This chapter, entitled: "Feminism and Sexuality", like the other chapters of this book,should be considered by the reader in it's interrelationship to the other chapters of this book rather than a separate entity. Further, sexuality is a particularly individual matter with individuals of both genders and of varied political persuasions, including feminists, having varied tastes, political, cultural, ethical, religious, and individual proclivities related to human sexuality. The author presents,in this chapter, however, the general feminist, political, ethical, and cultural norms related to sexuality.
Within this context, in the USA and much of the West, human sexuality has been intimately related to the feminist movement through laws, customs, and norms which have as their purposes the discriminatory and oppressive promulgation of unjust laws and norms against male sexuality and for female sexuality by a myriad of overt and covert means.
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"Human sexuality is the capacity of humans to have erotic experiences and responses. A person's sexual orientation can influence their sexual interest and attraction for another person. Sexuality may be experienced and expressed in a variety of ways; including thoughts, fantasies, desires, beliefs, attitudes, values, behaviors, practices, roles, and relationships. These may manifest themselves in biological, physical, emotional, social, or spiritual aspects. The biological and physical aspects of sexuality largely concern the human reproductive functions, including the human sexual response cycle and the basic biological drive that exists in all species. Physical and emotional aspects of sexuality include bonds between individuals that is expressed through profound feelings or physical manifestations of love, trust, and care. Social aspects deal with the effects of human society on one's sexuality, while spirituality concerns an individual's spiritual connection with others. Sexuality also affects and is affected by cultural, political, legal, philosophical, moral, ethical, and religious aspects of life." 1.
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Antisexualism
"Antisexualism is opposition or hostility towards sexual behavior and sexuality. In pre-modern times, antisexual social movements were usually expressed in religious terms; but,they now often have a secular reform agenda. Most antisexual people believe that sexuality is a kind of addiction resulting in both physical and social effects, that it disrupts relationships, and causes people to lie and cheat to achieve the pleasure of sexual gratification. Antisexuals are not necessarily antinatalist so they do not necessarily object to sex for procreation. Some antisexuals believe sexuality to be the cause of many of the world's problems. Antisexuals can, also, be opposed to the idea of romantic love with some describing it as an "addiction to a person." 2.
"The Junior Anti-Sex League in George Orwell's dystopian novel, Nineteen Eighty-Four, was a group of young adult Party members devoted to banning all sexual intercourse and replacing its procreative functions with the use of artificial insemination (children would be raised in public institutions, rather than in individual families). Though the League was founded and countenanced by the all-powerful totalitarian Party, the Party leadership did not allow it to succeed in its goals. However, the existence of the League served as an important public reminder of the Party's disapproval of all attachments and activities which could diminish exclusive loyalty to the Party and that everything other than "normal intercourse between man and wife for the sole purpose of begetting children and without physical pleasure on the part of the woman" was forbidden sexcrime which could be punished by death. 3.
The Feminist Sex Wars
Feminists are not uniform in their approach to sexuality with the debate in question between feminists referred to as the "Feminist Sex Wars." 4.
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"Sex-positive feminism, also known as pro-sex feminism, sex-radical feminism, or sexually liberal feminism is a movement that began in the early 1980s that centers on the idea that sexual freedom is an essential component of women's freedom.---
As such, sex-positive feminists oppose legal or social efforts to control sexual activities between consenting adults,whether these efforts are initiated by the government, other feminists, opponents of feminism, or any other institution. They embrace sexual minority groups, endorsing the value of coalition-building with members targeted by sex-negativity. Sex-positive feminism is connected with the sex-positive movement
Gayle Rubin (Rubin, 1984) summarizes the conflict over sex within feminism:
"...There have been two strains of feminist thought on the subject. One tendency has criticized the restrictions on women's sexual behavior and denounced the high costs imposed on women for being sexually active. This tradition of feminist sexual thought has called for a sexual liberation that would work for women as well as for men. The second tendency has considered sexual liberalization to be inherently a mere extension of male privilege. This tradition resonates with conservative, anti-sexual discourse."
The cause of sex-positive feminism brings together anti-censorship activists, LGBT activists, feminist scholars, sex radicals, producers of pornography and erotica, among others (though not all members of these groups are necessarily both feminists and sex-positive people). Sex-positive feminists reject the vilification of male sexuality that they attribute to many radical feminists; and, instead, embrace the entire range of human sexuality. They argue that the patriarchy limits sexual expression and are in favor of giving people of all genders more sexual opportunities rather than restricting pornography (Queen, 1996). Sex-positive feminists generally reject sexual essentialism, defined by (Rubin, 1984) as " the idea tht sex is a natural force that exists prior to social life and shapes institutions." Rather, they see sexual orientation and gender as social constructs that are heavily influenced by society.
Sex-radical feminists, in particular, come to a sex-positive stance from a deep distrust in the patriarchy's ability to secure women's best interest in sexually limiting laws. Other feminists identify women's sexual liberation as the real motive behind the women's movement Naomi Wolf writes, " Orgasm is the body's natural call to feminist politics." Sharon Presley, the National Coordinator of the Association of Libertarian Feminists, writes that in the area of sexuality, the government blatantly discriminates against women.
Authors such as Gayle Rubin (Rubin, 1984) and Wendy McElroy (McElroy, 1995) see the roots of sex-positive feminism in the work of sex reformers and workers for sex education and access to contraception such as Havelock, Ellis, Margaret Sanger, Mary Dennett and later, Alfred Kinsey and Shere Hite. However, the contemporary incarnation of sex-positive feminism appeared more recently, following the increase in feminist focus on pornography as a source of women's oppression in the 1970s. The rise of second-wave feminism, which began in the 1960s, was concurrent with the sexual revolution and legal rulings that loosened legal restrictions on access to pornography. In the 1970s, radical feminists became increasingly focused on issues around sexuality in a patriarchal society. Some feminist groups began to concern themselves with prescribing what proper feminist sexuality should look like. This was especially characteristic of lesbian separatist groups; but, some heterosexual women's groups, such as Redstockings, became caught up with this issue as well. On the other hand, there were, also, feminists,such Betty Dodson, who saw women's sexual pleasure and masturbation as central to women's liberation. Pornography, however, was not a major issue; radical feminists were, generally, opposed to pornography, but the issue was not treated as especially important until the mid-1970s. (There were, however, feminist prostitutes-rights advocates, such as COYOTE, which campaigned for the decriminalization of prostitution.)
The late 1970s found American culture becoming increasingly concerned about the aftermath of a decade of greater sexual freedom, including concerns about explicit violent and sexual imagery in the media, the mainstreaming of pornography, increased sexual activity among teenagers, and issues such as the dissemination of child pornography and the purported rise of "snuff films". (Critics maintain that this atmosphere amount to a moral panic,which reached its peak in the mid-1980s) These concerns were reflected in the feminist movement, with radical feminist groups claiming that pornography was a central underpinning of patriarchy and and a direct cause of violence against women. Robin Morgan summarized this idea in her statement, "Pornography is the theory; rape the practice."
Andrea Dworkin and Robin Morgan began articulating a vehemently anti-porn stance based in radical feminism beginning in 1974; and, anti-porn feminist groups, such as Women Against Pornography and similar organizations, became highly active in various US cities during the late 1970s. As anti-porn feminists broadened their criticism and activism to include not only pornography, but prostitution and sadomasochism, other feminists became concerned about the direction the movement was taking and grew more critical of anti-porn feminism This included feminist BDSM practitioners (notably Samois), prostitute-rights advocates, and many liberal and anti-authoritarian feminists for whom free speech, sexual freedom, and advocacy of women's agency were central concerns.----
Sex-positive feminists argue that access to pornography is as important women as to men; and, that there is nothing inherently degrading to women about pornography (McElroy, 1996; Strossen, 2000). Anti-pornography feminists, however, disagree often arguing that the very depiction of such acts leads to actual acts being encouraged and committed.
Some sex-positive feminists believe that women and men can have positive experiences as sex workers; and, that where it is illegal, prostitution should be decriminalized They argue that prostitution isn't necessarily bad for women, if prostitutes are treated with respect and if the professions within sex work are de-stigmatized.
Sadomasochism (BDSM) has been criticized by anti porn feminists for eroticizing power and violence and for reinforcing misogyny (Rubin,984). They argue that women who chose to engage in BDSM are making a choice that is ultimately bad for women. Sex-positive feminists argue that consensual BDSM activities are enjoyed by many women and validate these women's sexual inclinations. They argue that feminists should not attack other women's sexual desires as being "anti-feminist" or internalizing oppression; and, that there is no connection between consensual sexually kinky activities and sex crimes.
Sex-positive feminists believe that accepting the validity of all sexual orientations is necessary in order to allow women full sexual freedom. Rather than distancing themselves from homosexuality and bisexuality because they fear it will hurt mainstream acceptance of feminism, sex-positive feminists believe that women's liberation cannot be achieved without also promoting acceptance of homosexuality and bisexuality.
Some feminists have criticized transgender women (male-to-female) as men attempting to appropriate female identity while retaining male privilege and transgender men (female-to-male) as women who reject solidarity with their gender. One of the main exponents of this point of view is Janice Raymond (Raymond,1979).
Sex-positive feminists support the right of all individuals to determine their own gender and promote gender fluidity as one means for achieving gender equality.---
There is a debate among sex-positive feminists about whether statutory rape laws are a form of sexism. ---
The argument that is brought by some sex-positive feminists against these statutory rape laws is that they were made with non-gender neutral intentions and are presently enforced as such with the assumption that teenage girls are naive and nonsexual and need to be protected.---
In "Sex-Bias Topics in the Criminal Law Course: A Survey of Criminal Law Professors" 24 U. Mich. J.L. Ref. 189 (1990), it is said: "Other feminists are opposed to or ambivalent about strengthening statutory rape statutes because such protection also precludes a young woman from entering a consensual relationship to which she may be competent to consent. These feminists view statutory rape laws as more controlling than protective--and of course part of the law's historic role was protecting the female's chastity as valuable property." She, also, noted that, at that time, in some states the previous sexual experience of a teenager could be used as a defense by one accused of statutory rape. She argued that this showed that the laws were intended to protect ideals of chastity rather than issues of consent.
Works that critique sex-positive feminism include those of Catharine MacKinnon (1987), Germaine Greer (1999), Pamela Paul (2005), and essays by Dorchen Liedholdt (1990), among others. Their main arguments are that certain sexual practices (such as prostitution and pornography) are exploitative toward women and have historically benefited men rather than women, and that thus, the indiscriminate promotion of all kinds of sexual practices merely contributes to female oppression. " 5.
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Prostitution Should Be Legalized, Taxed, and Regulated
The YouTube presentation supporting the legalization of prostitution entitled: "Benefits of Legal Prostitution-MGTOW" by Sandman provides good arguments and facts supporting the legalization of prostitution. 6.
Another good on line article in support of legalizing prostitution, by Teresa Smith, is entitled: "Legalizing Prostitution: A Step Towards Freedom". 7. The URL of this article is: http://www.szasz.com/undergraduate/Smith.html .
The following arguments in favor of legalizing prostitution are the author's opinion. The need for sexual satisfaction is a basic human need. As such, laws which prohibit adult individuals who wish to freely and without compulsion engage in sex without or without compensation from fulfilling that basic need amount to oppressive conduct amounting to a violation of basic human rights.
Ecclesiastical arguments against the same lack logical validity. Those that state that sexuality, especially male sexuality, is basically evil only demonstrate their sexual bigotry.
The reality is that marriage is the West amounts to a form of covert prostitution with women seeking wealthy men to marry. Women seek men who are wealthy to further their social, cultural, political, economic goals and promise to supply sex for them if men do the same.
Prostitution is a more honest and direct form of sexual exchange. Part of the opposition by women to legalizing prostitution is "sexual unionism" by women who hope to enhance their social, cultural, political, and economic status by limiting sexual opportunities to men.
Feminists are divided on the issue of the legalizing of prostitution. Some favor the legalization of prostitution (The National Organization for Women favors legalizing). Other feminist and feminist groups oppose it (this controversy over legalization within the feminist movement has been referred to as "the feminist wars.).
Logical, ethical, and legal inconsistencies within the West indicate that the criminalization of prostitution is intimately related to female socio-cultural-economic-political privilege and the oppression of men that exists along a continuum of discriminatory laws, customs, and norms.
