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Guest Post by Jim Kunstler

The defeat of Hillary, and the elevation of the vulgar Mr. Trump, loosed a fury of women against men in America that now verges on a kind of all-consuming chaos, like those western wildfires turning every product of human endeavor in the burn-path to smoke and ash. All the sorrows of our national life are assigned lately to the wicked white male patriarchy that must be defeated to usher in a satori of female sharing-and-caring.

A case in point is Sam Harris’s dialogue on his “Waking Up”(#141) podcast with Rebecca Traister of New York Magazine, author of the new book Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women’s Anger. (Click here for the Harris-Traister chat.) There is no better interlocutor of the current right-think about men and women than Ms. Traister. She puts it across as though her brain was shot out of a cannon from a graduate seminar on “Engendering the Intellectual Space” as if there are no other points at issue in our national life than the power valences between the two sexes — and, of course, even suggesting that the human mammal comprises two sexes is a punishable offense these days.

To get a sense of the true chaos behind her argument, just have a look at the cover of Good and Mad. Notice that the blood-red title stands against a gray field of the word “F*UK” (asterisk hers) repeated 120 times on a 5 X 24 grid. Deconstruct that. Is it the generative act of copulation itself that she is inveighing against? Should it be gotten rid of? Will that solve the problems of a foundering hyper-complex industrial society?

Ms. Traister might have used the word “power” five hundred times in her conversation with the excessively gallant Sam Harris. The choo-choo train of “poststructuralist” ideology that pulled into the college scene in the 1990s, when she was a student, is based on the idea that all relations between men and women — and all human endeavor, for that matter — comes down to questions of who has power over whom. The result, naturally enough, has been an escalating power struggle between men and women that has the potential to tear this society apart.

It has already damaged our understanding of what men and women are supposed to be, and the outcome so far is that men are not sufficiently female and vice-versa. Thus the consecration of “transgender, intersex, non-binary, gender-nonconforming” states of being as heroic, and the demonizing cries of “toxic masculinity” ringing through the ivory towers, the halls of congress, and the corporate C-suites.

Much of this stems from the fact that only in the past half century have men and women tried to occupy the same work-spaces, especially in political bureaucracies. Until fairly recently, men and women existed in rather separate work-and-social worlds, with behaviors that seem weird and quaint today — for instance, the practice of men and women retiring to different rooms for conversation after a dinner party, based on the idea, possibly true, that they had categorically different interests (as suggested by James Damore in his notorious Google memo).

Now, to suggest that there was anything to these divisions of sexual space amounts to another punishable offense, but that is probably the least of the dreary consequences in this contest. The worst part is that we’re burning all our political capital in this foolishly contrived war at the expense of all the other actual tasks we face. If the US Senate put one-tenth of its attention to rebuilding the passenger rail system as it put into the furor raised by Christine Blasey Ford, we might have addressed the awful problem of our soon-to-be obsolete mass-motoring matrix. But then trains are such a male concern. They have so little to do with… feelings!

Apropos of the war between men and women itself, something really bugs me: the deliberate  and convenient overlooking of women’s sexual power over men. That is what has been absent in the #MeToo movement, and quite dishonestly so. It’s really something to see the various indignant women of cable news coming onto the flatscreen every night to inveigh against men while dressed, coiffed, and made up like thousand-dollar Las Vegas call girls — except for Rachel Maddow, of course, who opts to present as the nation’s guidance counselor.

In fact, women have tremendous sexual power over men, and it is exactly that which provokes so much of the idiotic behavior that has come to be categorized as “abuse” where men and women intersect and the mists of pheromones perplex the air. It is at least as potent as the power that men supposedly exert in politics and the workplace. And it incorporates a range of behaviors that are subtle and insidious. (Classic literature certainly understands this, but it’s being removed from the curriculum for doing that.) The failure to even acknowledge female sexual power or to dismiss it as inconsequential is just plain dirty fighting — though it’s proclaimed unselfconsciously on the cover of Rebecca Traister’s book: “F*CK, F*CK, F*CK, F*CK, F*CK. See for yourself.

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Anonymous
Anonymous

Could someone translate this into English please?

White Rationalist
White Rationalist

Women want more power, at the expense of men. Nothing new under the sun.

AC
AC

Rebecca Traister is jewish.

Monday, uggh!
Monday, uggh!

That explains it!

EL Coyote (EC)
EL Coyote (EC)

So is your momma, asshole.

steve
steve

Yeah, when the SHTF these new empowered women will gladly man the ramparts while the men peel potatoes and do the dishes. Expect this to be the case…………………..NOT

jimmieoakland
jimmieoakland

Yeah. When women are too old to be sexually attractive to men, they notice how unfair life is.

