{"id":46617,"date":"2019-02-23T01:00:48","date_gmt":"2019-02-23T06:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=46617"},"modified":"2019-01-23T09:03:32","modified_gmt":"2019-01-23T14:03:32","slug":"qotd-toxic-masculinity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2019\/02\/23\/qotd-toxic-masculinity\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: “Toxic masculinity”"},"content":{"rendered":"

And then we have toxic masculinity. Is there toxic masculinity? Of course there is. Well, there is toxic and it can have a masculine expression. Because of obvious biological differences, the most toxic of women will have issues beating up people or raping them. It can be done, but it won\u2019t be common.<\/p>\n

Is masculinity toxic? Not more than femininity. The latest insistence on doing everything the feminine way has got us \u201cfeminine business\u201d and \u201cfeminine politics\u201d where everything is run on image, innuendo and gossip: the female version of toxicity. You\u2019re either with the group or out, and if you\u2019re out we\u2019ll demonize you.<\/p>\n

So blaming everything on men is bad-crazy.<\/p>\n

I have a friend who has been trying to defend the Gillette ad as in \u201cBut they\u2019re giving to causes that help raise boys who are fatherless\u201d etc. I love her to death, but no. While that might be laudable, the fact is that that add is another brick in the wall of \u201cIf you\u2019re a woman and your life isn\u2019t perfect it\u2019s a man\u2019s fault.\u201d<\/p>\n

This bad crazy not only destroys marriages, it destroys GIRLS. You see that thing above \u201cto succeed you must sacrifice?\u201d If you infect females with the idea that they\u2019re owed success and if they don\u2019t get it, it\u2019s men\u2019s fault, you\u2019re both undermining them and turning them into rage-filled screeching monkeys, who are exactly zero use to society. (Oh, but they vote for Marxists, so I guess there\u2019s that.)<\/p>\n

Worse, this bad crazy is riding on other bad crazy. Which like most bad crazy since the twentieth century has its origins on the insane crazy of Marx.<\/p>\n

The question is, WHY was this ad made at all? It certainly doesn\u2019t sell razors. So, why?<\/p>\n

Because for decades we\u2019ve taught our children their most important role in life is the crazy cakes \u201cchange the world\u201d or \u201cmake a difference\u201d and the difference they\u2019re supposed to make is in the class-war (or race war, or sex war now) sense of bringing about the Marxist paradise. We tell them they\u2019re supposed to speak for the voiceless, then tell them the voiceless are the \u201cdesignated victim classes\u201d (whom frankly we can\u2019t get to SHUT UP.) We tell them this is what gives meaning to life. We tell them through school, through entertainment, through news narratives, through the people who are being lionized.<\/p>\n

And this is bad crazy. Really bad crazy. By itself it is a wrench that will take society apart. We have publishers, writers, journalists, and probably taxi drivers, policemen, engineers and who knows what, increasingly convinced their highest calling is not doing their job, but \u201ceducating\u201d or \u201cimproving\u201d or \u201craising the consciousness of\u201d other people.<\/p>\n

Even for a credo that worked with humanity \u2014 say Christianity \u2014 when a society becomes convinced pushing the idea is more important than doing their job, the wheels come off. BUT when the credo is neo-Marxism, or actually \u201cincreasingly elaborate excuses as for the only thing Marxism brings about is death\u201d it\u2019s exponentially worse.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s also the explanation for why the wheels come off every field that gets taken over by the left: because the people in those fields stop understanding what their actual job is.<\/p>\n

And it\u2019s everywhere. At such a deep level that most people \u2014 even those mad at Gillette \u2014 didn\u2019t see that the actual problem is that no one involved in the damn ad understood it had NOTHING to do with SELLING the product.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s bad crazy. There\u2019s a lot of bad crazy running in the world. And we must stop it \u2014 and build under, build over, build around \u2014 or it will kill society.<\/p>\n

Sarah Hoyt, “Bad Crazy”, Libertarian Enterprise<\/em><\/a>, 2019-01-20.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

And then we have toxic masculinity. Is there toxic masculinity? Of course there is. Well, there is toxic and it can have a masculine expression. Because of obvious biological differences, the most toxic of women will have issues beating up people or raping them. It can be done, but it won\u2019t be common. Is masculinity […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[831,28,53,41],"tags":[97,262,987,906,1020,43],"class_list":["post-46617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-media","category-politics","category-quotations","tag-advertising","tag-culture","tag-feminism","tag-mentalhealth","tag-progressives","tag-women"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-c7T","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46617"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46617\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46618,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46617\/revisions\/46618"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}