The Crisis of the American Male in a Feminist Society

“Lo there do I see my father; Lo there do I see my mother and my sisters and my brothers; Lo there do I see the line of my people, back to the beginning. Lo, they do call to me, they bid me take my place among them, in the halls of Valhalla, where the brave may live forever…13^th WARRIOR” 

One of America’s great cultural problems is that the overwhelming majority of America’s feminist opinion influencers either don’t like males, or don’t understand males. That includes Speaker Nancy Pelosi, and the feminist cadre on the NEW YORK TIMES. 

 The feminist cadre at the NEW YORK TIMES, which dislikes or is clueless about males and the male psychology, are, among others: Mara Gay, Roxane Gay, Amanda Hess and Maureen Dowd. Ms. Dowd does like some men, strange Black Gay Fashion designers.  

This Blog is being written to educate, edify, and uplift the feminist coven of influencers about males, and the male psychology. 

First, it is not wrong to dislike men; most of the killers in this species have been males; in fact, most of the worst in the history of the world has been done by males. But the remedy is not the feminization of males; that only causes random violence.

Every society should be afraid of the males in its midst. That fear should generate respect, and an attempt at understanding. That fear should not generate a desire to feminize males; which is what the feminist coven so desires to do. 

The results of that feminization are clear; 75% of all youth in America are unfit to serve in forces defending the Republic because of drugs, obesity or psychological distress, such as wanting to be pregnant men. (In the current revival of the musical about the Founding Fathers, 1776,  Jefferson is played by a pregnant woman).

The key Jungian insight into the male psychology is that males are burdened by the past; women like the present and the future. Men are obsessed with the past." Lo there do I see the line of my people, back to the beginning. Lo, they do call to me,"

Gurkha, Apache, Lakota, Zulu, Cossack, Friesian, Sikh and most other males, want their ancestors to find them worthy. Modern American Feminists, locked in their grievance baths,  have not offered males an alternative spirituality to measuring up to the standards of Valhalla, except by wearing dresses, and becoming hairdressers and/or manicurists.  

Fathers are critical to male discipline, and worthiness because it is through them that males see the line of their people back to the beginning. For males, the purpose of a father is not merely love, that second  hand emotion, but to see their line back to the beginning. 

Before the rise of American Feminism, American males had two goals; to be loved by women and to be respected by men; and not necessarily in that order. 

Before American women placed American men in dresses; before American feminists outlawed role models like Robert Mitchum and Clark Gable, for men who can cook, and watch REAL HOUSEWIVES; the driving force for men was to measure up. To measure up, by feeding one’s family, by volunteering,  by showing courage on the battlefield, by protecting women and children. 

There was a time in which this Blogger was dating a fervent feminist; she thought men, males, were silly creatures, consumed by reptilian impulses, as sensitive as rocks. She thought so publicly and privately. 

In defending this Blogger’s relationship with her, all he can say is; she had endearing physical attributes. 

While under her spell, this Blogger went to visit his Father; as he laid dying in Columbia Presbyterian Hospital, from lung cancer( he liked his cigars). 

This Blogger had just seen the film I NEVER SANG FOR MY FATHER, and wanted to lecture him on his failure to  raise sensitive sons. However, this Blogger was aware that the lecture had to be done carefully, for this Blogger’s Father was not someone to be trifled with, not even on his deathbed. Not even when he was far away from switches, belts, and paddles. 

This Blogger brought his Father, that day’s edition of the HERALD TRIBUNE, his Father’s favorite newspaper. The Father could read, without glasses,  until the day he died. 

This Blogger opened the sensitivity lecture by discussing his Father’s favorite hero, Wyatt Earp. The Father liked Wyatt Earp because Earp had killed, for either the Law or personal vengeance, 17 men; and had never been wounded, not even nicked; not even nicked by a ricocheting bullet. He wanted his sons to be like Wyatt Earp. 

The Father listened to this Blogger’s lecture with cold disdain; it was as if this Blogger was asking him to pet a rabid Doberman. 

The Father let this Blogger have his piece, and then picked up the HERALD TRIBUNE and started reading, out loud. 

He stopped, and said: “Both Heaven and Hell know that all my sons are valiant; I did enough.” 

This Blogger had been dismissed. 

Which brings us to Michelle Goldberg’s article about the plight of modern males.   

Ms. Goldberg’s column is excerpted for this Blog; it is a paragon of feminist logic and desire. However, it falters because it does not grapple with the existential question of manhood: can the same man be both a man of valor and sensitive? 

In the seminal film, THE GREAT SANTINI, starring Robert Duval, the answer is NO.  

Which begs the question; if a feminist is alone, on a subway at 2 AM in the morning and being harassed by thugs and perverts, does she want sensitive men on the subway with her? Or men of Valor? 

Can’t a society have both? 

It did once, with Sullivan Ballou; but that gentleman was raised in a society before secular feminism. 

One more thing, Ms. Goldberg’s solution, in 2022, to the despair of American males, confirms that the thought processes of American feminists are ossified and calcified. Her 2022 solution reeks of  tired feminist tropes. 

On May 31, 2015, this Blogger published the following: 

“THE ECONOMIST is a hotbed of Liberal, feminist, and Globalized ideas under its new female feminist Liberal editor. 

