Guest Post by Paul Craig Roberts
My recent article, “No Motherhood, No People” (https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2019/09/28/no-motherhood-no-people/ ) resulted in some perceptive comments. Here is one slightly edited comment:
“It’s sadly ironic that “feminism” has such disdain for femininity. Our society now heaps the most praise on women when they exhibit traditionally male traits such as strength, independence and excellence in STEM occupations. The woman who wants to marry and devote herself to being a good wife and mother, making home a safe and happy place to be, is ignored or disdained by the media.
“It’s okay for a woman to be gorgeous and have lots of sex appeal as it’s another form of power, but to devote herself to her family and sacrifice for her children, is now considered embarrassingly old-fashioned. It is universally understood that a happy childhood is the main key to creating happy, productive adults, but motherhood is being delegitimised.
“Could this be because our overlords want to create a loveless society where every man and woman are looking out only for #1?
“Mothers most of all LOVE, and good mothers (and fathers) raise children who are also capable of forming strong, lasting bonds with other people, and creating their own happy families some day. Love strengthens us, and the bigger our network of loved ones, the safer we are. We thrive when our lives are filled with laughter, intimacy, companionship, knowing that we matter, and that we will always matter, even when we can no longer care for ourselves.
“On a material level, when one falls, the others can raise him up, so no crisis need ever be permanent. For a person on their own, the loss of a job or a serious illness can drag them down so low that they may never recover. This is, of course, what our satanic rulers want: for us to be isolated, scared and vulnerable.
“Another disturbing trend is the state intervening between parents and child and superseding the parents in determining what is right for the child. For example, a woman who had just given birth refused the Vitamin K shot for her baby, and the nurse then left the room with the just-born infant, rather than letting the parents immediately hold her. It was 12 awful hours before they got their newborn back. It’s part of a trend. Parental rights are being trampled. The state, we are told, knows better than parents what is best for their child.
“I believe the ultimate goal of driving women towards careers and unattached sex is to destroy the family and eventually have children being born (possibly from test tubes) who have no parents and belong only to the state. Children outsourced to preschool, nannies and daycare, are not encultrated into family life.”
The family is under attack from more sources than feminism. Economic pressures have forced wives and mothers into the work force. Formerly the rule was that corporations had equal responsibilities to the workforce, customers, communities and shareholders. This rule gave way to the argument that corporations only have responsibility to shareholders. This new rule was enforced by Wall Street’s threat to finance takeovers of any company that did not do everything to maximize profits.
Consequently, today the only beneficiaries of corporations are shareholders. Wages are suppressed by jobs offshoring and work visas, benefits are cut, and a person’s job can disappear without a moment’s notice. Economic insecurity forces wives and mothers out of their role of providing household services into the male role of providing money.
Child Protective Services, a gestapo state organization created by wicked “child advocates,” has undermined parental authority over children. So many things now qualify as “child abuse” that children can retaliate against parental authority by calling CPS. The consequence for the child and the parents can be draconian, and this realization by parents shifts power to the child.
Recently I linked to a Russian’s view of why the modern family breaks up. He said that feminism has turned marriage into a power struggle. The woman seizes power by making the child an idol and herself his priestess, leaving the man as an economic appendage. “As a result, the entire family structure is destroyed, and the man leaves the family to find a place where he feels more comfortable. Thus the family falls apart.” https://russia-insider.com/en/culture/patriarchy-preserves-families-feminism-destroys-them/ri27459 I have seen many cases of this. It is probably the main reason that middle class wives are becoming single mothers.
Stefan Molyneux on What Feminism Has Done to Women
http://www.unz.com/video/stefanmolyneux_sugar-baby-feminism/
Molyneux makes some good points about the damage feminism has done to women. Unfortunately, to illustrate the damage he uses the feminist propagandistic portrayal of men whose interest in women is alleged to be limited to their vagina. Perhaps this is the case with promiscuous men, known in my day as “womanizers” and to the English as “rakes,” but most men want a loving, mutually supportive relationship. Men are really happy if their woman occasionally takes the sexual initiative so that they don’t always feel like supplicants and if she is passionate in their love-making.
