The multiculturalists, feminists and mainstream media never stop ranting about our male-dominated society. But can you name a single society in the history of the world that was more dominated by women than ours?
What do men dominate? Inventions. Business creation. Poetry, literature, music. Basically anything that you need to work to build. Nobody gave Microsoft or Boeing or Ford to men. Males simply created all these companies.
Do men get paid more? Yes. But that’s because men work more. Do men get paid more per hour? Yes. But again that’s because they work more. If you work overtime, you get paid 50-100% more per hour. If you work less than full-time, your salary will likely reflect your part-time status. The average working woman in the US does not work 40 hours. The average man works more than that.
Men, on average, work about 10-12 hours more per week than women. When you count for hours worked, overtime pay, how dangerous a job is, whether you started a business or work for someone else, women are actually paid 1% more according to a Cato Institute study. Affirmative action works for women, just as it does for blacks.
Are men more likely to run big companies? Yes. But they started almost all of them and they invented just about everything these companies sell.
Look around. Look at everything you use in daily life.
You wake up in the morning on a bed created by men. You use the toilet and the shower invented by men. You wear clothes that usually were designed by men (Donna Karan is one of the few exceptions). You are in a house designed and built by men. You get in a car that was invented by men. You drive on a highway developed by men. You stop at a red light or a stop sign, both invented by men.
You get to your office building which was invented by men. You get in your elevator, invented by men. You sit down in front of your computer, also invented by men. You work for a company that was almost definitely founded by men. For lunch you go to a restaurant that was most likely started by men.
On your way home at the end of the day, you listen to the radio which was invented by men.
You get home and decide to read a book or a newspaper, without giving men any credit for inventing the printing press, starting the publishing company and most likely writing the book/newspaper article.
If you get a headache, you take a pill invented by a man working for a company that as founded by another man.
Finally before falling asleep, you turn on the TV, invented by men, and listen to hairy lesbians bitch about the male-dominated society, how men control all those companies they started.
It is not fair – we are told by women who wear a bra for no other reason to hide their chest hair – that Bill Gates gets to control Microsoft, the very corporation he founded.
You switch the channels and now you are watching a sit-com. It doesn’t matter which sit-com it is because the plot is always the same: the woman is brilliant while the man is a complete mess and a moron who can’t do anything right.
The woman is disgusted at the thought of having sex with her husband and stays married to him only because nature played an evil joke on her by making her irrationally fall in love with him. The man, meanwhile, acts like a little boy every time he sees his wife of 30 years with short sleeves, much less undressed. While women are disgusted at the sight of their husbands, men can’t control themselves when they see an overweight 50-year-old with stretch-marks and wrinkles.
Both spouses acknowledge that he’s not worth her either in terms of looks or intelligence. She feels free to call him an idiot in front of their kids or his parents and co-workers.
She also feels free to tell him of her attraction to other men, and he’s made to feel abnormal for being upset that his wife is not only fantasizing about others, but doesn’t even have enough respect for him to keep her dreams to herself.
If the wife doesn’t work, she says that her staying at home and cooking a meal, which takes no more than an hour a day, is a more important “job” than the man’s 8-10 work-shift. But if the man ever says that it’s the stay-at-home wife’s job to take care of the house, she feels free not only to yell at him, but to assault him with any object she can reach.
So which is it? Is staying at home to cook and clean a job or not? Or is it just a way to avoid working at all, at home or in the office?
You turn to Comedy Central and hear one comedian after another berate men by claiming they are so much less intelligent than women. But if that’s true, why did men invent just about everything?
Why is it that even when it comes to things that women tend to do much more often – poetry, for instance – the great ones are almost always male?
Comedians – and men married for a long time – advice young men to “just say sorry”. But why? Even in Saudi Arabia women aren’t told that they always wrong and must always apologize. Is your beautiful, genius, flawless wife incapable of error? Why are boys taught from the day they hit puberty to always apologize to women?
Ever since you turned 10, you were told to do things that would make women like you. But God help anyone if he suggests that women should do things to make men like them. All the feminists with pitch forks will come out.
And you aren’t always wrong only when you are married to your wife. You are always wrong when she decides to divorce you.
Everything gets split half-half.
Her “half” is that she gets the inside of the house. Your “half” is that you get the outside along with a restraining order forbidding you come within a hundred feet of the house which you bought.
You each also get something when it comes to your kids. She gets the children to live with her. You get to pay child support.
You have no rights to your kids. If she’s nice enough to let you see them, you are lucky. If she wants nothing to do with you, she’ll refuse to follow the order of visitation.