She acknowledges the problem: “Blue-collar men in rich countries are in trouble. They must learn to adapt”. 

 

And she has a Liberal solution, a Globalized Elitist solution, a Liberal Elitist solution. “What can be done? Part of the solution lies in a change in cultural attitudes. ….. Working-class men need to catch up. Women have learned that they can be surgeons and physicists without losing their femininity. Men need to understand that traditional manual jobs are not coming back, and that they can be nurses or hairdressers without losing their masculinity….THE ECONOMIST”. 

 

That is the Liberal Solution for the despair of American working class males; that is the Elitist solution for desperate American working class males; that is the Globalized solution for dispossessed American working class males; that is the Hillary Clinton solution for the disposal and forgotten men of America’s working class-BECOME A HAIRDRESSER. 

 

In his varied careers, this Blogger has known unemployed working class males- white bikers, black gang members (former and current), and Latino “hard men”. None of them want to end their lives as hairdressers; all of them would rather burn this rotten, uncaring, Globalized, Liberal society to ashes than be buried as a hairdresser. 

 

If being a male hairdresser is the only path out of despair offered to American working -class males by the Globalized Liberal Elite, then perhaps it would be best if American working-class males burned this parasitic and effete society to the ground, and then sowed that ground of ashes with salt…THE MAXEY CHRONICLES.” 

 

The following is excerpted from Ms. Goldberg’s column- 

 

“Many years ago, I went to a nail salon at an upscale mall in Kampala, Uganda, and was surprised that almost everyone working there was male. When I asked one of the employees why this was, he explained that doing nails was men’s work because it paid well. The salon wasn’t unique; as one local newspaper put it, “There is no visitor that comes to Uganda and won’t notice and comment about the young men carrying a basket in their hand with a manicure set.” 

I thought of those male manicurists while reading Richard V. Reeves’s much-discussed new book, “Of Boys and Men: Why the Modern Male Is Struggling, Why It Matters, and What to Do About It.” Reeves writes about the myriad ways boys and men, particularly in America, are flailing: Many are falling behind in school, disconnected from family, vulnerable to opioid abuse and to deaths of despair. He believes, I think rightly, that it is important to recruit more men into fast-growing industries now dominated by women, particularly health and education. 

But though Reeves, a senior fellow in economic studies at the Brookings Institution, recognizes material causes of men’s suffering, he’s hesitant to offer redistributive solutions…..In his preface, Reeves says that he was reluctant to write “Of Boys and Men,” and that many people advised him against it because of the “current political climate.”....

Like many parents, I’ve seen how school is harder for my son than my daughter. “Boys are 50 percent more likely than girls to fail at all three key school subjects: math, reading and science,” writes Reeves. Things don’t get easier when boys grow up. Men’s rates of work force participation have fallen and their suicide rates have risen. It’s possible to believe that sexism remains a major impediment to women’s flourishing and also believe that for many boys and men life is much harder than it should be. 

Even if you’re not inclined to care much about men’s welfare, their growing anomie and resentment is everyone’s problem, fueling right-wing populist movements around the world. People who feel unmoored and demeaned are going to be receptive to the idea that the natural order of things has been upended, the core claim of reactionary politics. 

Some of men’s dislocation is an inevitable product of modernization, which, by making physical brawn less economically important, blurs men and women’s social roles. It is not just America, after all, where more women than men earn college degrees. There are also more female than male college students in Iran and, to a lesser extent, Saudi Arabia, which suggests, at least to me, that girls may be more innately disposed to academic life. 

But male problems can be either exacerbated or ameliorated by political choices. Reeves makes the case that girls are more resilient than boys, writing that “economic and social disadvantage hurts boys more than girls.”   

………….Similarly, Reeves makes a convincing case that boys benefit from male teachers, and that Black boys benefit from Black male teachers. …….Michelle Goldberg, NEW YORK TIMES.” 

Will feminist mothers ever understand their sons; will they all be like Gloria Vanderbilt? 

Feminist mothers need to understand this; the following is the Jungian primordial drive beating in the souls of all men, even beneath the veneer of sensitivity.  

The crisis in American males is spiritual, Jungian. They don't want to wear dresses, or become hairdressers, or manicurists, or pregnant. If they acquiesce to those trends, the lines of their people will not call to them.

There is a peek into the future of American males, in, of all places, a 1994  New Zealand film, ONCE WERE WARRIORS. The Maoris were a fierce warrior people, until tamed by Western influences. ONCE WERE WARRIORS tells the story of modern Maoris: drunks, dope addicts, rapists, criminals and wife beaters.

American males ONCE WERE WARRIORS; the future of the American males, as crafted by feminists, will be populated by American male criminals, drunks, drug addicts, perverts, slave traders and killers of women.

With Climate Change, this society will need more hydrologists, fire fighters, dam builders, first responders, killers of invasive species, killers of wild boars, protectors of bees,  people who can work with the earth. Climate Change will provide jobs for men, other than manicurists. Feminist society must be clever enough to harness the masculine drives for those positions. 

No society can survive a crisis in the spirituality and masculinity of its males. Males are too dangerous to be devoid of spirituality or masculine responsibilities. 

The Republic must bring back the Draft, Universal Service, to give men discipline, and an opportunity to have value among other men without doing illegal things.