Now
the American election is favourably decided, I feel the need to restate my mission as an
anti-feminist theorist. Over the past seven years I have created a corpus of
anti-feminist theory second to none. Neither on the Internet or in academia do
I have any serious rival as the conceptual leader of the Anglo-American
manosphere. Such luminaries as Roissy, Roosh and the Anti-Feminist quote
freely from my writings. Innovative bloggers like Relampago Furioso have pushed my core ideas
in fascinating new directions (https://relampagofurioso.com).
Outside the Anglosphere, my writings are translated into any number of
languages, not least on the raunchy and popular Brazilian website, Canal do Bufalo.
Trump’s
success of course derives from many overlapping demographic, economic and
political factors. However, I have written a number of articles over the years
that demonstrate a masculinist context for Trump’s resounding success.
1. Decline
of the Mainstream Media
Since
I started this blog, I have continually written about Antonio Gramsci’s concept
of the hegemony; a kind of ideological cement that binds public consent to the
social order. Schools, colleges and churches are powerful agents of hegemony,
telling young people what to think and how to live. So, of course, is the
family. However, Gramsci argued that the main hegemonic force in modern society
is the mainstream media – television, newspapers, radio. Prior to the rise of social media, these
hegemonic agents ruled supreme. They accommodated whichever views or behaviour the
establishment considered ‘normal‘ and pumped those values into people’s heads
on a 24/7/365 basis. Consequently, politics from 1945 to the rise of the
digital era was largely predictable; establishment candidates trotting out the
old platitudes always triumphed; and the masses largely accepted this state of
affairs. Obviously, all that began to change when the rise of social media
began cutting deep into mainstream media outlets. Across the Anglosphere,
newspapers are dying like flies while terrestrial television is increasingly
marginalised; meanwhile, traditional radio stations have been comprehensively replaced
by online shock jocks and bloggers. And now these hegemonic pillars have
crumbled, so has the hegemony; the establishment can no longer inject its
values into the masses in a clear and unobstructed manner. This is why we now
have black Presidents, legalized marijuana, Brexit and President Trump. More
shocks to the establishment will doubtless follow. The media has atomized, with
different splinters catering to different social niches and patterns of
cultural association (the Manosphere is a good example of this). Moreover, these niches now span whole
continents, transcending national or regional agendas: the Manosphere comprises
people from North America, Anglophone Europe, the British Commonwealth and men
from the post-feminist Anglo-American diaspora. Despite our geographical
differences, we are all united by common interests. In sum, the single media
narrative a national hegemony requires to function is effectively dead.
2. Rise
of Single Men
There
are now far more single men in the US than there used to be. This is more a
matter of female hypergamy than anything else; graduate women have little
interest in non-graduate men, and there are now far more graduate women than
graduate men. White American women are also notoriously racist, further
limiting their pool of available mates. Besides, as we all know, more and more
men are shunning marriage on their own account. Men are naturally more
risk-taking than women and become even more risk-taking when they are single;
after all, what do they have to lose? Research shows that nations or regions
with high proportions of single men are generally less stable and more prone to
conflict than nations where most men have a reproductive life-partner. It takes
no leap of imagination to see that the rise of ‘wild card’ candidates such as
Sanders and Trump might relate to American male voters becoming more
risk-taking due to widespread singleness. Trump’s utterances are obviously more
confrontational than those of traditional politicians – in short, more
risk-taking. Bigly.
3. Rise
of the Nones.
Trump
took the Republican nomination from religious fanatics like Cruz and Rubio.
This can partly be explained by the increasing secularism of American society.
In the US, nones (those without affiliation to a specific religious
denomination) now make up almost a quarter of the population; and not all these
people are left-liberals, by any means. The traditional bind between religion
and Republicanism is clearly breaking down: Cruz and Rubio were leading phantom
armies of devout anti-abortionists and secular Trump was the beneficiary of
their folly. Trapped in antique hegemonic narratives, the Republican elite
still think everyone goes to Church three times a day, wears fag shoes and only
drinks coca-cola. However, Catholic sex scandals and the Internet have largely
put paid to that. There are now more American nones than American Catholics and
their numbers will only grow.
4. Generational
Change.
The
Baby Boomers who defined the post war era are dying off fast. As I have long
maintained, this is wreaking enormous change across the West in general and the
Anglosphere in particular. The Long Sixties are now a dim, distant memory and
2016 saw a great cull of the principal Boomer icons. In my view, one of the
major effects of this generational replacement has been the decline of Sexual
False Consciousness. Boomer culture generally told men that women want to have
sex with everybody – indeed, that is the central theme of rock music and other
Boomer institutions. Partly aided by the rise of the Manosphere and the
popularization of socio-biology, many now question this narrative. Indeed, many
men raised in the post-feminist era have grown up finding western women a
crushing disappointment because of the false sexual expectations created by Boomer
culture. Hillary’s lame slogan ‘Love Trumps Hate!’ is a weary platitude
straight from a lost era. Enough already, Hillary.