The legalization of prostitution should be seen as ethically, legally, socially, and culturally a fundamental right for both men and women.
Given the aforementioned, prostitution should be legalized, regulated, and taxed.
Men's Rights and Human Sexuality
Many men's rights advocates have asserted that men should have their sexual rights restored and enhanced.
An on line article entitled "Anti-Feminist Theory of Men's Rights, Male Sexuality, Feminism" (Posted on November 17, 2012) delineates some reasonable demands in this regard. 8. The author of this book may not agree with all of the recommendations presented in this on line post. A partial quote from the same lists these demands follows:
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" An end to the criminalization of male sexuality. Whilst we recognise that new technology sometimes requires legislation to be modified in order to protect the vulnerable from new threats, it must also be recognised that a ‘legislative creep’ is taking place, based primarily on moral panics and media manipulation, that appears to have no end, and which will ultimately lead to crimes against humanity (if it has not already done so). The criminalization of Sexual Trade Unionism. We demand that it should be recognised that sex laws that benefit the makers and promoters of those laws – whether financially, sexually, psychologically, or otherwise – be subjected to intense objective and independent scrutiny. We demand further that if those laws that may have sprung from a selfish motive are found to be lobbied for on the basis of any lies or exaggerations, the individuals concerned be punished severely by law for ‘Sexual Trade Unionism’. Another way of expressing this demand is the desire that it be made a criminal offence to exploit the vulnerability or sexuality of a child or young person for the financial, sexual, or psychological gain of an adult under the guise of ‘child protection’. The right to anonymity of those men (and women) accused of sex crimes. This basic demand simply recognises the transparent fact that sex crimes are unique in that the mere public accusation can destroy a man’s life, even if he subsequently be found innocent, and that this represents not only a manifest injustice but may also serve as a motive for such false accusations in itself. A false accuser should face the same punishment as the accused would face if found guilty of the alleged crime. A ‘false accuser’ register should be set up – as long as a sex offenders register exists, so should a register for women who make false allegations against men. An end to the ‘sex offenders register’, and it’s replacement (if a replacement is needed) with a ‘violent offenders register’. This recognises that the focus and obsession with sex offences, many of which are non-violent, as compared with violent offences, is a projection of female values upon the world that is only possible because of the disregard and disposability of male needs and values. It is noted that repeated studies confirm that most abuse of children is physical and carried out by the child’s mother. It is also noted that studies also repeatedly demonstrate that non-violent sex offenders are less recidivist than violent non-sexual offenders. A limit of statutations upon all sex crimes. (statue of limitations in the USA) Sex offences are the most subject to the passing hysterias and fads of society, as well as the scope for re-interpretation by individual victims over years and decades. Therefore, it is manifestly wrong to allow the possibility that a man can be judged for a historical offence by a different era, and by essentially a different women (or man) than the original ‘victim’, and even face a different and much harsher punishment than if he had been tried soon after the original offence. The right of two adults to engage in paid for sexual transactions to be enshrined in law. It should be recognised as a fundamental human right in a democratic and free society to be able to question the laws that govern society without fear of persecution or prosecution. This is particularly true in regard to sex laws, given that it is these laws that feminists want to outlaw criticism of in particular, and also because, as previously mentioned, such laws are most likely to be relative in fact to the particular moral fads and hysterias of society. The recognition that if these fascist laws restricting the right to even question the law had existed even half a century ago, we would likely still be performing crimes against humanity – for example executing and/or castrating homosexuals such as Alan Turing." 9.
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An appropriate quote from William Shakespeare's play, "As You Like It" Act II, Scene VII,:
" All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their entrances, And one man in his time plays many parts, His acts being seven ages. At first the infant, Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms. Then, the whining school-boy with his satchel and shining morning face, creeping like snail Unwillingly to school. And then the lover,Sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad Made to his mistress' eyebrow. Then, a soldier, Full of strange oaths, and bearded like the pard, Jealous in honour, sudden, and quick in quarrel, Seeking the bubble reputation Even in the cannon's mouth. And then, the justice,In fair round belly, with a good capon lined, With eyes severe, and beard of formal cut, Full of wise saws, and modern instances, And so he plays his part. The sixth age shifts Into the lean and slippered pantaloon, With spectacles on nose and pouch on side, His youthful hose, well saved, a world too wide For his shrunk shank, and his big manly voice, Turning again toward childish treble, pipes And whistles in his sound. Last scene of all,That ends this strange eventful history,Is second childishness and mere oblivion, Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything." 10.
Friday, December 12, 2014
Friday, December 5, 2014
Feminism and National Defense
National Defense is now defined in terms of National Security.
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"National security is a concept that a government, along with its parliaments, should protect the state and its citizens against all kind of "national" crises through a variety of power projections, such as political power, diplomacy, economic power, military might, and so on.
The concept developed mostly in the United States after World War II. Initially focusing on military might, it now encompasses a broad range of facets, all of which impinge on the non-military or economic security of the nation and the values espoused by the national society. Accordingly, in order to possess national security, a nation needs to possess economic security, energy security, environmental security, etc. Security threats involve not only conventional foes such as other nation-states but also non-state actors such as violent non-state actors, narcotic cartels, multinational corporations and non-governmental organizations; some authorities include natural disasters and events causing severe environmental damage in this category.
Measures taken to ensure national security include:
using diplomacy to rally allies and isolate threats
marshalling economic power to facilitate or compel cooperation
maintaining effective armed forces
implementing civil defense and emergency preparedness measures (including anti-terrorism legislation)
ensuring the resilience and redundancy of critical infrastructure
using intelligence services to detect and defeat or avoid threats and espionage, and to protect classified information
using counterintelligence services or secret police to protect the nation from internal threats" 1.
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The general political and military strategy that Bolsheviks (communists) and feminists have used and are currently using are: 1. Terrorism (political correctness in the USA-Political, economic, social, cultural, and legal discrimination and oppression of individuals and/or groups that oppose their totalitarian means and ends; 2. Political indoctrination ( for example, the many women's study groups, clubs, and political organizations in universities, in government, and otherwise); and, 3. Sustained guerilla warfare (in many forms-political, economic, cultural, legal) against the Caucasian European male culture (affirmative action-for example). "General Giap had studied the military teachings of Mao Zedong, who wrote that political indoctrination, terrorism and sustained guerrilla warfare were prerequisites for a successful revolution." 2.
"Cultural Marxism" and " Political Correctness" have become the norm in the USA and the West in general.
The internet article, "The Origins of Political Correctness" by Bill Lind which appeared in Accuracy in Academia, describes and defines both "Political Correctness" and "Cultural Marxism". The URL for the web page for this article is: http://www.academia.org/the-origins-of-political-correctness/ A partial quote from the same article states:
"Third, just as in classical economic Marxism certain groups, i.e. workers and peasants, are a priori good, and other groups, i.e., the bourgeoisie and capital owners, are evil. In the cultural Marxism of Political Correctness certain groups are good – feminist women, (only feminist women, non-feminist women are deemed not to exist) blacks, Hispanics, homosexuals. These groups are determined to be “victims,” and therefore automatically good regardless of what any of them do. Similarly, white males are determined automatically to be evil, thereby becoming the equivalent of the bourgeoisie in economic Marxism." 3.
The XIX (19th) Amendment to the U.S. Constitution (1920) which gave women the right to vote did not contemplate women being required, as a requisite of this right, to perform mandatory military service inclusive of combat duty.
However, in effect, this amendment has given women an electoral majority in the U.S.A. over men that has been increasing.
As per a quote from the Chapter of this book of Government and Feminism: "Male voting rates have declined sharply since the mid-1960s i.e. the beginning of the Matriarchal social and political construct (feminism). "Between the 1964 and 2000 Presidential elections, the male voting rate declined from 72 to 53 percent." 4.. Because the USA has a winner take all, bought, and gerrymandered form of electoral representation, the female absolute and electoral majority has a disproportionately adverse affect on male political representation, male rights, and male equality.
"Essentially and unfortunately our essential natures are personified within the political system and further reinforced by the dominate female 54-56% majority vote.
Through this model provision to females becomes dually compounded. The system essentially becomes matrifocal, gynocentric and Matriarchal." 5.
The aforementioned makes American men and the men of other democratic nations virtual slaves to the aforementioned feminist electoral majority's foreign policy,military, and defense related objectives and means.
" In 1971 in the United States, draft resisters initiated a class-action suit alleging that male only conscription violate men's rights to equal protection under the US Constitution. When the case reached the United States Supreme Court in 1981, they were supported by a men's rights group and multiple women's groups including the National Organization for Women. However, the Supreme Court upheld the Military Selective Service Act stating that "the argument for registering women was based on considerations of equity, but Congress was entitled, in the exercise of it's Constitutional powers, to focus on the question of military need, rather than equity." 6.
This, in itself, is EXTREMELY unjust, oppressive, and discriminatory towards men.
Should women and minorities have preference in employment, education, and other wise over returning war veterans, inclusive of combat veterans?
Our nation and our government determined, by law and custom that they should.
This is what returning Vietnam Veterans faced.
Should Vietnam Veterans, in fact, be actively discriminated against in employment, education, and otherwise?
Yes, this is what our nation and our government determined, by law, and custom that they should.
The image of the aggressive feminist associating with long haired effeminate base men for the purpose of denigrating returning Vietnam Veterans and all men of character remains a shameful part of our current and past history and culture. The very organized,aggressive, demeaning,unprincipled, discriminatory and sexist attacks on returning Vietnam Veterans in the late 1960's and early 1970's by feminists set the pattern for the aggressive, unprincipled,organized, and discriminatory attacks by feminists on men subsequent to the same.
In other words, the most efficacious means for feminists to obtain their misandric goals is to DESTROY those that oppose them or that they perceive as having the character and/or motivation to do the same.
In this author's opinion, the fact that women were not required to serve in the military nor the combat arms, although they had the same right to vote as these men who sacrificed so much, encouraged an arrogant, predatory, demeaning, exploitative, and discriminatory attitude towards Vietnam Veterans.
Further, the fact that women and others, although they do not have to serve in the military, are the electoral majority results in the fact that this same majority unjustly determines when this nation goes to war, how the war is to be fought, and how the returning veteran is to be treated.
This results in the initiation of unwise and unnecessary wars, unwise military strategies, the oppressive exploitation of those in the military, and the initiation of wars motivated by the selfish and unjust motives of this feminist electoral majority.
The fact that the U.S. government and the U.S. Congress did not issue a formal declaration of war against North Vietnam indicates a lack of reasonable support for those American servicemen fighting that war and a lack of respect for these same men.
The failure to issue a formal declaration of war by the US Congress during the War in Vietnam, set the premises for the eventual defeat of the US and Allied military and other efforts in South Vietnam.
If a formal declaration of war had been made by the USA, indicating a firm and resolute commitment to victory in as efficient and efficacious manner as possible, the USA and it's allies, in my opinion, could have been victorious over North Vietnam and in South Vietnam within about one year.
"For the United States, Article One, Section Eight of the Constitution says " Congress shall have power to ... declare War" . 7.
Should an electoral majority, which, by law, is determined to be too weak or base to serve in the military, inclusive of the combat arms and/or is unwilling and/or unable to serve in such a capacity, have the right to determine when and how a nation is to engage in military operations, inclusive of war, and how the returning veteran is to be treated?
Of course not.
Our present system gives the electoral majority that does not serve, women and others, the means and motive to exploit and denigrate men who serve in the military.
Again, this was exemplified in the War in Vietnam and the hostile, insulting, and discriminatory treatment that Vietnam Veterans received by these same individuals and groups, women and others, which were exempt from and/or avoided said service and who, at the same time, demanded and received preferential treatment in employment, education, and law over returning Vietnam veterans, even combat veterans.
In today's United State's military, women receive preferential treatment over men with lower standards and fewer service requirements than men by law.
Women demanded from their political representatives that they should receive this preferential treatment. Their unprincipled political representatives yielded to these unjust discriminatory demands despite the extremely deleterious affect the same had on the capabilities of the armed forces of the United States.
Further, feminists and others in the military have launched a virtual war on men in the military through wide spread hysterical false accusations of sexual assaults, rapes, and other illegal acts against women.
These lies and slanders are supported by the establishment media and unethical politicians.
