{"id":4869,"date":"2009-06-02T06:36:32","date_gmt":"2009-06-02T11:36:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=4869"},"modified":"2009-06-02T06:36:32","modified_gmt":"2009-06-02T11:36:32","slug":"the-castratus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=4869","title":{"rendered":"The Castratus"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of the most irritating conceits of feminism run amok is that women are smarter\/more capable\/more worthy\/just-plain-better<\/em> than men.<\/p>\n

Usually you get it in an offhanded jape from the not-overly-bright; a comic’s “ladies, we know <\/em>you’re smarter than us” – harmless stuff.<\/p>\n

And I wouldn’t go to far as to say Charlie Brooker’s piece in the the Guardian<\/em><\/a> is “harmful” as observe that it explains a lot about a certain part of the left.<\/p>\n

Women – why aren’t you running the world yet? Frankly I’m disappointed in you. Men are still far too dominant for their own good, and consequently we’ve made a testosterone-sodden pig’s ear of just about everything: politics, the economy, religion, the environment … you name it, it’s in a gigantic man-wrought mess. The world’s been one big d***-swinging contest, and we’ve caught our collective glans in a nearby desk fan. By rights we should be squealing for your help, but we’re not, because we’re too damn stupid and too damn proud. We swagger convincingly, and that’s about it. And swaggering’s fine for scraping by in primitive times, but the world we’ve built is altogether more complex now. We’ve got stock exchanges and nuclear warheads. It’s too easy to swagger your way into big trouble without even realising. Well, we’ve had our turn. It’s time for the Rise of the Ladies.We don’t need a few women in conspicuous positions of power scattered here and there – we need a 10-year prohibition on all forms of male power.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I’ve read this same piece a few countless times, of course; it wends its way through the usual bilge; men are simple and singleminded, the world would be better if men lay about like pigs, which is (couldn’t see this coming) their true nature, bla bla bla, along with the inevitable:<\/p>\n

Seriously: a decade in which men don’t get to control anything, from the remote control upwards. Imagine the consequences. For one thing, there would be an instant and massive reduction in armed conflict around the globe.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Of course, women in power in major countries seem to inevitably end up fighting wars…<\/p>\n

…but let’s not confuse the issue with actual history and stuff.<\/p>\n

I read this kind of tripe, and I’m dragged back to something I asked a few years back:<\/p>\n

Who have been the great rulers of matriarchal societies?\u00a0\u00a0 Who knows?<\/p>\n

The theory I\u2019ve heard – and I can\u2019t remember when or from whom, sorry – is that matriarchal societies tend to be more inward-focused; it\u2019s in matriarchal socities that it\u2019s believed that \u201cit takes a village to raise a child\u201d; according to the theory, a matriarchal society behaves more or less like a group of girls will act; verbal, group-oriented, alternately supportive and undercutting.<\/p>\n

Patriarchal societies, says the theory, act like boys; outward facing, rules-based, individualistic.<\/p>\n

Most societies, of course, mix the two in some way or another, more or less.\u00a0 And when two societies collide in conflict, it\u2019s usually the patriarchal one that prevails (see:\u00a0 the spread of intensely patriarchal Islam across heavily-matriarchal Africa).<\/p>\n

Again – as I noted above, the only large, significant society in all of history that has seriously addressed the notion of equity among races, beliefs and genders\u00a0is the patriarchal, Judeo-Christian western civilization.<\/p>\n

Question:\u00a0 If the Judeo-Christian West were a matriarchal society, would it have developed into small-l liberal democracies?\u00a0 Or would they be recognizable to us today?\u00a0 Would they be viable?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

As re Mr. Brooker, I’m casting pearls before misandric swine.\u00a0 But the question has fascinated me for years: what\u00a0 would <\/em>a matriarchal west look like?\u00a0 And I don’t mean the idealized fantasy that the likes of Brooker and some of the identity feminists give us, where female rule brings universal peace and healthcare and calm rationality.<\/p>\n

Would would <\/em>a matriarchal west look like?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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