Tell us how you really feel Janice.😄

The reason men have acquiesced to feminist demands is simple - we live because of and for the sake of women and all that they are, including the babies they alone can birth. Starts with Mom, extends to sisters we learn to protect and on to women we love and our daughters we cherish. With each we recognize a softness and frailty or delicacy that is connected to beauty and comfort, an ability to listen and sympathize - such qualities we must learn which are not intrinsic to our bodies or our minds, nothing quite to the degree of a woman (I could go off on the tacit Gnosticism of feminism but not here. At the risk of oversimplifying, I’ll only say that women ARE their bodies. So are men, but in different ways. We know this not as an idea or construct, but as the way things actually are.). If we have these feminine qualities/soft virtues ourselves as men we learned them from women. Men innately want to live to serve all these things because they humanize us as men qua men. Men will die to be near women and what they have to give in this regard. Otherwise, we are lost and might as well be dead. Since we know this about ourselves we also know we must protect women from such lost boys. So ultimately, we do whatever women want. If they tell us men are harming them we believe them, even if doing what they ask of us leads to our own destruction. Our value as men comes to us externally and primarily from how we relate to women.

Feminism is the emotional manipulation of men cast as a high-minded critique. Janice’s essay gets to the heart of the cruelty being meted out. The source is envy. Funny they don’t seem to envy the physical self-sacrifice, only the perceived glory. Willing to sacrifice men’s bodies for their security, not to mention the bodies of their babies if it means some exalted position or personal gratification. The self-congratulating over this is nauseating.

Thank God not all women are like this. Still waiting for the “Young Women’s Guide to Feminist History” by Janice Fiamengo!