Social Matter

Feminists and people of color believe white men are gods. Divine is what divine does. Divinity is the omnipresence of racism. White men have such a difficult time containing their power-levels that they exude evil unintentionally, like a superhero unable to pull off Clark Kent for but a minute before busting out in uniform.

What’s a god? Gods are portrayed in myths as heroes which define societal standards of power, prestige, status, fulfillment, rightness, right action, right being. Society thinks white males are Nietzschean übermenschen. Put down Anton LaVey, White Man. You’ve already made it. What’s good, what’s decent, what counts as success is whiteness, and whiteness is sustained by high IQ, white males.

White males are invincible. Nothing can hurt them. Even if by all appearances a white male looks like he’s oppressed, rest assured, there’s privilege lurking somewhere. We’ll find it. Any time a white man falls from his pedestal, a feminist looks the other way and pretends to have missed seeing the fall. Even if white males lose privilege and status, it’s imperative that they still believe themselves to have Mythical Privilege, so that they never stop shouldering the Sisyphean burdens of civilization plus female rent seeking. It’s a good trick.

But actual lived experience for males is quite different than the cocked up feminist caricature hawked in women’s studies courses, in which white men stroll through the streets of Major American Cities, raping women in open sight of complacent cops and then making a quick getaway (from whom?) to the subway where they luxuriously take up entire rows by spreading their legs as wide as possible to intimidate and project violence. Feminists don’t want to hear about male struggle. The pat feminist answer is to brush it all off as the patriarchy—the very suggestion that feminism or women could be at fault is beyond the pale.

Cue the nancy boy conservatives jumping in and saying: “But unlike feminism, we are the real Supreme Gentlemen, and we certainly don’t hold beliefs of the left which implicitly signal that women have less agency than men. Pat me on the head like a good boy!”

Feminist: “You don’t get any pats for being a Decent Human Being! Now give me and my gender more free stuff!”

Neoreactionary: “That women stickily project lack of agency no matter what ideology they seem to adopt is indicative that women, in fact, do have less agency. But this doesn’t mean we should put up with types of rent seeking which push women away from the feminine and toward the masculine.”

Feminism is instantiation of low agency. At best, feminists have been able to set down the beta male whip long enough to very grudgingly admit that, okay, maybe male X is trying really hard to atone for his sins (which can never, by the way, be expunged) and he’s been the unfortunate victim of external circumstances, but those external circumstances themselves reflect patriarchy. And any women involved are also unwitting vessels of the patriarchy.

Scott Alexander provided a good summary of the tendency of females never to take responsibility for male lived experiences via the Marcotte-Aaronson controversy. Aaronson started out by innocently reflecting on his experiences growing up and became so depressed as a result of constant haranguing from feminists, coupled with the desire to be a Decent Human Being, that he even contemplated castrating himself. Not to make light of the situation, but it’s hard to find a more poignant example of feminism having you by the balls. Alexander’s discussion of the debate was unduly charitable in a way only Alexander can be. Whether Marcotte can escape the ovens remains to be seen.

For Aaronson, male privilege is completely alien to his lived experiences—particularly as a white male nerd. Despite him reaffirming that he was 97% on board with the feminist programme, predictably, the feminists weren’t having it.

This excerpt came from Amanda Marcotte.

“[Aaronson’s post] is the whole “how can men be oppressed when I don’t get to have sex with all the hot women that I want without having to work for it?” whine, one that, amongst other things, starts on the assumption that women do not suffer things like social anxiety or rejection…It was just a yalp of entitlement combined with an aggressive unwillingness to accept that women are human beings just like men. [He is saying that] “having to explain my suffering to women when they should already be there, mopping my brow and offering me beers and blow jobs, is so tiresome…I was too busy JAQ-ing off, throwing tantrums, and making sure the chip on my shoulder was felt by everyone in the room to be bothered to do something like listen.” Women are failing him by not showing up naked in his bed, unbidden. Because bitches, yo.

The eternal struggle of the sexist: Objective reality suggests that women are people, but the heart wants to believe they are a robot army put here for sexual service and housework.”

You’d want to call this autism, but autism is more a virtue than a vice. This is just narcissism, an inability to empathize (or sympathize, for that matter) combined with outright malice. Men often go through terrible suffering and hardship in their designated roles as providers and are supposed to quietly bear it.

