manshortage

I hear lots of whining from American women these days about the supposed "man shortage" -- the unavailability of "suitable" males with whom to have "relationships."

But it is American females who have themselves created such a "shortage."

Thirty-five years ago, when I looked at the state of American Genderwar, I thought that men just Didn�t Get It. I scolded them for their linear, rationalistic rigidity, for their sheep-like conformity, and for their too-frequent mistreatment of their wives, girlfriends, and subordinates in the workplace.

Twenty years ago, I thought that at last men were Getting It. They still had some ground to cover, but it was clear that strong-hearted men had made enormous progress in re-inventing themselves and masculinity. At about the same time, I began to have concerns about increasingly supremacist attitudes amongst Western women.

How speedily the floppie flips in these enatiodromic days, when seeming is not, good is evil, and shit is sold as soap.

By the early Nineties, I knew the worm had turned and started digging for China. In a couple horrendous decades, men had largely Gotten It � at great personal and collective price -- and a huge chunk of the American masculine had reformed itself radically, raising its consciousness on various fronts. This involved much sacrifice and courage on the part of the masculine, for manhood is ever defined according to the moment�s cultural need.

Nineteen-sixties America marks the first instance in recorded history in which men attempted to define masculinity according to their own natures and needs, instead of allowing females, kings, �nobles,� or States to fashion of us what they would � fodder if there was war, laborers if not, �fathers� that have no power, lovers sold �love.�

That nascent attempt at male self-definition terrified the West sufficiently to send it scurrying back, full tilt and blindfolded, into the ancient matriarchies. The feminine was artificially elevated and empowered, served by weak men. Authentic manhood was demonized and sent to Scapegoat PIt. There it remains, undergoing transformation.

Just as men were Getting It, women were Losing It. In this new Millenium of onrushing Genderwar, women assume their moral, spiritual, and practical superiority over males. They have now have reached �just Don�t Get It� central.

Instead of re-aligning with the transformative masculine, the feminine embarked on a rampage of vengeance, selfishness, censorship and self-entitlement the likes of which even the Paleolithic matriarchies hadn't seen. Men got trampled, and masculinity, rather than being created anew, instead was annihilated. In the wake of the glorification of all things feminine, the scattered remnants of masculinity were driven underground � to cage, gutter, and graveyard.

Of course there were options � there always are. One could hide behind the wife�s hem, or one could whore oneself to the very institutions whipping one�s back, and the back of one�s brothers. I chose the latter -- though a combination provides the greatest social protection for males.

In Femamerica, the new matriarchy, every male became fair game for the Empowered Witch, who wears the armor of a �War on Women� while wielding the legal knife.

By 1990 I knew that the nation had gone mad, and that the Empowered Witch ruled unopposed. The remnants of �patriarchy� were conserved only in organized athletics, and the neo-matriarchy was entrenched, back in business, an extraordinary coup pulled off virtually without resistance. The few men who did resist were � and are � easily isolated and picked off. Even the most docile attempts at brotherhood were either banned or ridiculed into extinguishment.

The Battle of the Sexes has been over for more than a decade now, in case you�ve been busy watching �Law and Order� or �Ally McBeal.� Women won.

It was a slaughter. One side was Empowered, the other trussed and muzzled. The modest advances made by masculinity over the paltry last few thousand years now have been neutered. No aspect of the culture, with the exception of athletics and a little art, authentically reflect the needs and values of the masculine. Everything else � law, relational customs, education, commerce, communication � though fronted by men -- are institutionalized to serve the feminine.

After hearing for so long how it�s a �man�s world,� it comes as a shock to modern Western men to learn that civilization is not really about them. It�s about women and �their� children -- the matriarchal kinship unit. It takes no magus to scrye the signs, only an ability to confront the everyday reality of a culture fractured into a thousand points of greed, triple-think, and identity politics, where excellence and merit fall prey daily to the mediocrities of entitlement, privilege and power.

The new caste system in America is gender, with class running a distant second.

San Francisco, my city of residence during the Eighties, is the politically correct capital of the West, along with its near northern satellite Berkeley, and distant satellites Eugene and Boulder. Denigration of the masculine became an art in San Francisco during the Eighties, and The City was not the open, fun place advertised. It was, in fact, a hellhole for single masculinity, tolerant only if you were the correct gender.