The result has been and continues to be a virtual feminist political purge from the U.S. Military of some of our most loyal, courageous, and efficacious military leaders.
The intent of these feminist diatribes is to further discriminatory favoritism of women in the military while promulgating systematic discrimination against men in the military.
Feminists and their supporters have utilized the same strategy in other occupations virtually driving most men out of certain occupations.
The remaining few men in these same occupations tend to be male feminists, effeminate,emasculated and/or gay.
Defending and supporting laws and customs which make men second class citizens in their own nation is not patriotic.
It is not honorable but dishonorable to defend a nation that treats you in a dishonorable fashion.
There has been a repeated pattern, since the War in Vietnam, of exploiting the military, then denigrating the veteran, and then granting preferential treatment to those individuals and groups who are unable and/or unwilling to serve in the U.S. military, especially the combat arms.
This unjust and predatory pattern is likely to continue unless electoral representation, the right to vote, is reasonably associated with military duty, especially mandatory military duty, the military draft.
Men should refuse to serve in the military in the USA and other nations unless there is a reasonable correlation between military service, especially mandatory military service (the military draft) and electoral representation (the right to vote) and until those other republican principles (equal rights and equal responsibilities for all citizens-no more affirmative action) are restored.
Again, this same electoral majority, unwilling and/or unable to serve in the U.S. Military, granted itself preference by law and custom in employment, education, the law, the receipt of social services and by other means, both overt and covert, EVEN OVER RETURNING COMBAT VETERANS.
The aforementioned results in an abusive, offensive, denigrating, oppressive, and discriminatory attitude by American women not only towards American military veterans but towards all men, especially men who demonstrate the traditional male virtues. This aggressive and unprincipled attack on returning Vietnam Veterans, was merely the initial assault on those American men, by feminists, both male and female, who demonstrated any of the traditional male virtues.
It continues in all spheres of American life.
American women have found it to be politically, economically, socially, and culturally advantageous for them to form alliances with base and weak men for the purpose of dominating and exploiting men who have the traditional male virtues. As per the experience of the returning Vietnam Veteran, the same alliance continues to this date with the result that the traditional male culture in the U.S.A. has been destroyed. No wonder that men from foreign countries routinely laugh at the effeminate nature of American men who have been degraded out of fear, obedience, and the shame of being men from our women who have made to feel guilty for just being men.
Metrosexual, base, and effeminate men have become de rigeur, welcomed, nourished, made safe, and have become "politically correct' in American Society and in the eyes of the law. Manly behavior is NOT. Every single foreign war the U.S.A. has entered into in the past 50 years has progressively been less and less effective. The U.S.A. no longer seems able to win a difficult war with decisiveness and efficiency. The military justice system, in the name of "political correctness", has run amok, where even the most base, lying, evil, insecure, mercenary, violent, and selfish women, some of whom have been officially proven to be so, can easily destroy good soldiers of proven great courage, great character, great patriotism, honor, and respect.
With significantly fewer men graduating from college relatively and absolutely due to affirmative action and other programs giving preferential treatment to women and minorities, there will be significantly fewer educated men available to meet the leadership and other requisites for modern warfare and today's armed forces.
Refer to the chapter on "Feminism's Effect on the Education System" for a further detailed analysis of the same.
Further, as the male virtues, men's rights, men's liberties, and men's individual and collective dignity are under aggressive attack by feminists and others, American men will increasingly,relatively and absolutely, be unwilling and/or unable to serve in the U.S. Military.
The following is a partial quote in support of the aforementioned from an online Time.com article by Nolan Feeney dated June 29, 2014 entitled " Pentagon: 7 in 10 Youths Would Fail to Qualify for Military Service': " Only 1% of young people are both 'eligible and inclined to have conversation with' the military about possible service, according to the Defense Department. 'The quality of people willing to serve has been declining rapidly,' Major General Allen Batschelet, the U.S. Army Recruiting Command's commanding general, told the WSJ." 8.
The American military, itself, will be increasingly composed of women and others who are unwilling and/or unable to serve in combat due to "politically correct" norms.
Our armed forces may be no match psychologically, emotionally,physically,intellectually and/or spiritually in war for most men of foreign nations because of the aforementioned.
The excellent books entitled "Weak Link: The Feminization of the American Military" 9. and "Women in the Military: Flirting with Disaster" 10. by Brian Mitchell further argue that women have had a profoundly disruptive and negative effect on the fighting capabilities of the American armed forces.
An online National Review article by Mike Fredenburg, dated July 15, 2015, entitled: " Putting Women in Combat Is Even a Worse Idea than You'd Think", discusses the adverse effects on national defense of having women in the U.S. Military. The following is an partial quote from the same:
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"The push to put women into combat is driven by an extreme, reality-challenged form of feminism. Unfortunately, its influence in the media, the entertainment industry, the universities, and politics has given it a tremendous base of political power that extends into the heart of the military. Jude Eden notes: "In my experience, feminism and political correctness are so prevalent in the military that men trip over themselves trying to ensure that they do not offend. Military leaders cannot afford to even think the truth: Women are not as strong,athletic men are: "Officers in the military understand that speaking honestly about the problems of women in combat can be a career-ender, while putting gender-diversity goals ahead of everything else can be a career-accelerator." 11.
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There are other excellent books which further argue that women in the US Military have had an extremely adverse effect on the same.
A YouTube video entitled: "Starship Troopers- the Failure of Democracy" provides a very dramatic and meaningful argument for the proposition that the right to vote should be reasonably related to military service. 12.
The following is a partial quote from Book 2 Chapter IX of Aristotle's Book,Politics, which reiterates much of the aforementioned:
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"As to the indulging of women in any particular liberties, it is hurtful to the end of government and the prosperity of the city; for as a man and his wife are the two parts of a family, if we suppose a city to be divided into two parts, we must allow that the number of men and women will be equal.
In whatever city then the women are not under good regulations, we must look upon one half of it as not under the restraint of law, as it there happened; for the legislator, desiring to make his whole city a collection of warriors with respect to the men, he most evidently accomplished his design; but in the meantime the women were quite neglected, for they live without restraint in every improper indulgence and luxury. So that in such a state riches will necessarily be in general esteem, particularly if the men are governed by their wives, which has been the case with many a brave and warlike people except the Celts, and those other nations, if there are any such, who openly practise pederasty. And the first mythologists seem not improperly to have joined Mars and Venus together; for all nations of this character are greatly addicted either to the love of women or of boys, for which reason it was thus at Lacedaemon; and many things in their state were done by the authority of the women. For what is the difference, if the power is in the hands of the women, or in the hands of those whom they themselves govern? it must turn to the same account. As this boldness of the women can be of no use in any common occurrences, if it was ever so, it must be in war; but even here we find that the Lacedaemonian women were of the greatest disservice, as was proved at the time of the Theban invasion, when they were of no use at all, as they are in other cities, but made more disturbance than even the enemy.
The origin of this indulgence which the Lacedaemonian women enjoy is easily accounted for, from the long time the men were absent from home upon foreign expeditions against the Argives, and afterwards the Arcadians and Messenians, so that, when these wars were at an end, their military life, in which there is no little virtue, prepared them to obey the precepts of their law-giver; but we are told, that when Lycurgus endeavoured also to reduce the women to an obedience to his laws, upon their refusal he declined it. It may indeed be said that the women were the causes of these things, and of course all the fault was theirs. But we are not now considering where the fault lies, or where it does not lie, but what is right and what is wrong; and when the manners of the women are not well regulated, as I have already said, it must not only occasion faults which are disgraceful to the state, but also increase the love of money. In the next place, fault may be found with his unequal division of property, for some will have far too much, others too little; by which means the land will come into few hands, which business is badly regulated by his laws. For he made it infamous for any one either to buy or sell their possessions, in which he did right; but he permitted any one that chose it to give them away, or bequeath them, although nearly the same consequences will arise from one practice as from the other. It is supposed that near two parts in five of the whole country is the property of women, owing to their being so often sole heirs, and having such large fortunes in marriage; though it would be better to allow them none, or a little, or a certain regulated proportion. Now every one is permitted to make a woman his heir if he pleases; and if he dies intestate, he who succeeds as heir at law gives it to whom he pleases. From whence it happens that although the country is able to support fifteen hundred horse and thirty thousand foot, the number does not amount to one thousand.
And from these facts it is evident, that this particular is badly regulated; for the city could not support one shock, but was ruined for want of men." 13.
End of Long Quote
"When a nation shows a civilized horror of war, it receives directly the punishment of it's mistake. God changes its sex, despoils it of its common mark of virility, changes it into a feminine nation and sends conquerors to ravish its honor." 14.
In honor of America's veterans the following is a quote from Homer's "Iliad":
" But when Aurora, daughter of the Dawn, Redden'd the east, then, thronging forth, all Troy Encompass'd noble Hector's pile around. The whole vast multitude convened, with wine. They quench'd the pile throughout, leaving no part Unvisited, on which the fire had seized. His brothers, next, collected, and his friends,His white bones, mourning, and with tears profuse Watering their cheeks; then in a golden urn They placed them, which with mantles soft they veil'd Mæonian-hued, and, delving, buried it,And overspread with stones the spot adust. Lastly, short time allowing to the task,They heap'd his tomb, while, posted on all sides,Suspicious of assault, spies watch'd the Greeks.The tomb once heap'd, assembling all again Within the palace, they a banquet shared Magnificent, by godlike Priam given." Such burial the illustrious Hector found." 15.
"There is a rank due to the United States, among nations, which will be withheld, if not absolutely lost, by the reputation of weakness. If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known that we are at all times ready for war." President George Washington 16. “It is not indeed consistent with reason or justice that one set of men should make a sacrifice of property, domestic ease, and happiness; encounter the rigors of the field, the perils and vicissitude of war, without some adequate compensation, to obtain those blessings which every citizen will enjoy in common with them. It must be a comfortless reflection to any man, that, after he may have contributed to secure the rights of his country, at the risk of his life, and the ruin of his fortune, there will be no provision made to prevent himself and his family, from sinking into indigence and wretchedness.”“With these and other arguments, General Washington recommended, in addition to present compensation, a half pay and pensionary establishment for the army.” “Life of George Washington”, Vol.2, p. 394, John Marshall. “A long and continued sacrifice of individual interest for the general good ought not,” he said,” to be expected or required. The nature of man must be changed, before institutions built on the presumptive truth of such a principled can succeed.” “Life of George Washington”, Vol.2, p. 393, John Marshall. 17.
Friday, November 28, 2014
Reverse Discrimination
According to the Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, reverse discrimination is:" discrimination against whites or males (as in employment or education) ". 1.
By it's very definition "affirmative action" is both racist and sexist. Men are discriminated again BY DESIGN through affirmative action.
The following is the Gettysburg Address which President Abraham Lincoln gave on Thursday November 19, 1863 at the dedication of the Soldiers National Cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania:
Long quote:
"Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate, we can not consecrate, we can not hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us—that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion—that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth." 2.
End of Long Quote
Unfortunately, the political establishment of the United States government has forgotten the lessons of the American Civil War and the Gettysburg Address.
Rather, it continues on the path of discrimination and privilege based upon race, gender, color and national origin through affirmative action and other overt and covert laws and policies.
As per the Gettysburg address, it is for men's rights activists and other freedom loving citizens" It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us—that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion—that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth." 3.
What is the legal definition of " Reverse discrimination"?
"Employment programs required by federal statutes and regulations designed to remedy discriminatory practices in hiring minority group members; i.e., positive steps designed to eliminate existing and continuing discrimination, to remedy lingering effects of past discrimination, and to create systems and procedures to prevent future discrimination; commonly based on population percentages of minority groups in a particular area. Factors considered are race, color, sex, creed, and age." 4.
The Free Dictionary by Farlex discusses the history of "affirmative action" and it's definition 5.
Affirmative action is not limited to employment but, also, includes education, the receipt of social services, and many other governmental, private, and other benefits, freedoms, and privileges. It can even mean the exclusion of Caucasians and/or men even if the same are better qualified by reason of education, expertise, or temperament.
