Summary: The Left and Right are building a new world, while we passively watch. Here is a look at the world that the women of Generation Z inherit.
News from the new world
The daily news is rich with insights into the new world being created by the Left and Right on the ashes of the West-that-once-was. Such as this story, headlining in most of the British papers. From the Daily Mail…
“Fashion chief executive who was attacked by 6ft tube passenger
slams two ‘white middle class’ men after they walked into next carriage
and left her to defend herself.”
“Tamara Cincik was kicked and threatened while travelling to a business meeting in central London yesterday. …The fashion CEO is keen to stress she does not blame this man, who she desribes {sic} as being 6ft tall and of Southeast Asian descent. …’I remain more angry with those white middle class men who left me to it. As fathers, husbands and sons they should be ashamed of themselves.'”
But fish don’t need bicycles. Also, there were many women in the car. Why didn’t they team up to attack the guy? Where was feminist solidarity? (Strangely, neither the women in the car nor the guys pulled the emergency cord.)
This is a foretaste of our new world. How did we get here?
Millennials lived in the golden age for women
Women of the millennial generation lived the golden age for women. They were able to deploy feminism while men still played by the traditional rules.
Millennial women were able to party until their late 20s, then marry a beta provider. Chick flicks and music videos (e.g., Taylor Swift’s) showed us peak Girl’s Game, with all the options in her hands: romance, party-of-her-life, marriage, kids, divorce, community property, child support, and independence. Family courts were run for their benefit. Abuse accusations in divorce court were believed and rewarded, no matter how frivolous the evidence. Mothers almost automatically received sole custody.
Millennial women had near equality in education and employment. In 1982 and every year after, women earned more Bachelor’s degrees than men (the gender gap was 26% in 2017). They earn more than men (see The Guardian, see CNN, see Fortune, see the Census data here and at the source).
Millennial women’s relative performance was boosted by the creation of special programs for girls and massive drugging of boys. ADHD was officially declared a mental illness in 1980 (by DSM-III). Widespread drugging to make boys more docile began in the late 1980s. Ritalin production increased eightfold during the 1990s. Use doubled in Britain in the last decade; US sales rose 83% between 2006 and 2010 (The Times). By 2017, 3.6 million kids were on ADHD drugs – mostly boys.
Millennial women got to choose their narrative, and change it to suit their need of the moment. They can condemn chivalry as male oppression (toxic masculinity) or demand protection. They can be Cinderella or Wonder Woman (e.g., the warrior women cadets at the US Air Force Academy, piled with drink and taken advantage of). Men must comply with the script women choose. Many young men tell me that this leads to strange dates, as they cannot predict what personality the women will wear (or change into, with no notice).
The result: millennial women have decisively moved on top of men.
All good things come to an end
“A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle.”
— Graffiti on a lavatory wall written by Australian social activist Irina Dunn in 1970 (details here).
After the apogee comes the fall. The men of Gen Z grew up seeing women casually hitting men on TV and in films, often for frivolous reasons — shown as glorious demonstrations of grrl-power. They watched TV shows about weak men becoming domesticated and strong men being broken. (examples here). There were taught that men must follow the rules while women break them.
Men slowly adapted to the new rules, learning on the street (since feminists control the universities and think-tanks) to hack them. Game taught men how to play the post-romance era (see the science, and how Game is toxic to feminism). Second wave counterrevolutionary thought is called “Red Pill”, insights about working of the new system of gender relations and how it works against boys and men. Among other effects, it is toxic to modern marriage. It is even more toxic to chivalry.
Already the institutional push-back has begun. Courts are overruling universities’ kangaroo sexual assault/harassment tribunals (e.g., here and here). Legislatures and judges are more often — even mandating — joint custody of children (Pew Research, Nevada, proposed in Michigan).
Some women have grown concerned that the revolution might hurt women’s interests. See Second thoughts about romance in the #MeToo age and MeToo discovers that there is always a counter-revolution.
All of this reaches maturity with the men of Generation Z (the oldest are now in their early 20s), the first to grow up in this new world. Many of them will consider chivalry an oddity – as it has been for most societies throughout history (and is today is most of the world). They will laugh at such behavior. They will mock people who attempt to impose it, as Ms Cincik does (“they should be ashamed”). Many of them will consider marriage a fool’s game, with large risks and few benefits.
The women of Gen Z will follow the example of their elders, attempting to (like them) have it all. But times have changed. They might not like the new system, and learn that the motto of Third Wave feminism is wrong. Fish don’t need bicycles, but men and women need each other. It might take another few generations to learn how we can do so in the modern age. Until we do, many men and women will become collateral damage of the leftist revolutionaries who burned the existing system and substituted poorly conceived dreams (as they did with communism).
“Every revolution has its counterrevolution.”
— C. Wright Mills (prof sociology at Columbia) in Listen, Yankee(1961).
About Chivalry
Chivalry is a microcosm of the feminist revolution. Dalrock has written much about it, from its noxious beginning in Medieval lore to its mature and beneficial form in the West-that-once-was, to its current noxious state (e.g., here and here).
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The other front to feminists’ crusade: wrecking boys
The Boy Crisis:
Why Our Boys Are Struggling
and What We Can Do About It
By Warren Farrell (The Myth of Male Power: Why Men Are the Disposable Sex
John Grey (Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus
I will be posting a review this week. Until then, from the publisher…
“What is the boy crisis?
- It’s a crisis of education. Worldwide, boys are 50 percent less likely than girls to meet basic proficiency in reading, math, and science.
- It’s a crisis of mental health. ADHD is on the rise. And as boys become young men, their suicide rates go from equal to girls to six times that of young women.
- It’s a crisis of fathering. Boys are growing up with less-involved fathers and are more likely to drop out of school, drink, do drugs, become delinquent, and end up in prison.
- It’s a crisis of purpose. Boys’ old sense of purpose – being a warrior, a leader, or a sole breadwinner – are fading. Many bright boys are experiencing a “purpose void,” feeling alienated, withdrawn, and addicted to immediate gratification.
“So, what is The Boy Crisis? A comprehensive blueprint for what parents, teachers, and policymakers can do to help our sons become happier, healthier men, and fathers and leaders worthy of our respect.”