Sexism is Sexism
The first thing I'd like to touch upon is the treatment of women by neo-masculinists. On many popluar neo-masculinist websites women are treated basically as sex objects, this may set off alarm bells as being a feminist statement. I can assure you I am no more a fan of feminists than any neo-masculinist and I shall quote Nietzsche to make my point:
"Obey, must the woman, and find a depth for her surface. Surface, is woman's soul, a mobile, stormy film on shallow water. Man's soul, however, is deep, its current gusheth in subterranean caverns: woman surmiseth its force, but comprehendeth it not."
To summarize, women are mercurial and men are there to keep them in check, so to speak. This is where the, what I consider to be, blatant hypocrisy in the neo-masculine movement becomes shockingly obvious. We have sites that, on one hand, accuse women of being skanky, easy and entitled. Then, on the same sites, there are articles teaching men how to pick up several women a week.
So: women behaving like harlots is bad, but then, men behaving like tomcats is good.
Women are somehow less for being slutty, entitled bitches, but, men behaving exactly the same way is not only acceptable but encouraged as being more manly!
I see cognitive problems at play here.
We are in this mess because men behaved this way first, then women followed suite under the guise of female empowerment, now we don't like the situation and the solution is to act vociferously in the same manner that created the issue.
This would say to me that the men in the neo-masculine movement are virtually the exact reflection of the neo-feminists they rail against. The situation is analogous to a cat fighting itself in the mirror.
Narcissism can usually only exist in the presence of 'the other' and the narcissist will project the negative qualities suppressed in the unconscious onto the other to maintain the bloated, corpulent ego of the narcissist (which is perfect, always right and superior to the other). This is all hilariously textbook and is akin to the wanton hatred and outright violence perpetrated agaisnt whites for 'being racists' (see Ferguson riots or White History Month).
Thankfully, this understanding of the self can cause a cathartic Hegelian resolution to the situation if the self and the other can just come to the single point of: "obviously we both have legitimate grievances, that together, we will have to take steps to amend". In lieu of such a conclusion, the two sides will remain at the mercy of any entity who can manipulate the perception of either side.
The Haters
In any polarized group there will always be the die hard haters, this is to be expected, what is also to be expected is that they will behave badly regardless of what happens. The likely explanation is that these people will be problematic to others no matter what. Merely allow them to expose their bad behavior and destructive personalities for what they are and their voice in the issue will become moot.For the short attention spanners, here's the issue in cat pictures:
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| Conflict. |
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| Faith that your side is right. |
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| The realization that neither side is right and the conflict has been perpetuated by your combined ignorance and that as such it is likely you have just behaved very badly. |
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| What you probably should have done. |
Stay tuned for Part 2: The Brain, Sex and Man
