Elite society continues to see boys as a problem and to focus on male traits (strength, courage, competitiveness and single-mindedness) as iniquities rather than virtues.
Here’s the perpetual problem I have with this kind of thing: if boys are so courageous, competitive and single-minded, why do they need “institutional support” and “societal structures” and other such sorts of effete maternal handholding, like a bunch of girls?
I think it’s because they just get worn down over time. As pointed out in the article, at a young age boys have a certain way of thinking about things, in just a few years of school they are socialised into the girls way of thinking.
I’m an male engineer in my 60’s and I am pretty resilient, but there’s so much touchy feely bs to navigate in my local authority adjacent workplace even I lose faith in myself and my suck it up, man-up, it’ll pass approach from time to time.
I’m sure that many women (and some men) will take the view that after centuries of a patriarchy that kept women largely in the home the emergence of a matriarchy is long overdue.
The implications for society of an increasingly large number of undervalued men are worrying and perhaps are already becoming apparent in lawlessness.
Excellent! Very true. I saw this take effect real time in the USMC. When Obama came in they started pushing the feminist and DEI agenda hard. A lof of us hard chargers got tired of it and got out. It stopped being about war fighting and started being about the agenda. Fortunately, I found my place in business after it became clear universities and corporations weren’t for me... but we sure are seeing the effects that had on military readiness. The clowns in power now managed to start more wars than they were trying to prevent. 🤣
So I find this to be true in many ways but also on the flip side we've ceded, in western culture, that the male roles and the patriarchical structures are more valued than the feminine. Is it any wonder that when women are told that to be successful they must be indifferentiatable from men that they would begin to change the cultural rules to advantage them there?
I wrote recently that we are devaluing the feminine, which is true. But you also make a great case that we are also devalueing the masculine. So what surprise should we have that society is fraying?
Here’s the perpetual problem I have with this kind of thing: if boys are so courageous, competitive and single-minded, why do they need “institutional support” and “societal structures” and other such sorts of effete maternal handholding, like a bunch of girls?
I think it’s because they just get worn down over time. As pointed out in the article, at a young age boys have a certain way of thinking about things, in just a few years of school they are socialised into the girls way of thinking.
I’m an male engineer in my 60’s and I am pretty resilient, but there’s so much touchy feely bs to navigate in my local authority adjacent workplace even I lose faith in myself and my suck it up, man-up, it’ll pass approach from time to time.
I’m sure that many women (and some men) will take the view that after centuries of a patriarchy that kept women largely in the home the emergence of a matriarchy is long overdue.
The implications for society of an increasingly large number of undervalued men are worrying and perhaps are already becoming apparent in lawlessness.
Women naturally castrate all men in their power.
This has been known forever.
This is why women aren’t usually given power.
Excellent! Very true. I saw this take effect real time in the USMC. When Obama came in they started pushing the feminist and DEI agenda hard. A lof of us hard chargers got tired of it and got out. It stopped being about war fighting and started being about the agenda. Fortunately, I found my place in business after it became clear universities and corporations weren’t for me... but we sure are seeing the effects that had on military readiness. The clowns in power now managed to start more wars than they were trying to prevent. 🤣
We are seeing a society in which the Jungian archetype of the Devouring Mother is ascendant.
So I find this to be true in many ways but also on the flip side we've ceded, in western culture, that the male roles and the patriarchical structures are more valued than the feminine. Is it any wonder that when women are told that to be successful they must be indifferentiatable from men that they would begin to change the cultural rules to advantage them there?
I wrote recently that we are devaluing the feminine, which is true. But you also make a great case that we are also devalueing the masculine. So what surprise should we have that society is fraying?
https://www.polymathicbeing.com/p/rediscovering-the-goddess