Feminism has made such a relationship harder and harder for men to find. Indoctrinated by feminism, a woman regards her vagina as the source of her power, and expects to be paid for access whether she is a wife or one of the millions of young college girls serving as concubines to financially successful men in exchange for educational and living expenses. The college girls are selling sexual services, but the wife is also being paid. For example, her pay is her husband’s acquiescence to her having the family decision making authority. She decides where they go on vacation. What house they live in, the schools the children go to, when the kitchen and bathrooms are renovated, who their friends are. The price of resistance is a cold wife.
I don’t know how marriage is understood today. Once it was understood as a sexual contract for life that fostered faithfulness and legitimate children. Today it is no longer a sexual contract. The wife can refuse sexual access, and if the husband proceeds in the act, he can be sentenced to prison for “wife rape.” In former times, wife rape would have been an unimaginable crime. It is a new crime invented by feminism. All it takes for an angry woman to turn consensual sex into rape is an accusation. In these socially destructive ways, feminism empowers women.
Feminists have so damaged the relationship between men and women that the institution of marriage seems to be faltering. Marriage is one of the essential glues of social cohesion. There is no gain to either gender from a breakdown in social cohesion.
Feminism, large scale third world immigration, and identity politics are destroying social cohesion throughout the Western world. The civilization is really falling apart at the seams. People have some awareness of this. They have the numbers but are without leaders to organize the numbers into a mass resistance to feminists and identity politics, which have taken over the educational system and are enculturating the young with socially destructive attitudes.
For the entirely of the Western world, the end seems near in many respects.
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A man should never, under any circumstances marry a career woman because competition between spouses make for a poor matrimonial partnership.
In the 70s when my peers came of age, Helen Reddy was singing I am Woman on Johny Carson and her boob fell out of her deep v neckline and Carson put it back.
Hilarious example of equality.
sorry about that…
Satan’s greatest accomplishment is the feminist destruction of the church and family unit via power struggle with her male partner for domination of the relationship or for the role of alpha male.
The true biblical christian church is likened to a healthy God ordained bride/bridegroom relationship with Jesus as the bridegroom and headship and the church as the submissive
bride helpmate that supports the bridegroom.
Jesus/husband is to love His church/wife with everything he has and lay his life down for her while the church/wife is to honor, respect and submit to Christ/her husband.
Then all will be well.
The “No Fault Divorce Laws” were modeled after communist Bolshevik Russia. This introduction into the USA is about when traditional American marriages began their destructive decline.
Californication was the first state to pass No Fault Divorce laws. Former Governor, U.S. president and self-proclaimed conservative, and self proclaimed anti-communist Ronald Reagan signed this portion of the Communist Manifesto into American law! (Remember his whole campaign platform message was to stamp out communism?)
The National Association of Women Lawyers is the premier organization that spearheaded and lobbied for the “no-fault divorce law”, with it’s first passage in California and signed into law by so-called anti-communist Reagan.
“The earliest precedent in no-fault divorce laws was originally enacted in Russia shortly after the Bolshevik Revolution. They were legislated in the series of decrees that issued in early 1918. The decrees included nonjudicial dissolution of marriage by either party and mandatory provision of child-support.”
“In the 1925 Soviet conference to draft the Family Law of 1926, people debated whether marriages should even be registered. Nikolai Krylenko, a chief architect of the Soviet law of marriage and leading theorist of “socialist legality” in the 1920s and 1930s, described the purpose of divorce without restraint as a step toward the ultimate goal of the abolition of marriage,thereby establishing the socialist transformation of society.
So the “Divorce Industrial Complex” has it’s roots in Communism. And Communism espouses the “redistribution of wealth” concept. When wealth is redistributed
it has to come from someone and go to someone else. When a man and a woman get divorced, who is the forfeitor of wealth and who is the recipient of wealth? DUH ! This
is why a man cannot go to court against a woman and win. They serve as ‘equity courts’ to extort, i.e. redistribute the wealth away from the man to the woman.
