I was a bit frustrated during General Conference at Sister Bingham's talk. While the answers she gives were entirely correct, it's clear that she gave them under a background assumption of women being oppressed by men. That is absurd. It's a lie. It's likely not her lie, but it's one that she believes.
Martin van Creveld's essay on Feminism, in five parts. After reading this, go check out the books Men On Strike and The War on Boys.
And... if you are male, or have sons, be very careful (and advise your sons to be very careful) in getting married. It is a much more perilous venture than it ever has been in the past. That doesn't mean that we should shrink in fear and embrace bachelorhood, only that one must be much more careful than in the past, because it is becoming increasingly difficult to avoid stumbling upon unrepentant, narcissistic, entitled bratty little princesses who are unpleasant and miserable and will destroy you out of spite and envy. There is no fair play. There is no justice for those so targeted. The only recourse is to avoid being targeted in the first place, and that means strict adherence to the law of chastity for boys, extreme care during dating and courtship to not end up in even innocent situations that can be interpreted as compromising in the future, and especially, extreme care when picking someone to seriously date and marry so as not to end up with a shrieking harpy who will make you miserable. Sadly, many elements in our culture encourage girls to become exactly that, although luckily, many elements in our Church culture mitigate the damage.
And also, luckily for boys, the numbers are on their side. They can afford to be picky and absolutely cannot afford not to in our current climate.
I. Introduction
"Want to know what the strangest thing about modern feminism is? Not the derogatory things many feminists say about other women. Not the foolishness of many of the claims its proponents keep on making, e.g that men designed the famous qwerty keyboard specifically to make the lives of female secretaries hard. Nor the fact that it often comes at the cost of women’s health and welfare, as when they try to compete with men in fields where the latter’s greater physical force and resistance to dirt gives them a clear advantage; thereby inviting injury and shortening their own lives. Nor the truly nauseating combination of aggression and self-pity which has become its trademark. But the fact that so many men tolerate it, abet it, and even help push it forward."II. The Road to Herland
"Feminist bloodhounds and their weak-kneed, self-hating male supporters have constructed a monstrous propaganda machine, trained it straight at men, and made them pay heavily for the gratuitous concessions their great-grandfathers made. Day by day, tens and perhaps hundreds of thousands of them are being penalized for offenses they did not commit and which, even a few years ago, not even the victims themselves would have considered offenses at all. They are prosecuted, put on trial, convicted, and incarcerated and/or fined. So much so that, as used to be the case and sometimes remains the case in Muslim societies, even looking at a woman in the 'wrong' way can be considered sexual harassment. And so much so that defending the accused in court has almost become a crime in itself; which is one reason why so many lawyers who specialize in doing so are themselves female. As to the alleged victims, so mentally retarded are some of them that they take years, decades even, to understand that whatever was done to them; or which they thought was done to them; or which (in at least one famous case) they dreamt had been done to them; or which others told them had been done to them; did indeed constitute rape, or abuse, or harassment, or whatever."III. Into the Breach
"In some armies, these problems and others like them have long brought about a situation where male personnel are more afraid of their female colleagues than of the enemy. And no wonder: the U.S military e.g has more sexual assault response coordinators (SARCs) than it does recruiters. In my experience this fear has even spread to retired male officers; they are worried that walls may have ears. Responses to the problem vary. With Vice President Mike Pence providing the example, in- and out of the military a growing number of men refuse to be alone with any woman other than their wives, thus opening the door to complaints about discrimination. Many others will not meet with female co-workers unless a third person is present, thereby opening the door to even more complaints, this time about the violation of privacy."Through all this, one thing remains clear. Should those in charge gird their loins and decide that enough is enough, then both in the military and in the civilian world a great many working women could be dispensed with fairly quickly and sent home. The place they occupied until 1965 or so; and which, to the mind of many men and such women as consider their children too precious to be raised by strangers, they should never have left to begin with."
IV. Brave New World
This one was weird. I'm not quoting any section of it, it seems like a tangent that I'm not quite sure what to make of.
V. Conclusion
Another good read on the same subject: https://theamericancitadel.com/2020/03/09/women-then-and-now/
"Before the advent of Marxist-inspired feminism, women were treated like queens and womanhood was highly cherished. It is one of the great feminist myths that before feminism women were chattel; mere property of oppressive men. Feminists deride their ancestors by calling them 'domestic servants' or 'doormats.' What Marxist-minded women see as 'oppression,' however, was authentic Liberty. The stark reality is that women in the past were freer, happier, and more powerful than their modern counterparts."
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