Few creatures are more persecuted in the manosphere than the female rationalization hamster, the part of her consciousness which churns out the ridiculously broken and contradictory logic needed to justify doing whatever her “feelings” compel her to. I myself revile the rodent. I’ve had no success treating it as an equal and trying to tame it with reason. Every attempt ended in either playfully ignoring the hamster in exasperation, or eventually losing patience, and heartlessly clubbing it to death with shame, ridicule, contempt, or whatever other forms of verbal violence happened to be at hand.
Even now I won’t say the treatment was ill deserved. Though I’m steadily removing myself from reach of its harm in the present, for most of my life I wasn’t one of those men who could listen to the hamster indulgently. Growing up in a single mother home and living at the hamster’s whim doesn’t encourage a man to be generous when any woman launches into hamsterese. Having my ears filled with it inspired the worst in me. I always prided myself on carefully considering other people’s arguments, so I resented every moment I spent listening to the hamster as if there were hope of discerning meaning from the verbal noise. Hearing such broken logic imposed on myself and others, the utter lack of humility of it all inspired a complete lack of pity in me. I found myself observing with spiteful satisfaction as the hamster talked its owners into believing they could rely on being able to start a family at 40, or that fat was beautiful, or that they didn’t need a man to raise children. The truth of a hard cruel world would discipline them into either listening humbly or suffering. I didn’t care which. Watching smugly, it would never have occurred to me that one day I’d learn that the person who should be listening humbly might be me. Because that one day I would learn the “rationalization hamster” was right.
The Contradiction
Yes. You read correctly. I know that from this point on some won’t give this article the benefit of the doubt and will be too disgusted to read till my explanation comes. Admittedly this might be a wild departure, but this is one of the last bastions of free male speech on the web. If the truth can’t be spoken here to the fearless red pill man, then where can it be?
But back to the primary question: if a woman’s rationalization hamster works only to justify her delay of child-bearing until fertility costs as much as a new car, and other questionable life choices, how could it possibly be right? That an inherently illogical process could somehow be more beneficial than cold hard logic goes against all common sense.
Consensus and the Hamster
It looks that way, that is, until you start looking at some of the truly stellar achievements of hamster logic. Where men pride themselves on intellectual discipline, that is restricting themselves only to whatever positions can be justified rationally, the rationalization hamster allows women to achieve consensus on ANY issue where they merely FEEL the same, which they take comfort doing in great herds.
Take the question of equality between men and women. We men claim superiority in our logic, and even greater pride in having the strength to stand behind that logic alone. But while this solo male approach is a great asset when solving patentable engineering problems, it’s a great liability when solving social ones. Where men break into innumerable different factions over the specific meaning of “equality” because each man adds up the facts slightly differently, women are FAR more effective at reaching and acting on consensus based on their communal FEELINGS about the issue. Women don’t need to identify whether in objective terms its even true that women are treated unequally. It’s true if they FEEL it. Women’s success in gathering huge financial and political support for women’s causes is in part based on this advantage.
Value-based vs. Objective Factual Reasoning
The difference boils down to women’s tendency towards value-based reasoning versus men’s tendency towards objective factual reasoning. Because it’s easier to come to consensus on values rather than logic, value-based reasoning provides advantages on decisions requiring social consensus. Of course value-based reasoning is also related to the rationalization hamster in that the hamster has to start spinning its wheels afterwards to justify those value-based choices. However our contempt for the hamster’s confused and convoluted path shouldn’t distract from appreciating the sheer power of the value-based reasoning that fuels it. As a number of prominent psychologists have pointed out, in comparison with strict logical deduction, for certain problem domains the human brain is simply faster and more precise at using this value-based reasoning to add up the bewildering array of facts in front of us to come up with an immediate answer.
For example when a woman is asked her opinion about a value statement such as “women should be considered equal to men”, her mind instantaneously and subconsciously interprets and assigns relative weights to possible meanings such as: “I could be asked to do things men do and get put in danger,” or “I could be allowed to do things men do and reap additional benefits.” In a dangerous environment like a war zone the weight of a woman’s experience might produce an immediate negative emotional reaction to the statement “women should be treated as equal.” She’d be right. In such an environment equality is an outright threat to her safety. On the other hand, in the safe nanny-state of most western liberal democracies, with the weight of a woman’s experience telling her she lacks any need for caution, the same statement “women should be considered equal to men” might produce an immediate positive reaction. Here she would be right as well , as she has no likely negative consequences to fear and everything to gain. Either way, her value-based reasoning – her “feelings” – respond instantaneously. The statistics (facts) might not be available, and the (logical) reasoning frameworks to process those facts might not be discovered till some time far in the future. But no matter. Her value-based reasoning tells her what’s true right now.
