky, now that you mention it, there have been several stories and discussions on local talk radio in the past year or so regarding the fact that so many teens now are not interested in driving. I think mostly because they interact online and text and don’t feel the need to interact in person outside of school. That would explain less sexual escapades, except when someone texts a nude pic and gets caught.
A friend has two teen children. A son who at 16 is already 6’2″ and over 200 lb. He wrestles but I don’t think anything else. In elementary school he had worked his way up to nearly black belt in Taikwando but dropped it for some reason I can’t remember. Dad is a very involved father and has taught him to shoot and fish and lots of father son things.
Dad is frustrated because son is not interested in driving and said he would just wait until his younger sister got her license and have her drive him around. Dad should probably take away the electronic gadgets but it’s none of my business.
But Godliness with contentment is great gain. I Timothy 6:6a
When belief dies, freedom begins. IGOR
“I find myself in the very strange position of decrying less promiscuity while holding that kind of abstinence in the highest regard.” What a great line…
I believe a lot of it (the slide into amoral America) was the glamorization of the the whole 60’s counterculture. Growing up in the 70’s and trying to get the “free love” and LSD thing of my older peers (to be cool) led to many “lost days” and more bad decisions, and looking back, it was of course not good for my kids either. Broken homes leave generational scars, and I’m guilty of my part.
One must remember though, that after the 1960’s things really did change in so many ways. We were “free range” kids, and the women’s lib movement meant that suddenly divorce etc was not only OK, but fashionable. Television played a large part is not only the propaganda aspect, but the simultaneous homogenization of the culture.
I was raised Catholic, and had 12 years of Catholic schooling. Even when I got off track in life, at least I knew the underlying moral code, and what the ideal should be. Christianity today is relegated to superstition by many, and the biblical principles discarded even though they represent 2,000 years of wisdom and at best lead to a better and more stable society. At worst they lead to Inquisitions, but that’s a political thing rather than the reality of Christ.
Anyway, that’s enough coffee for me. Good article.
I’d forgotten about the New Zoo Revue. Coming right at you.