THIRD SIDE COMMENT (can you tell I am reading this while trying to help Kriti craft)... there were some remarks at the last ACCS meeting about how technology has disconnected us from natural rhythms. An agrarian society obviously respects the authority of the seasons. Now, most of us have jobs where we don't care at all what the weather is. Louis Markos, sort of accidentally found himself saying, and then seemed to regret saying, that women still find themselves subject to a monthly cycle for half of their life and that's one of the last examples left where we are forced to respect the natural rhythm. I found the comment interesting.
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SECOND SIDE COMMENT... Douglas Wilson has a nice comment where he says, "medieval societies taught their children to find their proper station in life. Modern societies tell children they can be whatever they want to be. It should be obvious which society is lying." Goes for sex, goes for many things. All of us have some givenness to be respected.
Yes, quick comment here, but my own last post included a footnote about how Timothy Gordon (the Roman Catholic podcaster) sees working outside of the home as part of the male station in life. Well... sort of, sure, but that also may reflect a post-industrialization mindset where most work, period, happens outside of the home. Is it better to have a man mindlessly pulling the lever for eight hours than a woman, or should really no one be pulling that lever?
Precisely. Our understanding of the relationship of the home to labor has shifted. There are benefits, but also costs, and there's a general reluctance to understand those costs.
In the 21st century women, or rather adolescent feminists, worship the masculine archetype. There's an absolute chasm between feminist fantasy and reality – impossible to square the feminist wonderland of 'empowerment' with woman-as-victim culture. The reality is, that despite an avalanche of kick-boxing, gun-toting, sword-wielding psychobitches in film/TV (and the grotesque political correctness of seeing little girls in boxing-gloves), the female of the species still willingly gravitates to victimhood. You have only to access YouTube to realise how popular victim status is among women, from psychosomatic illnesses to countless feminine vulnerabilities.
Female 'empowerment' is merely a process of embracing masculine qualities - power, control, physical strength... etc. Traditional feminine qualities are not wanted. Feminists detest them, yet they themselves perpetuate female weakness by highlighting victim status.
It's a man's world and it will always be a man's world. Women ape men in every field and on every level, from the way they dress to the way they behave. Accordingly, there is a huge inferiority complex in many women. Far from wanting to 'smash’ patriarchy feminists secretly admire it; it's something to which they aspire.
THIRD SIDE COMMENT (can you tell I am reading this while trying to help Kriti craft)... there were some remarks at the last ACCS meeting about how technology has disconnected us from natural rhythms. An agrarian society obviously respects the authority of the seasons. Now, most of us have jobs where we don't care at all what the weather is. Louis Markos, sort of accidentally found himself saying, and then seemed to regret saying, that women still find themselves subject to a monthly cycle for half of their life and that's one of the last examples left where we are forced to respect the natural rhythm. I found the comment interesting.
And it's no coincidence that rhythm is seen as a burden and invites interventions to repress!
SECOND SIDE COMMENT... Douglas Wilson has a nice comment where he says, "medieval societies taught their children to find their proper station in life. Modern societies tell children they can be whatever they want to be. It should be obvious which society is lying." Goes for sex, goes for many things. All of us have some givenness to be respected.
This is wonderful.
Yes, quick comment here, but my own last post included a footnote about how Timothy Gordon (the Roman Catholic podcaster) sees working outside of the home as part of the male station in life. Well... sort of, sure, but that also may reflect a post-industrialization mindset where most work, period, happens outside of the home. Is it better to have a man mindlessly pulling the lever for eight hours than a woman, or should really no one be pulling that lever?
Precisely. Our understanding of the relationship of the home to labor has shifted. There are benefits, but also costs, and there's a general reluctance to understand those costs.
In the 21st century women, or rather adolescent feminists, worship the masculine archetype. There's an absolute chasm between feminist fantasy and reality – impossible to square the feminist wonderland of 'empowerment' with woman-as-victim culture. The reality is, that despite an avalanche of kick-boxing, gun-toting, sword-wielding psychobitches in film/TV (and the grotesque political correctness of seeing little girls in boxing-gloves), the female of the species still willingly gravitates to victimhood. You have only to access YouTube to realise how popular victim status is among women, from psychosomatic illnesses to countless feminine vulnerabilities.
Female 'empowerment' is merely a process of embracing masculine qualities - power, control, physical strength... etc. Traditional feminine qualities are not wanted. Feminists detest them, yet they themselves perpetuate female weakness by highlighting victim status.
It's a man's world and it will always be a man's world. Women ape men in every field and on every level, from the way they dress to the way they behave. Accordingly, there is a huge inferiority complex in many women. Far from wanting to 'smash’ patriarchy feminists secretly admire it; it's something to which they aspire.