The Back Of The Hand

Guest Post by The Zman

Establishment types were clucking about the news of Andrew Sullivan leaving his post at NY Magazine. He wrote a typically long winded farewell column, stating that he was being pushed out by the new woke rabble. Whether or not that is true is hard to know, as Sullivan is prone to exaggeration and hysteria, but it was accepted as true by so-called conservatives and the “old style” liberals. It was another ominous sign that the woke revolution is consolidating power.

The details of his case are not all that important, as it lines up with other incidents involving less creative story tellers. The New York Times has been dealing with a public revolt by the woke young staffers. These are mostly emotional young women of various flavors, who start sobbing whenever they hear a discouraging word. Collectively they become a storm of shrieking harpies that manages to get its way. These tantrums are now being spun as the new ideological revolution.

The incident itself offers some insight into how left-wing politics has evolved over the last decade. Sullivan is a competent and productive writer, but his insights are just banal liberal boilerplate. His act was always derivative. He is a reboot of Truman Capote or maybe the literary Liberace. He is a professional homosexual, who says harsh things about normal Americans, but in a flamboyant and flippant style. The establishment subversive always puts style over substance.

Nowadays, the outrageous gay guy act is the leisure suit of public performance. It’s not just out of style, it makes everyone stare at their shoes. In fact, gay males are now totally out of fashion on the Left. They have been replaced in the catalog with hairy Jewish guys in sundresses. In fact, the wide array of imaginary sexual identities has displaced suburban white girl feminism too. In order to get in the Progressive catalog, you better have at least two things going wrong for you.

The Sullivan incident and other similar happenings during this phase of the revolution puts the lie to the whole coalition of the fringes thing. If there was really an intelligence behind this stuff, playing four-dimensional political chess, they would not be swapping out the gays for guys in lady’s underwear. Feminists are also financially and organizationally strong. In reality, it is the old Progressive hatred of tradition manifesting itself as a quest for the novel and bizarre.

That’s the thing about the cultural revolution that gets missed. The communist revolution was serious about remaking society. They wanted to strip it down to the foundation stones and start fresh. They were even willing to tear up the foundation if they thought it necessary. The liberal democratic revolution is more like a redecorating party.  They are willing to make superficial changes, but only in the areas that people see. Sullivan was replaced by a new set of drapes and a transgender garden gnome.

The superficiality of this revolution may have been exposed by the maker of an energy drink last week. When he found out his females were going bonkers over the BLM stuff, he fired them. The Red Bull story may turn out to be an amusing turning point in the revolution. You can be sure lots of other corporate executives are looking at that story and wondering if that is not the right course. Just tell these harpies no and show them the door. The rest will pipe down in a hurry.

That was always the truth of feminism. All the bellowing about the patriarchy and male chauvinism was just a desperate cry for a firm hand. College men cruised the women’s studies department for a reason. It was where you could find the six who desperately wanted to hear she was a nine. Professional feminism was just the same thing, but the women were rapidly approaching the wall. Still, the firm hand worked just as well and it may turn out to be the antidote the woke pandemic.

This is the paradox of the cultural revolution. The Bolsheviks could carry on without liberals, monarchist and other types of socialists fighting with them for control. Once they eliminated their rivals, they set about creating their society. The same was true of the Maoists and Khmer Rouge. The old school radicals did not need the constant struggle to justify their existence. They just needed the specter of it to focus the attention of the revolution away from the failings of the revolution.

The modern radical cannot exist without the thing it is claiming as an enemy and it seeks to destroy. Black identity movements are entirety dependent on whites tolerating and indulging them. The old feminist line about a woman needing a man like a fish needs a bicycle was always just a coping mechanism. Feminism can only exist in the presence of normal males. Cultural Marxism is just the over indulged third child that endlessly acts out to get attention from her parents.

This suggests the revolution will continue until it gets the back of the hand. It will not be happy to dominate the institutions and push its opposition to the fringes. In fact, the further it pushes its opposition into the shadows, the angrier it will get, as what it wants is the confrontation. Starved of that confrontation it will grow increasingly berserk as it tries to flush out the opposition. It will endlessly provoke and harass until it gets the back of the hand it so desperately needs.

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anarchyst
anarchyst

The problem is, women want it both ways.

Women want the right to say no, even after enticing a man to be sexually active with her, even days, weeks, months, and years after the event.

Her word is to be considered sacrosanct, and must be taken as truth without question, ruining many (innocent) men’s careers and even lives, as a result.