5. Closure
of the Liberal Mind
I
don’t know when or why Anglo-American liberals became so close minded; it is a
question for finer intellects than mine. Perhaps it has something to do with
the progressives’ recent immersion in identity politics and wholesale rejection
of the working class who used to provide their core electoral support. Whatever
the reason, the liberal Cathedral now lives in a sealed echo-chamber that
quashes all dissent. Feminists, democratic socialists and leftist academics
cling to anti-essentialist, pro-immigration and globalist agendas despite
repeated refutation by all relevant evidence (not to mention rejection by voters).
David Futrelle’s website is a glorious example of this; an echo chamber where
all dissent is banned or ridiculed. However, this tendency has led liberals to
exaggerate their numbers and importance in society. The liberal cathedral
expected Hillary to beat Trump by a landslide; in the end, they were roundly
defeated in the all-important swing States and the Republicans have both houses.
6. Decline
of Anglo Puritanism
The
old Anglo-Saxon Puritanism is waning due to generational replacement, online
porn, sex tourism and the rise of American secularism. Feminist news sites like
the Huffington Post were scandalized by Mr Trump’s voracious virility –
fortunately, mainstream society was not. Most people just shrugged and said,
‘so women let rich guys grab them by the pussy – so what? It’s nothing we
didn’t know. If I had his power, I’d be doing the same.’ As I have long argued,
Anglo feminism is essentially an extension of Anglo Puritanism; as Puritanism
wanes, so does the power of feminism.
7. Rise
of the Manosphere
“I
think that there is definitely still a very significant portion of the party
that is a limited government conservatism based faction of the overall
coalition. Now the screamers and the crazy people on the ‘alt-right’ as they
call it, you know, who love Donald Trump, who have plenty of Hitler iconography
in their Twitter icons and names… who think Donald Trump is the greatest thing.
Oh, it’s something. But the fact of the matter is most of them are childless,
single men who masturbate to anime. They’re not real political players. These
are not people who matter in the overall course of humanity.”
–
GOP strategist Rick Wilson, speaking on MSNBC.
I
am not trying to inflate our influence – most people still characterize us as
unimportant and marginalised, with no small justification. However, in a world
increasingly driven by tipping points, memes and complexity, an obscure online
movement can create ripples and eddies in the wider culture out of all
proportion to its actual size. Trapped in his Bible, Rick Wilson failed to
grasp that there are now large numbers of single men prepared to vote for a
risky and untried candidate like Mr Trump. For the past six years, David
Futrelle has been saying that the manosphere is for losers, Game is for rapists
and women are wonderful. But if all that were really true, why did Mr Trump
win? Here is Futrelle’s admission of utter defeat:
When I began this blog six years ago, the Men’s Rights Movement was little more than a curiosity. I’ve watched, with both amusement and alarm, as this small movement has inspired, and ultimately has been eclipsed by, a broader anti-feminist, anti-woman backlash, online and off, driven largely by the same white male rage. Each new iteration of this backlash has been more toxic — and, sadly, more influential — than the last, ultimately culminating in the rise of the alt-right. Which is to say, the newest incarnation of fascism. Now the openly racist, openly misogynistic idol of the alt-right has been elected president. Obviously, not everyone who voted for Trump was white or male. But his candidacy was powered in large part by the same kind of white male rage I have been writing about virtually every day for the last six years.
I
couldn't have said it better myself. Get back to your phantom armies, loser.
Conclusion: Opportunities and Outcomes
With
Mr Trump’s dynamic victory, enormous opportunities have suddenly arisen that
could transform the whole Anglosphere. The Baby Boomers are dying off, allowing
us to shape a more man-friendly hegemony. What America does, the other
Anglosphere nations will inevitably imitate. Here are some of my suggestions:
Make
all American women register for the draft.
Legalize
prostitution – this will decimate feminism at one fell swoop.
Strengthen
the legal system against feminist manipulation.
Remove
misandrist academics like Katherine McKinnon from their positions.
End
all preferential treatment for women in schools and colleges.
Strengthen
the secular presence in the Republican party – Christianity is spiritual
Marxism.
And
if Mr Trump is reading, here is a list of feminists who need to be imprisoned
or executed:
Katherine
McKinnon
David
Futrelle
Jessica
Valenti
There;
that should do it.
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