Friday, October 12, 2018

The Evolution of Third Wave Feminism and the Role of Disgust in Man-Hating

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The following is an adaption from my upcoming book tentatively titled, "Me Neither: The Nobility of Man Amidst the Feminist Mass Hysteria."

In the late 20th and early 21st centuries, the people of North America and Europe found themselves in the grip of mass hysteria. A political special-interest group—“Third Wave Feminists”—evolved and promulgated this hysteria and their movement “Third Wave Feminism,” and now just “Feminism,” dominates our media and politics (the result of a conspiracy between the mainstream media and the Clinton political machine). Today's Feminism or women’s movement has little or no philosophical commonality with the Suffrage movement or the Women’s Liberation movement, though it does have a great deal in common with the Temperance movement to ban alcohol in the United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. 

Third Wave Feminism emerged from lesbian political activism during the counterculture movement of the 1960s, gained a severe foothold in 1973 with the publication of the book, “Lesbian Nation: The Feminist Solution,” by radical lesbian and feminist, Jill Johnston, consisting of a collection of truly bizarre, vicious, and emotionally distraught essays that Johnston published in the late ’60s and early ’70s in the New York City progressive newspaper, The Village Voice. But it was the advent of widespread heterosexual pornography that galvanized the lesbian movement and launched “Anti-Pornography Feminism,” and that morphed into the profoundly strident man-hating philosophy of today’s Third Wave Feminism. Several grassroots organizations—Women Against Violence Against Women (Los Angeles);  Women Against Violence in Pornography and Media (San Francisco); and Women Against Pornography (New York)—popped up to vehemently oppose heterosexual pornography (male homosexual pornography did not seem to trouble them) in the late 1970s and early 1980s, though the movement was well entrenched by that time and the founders of these groups were almost exclusively comprised of women who defined themselves—in their speaking and writing—as “confirmed” lesbians.  

“The conflicts began on the West Coast, pitting a community of Bay Area lesbian sadomasochists against members of the newly emerging feminist anti-pornography movement.  These women disagreed as to whether sexual behavior that seemed to involve violence could be practiced or depicted in ways that did not foster oppression.  Their debates over potential social harm were so hotly contested that the National Organization for Women (NOW) stepped into the fray.  Siding with anti-pornography feminists, the organization declared in 1980 that sadomasochism and pornography constituted violence, not sex, and were inherently dangerous.” – Carolyn Bronstein, author of “Battling Pornography.” DePaul University Press, June 2011

Of course, political lesbianism existed long before the Village Voice essays. Simone de Beauvoir, A French Feminist and, like her life-long lover, Paul Sartre, a deeply flawed Existentialist philosopher, published “Le Deuxième Sexe”—"The Second Sex”— in 1949. I say “flawed” because both Sartre and de Beauvoir’s philosophical position on the freedom of man was just that—profoundly flawed; almost childlike. de Beauvoir and Sartre were both childless, self-indulgent, and self-destructive individuals who left the burdens of children, family, and the future of mankind to others, seemingly unable to grasp the responsibility inherent in liberty. Without the maturation process that comes of parenting children, their post-modernist, collectivist, and Marxist philosophies—philosophies that led to the slaughter of millions of human beings by Communist regimes around the world—remained dangerously callow and unfledged, which they camouflaged in a dense and turbid writing style that, in Sartre’s case, successfully fooled the Nobel committee. And with that, it is appropriate that I bring up the human emotion of disgust.

The role of disgust in lesbian sexuality and politics

The emotion of “disgust” plays a vital role in keeping us safe. Disgust elicitors such as spoiled meat, feces, bugs, snakes, corpses, et al. produce a forceful disgust and fear response in well-adjusted people (but which prevents "Feminist" procreation), and this response keeps us healthy and alive and able to pass our genes onto the next generation (Radical Feminists do not have a significant "next generation").

“Disgust is a sensation rather more distinct in its nature and refers to something revolting, primarily in relation to the sense of taste, as actually perceived or vividly imagined; and secondarily to anything which causes a similar feeling, through the sense of smell, touch, and even of eyesight.” Charles Darwin, “The Expression of Emotion in Man and Animals.” Emphasis added. 

The Feminist mass hysteria is a gross misstatement and miscategorization—or perhaps self-serving aggrandizement to cover for a sense of self-loathing might be a better description—of the phenomenon of sexual deviation. In short, Third Wave Feminists are deviants—this is not a moral judgment on their sexuality—in that the adherents of this belief system generally suffer from heterosexual dysphoria. Their belief system (and other mental challenges) stems from the deviant emotional response of “disgust” they experience in response to men and maleness—half of all of humanity—and their self-inflicted exposure to heterosexual video pornography.

While we can argue over whether pornography is “deviant” or not, there is little evidence that pornography interferes with human procreation—and procreation is a non-negotiable element for society and mankind. An existential rejection of reproduction is deviancy. Someone has to have children, or there is no reason to engage in political or philosophical debate because humanity would have no future. It then follows that the people who reject the human nature of heterosexuality—with all of its quirks as they might be perceived—are pathological and antisocial. And for reasons that defy explanation, some people experience a neurosis that manifests itself as a disgust response to (perfectly normal and healthy) stimuli in their environment that interferes with their ability to engage in heterosexual activity and achieve reproductive success. In short, they die childless.