Made this Way for Good Reason
Anecdotally, though I’ve met some women who were quite a bit more logical than I can ever hope to be, women on the whole are far more predisposed to make value-based decisions. I suspect they’re more psychologically adapted to do so. From an evolutionary or intelligent design standpoint such an adaptation would likely have arisen because human societies gained some advantage from it. I suspect it helped women build consensus on issues just as it does today, enabling them to band together to help each other in ancestral human tribes or villages. But if we imagine the rationalization hamster may have once protected us by providing social cohesion in our ancestral environments, now there’s little doubt it is literally killing our sons and tearing our societies apart. What changed?
Value-based reasoning might have been optimal for allowing women to excel at sharing food or cooperatively caring for children in societies where (largely male) logic could be relied upon to build the bridges. But value-based reasoning seems less optimal in today’s de facto matriarchies where it’s taken over the wheel and not only been put in the position of caring for us, but has also gained prominence in every other aspect of life, in effect imposing itself on the work of building the bridges too. However the fact that value-based reasoning doesn’t excel at the helm of societies doesn’t negate the usefulness of value-based reasoning as a whole, or the benefit of women being predisposed to it. Men and women have always been different, and in the time scales of evolution, these differences likely have helped human societies thrive. By this reasoning the problem is not the hamster per se, but whatever neutered the hamster’s male counterpart, the balancing force that in the past limited the hamster to the domains where it benefits us all.
Extinction of the Hamster’s Natural Competition
By enabling women to support each other at all costs within the ancestral environment, the hamster did at one time appear to benefit us all. It’s only now that the male counterpart of reason and responsibility has been neutered that the hamster has come off the chain to benefit women alone. Add in men’s predisposition to protect women, and the current enslavement of men, such as with alimony and child support, is the only possible consequence. As is misandry. Once we’d been enslaved, the anger that feminists and white knights have for men who try to free themselves was inevitable.
To them a man’s labor is not his own, but the property of the woman who lays claim to it by marrying him, by cohabiting with him, or by having children she claims to be his; whether biologically or by virtue of him having acted like a father. These traditional mechanisms are only the wealth transfers to individual women. Increasingly through woman focused government benefits combined with male focused taxes, a man’s labor is also the property of any and every woman merely by virtue of him being a citizen of her country and him being allowed to live there.
A Slave-owners Rights to Her Property
If this is an innate part of woman’s nature it’s almost a waste of energy to combat the hamsterese spewing from the likes of Jezebel or Feministing except in so far as to let other men see the logical disconnect. We’ll probably never have much success using (largely male) factual logic to dispel their (largely female) value-based reasoning, especially when it’s their nature to protect their right to own a man’s labor. Literally fearing men who’ve freed themselves, the only time they want to engage men on the subject is when they call their white knights to violently enforce their entitlement to that male labor. They despise men who try to escape in any way, whether by hiding their assets or income, or by becoming expats, not unlike the slave master during the days of black slavery in America. To the master any slave who ran away must have seemed just as evil. By running away the slave was depriving him (the master) of valuable property. The slave might even be encouraging other slaves to flee. He was putting the master’s livelihood at risk, and therefore putting the master’s family and all that the master held dear in peril as well. In the slave-owners view it’s for the very good of all society that such violence against his interests as escaping must be met with extremely violent retribution.
Castration by Disinformation
If the hamster itself is part of human nature rather than a recent introduction, perhaps the culprit that neutered male reason to set the hamster free is the silence enforced against men. Aside from men being censored from championing men’s interests in the main stream, men are effectively censored from even speaking hard red pill fact-based truths. The only arguments that seem to be allowed on sensitive issues in the popular discourse are value-based arguments (like “equality is good”) that inevitably favor groups traditionally seen as victims (hint: not men). This limitation firstly feminizes discourse so open discussion is not permitted, and secondly makes any discussion essentially impervious to facts, particularly hard ones (like what precisely constitutes equality in terms of opportunity and/or outcome).
