I’d like to clarify a few things regarding the article I wrote yesterday on repealing the 19th Amendment.
First, I meant it mostly satirically, mostly intended to ignite conversation and maybe express a frustration that might not land the same way if offered in a more academic tone.
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Perhaps I could have made the satirical nature clearer, although appending “THIS IS SATIRE” at the top would obviously, ironically, undermine the satirical potency.
At any rate, I apologize to all those who took it literally and whom it offended.
Regarding the allegation that I hate women, I understand I’m not going to ever beat that rap in the eyes of some people, given the things that I’ve written and said that will live forever on the internet.
As a matter of fact, though, I don’t hate women. I love them, both in the abstract and concrete sense. I’m married very happily to the love of my life, a legacy woman, who is carrying my unborn son, whom I will teach to also love women.
Here’s what I do hate: that I and millions of other kids were raised in a culture that taught them from birth, in the media and the educational system and almost literally every institution, that we are inherently evil on account of our sex, but particularly on account of our combination of sex and race.
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Am I laundering my own psychological issues as political commentary? Probably, on some level — guilty as charged. There seems to be a lot of that in the ether.
Although I think he’s funny sometimes, I don’t actually admire Andrew Tate; he strikes me as a performance artist peddling fantastical wares to insecure young men. However, with even a cursory examination of the culture, which has only intensified in its vitriol since the “white man evil” narrative really took off sometime in the '90s, his wild popularity with that demographic should surprise no one.
With all due respect to boomer and even Gen-Xers, while they may sympathize with the mass psychological damage this cultural cancer has inflicted on countless innocent young minds over the last few decades, it’s not clear that they could ever empathize, having grown up in a radically (for the better) different world in which they were not taught to hate themselves for their immutable characteristics. I was, and so was an entire generation of white boys — in public school, in pop culture, and even by liberal members of my own family.
In any case, and this is the final point, it’s worth noting that disenfranchising half of the population currently able to vote — actually, as women vote at higher rates than men, it’s more than half — is wildly unfeasible.
Even if two-thirds of Congress could be convinced to take one for the team and kill their own careers for the cause, the civil unrest that followed would probably destroy whatever is left of the social fabric and plunge the country into a literal civil war.
So even if it were a serious proposal, rest assured, a silly petition on change.org isn’t going to significantly move the needle one way or another.
The gynocracy, by all accounts, remains firmly in control for the foreseeable future.
