Guest Post by Paul Craig Roberts
The backbone and principal resource of every country is the male heterosexual population. Without them there is no country, no births to take the place of deaths. Men have the temperament and strength to fight and to lead. They protect women and children, property, borders. They lead families, communities, businesses, and governments. That has always been their role throughout history. When men become effete, the society collapses. In America this indispensable resource is being destroyed.
It begins with boys, which means they never become men. I remember when boys were trained for leadership. They received more discipline and were given more independence than girls, who were trained for nurture and motherhood. The roles of the sexes were as distinct as the sexes. There was no such thing as a girl who wanted to be a boy or a boy who wanted to be a girl. Transgenderism is an invention of a sick and dying society.
Everything related to becoming a man has been banned. School playground fights, today an excuse to call police and arrest children, were part of growing up. Sports were where you developed confidence as you learned to catch a high fly, field a grounder, throw a strike, hit a single or a home run. Boys were encouraged. They had their own space, sandlot teams, Little League, Boy Scouts. They had after school jobs–newspaper routes, bagging groceries, cutting lawns, washing cars. Girls developed cooking skills, sewing skills, artistic skills, chaste demeanor. None of this meant that women were barred from professional lives. They were authors, Registered Nurses, accountants, para-legals, teachers, scientists, scholars.
The destruction of the male began with feminism. The feminists were the first transgender advocates. They insisted on no difference in the role of men and women. It was the feminists’ insistence that the male role was better than the female’s and that women assume male roles and male sexual promiscuity, combined with their attacks on men as misogynists, that destroyed the role of men in society. All of a sudden it was not alright for boys to have their spaces. Boy Scouts had to have girls. Little league teams had to have girls. Think about this for a minute. Parents felt they had to support the girl players. Effusive praise would follow a girl catching a high fly, fielding a grounder, getting a hit. But as these are things the boys were expected to successfully do, they didn’t get the praise, and it went on from there. As “diversity” and “multiculturalism” progressed in America, it was less safe for girls to be as independent from home as boys. The equality on which feminists insisted meant that the independence of boys had to be curtailed. Today American parents who allow their male children the independence my generation had are arrested for child endangerment.
The feminist desire to turn women into men meant a diminution of male leadership roles in society as women entered politics and corporations were pressured to create “gender balance” in executive roles and in academia. Just as white people are sidelined by the accusation that they hold back blacks, men are sidelined by the assertion that they held back women.
Years ago Christina Hoff Sommers addressed the destruction of the male role in family and society. But nothing came of her warning. No lesson was learned. Today behavioral problems of boys, declining academic performance, depression and suicides arising from the loss of their role is falsely explained as girls having better self-control, as boys’ slower development, and attributed to alleged hormonal and neurological causes. No one notices that these blamed causes are new as are the conditions. Neither cause nor conditions were present when boys had leadership roles.
The facts are bald-faced. Normal young white heterosexual males grow up in a non-merit-based society. They witness preferences for females, preferences for blacks, preferences for sexual perverts. What do the normal white men get out of it? The theft of their leadership role and blame for holding back others.
Recently I heard men of the passing generation comparing women of their time with those of today. The adoption of young women of the stripper’s G-string as beach attire, the female use of four-letter words, and so on. They all agreed that the emotional support a wife gave a husband is a thing of the past. They wondered what this means for the marriages of the younger generations. Divorce which once implied failure now has no negative connotation. Are marriages becoming commitment-free? Has marriage become a temporary sexual and economic contract that once a better one is found becomes void?
In my day boys were forbidden to bully girls. Today men are bullied by women. The role of men today is to get out of the way of women and preferred racial minorities. This is not a picture of a society that is succeeding.
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I wreath na article probably two or three years ag. It was titled “If not now, when”. I ask again, if not now, when? It may now be too late. I told you so.
Here is the link to that article. Have things gotten better?
Calling up the “army of the sensible”:
Ready Yourself for the 2024 Storms
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2023/04/ready_yourself_for_the_2024_storms.html
(Found @ Lew Rockwell’s today)
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EXCERPTS:
How is tyranny concretely to be overthrown, if it is cemented upon society by habit, privilege and propaganda? How are the people to be brought to the point where they will decide to withdraw their consent? In the first place, affirms La Boétie, not all the people will be deluded or sunk into habitual submission. There is always a more percipient elite who will understand the reality of the situation; “there are always a few, better endowed than others, who feel the weight of the yoke and cannot restrain themselves from attempting to shake it off.” These are the people who, in contrast to “the brutish mass,” possess clear and far-sighted minds, and “have further trained them by study and learning.” Such people never quite disappear from the world: “Even if liberty had entirely perished from the earth, such men would invent it.”
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The libertarian theorist Lysander Spooner, writing over four hundred years after La Boétie, propounded the similar view that the supporters of government consisted largely of “dupes” and “knaves”:
The ostensible supporters of the Constitution, like the ostensible supporters of most other governments, are made up of three classes, viz.: 1. Knaves, a numerous and active class, who see in the government an instrument which they can use for their own aggrandizement or wealth. 2. Dupes – a large class, no doubt – each of whom, because he is allowed one voice out of millions in deciding what he may do with his own person and his own property, and because he is permitted to have the same voice in robbing, enslaving, and murdering others, that others have in robbing, enslaving, and murdering himself, is stupid enough to imagine that he is a “free man,” a “sovereign”; that this is a “free government”; “a government of equal rights,” “the best government on earth,” and such like absurdities. 3. A class who have some appreciation of the evils of government, but either do not see how to get rid of them, or do not choose to so far sacrifice their private interests as to give themselves seriously and earnestly to the work of making a change.