This societal resistance to facts devastates men precisely because most men don’t worry about it. Through our own natural male predisposition for confidence in our ability to tackle the unknown, we disdain obsessing neurotically over things we haven’t experienced ourselves. Particularly when young and full of piss and vinegar, the vast majority of us men don’t bother looking past the superficial mainstream media to investigate issues that don’t seem to directly impact us right now. So we’re powerless against a feminized education system and mass media that indoctrinates us slowly over a lifetime. And we’re castrated from acting in our own interests by this misinformation we’re fed.
Our confidence has been turned from an asset to an Achilles heel by the illusion of control that allows us to stride into the risks men have always had to take to win in life. Under the dangerous illusion that they’re in control because they can withdraw from marriage, or even from society, young men, even on the red pill sites, actively fight against men’s rights activism. They’re repulsed by the idea that they’re in any way vulnerable. Meanwhile for their own safety they, like all of us men, are forced to abandon pursuit of the very commitments (like marriage) by which we men best ensure we’ll achieve the very things that have always given meaning to our lives, such as leaving a legacy of thriving children. We couldn’t have become more separated from our own interests if someone was actively trying to exterminate us. In withdrawing so far we’ve lost sight of the true conflict, like the lions in circuses whose roar says “if you trespass into my domain of control I will kill you”. The ringmaster knows the lion will always be wild. His job is ensuring the lion doesn’t notice as the domain of his control is shrunk to the tiny circle on the floor of the cage where the ringmaster has him standing on his two hind legs, dancing in a pink tutu to the sound of an out of tune piano, for the amusement of children in the audience.
The ring around our feet is closing as each new generation of white knights gives more, as each new generation of red pill men ignores the larger struggle and retreats more, and as the older generations run further from political incorrectness. Marching along doing these things separately, we all unwittingly contribute to our enslavement by the hamster’s tiny-brained whims. Unlike women who commiserate and collaborate to expand women’s domain of control in order to protect themselves, in our contempt for other men’s failures (e.g. victims of the family court meat grinder) our domain of control continually shrinks.
The Nature of Man
But this male vulnerability is also natural. We’re built for taking risks, for gaining the insight to make some new thing work ourselves. There a reason we value opportunity rather than valuing avoiding failure. There’s a reason that if something’s worth doing we’ll do it ourselves even if we have to do it alone. We’re built to walk into the unknown, not for waiting to be being patted on the head for doing what’s already been done. You won’t find many men huddling together fearfully, complaining about what’s held other men back and collecting group sympathy so someone will act on our behalf. Other men’s failures don’t apply even to us. So not surprisingly when it comes to feminism the only anti-indoctrination system men generally have to rely on is personal experience. Unfortunately this usually amounts to us having to wait until feminism happens to us personally before we can get our red pill dose.
The End Game
Human evolution may be accelerating at a faster rate than ever before. Pervasive forces increasingly select who we mate with. In the upper middle class families that are now slowly splitting away from the rest of America the hamster might even be facing slow eradication. Because in a world where women can destroy a family at will, membership in the upper middle class more and more correlates with the mother’s IQ and hence her understanding of the importance of having an intact family to the outcome of her children. In the wider population however, the hamster thrives. It appears to be a trait human societies have long had, and even relied on since ancient times for social cohesion. Without discounting the immense pain the hamster has caused many male readers, the hamster is NOT the root of the disconnect between the sexes that increasingly threatens to undermine the entire western world. The real issue is that some force has neutered the hamster’s male counterpart so we can no longer choose to playfully indulge the hamster, or to ignore it, or to do whatever in our own best judgment is in our or our family’s interest. This force is pitting men and women against each other. As natural halves to a whole neither gender can win a war that divides us.
Given men continue to be so powerless, most likely the solution will come from the subsequent wives and girlfriends forced to put up with their man’s enslavement. When their numbers grow, when the pain imposed on them ratchets too high, they’ll rally themselves with value-based arguments (“father are treated unfairly”). The subset of exceptional women who’ll lead them are already marshaling their rational arguments (“children have statistically better outcomes when fathers are allowed to be involved”). On a long shot the solution might be technological, some guy working in his basement might come up with a new tool finally able to disseminate that truth widely in mass media , academia, and elsewhere without censorship. Wherever the solution comes from, as the red pill continues to spread, signs are everywhere that we will find it.
