Disposable Heroes

I have, when bored, read mens rights sites like The Spearhead and A Voice for Men.  In general I find myself agreeing with somewhat more than half of what they have to say.  At times it is higher.  This is not a ringing endorsement nor a condemnation, but merely setting the stage, as I always encourage people to make up their own damn minds. 

Western Civilization, particularly here in the States, is not merely tragically flawed, but horribly broken.  We've been in a cascade failure, as a culture, for at least a decade, but the seeds were sown far earlier. As a cascade failure, each failure piles on top of the last, accelerating as it picks up steam. Were a little smarter, perhaps I could put this in the form of a Logistics Function and determine where exactly we are in the 'market saturation of total cultural breakdown'... but rest assured, dear reader, that we are still picking up steam.  Me? I've predicted, independently of Mark Steyn, that we'll see true signs of collapse in the 2020 decade, aiming earlier rather than later.  Maybe I'll do a post later explaining some of my reasons, but not today.

Let me return to purely manospherian discussion: The phenomenon of MGTOW, or Men Going Their Own Way, is merely a reflexive defensive motion, the drawing away from a sharp pointy stick.  As a movement it is tragic and doomed because it offers no solutions, only a withdrawal, a defensive crouch.  That's not to denigrate the MGTOW dudes.  They profess to be happier, and I can see why... they've escaped the sharp pointy stick, for now.  That is one of two flaws with the movement, the lesser flaw in fact: most of the evils directed at men by society are coercive, are forced.  Too many men 'flee' an increasingly toxic society and society itself.... men and women... will take action to force their compliance.  The second flaw is far greater. It is an animal response, instinctive and unreasoning. They cannot repair, they cannot build or create. In fact due to the toxicity of modern society they advocate owning as little as possible, a not unwise piece of advice. 

But men who can not, will not, build or create, who can not or will not participate provide nothing of value to anyone.  Unthinking pursuit of personal happiness, personal satisfaction, has created this feminist monster. It is the great sin of our age, our culture that we have enshrined our own personal values above all others, our own personal happiness above all others.  

I spoke of the true sin of the coward just a few days ago, and yes, the MGTOW is essentially a movement of cowards, unwilling to fight, to make things right.  They will have the blood of other men on their hands, the men who stayed behind, like all cowards.  

I shouldn't blame them, of course. We haven't raised a generation of Men in fifty years, maybe seventy.  

You see, this is the single greatest problem I have with A Voice for Men, and to a lesser extent The Spearhead. No, not their support of the MGTOW movements... 

Girlwriteswhat, Karen Straughn, is a woman I admire, and she expresses the very problem, almost ideological, that lies at the core of my disagreement with Paul Elam and the other VfM writers.  I am talking about 'Male Disposability'. 

You see, at the end of the day, AVfM really wants to see a societal shift, where Feminism is cast down like the venomous serpent it is, and men are no longer held to be the proper targets for violence...

Which sounds nice and all until you realize exactly what they are saying.  No, not that women deserve to become our proper targets of violence, but that men shouldn't be.... perhaps men and women should be equal targets of violence? 

Or perhaps they expect like so many western man-children they expect that this new and wondrous society will be peaceful.

Utopia. 

Pfegh. 

I have a term I use, generally for Feminist and Progressive utopian ideas... transgenderism, female equivalence to men and so forth called The Tyranny of Biology. 

See: tyrannies are bad things that need to be fought, right? So if biology has given us an inexorable, tyrannical, state of affairs... well, its only right we fight it? 

Thus you have men claiming they were born women, women claiming they were born men, that heteronormativism is a bad thing (hint: They are saying that being normal, and preferring procreative sex, is bad...), you have women trying to start families in their forties, demands for female soldiers on the front lines and so on.

See, the funny thing about 'reality' is that it doesn't give a good god damn about fairness or justice or decency. If women are assertively selected for mating based entirely on beauty and never for brains, they might wind up, a few million years from now, angelic eloi incapable of stringing more than two coherent words together with voices that would make you weep just for the hearing of it.  That they would be little more than ambulatory wombs is unimportant to biology.  Would it be grossly unfair to women? Would it be horrific to realize that not one woman in that senario would be capable of making informed consent, and may in fact be utterly dependent on men for even the simple act of eating? 

Yes, yes it would. 

But biology doesn't care. Reality doesn't care.  Our intelligence means nothing to the Universe At Large, but only to us as individuals. 

Fighting against Biology, fighting against the Tyranny of Biology is ultimately doomed to failure, and on a grand scale. Its one of those fights you lose by winning.  If the gay lobby succeeds at turning vast percentages of straight children into gay adults, to bolster their numbers, they will have won the battle, but when the inevitable demographic cratering follows, they will have lost the war.  

Which brings me back to the current fight against Male Disposability. 

A woman is smaller, weaker and more fragile than any man. Its not terribly PC to say it, but our laws do reflect that, often unfairly.  Far more importantly, a woman can do what a Man cannot, that is bear children. Yet, for most of the nine months she does this, she is helpless, incapacitated. She cannot run from threats, meaningfully, and cannot fight. She can barely forage for food, though technology helps here. Even after she gives birth she will be bed ridden for days after, and depending on her age weak for week. She could even die, making the act of giving birth a singular one.

A man can conceive a child in five minutes, though he'll be mocked for his lack of stamina. He can impregnate dozens of women in the nine months it takes the first to be born. 

No society that puts women into harms way can survive long, this is a matter of historical record. The vast majority of species, nearly all mammalian life certainly, follow this pattern on one scale or another. In the insect world males are so disposable that they are often consumed post-coitus by their mates to ensure there is enough energy to lay healthy eggs, just in case. 

So while Karen Straughn's concern for my gender's aches and bruises, the slings and arrows of our genetic karma, is heartfelt and touching, she and the others at AVfM are committing the same error as Feminists. They are fighting against the Tyranny of Biology. 

The solution is not to create a society where men are not disposable, but to return to a society... to create a society where it is respected, honored and appreciated rather than punished. 

We cannot create, cannot wish into being, a peaceful, safe world.  No amount of labors will change the fact that some people will take by force what others have. They will do so out of cruelty and greed, and they will do so because they need those resources to survive. They will do so because Justice or Honor or Duty demands it of them. 

But it will happen, time and time and time again, until the very Sun grows cold and humanity becomes a faded echo of past glories. 

And even if we conquer human nature, even if we eradicate sin, we will still have to deal with nature, red of tooth and claw. The beasts may be tamed, but new threats arise. Once it was lions and tigers and bears, now it is cars and building fires and crab fishing.  

Biology, that bloodthirsty tyrant, has rendered women unfit for these hazards, has dangled the threat of extinction itself to make its will known. 

Thus Men will ever have to step into the breach, and face the hazards of the day, known and unknown in their place.  It will be hard. It will be demanding. It will be painful and bloody. Many will not return, as it has ever been. 

I have thrown myself into that breech my entire adult life. I would not desire to sacrifice my body, my life, for modern American women. I would not seek for myself the pain and suffering, however mild, I have endured for others. I am never so selfless as that, yet I would not hesitate, even now, to do so again.  

But I cannot be compelled, by any means, to do so. 

But only for the right causes, the right people. 

I cannot fight the Tyrant, and I pity anyone who tries. 

I can chose how I obey.