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Women
- Weak and Pathetic? I was
incensed very many years ago to find that my mother had been forced to give up a good
teaching job when she married my father, in the 1930's. She was a woman who
clearly needed something beyond the family to give her some interest in life. (She
wasn't typical, for those days.) And she clearly suffered later by not fulfilling her potential in this respect.
It annoyed me that she had been discriminated
against purely and wholly on the basis of
her gender, and particularly so given that she was well-known to be very good at
her job as a teacher. It seemed extremely unfair. My
father explained the reasons in this way. Within
communities in those days, there was a great deal of unemployment. Indeed, there
was not much in the way of 'industry'. Families were
seen as economic units with responsibility for looking after themselves, and it
simply wasn't tenable for one family to have two wage earners in the house while
the next door neighbours had none! Such a thing would have been a recipe for social envy,
disaster and violence - and, of course, in those days, there was no particularly
effective welfare system to balance the imbalances. Neither
was there much of a police force; which meant that social unrest or disharmony
would very quickly lead to real problems. For example, the poorer would have been able to rob
those who were seemingly wealthier with impunity.
And why not? - if their families had no wage earners and very little food, while the
CHILDLESS couple NEXT DOOR had TWO wage earners, food and even luxuries?! So,
the convention was that, upon marriage, either the husband or the wife had to stop work.
Since the wife was very likely to have children (and, in this case, she did - me
and my sister!) custom and convention dictated that she was the one who should
stop working.
The overwhelming majority of women did not see this as discrimination. They saw
themselves as
being lucky enough to have a system which allowed just about each of them to collar a man prepared to go out and earn a living
in order to support
her and her children. Further,
prepared to or not, like it or not, the man was EXPECTED to do this, by the
monumental social pressures that societies typically exert through tradition and
custom - and, in many cases, through the law. Indeed, as an example, in the
USA, it was around this time that a young Frank Sinatra was indicted for failing
in his promise to marry a young woman whom he had, allegedly, 'seduced'. He was
only saved from prison when she withdrew her complaint. Given that most women had
MANY children fairly vicariously in those days, and would end up spending many years looking after
them, it was also silly to invest a country's, or a family's, very
limited wealth in the education of women - because they were the very ones
most likely NOT to take any value from it! Further,
it was clearly best for
everyone that
females, when children, spent much of their time being trained for motherhood rather than being prepared
for something that was very unlikely to happen - like a having a full-time 'career',
or a job, of
whatever sort. Also, looking after children in those days was somewhat more time consuming,
more complex an affair, and far more laborious than it is today. There were no
microwave ovens, washing machines, fridges, vacuum cleaners, telephones,
televisions, automatic heating systems, cars, etc.. And there was little in the
way of modern materials, medicines and chemicals that we now rely on so heavily.
Cooking, cleaning, clothing and child-rearing were, therefore, major domestic industries in
themselves, and
preparing young girls for dealing successfully with all of these things was crucial for their
well-being and their survival in the rat race. Moreover,
and MOST IMPORTANTLY, societies that did not do this were not going to succeed in
the face of competition from those that did! In terms of cultural 'evolution',
therefore, societies whose women did not care properly for the children, while
the men laboured on their behalf, never
made it! Indeed, such societies would have disappeared very quickly - as more
effective ones took over the land. And
you can see this sort of thing happening today! For
example, there are now many pockets in Britain today where women are, indeed, failing to
bring up their children properly, and where the fathers are - thanks to feminism
- 'not required'. And, as
a result, across the entire country, there are vast areas where young delinquents terrify the inhabitants and where
criminality is the norm. And the activities of these young anti-social
individuals spill out to affect the rest of British society. These
pockets of deprivation, which they have now become, all have something in common. They are places where a significant
proportion of the fathers are absent or ineffective. And it doesn't take more
than a handful of their dysfunctional offspring to terrorise and ruin entire
neighbourhoods. Yet
they survive - but only because the rest of the country keeps injecting millions
of pounds into them and because it is prepared to provide them with so many
supportive services - police, health, education etc. Without this support, they
would fail. Indeed, they would destroy themselves. And
this is exactly what would have happened in the past. In
fact, even now in the UK, areas have literally had to close down, so bad
and uninhabitable had they become. The
best road to success in the past was for women to bring
up the children - and to be trained to do so properly - while the men spent much
of their time developing the environment and tapping its resources, giving just