Anonymous
Anonymous

Hmmm. Any wonder MGTOW is picking up momentum?
Or why male small business owners are reluctant to hire anything but masculine men?
The feminists and all the non men want power, huh?
When the lights go out, good luck finding a man willing to restore real power where you decide to ban conservative white males and their familial traditional lifestyles.
Maybe a change of heart, and rethink this toxic masculinity ban, after some dark browns bend you over and ram home your multi culturism mandates you’re clamoring for?
A painful wake up siren will be too late, and fall on deaf ears, if any are still around.
By then, your knights in shining armor will have no more fucks left to give toward you, or yours.
Reap what you sow, bitches.
Karma ignores gender.
It’s coming.
In spades.

EL Coyote (EC)
EL Coyote (EC)

Where’s my buddy Mustang?

warren
warren

In Europe the women neutered the male population long ago, the A type males having been self selected out of the population with three major wars over a hundred years, women took over the reins of power, hence Mrs. Merkle, and decided that a nation of Cucks was not to their liking so to change that they decided to admit millions of ToxicMuslim males from the Levant MENA, this whole thing is abut replacing one race with another, eliminating the European culture of the enlightenment with the barbaric Islamic “culture” and now they are trying it over here.

hardscrabble farmer
hardscrabble farmer

To sum up the totality of the entire state of Western man in the last century with one sentence is pretty impressive.

wxtwxtr
wxtwxtr

So WWI and WWII didn’t kill all the alpha men?

hardscrabble farmer
hardscrabble farmer

Some people have power and other people want it.

The End

Montefrio

As an old guy (72) who’s less susceptible (but not exempt) to pussy power, I have to agree with my contemporary Mr. K, who apparently has experience an epiphany. Happily, I live in South America, where in large measure men are men, women are women and that’s the way we like it. Sadly, this is no longer the case up there in the Northern Hemisphere from what I see. Frankfurt School thought has put the mustard and saurkraut on your buns and y’all seem to be scarfin’ it down. Best of luck going forward!

Bob P
Bob P

There’s a great article in the Unz Review that speaks to these same issues: http://www.unz.com/article/the-criminalization-of-masculinity/

EL Coyote (EC)
EL Coyote (EC)

Fuck you Bob. Could you please speak English? The old term was ‘addressed’ not ‘speaks to’ which is pajama-boy English.

EL Coyote (EC)
EL Coyote (EC)

Oops, guess I offended the two-handed coffee sippers who think they are supping from a soup bowl. Suck it, pajama boys! Check out Admin’s “Mad World” to see how a real man uses ‘speaks to’.

Bob P
Bob P

Let me correct that for you.

Fuck you, Bob. Can you please speak English? The old term was ‘addressed,’ not ‘speak to,’ which is . . .

(I have no idea what pajama-boy English means, so I can’t comment further, except to say that if we’re supposed to use only old terms, why the hell are you using pajama boy?)

Miles Long
Miles Long

“If the US Senate put one-tenth of its attention to rebuilding the passenger rail system as it put into the furor raised by Christine Blasey Ford, we might have addressed the awful problem of our soon-to-be obsolete mass-motoring matrix. But then trains are such a male concern. They have so little to do with… feelings!”

How Freudian…

EL Coyote (EC)
EL Coyote (EC)

Miley, the train and tunnel is not Freudian, it is repressed Hollywood symbolism for sex. They used to cut away from the impending nasty to images of open windows and the curtains flapping or to images of the train sailing on the tracks with special focus on the wheels. The symbolism was sexier than the real thing that came in the 70’s, which is why nude love scenes faded away.

NatGold

What in the world is wrong between jewish men and jewish women? It’s impossible to deny that the overwhelming majority of feminist icons are/were jewish. And here you have two jews (Harris & Traister) bringing what is clearly their people’s issues and dumping them into our laps.

What gives?

EL Coyote (EC)
EL Coyote (EC)

Natty must have missed out on Portnoy’s Complaint

“In a coma! I thought she was Jewish!”

pyrrhus
pyrrhus
EL Coyote (EC)
EL Coyote (EC)

Lucky for us Hispanics there is El Doggy addressing these same concerns; fighting back, as I try to do against bureaucratic deformities of English, against the idea that women should have power for no discernible gain save their own in order to satisfy their delusion based on the argumentum ad absurdum that power should rest in the hands of the most oppressed minority which would be a disabled black transgender female Muslim Jew.

jimmieoakland
jimmieoakland

Well, whatever, but I think we can all agree that we’re glad not to be married to Ms. Traister.

Anonymous
Anonymous

To the woman he said,

“I will make your pains in childbearing very severe;
with painful labor you will give birth to children.
Your desire will be for your husband,
and he will rule over you.”

17 To Adam he said, “Because you listened to your wife and ate fruit from the tree about which I commanded you, ‘You must not eat from it,’

“Cursed is the ground because of you;
through painful toil you will eat food from it
all the days of your life.

18
It will produce thorns and thistles for you,
and you will eat the plants of the field.

19
By the sweat of your brow
you will eat your food
until you return to the ground,
since from it you were taken;
for dust you are
and to dust you will return.”

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