Controversial Political Opinions

[David Horn]

(03-16-2022, 08:47 PM)JasonBlack Wrote: The bottom line is: in a 4th turning, we need male stoicism, male courage and male authority. We don't just need men to do things, we need to provide them the necessary respect that they deserve if they are to be the heroes who will get us out of this crisis. We need to stop sneering at concepts like valor, mocking concepts like dignity, and over-correct for the feminine, hedonistic excesses and celebrity circuses of the unraveling. Frankly, this notion that women and men should be expected to fill the same roles is nonsense, and virtually every past culture, whether tribal, agricultural or nomadic, knew this instinctually. The worst part isn't even what feminists are doing, but how readily they get away with virtually everything they do with zero consequences. I do think we need to be rational about this and avoid some sort of violent swing in the other direction, but frankly...there needs to be some punishment. We aren't going to fix these issues unless there are real, tangible consequences for some of the abuses being heaped on men.

All those characteristics you define as 'male' are actually role models some embrace and others not. But if anything has been learned in the past few decades, it's the fact that we're all different -- male and female alike. There are uniquely female roles, childbearing being the most obvious, but uniquely male roes are less so, at least today. Women can be brave, as Marina Ovsyannikova proved when she walked out on Russian TV with a sign protesting an intolerant tyrant. On the other hand, many men and women shrink in the face of a challenge they should meet. That's not a gender issue, though the method of meeting the challenge may be. We men were endowed, by our own testosterone, with superior musculature; sometime that still matters. But we shouldn't assume that we are all equally capable. We aren't.

JasonBlack Wrote:Anyway, I'll give an example of what I mean in practice: how domineering and forceful women like a man can vary, but most women like men who are in charge. If you're dealing with a woman with good manners and character, the best approach is to present with a frame of friendly authority (think like a doctor or something). This doesn't have to be aggressive, disrespectful, dismissive of her intelligence, etc. It just sets a tone that causes most women to feel a sense of "I can relax when he's around, because I know he has everything handled, so I'm going to let him take the reigns for the most part". Think less Tyler Durdin, Damon Salvatore or Christian Gray and more Charlton Heston, Liam Neeson or Winston Churchill. The problem with most millennial conservatives is that they don't know how to do this in a way that isn't weird. They turn things into too much of an overt contest, don't have enough of that "less is more" touch of someone who is authoritative rather than simply someone who does authority.

Here we'll have to agree on principle but disagree in practice. We should all respect one another. We don't always act that way. Again, that's not a uniquely male role to fill.