Gavin "Rossdale" McInnes has an article called Feminism's a Bitch in egomaniac-cum-decadent Greco-trash Taki's Magazine. I appreciate the articulate wing of the paleo-right, though I know that if in charge they would destroy us all. However, I do have a few bones to pick with this particular asshole (said lovingly). Gavin writes:
I don’t get the modern New York feminist. Why do they want to be men? What’s so disgusting about being a woman? They are so determined not to fall into the parent trap or the kitchen jail they have single sex in the city until their ovaries dry up and they feel like worthless, lonely, pieces of shit (“No I’m not. I’m a cougar! Cougar power. Right ladies? Right? Um… hello?”) I remember a comment on Jezebel that said, “I resent mcguinness saying it’s ‘natural’ for women to have children.” How’s that for the pendulum snapping off its hinges and flying into the toilet? Today’s feminists actually resent what it is to be a woman. They resent the ability to give life.
Why bother trying to get the "modern New York feminist." Most women are not modern, not New Yorkers and not feminists. This minority fringe cult has no influence beyond batshit academics (the left) and those who take the delusions of relevance of batshit academics far too seriously (the right). The women I know, in Buttfuck, Canada, know as much about feminism as the average African-American knows about his Guineaman ancestors. Gavin's swinging at strawomen.
I sympathize! I used to get angry at militant Muslims, self-righteous leftists and Slavic Nazis until I realized that none of them give a shit in the scheme of things, and no one will ever change their minds. Better men than I have proven all their arguments wrong, yet their voices ring on in the echo chamber that is the Internet. The reason I blog less now is precisely because I care less. Contrast with the following passage:
Why do I give a shit? Well, in a Catch-22 to beat the band, I consider myself far more feminist than this blogger or anyone at the website she works for. I want what’s best for women and rejecting their natural state is making them miserable. That’s right. The Bastardization of Instinct that is modern feminism has been making women unhappier every day since its inception. Their bodies tell them to breed so they do, but then there’s this strange inclination to “do it all” and be a man, too. This leaves them running two lives which is a pain in the ass. The ones who don’t breed are even more miserable. Way to go sisters. You wrecked yourself.
By saying you "want what's best for women" you are falling into the same sinkhole as the feminists and Talibans alike. Stop thinking in terms of the abstract category "women" and start thinking in terms of actual blood-and-tit individuals. Some blood-and-tit individuals are born to be shrews and some are born to be housewives, just as some blood-and-dick individuals are born to be builders and some are born to be thinkers. Don't tell people to "follow their instinct" like everyone isn't doing that already. Mother Nature is the ultimate woman and she knows how to take care of her own. And as a "man," why are you hanging out at the same bars as New York feminists anyway?
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