Posted on 08/30/2022 4:59:47 PM PDT by DeweyCA
When I was in college, I read a book by George Gilder, one of the wisest thinkers of the last half-century, titled “Naked Nomads,” which had a deep impact on me. It was about single men and all the pathologies associated with them. For example, Gilder drove home the point that the biggest factor concerning violent crime was that it is overwhelmingly committed by single men.
While there was no danger — I would say no chance — that I would commit a violent crime (though I was, at the time, single), this fact along with others in the book made me a lifelong advocate of marriage.
I also came to realize that raising good men was the most important thing society could do. If it doesn’t, the male propensity to physical aggression and predatory sexual behavior will wreak havoc. Therefore, raising boys to control their natures is fundamental to society avoiding chaos.
Over the course of a lifetime, however, I have come to realize that while society was right about males, it was wrong about females. Whether spoken or unspoken, most people thought that girls just didn’t need to be raised to control their natures nearly as much as boys did.
But they do.
It’s true that females are not inclined to violence or predatory sexual behavior as men are. But this hardly means that girls and women don’t have to learn to control their natures. On the contrary, as I have been telling parents for many years now, they need to teach their daughters to control their natures just as much as they teach their sons to do so.
Specifically, girls have to learn to control their emotions.
Just as the male sexual drive and violent impulses can overwhelm their conscience and their ability to think and act rationally, emotions can do the same thing in girls and women: overwhelm their conscience and their ability to think and act rationally.
However, it should be obvious that at least two generations of parents — especially among the well-educated — did not teach many of their daughters to control their emotions and think rationally.
The result is that women are disproportionately active in doing damage to our society.
The most obvious example is education. American schools teach less and indoctrinate more than ever before. Big-city public (and most private) schools are damaging young Americans to an extent and in ways no one imagined just a few years ago. Young children are prematurely sexualized — they are, for example, exposed to “Drag Queen Story Hour” in class and in local libraries from the age of 5. These feature a man dressed as a woman reading and dancing for them.
And who is facilitating all of this? In virtually every case, a woman. Ninety-two percent of kindergarten teachers are women, 75% of all teachers are women and 85% of librarians are women.
And they are teaching young people to despise their country (the creator of the poisonous “1619 Project” is a woman), to feel guilty about their “white privilege” or to think of themselves as victims if they are black. Even worse, they are indoctrinating them in “nonbinary” thinking regarding sex and gender.
As City Journal reports, “Los Angeles Unified School District has adopted a radical gender-theory curriculum encouraging teachers to work toward the ‘breakdown of the gender binary,’ to experiment with gender pronouns such as ‘they,’ ‘ze,’ and ‘tree,’ and to adopt ‘trans-affirming’ programming to make their classrooms ‘queer all school year.'”
The same is happening in school districts around the country.
These ideas originated in university gender studies and women’s studies departments, nearly all of whose professors are female.
Teachers and their unions did great damage to young people during COVID-19. They demanded — because of their hypochondria and an apparent inability to apply reason to COVID-19 risk — that schools be closed for nearly two years. Teachers unions in big cities threatened to go on strike if schools opened. In general, teachers unions are just radical arms of the Democratic Party and the progressive movement. They are overwhelmingly composed of women members and women leaders. The head of the National Education Association is a woman, as are the heads of the Los Angeles, Chicago and New York City teachers unions.
Women physicians and health care workers are at the vanguard of ruining young people’s lives at children’s hospitals that push giving young people puberty-blocking hormones and opposite-gender hormones, performing hysterectomies and mastectomies on healthy girls who say they are boys, and chemically or physically castrating healthy boys who say they are girls.
Women are at the vanguard of perverting the medical profession by advocating the teaching of woke ideologies in medical schools, placing these ideologies on an equal footing with medical education.
Last week an organization called Physicians for Reproductive Health published an open letter to the nation’s reporters and news editors, demanding they censor anti-abortion activists: “We are asking for a commitment from the community of media outlets reporting on abortion to keep in mind the true danger that you present when interviewing anti-abortion extremists. You are giving the opportunity for dangerous lies to spread.”
