Thursday, December 14, 2017

A Day In The Anti-Life - Female Fury!


As the father to two daughters the coming matriarchy does not frighten me. The litany of allegations of sexual harassment which are dominating the headlines in the wake of the Hollywood and now Washington D.C. scandals are the beginning of the end of the control of our society by men. It will take many many years, but I foresee a time when women will at long last take command of a world which has nearly for all the history of time marginalized them. The rise of women as a potent force has been evident for some time, but for whatever reason it has remained a potential rather than a reality. It appears that things are about the start changing. The reason is simple -- the rise of Trump!


Women now see that the exceedingly slow, but mildly steady progress they have witnessed over the last century is on the verge of being stopped by the election and perverse celebration of a man who is a self-confessed sexual abuser. The very real possibility that the command over their own bodies which women gained under Roe Vs. Wade so long ago now stands a not unrealistic possibility of being overturned. The rejection of the loathsome, mysogynistic, and racist Roy Moore says it all, a man who held women in utter disdain points the way forward to a time when women will rule the day.


When women gain command of the levers of power expect men to whine and whine most pitifully. For nearly the whole of modern history the white male has been ascendant. Now that is about to come to an end, as demographic changes and laws and expectations which truly single out equality are becoming increasingly the norm of society. The election of Trump was a last-ditch howl of contempt by white men (and those white women who fail to see the danger to themselves) about keeping a clutch on the power which has been slipping away for decades. Trump has populated his administration with rich white men (almost exclusively) despite a country which is in the aggregate none of those things. The rejection of Moore suggests a dramatic turn of events.


In recent years I have asked my high school classes what they thought might happen if Congress were composed of fifty percent women and fifty percent men, as opposed to the current situation which hovers beneath twenty percent and eighty percent respectively, and I was somewhat dismayed by the reaction of some of them. They actually thought a fifty-fifty split gave women an unfair advantage which makes no sense whatsoever. But upon reflection, I realized that it was a fundamental recognition that women were more competent than men at governance and that allowing women half of the pot was in effect giving them defacto control because of their superiority. The truth is glaring. Women are on the verge of taking charge of matters, and it's high time.

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  1. Great, great post here Rip. It sort of crystallized what’s been roiling around in my own head: that Trump and his narcissistic objectification of woman as evil witches (during & following his election) isn’t going to be tolerated anymore. The whole rise of the internet and the MeToo movement being key in the awakening of this. Trump and his ilk are relics and it’s time for them to go. A world with less phallic, nuclear solutions to living in harmony on this planet is a definite way forward for us all.

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    1. The world as run by men has been a mixed bag for certain. Women could bring some sanity to a society limited by the thrum of testosterone.

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  2. It will also be the end of the white majority and this too will be a good thing for the country. America is supposed to be a melting pot, but we never really have been.

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    1. A son of the South, I was blessed to be raised by parents who were not racist (though their thoughts on the matter was a little antique) unlike many folks in the area I grew up in, and I grew up in the time of the Civil Rights movement.

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  3. I wouldn't disagree with your observations about Trump, Rip, but your analysis is over-simplified. Not quibbling over the matter of equality, but women are no better than men when it comes to politics. Nowadays, too many women imitate all the worst aspects of men. They drink to excess, swear, tell vulgar jokes, are promiscuous, and are far from the paragons of virtue that your post suggests. At the end of the day, gender really has nothing to do with it. People are people, and some of them happen to be men and some happen to be women. The main problem with politics is not that men are in control, but that the WRONG men are in control. Women would soon slap you down if you were to suggest that men are superior, so to say that women are superior is just as mistaken.

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