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The Atlantic: 'The End of Men'
Submitted by anthony on Tue, 2010-06-08 20:16
Article here. Excerpt:
'Even more unsettling for Ericsson, it has become clear that in choosing the sex of the next generation, he is no longer the boss. “It’s the women who are driving all the decisions,” he says—a change the MicroSort spokespeople I met with also mentioned. At first, Ericsson says, women who called his clinics would apologize and shyly explain that they already had two boys. “Now they just call and [say] outright, ‘I want a girl.’ These mothers look at their lives and think their daughters will have a bright future their mother and grandmother didn’t have, brighter than their sons, even, so why wouldn’t you choose a girl?”
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In feminist circles, these social, political, and economic changes are always cast as a slow, arduous form of catch-up in a continuing struggle for female equality. But in the U.S., the world’s most advanced economy, something much more remarkable seems to be happening. American parents are beginning to choose to have girls over boys. As they imagine the pride of watching a child grow and develop and succeed as an adult, it is more often a girl that they see in their mind’s eye.
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Earlier this year, for the first time in American history, the balance of the workforce tipped toward women, who now hold a majority of the nation’s jobs. The working class, which has long defined our notions of masculinity, is slowly turning into a matriarchy, with men increasingly absent from the home and women making all the decisions. Women dominate today’s colleges and professional schools—for every two men who will receive a B.A. this year, three women will do the same. Of the 15 job categories projected to grow the most in the next decade in the U.S., all but two are occupied primarily by women. Indeed, the U.S. economy is in some ways becoming a kind of traveling sisterhood: upper-class women leave home and enter the workforce, creating domestic jobs for other women to fill.'
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News of our demise is greatly exaggerated
Here's why: When it gets bad enough we eventually overthrow the gov't/society and institute a new one. This is how it's been for millenia. Only just in this case, the new gov't/social paradigm is one of gynocracy vs. something else such as monarchy, theocracy, a corrupt oligarchy, etc.
It'll take awhile for this to happen but once it becomes economically and politically intolerable enough, as with all such things, the inevitable will occur. Then it starts all over again. This is how men take care of intractable situations. We do this because we have no other choice. Attempts to change things be appeal to our welfare are uniformly ignored and eventually self-preservation instincts kick in.
why dont they stop?
It still surprises me that the concept of a "breaking point" or whatever seems to elude others. They (feminists) think they can keep pushing it, pushing men out of everything. If you want to maintain control wouldn't you want to treat the second class more decently. They don't even have a real end game in plan... go figure
If not now, when?
They don't even have a real end game in plan
They do have a game plan. Three little words: It's Our Turn. That has always been their game plan.
That men have always run the institutions of society expressly for the benefit of women is not enough. They want women to run society for the benefit of women. They figure women will do an even better job benefitting women.
As for the nation crashing, as long as all industrial nations crash equally, the relative strength of nations remains the same. That's why there is such a concerted effort to spread their poison internationally.
And don't expect a cataclysmic revolution. The pot boils slowly. The Inquisition started with Hail Marys as punishment and slowly escalated to torture and burning at the stake. By the way, how long did it take to shake off the Inquisition? Centuries. For the most part, women do still raise the children.
In the long run, men and women will come to their senses. But in the long run, we're all dead.
kill chivalry
When they say its "our turn" that's just a lie, as far as roles the being reversed. As you say its still for the benefit for women. The current direction leaves no place for men, and that is not a sustainable system.
I view the feminist movement as being thrust from selectively maintaining values from the 1950's. Its been so successful because of chivalrous men honoring the virtue of women. But what gratitude are men getting for serving women now? There is longer the delusion of strength and importance by servitude... When chivalry dies and masculinity is no longer defined as the service to others I think that is when the tide will turn. Men are quite capable if allowed.
True but...
....We've come a long way since the industrial revolution. What used to take centuries, now takes a couple decades and will soon take just a few years. Don't expect things to remain imbalanced as long this time as the disenfranchised are growing in numbers faster then ever. Example, you won't be dead when the time comes that the names listed on registry created by AWA outnumber the total number of police officers and military combined. And who has suffered more arbitrarily then those on that list? Do you know what a person with nothing to lose is? Some one with everything to gain. Once a group such as that grows so unmanageably large and decides to say enough is enough, the other disenfranchised groups of men will join in. those who've suffered under VAWA, in divorce proceedings, in discrimination in employment, all those groups of men who have seen their rights vanish in the last several decades.
Barring a new sexual revolution that miraculously brings the value of male sexuality to par with female sexuality, and the abolition of farces like AWA, the list of people who will sooner then you think bring the society down is growing daily and you can look up every single one of them, but you won't be able to stop them when they outnumber those who torment them.
My prediction. When suicide bombings start in the USA, it will be the police stations that get targeted first by those people who are mandated to check in. How do you keep out the attackers when you invite them in the front door? Sure, it might take a bit because the people listed on AWA are the least violent class of criminals, but if you tell some one they are a monster enough times, you are sure to get a monster eventually. AWA is a barometer, the longer that list grows, the closer it is to the day that men will take it upon themselves to reboot the system manually.
Doomsaying
Numbers, in this case, are irrelevant. How much are prison guards outnumbered by hardened inmates? How many millions of beaten down fathers are there? Yet they barely make a peep. (One female columnist wrote that if women experienced what men do in family courts, there'd be blood in the streets.) In World War I, incompetent officers had tens of thousands of men march slowly into the teeth of machine guns, with near zero chance of survival. They still marched. VAWA chews up men by the hundreds of thousands (millions?), yet very few people, male or female, have ever even heard of VAWA. If anything, we're approaching an Orwellian situation where if something doesn't register in the mainstream media, it doesn't exist. Like the villagers during the Inquisition, most people are screaming for the blood of the accused witches: the pedophiles, the batterers, the alleged rapists, the sexual harassers, the deadbeat dads.... And if the net captures a few celebs, well, that makes for better entertainment. And if you were cheering when they grabbed my son, I'm hardly gonna join you in fighting for yours.
Most men don't even realize how bad the system is until, singly, they are caught up in it. Too late. Even with highly publicized events like the Duke railroading, the public doesn't understand that the case was not an anomaly; it sees the case not as systemic but the misconduct of Michael Nifong. Do they see the rules that govern rape trials? No. And they surely don't see the feminists behind the curtain who lobbied for and created those rules.
And the real time bomb is that the oppression is intergenerational. We are rapidly reaching the point where generations of men who know nothing else will see the situation as the norm and march into the meat grinder. Where legions of men raised into the matriarchy of single motherhood will see female superiority as mere commonsense. Where the insanity is in questioning it.
The MR movement continues to "expect" some kind of spontaneous combustion. Natch. Ain't gonna happen. We hope for this popular uprising in order to save us from doing the hard, damn near impossible trial that faces us. We. Must. Organize....Massively. And we, the screen warriors, don't feel up to the task. I know I don't. But in this the 15th round, we have no choice.