Mencius Moldbugman

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

What modern egality amounts to in reality is a treaty of accommodation reached between the conquerors and the conquered. Women have forced their way into money and status, sometimes beyond their merits, but they have lost their own freedom and worth.pic.twitter.com/laeAbjPh74

To be “socially included,” as women have been in the workforce, has many practical advantages, but it involves a spiritual loss. Often it involves a biological one too.pic.twitter.com/mhsj0ZynxD

So far the conquerors have not destroyed the geese that lay the golden eggs, so the surface of our civilization does not reveal how profound the change has been. But underneath that surface, there are currents which no one understands.pic.twitter.com/mwm2a8XNSY

There has been a revolution, then, but a silent one. It has taken place with such stealth, and so gradually, that people have become accustomed to it little by little.pic.twitter.com/IPCVRzmfr5

I am reminded of the famous Chinese executioner whose ambition it was to be able to cut off a head so that the victim would not realize what had happened.pic.twitter.com/ys5xO9Dvwc

For years he worked on his skill, and one day he cut off a head so perfectly that the victim said: “Well, when are you going to do it?” The executioner gave a beatific smile and said: “Just kindly nod.”pic.twitter.com/COjUyjeppN