I assert that human females suffering from heterosexual dysphoria experience an ongoing disgust response to human males in general and the nature of male heterosexuality in particular. But where would such women come into contact with the male heterosexuality that would elicit a disgust response? From pop culture media in general and by watching heterosexual pornography in particular. Why would an individual seek out and observe behavior they find offensive and disgusting? And why would groups of these individuals coalesce as voyeurs watching behavior that they collectively find offensive and disgusting? Well, the short answer is that they are sociopaths, a condition in which a human being experiences an enhanced ability to feel hate, fear, and loathing, and a diminished capacity to feel empathy. How millions of individuals arrived at that unhappy place is impossible to know, and that knowledge is not crucial to make the observations I am describing here. Women, in general, seem to have a lower tolerance threshold for disgust elicitors than men, and it appears to me that the demographic of women suffering from heterosexual dysphoria have a disgust threshold so low that they cannot socialize effectively with men and suffer terrible rates of reproductive failure as a result. Worse, this demographic seems intent on spreading their reproductive failure to others in the form of their support for abortion. 

From Science Daily, taken from a study dated June 24, 2015, from the University of Portsmouth; Science Daily Note: Content may be edited for style and length.

Dr. Diana Fleischman, of the University of Portsmouth's Department of Psychology, carried out the research when she was working at a North American university. She found that the more disgusted a woman was, the less sexually aroused she was likely to be. 
Disgust is thought to be a protective emotion because it encourages humans to shun anything which could transmit disease, such as another person's blood or body fluids.
Dr. Fleischman, an evolutionary psychologist, said: "Sex includes increased contact with body odours [sic] and fluids which, in other contexts, strongly suggest disease and would elicit disgust. Women are more vulnerable to contracting diseases through sex than men and show worse outcomes once infected so we should expect that women will be especially turned off when they are disgusted. 
"It makes sense that sexual arousal and disgust would affect one another. Sexual arousal motivates us toward closeness with others and their bodies while disgust motivates us away. Given these competing motivations, every one of our ancestors had to overcome disgust in order to have sexual contact and reproduce.”  

It then follows—if we take the mirror image of the above assertion—that it is the male’s ability to overcome most disgust elicitors and achieve a serviceable erection and orgasm that allowed mankind to survive war, famine, blights, and pestilence of biblical proportion—or would Feminists have preferred that the European population extinguished itself during the Black Plague? In the midst of death and disease, Life—via the male’s existential interest in heterosexual activity—went on.

Third Wave Feminists took on print pornography, and that medium became the rallying point for “women suffering from heterosexual dysphoria” (“WHD”). The men’s magazines “Playboy,” “Penthouse,” and especially “Hustler,” were targeted, though these now seem quaint and tame by today’s standards. The motivated WHD associated with these anti-pornography Feminist groups powerfully agitated for censoring the images of naked women in these publications under the rubric of “exploitation.” The “sexual violence” moniker was rendered retroactively with help from NOW’s unilateral pronunciation. But in the final analysis, it was the advent of popular and widespread film and later video heterosexual pornography that energized and motivated Third Wave Feminism to attempt to bring down Western culture. For radical lesbian feminists, all heterosexual activity is rape.

Of course, neurotic disgust is not unique to women. I think that a disgust response that prevents a human being from reproducing is self-destructive irrespective of gender. And self-destruction is a reasonable marker of mental illness. Of course, if you adhere to a belief system that asserts that the rejection of reproduction is a virtue, or that reproduction is somehow evil or selfish, or that people who have children are harming the planet, well, then perhaps you would argue that a disgust response that prevents you from projecting your DNA and your family line into the future is not indicative of mental illness but virtue. You might even assert that your disgust response is part and parcel of an enlightened worldview and the superior nature of your moral code when compared to people who have produced children. But it has been my consistent observation that the parents of these childless neurotics invariably see things very differently. It has further been my consistent observation that these childless neurotics have attenuated relationships with their parents, most of whom wished for the Life-milestone of grandchildren and were denied this by their disturbed offspring.

Here I must digress and distinguish between the chiefly lesbian, authoritarian, and man-hating Third Wave Feminists spawned by the anti-pornography groups et al. and the primarily heterosexual sex-positive “Second Wave Feminism” that evolved out of the “Women’s Liberation Movement.” Women like Naomi Wolf, author of “The Beauty Myth,” and Germaine Greer, author of “The Female Eunuch.” And while I have seen other Feminists place these women in the Third Wave Feminism camp, I reject that. Third Wave Feminism evolved out of the “Second Sex”/“Lesbian Nation”/anti-pornography movement of radical lesbians suffering from an existential disgust response to men. Wolf and Greer and many other women in the sex-positive and anti-censorship camp are not, to my mind, part and parcel of the current Feminist hysteria. Wolf, unlike all of the other women mentioned, is a mother who gave birth to two children the old-fashioned way. I must quickly add that the excesses of this philosophy were extremely damaging to society in general and men and children in particular, but the antisocial elements of this brand of “Feminism” just cannot hold a candle to the abject evil of Third Wave Feminism and has faded into relative obscurity. 





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