Medusa: A Symptom of the Times

Medusa: A Symptom of the Times

By MatTehCat | The Cat's Mewsings | 20 Feb 2023


 

"Turn yourself round, and keep thine eyes close shut,
  For if the Gorgon appear, and thou shouldst see it,
  No more returning upward would there be." -- Dante Alighieri 

 

Hey guys, did you hear? Nikki Halley is running for President! Isn’t that grand? A woman, running for president! How exciting! Or is it?

Throughout most of my college years and for a few years prior, I was inundated with what is tantamount to pro-Feminist propaganda. GamerGate was all the buzz during the early 2010s, and the establishment media simply couldn’t help but to White Knight for the feeble feminists. But are they really so feeble? No, in no way are women as feeble as Western culture makes them out to be. And this is the problem I have with feminists: they run on a grift of victimhood that belies their true power.

Just think about this basically: why would men, who require women to reproduce and to have a functioning society, who enjoy the company of women, actively harm and destroy women generally? Sure, you can find outliers that will harm women, rape women, brutalize women, demean women psychologically because they desire control over them, but this obviously doesn’t make up the majority of men. In fact, it is an over-emphasis on these highly salient examples that highlights the rhetorical device principally deployed by feminists.

For example, Don Lemon claimed that Nikki Haley wasn’t in her prime. This was met with great astonishment. How dare Don Lemon say something so… sexist. But is he wrong? You can go down the semantic route and ask, “Well, what do you mean by prime, exactly?” and this does seem to be the route his fellow, female anchors took. However, you could also just assume he meant what most people mean by it: she’s past her peak years. On average, most men find women attractive that are about the age of 21 years old. Why is this? Because men are biologically driven; they are adapted to identifying characteristics that signify beauty, and by signifying beauty, also health. Healthy women make healthy children, increasing the chances that the male’s offspring will survive. Of course, you’ll get the Reddit neckbeard who will tell you he values women for their intellect, but we all know he’s just being a sneaky fucker; he only wants to get in their pants. The exception proves the rule. When we look at Nikki Haley, do we think health? No, we think Machiavellian politician, or at least I do.

But that’s the entire point feminists, like the many women on Fox News, are making: women can be so much more than symbols of health and beauty! They can be doctors, lawyers, chemists, comedians, philosophers, and in the case of Nikki Haley, politicians that can run for president! Don’t you see, women can do anything men can do, but better, because they’re women. They can break glass ceilings! But should they?

Again: feminists take the exception and make it the principle. Not only do they take the exception as the general rule, they also impose that general rule on the rest of the population, dictatorially, mind you, through the power of the government; i.e., with guns and bombs and violence. Disagree with a feminist, a woman, critique her, and you’re a sexist! You’re a sexist, Don Lemon! How dare you even question whether Nikki Haley is in her prime! Do it again, Lemon, and we’ll ‘ostracize’ you.

And what are the effects of applying the exception as a general rule through catty scolding, ostracization, reputation destruction, and ultimately violence? Women are clearly less happy, young girls seem to have increased rates of mental health issues compared to boys, and the incentivization of education for women seems to be decreasing the number of children they’re having. The latter fact has serious effects on society. If more intelligent women are having fewer children because they are more educated, the proportion of less intelligent children to more intelligent children will increase; there will be more less-intelligent children. And because a complex society requires intelligent people to maintain it, if there are fewer or less intelligent people, a complex society will be harder to maintain, if it doesn’t utterly collapse. In other words, the feminist sentiments promoted by people like Nikki Haley, Fox News, and the Establishment Republicans will literally lead to the destabilization of our society. So, you see, feminists can break glass ceilings, and when they do, shards of broken glass rain down on everyone beneath them.

Strong women do not seem to make strong societies. Rather, ‘strong women’ seem to get their strength through the power of the State, which they then use to bully people into doing what they want for them.

It’s not as if women are innocent victims in this situation, either. I have quite extensively reviewed how America’s legal system has been utterly changed by the advent of Feminism. One of the main arguments used to push the feminists’ deleterious regime is as follows: because of some conspicuous imbalances in the number of women in certain positions, a sign that there was sexual segregation and hierarchy, there needs to be discrimination in favor of women. And if you ask whether any sexual segregation and hierarchy was established for reasons other than sexism, perhaps because such delineations help to promote a functioning society, well you’re just a bigoted sexist! Paraphrasing the argument made by Justice Ginsberg in United States v. Virginia et al. (1996), women can be treated only as individuals, not as a general category. This effectively eliminated the category of Woman legally; there can be no womanly tendencies if there is nothing like Woman, only individuals who happen to be adult human females. Of course, this legal concept tends to only be applied when it dismantles any sort of institutional power or claim to power men have, as was the case in Johnson v. Transportation Agency, Santa Clara County California, et al., (1987). In instances where women need access to resources or power, the category of Woman very much exists because it benefits them.

For feminists, men are the oppressors, despite making up the majority of the homeless population, the mentally ill, and victims of suicide. These facts don’t jive with feminists, however; they display Man as he can be: a victim. Instead, they saliently paint the image of Man as a violent oppressor; a tyrannical patriarch. One cannot help but to think that, in this critique of society, there is just a modicum of projection.

It’s very easy for feminists like Nikki Haley to claim that people should do something about the issues so many men are facing – if that even crosses her mind (her gender concerns seem to be primarily about the plight of women). When they do, however, they’re usually ignored or shut down. It just isn’t profitable or efficacious to paint men as the victims they are. Men, even biologically speaking, are disposable to the kind of society Nikki Haley wants to be in charge of. Nikki Haley’s concept of ‘better’ simply will not include the issues men face. If her concept of ‘better’ does include men, it will only do so in so far as those men can benefit women through their sacrifice, like fighting a war with Russia.

This is why it’s so remarkable to watch these same women claim how poorly men are doing in society. It’s like they’re completely oblivious to the effects of their actions. They’re not, of course; they just don’t care unless it viscerally affects them. They want their cake and to eat it, too. They want all the benefits of living in a society without the duty of maintaining that society; in fact, they’ll even go so far as to smash the very foundations of the society just to benefit themselves. And this is why people like Nikki Haley, feminists and women like Nikki Haley, shouldn’t be given power or be elected president. You can criticize Nikki Haley because she actively supported the George Floyd riots by claiming George Floyd’s death needed to be “personal and painful for everyone.” Still, this doesn’t quite get to the root of why feminists like Nikki Haley shouldn’t be made leaders of a society if that society wants to survive.

At the end of the day, Feminists like Nikki Haley are not just self-serving politicians. They are actively involved in the dismantling and destruction of our society. Throughout history, complex societies have generally been founded, maintained, and re-established by men. Feminists resent this. They have cock envy. They resent the solar man and seek to subordinate him to their will. Yet when they do this, they lose interest in the men they subordinate. Their entire visage is predicated on being observed by the masculine gaze, and without it, they lack an identity or adopt an abominable one. When they can turn their sights toward man and subordinate him to their gaze, they destroy him, immobilize and petrify him, much like Medusa. In doing so, when they’re granted power, they turn themselves into a monstrous plurality without a distinct identity that obliterates all that surrounds them. To elect Nikki Haley is to signal the death knell of America.

 

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