The Disappearance of the Male Role

Over the course of my lifetime I have watched the role of men taken away.  The role of the male as provider, defender, and disciplinarian is no more. It was destroyed by feminists.

To clarify “feminist”:  In the past when I have criticized feminists older women who had careers asked why I thought women shouldn’t have careers.  Their idea is that a feminist is a woman who has a career.  But women have always had careers as mothers, homemakers, grandmothers, school teachers, nurses, secretaries, writers, artists, musicians, scientists, and even spies such as Eve Gordon who made during World War II 112 parachute jumps into occupied Europe. Even in pre-feminist days, one of my aunts despite being married  had a career outside the home. She enjoyed the discipline of getting to work on time, the interaction with other people, and meeting new ones.  

By feminist I mean a person with an ideological agenda of obliterating the difference between men and women.  When I was young men were raised to respect women. When a woman entered a room, the men stood. Doors were opened for women and their entrance proceeded  the man’s. Car doors were opened for women who were helped in and out. At the dining table men stood until the women were seated. In those days men still wore hats. A gentleman passing a lady on the sidewalk was expected to tip his hat in respect. A man who struck a woman or used a four-letter word in a lady’s presence suffered a ruined reputation.

Feminists derided the many ways in which respect was shown to women as “placing women on a pedestal.”  Showing respect for women was somehow undervaluing them and treating them unequally.  Feminists insisted on women being pulled down into the gutter with men. 

Big brothers were taught to protect little sisters.  It was little brother’s job to learn to protect himself, and fights on the school playground was part of the learning process.

Today men are no longer taught to protect women.  But it is a natural inclination in men.  Studies have concluded that the introduction of women soldiers into conflict causes a loss of cohesion and focus, because men become distracted by concern for the women.

Feminists were not happy until they destroyed men’s colleges, male leadership in politics, military, and business, men’s clubs and male organizations such as the Boy Scouts which was forced to take in girls. Even the military has been taken from men. How is there a band of brothers when the commander is female?

Men have lost their role. They are no longer the provider. The wife might have, thanks to gender preferences in university admissions, employment, and promotion, the better job bringing in more income. Studies conclude that boys suffer depression from loss of a role. Reportedly, the suicide rate of boys and young men has been rising. 

What the feminists have established is a new form of male deference  to women. Males must stand aside and give up their role to women.

Feminist were not content to only destroy men. They destroyed women also. The idea of a chaste woman was objectionable because it held women to a higher standard than men. 

Helen Gurley Brown, editor-in-chief of Cosmopolitan magazine, used the magazine to encourage women to be harlots. In the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s Cosmopolitan was a fixture in the waiting rooms of doctors and dentists. I often wondered what my mother and grandmothers would have thought of a woman’s magazine, the cover of which heralded articles titled “How to be unfaithful to your husband without being caught,” “how to find a sex partner when on vacation without your boy friend,” “how to manage multiple sex partners.” 

Today young women support themselves with their porn sites. Women brag on social media about having had 150 sexual partners, sparking rivals to vow attaining higher levels of wantonness.  Female school teachers get themselves pregnant by their under age students. Mothers have 12-year old daughters on birth control pills. School children are sexualized at an early age to get them ready for the legalization of pedophiles, now euphemized as “minor attracted persons.”

I often refer to the United States as a Sodom and Gomorrah Tower of Babel, which is what we have become. It will be a big chore for Trump to rescue us from this predicament. 

The Disappearance of the Male Role