Look Both Ways Before Fucking

"We are of reptiles
We are of stardust
We are of mercury
And these things are our kin"

 

Ego Likeness - Save Your Serpent

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"If all you can muster to say about this event is 'stabbing is bad and I'm against it' without looking at the reasons behind it, you're useless, and that describes pretty much the entire mainstream media."

Bill Maher - New Rule: Straw Man Arguments

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Continuing from yesterday's post: while John Oliver devoted a decent bit of air time to lamenting Qatar's indecent, primitive, filthy and dangerous labor camps for foreigners, he passively verbalized then elided the little detail that the victims of that system have been almost exclusively men, accounting for the country's absurd, overwhelmingly male demographic ratio. But you can be sure most of whatever money those men have accumulated will, in some way or another, make its way to women. There's nothing new here, really. Just the timeless routine of men being driven over the horizon, to return with spoils or die trying, in order to (consciously or not) demonstrate their fitness as providers and earn the right to be bled of a lifetime's effort by their tribe's females upon return.

This is perfectly normal.

This is unremarkable.

I was skimming through a Reuters article on the Iranian riots last week which cited the hundreds of "people" who have died so far, either in street clashes or executed. To their credit the article's cited source, HRANA, was a bit more open about the demographic breakdown: "women are 7% of the victims. Shockingly, 29% of the victims are under the age of 18" Reuters picked up the shocking youth mortality but excised the boring gender disparity. In fact I looked up the original source precisely because I knew that if any appreciable percentage of women had numbered among the victims, the entire article would have been devoted to them, but the blanket term "people" leaving you to assume parity always masks men's sacrifice. It is normal for men to die. When "people" die it's supposed to be men.

Nothing to see here. Move along.

To Ukraine. Where judging by media coverage earlier this year, you'd have thought the Ukrainian war effort consisted entirely of adorable young blonde girls and grieving widows. Because putting a real face on reality would elicit not a joule of sympathy from audiences abroad. If you admitted to our voting public that the war's victims are almost all straight, white men, you'd soon find them cheering the Russians on and chanting "nuke 'em!" at the top of their lungs. It's normal for men to be killed, it's natural, it's right, it's righteous, it's dulce et decorum et all that jazz.

Every day in the States you can hear the same retread moral outrage at uneven incarceration rates for blacks... but rarely will the same speakers admit it's specifically black men... unless calling them "fathers" in the "community" to justify their existence by their utility. You can be outraged at the suffering of blacks but not of men. Men's suffering is as it should be.

 

I've been catching up on Bill Maher's New Rules recently, only to find him returning several times to the breakdown of sexual relationships here in the states - and in the developed world at large; in fact it may have started with Japan. And every time, HBO's staunchest voice of reason places all blame unilaterally on men, ranting against that hated "incel" subculture and calling them all a bunch of school shooters. (Not a straw man argument at all, right, Bill?) As if he can't figure out why men are failing to throw themselves at women's feet begging for sex.

 

Well, I can't claim to have the complete answer, but having commented on this topic a couple of times before, I would hope it's partly due to men's increasing awareness of just where we stand in the natural order: disposable draft animals, to be worked to death or slaughtered as convenient. If you're lucky enough you might even achieve that enviable state of masculine success, of a soulless, hapless, hollow-eyed sarariman measuring your existence by the pension your wife will be sitting on after you work yourself into an early grave. Because we all know men owe women absolutely everything up to and including their lives, and thanks to our modern sensibilities we now also know that women owe men absolutely nothing except abuse.

 

What's more, we are not permitted to even address the issue. No-one will admit Qatar's government has colluded with the women of South Asia to work their men to death. Iran's revolt will continue to be painted by every media outlet as a conflict of plucky females rising against male oppression, no matter how many men die in a woman's name. When those of Ukraine's menfolk lucky enough to survive the war return to their bombed-out homes to struggle to rebuild them for their families, they'll find those homes occupied by a feminist movement spitting in their faces as patriarchal brutes, tossing them out on the streets or in jail on groping accusations and demanding they surrender all white-collar work to women as more deserving. Thug until the day you die, lavishing the spoils of your crimes on women in hopes they'll sleep with you, then on your deathbed listen to Bill Maher lambaste you for not bending over backwards far enough to appeal to women.

This is our species' normal. "They don't give a fuck about us."

You know, Maher, you're right. Being unable to get laid, or giving up on sexual relationships altogether, it hurts, it's a miserable state. But thanks to the occasional reprieve afforded us by modern amenities, a few of us can sit back, breathe freely for at least a moment, and realize celibacy's still better than trying to play Prince Charming.

Masturbation might not be enough to make us truly happy, but beating off beats dying off.