Note that the feminist response is to decry ‘quiet bearing of duties’ as an unfortunate consequence of the patriarchy and to instead encourage men to open up with their feelings. And cry. And so on. And then women turn around and summarily show contempt for the feely, bitch men and leave. Leaving men confused. What made you listen to women for advice, anyway?

Women only see status, money, success, other women, glamor, glitz, and unreality. Not staying at home is good. Not having kids is good. #LeanIn. Be high-powered. Be career-oriented. That is success. That is fulfillment. In other words, the ultimate expression of female fulfillment is for the female essence to be emptied out and replaced with the male essence. To be a good feminist is to be a male and to do male-stuff. Forget the vision of a fulfilled female as a woman who actualizes her biologically-oriented potential by playing a complementary role via pair bonding. Don’t play to your strengths, the feminist says. Play to your weaknesses. Appropriate high IQ, white male culture. Put in 14 hour days. Soulless days. Days spent pushing paper back and forth. Accept the benefits of white maleness and foist the costs of responsibility that come alongside white maleness onto other males—c.f. females in fire departments. Look flashy, look societally glamorous, and have male firefighters pick up all the slack or face legal retribution.

To spurn motherhood and the feminine is a great temptation, and one which women easily fall into. Why? Because women are hypergamous, status-driven creatures, and so when feminists are allowed to poison pro-social, healthy, feminine roles in culture, females automatically seek out high-status alternatives, namely male routes. Not what’s feminine, but what’s masculine, since masculine remains high-status.

Feminists love white males and desire more than anything else to be like them. And they also hate them at the same time. It’s a woman thing. What else is new?

Like women, blacks have had a difficult time with agency, which helps to explain Sub-Saharan black fertility rates, Malthusian traps, and the inability of black males to invest in progeny. While progressives may try and glorify authentic black culture, when it comes down to it, they just don’t, protestations to the contrary. Like the feminists who can’t escape low agency, SWPLs have a difficult time escaping k-selected behavior. That, incidentally, is why polyamory is bad social technology.

“That’s racist” is the default discourse response to states of affairs in which blacks do not enjoy all the benefits of k-selected whiteness while engaging in r-selected behavior.

Where do we go from here? What’s to be done? For blacks, k-selection is to be aspired to. Blacks should be pushed and prodded into societally valuable traits like paternal investment, hard work, low time-preference, etc. This doesn’t mean we should fall into the delusion that blacks should be forced into specific white occupations. SWPL affirmative action is toxic. Blacks don’t generally belong in offices, and they certainly don’t want to be there.

For what it’s worth, the British were very good at cultural imperialism, and even now in former colonies, high-society British cultural norms are still high-status. It’s possible to civilize the uncivilized, although the arrangement is unstable if left alone to fester and unravel, or to be unraveled by unscrupulous parties looking to profit off the innate baseness of blacks at the expense of the common good. Markets be damned if gangster rap is profitable. Black thug culture should be crushed and shunned, both at the cultural root of music and aesthetics and through heavy-handed enforcement for those who still decide to act out thuggishly.

Feminist culture should be poisoned and made low-status through aggressive propaganda campaigns. That’s when females will revert back to feminine norms.

At the end of the day, it might be too generous to view the White Male as a Herculean figure. A more apt metaphor might by that of a brilliant, well-endowed, but flawed creature, which used to be a god but now tolerates an ever-growing parasite load. Divinity wanes.

Whether the creature lives or dies is a live question. To call it a god might be reaching for the stars, and its godly status at this point may just be more discourse to justify the continued exploitation of an increasingly depleted resource. Feminists and blacks could care less, mostly because they just don’t know any better. They want more rent seeking. More equal representation. More ousting of white males from high-status positions, but female and POC replacements can’t sustain the burdens of civilization.

The real question is: How long can the Employees of Civilization Corp. bear being worked to death before they throw in the towel? By the way, before you answer, let me just add that there’s no escape, no running away and hoping that civilization will rebuild itself ex nihilo out of the ruins. It won’t. And if it does, you don’t deserve any of it.

There is only one course of action. The only morality is civilization.