[Icarus]

(05-17-2013 06:54 AM)TheMachinist Wrote:  

Feminism has played probably the biggest role in the decline of the nuclear family.The world was genuinely a better place when women knew their role and played it.

I strongly believe that Feminism can be viewed as follows: utterly clueless upper middle-class princesses falling for the old Tom Sawyer's whitewashing the fence scam:

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Tom surveyed his last touch with the eye of an artist, then he gave his brush another gentle sweep and surveyed the result, as before. Ben ranged up alongside of him. Tom’s mouth watered for the apple, but he stuck to his work. Ben said:

“Hello, old chap, you got to work, hey?”

Tom wheeled suddenly and said:

“Why, it’s you, Ben! I wasn’t noticing.”

“Say – I’m going in a-swimming, I am. Don’t you wish you could? But of course you’d rather work – wouldn’t you? Course you would!”

Tom contemplated the boy a bit, and said:

“What do you call work?”

“Why, ain’t that work?”

Tom resumed his whitewashing, and answered carelessly:

“Well, maybe it is, and maybe it ain’t. All I know, is, it suits Tom Sawyer.”

“Oh come, now, you don’t mean to let on that you like it?”

The brush continued to move.

“Like it? Well, I don’t see why I oughtn’t to like it. Does a boy get a chance to whitewash a fence every day?”

That put the thing in a new light. Ben stopped nibbling his apple. Tom swept his brush daintily back and forth – stepped back to note the effect – added a touch here and there – criticized the effect again – Ben watching every move and getting more and more interested, more and more absorbed. Presently he said:

“Say, Tom, let me whitewash a little.”

Men work because they have to provide for their families. Women are provided for, so they can stay at home, in a safe environment, taking care of the kids, cooking, cleaning, washing, etc. Is it fun? No, but neither is man's work.

To convince men to do very unpleasant work and thus accumulate resources that would allow them to start a family (which would make slaves of said men), utterly ridiculous notions such as "career", "fulfillment", and "job satisfaction" were created. You want to make a man do mind-numbingly dull work with a smile on his face? Call him an "artist", and tell him that he's doing "creative work". Hey, who wants to be an "uncreative" 9-5 office drone? Those uncreative neanderthals are probably racist and homophobic and they may even vote Republican. Yuck!

This scam was created to lure men. Amazingly, increasing prosperity and economic surplus gave women too much free time to think, and the more detached from reality they grew. At some point, women, the pragmatic gender, became as stupid as men. They fell for the lie. Suddenly, they wanted to work, too. Because they weren't haaaaaaaaaappy and needed "fulfillment".

Them damsels should have read Tom Sawyer. Instead, they lost touch with their biological natures, and became 2nd class humans, who fail both at being women, and at being men. No legislation will ever change this fact. And this is not a particularly recent phenomenon, since Schopenhauer saw it in the 1850s. I blame the decline of feudalism, and the prosperity brought by the 1st Industrial Revolution.