Legal arguments against affirmative action include those that assert that it is in violation of the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution, The U.S. Constitution's prohibition against Bills of Attainder, as well as Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
The text of the Fourteenth Amendment (Amendment XIV) to the United States Constitution which was adopted on July 9, 1868, as one of the Reconstruction Amendments is as follows:
Long Quote
"Section 1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
Section 2. Representatives shall be apportioned among the several States according to their respective numbers, counting the whole number of persons in each State, excluding Indians not taxed. But when the right to vote at any election for the choice of electors for President and Vice President of the United States, Representatives in Congress, the Executive and Judicial officers of a State, or the members of the Legislature thereof, is denied to any of the male inhabitants of such State, being twenty-one years of age, and citizens of the United States, or in any way abridged, except for participation in rebellion, or other crime, the basis of representation therein shall be reduced in the proportion which the number of such male citizens shall bear to the whole number of male citizens twenty-one years of age in such State.
Section 3. No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may, by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability.
Section 4. The validity of the public debt of the United States, authorized by law, including debts incurred for payment of pensions and bounties for services in suppressing insurrection or rebellion, shall not be questioned. But neither the United States nor any State shall assume or pay any debt or obligation incurred in aid of insurrection or rebellion against the United States, or any claim for the loss or emancipation of any slave; but all such debts, obligations and claims shall be held illegal and void.
Section 5. The Congress shall have power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article." 6.
Do "Affirmative Action" and similar laws amount to "Bills of Attainder" and "Ex Post Facto" laws forbidden by the U.S. Constitution? It appears to me that they do.
What is a Bill of Attainder?
"A bill of attainder (also known as an act of attainder or writ of attainder or bill of pains and penalties) is an act of a legislature declaring a person or group of persons guilty of some crime and punishing them , often without a trial." 7..
Long Quote
"The United States Constitution forbids legislative bills of attainder under Article I, Section 9. The provision forbidding state law bills of attainder, Article I, Section 10, reflects the importance that the framers attached to this issue.
"Within the U.S. Constitution, the clauses forbidding attainder laws serve two purposes. First, they reinforced the separation of powers, by forbidding the legislature to perform judicial or executive functions—since the outcome of any such acts of legislature would of necessity take the form of a bill of attainder. Second, they embody the concept of due process, which was partially reinforced by the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution. The text of the Constitution, Article I, Section 9; Clause 3 is "No Bill of Attainder or ex post facto Law shall be passed".
The constitution of every State also expressly forbids bills of attainder. For example, Wisconsin's constitution Article I, Section 12 reads:
No bill of attainder, ex post facto law, nor any law impairing the obligation of contracts, shall ever be passed, and no conviction shall work corruption of blood or forfeiture of estate.
Contrast this with the subtly more modern variation of the Texas version: Article 1 (Titled Bill of Rights) Section 16, entitled Bills of Attainder; Ex Post Facto or Retroactive Laws: Impairing Obligation of Contracts: "No bill of attainder, ex post facto law, retroactive law, or any law impairing the obligation of contracts, shall be made." 8.
End of Long Quote
The SCOTUS, the Supreme Court of the United States, is supposed to be an impartial tribunal with regard to the interpretation and enforcement of the U.S. Constitution, the Bill of Rights, and associated laws, regulations, and otherwise.
However, in actuality, it isn't.
SCOTUS has enforced laws which discriminate against individuals and groups because of gender and race inclusive of the military draft, affirmative action, and other laws and practices which have the effect of discriminating against males, especially Caucasian men. SCOTUS has supported and approved laws which unconstitutionally promulgate "Monopoly Capitalism" inclusive of the infamous ruling that corporations have the same basic political rights as living individuals (Citizens United). THUS, SCOTUS is not an impartial tribunal but a highly political entity which promulgates the political and economic means and ends of the political establishment which, as in this particular case, are "Monopoly Capitalism" with it's closely associated "Cultural Marxism."
In light of the aforementioned, the following quote is appropriate:
"A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear."-- Marcus Tullius Cicero 9.
The following is a partial quote from an article which appears on the VDARE website. This article, by Peter Brimelow, describes the deleterious affects of "affirmative action" on our society, culture, economy, and body politic.
Long Quote
" If quotas are clogging the Clinton transition, what are they doing to the economy? The subject went unmentioned, needless to say, at Clinton's two-day economic summit in Little Rock. In fact, it has gone virtually undiscussed throughout the quarter-century of bureaucratic and judicial decrees that have effectively transformed the color-blind 1964 Civil Rights Act into a pervasive quota system. Ironically, just as socialism has collapsed across the globe, the leading capitalist power has adopted a peculiarly American neosocialism, putting politics (and lawyers) in command of its workplace, albeit on the pretext of equity rather than efficiency. Says Edward Potter of the Washington, D.C.-based Employment Policy Foundation: "We have, without doubt, the most far-reaching equal employment laws found anywhere in the world." Before applauding Potter's sweeping statement, stop for a minute and ponder this question: What does the replacement of merit with quotas cost the American people? The answer is: plenty. The impact may easily have already depressed GNP by a staggering four percentage points—about as much as we spend on the entire public school system. Quotas are not the law of the land, exactly. They are explicitly banned in both the 1964 and 1991 Civil Rights Acts. Nevertheless, corporate America has been terrorized by the legal legerdemain whereby any statistical disparity between work force and population is equated with intentional discrimination. Throughout American business, newly entrenched affirmative action bureaucrats are enforcing discrimination by race and sex—in favor of the "protected classes" (women, minorities and, most recently, the disabled)—as decreed by Washington." 10.
End of Long Quote
Reiterating what was stated in the chapter entitled: " The Economic Effects of Feminism" : In an article, written by Krystal Steinmetz, entitled: "Young Men Earn Much Less Now Than in 1973" which appeared in the online MoneyTalksNews on May 13, 2014, describes the dramatic decline in American men's median income since 1973. The URL of the article is:http://www.moneytalksnews.com/2014/05/13/young-american-men-earn-much-less-now-than-in-1973/ The body of this article states: "Young American Men Earn Much Less Now Than in 1973.Men’s median income is on the decline. It’s depressing, but true. Cheryl Russell of the New Strategist Press writes that, according to Census information, men ages 25 to 34 actually earn less than they did 40 years ago. Among all American men, ages 15 and older, median income peaked in 2000, at $37,791. After adjusting for inflation, men’s median income fell 10 percent from 2000 to 2012, to $33,904. While a 10 percent drop in income sounds terrible, it gets worse when you break it down by age groups, Russell said. Check out these sad statistics for the percentage change in men’s median income from the year it peaked to 2012 (adjusted for inflation): Ages 25-34. Down 27 percent. Peaked in 1973. Ages 35-44. Down 19 percent. Peaked in 1973. Ages 45-54. Down 17 percent. Peaked in 1999. Ages 55-64. Down 13 percent. Peaked in 2003. Russell said: The median income of men aged 25 to 34 has plunged since 1973, falling from $46,598 to $34,113 after adjusting for inflation — a loss of $12,485. Men aged 35 to 44 have lost $10,345 since their peak. Men aged 45 to 54 have lost $9,762, and men aged 55 to 64 have lost $6,407. " 11.
The YouTube video entitled: "Male Gender Bias in the Nursing Profession" provides facts and reasoned arguments demonstrating discrimination against men in the traditional female profession of nursing. 12.
Given the aforementioned, the following quote from William Shakespeare's play, "Richard III", is appropriate: Richard:"And thus I clothe my naked villany With odd old ends stol'n out of holy writ,And seem a saint, when most I play the devil." 13.
By it's very definition "affirmative action" is both racist and sexist. Men are discriminated again BY DESIGN through affirmative action.
The following is the Gettysburg Address which President Abraham Lincoln gave on Thursday November 19, 1863 at the dedication of the Soldiers National Cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania:
Long quote:
"Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate, we can not consecrate, we can not hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us—that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion—that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth." 2.
End of Long Quote
Unfortunately, the political establishment of the United States government has forgotten the lessons of the American Civil War and the Gettysburg Address.
Rather, it continues on the path of discrimination and privilege based upon race, gender, color and national origin through affirmative action and other overt and covert laws and policies.
As per the Gettysburg address, it is for men's rights activists and other freedom loving citizens" It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us—that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion—that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth." 3.
What is the legal definition of " Reverse discrimination"?
"Employment programs required by federal statutes and regulations designed to remedy discriminatory practices in hiring minority group members; i.e., positive steps designed to eliminate existing and continuing discrimination, to remedy lingering effects of past discrimination, and to create systems and procedures to prevent future discrimination; commonly based on population percentages of minority groups in a particular area. Factors considered are race, color, sex, creed, and age." 4.
The Free Dictionary by Farlex discusses the history of "affirmative action" and it's definition 5.
Affirmative action is not limited to employment but, also, includes education, the receipt of social services, and many other governmental, private, and other benefits, freedoms, and privileges. It can even mean the exclusion of Caucasians and/or men even if the same are better qualified by reason of education, expertise, or temperament.
Legal arguments against affirmative action include those that assert that it is in violation of the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution, The U.S. Constitution's prohibition against Bills of Attainder, as well as Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
The text of the Fourteenth Amendment (Amendment XIV) to the United States Constitution which was adopted on July 9, 1868, as one of the Reconstruction Amendments is as follows:
Long Quote
"Section 1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
Section 2. Representatives shall be apportioned among the several States according to their respective numbers, counting the whole number of persons in each State, excluding Indians not taxed. But when the right to vote at any election for the choice of electors for President and Vice President of the United States, Representatives in Congress, the Executive and Judicial officers of a State, or the members of the Legislature thereof, is denied to any of the male inhabitants of such State, being twenty-one years of age, and citizens of the United States, or in any way abridged, except for participation in rebellion, or other crime, the basis of representation therein shall be reduced in the proportion which the number of such male citizens shall bear to the whole number of male citizens twenty-one years of age in such State.
Section 3. No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may, by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability.
Section 4. The validity of the public debt of the United States, authorized by law, including debts incurred for payment of pensions and bounties for services in suppressing insurrection or rebellion, shall not be questioned. But neither the United States nor any State shall assume or pay any debt or obligation incurred in aid of insurrection or rebellion against the United States, or any claim for the loss or emancipation of any slave; but all such debts, obligations and claims shall be held illegal and void.
Section 5. The Congress shall have power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article." 6.
Do "Affirmative Action" and similar laws amount to "Bills of Attainder" and "Ex Post Facto" laws forbidden by the U.S. Constitution? It appears to me that they do.
What is a Bill of Attainder?
"A bill of attainder (also known as an act of attainder or writ of attainder or bill of pains and penalties) is an act of a legislature declaring a person or group of persons guilty of some crime and punishing them , often without a trial." 7..
Long Quote
"The United States Constitution forbids legislative bills of attainder under Article I, Section 9. The provision forbidding state law bills of attainder, Article I, Section 10, reflects the importance that the framers attached to this issue.
"Within the U.S. Constitution, the clauses forbidding attainder laws serve two purposes. First, they reinforced the separation of powers, by forbidding the legislature to perform judicial or executive functions—since the outcome of any such acts of legislature would of necessity take the form of a bill of attainder. Second, they embody the concept of due process, which was partially reinforced by the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution. The text of the Constitution, Article I, Section 9; Clause 3 is "No Bill of Attainder or ex post facto Law shall be passed".
The constitution of every State also expressly forbids bills of attainder. For example, Wisconsin's constitution Article I, Section 12 reads:
No bill of attainder, ex post facto law, nor any law impairing the obligation of contracts, shall ever be passed, and no conviction shall work corruption of blood or forfeiture of estate.
Contrast this with the subtly more modern variation of the Texas version: Article 1 (Titled Bill of Rights) Section 16, entitled Bills of Attainder; Ex Post Facto or Retroactive Laws: Impairing Obligation of Contracts: "No bill of attainder, ex post facto law, retroactive law, or any law impairing the obligation of contracts, shall be made." 8.
End of Long Quote
The SCOTUS, the Supreme Court of the United States, is supposed to be an impartial tribunal with regard to the interpretation and enforcement of the U.S. Constitution, the Bill of Rights, and associated laws, regulations, and otherwise.
However, in actuality, it isn't.
SCOTUS has enforced laws which discriminate against individuals and groups because of gender and race inclusive of the military draft, affirmative action, and other laws and practices which have the effect of discriminating against males, especially Caucasian men. SCOTUS has supported and approved laws which unconstitutionally promulgate "Monopoly Capitalism" inclusive of the infamous ruling that corporations have the same basic political rights as living individuals (Citizens United). THUS, SCOTUS is not an impartial tribunal but a highly political entity which promulgates the political and economic means and ends of the political establishment which, as in this particular case, are "Monopoly Capitalism" with it's closely associated "Cultural Marxism."
