Read on Twitter
Being bullied is good for boys, being mocked by peers triggers hormesis, when young boys fight with each other it galvanizes them. Being too emotional IS weakness, because emotion clouds the mind. Being powerful is a virtue and being weak is a sin. https://twitter.com/visakanv/status/963606743610634240
Young boys antagonize each other because it is low-stakes training for adult life, which is dangerous, and where there is no protective parent nearby to make sure things don't get out of hand. It does teach men to defend themselves, and this is good, the world is dangerous
The logic of game theory dictates that it will ALWAYS be thus. If every single man on earth got woke to feminist utopian visions simultaneously, the caprice of evolution would produce a man who would defect against the"reformed" social order, and there would be no one to stop him
The only reason it is possible to sustain a partially feminist society in the first place is that enough men who are capable of violence support it. (strong men, men who have known âtoxicityâ all their lives)
The Darwinian machine searches always for the tiniest advantage, and feminists with their dreams of socially engineering a man with no teeth fail in exactly the same way as libertarians with their NAP; they surrender to all aggressors without so much as a murmur
As the old chestnut goes, hard times create strong men, strong men create good times, good times create weak men, weak men create hard times.
We are living in good times now, and already we see the proliferation of weak men around us. Can anyone doubt what comes next?
We are living in good times now, and already we see the proliferation of weak men around us. Can anyone doubt what comes next?
It takes a special hubris to imagine that the times will only ever get better, and that therefore men must get ever weaker, doubly so to imagine that robbing men of their strength does not hasten the coming of hard times.
In our soft androgynized city lives it can be hard to see the value in masculine strength, which is developed through galvanizing pain. Certainly the only people in our nice safe neighborhoods who live by violence are poor and low status. We must unequivocally renounce them
Discipline looks evil to people who fear even the smallest pain. Have you ever been in a physical fight? It is the least boring thing in the world. Winning a fight is among the most sublime joys of man. When surrounded by danger, it is wise to be fearful. https://twitter.com/visakanv/status/963610770490576897
All advances in technology and all triumphs of art and poetry have been born of competition. There is nothing to motivate like an existential struggle, there is nothing to catalyze creativity like an arms race. Do you know what is BORING? To sit in idle comfort getting fat
Is there a more facile concept than "toxic masculinity"? No one ever speaks of âtoxic femininityââthis is telling. Are there any specifically masculine virtues? @visakanv can name only one: to be a protector. But how are we to protect if we have no experience with enemies?
And moreover, what if a woman wanted to be a protector? Would she be less of a protector than a man? Will @visakanv admit to that? Can it be there are virtues that a man can access better than a woman? Surely not. What a sexist and toxic thing to say.
What I notice about these "toxic masculinity" sermons is that no one ever seems to admit, even for a moment, that nature is red in tooth and claw. That we have any agency or judgement. No-âtoxic masculinity", an egregore which formed ex nihilo, âteachesâ us the things you dislike
Man is a blank slate, you see, man exists FOR woman, a canvas for her to paint, a block of marble for her to sculpt, and it is only some immaterial devil, "toxic masculinity", cursed be its name, that makes us express our masculine power.
Sexual selection has in no way shaped our nature. If one peruses the shelves of romance novels, which are designed to sexually arouse women, one finds only soft, respectful, sensitive men. No conquest of woman ever occurs, no woman ever swoons for a conqueror or a cruel man
This is how the rhetoric of feminism castrates you: Submit to me, or are you afraid? You aren't a scared little boy are you? A real man would submit to me, the only reason you won't submit is your fear. Prove you're a real man by yielding your manhood https://twitter.com/visakanv/status/963625065672839168
And many men fall for this trick. Sad! But I think @visakanv is a good person, and his thread is quite logical and insightful, if we only grant him a monstrous and monstrously false premise. Let us turn our attention to something far more insidious.
From birth we are told that anything boys can do, girls can do as well. In fact we are told that they can do them better. This was a message in every cartoon I watched growing up. If nothing separates man from woman, what possible action could serve as a gateway to manhood?
There is exactly one thing, the only thing that egalitarian feminist society admits is the sole domain of man: to penetrate a woman with his phallus. It is the only ritual available! Could you imagine, now (in 2018!) a test of strength or grit to become a man?
NO! Any such ritual would be coopted by women as a symbol of sexual equality. And this would be done with the full blessing of so many men who are complicit if not enthusiastic in the emasculation of society.
âOh, heâs so fragile, he canât handle competition with GIRLS". Can you not understand the need for a symbol? Men, out of a desire to control each other, will deny masculinity any positive valence, and flatter themselves that they are doing it for womanâs sake!
Most especially, most contemptible of all, are men who are bad at performative masculinity, who resent it because they are falter where others excel, and rather than use those men as a model they try to destroy them out of envy
At last what is toxic masculinity? It means no specific thing at all, it is a blank check to demonize any and all masculine behavior, it is a shackle placed on men who have not realized their manhood, to prevent them from doing so
The only good man to these people is a self-eviscerating man, who âgets out of the wayâ, who lies down like a dog
When the wolf desires to hunt, shall he listen to the sheep who bleats out âtoxic caninity?!â There is much to love about domesticated dogs but in our smothering feminine love of them we have bred them into twisted unviable shapes. In the wild, we revert to wolves, or perish
