Time Immortal

Feminism accomplished some decent ends in its early days — I don’t think that can be disputed too easily. It is right (although one needs to use a teleological category to say so) that women and men possess equal rights under the law of the land, that both sexes get to vote and/or run for office, and/or pursue education or employment.

At the same time, feminism certainly got away from itself and, in more recent years, has brought about some rather terrible ends. And I’m not talking here about things like how a woman can easily prevail in a child custody case by making a false allegation of sexual impropriety against her former partner, thus accomplishing two goals at once (securing complete control over the possession of her children, and forever ruining the life and employment prospects of her former husband), although in a way it is related to that.

This blogger, I think, spells out very well what I’m getting at.

…by emasculating men and keeping them as house pets and sperm donors, we have eliminated our first line of protection against danger. This is especially true in Europe, Canada and other gun-hating countries — an unarmed woman cannot defend herself.

Beyond mere feminism is the question of women’s pet politics: multiculturalism, focus on rehabilitation instead of punishment for criminals, the demonization and hatred of the white Christian male… By trying to be “nice” and make the world a softer, more candy-coated place, we have forgotten that human nature is not inherently good, and left ourselves open to attack. Our men, for the most part, are no longer men.

In a little less than two months, Grace and I will be welcoming our first child — a son or daughter; we don’t know which just yet — into the world. I keep thinking about what, as a father, to teach my child, and I keep thinking about how many of the things I’m likely to teach him or her will be contrary to the things he or she will be taught in school and by others. Because I’m going to teach my kid how to finish a fight, decisively and permanently. Strangely, that will probably mean he or she will get hauled to the principal’s office way more than the bullies do.

But what’s the alternative?