In light of the aforementioned, the following quote is appropriate:
"A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear."-- Marcus Tullius Cicero 9.
The following is a partial quote from an article which appears on the VDARE website. This article, by Peter Brimelow, describes the deleterious affects of "affirmative action" on our society, culture, economy, and body politic.
Long Quote
" If quotas are clogging the Clinton transition, what are they doing to the economy? The subject went unmentioned, needless to say, at Clinton's two-day economic summit in Little Rock. In fact, it has gone virtually undiscussed throughout the quarter-century of bureaucratic and judicial decrees that have effectively transformed the color-blind 1964 Civil Rights Act into a pervasive quota system. Ironically, just as socialism has collapsed across the globe, the leading capitalist power has adopted a peculiarly American neosocialism, putting politics (and lawyers) in command of its workplace, albeit on the pretext of equity rather than efficiency. Says Edward Potter of the Washington, D.C.-based Employment Policy Foundation: "We have, without doubt, the most far-reaching equal employment laws found anywhere in the world." Before applauding Potter's sweeping statement, stop for a minute and ponder this question: What does the replacement of merit with quotas cost the American people? The answer is: plenty. The impact may easily have already depressed GNP by a staggering four percentage points—about as much as we spend on the entire public school system. Quotas are not the law of the land, exactly. They are explicitly banned in both the 1964 and 1991 Civil Rights Acts. Nevertheless, corporate America has been terrorized by the legal legerdemain whereby any statistical disparity between work force and population is equated with intentional discrimination. Throughout American business, newly entrenched affirmative action bureaucrats are enforcing discrimination by race and sex—in favor of the "protected classes" (women, minorities and, most recently, the disabled)—as decreed by Washington." 10.
End of Long Quote
Reiterating what was stated in the chapter entitled: " The Economic Effects of Feminism" : In an article, written by Krystal Steinmetz, entitled: "Young Men Earn Much Less Now Than in 1973" which appeared in the online MoneyTalksNews on May 13, 2014, describes the dramatic decline in American men's median income since 1973. The URL of the article is:http://www.moneytalksnews.com/2014/05/13/young-american-men-earn-much-less-now-than-in-1973/ The body of this article states: "Young American Men Earn Much Less Now Than in 1973.Men’s median income is on the decline. It’s depressing, but true. Cheryl Russell of the New Strategist Press writes that, according to Census information, men ages 25 to 34 actually earn less than they did 40 years ago. Among all American men, ages 15 and older, median income peaked in 2000, at $37,791. After adjusting for inflation, men’s median income fell 10 percent from 2000 to 2012, to $33,904. While a 10 percent drop in income sounds terrible, it gets worse when you break it down by age groups, Russell said. Check out these sad statistics for the percentage change in men’s median income from the year it peaked to 2012 (adjusted for inflation): Ages 25-34. Down 27 percent. Peaked in 1973. Ages 35-44. Down 19 percent. Peaked in 1973. Ages 45-54. Down 17 percent. Peaked in 1999. Ages 55-64. Down 13 percent. Peaked in 2003. Russell said: The median income of men aged 25 to 34 has plunged since 1973, falling from $46,598 to $34,113 after adjusting for inflation — a loss of $12,485. Men aged 35 to 44 have lost $10,345 since their peak. Men aged 45 to 54 have lost $9,762, and men aged 55 to 64 have lost $6,407. " 11.
The YouTube video entitled: "Male Gender Bias in the Nursing Profession" provides facts and reasoned arguments demonstrating discrimination against men in the traditional female profession of nursing. 12.
Given the aforementioned, the following quote from William Shakespeare's play, "Richard III", is appropriate: Richard:"And thus I clothe my naked villany With odd old ends stol'n out of holy writ,And seem a saint, when most I play the devil." 13.
Friday, November 21, 2014
Feminism and the Law
" 'Rape is an expression of...male supremacy... the age-old economic, political and cultural exploitation of women by men." Does this sound like a modern radical feminist? Guess again. It is from a 1948 American Communist Party pamphlet entitled " "Woman Against Myth" by Mary Inman.' " 1. There is horribly unfair and discriminatory law in the U.S.A. and Canada against men, unbalanced favoritism of the legal system in favor of women against men through horribly unfair legislation. "This book has identified one fundamental feature of the laws, American and Canadian, that now govern relations between men and women: systematic discrimination against men. By 'systematic discrimination.' we refer to several things. First, legal discrimination against men is part of a pattern with deep roots in culturally transmitted beliefs, nor merely and isolated phenomenon. Anyone who looks can see this pattern in laws governing affirmative action, pay equity, maternal custody, child support, pornography, prostitution, sexual harassment, and violence against women. In all cases, directly or indirectly, men are identified exclusively as the villains (even though that sometimes amounts, as in the case of affirmative action, to the villainy of their ancestors). Second, legal discrimination against men is pervasive, not merely a collection of anomalies. The same arguments are used over and over again, differing justly slightly from one context to another. The most obvious example is provided by those who believe that rape is only one extreme point along a continuum, which begins with the mildest expression of heterosexual interest and ends with murder. Third, legal discrimination against men is the result of both conscious and subconscious motivations. This is more complicated than it sounds Ideological feminists are certainly prejudiced against men, and they are certainly aware that men are paying the price for legal changes that benefit women." 2. "The result is a mentality that accepts systematic discrimination against men. Almost anything can be said about men or done to men, in short, without the expectation of a public outcry. Only now is that mentality being questioned and even challenged. The premise that underlies systemic discrimination against men is that women need to be protected from the power of men in every aspect of daily life. And underlying that premise are the various characteristic features of feminist ideology." 3. American feminist Jurisprudence provides the framework for this unbalanced favoritism of the legal system in favor of women against men through horribly unfair legislation "American feminist jurisprudence is the study of the construction and workings of the law from perspectives which foreground the implications of the law for women and women's lives.This study includes law as a theoretical enterprise as well as its practical and concrete effects in women's lives. Further, it includes law as an academic discipline and thus incorporates concerns regarding pedagogy and the influence of teachers. On all these levels, feminist scholars, lawyers, and activists raise questions about the meaning and the impact of law on women's lives. Feminist jurisprudence seeks to analyze and redress more traditional legal theory and practice. It focuses on the ways in which law has been structures that deny the experiences and needs of women. Feminist jurisprudence claims that patriarchy ( the system of interconnected relations and institutions that oppress women) infuses the legal system and all its working and that this results in an unacceptable state of affairs." 4. "Feminist legal theorists, despite differences in schools of thought, are united in their basic belief that society is patriarchal--shaped by and dominated by men. Feminists jurisprudence, then, provides an analysis and critique of women's position in patriarchal society and examines the nature and extent of of women's subordination. It explores the role of law in maintaining and perpetuating patriarchy. It also examines methods of eliminating patriarchy. Feminist legal theory essentially has two major components. The first is an exploration and critique of theoretical issues about the interaction between law and gender. The second is the application of feminist analysis and perspective to concrete areas of law: for example, family,work, criminal law, reproductive freedom, pornography, sexual harassment with an eye toward effectuating law reform." 5. "Catharine A. MacKinnon is widely regarded as the foremother of feminist legal theory. Her first book, Sexual Harassment of Working Women: A Case of Sex Discrimination, was published in 1979. While studying at Yale Law School, MacKinnon developed the theory of sexual harassment with a collective of lawyers and activists. The conceptualization of sexual harassment as a legal theory to address the situation that so many women encountered in the workplace and in school is a clear example of the power of feminist legal theory to transform women's lives. Today, women enter the workforce with a new set of entitlements and opportunities." 6. "Consequently, feminist jurisprudence is not politically neutral but a normative approach as expressed by philosopher Patricia Smith :" Feminist jurisprudence challenges basic legal categories and concepts rather than analyzing them as given. Feminist jurisprudence asks what is implied in traditional categories, distinctions, or concepts and rejects them if they imply the subordination of women. In this sense, feminist jurisprudence is normative and claims that traditional jurisprudence and law are implicitly normative as well. Feminist jurisprudence sees the workings of law as thoroughly permeated by political and moral judgments about the worth of women and how women should be treated." 7. Given the foregoing feminist philosophical and legal constructs, the determinants of the same are premised upon destroying traditional Western legal concepts of the individual application of the law in an unbiased manner and replacing the same with differentiating the formulation of the law and the application of the law based upon gender (and other class determinants) and how the formulation and application of the law promulgates the goals of women (and, through implication, other groups) against the oppressive "Patriarchy" as represented by men individually and collectively. "Although feminist jurisprudence revolves around a number of questions and features a diversity of focus and approach, two characteristics are central to it. First, because the Anglo-American legal tradition is built on liberalism and its tenets, feminist jurisprudence tends to respond to liberalism in some way. The second characteristic is the goal of bringing the law and its practitioners to recognize the law as currently constructed does not acknowledge or respond to the needs of women and must be changed." 8. Again, the essential concept of civil society, " the social contract", as the basis for law itself and Western philosophical and legal thought is considered inadequate and hostile towards women (and other groups) such that they must be made subordinate to the goals of women and other groups who have been traditionally exploited by the Patriarchical ( Western Civilization) concepts of law, equity, and politics. Inherent in the same, of course, is the subordination of men (especially Western men) and Western civilization and it's replacement by authoritarian concepts which can only be reasonably be defined as tyrannical, sexist, and racist. "As a critical theory, feminist jurisprudence responds to the current dominant understanding of legal thought which is usually identified with the liberal Anglo-American tradition. (This tradition is represented by such authors as Hart 1961 and Dworkin 1977, 1986.) Two major branches of this tradition have been legal positivism, on the one hand, and natural law theory, on the other. Feminist jurisprudence responds to both these branches of the American legal tradition by raising questions regarding their assumptions about the law, including: 1.That law is properly objective and thus must have recourse to objective rules or understandings at some level. 2.That law is properly impartial especially in that it is not to be tainted by the personal experience of any of its practitioners particularly judges. 3.That equality must function as a formal notion rather than as a substantive one such that, in the eyes of the law, difference must be shown to be "relevant" in order to be admissible/visible. 4. That law, when working properly, should be certain; and, that the goal of lawmaking and legal decision-making is to gain certainty. 5.. That justice can be understood as a matter of procedures such that a proper following of procedures can be understood as sufficient to rendering justice. Each of these assumption, although contested and debated, has remained a significant feature of the liberal tradition of legal understanding. Feminist jurisprudence usually frames its responses to traditional legal thought in terms of whether or not the critic is maintaining some commitment to the tradition or some particular feature of it. This split in responses has been formulated in a number of different ways according to the particular concerns they emphasize. The two formulations found most frequently in American feminist jurisprudence characterize the split either as a reformist/radical debate or as the sameness/difference debate. Within the reformist/radical debate, reformist feminists argue that the liberal tradition offers much that can be shaped to fit feminist hands and should be retained for all that it offers. These feminists approach jurisprudence with an eye to what needs to be changed within the system that already exists. Their work, then, is to gain entry into that system and use its own tools to construct a legal system which prevents the inequities of patriarchy from affecting justice. Those who see the traditional system as either bankrupt or so problematic that it cannot be reshaped are often referred to as transformist or radical feminists. According to this approach, the corruption of the legal tradition by the patriarchy is thought to be too deeply embedded to allow for any significant adjustments to the problems that women face. Feminists using this approach tend to argue that the legal system, either parts or as a whole, must be abandoned. They argue that liberal legal concepts, categories, and processes must be rejected and new ones put in place which can be free from the biases of the current system. Their work, then, is to craft the transformations that are necessary in legal theory and practice and to create a new legal system that can provide a more equitable justice." 9. Feminist legislation has resulted in the explosion of men incarcerated in the U.S.A. through the criminalization of conduct that women consider to be inimical to their political, economic, and social interests. "Claiming to be the freest country on Earth, the United States incarcerates a larger percentage of its population than Iran or Syria. Over two million people,or nearly one in 50 adults, excluding the elderly, are incarcerated, the highest proportion in the world. Some seven million Americans, or 3.2 percent, are under penal supervision.