Every now and then I revisit this blog post:

https://ladyimperium.wordpress.com/2014/09/24/why-is-the-patriarchy-needed/

I feel like I'm going to quote the entire post, because it makes so many great points.

From a natural point of view, males are the disposable gender. They are the gender that sacrifices themselves to protect the females and the children. Everywhere you look in nature, nature gives its female members more protections than males. Female birds are more dull colored, to avoid prey, they also have sharper beaks and talons to protect themselves and the nest. Female sea creatures are typically bigger and stronger than their male counterparts...So in these examples, nature is giving females protection while making the males take more risks.

Yet mammals are different because females carry their babies inside of their wombs. This makes us more vulnerable. And when you consider that human females in the wild spent a good amount of time being vulnerable, we naturally needed strong and powerful mates to protect us. Thus, among humans, it is the natural order that females are protected and kept safe, while males face risk to obtain food and resources.

It is not about fairness or equality. Equality does not exist in nature. It is about survival and about the way us humans were programmed to survive.

Feminism wants men and women to be equal - and while we certainly agree that equal opportunity is good, men and women will never be equal, because equality between the sexes does not exist in nature - it simply isn't natural. Nature isn't fair, nature can be cruel! Nature isn't meant to give us the validation for our feelings. Nature just is.

Since males are the gender that take the greatest risks, they typically hold more power in most societies. You can’t wield power without responsibility. A ruler who wields power without responsibility for his decisions becomes a tyrant. Many feminists today want all the trappings of power, without any responsibility. How many Feminists are advocating putting women on the draft? Not many. There are also many Feminists who bemoan the lack of women in high paying professions, but few who talk about the lack of female police officers, dog catchers, marines, security guards, oil rig workers, miners, electricians and other risky professions. They want all the ice cream and cookies, but none of the hardship and sacrifice.

We saw this recently with Hilldawg running for president. How many women were actually for a draft for women? 41% were against it while 39% were for it. We see it all of the time - women wanting to be CEOs and in higher, powerful positions (ahem, like the president), and claiming sexism when they just don't fit the part.

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The Patriarchy - oppression or freedom vs. stability?

The post makes interesting points regarding this. While the Patriarchy exists to protect females, survival was not always a given in some societies:

In tribal societies, such as the Celts for example, women had way more freedoms. But they also had shorter lifespans, died more often in child birth, had less security and less food. Roman women by comparison had less liberty, but lived longer, were healthier in general, could have more children with less complications and saw more of those children live to adulthood.

When women have less freedoms, ie, less protection in their own lives, their survival rates go down. Even now, with all of our freedoms, women are more depressed than they have ever been - they're more depressed, anxious, and stressed - leading to shorter life spans. I know personally, I was much unhappier when feeling like I needed to have a career to feel like I was somebody worthwhile, and that being "just a wife or a mom" wasn't enough. Feminism likes to spout it's about choice, but often, that choice is to abandon a family life and pursue a studious career, otherwise, you're a slave to the Big Bad Patriarchy™!!!!

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The post closes with an eye-opening quote from Markus Willinger, in his book Generation Identity:

Women want to be conquered. The longing for the one who can win them over and make them his lies deep in them. Instead of heroic knights, you send them ‘good friends’ and feeble cowards. Men want to win a woman who is worth the effort and the trials they must endure, for whom the leap through the fire and the battle with the dragon are worth it. Today, instead of the beautiful princess, only a scowling feminist or jutting manjaw awaits the hero at the end. We’ve recognised the true nature of the sexes, and we want to live in harmony with it. We want to be real men and real women.

I hope you enjoy this post as much as I do. It really puts the differences between the sexes at a natural/scientific perspective, when often, it's a religious one that doesn't tend to mean much to a wider audience. And while I appreciate the religious aspect of a Captain/First Mate relationship, it's also nice to have nature/science backing me up!

edited to add: I claim a repost because I'm sure I saw this article posted on RPW "back in the day"