Are you one of 5 in 10 Caucasians that suffers from an embarrassing and debilitating genetic
affliction?
Can you not leave the house without hitting or raping a woman?
Unable to resist the urge to belittle, shame and sexually harass your female colleagues
at work?
Did you spend your childhood beating the shit out of your friends at barbeques?
Do you still spend your social gatherings revealing your spectacular abs and whipping
out your member to compare?
Then I am afraid, what you feared is true, you suffer from a horrific disease, “maleness”.
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This is the message that a growing number of gender activists and corporations that
wish to adopt a virtuous facade, most recently Gillette, would have us believe.
But what’s the reality here?
Based on social norms that have been developed over thousands of years, underpinned by biology
and using empirical evidence I seek to rationalise masculinity and answer an important question,
is being masculine bad for society?
A good start would be finding out what is masculinity anyway?
It is entirely distinct from an individual’s biological sex.
Sure masculine traits stem from a person’s biological sex, but if we’re getting technical
then masculinity itself is a social construct that describes a set of traits innately present
in most men.
The same traits, however, can often be found in women, not always, and often to lesser
extremes.
The traits of masculinity can also differ slightly between world cultures, but the core
traits that define a masculine man are universally consistent.
What are those traits?
Stoicism, resilience, strength, courage, independence and assertiveness.
Before judging men for being too assertive, occasionally resorting to violence or too
stoic for not displaying emotion.
It’s important to understand where these traits actually come from.
The traits themselves are not social constructs.
Men don’t become masculine just because we tell them that “crying is for girls”
and “man up”.
Masculinity in men may be enhanced or even enforced in certain cultures by social pressures
but make no mistake, masculine traits originate from our biology, constructed over a period
of 200,000 years.
Long ago nature’s doctrine of survival of the fittest decided the most efficient way
to perpetuate a species through reproduction and ensure its longevity is by dividing each
species into two sexes.
This division is seen across the entire animal kingdom.
What can also be observed in all animal species and humans are the different roles inherent
within each sex.
With the exception of the male pregnancy witnessed in the Syngnathidae family of fish, the young
of all species are incubated by the female sex.
It, therefore, makes sense, logistically, that females evolved to have behavioural and
physiological traits that are conducive to the healthy development and loving nurture
of their young.
Empathy, emotional awareness, patience and tenderness.
Obviously, it was also vital that females never put themselves or their young in a situation
of danger, so evolution naturally put that onus on the other sex, males.
Males developed a greater aptitude for physical strength and the natural courage to hunt to
provide food for their tribe and women.
Men evolved to have aggressiveness, resilience and assertiveness, underpinned by undying
competitiveness so they could compete against rival males and protect their tribe from other
scarier tribes who had larger, pointier sticks.
Sure those traits were essential pre-civilisation, but why can’t we get rid of them today through
the systematic emasculation of men?
Are they not redundant in the 21st century?
Don’t such traits cause nothing but toxicity and evil throughout our societies?
These are the edicts that many social justice warriors seek to mandate on modern men.
Masculinity is a shifting social construct, its nature has mutated over the generations.
Today it is more socially acceptable than ever before in the history of humanity for
a man to show emotion and share his feeling with his friends, for a man to cry, for a
man to choose another man as a sexual partner and marry him.
All these are truly amazing and undeniably positive advances towards a better, more harmonic
world and none of these things degrades a man’s masculinity.
But these are not the traits that authoritarian leftist activists are trying to suppress.
What is under fire is the more assertive, domineering and tough side that is biologically
present in every man, to varying degrees.
Such traits and the actions which can be associated with them are too often referred to as toxic
masculinity.
The issue here is that so-called “toxic behaviour” is not endemic to masculine men
or even men.
Evil and malice are present across all demographic cross-sections of society.
There’s no denying that men commit crime and nobody would claim that either sex is
perfect.
But before shunning masculinity it’s imperative that we understand how dangerous this can
be, for one simple reason.
Masculinity does more good than bad, for everyone, men and women.
And not just a little bit more good.
For every bad deed a man commits in the world I would propose that well over a thousand
good deeds are carried out by other masculine men, every day.
Only a fool would argue that men never do bad.
In 2014 73% of those arrested in the US were male.
But to live in a society where the majority of good men are publically shamed for the
crimes of the minority of bad men is damaging to the mental health and sense of purpose
of men the world over.
Especially when the underlying and natural biological traits of the male species are
being labelled as the cause of all these evils.
It also pulls all the attention away from the many beautiful things that most masculine
men achieve every day, which vastly outnumber the horrendous things a much smaller portion
of masculine men do.
Do not forget that masculinity was born from a natural desire for men to provide for and
protect their family.
When a man takes his daughter to school, gives her a kiss and wishes her a good day, that
is masculinity doing good.
When a man works over ten hours a day to feed, cloth and shelter his family, that is masculinity
doing good.
When a firefighter rescues a child from a burning building, that is masculinity doing
good.
When a policeman arrests a perpetrator of domestic abuse, rape or murder, that is masculinity
doing good.
When a young man shields his sweetheart with his jacket when it rains, that is masculinity
doing good.
When a surgeon saves a person’s life through open heart surgery, that is masculinity doing
good.
When Alexander Fleming invented penicillin, saving millions of lives, that was masculinity
doing good.
When millions of brave men gave their lives to prevent fascism and tyranny from engulfing
our world in 1914 and 1939, that was masculinity doing good.
The truth is, trying to control the tiny minority of bad men by quashing masculinity in all
men is an exercise in futility and idiocy.
Bad men will not stop being bad because they become less masculine, they will only become
more frustrated and frustrated people are more likely to commit injustices than content
people.
The result will be fewer good masculine men to stop the bad men and bad women from being
bad.