-------- But traditionalists upholding law and order were not an innovation of the 1970s. A newer and more militant force helped create the "carceral state." In The Prison and the Gallows (2006), feminist scholar Marie Gottschalk points out that traditional conservatives were not the prime instigators, and blames "interest groups and social movements not usually associated with penal conservatism." Yet, she names only one: "the women's movement." 10. In the United States, there are discriminatory sentencing disparities against men. "In both the United Kingdom and the United States there is concern about the extent to which there may be false accusations of rape. Lenient sentences for false accusations and lack of anonymity for the accused are also concerns. Sentencing for those convicted of making false accusations of rape in the United Kingdom is often perceived as being too lenient in comparison to the severe penalties imposed upon rapists." 11. "Men accused of rape today enjoy few safeguards. 'People can be charged with virtually no evidence,' says Boston former sex-crimes prosecutor Rikki Klieman. 'If a female comes in and says she was sexually assaulted, then on her word alone, with nothing else-- and I mean nothing else, no investigation-- the police will go out and arrest someone.'------ ' A defendant who can absolutely prove his innocence--- can none the less still be convicted, based solely on the word of the accuser,' write Stuart Taylor and K.C. Johnson in Until Proven Innocent. In North Carolina, simply "naming the person accused" along with the time and place " will support a verdict of guilty. Crime laboratories are notorious for falsifying results to obtain convictions. The feminist dogma that "women never lie" goes largely unchallenged. 'Any honest veteran sex assault investigator will tell you that rape is one of the most falsely reported crimes, ' says Craig Silverman, a former Colorado prosecutor known for his zealous prosecutions. Purdue University sociologist, Eugene Kanin, found that "41% of the total disposed rape cases were officially declared false" during a nine-year period, " that is by the complainant's admission that no rape had occurred." Kanin discovered three functions of false accusations: ' providing an alibi, seeking revenge, and obtaining sympathy and attention.' The Center for Military Readiness (CMR) adds that ' false rape accusations also have been filed to extort money from celebrities, to gain sole custody of children in divorce cases, and even to escape military deployments to war zones.' In the infamous Duke University lacrosse case, prosecutor Michael Nifong suppressed exculpating evidence and prosecuted men he knew to be innocent, according to Taylor and Johnson. Nifong, himself, was eventually disbarred, but he had the willing accomplices among assistant prosecutors, police, crime lab technicians, judges, the bar and the media. "Innocent men are arrested and even imprisoned as a result of bogus claims, "writes Linda Fairstein, former head of the sex-crimes unit for the Manhattan District Attorney, who estimates that half of all reports are unfounded. Innocence projects are almost wholly occupied with rape cases ( though they try to disguise this fact). Yet no systematic investigation has been undertaken by the media or civil libertarians into why so many innocent citizens are so easily incarcerated on fabricated allegations. The exoneration of the Duke Lacrosse team students on obviously trumped-up charges triggered few investigations-and no official ones- to determine how widespread such rigged justice is against those unable to garner media attention." 12. "In many jurisdictions, alleged victims of rape are given anonymity while this is not extended to the accused. The British government announced plans to grant anonymity to the accused but withdrew plans after criticism from campaign groups such as "Women Against Rape. In most states in the United States, it is possible to get a conviction for rape without corroborating evidence. Thus, the issue of false accusations of rape is very serious." 13. "In the current state of the law, men can and will, with just an allegation,lose all of their money, their kids, their house, their job, their self-respect, their friends, their standing in the community, their families,;and, above all, their souls if a woman decides, one day, in one minute, to snap and cast him into the abyss of hell by calling 911 and lying. No Police Officer called to the scene will ever take the chance of not arresting someone in a domestic dispute, and unfortunately, the statistics point out that it is overwhelmingly the man in the relationship who is arrested, and not the woman." 14. "It happens thousands of times a day in the USA. With regards to any type of allegation of Domestic Violence (what these types of cases are called), any Police Officer, Prosecutor, or Lawyer will tell you that a woman's word is 100 times stronger than a man's, even in the absence of any evidence to substantiate this. And, the police officer will blindly arrest and the prosecutor will doggedly pursue that man." 15. "Other incarcerations are also attributable to feminism. The vast preponderance of actual violent crime and substance abuse proceeds from single-parent homes and fatherless children more than any other factor far surpassing race and poverty. The explosion of single parenthood is usually and resignedly blamed on paternal abandonment with the only remedy being ever-more draconian but ineffective child support "crackdowns." Yet no evidence indicates that the proliferation of single-parent homes results from absconding fathers. If we accept that single motherhood is precisely what feminists say it is-the deliberate choice of their sexual revolution-it is then apparent that sexual liberation lies behind not only these newfangled sexual crimes,but also the larger trend of actual crime and incarceration. Feminism is driving both the criminalization of the innocent and the criminality of the guilty. We will continue to fight a losing battle against crime, incarceration, and expansive government power until we confront the sexual ideology that is driving not only family breakdown and the ensuing social anomie but the criminalization of the male population. Ever-more-repressive measures will only further erode freedom. Under a leftist regime, conservatives must rethink their approach to crime and punishment and their unwitting collusion with America's homegrown Stalinists." 16. "Men are sentenced 2.8 times longer than women for spousal murder [Bureau Justice Statistics--men at 17 years vs women at 6 years]. Women are acquitted of spousal murder at a rate 9 times than of men [ Bureau Justice Statistics--1.4% of men vs 12.9% of women] 17. MEDIA COMPLICITY "The world of rape accusations displays features similar to other feminist gender crimes; media invective against the accused, government-paid "victim advocates" to secure convictions, and intimidation of anyone who defends the accused. Nobody dependent on the mainstream media for information about rape would have any idea how frequent false claims are, write Taylor and Johnson. Most journalists simply ignore evidence contradicting the feminist line. What they observe of rape characterizes feminist justice generally: calling a rape complainant 'the victim'-- with no 'alleged'.' Unnamed complainants are labeled 'victims' even before legal proceedings determine that a crime has been committed,' according to CMR. Rape hysteria, false accusations, and distorted scholarship are rampant on university campuses,which ostensibly exist to pursue the truth. ' If a woman did falsely accuse a man of rape,' opines one "women's studies" graduate, 'she may have had reason to. Maybe she wasn't raped, but he clearly violated her in some way.' This mentality pervades feminist jurisprudence, precluding innocence by obliterating the distinction between crime and hurt feelings. A Vassar College assistant dean believe false accusations foster men's education:' I think it ideally initiates a process of self-exploration....'If I didn't violate her, could I have?' Conservative critics of the Duke fiasco avoided feminism's role but instead emphasized race--a minor feature of the case but a safer one to criticize. Little evidence indicates that white people are being systematically incarcerated on fabricated accusations of non-existent crimes against blacks. This is precisely what is happening to men, both white and black, accused of rape and other "gender" crimes that feminists have turned into a political agenda." 18. "Boyce (1994) analyzed Canadian media coverage on victimization and found that, despite the fact that men and women suffered roughly equal rates of violence, of those newspaper articles that referenced gender, 98.1 per cent emphasized women and 1.9 per cent emphasized men. Men, it would appear, are not even worthy of being victims." 19. FEMINIST DISSENT TO FEMINIST EXTREMISM "Ellen Frankel Paul, deputy director of the Social Philosophy ad Policy Center at Bowling Green State University in Ohio, warns of the danger inherent in using the courts as a way of policing behavior. ' Do we really want legislatures and judges delving into our most intimate, private lives,' she asks, ' deciding when a look is a leer and when a leer is a civil rights offense? Should people have a legally enforceable right not to be offended by others? At some point, the price for this protection is the loss of both liberty and privacy rights.' To which we would add another price: the rejection of personal and collective maturity as a goal worth seeking." 20. "We have not yet heard from Camille Paglia. As usual, she has a lot to say about feminism (or at least ideological feminism, in our parlance) and its effect on society. For her, the hostile-environment policy is 'grotesquely totalitarian. It offends free-speech rights and is predicated on a reactionary female archetype: the prudish Victorian lady who faints at a sexual innuendo. This isn't feminism; it's Puritanism. The Anita Hill case, far from expanding women's rights, was a disaster for civil liberties. That Hill, an articulate graduate of the Yale Law School, could find no job-preserving way to communicate to her employer her discomfort with mild off-color banter strained credulity. That Thomas could be publicly grilled about trivial lunch time conversations that occurred 10 years early was an outrage worthy of Stalinist Russia... Feminist excesses have paralyzed and neutered white, upper-middle-class young me as should be obvious to any visitor to the campuses of elite schools... While men must behave honorably ( governors and presidents should not be dropping their pants in front of female employees or secretly preying on buxom young interns), women must also watch how they dress and behave. For every gross male harasser, there are 10 female sycophants who shamelessly use their sexual attractions to get ahead. We don't want a society of surveillance by old maids and snitches. The proper vision of feminism is to encourage women to take personal responsibility without running to authority figures for help.' " Ellen Frankel Paul, deputy director of the Social Philosophy ad Policy Center at Bowling Green State University in Ohio, warns of the danger inherent in using the courts as a way of policing behavior. ' Do we really want legislatures and judges delving into our most intimate, private lives,' she asks, ' deciding when a look is a leer and when a leer is a civil rights offense? Should people have a legally enforceable right not to be offended by others? At some point, the price for this protection is the loss of both liberty and privacy rights.' To which we would add another price: the rejection of personal and collective maturity as a goal worth seeking." 21. DOMESTIC VIOLENCE "Roberts notes that a recent scholarly article locates severe partner violence with the female partner at a rate more than twice that with the male partner (4.6% to 2.1%). Of course, this flies in the face of the feminist hack that goes: 'Though women also engage in physical violence, severe violence is the sole domain of the much stronger and much more evil male partner!' Insert heavy breathing soundtrack here..... And while " domestic violence" is painted in the media (and in the X-rated masochistic dreams of feminists) as the exclusive domain of the male, the fact is that when men are involved in anything that appears to be actual "violence," they are generally responding to an attack by a women. When only ONE party was involved in an act of violence, Roberts states (referring to the research of one Murray Straus), female-only violence is TWICE as common as male-only violence. And this statistic holds true for 32 nations around the world. Insert wide-eyed look of surprise icon here... So the entire "domestic violence" hysteria, no matter from which angle it is viewed, simply points to a departure from reality that is so severe that, if it is an unwilling departure, is indicative of severe psychosis. But if "domestic violence" hysteria is a willing departure from reality, it points to a dishonesty and manipulation of the ignorant masses so extreme as to place feminism as a movement in the same propaganda stream as that indwelt by Goebbels himself." 22. "Like rape, domestic "violence" is defined so loosely that it need not be violent. The U.S. Justice Department definition includes "extreme jealousy and possessiveness" and "name calling and constant criticizing." For such "crimes" men are jailed with no trial. In fact, the very category of "domestic" violence was developed largely to circumvent due process requirements of conventional assault statutes. A study published in Criminology and Public Policy found that no one accused of domestic violence could be found innocent, since every arrestee received punishment. Here, too false accusations are rewarded.' Women lie every day,'attests Ottawa Judge Diane Nicholas.'Every day women in court say,'I made it up. I'm lying. It didn't happen'---and they're not charged.' Amazingly, bar associations sponsor seminars instructing women how to fabricate accusations. Thomas Kiernan, writing in the New Jersey Law Journal, expressed his astonishment at 'the number of women attending the seminars who smugly--indeed boastfully--announced that they had already sworn out false or grossly exaggerated domestic violence complaints against their hapless husbands, and that the device worked!' He added,'The lawyer lecturers invariably congratulated the self-confessed miscreants.' " Domestic violence has become a 'backwater of tautological pseudo-theory,' write Donald Dutton and Kenneth Corvo in Aggression and Violent Behavior. ' No other area of established social welfare, criminal justice, public health, or behavioral intervention has such weak evidence in support of mandated practice . ' " 23. " After laying charges, police are significantly more likely to take a man into custody than a woman, even when factors such as the level of injury inflicted and prior criminal record are taken into account. Nor do prosecutors tend to mitigate this disparately harsh treatment of men. On the contrary, prosecutors appear to pursue cases involving male suspects more vigorously than those involving female suspects. Thus men are more likely to be found guilty and are less likely to benefit from withdrawn charges, even though they are suspects in proportionately more of the non-injury cases. Men are also less likely to benefit from favorable plea bargains, despite the fact that they have committed, on average, less grievous offences. And men are significantly more likely to receive harsher sentences than women, even when all other relevant factors are taken into account. Indeed, gender is often the most significant factor in predicting how the law-enforcement system responds to incidents of partner violence. " 24. " One result of these misconceptions about domestic violence, is a difference in the way that men and women are treated by the courts 'As a result of the invisibility of the female methods of killing, women who do kill benefit from the stereotype of women as innocent and are treated very differently by the law: thirteen percent of spousal murder cases with women defendants result in an acquittal vs. 1 percent of murder cases with men defendants. Similarly, the average prison sentence for spousal murder (excluding life sentences and the death penalty) is almost three times longer for men than for women- 17.5 years vs. 6.2 years. And, thus far, a woman has never been executed for killing only a man. When we can only see women as innocent, the law becomes equally blind.' " 25. Feminist Gulag: No Prosecution Necessary Stephen Baskerville , in his essay, "Feminist Gulag: No Prosecution Necessary" stated: "Feminists, despite Gottschalk's muted admission of guilt, did lead the charge toward wholesale incarceration. Feminist ideology has radicalized criminal justice and eroded centuries-old constitutional protections:New crimes have been created; old crimes have been redefined politically; the distinction between crime and private behavior has been erased; the presumption of innocence has been eliminated; false accusations go unpunished; patently innocent people are jailed without trial." "The new feminist jurisprudence hammers away at some of the most basic foundations of our criminal law system, " Michael Weiss and Cathy Young write in a Cato institute paper. "Chief among them is the presumption that the accused is innocent until proven guilty." 