Welcome to "The Patriarchy and the Manosphere"

A Forum for the Protection of Women's Rights and Fairness for Men

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A full moon over still water has long been an image of enlightenment. The moon and the sea have long been primary universal symbols of feminine energy. The sky, at least in Western culture, is an emblem of masculine energy, carrying, as it does, the clouds that will crackle and shine with the enlivening bolts of the gods. In some mystery schools, the synergy of feminine and masculine energy is referred to as a votex that releases immense power. But there’s a hitch, summed up most elegantly and succinctly in this one statement:

Where love reigns, there is no will to power. — C. G. Jung

Meaning: You can’t get there if you’re trying to oppress somebody else.

We’ll get back to that in a minute. [s]

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What We’re About

This forum will explore spectacular rise in misogyny and the abuse of women over the last 25 years—particularly since 9/11, when men’s rights groups took a sharp militant turn, when you men became isolated and addicted to screens, and when, paradoxically, women became simultaneously more attached to the attentions of men and more independent of them.

What has resulted is a very toxic Manosphere—The Patriarchy on steroids that is now completely espoused by the Trump administration and which, not incidentally, formed more than 60% of the groups responsible for the January 6th Insurrection— that threatens women with a total loss of all freedoms and a expulsion from the public sphere—and simultaneously abandons men to the screed of misogynists who blame their every problem on women and simultaneously to the massive problems men face: men have a suicide rate far higher than that of women, become separated from their children in divorce, suffer more than women when families are separated, and are flailing in a social environment that is increasingly screen-oriented and lacks human contact, making engagement with women harder or nonexistent.

Many men also nurse a serious rage at women that they don’t have the authority over them they once did, and they have to compete with them for jobs. Some of them are enraged that they have to share the public and work spheres with them at all. Women sit in the board room with them; they go to medical school with them; they go into space with them. And the worst thing they do is that they can live without them.

The Manosphere is full of men called Chads who will tell you that women really, really, really do need men. Well, they really don’t. The healthiest, happiest, and longest-lived subgroup on this planet right now is women who have never been married and never had children.

The Manosphere is also full of men telling women they should NOT go to college, should marry young, and should Trad-wife it to the very doors of death because GOD SAID SO. Well, we’re going to get to that because there’s a lot of history here—300,000 years of egalitarianism (not matriarchy), followed by a deliberate attempt to control women and profit from their sexuality, a huge male power-grab, and a few other naughty things we need to discuss. And much of it was adopted by religions and then set in stone as religious law. All religions are bent to the will of patriarchy—and arguably, The Patriarchy is the world’s largest, most powerful, and most vicious religion (I give you the Inquisition, for example).

The upshot of the last 5,000-6,000 years of The Patriarchy is that it has warped and twisted the lives of both men and women. Women are now under siege everywhere in the world, a backlash from the male supremacist attitude that it’s entitled to rule over, control, disenfranchise, use, and exploit women.

Men are under siege from the loss of privilege that is experienced as the loss of what they are entitled to—a function of how we learn as infants—leaving them confused, enraged, and in a mood to fight back women’s gains and return them to a state in which their lives are controlled cradle to grave and in which they will do roughly $130,000 of unpaid domestic service and child rearing labor a year—not to mention labor and delivery in the first place.

Assaults on abortion rights and conception—which Clarence Thomas wants to make illegal even for married couples—are the surest way to remove women from the public sphere and return control of the world to men.

With the election of Trump to a second term, toxic misogyny has become instantly melded to white supremacy, targeting not just women but also all peoples of color and all people of non-binary sexual orientation. Expect assaults on all gay rights and an attempt to nullify gay marriage.

Also expect an assault on the OPTICS of worth, removing the images of people of color and women: this has already happened in the U.S. Air Force where films of the Tuskegee Airman and women pilots have been removed from USAF training materials—and we are just five days into this administration. Once men’s faces are the only ones you see, as is the case in Afghanistan with the Taliban, people who aren’t male and aren’t white will start to erase themselves, because that’s how this is done.

It is for the exploration of these issues—and the dissemination of information that will help us all—men and women of every color and sexual orientation—face and resolve these issues together that this Substack is created.