As regards the demand that news outlets censor pro-life individuals and groups, the open letter was signed by more than 600 medical doctors and other health care professionals. Nearly every signatory was a woman. And all four of the listed leaders of Physicians for Reproductive Health are women.
Women clergy have been at the vanguard of pushing Christianity and Judaism to the left, leaving mainstream churches and synagogues increasingly empty. Of course, the increasingly feminized male clergy go along with their female colleagues.
And women are disproportionately supportive of cancel culture, the greatest threat to free speech in American history.
It should go without saying, but it’s undoubtedly necessary to note that there are many women doing great, even heroic, things for our society, and that many men are working to wreck it. But for those who associate women with instinctively protecting children or with being supportive of a traditionally religious life, this era in American history has provided something of a shock.
Large, strong men learn to control themselves, because if they don’t, they can really hurt someone.
Timid people tend to be fearful of big men, but, in fact, they are the safest people to be around. They have a lot of self-control.
Not reading whole thing yet.
Want to make this clear: ANGER IS AN EMOTION which seems to be the one males have trouble with.
Tired of the usage of “emotional” with women when in fact, anger is as much an emotion as fear and compassion.
At least start using these words properly.
Off soapbox.
I think perhaps the Bible says men should be leaders because God knows they need to be occupied with good responsibility or they will run rampant.
they were responsible for prohibition even before they could vote
so there is that
Unmarried women are the most harmful, because they only consider themselves. Married women are more prone to considering their children.
Uh...maybe it should say LEFTIST women...
Girls have to learn to control their emotions and to think rationally. No one wants to hear that and yes, there are exceptions to the rule, but he is largely correct.
If somebody had told me, even back in 2002, that there would be such a thing as Drag Queen Story Hour, and that sometimes it would be ‘protected’ by people outside holding guns, I would never have believed it.
If someone said, in year 2022, some of the US military will order men to shower with women, and if you complain, you may be dishonorably discharge (w/o benefits). “Un-possible!” I would have said.
Everyone here on FR could think of about 20 such examples.
Gotta love these 300-lb monsters with multiple face-piercings and head-to-toe tats publicly screaming, “MUH BODY ! MUH CHOICE !” As if anything male would ever mate with them.
God knows they (men) need to be occupied with good responsibility or they will run rampant.
I believe this. The opposite of good responsibility is irresponsibility. Which I believe to be currently much more prevalent than common sense.
Liberal women and a “liberal woman psyche” - it has spread like a stain across this country. They need their right to vote revoked. They should be unqualified to participate in politics without question.
I stay away from the ones who smell like boiled cabbage, urine & farts.
Good point. Married women are much more likely to vote conservative.
I wholeheartedly agree with this article.
I will never forgive Patricia Schroeder for what she has done to the US military.
All so women could feel good about themselves.
Women argue and make decisions based on emotion
Men on logic and facts
Its why men who don’t get this can’t understand the choices women make
Even women admit they don’t know why they do half the stuff they do
Hormomes and emotion, ie the feelz
Emotion explains trumps problem with women - forget how you feel about the guy, can’t you look a the results of his leadership?
It’s also why I worry about another empty vessel with good hair like Gavin Newsom actually becoming president.
Well, I haven’t read the piece yet but just from the headline I have to say that the things many women will readily believe really has and does hurt our country. In fact, it’s been a poison to our culture. If more women would have put their feet down and not swallowed all the lies of the left it would have been a moral anchor on our men. Instead, too many have chosen the easy road that leads to gratification and immorality. Secularism destroys morality like a cancer. Remember it was Eve in the garden that helped corrupt men in the first place. Not that they’re inherently evil, just that they were an easier target for Satan to inveigle. Only God could turn this around.
I speak having experienced it for many decades and have seen first hand the rot it’s bred.
That's for sure.
Plenty iof women are angry as well but it shows itself as passive aggression (men too).
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