The courts will not only fail to enforce your visitation rights, but if you dare to show up to pick up your kids, she’ll call the police and claim that you attacked her resulting in your arrest. After spending the night in jail, you will be released and forced into anger management for a year to dismiss her false charges.
While you are attending anger management, she’ll show up at your job, attack you and then call the police because you grabbed her arm as she was trying to hit your head with a stapler. Nobody will care to ask what she was doing in your office and you’ll get arrested again.
Now you are facing felony charges because she had an order of protection from your previous criminal case. The charges will eventually get dismissed, but not before you spend $10,000 on a lawyer.
Frequently women claim that their children were raped or sodomized by their father. But if the mothers knew that, why didn’t they stop it at the time? Nobody will ask that. You’ll get arrested, thrown in jail for days while your family will scramble to find $100,000 to bail you out. Meanwhile you’ll get attacked or even gang-raped by other inmates because you are an accused child molester.
Several days later they will finally conduct a medical examination of your 5-year-old son and find that he was most definitely never raped because such rape would result in great damage to his rear-end, and those injuries are simply absent. You’ll get released, probably with a broken leg, two black eyes and a ripped apart anus. Nothing will happen to your wife for making those allegations.
After engaging in multiple physical altercations with your ex-wife in your office, and having missed work because of repeated trips to jail because of her false allegations, you’ll get fired.
But the child support amount remains the same because it is not determined by how much you make, but rather by how much you are capable of making. No court will take into consideration that your wife got you fired by showing up in your office.
So as you are looking for a job for several months, the child support payments – along with fines – keep growing. Your ex-wife drags you back to court and the judge rules that you violated the child support order.
There’s no excuse to child support non-payment under the Bradley Amendment. There’s no statute of limitations, it is not subject to bankruptcy, and even a physical incapacity is not a defense.
One soldier returned from Iraq in 1991 after spending half a year as POW and got arrested for non-payment of child support while a POW in Iraq. A man who spent 10 years in prison for a crime he proved he did not commit was still on the hook for child support for the time he was incarcerated. As was a man whose DNA test proved he’s not even the father. Even being in a coma is not a defense, as at least one man found out.
You lose your driver’s license, your professional licenses, liens are placed on you and your bank accounts. If you make any money, the wages are garnished. If you don’t find a job quick to pay off your child support debt, you’ll be thrown in jail for up to half a year. When you get out, you’ll still owe the money.
If your parents allow you to sleep on the couch in their living room, it is considered income and you must pay child support from it.
To make sure your life is completely ruined, if you marry again, your second wife will also have to pay your first one because the support is counted based on “family income”. So if your first wife is vindictive enough, she can prevent you from ever re-marrying. See, and you thought you were divorced and free to do as you pleased!
Meanwhile, your ex finds a boyfriend across two time-zones and moves in with him along with your children. Now you lose whatever legal visitation rights you had to your kids as the court finds it to be unnecessarily troublesome for the little ones to travel so far to see their father regularly. You are allowed to fly a couple of times a year to see them – if you are willing to risk getting arrested again if your ex-wife gets mad at you for coming. Nobody seriously considers the possibility that you might get custody of the children to prevent them from moving to another state, away from their school and friends.
When it’s time for the government to conduct a child support study, they only ask the women. Yes, it’s true, men aren’t even asked.
“Do you receive enough child support for your children” is one of the questions. But nothing is ever enough. Human demands are unlimited. And many women are convinced that child support must cover all the expenses on the kids, not just the father’s half. Everyone is feminist when it comes to women working part-time getting paid the same as men who work overtime. Very few are feminist when it’s time to pay for anything, even their own children.
“Did you get custody of your children” is another question. She did get custody, don’t doubt it. But she’s outraged that the father got visitation and considers her own custody incomplete. So she says that no, she did not get custody.
Surveys show that up to 40% of single mothers claim they don’t have custody of their children. Go outside and ask around. How many single mothers do you know who do not have their kids life with them? Very few. And almost all of them lost custody because their near-adult kids did not want to live with them or the mothers had peculiar jobs as prostitutes or drug-runners for their drug-dealer boyfriends. Any woman with a regular job, or no job at all, will get custody of her children – if she wants it – unless they are too old to be forced by the court to live with mom.
In the rare case that you get custody of your kids, courts regularly fail to impose any child support on the mother and even if they do, it is never enforced.
And as you go through this ordeal where courts do not even listen to men and take any allegation by women as proof that is politically-incorrect to even challenge, you are now broken man who needs a psychologist to help you deal with your depression, except that you can’t afford one.
