Ladies, are you ready to find out what Gavin Innes, the founder of Proud Boys, yet another misogynistic organization, thinks of you?
The guy is hilarious. A little dense, too, but being a Proud Boy is very hard work as you shall soon learn.
Here's the start of Gavin's statement:
Ladies, housewives, we love the work you do. We venerate you. We love that you cook and clean, sure, that doesn't take that long. We love that you produce babies with your body then shape them and nurture them. We chide that, we don't have the patience. It's incredible the way you shape a home, you shape a family, you end up shaping a community.
A translation: Women are of value only as housewives who cook and clean, but that doesn't take long at all.
And sure, women are also of value for giving birth to children and then for bringing them up. But that doesn't take long at all, either!
And no woman ever has been in the labor force (!). The labor force is where the Proud Boys are, because, as you will find out, it is they who created the world in which you (ladies, housewives) are just these rather pointless crappy and lazy appendices (though naturally worthy of veneration for the role biology and gods have decreed for you).
More from Gavin:
But it's not as hard as man's work. And that's fine. We don't mind getting our hands dirty. We don't mind losing our hands. We have way more workplace fatalities than women do, and we designed that system. By every metric, men have it worse, including rape, when you include prison. But that's our structure. We made that. And we're fine with it, as long as you keep using that magic baby machine that blows our minds. As Ann Coulter said, right-wingers are the only ones that see women as celestial.
I adore this! The work the celestial beings, aka women, perform is only housewifery and child-rearing, but it's not as hard as man's work (and takes very little time).
Men get their hands dirty! Changing diapers/nappies is like inhaling chocolate in comparison! No woman ever got her hands dirty cleaning or washing clothes or cooking meals or while changing the bed sheets of an elderly patient in a nursing home.
And men don't mind losing their hands (or lives) in workplace accidents, as long as it's clear that men's work is harder and therefore men deserve to outrank women in the society.* But at the same time men are worse off than women, by every metric, including rape, even though Gavin is completely wrong on that.**
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I find the various patriarchal movements fascinating. They can be ranked in the order of their misogyny:
Incels are probably the most woman-hating of all groups, because they openly talk about death for the womankind, but many other manosphere groups, such as pickup artists, come close.
Then there are the Proud Boys who plan to bring back the proper kind of patriarchy where Men are Men And Women Are On Pedestals (so that the men can look up their skirts and so that women can't move) Though Also To Be Despised.
Next comes Jordan Peterson Boys' Own Therapy Movement, based on the view of the world as an eternal fight between chaos (the eternal feminine***) and order (the eternal masculine), where hierarchies are both natural and to be welcomed, and where women's biology holds them back from climbing any of those hierarchies, what with the pregnancies and those babies hanging from their backs.
Peterson is a gateway drug to both the Alt Right in general and the misogyny sites in particular.
These guys tell us that they are going to take the world back. So it goes.
Most normal people, men or women, don't live in that world and might not be familiar with it. Hence these missives from me.
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* Innes' arguments are the common ones the manosphere uses. I have often read there that men deserve to earn more than women, because men are more often found in the really dangerous occupations.
Never mind that the higher earnings of men are not because of those few dangerous occupations (fishing, say), but because stockbrokers, financiers and software programmers etc. earn so much. And never mind that women are pretty actively kept out of the dangerous occupations traditionally coded male, such as fishing.
Finally, never mind that the one very dangerous occupation where women are the majority of workers, prostitution, is not counted in those dangerous-occupations statistics, because in most countries it is not a legal occupation, even though the exchanges in the sex work market are supposed to be mutually consensual.
Note, also, that there is no law which stipulates that men must pick the dangerous occupations. If everything about sex differences in the labor markets is choice, as conservatives argue, then men are choosing the riskier jobs.
And, as a complete aside, if we accept Innes' inane idea that women only work at home then all domestic abuse ending in death should be seen as a workplace fatality.
** I have written a long post about this common argument in the manosphere: That if we include prison rape, then men are raped more often than women. It is not true, and my earlier post explains why that is the case, with data and all.
It's also worth pointing out that the rapists in prison rapes are rarely women.
*** This is not just a symbolic choice. Peterson's book is patterned around the assumption that women are a chaotic force which men must control. To see how he does that and where he goes wrong, you can do no better than reading my three-part review of Peterson's book. It begins here.