Why Women Are Obsolete

 

There is much talk in the culture now about Men Going Their Own Way, and many 30-something women complaining on YouTube or TikTok that there seem to be no available men.

 Younger men seem to have lost interest not just in marriage, but in women.

The surprise is that it took seventy years. Wives have been obsolete since the 1950s. As of the postwar years, thanks to automation, the traditional women’s role in the home became relatively trivial. She was replaced by the washing machine, the dryer, the refrigerator, the vacuum cleaner, the electric oven. A suburban housewife had nothing but free time—this was essentially Betty Friedan’s complaint. At the same time, as Hugh Hefner realized, men could live perfectly comfortably alone, in a “bachelor pad.” Why marry?

However, rather than doing anything to restore their attractiveness to men, women took the opposite tack—of declaring that they did not need men anyway. Hence feminism: “a woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle.” 

Declaring that they disliked or hated men, they withdrew companionship—the second reason for men to want to marry, or spend time with women. Now, for men, spending time with women only meant being criticized. And dropped at any moment, thanks to no-fault divorce, with potentially huge financial penalties, should they happen to be successful in their career.

Leaving only one possible reason for men to want to be around women: for sex.

Feminists at least at first emphasized this: being a “liberated woman” meant having sex often and with abandon. 

However, women killed off this attraction too, with the “Me Too” movement. Now not only was marrying too risky for men; even having sex with a woman was too risky.

So of course men are staying away from women. It is a credit to their gallantry and sense of self-sacrifice that they stuck with it so long—seventy years, a human lifetime!

As technology marches on, it is now looking able to replace women for sex—with profuse porn available on the internet, perhaps virtual reality and sexbots soon. And it can even offer a kind of artificial female companionship, with emerging AI avatars. 

It is a sad situation. Women are alone; and men are alone. And no children are born. It is the death of the species itself.

And men can fare better alone than women can. Women by instinct crave community, children, affirmation, security; men have a natural drive for independence and self-reliance.

So women’s levels of happiness are nose-diving. Men’s are too, but not so much.

Blame technology; and blame feminism.

Why did women react so badly, hastening their own misfortune?

It seems to be a common human reaction: when one is accustomed to privilege, and it is threatened, one tends to lash out in denial. So the Boers, feeling vulnerable, imposed apartheid. Austria-Hungary, Europe’s shakiest Empire, provoked the First World War. The current wave of Islamic militancy, similarly, looks to me like a rearguard action. 

So feminism. Methinks they do protest too much.