some of their time for helping out with the rearing of their own children - particularly the boys. And
it wasn't only men who enforced these 'decisions' and norms, it was WOMEN! And I saw this with my own eyes
during my own early life. Indeed, if the men had been given their way, many would have been
more than happy to have their daughters and wives working out there - for money
- in order to help to pay the
bills. But, I repeat, it would have been a recipe for social disaster for one
family to have both parents earning while their neighbours had no income at
all. Given that women were biologically
chosen by nature to be the ones to bear children and nurture them, it is hardly
surprising that, throughout all of History, in all other areas, they have been
'held back'. They have simply had other things to do. And
for feminists to keep blaming men for what Nature gave to women is pointless,
hysterical and malicious. Indeed, if anything, the men of the past should be
recognised for having devoted most of their
waking hours to working (or, rather, slaving) in order to support
their loved ones. While
misandric feminists like to portray men as having oppressed women by 'keeping
them at home with the children', it is clear that both genders benefited hugely
from the deal. The WHOLE of society did. Further, what this deceitful and
gullible group of women describes as 'oppression', was, in reality, men trooping
out, day in, day out, to work, sometimes in the most awful jobs imaginable, in
order for their families to survive as best as they could. And if you younger
folk in any way imagine that the jobs of men, 100, 200, or even 50 years ago,
were, in any way, comparable to the jobs of today, you are poorly educated
indeed! They were awful - and, at the very best, utterly tedious. And the hours
were long with very little in the way of good transport to convey them to work
and back, and with certainly not much in the way of rights and pay. Do
feminists really believe that women would actually have preferred to do these
jobs rather than stay at home with their children in the comfort of their
surrounding friendly neighbourhoods? Here's
an extract from David Thomas' book Not Guilty ... The
desire to free oneself from work was common to all classes and both sexes. Dr
Joanna Bourke of Birkbeck College, London, has studied the diaries of 5,000
women who lived between 1860 and 1930. During that period, the proportion of
women in paid employment dropped from 75 per cent to 10 per cent. This was
regarded as a huge step forward for womankind, an opinion shared by the women
whose writings Dr Bourke researched. Freed from mills and factories, they
created a new power base for themselves at home. This was, claims Dr Bourke,
"a deliberate choice. . . and a choice that gave great pleasure." In
other words, during that period, women did not like the jobs that were
available, and so they opted out of them. The men had to do them instead! The belief that women have been oppressed throughout History is only true
to the extent that EVERYONE was oppressed by somebody else. For example, for
every miner who 'oppressed' his wife at home, there was another man, an employer
or manager, who oppressed 100 miners in the pits. And the idea that women
were the only oppressed 'victims' in all of this is ridiculous, and completely
beyond belief. One
only has to look at the selfless way that men sacrificed their lives on the
Titanic, where 'women and children first' was the order for escape and safety,
to appreciate just how valuable the female gender was regarded by men in the
recent past. This was the reality then, no matter what feminists will tell you about the
'oppression' and the 'low status' of women in those days. Indeed,
if women had been truly oppressed and seen to be of low status, then they would have
been oppressed right back into their cabins while the men escaped into the lifeboats! The idea that women,
particularly western women, have not had power throughout recent History
is, of course, a feminist-inspired falsehood, and it was created mostly by
emotionally-deficient women to provide further fuel for their personal campaigns
of hatred against men. Indeed,
it is almost impossible to envisage a successful society - a strong one - in which women
do not
have considerable power. The fact that,
in the past, the women brought up the children, and, hence,
the very next generation, gave them
untold powers. Not only did they influence the values, beliefs and behaviours of
the next generation, they also benefited hugely from the fact that their children, both
sons and daughters, bonded very tightly to them, emotionally speaking. This was a tremendous 'investment' for
their own futures which benefited them throughout their entire lives, well into
old age and death - not only financially and emotionally, but in almost every
possible way. This empowered them hugely. And the further fact that the fathers
were so much engaged elsewhere,
away from their families, gave the mothers at home even greater relative influence, power
and advantage over the future generation. In
fact, the men were often reduced to little more than slaves
and wallets when it came to 'the family'. Thus,
when it comes to shaping the generations that follow, there can be no question of which
gender has, and has always had, real power. If
women of the past were particularly oppressed in any way, then it was with the
full complicity of the women themselves. Indeed,
there surely has never been a successful society in which women, as a whole, were
treated badly. Further, if any
group had come up with
something better than 'marriage' then it, whatever it was, would have been
dominating our formal social arrangements by now.
