"Everyone Should Be Thinking It, So I'll Say It"
A Royal Marriage Scene, 1886, Eugène Isabey. |
I've
spoken before about how I think "Racial Equality" has drastically
changed over the past several decades from an attempt to obtain equal
rights through cooperation, understanding, and perseverance to a
subversive fight for dominance over other ethnic groups in favor of one
particular group. I feel like "Gender Equality" is going and has gone in
some circles to that point.
Stitching the Standard by Edmund Blair Leighton the lady prepares for a knight to go to war. |
In the Western World, women are not systematically oppressed de jure by any government. They haven't been really ever I don't think as a rule. Gender norms of the Middle Ages, Renaissance, and up until the beginning of the "Modern" era were simply evolutions of what naturally occurred. There was no legislation that made the family structure what it was or recognized it; it just was. It was a cultural facet. With the Enlightenment particularly in France and Protestant Britain we did see the evolution of new ideas about gender. This is where the whole idea of "Man > Woman" occurs. In the past in philosophy certain virtues where applied to men while others were applied to woman; they were great but in different ways according to their role in life. As man and woman are so is a sword and shield. You would not want a shield to be the same as a sword and vice versa, because then no longer can a warrior use the two in tandem.
Set of swords of Philip II of Spain, Colada is no. 8. |
By the 20th century most of these ideas were being overturned with legislation - modern legislation that dated only back to the 18th century I might add - and equality was being achieved. But much like with Race Equality a new definition of "Equality" has come into being, which essentially rather than making others sympathetic to their plight and helping them leads to them being shunned and despised because they have no interest in being accepted. The caricature of First and Second Wave Feminists as domineering, masculine brutes was made true by Third and Fourth Wave feminists. One has to only spend time on tumblr to realize why "Feminist" was voted the most hated word of 2014.
In their own way Feminists created Meninism and the new wave of misogynists embodied in websites like "Return of Kings." A generation of men who hate women and who are committed to simply using them for sex and other pleasures. Groups such as "Red Pill" also come to mind, who focus solely on how to "Game" women. Wooing has been a constant facet of human courtship from the beginning and I don't begrudge it, but it's the attitude behind these Red Kings I rebuke. That all women are dishonest and unfaithful is as untrue as the stereotype that all men are brutish and stupid.
Masculinity and Femininity |
It is my firm belief that "Gender Norms" are something found in nature and recognized by mankind. It's not necessarily something fabricated out of thin air. I'd more say modern concepts of gender have been fabricated out of thin are by our continually industrializing society where everything is fake and mass produced. The negative effects this has had on society are obvious; across the Western World broken families are the accepted norm and it seems like no one even cares to prevent them anymore, forcing governments to pick up the pieces.
The genders must work in
tandem as they were meant and designed to by Almighty God. Anything else
is a Modernist attack on the family structure that has well served
humanity for its entire history and has been tried and tested through
hardships modern man can scarce comprehend.
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