MEN are, in general, motivated to take on the hard work of supporting families by feminine women. It is worth repeating this fact again and again because so many are taught that men and women are essentially the same. Given this fact, the more power women accumulate in society and the more career success they achieve, the less happiness both men and women find in marriage and the more demographic decline a society sees. Civilization and the feminist imperative are wholly incompatible.
This comment by a reader from 2014 never grows stale:
Men are naturally barbaric; left to their own devices, many males are perfectly happy to live in relative squalor. (Those disinclined to believe this are urged to hang out with a young single guy sometime). What prevents this from happening? In the traditional societies of the past, both the father and the mother (as well as other relatives and respected figures in the community) had important roles to play in civilizing boys and turning them into men.
It was the job of a father, an older brother, or perhaps a priest, drill instructor or coach to teach the boy what behavior and conduct was expected of him as a man. The mother’s role was just as vital, but different. Her job was to educate and civilize her son – not only by teaching him how a gentleman conducts himself around a lady, but by providing a comforting home and exposure to the things such as culture, manners, and all of the other habits great and small that comprise civilized behavior. Grace, beauty, decorum, kindness and all of the things that comfort us – these are the things that turn a house into a home, and into a refuge from a sometimes cold world outside that front door. Only a mother or a wife can provide those things.
When young men are mortally-wounded and are dying far from home on some foreign battlefield, their last words and thoughts are usually of their mothers (or their sweethearts) and their home. Men will suffer almost any privation or hardship to protect these things, and there is no crueler blow to a man than to deprive him of the safety, comfort and sanctuary of a home.
It is astonishing to me that so few young women are aware of the enormous power they hold as keepers of the home, hearth and family. These things are the very basis of civilization. If one wishes to understand the tremendous ennui and dispiritedness of modern men, one could do much worse than to note the rejection by so many women of this role. For a man, there is little point in going out and taking on the world if you don’t have a happy home waiting for you at the end of the day. If women want their men to be great again, they will have to restore this missing piece of our civilization first; everything depends on it.