Instead, the reality is that ALL other systems governing the relationships
between males and females, particularly in connection with their reproductive
roles - and there must have been some other systems that were tried out -
have clearly failed abysmally. They
never got very far. Not
one of them turned into a strong successful society. Not
one! Another example
that is often cited as evidence for the oppression of women was the common 'inheritance' procedures, whereby the oldest son
inherited the property - the land, the money, the title and the status. But
was this really oppression, given the circumstances and limitations of the recent past
and beyond? For
example, what does one do when there is no enforceable, observable, common,
sufficiently complex legal system to deal with matters of property - or title,
such as 'King'? Well, the best route is surely the simplest one. You hand the
property down to
just one member of the family - the oldest one. You don't even have to choose,
and so stir up hostility in the unchosen.
No piece of paper is even needed to prove the deal (not that most ordinary
people could have read it even if there was one). And there are no arguments
over this and that. The first-born male is the solution throughout. Further, by keeping all the
wealth in the hands of just one person, this ensures that the family's power base
is not divided
into smaller units which eventually dissipate into relative
insignificance. You only have to
look at the situation in Afghanistan to see what happens when there is no
definable, undisputable 'heir to the throne'. Different warloads rise up,
all claiming their own legitimacy, and the country is torn apart by
warring factions struggling for power. And the women are completely
disempowered in the process! Buy
why did the male rather than the female always have precedence? The
answer is that the female is weak and pathetic
in comparison to the male - and this was especially so in more primitive times and
places where muscles were almost as important as brains.
She also has the children to bear and to look after.
Further, females will have spent much of their youth preparing for motherhood and all
its ramifications. In other words, females had enough on their plates. And
what hope would there have been for any social groupings that gave the most
power to those members least capable of using it effectively? Well,
they would have been rapidly outgunned by those that didn't do this. And so they
would have quickly disappeared. And
so it is that, on balance, both the men and the women benefited from the
custom that gave the male control of the family's wealth and power. Indeed,
even today, those
groups that are still very much attached to 'the family' (such as found in many UK Asian
communities) and the traditional roles contained
therein, are doing exceedingly well in comparison
to those where the 'family' is more loosely structured and where the men have,
effectively, been disempowered. These latter groups (e.g. as found in many
council estates) are failures, and they would disintegrate completely were it
not for the fact that they are kept alive by tax burdens placed upon the rest of us.
In conclusion, it seems that if in any social
groups from the past had handed more power to their women and less to their men,
they would, quite simply, have rapidly disappeared.
And, indeed, this is exactly what seems to be
happening now.
Feminist-dominated societies and cultures will
soon be washed away and completely over-run by those wherein
women prefer to stay at home and have children.
Very simple mathematics will demonstrate
this.
And given that white western women currently make up
only some
5% of the Earth's population then, in 100 years time, they will barely exist at
all.
Feminism is an ideology that
promotes self-extinction.
It is a cultural and racial suicide pill.
It has no hope of succeeding.
It has no hope of surviving.
And it is going to cause huge problems to
western societies as they slowly continue to decay and decline under its
malign and destructive influences.
Also see Did Women Really Want To Go Out To Work?)
1/3/02
Here are some women from 150 years ago explaining the problems
that women face. The major problem seems to be that they are bored!
Herein I
refer, as this chapter must be understood especially to refer, not to those whom
ill or good fortune has forced to earn their bread; but "to young
ladies," who have never been brought up to do anything. Tom, Dick, and
Harry, their brothers, has each had it knocked into him from school-days that he
is to do something, to be somebody. Counting-house, shop, or college, afford him
a clear future on which to concentrate all his energies and aims. He has got the
grand pabulum of the human soul--occupation. If any inherent want in his
character, any unlucky combination of circumstances, nullifies this, what a poor
creature the man becomes!--what a dawdling, moping, sitting-over-the-fire,
thumb-twiddling, lazy, ill-tempered animal! And why? "Oh, poor fellow! 'tis
because he has got nothing to do!" Yet this is precisely the condition of
women for a third, a half, often the whole of their existence. Dinah Maria
Mulock Craik - in 1858
So, the 'oppression of women' turns out to be that they had nothing to
do.
I could do with some of that kind of oppression!
The link takes you to a whole book. It's not the easiest of reads, but worthwhile
browsing through. Notice how the FEMALE author clearly, and throughout, acknowledges
her belief that - in those times - it was the WOMEN who MOSTLY determined how
matters for WOMEN should be.
Here is another quote ...
"And looking around upon the middle classes, which form the staple stock of
the community, it appears to me that the CHIEF canker at the root of women's
lives is the want of something to do."
Reasons for and
against the Enfranchisement of Women Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon
- a woman - writing in 1869 - 15
min - beautifully written - MUST READ, especially for UK readers.
Her
-> -> -> M-O-T-H-E-R <- <- <- would
not allow her to study medicine, so she decided to study mathematics at Girton
College ... and other 'oppressed' women of the
past
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