[SteveMcMahon]

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The men in Tallulah are typically not well educated: the local high school’s results are poor even by Louisiana’s standards. That would have mattered less, in the old days. A man without much book-learning could find steady work at the mill or in the fields. But the lumber mill has closed, and on nearby farms “jobs that used to take 100 men now take ten,” observes Jason McGuffie, a pastor. A strong pair of hands is no longer enough.

Also, the nearby farms would rather hire 10 low-paid and easily biddable illegal immigrants who they can pay under the table.

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“If you don’t have an education, what can you do?” asks Paxton Branch, the mayor. “You can’t even answer a phone if you don’t have proper English.” Blue-collar jobs require more skills than they used to, notes Katie McCarty of the North East Louisiana Workforce Centres, a job-placement agency. If you want to be a truck driver, you need at least an eighth-grade education to handle the paperwork, she observes; that is, the mental skills a 13- or 14-year-old is supposed to have, and which men disproportionately lack.

We have to find something productive for these men to do. IQ is distributed on a bell curve - so we'll always have geniuses, Forrest Gumps, and the vast majority sitting somewhere inbetween.

Paying people to sit on their arses - the post-WW2 European settlement - isn't a viable long term option.

Leaving large swathes of the populace unemployable and dependent on charity isn't viable either.

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In almost all societies a lot of men enjoy unwarranted advantages simply because of their sex. Much has been done over the past 50 years to put this injustice right; quite a bit still remains to be done.

Nah. This is bullshit. Men have responsibilities as a result of their sex, not advantages. Sperm is cheap, eggs are dear. That's the biological root cause of why the dirty, nasty, important jobs are done by men.

Male privilege doesn"t exist. White privilege doesn't exist. Jewish privilege doesn't exist. Any conspiracy theory positing that Group A has different behaviours and outcomes than Group B because of an invisible system of privilege is more likely than not to be big, dangly bollocks.

Unless you're born into royalty, nobody's going to give you a leg up in life just because you've got a penis.

Quite the opposite in fact - men have always had to struggle for their place in the world. Any woman who isn't hideously ugly can expect to find a man to support her.

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The dead hand of male domination is a problem for women, for society as a whole—and for men like those of Tallulah.

Y'see, these barely employed men are suffering from male domination.

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Their ideas of the world and their place in it are shaped by old assumptions about the special role and status due to men in the workplace and in the family, but they live in circumstances where those assumptions no longer apply. And they lack the resources of training, of imagination and of opportunity to adapt to the new demands. As a result, they miss out on a lot, both in economic terms and in personal ones.

We need more feminism to cure all the problems caused by feminism.

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For those at the top, James Brown’s observation that it is a man’s, man’s, man’s world still holds true. Some 95% of Fortune 500 CEOs are male, as are 98% of the self-made billionaires on the Forbes rich list and 93% of the world’s heads of government.

And why? Because women are lazy bastards, that's why.

If Steve Jobs had been born Stephanie Jobs, would she have bothered working 80 hour weeks in a garage to start up Apple Computers? No. She'd have been too busy with hair and makeup and boyfriends.

Men take risks and create wealth. Women complain and expect things to be handed to them.

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In popular films fewer than a third of the characters who speak are women, and more than three-quarters of the protagonists are men.

Women consume more passive entertainment than men do. So if popular films are like this, either the movie industry has badly misjudged what its audience wants, or they're giving them exactly what they want.

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But the real money is in brain work, and here many men are lagging behind. Women outnumber them on university campuses in every region bar South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa. In the OECD men earn only 42% of degrees.

Credentialism. This is a great example of female cargo cult thinking.

"I have a Masters in Lesbian Basket Weaving and I still can't find a six-figure job!", cries the legbeard.

The feminisation of universities - turning them from seats of learning to adult daycare facilities - isn't an example of progress. It's a sign of decline.

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The economic marginalisation this brings erodes family life. Women who enjoy much greater economic autonomy than their grandmothers did can afford to be correspondingly pickier about spouses, and they are not thrilled by husbands who are just another mouth to feed.

Feminism has helped ruin women's lives. Who do we think was happier - the 50's housewife with a brood of cute kids and a husband to take care of her, or the rainbow-haired legbeard who starts adult life with a ton of student debt, slaves away in some shitty clerical job to pay off the loans, and settles for some beta simp in her 30's, by which time her ovaries are already withering?

These pickier, more 'liberated' women sure don't seem happy, do they?


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Everywhere you look in Tallulah there are women working: in the motels that cater to passing truckers, in the restaurants that serve all-you-can-eat catfish buffets, in shops, clinics and local government offices. But though unskilled men might do some of those jobs, they are unlikely to want them or to be picked for them.

What does it benefit us, as a society, to have women working?

Civilisation won't collapse if we have fewer fat-arsed girls pretending to work in government offices. It will be in deep shit if we don't have enough babies though.

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Fifty years ago the norms for marriage in most rich countries were simple and sexist.

The informal rules that held society together, permitting the greatest expansion in technology and living standards human beings have ever known, were 'sexist'.

Boooo! 'Sexism!'


Check your space-privilege, shitlord!

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Those norms have changed. The pill, which was approved in America that same year, allowed women to regulate their fertility.

"Regulate their fertility" means contracept themselves out of the gene pool.

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It used to be common for brainy women to drop out of college when they became pregnant. Now they can time their babies to fit with their careers.

Now they can time their babies so that their ageing wombs squeeze out an only child - if they're lucky and don't need IVF. Then Mummy goes back to her pointless job in customer service while her baby is raised by strangers.

What a sweet deal!

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Few women in rich countries now need a man’s support to raise a family.

Bullshit. Who do you think pays for the supplementary benefits, free education, healthcare and so on?

The 'independent' woman is a mirage. If men stopped propping up the system, most of those girls would starve to death or have to prostitute themselves for food.

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SWEDEN has done a better job than most countries of fostering equality between the sexes, and its success is particularly apparent in child care.

So successful that there won't be a Sweden in 50 years. Great job, guys!

And this is the most important thing about feminism: it's a temporary aberration. If something can't go on forever, it won't. Feminism, by poisoning the well of relations between the sexes and reducing birthrates to below-replacement levels, will burn itself out like any other disease.

The future doesn't belong to confused hamplanets with Gender Studies degrees and Tumblr accounts.