Mencius Moldbugman

Indeed while women as individuals have often enhanced what they have joined, the entry of women in general has seldom done much for any area previously dominated by men - except, significantly, bureaucracy.pic.twitter.com/xZm8nSEZXT

The feminist program is to make society, the army, the colleges, corporations, everything, conform to an idea, and the women want to go where the men are, to be fully integrated so that when dirty and unfeminine jobs must be done, there are men to do them.pic.twitter.com/5Af0HKOFSS

Feminists once dreamt of setting up their own societies but then realised they needed to have men around. They wanted to be integrated. And this happened not because political wisdom declared it necessary, nor because electorates pushed for it, but was due to bureaucratic inertiapic.twitter.com/O4spPrdqJb

Let us now return to the question of why the male custodians of our civilisation sold the pass. There are many reasons. One must be cowardice: giving into women’s demands in the hope of a peaceful life. The cuckold husband stab in the back to all the great men who came before.pic.twitter.com/1jumiO2z5d

Our 20th C leaders were white, male, & middle class, and leftists have long been engaged in a campaign to erode the morale of each of these abstract categories. They denoted racism, sexism, and elitism respectively. Men found it difficult not to be written off as evil oppressors.pic.twitter.com/7OhLRYcBjR

Some men were supporters of liberal feminism and believed that radical feminism was merely a rather hysterical version of classical liberalism. Feminists were ok except for one or two angry lesbians!pic.twitter.com/SJlLyNKkWQ

Yet retreat is a notoriously difficult maneuver to control. Each concession can be used to demand further concessions in the name of consistency. Hence the appearance in all Western countries of legislation mandating equal opportunities—and who could possibly be against that?pic.twitter.com/0wUQUywWbC

Women took over the universities, public bodies, firms and, above all, the media. Hiring for status-giving jobs requiring degrees had become closely circumscribed by a set of rules. The dogma was that 50% of all jobs belonged to women, though the reality of quotas was long deniedpic.twitter.com/U6G1s3mlDZ

There are deeper currents too how men let this happen. One of them is that men tend to react to radical feminism with a high-minded feeling that nothing but justice, a notoriously fluid idea, should determine public policy. Men have a sense of fairness built into them.pic.twitter.com/1Yy3AAe43J

Cocooned from the immediate consequences of folly, and increasingly detached from any profound understanding of the culture that had produced them, the trusting trustees of our civilisation have utterly sold out their descendants.pic.twitter.com/1OeJlnrDnO

The big breasts of women, their deep eyes, vivacious curves and full lips - not to mention their shows of innocence and helplessness - all of these have been used as weapons to pull on men’s sense of responsibility and con them into handing over the keys to power.pic.twitter.com/0sg23sgVQs

Did you follow this thread just to gaze at the high-definition photographs of tradwives, insta thots, porn stars and e-girls? Then you are part of the problem. You are part of what made civilisation collapse. You made the woman in this photo possible.pic.twitter.com/zzBnJzgtDQ

This thread is not yet done, but there shall be NO MORE pictures of pretty women accompanying each post. Instead you will be subjected to images of what modern women have become as civilisational restraints have disappeared. If you don’t like, feel free to stop right here.pic.twitter.com/F6l2wk71IP

The feminist revolution is nothing less than a destruction of our civilisation... and it has all happened in such a way that people have not yet realised what has happened. There are some who might say, well, at least it has improved the condition of women. This is a mistake.pic.twitter.com/FQcOf2DReZ

Such a view would accept the fatal dichotomy that men and women have separate destinies. In fact, of course, they do not. Some might think that this thread reeks of misogyny - but it is weak men I save my severest scorn for. They helped cut the ties between the sexes.pic.twitter.com/nUvcV9g2XC

Men who are not allowed to be men become miserable. Women who are not allowed to be women become miserable. Look at the face of this woman in this photo. Look what throwing away all our heritage has done to her. Do you think she is happier than her grandmother?pic.twitter.com/F6VtIOVsPF

Women have specifically feminine qualities of their own which prevent them, as a general rule, from fitting entirely successfully into the structures men have created. No problem, say the feminists: let us change the structures! That can indeed be done, but something is lost.pic.twitter.com/nQngzB7bkv

The point is that “men” put “women” (if we may generalize wildly) on a pedestal, and also despise them as weak; love and adore them in chivalrous terms, but also tend to oppress them and use them. A parallel ambivalence is found in the way women treat men.pic.twitter.com/Nx4bycQPzh

A whole world of games & conventions has grown up around these attitudes, and they look different when viewed from the bar or the bedroom, the saloon or the shop. Feminism is essentially a humorless rationalism which seeks a single right attitude to be forced on men & women alikepic.twitter.com/6v17Yb34IV

There is a further point, and a more complex one. Civilisation only advances because of innovation. It lives off ideas. Sometimes academics attempt the paradoxical business of trying to theorise innovation and creativity, but the results are inevitably banal.pic.twitter.com/VfgM8RM6Jp

Remember way back in this thread when I talked about leisure and how it was viewed by the Ancients? It was these moments of leisure, away from work, where the real thinking was done that gave birth to invention. Without defined gender roles, it’s hard for this leisure to exist.pic.twitter.com/QI9NjBHNzh

And it MUST be men that have the time to contemplate and bring forth the fruits of civilisation. Only men - a small number of a certain type of man at that - are the producers of 99% of all of our civilisation’s advances. Without society’s support, they have no time to advance uspic.twitter.com/WltIaMaV14

Men and women approach boredom and leisure differently. For women, the terror of boredom breeds drama and led to the feminist movement in the first place. For men - some men (those of high intelligence and learning) - it’s their opportunity to philosophise, invent and inspire.pic.twitter.com/p2HQhwCo1W

The reason why this is - the idea of the Head Girl vs the Lone Male Genius - is a whole different thread in itself. To learn more I recommend reading The Genius Famine by Edward Dutton. A copy is here: http://geniusfamine.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-genius-famine-why-we-need-geniuses.html?m=1 …pic.twitter.com/vzGsRof3FO

Creativity is essentially mysterious. What is clear though is that women do not have this capacity to innovate. They bring great talents to developing what Thomas Kuhn called “normal science,” but they have no record of creating the “paradigm shifts” that lead in new directions.pic.twitter.com/y9kJx5YMWX

It may be, of course, that as the feminists sometimes claim, this is because they were never encouraged to engage in these activities. But to need encouragement, to depend on models to follow, is precisely not to have a capacity to innovate.pic.twitter.com/GitPuWxhFe

It is MEN who invent things and conquer nature. Men who climb mountains or sail alone around the world. And once men have done it, women then do it. Genius remains beyond most men, but it also exemplifies the fact that innovation remains largely the specialisation of white males.pic.twitter.com/Z8XjEw4CdT

Women can do marvellous things with a house, but they do need the house to be built in the first place.pic.twitter.com/ecQ4yIu5M1

Civilisation has been attacked and conquered from within, without anyone quite realizing what has happened. It was attacked by those we least suspected of treason - those that lived in our homes and whom we sought to protect and love.pic.twitter.com/Wki8WH7cvx

We may laugh at the more crazier feminists, but the chains women have now put on the world are a manacle around our hands. It binds us quite tightly, though some freedom must be left, because without the contribution of subjugated males, things would very very rapidly decline.pic.twitter.com/ehdnHbv1Y3