Men are not permitted to have a defense against such accusations.

Don’t get me wrong, I have no use for serial abusers such as Harvey Weinstein and other Hollywood, political and celebrity types; they deserve ostracization and severe punishment for their actions, BUT if women want true equality they must take responsibility for their own actions. They cannot have it both ways.

All one has to do is look at the way Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas was treated by the mainstream media, who gave his accuser Anita Hill a pass, even though she followed him from job to job, without any mention of harassment.

Women want the same pay for equal work–not a problem in most cases, but if a woman cannot do the job, she then asks for special treatment because she is a woman, instead of realizing that she is not cut out for such work and should seek more suitable employment.

Men die sooner than women as they do the most hazardous work.

Multiculturalism, diversity and especially feminism are flawed concepts that equate to the serpent in the Garden of Eden.

Of course it took a female of the species to coax the male into eating of the forbidden fruit.

Another parallel example is that of the Tower of Babel in which separate cultures and languages developed.

At the risk of offending the female of the species, there were reasons why women did not achieve suffrage (the right to vote) among other things.

I realize that there are many intelligent women who do not subscribe to externalized altruism, but there are too many who do . . .

Women have a altruistic streak, which is necessary in the formation and care of their families. However, this altruism has been externalized, helped along by our enemies, caring for outsiders while neglecting the good within the family structure in–internalized altruism.

This externalized altruism has become deadly which has been put into the hands of feminists.

This externalized altruism made the communistic, so-called civil-rights movement a (hollow) success (Actually, the so-called civil-rights movement is falling apart), along with the country).

Glock-N-Load
Glock-N-Load

If women use sex as payment, they lose all victimhood per that transaction. IMO

anarchyst
anarchyst

Yep

Morongobill
Morongobill

The firm hand worked in the Old Testament, no reason it won’t work today.

The Cold Backhand of God
The Cold Backhand of God

Now who would downvote that?

Auntie Kriest
Auntie Kriest

No back-of-the-hand mamby pamby will do the job of correcting the current crop of revolutionaries who wish to defund, deconstruct and disappear the U.P*.S.A.

Smiting would work and most probably be necessary to make society peaceful and civil once again.

Oilman2
Oilman2

Nah…women haven’t changed much in spite of all the hysterics and spewing.

They want love, adoration, compliments and moar money – nothing new there….

As a man, I prefer to just walk away when they get triggered or need to throw a hissy.

I had 2 of them, and when their cycles all hit at the same time, I took my 2 boys fishing. Fishing became the code word for “time to get out of the house”.

Maybe what men need to do is moar fishing and less appeasing?

oldtimer505
oldtimer505

I think there are too many of todays males spending their time in the HBA isle at wally world or some other major retailer.

ec
ec

aisle

BUCKHED/BUY MORE AMMO
BUCKHED/BUY MORE AMMO

Women control 100% of the cootchie and 50% of the money . When they control 100% of the money, men are in deep do-do .

Women have one advantage over most men…they have as my granddad called it a “Whiz Machine” . Men have been controlled by the “Whiz Machine ” for thousands of years. Thanks Eve !

Two if by sea. Three if from within.
Two if by sea. Three if from within.

Excellent and spot on, ZMAN.
With two working to pay bills the kids are sitting in front of PlayStations while the school board does the rest.
Sadly, we set these children up to fail miserably and have statues fall on them.
(Ten year olds car-jacking in Chicago must feel awfully akin to a role in a playstation game).
I remember over 20 years ago and watching others kids and their tormented parents and thinking, Man, I need a kid to wallop someday.

ec
ec

They are doing a great job of flushing out the hidden enemy. Sexists, racists and other former oppressors are coming out of the closet vacated by gays. Soon, we will see Yokes wearing a dress, oh wait, it’s a toga with a covid-19 protective hood, tres chic!

ec
ec

It’s joke, moron. Yokes is my buddy. As for the enemy hiding, we have been forced to go underground for fear of being cancelled or worse by the BLM/Antifa Nazis. They want a fight and they are determined to flush the sexist, non-woke boomers who still believe in a binary hierarchical system from hiding. It’s more of the same effort to wrest control of the world machinery from the grip of boomers.

overthecliff
overthecliff

The useful idiots (niggers,queers,abortionists,feminists,unionists,academics,corrupt politicians) will regret the day the communists gain power. If it happens, I hope I am alive to see them loaded into the cattle cars.

William Williams
William Williams

I forget – in the camps, is the it the upper bunk for safety, or the lower bunk for convenience?

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