If you want a glimpse into the deepest recesses of the leftist mind, you can’t do better than read Bruce Holsinger’s novel Culpability. Noah, the main character, is completely subservient to his girl-boss wife Lorelei. It’s fascinating that the same people who always tell us that it’s horrible when a wife turns herself into her husband’s silent, obedient maid think it’s just peachy when a husband says he’s the pedestal for his wife to step on as she marches towards glory.
Poor Noah is so cucked it’s painful to read about his self-abasement. He’s a successful man who makes an excellent living but he convinced himself that Lorelei is a genius while he’s stupid, and there’s no humiliation at her hands that he doesn’t eagerly accept. Their children also treat him like garbage, and it never occurs to Noah that he deserves some respect from them. Noah’s eldest son, an 18-year-old high-school graduate, learns the lessons of debased masculinity from his father and lets first his sister and then a girlfriend get him into a lot of trouble. Male weakness has become a sad legacy that father passes down to his son.
In the USSR we also had inverted gender roles. Noah is very similar to the Soviet model of masculinity. But there is one huge difference. In the USSR, women took the roles that had been abandoned by men. They became strong, resilient, stoic, and leaders of the family. In Culpability, this doesn’t happen. Lorelei is a neurotic basket case. She’s a tender flower who has a nervous breakdown if plates aren’t arranged just so in the kitchen cabinet and has hysterics over sad stories on TV.
In this vacuum of leadership, Noah tries to step in and act like a man but Lorelei humiliates him every time when he emerges from his browbeaten stupor. Unsurprisingly, their three children suffer because neither parent is a figure of authority.
There’s a lot of AI stuff sprinkled into the narrative because AI is a safe, PC subject that brings an aura of coolness to a story. Against the background of the clown show that is Noah’s and Lorelei’s family dynamic, however, AI doesn’t sound all that scary.
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You’ve mentioned this before and it has always confused me. Is this purely within the confines of the family? Because outside of the family I’m not sure soviet women had the kind of dominance that would come about as a result of this role-inversion. You’d see women disproportionately represented in leadership roles in politics, industry, educational institutions, etc. Basically where the real power lies. Was it the case? I’m genuinely curious.
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Not in the Politburo, but everywhere else it was a lot easier to run across women in charge than, say, in the US not even back then but probably than even now. But the main difference is that these women in charge would behave like you’d expect from very authoritarian men. They wouldn’t complain that men interrupt them or explain things to them.
It’s this mix of wanting to be recognized as the person in charge while behaving like a tender flower that I find bizarre about Western girl bosses.
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lol so true. Remember Kamala’s “I’m speaking?” They tried to make it into the female equivalent of man walking on the moon. Such a radical act lmao.
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LOL, who the hell wants women behaving like men, and particularly “like very authoritarian men”. Marx and Engels were full of shit, and so were the f’ing communists of second wave feminism. You have personally seen enough human misery and poverty to understand the dystopian result of attempts to alter sexual instincts(traits), so for the forty eleventh time, why are you still a feminist ;-D
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My niece is 15. The other day, my sister took her to the pool and texted me that a guy sitting next to them offered to swap seats so they can sit together. I misunderstood the story and assumed the guy wanted to sit next to my niece. I spent my entire youth having sleazy dudes literally persecute me. It started when I was 11. I was groped, shoved, harassed and insulted for years starting at 11. Now that my niece is 15, I know she won’t avoid this. This will be a large part of her becoming a woman. Because that’s what it’s like for every woman.
That’s why.
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Where you was raised was an area where the Bolshevics had stupidly done their best to destroy normal societal mores in an effort to undermine patriarchal control — with the completely predictable result, a feminist result, and one that you apparently did not appreciate.
Now, early adolescence is often difficult, both sexes are awkward and clumsy, a learning experience. But where and when I grew up, there were still expected behaviors – well, mostly intact, but the hatred of the second wave destroyed those.
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No, this is the female experience everywhere. Warding off unwanted sexual advances is what we do from puberty to menopause. All women, always, everywhere exist in the fear of being harassed and molested.
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Feminism, like most cults, uses fear as a primary motivation. Unwanted sexual advances are part of life, unlike men, women usually somewhat try to disguise it to provide plausible deniability. Exactly what would you have us do?.
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It would be very helpful if we could move away from the idea that women need to be persuaded or convinced to like men. There’s no woman who doesn’t know whether she’s attracted to a guy. No effort is necessary.
If she responds to persuasion abd effort, it’s because the guy is a placeholder while she waits for the man she really likes.
Just this alone, going away immediately if there’s not an enthusiastic response to an offer, would move the needle a lot.
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LOL, Kid, you might actually be a feminist, are you advising that we simoly eradicate courtship ;-D
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What part of what I described yesterday as my experience since age 11 can remotely pass for courtship?
Actual courtship happens between two willing people who already like each other. A man badgering a clearly unwilling woman is not courtship. It’s sad, pathetic and demeaning for everybody. Including the man who becomes a salesman of unwanted wares.
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Tell me, how much of this “badgering” happened in North America? Because personally, I had several girlfriends where there was clearly mutual attraction. I liked them all, still do, but I finally found the one that I loved.
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You know what’s been done to North America. I arrived in Montreal in 1998, and it was already an Arab capital. I don’t even want to think what it’s like today. Unleashing these hordes of savages onto civilized women was a crime against humanity, in my opinion.
I’ve never had any problems with Canadian men. But the Muslims, and to a lesser extent the Hispanics, were not a picnic.
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LOL, supposedly the Liberals are trying to give us “new and improved” immigration numbers…I just tuned it out ;-D
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Ah! It can get even better. Truly, the joys never cease.
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On a separate note, remember the news about how the government was making plans to cancel this parasite’s residence permit? In reality, a 1 euro fine. lol.
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Is this what they call “literary S/M”? Just asking.
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