You begin to lose your breath and feel a pain in your arm. Suddenly you collapse. You are just 42, you still think of yourself as young. But you aren’t. A woman your age is likely to be perfectly healthy. Men your age are at a high risk of heart attack, cancer, seizures.
Every state and the federal government have a department of women’s health. Almost none have a department of men’s health, despite males dying eight year earlier and being at risk for life-threatening illness as soon as you hit 40.
When the government gets money for medical research, far more goes to find a cure for diseases that afflict primarily women than men. No doubt it’s more important to find treatment for 85-year-old women than for 40-year-old men.
After you come home from the hospital, your kids call you and talk about their mom getting them into some weird hippie or Muslim or Buddhist or nudist semi-cult. You can’t do anything about it. You have no right to your kids. Even if you have visitation, it gives you no right to to influence your kids’ lifestyle.
And you aren’t the only one taking pills now. So is your son. The 9-year-old boy was running during a school-break and that’s now considered a sign of ADD. Being a boy is abnormal. If a boy plays with dolls and you object, you are “pre-historic”. But if he gets mind-altering medication for running or playing with a toy gun, that’s progressive thinking.
Your ex loves your son much more now that he’s medicated – it sure is easier to raise a boy who just sits there after taking a pill.
Your other son, now 7 years old, was watching TV when your ex was out on a date and picked up all the sexual comments and acts that he doesn’t yet understand, but wants to copy because it makes him feel grown up. So he tried to kiss a girl in his class and now the school is terrified that it has a growing rapist who must be stopped through re-education.
Meanwhile your 13 year old daughter says that one of her mom’s loser boyfriends with whom they’ve lived inappropriately touched her on several occasions. Fathers, unless insane, almost never molest their own kids. Step-fathers are more than 40 times more likely to do something inappropriate with young girls, and temporary live-in boyfriend is an even greater threat.
But you can’t do anything. Everyone can influence your kids, their recently college-indoctrinated teachers who force them into sensitivity training, a feminist psychiatrist who drugged them, all their mom’s boyfriends, everyone but you.
You remember the advice you got when you were younger to just agree with you wife, just say you are sorry, just do as she says.
After several trips to jail and a loss of your job, house and kids, you now wish you just kept quiet and acquiesced to all your wife’s unreasonable demands.
Your ex-wife now decided that your conversation with your kids is too long for her taste and she ends it against the wishes of your children.
You turn on the TV once again and see the same hairy lesbian you remember from years ago ranting that men have some unfair advantage in our society. You feel your hands shake. Your face gets flushed. You pick up the phone and call a friend, or a psychologist or a family lawyer. And you cry like you haven’t cried since you were 5-years-old… as the hairy lesbian on TV condemns our patriarchal society.
… or you don’t cry, and react the way generations of American popular and folklore culture heroes have – the lone man confronting the system.
As Stephen Baskerville has pointed out, courthouses in America only needed to add metal detectors and turn themselves into fortresses when courts began separating fathers from their children.
I’m not endorsing violence, just pointing things out.
Wow! That is awesome and it hits very close to home with me. This needs to be circulated much more widely than what your blog gets.
I certanly hope this gets reprinted on a much more widely circulated site!!!
Dave,
I’ll try to submit it to some other publications that ran my articles before. If you can submit it to some sites that are open to non-feminist writings on gender, please submit it.
Guy
Wow, nice rant. I agree that our divorce laws are completely set against men; I’m not sure if this will ever change, as Western society is dominated by women and there is such prejudice against (white) men. Non-white men aren’t really touched by our divorce laws, judging by the rates of illegitimacy (40% for Hispanics, 70% for blacks); so it seems that whites are the ones who marry and get divorced in the U.S.
F. Roger Devlin’s article “Rotating Polyandry and Its Enforcers” [Occidental Quarterly, Vol. 7, No. 2, Summer 2007] is an interesting read and addresses the themes in your post. He reviews two books, both about U.S. divorce laws, but from different approaches: one from the point of view of single motherhood, the other about men caught in divorce court hell. Devlin argues that our divorce laws facilitate polyandry; and as American Renaissance recently noted [in its current issue, June 2008], we in the West appear to be regressing, turning away from the two-parent (married) union, and returning to an African-like family structure of a woman with multiple partners (and children from those different fathers) supported by the state (via welfare, or, for whites, alimony and child-support payments).
