House of Eratosthenes

Men are constantly being told that they are providers for women. Even so-called “feminists” who pretend that they are for equality expect men to pick up most of the burden of child support and pay women off in a divorce. They even think women should be paid for their services at home — apparently by men who go to work all day to support their families so the wife can stay home. And now that many men are out of a job, we’re told that they are just getting the punishment they deserve for chasing the money they need to provide for these women and their families. Does anyone see the hypocrisy here?

Here’s the plain truth of it, straight from The Blog That Nobody Reads:

An engine that provides power has some precision to it; it has to be tuned. The ignition has to happen just as the piston is at the right location in the cylinder, for example. If things aren’t exactly as they should be, performance will suffer, and if they’re further out of whack then it will stop running altogether.

And this is how our society runs. Shun men completely, and you reject access to the wonderful things men are counted on to provide; offer men the sense of security that is routinely provided to women and that most women so regularly crave, and you reject that access again. So you threaten to throw them away, to get what you want. Men aren’t quite completely rejected, and they aren’t quite completely accepted either. Our society needs men to be teetering right on the rim of the trash can. That is how we get everything we want or need, by threatening to discard them, but not quite doing it, or at least, not doing it until such time as a superior replacement is immediately available.

Black men, white men, red men, yellow men. But not women and not kids; men. “Do this, or you might not have a job.” “Do this, or you might not have a wife.” “Do this, or you might not be able to see your kids again.” Do this or you’ll lose your house. Your good-standing with the IRS. Your dog. Your 401k. Your car. It is the precision-tuned engine that keeps our world turning. It is how we get everything of value that we want. If you’re a stay-at-home wife, look around the room and look at everything you have; if you work, think of everything your company did for the past year. Eighty percent of it, or more, happened because a man got threatened. That’s the world’s fuel.

Why is that? Because our sons are raised with the idea that when someone tells you your effort wasn’t good enough, and you are about to be defrocked of your status, maybe they’re your friend. Maybe they’re holding you to a “higher standard.” Maybe they “see something in you.” We teach our sons that…we don’t teach that to our daughters. And so, you’re engaged in a duel to the death if you threaten a man’s kids or a woman’s kids. But threaten a man’s status, and he’ll try to figure out a compromise with you; threaten a woman’s status, that’s pretty much the same as threatening her children. Not a winning proposition. So we don’t threaten women to get what we want. We threaten men to get what we want.

There is another plain truth. Disregarding the few lucky gentlemen who fall in love in high school and manage to keep it going over a lifetime — which used to be the norm — adulthood, for men, is a rather comical and dreary in-and-out hokey-pokey. Nice house full of frilly knick knacks I would never have bought if I was still a bachelor…shitty apartment…nice house…shitty apartment. What’s happening is that the man is being accepted and rejected, just as the piston rises and descends in the cylinder, so that the engine can produce power and the world can go. That’s the way it works. You threaten the status men have acquired, to get the things you need or want.

Not a rant, just a statement of fact.

Update: Don’t know exactly what came over us, but we probably owe everyone skimming through this some kind of apology. The notion that eighty percent of the things we have, we acquired by threatening men…it is politically incorrect to the point of offending the sensibilities of any civilized creature there ever was. Naturally, an apology is immediately forthcoming. We’re big enough to admit when we were wrong.

We will NOT be standing behind the idea that eighty percent of our staple items are provisioned by threatening men.

It is, as we wrote over at Dr. Helen’s site, as we groveled in our mea culpa…more like something in the low nineties. We regret the error.

Carry on.

From Daniel Duane: “I’ve never heard a Feminist complain that HER HUSBAND was paid more than she was.”
- rob | 02/15/2009 @ 13:41

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