Furthermore the CIA underwrote asshole bitch Gloria Steinem;
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gloria_Steinem#CIA_ties
More communist AmeriKan laws;
“Marriage is a civil contract to which there are three parties – the husband, the wife and the state.” –Appellate Court of Illinois, NO. 5-97-0108
“The primary control and custody of infants is with the government.” –Tillman V. Roberts. 108 So. 62
“The court stands in the position of parens patria[e] of children.“ –Ayers v. Kelley, 284 Ala. 321, 224 So.2d 673 (1969)?
“”Parens patriae,” literally “parent of the country,” refers traditionally to role of state as sovereign and guardian of persons under legal disability.”–Ex parte
Bayliss, 550 So.2d 986, 988 n. 1 (Ala.1989) (quoting Black’s Law Dictionary 1003 (5th ed.1979)).
“The state has a wide range of power for limiting parental freedom and authority in things affecting the child’s welfare… In fact, the entire familial relationship involves the State.” –Prince, 321 U.S. at 167, 64 S.Ct. at 442, 88 L.Ed. 645.
“In other words, the state is the father and mother of the child and the natural parents are not entitled to custody, except upon the state’s beneficent recognition that natural parents presumably will be the best of its citizens to delegate its custodial powers… ‘The law devolves the custody of infant children upon their parents,
not so much upon the ground of natural right in the latter, as because the interests of the children, and the good of the public, will, as a general rule, be thereby promoted.’ ” –Chandler v. Whatley, 238 Ala. 206, 208, 189 So. 751, 753 (1939) (quoting Striplin v. Ware, 36 Ala. at 89).
Now we have a nation of feral children with no direction in life and suicides at an all time high for children. But remember on any government website that has to do with children you’ll see slogans like, “Kids Count”, “It’s for the children”. That same government burned alive 80 something children at Waco Texas and murdered 250 men women and children at Wounded Knee and killed scores of children in foreign countries through sanctions, bombings and drone strikes. The evil terrorist are in Washington and it’s time to fight back instead of voting.
Voting is a slaves suggestion box.
“Now we have a nation of feral children with no direction in life…”
The number of homeless children in the US grew from 1.2 million in 2007 to 1.6 million in 2010. The United States defines homelessness per McKinney–Vento Homeless Assistance Act. The number of homeless children reached record highs in 2011, 2012, and 2013 at about three times their number in 1983. An “estimated two million [youth] run away from or are forced out of their homes each year” in the United States. The difference in these numbers can be attributed to the temporary nature of street children in the United States, unlike the more permanent state in developing countries.
Street children in the United States tend to stay in the state, 83% do not leave their state of origin. If they leave, street children are likely to end up in large cities, notably New York City, Los Angeles, Portland, Oregon, and San Francisco. Street children are predominantly Caucasian and female in the United States, and 42% identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender (LGBT). -wikipedia
Or in one of Epsteins mansions.
In other countries, they are drug runners or prostitutes. Ghizlane said the girls were trash, she probably recruited them off the streets. Nobody ever comes looking for a missing street kid.
How does it feel, how does it feel?
To be without a home
Like a complete unknown, like a rolling stone
When I lived in Houston, a co-worker and I rented a house for a while. A friend’s teen runaway was brought to our home to get her away from a pimp. She was filthy and the bathtub was disgusting after she bathed.
Three weeks on the street had aged her.
Was sad. My friend put her on a bus back to somewhere… I suspect she went back to the street. (Drugs)
When the drug culture integrated with entertainment culture I think the grasp on what truly had value was traded for all the new crap that fills all the landfills now.
“Dust! All is Dust!”
Quick! Which Dickens novel?
I don’t know but David Copperfield ended up in transit with the homeless.
‘Feminism’ is an utterly Jewish attack on the foundation of Western civilization, the family.
“…feminism and Judaism go together like Courtney Love and hitting people with microphones…”
https://forward.com/culture/2305/why-are-there-so-many-jewish-feminists/
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2007/02/cultural_marxism.html
I have had time to read the post in full and not just provide an anecdote about Helen Reddy’s little blooper on Carson. Sorry about that.