26. FALSE CLAIMS A STRATEGY "Scholars and practitioners have repeatedly documented how "allegations of abuse are now used for tactical advantage" in custody cases and "become a part of the gamesmanship of divorce." Domestic abuse has become "an area of law mired in intellectual dishonesty and injustice, " according to the Rutgers Law Review. Restraining orders removing men from their homes and children are summarily issued without any evidence..Due process protections are so routinely ignored that, the New Jersey Law Journal reports one judge told his colleagues, " Your job is not to become concerned about the constitutional rights of the man you're violating." Attorney David Heleniak calls New Jersey's statute "a due process fiasco" in the Rutgers Law Review. New Jersey court literature openly acknowledges that due process is ignored because it " perpetuates the cycle of power and control whereby the [alleged?] perpetrator remains th one with the power and the [alleged/] victim remains powerless." Omitting "alleged" is standard even in statutes, where, the Massachusetts Lawyer Weekly reports, " the mere allegation of domestic abuse...may shift the burden of proof to the defendant." Special " integrated domestic violence courts " presume guilt and then, says New York's openly feminist chief judge, " makes batterers and abusers take responsibility for their actions. " They can seize property, including homes, without the accused being convicted or even formally charged or present to defend himself. Lawyer Walter Fox describes these courts as "pre-fascist": " Domestic violence courts ...are designed to get around the protections of the criminal code. The burden of proof is reduced or removed, and there's no presumption of innocence. " Forced confessions are widespread. Pennsylvania men are incarcerated unless they sign forms stating, " I have physically and emotionally battered my partner." The man must then describe the violence, even if he insists he committed none. " I am responsible for the violence I used, " the forms declare. " My behavior was not provoked." 27. ABORTION, PATERNAL RIGHTS "In all but 15 countries, husbands are not required to authorize or be notified of an induced abortion. Egypt, Guinea-Bissau, Iran, Iraq, Japan, The Republic of Korea, Kuwait, Malawi, Morocco, Nicaragua, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Turkey, and the United Arab Emirates all legally require that an abortion must be authorized by the woman's husband. However, in some countries, this authorization law can be overridden if there is genuine concern for maternal health. In China, the law states that a woman has no overriding priority over her spouse in deciding whether to have a child. In the USA in 2006, the court case Dubay v. Wells concerned whether men should have an opportunity to decline all paternity rights and responsibilities in the event of an unplanned pregnancy. Supporters said that this would allow the woman time to make an informed decision and give men the same reproductive rights as women. In it's dismissal of the case, the U.S. Court of Appeals (Sixth Circuit) stated that " the Fourteenth Amendment does not deny to [the] State the power to treat different classes of persons in different ways." 28. ADOPTION "Fathers' rights activists seek a gender-neutral approach in which unwed men and women would have equal rights in adoption issues. In Oregon, a U.S. state, an adoption may be granted without the consent of a married woman's husband if it has been determined that her husband at such time was not the father of the child. In this case, consent of the husband (or father) is not required." 29. CHILD CUSTODY "Many men feel that they are discriminated against and that they do not have the same contact rights or equitable shared parenting rights as their ex-spouse. The United Kingdom and the United States were cited, with several other unnamed countries, as affected regions where child custody issues have become complicated by higher divorce rates, less father-child time, while there has been greater expectations for fatherly involvement in their children's lives. Authors of Unfamiliar territory write: "The current struggles of the fathers' rights movement can be understood as part of this complex and painful renegotiation of intimate relations against a backdrop of changing lifestyles and expectations." Men seek to change the legal climate for men through changes in family law. In the United States, fathers were awarded custody in 17.4 percent of cases in 2007, a percentage that has statistically not changed since 1994." 30. From the Chapter on The Marital Relationship:" Contrary to government propaganda (and Common Law tradition), child support today has little to do with fathers abandoning their children, deserting their marriages, or even agreeing to a divorce. It is automatically assessed on all non-custodial parents, even those involuntarily divorced without grounds ("no fault"). It is an entitlement for all divorcing mothers, regardless of their actions, and coerced from fathers, regardless of their fidelity. The "deadbeat dad" is far less likely to be a man who abandoned the offspring he callously sired than to be a loving father who has been, as attorney Jed Abraham writes in From Courtship to Courtroom , "forced to finance the filching of his own children." 31. PARENTAL ABDUCTION "Men's rights activists" state that children of men on Indian descent have been abducted from their homes in Canada, the United States and Europe and moved to India where the national courts do not recognize foreign child custody orders. The country is not subjected to the Hague Convention and men accused of dowry harassment may be arrested at Indian airports." 32. PARENTAL LEAVE "There is a wide variance in parental leave provisions across 24 western countries which are primarily European countries, Australia and the United States. The most liberal allows the couple to chose how to split the family leave time between mother and father. In the countries where parental leave is available and defined, it is, generally, for 2 to 12 days. Where maternal leave is available and defined, all but the United States and Australia, the period of time is, generally, 14-20 weeks. However, four countries have extended leave periods." 33. PARENTAL FRAUD "Parental fraud occurs when a mother intentionally identifies a man as a biological father who she knows is not the father. Estimates in the United States have ranged that there might be as many as 800,000 incorrect paternity judgments in California alone (because of defaults). Once so judged, it is extremely difficult or even impossible to get liability for child support removed. In some cases, a husband is responsible for his wife's children no matter what. Even if the child is not his own." 34. REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS-PATERNAL OBLIGATION "The woman's right to choose to have a baby or not determines the father's obligation to pay child support for the child's life." 35. Affirmative Action "According to the University of Pittsburgh, affirmative action is "predicted to lower the performance requirement for women and result in reverse discrimination towards men." 36. Social Security and Retirement "Previously, in some countries that award some form of social security or pension women qualified for benefits earlier in life than men. However, this is currently being phased out. In Australia and the United Kingdom these provisions were no longer offered to women after 1955. Widow Allowance in Australia is awarded to a woman born before 1 June 1955, with no recent workforce experience and with low income if she becomes widowed, divorced, or separated from a spouse or de facto partner (of either sex). The provision was available to women only and not to men in identical circumstances, In the United Kingdom, women's earlier qualification for State Pension has ended for anyone born after 1955." 37.
Friday, November 14, 2014
What Should Be Men's Strategy?
The following quote is an appropriate for this title: Henry V Saint Crispin’s day speech at the Battle of Agincourt (from William Shakespeare’s play): “And Crispin Crispian shall ne'er go by, From this day to the ending of the world, But we in it shall be remembered- We few, we happy few, we band of brothers; For he to-day that sheds his blood with me Shall be my brother; be he ne'er so vile, This day shall gentle his condition: And gentlemen in England now a-bed Shall think themselves accursed they were not here, And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks That fought with us upon Saint Crispin's day." 1.
Men's Status in the USA is Improving
I am a little more optimistic about the situation for men in the USA. Why? American men are now increasingly educated as to how feminism has adversely affected their lives individually and collectively. As a result, they have organized, written books, and formed individual and collective strategies to address the adverse effects of feminism. How have they done the same?: 1. American men are on a "marriage strike" refusing to marry women which has had a disastrous impact on women and on the culture and society which supports gender feminism; 2. American men have, increasingly, avoided all contact with American women (going my own way movement otherwise known as the MGTOW movement); 3. American men are increasingly refusing to support those institutions which support feminism (increasing avoidance of military service inclusive of the military draft, for example); 4. American men are increasingly moving out of those areas within the USA which are most heavily influenced politically, culturally, and economically by feminism; and, 5. American men are increasingly knowledgeable about Men's Rights theories and strategies on how to address feminism on both a personal and collective basis. The successful "Men Going Their Own Way" (MGTOW) movement in the USA and internationally has successfully adopted the aforementioned strategies and others.
There was an excellent Wikipedia article on the "Men Going Their Own Way" (MGTOW) movement. 2.
However, political pressure from feminists and others might in the future result in significant changes to this site diminishing it's relevance to men's rights advocates in the future.
UPDATE:
As per the aforementioned, the Wikipedia article on MGTOW has been dramatically abbreviated and censored on the Wikipedia site. It is now being considered for deletion by Wikipedia despite the overwhelming international internet interest in the same.
However, another internet site has a complete online copy of the original Wikipedia article on "Men Going Their Own Way". 3.
The following is a partial quote from the aforementioned article:
Long Quote
"Men Going Their Own Way (abbreviated MGTOW, pronounced /ˈmɪg.taʊ/), sometimes also called the marriage strike, the marriage boycott, or the sexodus, is a worldwide social phenomenon and community of heterosexual men who uphold a personal philosophy which rejects gynocentrism in favor of a value system of male self-determination and self-preservation, and who consequently choose a lifestyle which avoids legal and romantic entanglements with women, including, at the very least, marriage, cohabitation, and procreation. A participant in MGTOW is called a Man Going His Own Way (abbreviated MGHOW, pronounced /ˈmɪg.haʊ/). In Japan, MGTOW are known as herbivore men or grass-eater men.
As Sunday Times journalist Martin Daubney has pointed out, according to Google Trends, interest in "MGTOW" has grown exponentially since 2009; doubling approximately every 12 months], it has rapidly overtaken both " women's rights" and " men's rights", as well as " radical feminism" in search popularity. It has been estimated that the MGTOW arm of the so-called " manosphere" is not only its largest segment, but also its fastest growing. Renowned family care activist Erin Pizzey has described MGTOW as "very powerful" and "almost epidemic".
Definition
Because it is social phenomenon and a community, and not so much a movement (coordinated group action), MGTOW does not have any leaders, spokesmen, by-laws, official publications, official manifesto, or organizational structure, which can make the concept contentious, ambiguous, and difficult to define. The concept of MGTOW is thus primarily defined and refined by the MGTOW community itself, by means of articles, conversations, and debates in self-published books, websites, blogs, web forums, and online videos. Authors that have researched the phenomenon, such as Kay Hymowitz, have recommended examining MGTOW websites, including MGTOW.com, NoMarriage (now defunct), and EternalBachelor, for readers interested in this matter. A man who preserves and protects his self-ownership and personal sovereignty.
A man who avoids cultural definitions and preconceptions of what a "man" is.
A man who looks to no one for social approval.
A man who does not allow anyone to treat him as a disposable utility.
A man who lives according to his own best interests, rather than society's expectations.
Basic concepts
One essential principle of the MGTOW lifestyle is the avoidance of legal entanglements with women, including, at the very least, marriage, cohabitation, and procreation. In addition, many MGTOW to varying degrees choose to abandon romantic relationships, casual sexual relationships, female friendships, and/or social contact with women altogether. These phenomena are known as going ghost (or, less commonly, as going monk) Journalist Milo Yiannopoulos has also coined and popularized the term sexodus (a portmanteau of sex and exodus) as a synonym for MGTOW. MGTOW can refer to both the social phenomenon, in which case a man can be a participant in MGTOW without even knowing about the term "MGTOW", and to the community of men who discuss the MGTOW philosophy and support each other in their MGTOW lifestyle." 4.
