re: #106 Slumbering Behemoth

IMO, he goes full on douche with his last paragraph. I have been single for *mumblemumble* years, and haven’t gotten laid in *mumblemumble* years, and in that time not once have I gone stark raving barbarian on anyone or anything.

He does not state it outright, but I am pretty sure I know what kind of carrot/stick he is using to lead the reader to the conclusion he wants, as I have heard the bogus argument many times over.

Woman civilizes Man —-> Marriage civilizes Man —-> Religious Institutions civilize Man —-> No civilized society without venerated Religious Institutions —-> My religion is the only one holding society together and preventing it from collapsing into barbarous anarchy.

Also, people who use this sort of language are lying. They use a fake language of female supremacy, (“women are better, a civilizing influence, etc”) but they also tend to insist that men must continue to hold most of the influence over such things as war and the arts, because if women are allowed to run them, the society will become ‘effeminate’, which is very bad indeed. They also reserve the right to announce which women are not feminine enough, femininity being closely tied to accepting traditional societal roles, to whatever extent the pundit deems fittin’.

I’m not phrasing this well, but you get the idea.