Thursday, February 07, 2013

Feminists and Traditionalists are Natural Bedfellows

The dark side of female nature is routinely swept under the carpet, or excused, or "prettied up" in a number of ways. Such rationalizing behavior (often loosely termed "chivalry") has deep roots in the culture at large. Clearly then, it long predates the radical 1960s when the current feminist regime got started.

And the feminist regime itself is as much an offshoot of historically existing culture as anything else is. It did not pop into the universe out of nowhere; it grew from what existed. And so the feminist principle that women can do no wrong taps into the same chivalrous "patriarchal" order from which it arose. It draws upon the deep-structural gynocentrism of the "sugar and spice" tradition, and perpetuates that tradition in a disguised form.

Feminism aims not to terminate the so-called patriarchy but to turn it into something controlled, firstly, by feminist men and women, and secondly, by "white knight" gynocentrists from the ranks of traditionalists. In the end, the group in the crossfire will be men who, by whatever combination of methods, minimize female control over their lives. Feminists and traditionalists would both harbor a natural antagonism toward that group.

5 Comments:

OpenID Eric said...

Fidelbogen:
As I understand it, though, historically Chivalry imposed reciprocal social and moral obligations upon women. It seems that with the rise of Anglo-Puritanism and Jacobin Egalitarianism, the female duties dropped out of the picture.

5:04 PM  
Blogger Fidelbogen said...

Yes Eric, I know that "chivalry" had a different meaning in history than it does in sloppy, colloquial modern usage. However, I am talking in the sloppy, colloquial way here.

You know, taking control of the language and all of that! ;)

5:11 PM  
Blogger Factory said...

I did a couple spoof 'social programming software' cover/spoof ads you might like on my blog:

http://huntingforarchetypes.blogspot.ca/2013/02/my-thoughts-on-chivalry.html

I believe the first one sums up your points nicely...but then, I could be wrong. It happened once...

8:20 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

"And so the feminist principle that women can do no wrong taps into the same chivalrous "patriarchal" order from which it arose."

I suspect it was the feminine predilection for avoiding all threats that came first, and the chivalrous tendency to accommodate it came later.

It is the same impulse that cannot admit to there being such a thing as an ugly woman, no matter how ample her girth and how numerous her chins.

8:29 PM  
Blogger Fidelbogen said...

And feminism 3.0 is what. . third-wave feminism?

8:29 PM  

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