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Culture War Roundup for the week of March 20, 2023

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does Feminism actually have any realistic solution to how men should react to female promiscuity?

Feminism's answer or 'solution' to any problem is always the same. Men have to be more and more accommodating, to the point of remaking men if necessary. If women are unhappy, that's because men (i.e. the patriarchy) are making them unhappy! Women feeling like sluts and devalued after years of sleeping around! That's only because the negative spooks the patriarchy is slut shaming you and trying to control your sexuality! Men have to learn to accept women's sexuality (sexuality, of course, means sleeping around)! Women feeling unfulfilled after 20 years climbing the corporate ladder and having no family? That's only because the patriarchy is trying to push you back into oppressive gender roles (at a abstract, psychic level if necessary if not discrimination can be found)! Men need to accept women can be girlbosses! Feminism is just a long list of demanding men accommodated more destructive behaviours from women and give them more.

Really, this is nothing new, this is how women have excerted influence for millennia. Women complains, men accommodates or makes changes. Moral panics. The difference is that feminism is leading women down a endless self-perpetuating death spiral, a train with no brakes. Other moral panics would reach a critical point and dissipate. Here, the dissipation that feminism is pointing at is women, men and society itself.

Really, this is nothing new, this is how women have excerted influence for millennia. Women complains, men accommodates or makes changes.

I really think this is so true, and true in groups, not just in one-on-one interactions with men. Feminists would like us to believe that women have been kept out of any public sphere of influence for all of history, but I do doubt this. For example, in ancient Rome, women took to the streets in 195BC to protest the lex Oppia, which was a wartime austerity measure to restrict the wearing of flashy garments. Spoiler: they were successful, and the measure was repealed.

Feminist history has always latched on to a superficial oppressor-oppressed analysis of gender roles and anthropology, rather than a natural order followed across most cultures and time periods throughout the world. History has become a battleground for the culture war, and current politics incentivises it.

Also Hortensia marched on the forum and successfully stopped a tax on Rome's wealthiest women. Roman women could own their own property and were completely exempt from taxes. I assume that's also an example of the patriarchy somehow.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hortensia_(orator)

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