Paglia would hate me. I consider patriarchy rocks, and feminism a delusion that puts people at risk. However, she is prepared to personally take that risk: she knows that if she walks in the rough part of town she places herself at risk. She survived the 1960s: many did not.

We took all kinds of risks – I certainly did, with some scary escapes in dark side streets of Paris and Vienna. We wanted the same freedoms as men, and we took charge of our own destinies. We viewed life as a continual experiment, an urgent pressing into the unknown. If we got knocked down, we got up again, nursed our bruises and learned from our mistakes. Today, in contrast, too many young feminists want their safety, security and happiness guaranteed in advance by all-seeing, all-enveloping bureaucracies. It’s a sad, limited and childish view of life that I find as claustrophobic as a hospital ward.

Paglia is now shunned by the left, for she treats women as adults. And for an adult, there is always accountability and risk. There is no safe space. So far, so good: indeed she almost reaches for the red pill when she accepts that there is a semi rational and instinctual part to our courting: that Dionysus is not merely the God of love and desire by anarchical dissolution into psychosis.

I would say that a wise society does not give Dionysus space. That our instincts should be kept within ritual and structure. That our feast should be followed by fast, and the marital bed kept sacred.

For not all people will cheerfully put their bodies and souls at risk, as Paglia does. Or Roosh, for that matter.

However, she then loses it when it comes to work. This is a longer quote from the same interview. The fundamental error is “Women must find a a way to develop their full potential in the professional world…” For in a more structured society there is a division into the breadwinner and the home maker, and both are honoured. The Satanic fetishization of Abortion is a symptom of a fundamental evil: these women want to be as God, without limits.

A man needs to know his limitations. But the irony, is that in proclaiming freedom, modern feminism has removed choices for many women, who are forced to work.

Women must find a way to develop their full potential in the professional world without also disrupting and draining their private lives. The corporate business model invented in northern Europe after the Industrial Revolution is hyper-efficient but also vampiric. Too many people, both men and women, have foolishly conflated their personal identities with their jobs. It’s a bourgeois trap and a distortion of the ultimate meaning of life.

The childless Gloria Steinem, who was unmarried until she was 66, has never been sympathetic to the problems faced by women who want both children and a job. Stay-at-home moms have been arrogantly disdained by orthodox feminism. This is a primary reason for the lack of respect that a majority of mainstream citizens has for feminism, which is addicted to juvenile male-bashing and has elevated abortion to sacramental status. While I firmly support unrestricted reproductive rights (on the grounds that nature gives every individual total control over his or her body), I think that the near-hysterical obsession with abortion has damaged feminism by making it seem morally obtuse.

I want universities to create more flexible, extended-study options for young women who choose to have earlier (and thus safer) pregnancies, and I want more public and private resources devoted to childcare facilities for working parents of every social class. Finally, I call for the investigation and reform of the current systemic exploitation of working-class women (many of them black or Latina immigrants) who have become the invisible new servant class for affluent white women leaving childcare to others as they pursue their feminist professional dreams.

I would argue that we need to reverse the life course for women: encourage them to meet and marry during what now are the college years, then raise their children and look after their families with all honour and support (We have flexible study, but we need much more early childhood nurses and mothercraft support for women during the time they are looking after infants). Women can then, in a more deliberate way, do advanced training part time later in life.

However, Paglia, with her reversion to classic state intervention, is falling into the same situation as many if not all leftists. They will fail. As more intelligent women noted: Gorgo wrote this in 2001. [1]

Feminists never being great fans of history, economics, or even common sense, they fail to notice the greater cycles that will influence whether their dreams of toppling the patriarchy will ever be truly realized. They are welcome to their opinions, but ignore the facts at their own peril. The numbers simply aren’t on their side.

While they berate conservative state governments where most of the Germanic kids are being born, strangely enough) for their failure to get free daycare for everyone, they fail to notice that the kindergarten system is already struggling with a severe labor shortage, as their workers have simply never been born, are being cannibalized by those same daycares, have retired, or have even taken time off to raise their own children. (What? You thought all daycare workers send their own progeny to daycares? The joke is on you.)

In a twist of classic Germanic irony, the same feminists who demonized mothering all of these years are wondering “Where are the young women who want to raise babies?” Where indeed. When a third of German women of childbearing age can’t even be bothered to bear their own children, where do you think you will find women who want to spend all day around those of other people? How about Germans start importing foreigners to care for the children? That’s worked well in all other professions. We could even finish outsourcing reproduction to them, and finally be done with it.

In the end, feminists around the world are always economic vultures, who begin to circle just as the economy sighs its last breath and the bubble pops. If you see them coming, or even gathering strength, be assured that the end is nigh. The “end of men” is the end of everyone.

Just as Fraulein Schwarzer was ridiculed in the 1980s, as German men struggled with austerity, in five years time Frau Schroeder will be considered prophetic and her many detractors will be mocked as the self-serving idiots that they are. This is already the case in the youngest generation, where men’s struggle to find work and become suitable marriage partners has not gone unnoticed.

Anti-feminists will have the last, tragic laugh, as few things are as revolting as the sight of scavengers feeding on the carcass of your homeland.

That was 2012. In 2015 the Syrians sent a million young men to Scavenge Germany. Gorgo may not have been a prophetess, but she saw errors as well as her namesake.
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1. Gorgo was the wife of Leonidas. She is mentioned as a child in Herodotus.

Cleomenes agreed to listen, but pointedly refused to send his daughter away. Aristagoras then proceeded to attempt to bribe Cleomenes until “the little girl suddenly exclaimed: ‘Father, you had better send this man away, or the stranger will corrupt you.'” (Herodotus, V:51)

Guess what male bloggers are going to be called…