Masculinity and femininity are the two pillars that underpin a cohesive, progressive and
productive society that is beneficial to all.
Shorten or remove either one of those pillars and society as we know, the society that we’ve
built over thousands of years and the society that we’ve protected against tyranny and
evil will come crashing down beneath our very feet.
Yet how does modern society thank these everyday incredible men?
They are widely vilified, on social media, in the press, in schools and in popular culture,
and now even in advertisements, the historic bastion of greedy capitalism.
This has resulted in men committing suicide at three times the rate of women.
And these men who help build and improve our society every day face other challenges at
an alarming ratio.
Men are twice as likely to be the victim of a violent assault or robbery.
3.5 times more likely to be murdered.
96% of workplace fatalities happen to men Men are 5.6 times as likely as women to be
incarcerated.
86% of the homeless population is male Boys have been lagging behind girls in educational
achievement since 1991, and the gap is widening every year.
This points to a far more concerning fact, that the increasing shaming of masculinity
in schools is causing a crisis in the development of young men.
Competitive games that are deemed too aggressive such as British bulldog or tag and dodgeball
have been long since banned in many school playgrounds in the West.
A few schools in Britain are even considering banning the sport of rugby, a fundamental
part of masculine development in young boys since 1823.
Whilst these games and sports can on rare occasions cause injuries, they play a vital
role in developing character and a strong, competitive attitude in young boys that will
enable them to, later in life, compete in the workplace and protect their family.
In fact, competitiveness, which is predominantly a masculine trait, has been mostly eradicated
from our schools in the West.
During sports day and other events, everyone is given a participation award, there is no
winner or loser.
I failed miserably at sports, I finished last on sports day and I wasn’t given a trophy
for taking part, I got nothing, and you know what it taught me?
That next time I need to try harder, that I would never amount to anything unless I
put the effort in and practised, not just in sports, but in every aspect of life.
That was one of the most important lessons I have ever learnt.
In the same way, that over-sanitisation during youth leads to a weak immune system, mollycoddling
children is not how strong societies are built, doing so is in reality, a threat to a strong
society for the next generation.
Nowhere is misandry more rife than in Swedish schools.
Several pre-schools and primary schools in Sweden have gone to extensive efforts to remove
the words “boy” and “girl” from the children’s vocabularies, preferring the
gender-neutral pronoun “hen”.
A legal amendment in 1998 legally mandated all schools in Sweden to actively work against
gender stereotypes.
This all sounds very utopian in theory, but in practice, it is nothing short of brainwashing,
that leads to a difficult and confusing progression into teenhood and adulthood for these children.
They are being taught to ignore basic science, go against the natural biological pull of
their own body.
This will only achieve to create a generation of frustrated, passive men.
Without being free to indulge in their masculinity in the playground and at home then these boys
will grow into men who are unable to compete in the workplace and in personal matters,
unable to defend themselves and their family.
If evidence of this brainwashing were needed then look no further than Seafarer’s Preschool
in Sweden.
Where boys and girls as young as one are actually segregated so their natural gender roles can
be systematically indoctrinated out of them.
Boys are made to play with toy kitchens and give each other massages.
Girls are forced to practice shouting “No!”.
A so-called “gender specialist” is employed by the preschool to pick up on and coerce
boys who refuse to partake in feminine activities such as dance.
Boys are encouraged to wear dresses and the teachers celebrated when one particular girl
who used to be “very girlie” according to her mother, was reared by the preschool
to become more boisterous and her parents noted that she had become more “cheeky and
defiant” at home.
Shockingly it was observed that when the children were no longer forced to play with toys typically
favoured by the opposite gender that the boys reverted to playing with cars and the girl's
dolls.
The boys shouted and hit more.
The staff at the preschool says this is not okay.
Well golly, it’s almost as if their biology compels them to adhere to their natural gender
roles and that forcibly preventing them from embracing this is actually child abuse, just
a thought.
An inability to protect his family is not the only issue an emasculated man will face
in adulthood.
What is just as crucial, is a man’s ability to lead and inspire his family, particularly
his children.
When a masculine presence is stripped away from an otherwise nuclear family unit the
consequences can often be disastrous.
There is no rule that children can't thrive in non-nuclear families, different family
setups can absolutely nurture incredible children.
But looking solely at fatherlessness the statistics show a clear trend.
Children who grow up without a father figure are twice as likely to drop out of school,
twice as likely to become obese and four times as likely to succumb to poverty.
They are also more likely to commit crime, go to prison, abuse drugs and alcohol.
Fatherless girls are seven times more likely to fall pregnant as a teen.
After all this rhetoric there’s an important distinction that must be made.
I, myself and I sincerely hope many other men out there have no desire to strip men
of their right to choose how they want to develop through life.
If men want to go against their natural masculinity or even seek to abolish it, then we should
all work to protect their rights to do so and me, I say more power to you.
But it’s so very important that men have that right to choose.
Just like freedom of speech, it’s essential that as a society we work to protect a man
or a woman’s right to live how they want to live, be who they want to be, walk how
they want to, talk how they want to and wear whatever they damn well desire.
But when it comes to a man’s right to fully embrace and assert his masculinity in a positive
way it’s labelled as “sexist male privilege” by the media and the tribal activists on the
internet.
In doing so, a man’s right to choose to embrace masculinity is being eroded more and
more so every year.
That’s why it's vital that when companies such as Gillette seek to tar all men with
the same discriminatory brush and suppress our right to embrace our biology, that we
fight to retain our rights to be whoever the hell we want to be.
Masculinity should be empowered, not shamed and belittled.
Men everywhere must continue to show the world that overall, masculinity is a force for good,
not evil.
Never be ashamed of your masculinity my hairy friends because it built the roads beneath
your feet.