And herein is the cause of much of the decline of the West. The destruction of the family inevitably leads to the population crisis in which non-whites outbreed whites. It’s pointless to think that putting up a fence at the border or some other external policy will solve what is essentially an internal crisis.
While I agree completely that it isn’t right for one gender to ever denigrate the other, I can’t say that I agree with much else on here. As a radio news anchor and reporter, I work close to 55 hours a week making sure people in my respective city know exactly what’s going on and how it affects them. In the end, I haven’t had one single person ever say anything about my gender–they simply comment on my voice (a fairly deep contralto which is sought after in radio )and newswriting ability.
I would suggest that if you want true equality, it might be best that you don’t refer to women with the same terms you’ve berated women for using toward men. Other than that, I have to agree with the idea that we should be treated equally.
Passing,
Your argument that women have been dominated is crap backed up by nothing.
1. Women number just as many people as men. They aren’t a minority. Therefore there’s no reason why they would accept a subservient position.
2. Gifted women have been generals and heads of state since time immemorial. There is nobody stopping you from inventing something. Do you think Google was “given” to its inventors because they are male? Do you think when people use Google to search they care if the inventors are male or female?
3. I am glad you took a Roman history class. I’m sure being brainwashed by professors who MUST teach “race, gender, class oppression” or else will be denied tenure or their favored assignments was eye-opening for you. The problem is that what they teach is propaganda.
4. The IQ range of men is much greater than among women. Therefore, the vast majority of the dull people are male. But that’s also the reason why the vast majority of geniuses are male.
If you walk on the streets of a major city, you’ll find that over 90% of homeless people are male (it’s true no matter what hairy lesbians at NOW try to say/lie). Over 90% of criminals are male. Over 90% of any kind of screw-ups are male.
But on the other end of it, over 90% of people who get perfect scores on the SAT and graduate exams (or genius scores on IQ tests) are also male.
And that, and ONLY that, explains why men invented just about everything.
Boys don’t fail out of HS because of “persecution”, but because almost all the kids who are incapable of doing HS work are male. I am ok with that. I don’t take personal offense to this fact.
But girls don’t win Nobel prizes for the same reason – almost all the geniuses are male. Deal with it, sweetheart!
Great essay.
Here is one of my own. This is 1950’s America before “sex discrimination” became a problem. Women work to support their male house husbands. Men rob women blind in divorce court, taking the wife’s house, her car and all her money. The wife must pay massive child support and alimony to the automatic custody father. While women die by the thousands in Korea and Vietnam, men stay home and drink tea with the boys. Women go down with the Titanic while men and children climb on the life boats. Women work themselves into heart attacks at work so that men can outlive women by seven years and inherit 80% of all the personal wealth in the country.Men have it incredibly easy.
In 1963, a revolutionary book arrives on the market. It is the “Male Mystique”, by Betty Schmuckstein, a Jewish communist hiding behind her pose as a typical housewife. Betty preaches that the average male suburban house husband is really living in a camoflauged Auschwitz concentration camp. Men must “liberate” themselves by pursuing high paying careers in addition to men and children first. Men go to work and create incredible chaos. First, they run around in micro-mini-skirts and see thru jock straps and stick their tongue up every vagina in the office during the “sexual revolution”. Next, they scream that overstimulated females are “sexually harassing” them by tickling their testicles. (Naturally, the idiot male secretaries see no correlation between their behaviour and their self-created problem.) Then, the newly liberated males take six month vacations to play with their kids on the company’s time. When they get fired for doing this, they sue for “fatherhood discrimination”. (Of course, women should do two jobs for the price of one as this is “equal pay for equal work”.) When men are not promoted over better qualified females they file “sex discrimination” lawsuits. Then men join the army and pretend that they can defend their country-while having a nervous breakdown as their own troops pat their butt. When the shooting starts, women go out and do the dying while men kiss babies in the pregnancy desertion command center. Men also establish male “pro-choice” in reproduction. This gives men the right to shoot babies they do not want-while demanding that women pay men child support for the babies men decided to keep.
Men turn everything upside down while pretending to be victims of “sex discrimination”. Women get the short end of everything-while men bad mouth women constantly. Naturally, husband beating becomes quite a problem. Men, of course, claim that their own behaviour has nothing to do with why women beat them up. Just because men are trying to rig everything in their own favor while pretending to be victims of “sex discrimination” is no reason for women to clobber them. And so men get away with bloody murder in the “Brave New World” of sex equality-while women get screwed silly. Women rue the day they ever gave men the vote. If only they had kept combat exempt male suffragettes disenfranchised forever none of this would be going on.