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A bull elk teaches men about toxic masculinity

Larry Kummer, Editor

Summary: A small incident with a bull elk, a woman, and some men shows the daily clash of cultures that is modern America, as the past meets the New America built by the Left. Elks understand their gender roles. Americans no longer do.

On September 27, a bull Elk attacked people in Estes Park, Colorado (it was mating season). A man jumped out of the way, fell, and hit his head on a rock. He was hospitalized. The Elk bumped a woman to the ground and poked her with his antlers. She got a few scrapes, but required no medical care. Her friend helpfully recorded the incident. Several men also watched. (Per NBC News.)

Then the criticism began. What was toxic masculinity – machismo – yesterday was men’s cowardice today. This was a small incident, but rich with lessons about what is happening to America. Of course, the injured man was ignored in the chatter.

There was outrage among America’s moral guardians on the Twitterverse.

Why should men help her?

“Ignore and be ignored, as you must already know, is the Prime Tenet.”
—  Twelfth Pilinipsi, first lensperson of Palain 7, in E. E. Smith’s great science fiction novel First Lensman. It will become our new Golden Rule.

Why should a man confront a bull elk – 800 to 1000 pounds, aggressive during the mating season –  to defend a woman he does not know? A few people see the answer.

Chivalry (aka courtly romance), as we know it, is a descendant (or remnant) of western europe’s medieval warrior culture. As such it is deeply patriarchal.

“{It is a} problematic precursor of the highly misogynistic system of modern, Western romantic love. Staging vexed heterosexual liaisons between aristocratic couples within an idealized public sphere of refined court life the High Middle Ages, courtly love has most often appeared to focus men at the expense of women: it is men’s feelings that are expressed and men’s prowess and social standing that are at stake as men practice profess the art of love even though the adored ladylove stands nominally at the center of the process. …

“These diverse literary scenarios derive from a long history of misogyny in a Western patristic tradition that depreciated women and devalued feminine ‘nature’ as a product of Eve’s legacy. In a variety of contexts, courtly ladies are traded in of heterosexual love that systematically occludes their subjects.” (From “Courtly Love: Who Needs It?” by E. Jane Burns in Signs, Autumn 2001.)

For more about this, see R. Howard Bloch’s Medieval Misogyny and the Invention of Western Romantic Love (1991).

Feminists have long worked to eradicate chivalry, and all aspects of patriarchal culture, from our society. The essence of patriarchy – male leadership and protection of women – has become not just illegitimate but repugnant or evil, along with its system of reciprocal obligations. We watch films in which women respond to warnings or offers of help by men with “I can take of myself” – no matter how overwhelming the danger. We see films of women easily beating up men. We see films of women hitting men – including their boyfriends – for trivial reasons (see some examples). These are our new social norms projected on the big screen.

Under our new system, why should men risk their lives for unrelated women? What is the basis for this moral obligation to act as unpaid volunteer defenders of strangers? That would be considered mad by most men around the world across history. It is seen as quite mad by many young men today. What these feminists and white knights call cowardice they call good sense – fair play in a world run under the rules of fourth-wave feminism (women’s quest for supremacy).

This is the problem with social engineering. Leftists change one part of society, but seldom consider how this change will ripple out and change other social dynamics. Which in turn change other things. The Left has changed many fundamental aspects of US society, and intends to change more in the next few years. Untended consequences will be the next chapter in America’s history.

For More Information

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Books about fourth wave feminism

Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women’s Anger by Rebecca Traister (2018).

Rage Becomes Her: The Power of Women’s Anger by Soraya Chemaly (2018).

Why Women Should Rule the World by Dee Dee Myers (2008).

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