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The following is a repeat of the partial quote in support of the aforementioned from the Chapter on Feminism and National Defense from an online Time.com article by Nolan Feeney dated June 29, 2014 entitled " Pentagon: 7 in 10 Youths Would Fail to Qualify for Military Service": " Only 1% of young people are both 'eligible and inclined to have conversation with' the military about possible service, according to the Defense Department. 'The quality of people willing to serve has been declining rapidly,' Major General Allen Batschelet, the U.S. Army Recruiting Command's commanding general, told the WSJ." 5.
The effect of the increasing status of men in the USA appears to be that men are increasingly regaining their sense of self respect and empowerment. Those areas of the USA which are most influenced by feminism appear to be disintegrating socially, economically, politically, and culturally causing great alarm amongsts feminists both male and female.
As Winston Churchill stated: " Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning." 6.
Men have control over their own resources. Women have control over the resources of the state through governmental "Husbandry" and other means. Women, also, have control of the resources of men who have become an isolated resource producing male for a woman and her children.
Restating what was stated in the Chapter on the Marital Relationship: Will a "Matriarchal" state as exists in the USA truly allow males to be part of a truly mated pair bond with an responsible and egalitarian relationship with their children?
No!
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"Under ALL matriarchal structures, males are not members of the mated pair bond nor the lives of their children. ----.
This is life under a matriarchy. We are, indeed, moving towards a matrifocal , matrilineal, and matriarchal society. Men must learn to survive and function well towards their own enfranchisement under this new order while, at the same time, learning to understand their own weaknesses and how to deal with them to the best of their health and well being." ---
Identifying and recognizing misandry, gynocentric societal changes, and its religion of feminism does not entail lamenting about being oppressed; it entails identifying your opponent, their strengths and weaknesses;and, the formulating of a strategy to go forward and achieve success despite the changes women have made." 7.
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In the game of chess, using an orderly, well thought out, and methodical means to address your opponent is the optimal means to gain the advantage and win. Thinking and acting in this manner are men's strength and women's weaknesses. Men must learn to play this "chess game" with women individually and collectively. By doing so, they can formulate a successful strategy for individual success and happiness and for that of men in general, despite the hostile social, cultural, economic, and political environment that the Matriarchal state has created. Men should create the social, political, cultural, and economic environment that is the compliment of feminism for themselves.
In a recapitulation from the chapter on Government and Feminism: Men, as a result, must become independent as well. In my opinion, as men do become independent from this feminist construct, the same will have disastrous affects on this feminist construct and the tyrannical feminist state that supports the same!
Why? In actuality, it is men who support and defend the state and the women who occupy the same. When men abandon their traditional role in support of both women and the state, both will collapse. The feminist construct, the feminist state, and feminist women, therefore, provide the premises for their own denigration and destruction.
Quoting, again, from William Shakespeare's Play, "Julius Caesar" (Act I, Scene II) provides some insight into what men in the USA face and as to what they should do:
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" Cassius: Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world Like a Colossus, and we petty men Walk under his huge legs and peep about To find ourselves dishonourable graves.Men at some time are masters of their fates:The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars,But in ourselves, that we are underlings. Brutus and Caesar: what should be in that 'Caesar'?Why should that name be sounded more than yours?Write them together, yours is as fair a name;Sound them, it doth become the mouth as well;Weigh them, it is as heavy; conjure with 'em,Brutus will start a spirit as soon as Caesar.Now, in the names of all the gods at once,Upon what meat doth this our Caesar feed,That he is grown so great? Age, thou art shamed!Rome, thou hast lost the breed of noble bloods!When went there by an age, since the great flood,But it was famed with more than with one man?When could they say till now, that talk'd of Rome,That her wide walls encompass'd but one man?Now is it Rome indeed and room enough,When there is in it but one only man. O, you and I have heard our fathers say,There was a Brutus once that would have brook'd The eternal devil to keep his state in Rome As easily as a king." 8.
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Men's Status in the USA is Improving
I am a little more optimistic about the situation for men in the USA. Why? American men are now increasingly educated as to how feminism has adversely affected their lives individually and collectively. As a result, they have organized, written books, and formed individual and collective strategies to address the adverse effects of feminism. How have they done the same?: 1. American men are on a "marriage strike" refusing to marry women which has had a disastrous impact on women and on the culture and society which supports gender feminism; 2. American men have, increasingly, avoided all contact with American women (going my own way movement otherwise known as the MGTOW movement); 3. American men are increasingly refusing to support those institutions which support feminism (increasing avoidance of military service inclusive of the military draft, for example); 4. American men are increasingly moving out of those areas within the USA which are most heavily influenced politically, culturally, and economically by feminism; and, 5. American men are increasingly knowledgeable about Men's Rights theories and strategies on how to address feminism on both a personal and collective basis. The successful "Men Going Their Own Way" (MGTOW) movement in the USA and internationally has successfully adopted the aforementioned strategies and others.
There was an excellent Wikipedia article on the "Men Going Their Own Way" (MGTOW) movement. 2.
However, political pressure from feminists and others might in the future result in significant changes to this site diminishing it's relevance to men's rights advocates in the future.
UPDATE:
As per the aforementioned, the Wikipedia article on MGTOW has been dramatically abbreviated and censored on the Wikipedia site. It is now being considered for deletion by Wikipedia despite the overwhelming international internet interest in the same.
However, another internet site has a complete online copy of the original Wikipedia article on "Men Going Their Own Way". 3.
The following is a partial quote from the aforementioned article:
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"Men Going Their Own Way (abbreviated MGTOW, pronounced /ˈmɪg.taʊ/), sometimes also called the marriage strike, the marriage boycott, or the sexodus, is a worldwide social phenomenon and community of heterosexual men who uphold a personal philosophy which rejects gynocentrism in favor of a value system of male self-determination and self-preservation, and who consequently choose a lifestyle which avoids legal and romantic entanglements with women, including, at the very least, marriage, cohabitation, and procreation. A participant in MGTOW is called a Man Going His Own Way (abbreviated MGHOW, pronounced /ˈmɪg.haʊ/). In Japan, MGTOW are known as herbivore men or grass-eater men.
As Sunday Times journalist Martin Daubney has pointed out, according to Google Trends, interest in "MGTOW" has grown exponentially since 2009; doubling approximately every 12 months], it has rapidly overtaken both " women's rights" and " men's rights", as well as " radical feminism" in search popularity. It has been estimated that the MGTOW arm of the so-called " manosphere" is not only its largest segment, but also its fastest growing. Renowned family care activist Erin Pizzey has described MGTOW as "very powerful" and "almost epidemic".
Definition
Because it is social phenomenon and a community, and not so much a movement (coordinated group action), MGTOW does not have any leaders, spokesmen, by-laws, official publications, official manifesto, or organizational structure, which can make the concept contentious, ambiguous, and difficult to define. The concept of MGTOW is thus primarily defined and refined by the MGTOW community itself, by means of articles, conversations, and debates in self-published books, websites, blogs, web forums, and online videos. Authors that have researched the phenomenon, such as Kay Hymowitz, have recommended examining MGTOW websites, including MGTOW.com, NoMarriage (now defunct), and EternalBachelor, for readers interested in this matter. A man who preserves and protects his self-ownership and personal sovereignty.
A man who avoids cultural definitions and preconceptions of what a "man" is.
A man who looks to no one for social approval.
A man who does not allow anyone to treat him as a disposable utility.
A man who lives according to his own best interests, rather than society's expectations.
Basic concepts
One essential principle of the MGTOW lifestyle is the avoidance of legal entanglements with women, including, at the very least, marriage, cohabitation, and procreation. In addition, many MGTOW to varying degrees choose to abandon romantic relationships, casual sexual relationships, female friendships, and/or social contact with women altogether. These phenomena are known as going ghost (or, less commonly, as going monk) Journalist Milo Yiannopoulos has also coined and popularized the term sexodus (a portmanteau of sex and exodus) as a synonym for MGTOW. MGTOW can refer to both the social phenomenon, in which case a man can be a participant in MGTOW without even knowing about the term "MGTOW", and to the community of men who discuss the MGTOW philosophy and support each other in their MGTOW lifestyle." 4.
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The following is a repeat of the partial quote in support of the aforementioned from the Chapter on Feminism and National Defense from an online Time.com article by Nolan Feeney dated June 29, 2014 entitled " Pentagon: 7 in 10 Youths Would Fail to Qualify for Military Service": " Only 1% of young people are both 'eligible and inclined to have conversation with' the military about possible service, according to the Defense Department. 'The quality of people willing to serve has been declining rapidly,' Major General Allen Batschelet, the U.S. Army Recruiting Command's commanding general, told the WSJ." 5.
The effect of the increasing status of men in the USA appears to be that men are increasingly regaining their sense of self respect and empowerment. Those areas of the USA which are most influenced by feminism appear to be disintegrating socially, economically, politically, and culturally causing great alarm amongsts feminists both male and female.
As Winston Churchill stated: " Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning." 6.
Men have control over their own resources. Women have control over the resources of the state through governmental "Husbandry" and other means. Women, also, have control of the resources of men who have become an isolated resource producing male for a woman and her children.
Restating what was stated in the Chapter on the Marital Relationship: Will a "Matriarchal" state as exists in the USA truly allow males to be part of a truly mated pair bond with an responsible and egalitarian relationship with their children?
No!
Long Quote
"Under ALL matriarchal structures, males are not members of the mated pair bond nor the lives of their children. ----.
This is life under a matriarchy. We are, indeed, moving towards a matrifocal , matrilineal, and matriarchal society. Men must learn to survive and function well towards their own enfranchisement under this new order while, at the same time, learning to understand their own weaknesses and how to deal with them to the best of their health and well being." ---
Identifying and recognizing misandry, gynocentric societal changes, and its religion of feminism does not entail lamenting about being oppressed; it entails identifying your opponent, their strengths and weaknesses;and, the formulating of a strategy to go forward and achieve success despite the changes women have made." 7.
End of Long Quote
In the game of chess, using an orderly, well thought out, and methodical means to address your opponent is the optimal means to gain the advantage and win. Thinking and acting in this manner are men's strength and women's weaknesses. Men must learn to play this "chess game" with women individually and collectively. By doing so, they can formulate a successful strategy for individual success and happiness and for that of men in general, despite the hostile social, cultural, economic, and political environment that the Matriarchal state has created. Men should create the social, political, cultural, and economic environment that is the compliment of feminism for themselves.
In a recapitulation from the chapter on Government and Feminism: Men, as a result, must become independent as well. In my opinion, as men do become independent from this feminist construct, the same will have disastrous affects on this feminist construct and the tyrannical feminist state that supports the same!
Why? In actuality, it is men who support and defend the state and the women who occupy the same. When men abandon their traditional role in support of both women and the state, both will collapse. The feminist construct, the feminist state, and feminist women, therefore, provide the premises for their own denigration and destruction.
Quoting, again, from William Shakespeare's Play, "Julius Caesar" (Act I, Scene II) provides some insight into what men in the USA face and as to what they should do:
Long Quote
" Cassius: Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world Like a Colossus, and we petty men Walk under his huge legs and peep about To find ourselves dishonourable graves.Men at some time are masters of their fates:The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars,But in ourselves, that we are underlings. Brutus and Caesar: what should be in that 'Caesar'?Why should that name be sounded more than yours?Write them together, yours is as fair a name;Sound them, it doth become the mouth as well;Weigh them, it is as heavy; conjure with 'em,Brutus will start a spirit as soon as Caesar.Now, in the names of all the gods at once,Upon what meat doth this our Caesar feed,That he is grown so great? Age, thou art shamed!Rome, thou hast lost the breed of noble bloods!When went there by an age, since the great flood,But it was famed with more than with one man?When could they say till now, that talk'd of Rome,That her wide walls encompass'd but one man?Now is it Rome indeed and room enough,When there is in it but one only man. O, you and I have heard our fathers say,There was a Brutus once that would have brook'd The eternal devil to keep his state in Rome As easily as a king." 8.
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