Feminism destroyed the American family. That was (perhaps) the goal the Intelligentsia set during the World War II years when they discovered the women could shift the gears of industry just as well as men and for a lot less money! There was a definite attempt to convince women there was a place for them in the workforce. There was a whole new retail industry beckoning to them. Managed by men, of course.
So, the men moved from the physically intense labor on farms and industry (as it mechanized) into middle management positions in retail businesses and other post-war industries. That went pretty well until the late 1970s and 1980s, when there was a renewed attempt to pass the Equal Rights Amendment and that brought on some affirmative action policies that altered the male/female roles in the workplace forever, though the ERA never actually passed. It was a disastrously successful PR effort… to revive the ERA for one last attempt. I think that gave us the Clintons.
I believe the 1950s imust have been just about the best time to be young and healthy in the history of this country. I truly believe there was a post-war sense of reconciliation in the way the culture shifted from agrarian to urban during the 50s, changing the demographics in most of the country’s most populated cities. The era of the 1950s brought several ethnic groups into close neighborhood contact with each other, probably for the first time since the large numbers of immigration around 1900. (The immigrants of the early 20th century tended to live in extended family groups, making entire neighborhoods in cities ethnic to a certain degree. “Little Italy” and “Little China” come to mind as examples.) I think, if the 1950s had not gotten interrupted by the turbulent 1960s, some real post-war healing and coming together could have occurred. But, alas, time marches on and so did the “Groups” seeking Equality when they really wanted only what was always Fair, but had been withheld.
I think Brown versus Board of Education is one of the most well reasoned cases ever brought before the Supreme Court. But, I do not think separate is necessarily unfair, though it is obviously not equal. There are some things which, by their very nature, can never be equal in any sense of the word. The law should recognize that equality of outcome is impossible to achieve. What you achieve is mediocrity in ALL things.
Those rules to achieve reason and fairness are no longer the case. There is a deliberate attempt to force blending. Blending of race and of gender in ways that are to many an abomination. Not because we are racist; because we cherish our ethnic heritage and do not want to see it disappear from the earth. Nor do we want to see the American Family nor the American Dream tossed away so carelessly.
How we managed to get from the 1950s to this mess we are in right now was accomplished by convincing women their role as birthmothers was worthless (abortions on demand will become abortions demanded) and then convincing men they would really prefer to be more like women to the point they wanted to BE women…
Yes, it was the Feminists of the 1960s that damaged the American Family, but first, it was the Marxists who brought the idea of a brotherhood of workers (UNION) being at least as important as the family, but at least EQUAL.
Beware all Ists and Isms.
And stop embracing communism in small stages.
The early feministas were dykes. Doc Pangloss said she attended several feminist meetings. One encounter involved a sort of self examination where they were to look at their pudenda, of course the ‘ladies’ were oh so helpful if you couldn’t identify your clitoris. Another encounter involved masturbation, she said they found out an interesting use for a basketball.
Lead, Follow or GTFO of the way;
https://nypost.com/2019/09/30/woman-quits-job-to-spoil-husband-like-a-1950s-housewife/
Trend? Anomaly? Attention Seekers? The husband sure seems to have a shit eating grin on him.
Feministas will call her a gender-traitor and a sellout. They will torch her house down in a premenstrual fury and drag the husband by the balls.
You may be right, EC. You may have called it.
“Child Protective Services, a gestapo state organization created by wicked “child advocates,” has undermined parental authority over children. So many things now qualify as “child abuse” that children can retaliate against parental authority by calling CPS.”
One of my kids had a hissy fit when she was a young teen, about not being allowed to go somewhere for an event. She spouted off that she’d call the police and CPS would take her away from us, her parents. I handed her the phone and said :”Here, see what that gets you.” and walked away. That confused the heck out of her, but then she realized what a good life she had and what a stupid, hollow threat it was – – it really helped turn her attitude around.
That’s a nice anecdote, but the reality is most kids are too stupid for their own good and will call CPS out of spite and/or for shits and giggles, consequences be damned. They don’t care until it’s too late.