Well, aren’t you captain sunshine……..
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Lol….3down!….awesome
God Bless!
Women were given cart blanche to be as uppity as they wanted. Maybe what’s lacking is too little “D” as in BDSM.
https://antifeministpraxis.wordpress.com/
LMFAO
Tired, disguised oblivion:
A good friends young son recently committed suicide, many ask why, it’s as plain as the nose on your face.
Same, it’s sad
Just a reminder that the 19th amendment had to be passed by men. They dug their own graves. The destruction you are seeing now began over 100 years ago. This is the poison fruit.
Everything created contains the seed of its own destruction.
You are really something
The destruction began when the real Americans, the Confederate, unfortunately lost. You can even argue that it began when the FF made the mistake of using anti-social and false arguments to justify their cause, talking about stupidity like “equality” which in practice they did not believe in because they weren’t actually stupid.
You’re right the 19th amendment was passed by men, but the men that passed the 19th amendment were not the same men to suffer it, so they did not dig their own graves.
Bullshit. The 19th passed in the same way Joe Biden won the election.
PCR needs to get out of the Beltway.
Last night my oldest son came home with pictures of his best friends new son. Beautiful baby coming into the world to a young couple with their feet firmly planted on the ground. Every young man I know up here, without exception are decent, hardworking, masculine and completely oblivious to the insanity that is being passed off as our common culture. I understand that part of it is the rural nature of where we live, but more than that it is simply a turning away of the younger generation of males that understand fully well what is being promoted and just how empty and vacuous it is.
I have zero concern for where this is going because the one perspective they are never going to allow you to see is the simmering, unrestrained animosity that is felt by the generation coming up towards the entire culture and its toothless, feminine threats.
I hope I live long enough to see where they decide this is going because it will most decidedly not be anywhere along the current trajectory.
You think the demented evil drones will leave them alone? Maybe if you build walls around your compound with razor wire at the top. But let them just try and spread their animosity beyond the wall.
“We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more in imagination than in reality.” – Seneca
We can choose how to live, in fear or with confidence. I made my choice a long time ago.
Their ace in the hole is you believing they are more powerful than they are. The GloboHomo is a toothless, doddering wreck manned by people who haven’t the faintest clue how to survive without their complex systems built on a foundation of lies and propped up by a monetary system that is about to shit the bed.
I say all the time they will not be successful in their attempt to use tech to control everything. I’m sorry you missed those comments. The problem is, they will burn everything down before they will go down without a fight.
Plenty of fuck ups in the rural areas. They seen to like meth out there.
I have seen evidence of young men just as you describe in different places in this country.
I wish this were true. I’ve lived and traveled in various rural places, and almost everyone has swallowed the poison.
Never married, I don’t like the odds.
You can’t lose if you don’t play.
Or win.
Fuck the GOP. They are a paryt of useless grifters. All alligator mouth and hummingbird ass.
Your male children will wear panties and a bra…and you will like it. What are you some kind of radical? /sarc
It’s part of the plan by our overlords. Once they totally neutralize the American male and destroy the nuclear family the implementation of their new world order will be much easier. Check back on TBP for daily updates on how the plan is progressing.
Transgenderism in youth right now is parents not wanting a lesbian daughter or a gay son, and the medical establishment wanting to strike it richer. ‘Trans the gay away’ is their solution. Gender bending has been around forever and has not one thing to do with whatever you think has happened to men. Gender roles are artificial and require constant enforcement. The polarization of ‘right’ and ‘left’ have them constantly trying to ‘own’ each other and ‘trigger’ each other, and the kids are stuck in the chaos. Leave the kids alone, stop being assholes, and nature will take its course.
Awsum take.
American Women by the millions have come a long way Baby, from Queens to gutter tramps in a couple generations. Every one with bling and tats is an automatic reject. Abortions, drugs, black lovers, crap music, feminism, STDs, The Shot, single motherhood, welfare, etc, are literally ruining American women . Foreign women are jewels, American women have become too often human garbage looking for a sucker.
Looks like foreign women found their sucker.
it’s what happens when females teach young males what it is to be a man. hopefully what feminism has done will sink in from the big ugly. i doubt it, though. not enough critical thinking around. so the even bigger ugly happens.
On: “The destruction of the American Male”… triple thumbs up. I haven’t read for a decade someone who dared criticize feminists for the destruction of young boys. I was hoping to post 2 screenshots I sent to old “Jack of Twitter”… but it’s not possible so,
As a descriptive: when I went on th page of Girl Scout of America in 2020 (trying to expose the false feminist claims of aiming for “equality”), the front page had a picture of 10 girls..this is OK, its the girls scout website… BUT, when I went on the webpage of Boy Scouts of America you had on the front page 6 girls, and 3 boys… I was trying to explain to “Twitter Jack” that out of the millions he proudly publicized spending on promoting exclusive female causes, maybe he could send a bit of money to the Boy Scouts of America which existence was jeopordized by hundreds of lawsuits.
I got no replies or accolades…