SIW as portrayed in films and popular culture are a deceptive faux glorification.

Readership: All
Theme: The W!tchy War on Masculinity
Length: 600 words
Reading Time: 3 minutes + 11 minute video

Most Classic Manosphere authors held that there is no such thing as an Alpha female. But there is definitely such a stereotype that appeals to our sense of mythos. From antiquity’s Aphrodite, Venus, the zenith of beauty and love, to Joan of Arc of the Middle Ages, to our modern version of the Strong Independent Woman (SIW) and the sexy, kick-@ss female heroines in movies, comics, anime, and video games. The idea of the Alpha female is easily seen in the stories that tickle women’s romantic fantasies. Romance novels, i.e. female pR0n, involve the concept of the Alpha bad boy who is tamed by the female lead, when all others have failed, because of HER goodness and femininity. On the less smutty side, one can look at the story of Beauty and the Beast as an archetype of the Alpha female literally taming the savage beast.

Genuinely SIW are hard to find IRL, but they are celebrated as ubiquitous in advertisements and especially movies of all genres.

This video from The Critical Drinker offers a great look at SIW lead characters.

The analysis of strong female characters from the 8:50 point to the end is some of the best identification of what is wrong with strong female lead characters, and modern women in general.

They’ve given up on every internal quality that makes women appealing to men and inspires men to be masculine — traits like compassion, empathy, kindness, submissiveness, sweetness, vulnerability — and replaced it with the qualities of a second or maybe third tier man in an effort to create an alpha female character.

Gone is the softness that compliments men’s harder edges and the general femininity that has been the bane of men’s decision making since the beginning of creation. Instead, women are attributed masculine quality strength and valor, which doesn’t actually exist IRL.

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In doing so, they obscure the true mythological picture of an alpha female, which is a woman who can use the traits mentioned to inspire faith and loyalty, or to get an alpha male to commit to her and then keep him committed.

At the 9:00 mark, The Critical Drinker states that SIW women are low quality LARPs of men.  I think this is an accurate portrayal of women in power because from what I’ve seen, CD’s assessment rings true.  My experience is that women tend to have less empathy when they have power, as if solipsism prevents them from identifying another person in pain.

Testosterone is God’s gift to fallen humanity.

Epilogue

The way this ties into this month’s theme of the W!tchy War on Masculinity is that when we see women portrayed this way frequently and ubiquitously, it conditions us to subconsciously ascribe more power and authority to women than what they actually have, and thus, to revere them as “equals” in some sense. In essence, this “super woman” cultural programming serves to cast a spell over the entire populace to believe that the SIW trope is a reality that young men can reasonably expect from women, and that young women can hope to aspire to. And instead of emulating the enticing beauty of Venus or the indomitable courage of Joan of Arc, young women are led to imitate the annoying, bullish, screeching busybody in a skinsuit with the misled notion that they can somehow single-handedly beat the odds and win the day.

And of course, we all know that when that doesn’t work, men are somehow to blame, which only reinforces the truth that women are NOT the superpowerhouses that are set forth as a trope.

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We can only hope and pray that there will soon come a day when women will embrace their true feminine power (i.e. beauty, companionship, femininity, honeycraft, inspiration, vulnerability, etc.), and the SIW archetype will then become the iconic laughingstock of previous generations — much like the Boomers were ridiculed for their bellbottoms and butterfly collars. (See advertisement below.)

At least they were masculine enough to pull it off.

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img-1783682048-6a50d400cca382.15055513.pngAn advertisement for bellbottoms, ca. 1972.