Guns, God, Government and Gynocentrism

"I've got a crush on a pretty pistol
Should I tell her that I feel this way?
Father told us to be faithful

She tells me I'm a pretty bullet
Gonna be a star someday
Mother tells us we should look away

Do you love your Guns, God and Government?
Fuck yeah!"

Marilyn Manson - The Love Song
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"Now, what are the obligations? And here, for me, it gets really interesting, and it deviates very much from your typical image of the alpha male. The alpha male has two sorts of obligations. One is to keep the peace in the group. We call that the control role, to control fights in the group, and the second is to be the most empathic, the consoler in chief, basically, of the nation, so to speak.
[...]
You should not call a bully an alpha male. Someone who is big and strong and intimidates and insults everyone is not necessarily an alpha male."

- from Frans de Waal's TED talk on chimpanzee alpha males, 2017
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"She calmly walks up to the displaying male, loosens his fingers from around the stone, and walks away with it. [...] We call it confiscation. In such a situation the male has never been known to react aggressively towards the female."

- page 23 from Chimpanzee Politics by Frans de Waal, 1982


"Instigation
Here communication takes place simultaneously in two directions. In most cases it involves females who recruit a male to attack another female. The threatened female challenges her opponent with a high-pitched, indignant bark, at the same time kissing and making a fuss of the male. Sometimes she points at her opponent. This is an unusual hand gesture. Chimpanzees do not point with a finger but with their whole hand. The few occasions on which I have seen them actually point have been when the situation was confused; for example, when the third party had been lying asleep or had not been involved in the conflict from the start. On such occasions the aggressor would indicate her opponent by pointing her out.
A characteristic feature of instigation is that females who have done the instigating do not join in when the male undertakes some action. They leave him to do the job on his own."

- page 27 from Chimpanzee Politics

(both preceding statements were from the list of common patterns of social interaction among the chimps at Arnhem zoo.)
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Something funny happened to me on my way to failing biochemistry some years ago. My lab group, consisting of two adorable blonde females and fugly old me, listened to our incomprehensibly Chinese instructor's incomprehensible English instructions and eventually found ourselves incomprehending a certain aspect of the experiment's procedure. Is it this first or that? Or do we even need to add that at all? After some whispered and embarrassed back and forth, both girls looked at me:
"Well? Ask him!"
And I did. Automatically. Because females had required me to accept a risk for them. Only after the lab period did I stop to wonder why there had not for a moment been any question of one of them assuming the embarrassing (and potentially grade-altering) position of asking a professor to repeat instructions.

It also reminded me of the times in my life when, as part of a group of people annoyed by another group (loud, blocking traffic, not doing a necessary task etc.) I've heard the women in my group whisper urgently to one of us males to "go over there and say something!" It also reminded me of warfare, robbery, colonialism, Mafia wives and every other type of conflict which involves females conveniently staying home and maintaining their plausible deniability, bemoaning their sinful, violent male counterparts while raking in the fruit of those sins.

That hopeful, upbeat TED talk leaves at least one little detail out of its assessment of alpha males as beneficent mediators and consolers. While bullying behavior may not fill an alpha male's time, it is a prerequisite for the position, the iron fist which guarantees his velvet glove. The females feel safe precisely because he can act as their muscle. His capacity to console anyone is contingent on his being tha scariest muddafugga in the forest, or commanding a private army. After all, we all know how horrible and violent males are. Frans de Waal, toward the end of his by now classic text Chimpanzee Politics, even mentioned how many more fights the males got into compared to females.

One might wonder whether those acts of instigation by one female against another counted into that final tally as male crimes... or how many more conflicts might have occurred between females had they not been able to push a male between each other to absorb conflict, to maintain the tranquility of the sisterhood(*)... or how many fights between males were motivated by the good old "let's you and him fight" - the eternal bloodsport perpetrated by males for a female audience... except we can't wonder. It's a conclusion we cannot permit ourselves to draw. No polite modern man can permit himself to transgress the taboo surrounding females' power over him. For the past two or three generations the feminist propaganda machine has saturated our media with their cry of "pay no attention to the woman behind the curtain!"

Yet even that is a gratuitous reiteration of our instinctive predisposition to react far more positively to female demands than we would to those of males. That male chimp being dragged out of sleep to attack a target at the end of his potential mate's finger doesn't know what the conflict's about. He doesn't need to know. He just runs up to absorb the professor's scorn in her place, because that's what a good monkey-man does. Women's bidding.

Feminism has consistently fabricated a worldview of inter-gender conflict, in which males oppose and oppress women. The truth can more readily be seen in our millennially reiterated folklore and in the hierarchies of not just great apes, not just primates, but social mammals in general. Mammalian society consists of females clustered around one or more Princes Charming, the favored alpha males. Prince Charming is not women's ruler but their weapon, to be aimed and triggered or dispossessed of his rocks at women's whim. It's not "men vs. women" and never has been. It's women and a small minority of men exploiting or abusing all other men. And always has been. And probably always will be, for as long as the East-African Plains Ape remains an ape.

So of course now at the height of feminist hysteria, respectable pillars of the community like Frans de Waal feel the need to stand up, not for the losers but for the powerful few, to defend the honor of the alpha male, of the bullies so beloved by the females of every tribe. Every one of our instincts screams at us to worship the heroes, the handsome princes, the suave consolers with the most skeletons in their closets. We long to fill that role, to be the straight-backed champion scattering his unworthy foes while clutching his mate(s) to his chest. A leader of (a select few) men and an inseminator of women. The One Good Man.

And it doesn't matter how many men you talk out of the idea of being women's favored bully, because if they stop playing their role as women's tools they will simply not be permitted by females to reproduce. And the alpha males will. And the next generation will be fathered, once again as since the dawn of time, predominantly by the males willing to be weaponized by females. To define their lives by their usefulness to females. Their children will inherit their preferences and generation after generation will look the same, fight the same, bleed the same.

I've got love songs in my head, killing us away...


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* In fact, we don't have to wonder. Chimpanzee Politics describes a period a female leadership before the males were brought in. By Frans de Waal's own admission that male-free feminist Utopia was... anything but tranquil. But that's a topic for another day.