Name: Anonymous 2008-08-10 2:27
Everyone is aware that a sexual revolution has taken place in the West since the Second World War. Most people think of this revolution primarily in terms of the "liberation" of women, as seen in their increased role in economic life outside the home and a few traditional occupations; and of freer -- or more promiscuous, depending on one's viewpoint -- sexual relations between men and women, attributed to the breakdown of traditional morality under the impact of the mass media and facilitated by "the pill" and legalized abortion. The sexual revolution also has other facets, however, which, although not as widely recognized or publicized as those mentioned above, are of a more fundamental nature. One of these, the demasculinization of the Western male, together with the reaction of the Western female to this, is a cause for grave concern among thoughtful persons, even those who generally approve of the wider economic role women have today and do not regret the disappearance of the fear of pregnancy as a check on premarital sex.
Really, "demasculinization" is an inadequate word for describing what has happened to the Western male. Certainly, the number of effeminate males has increased greatly -- not just the sexual inverts, who actually have taken pseudo-female sexual roles, but even more the legions of sissies and weaklings, of flabby, limp-wristed, non-aggressive, non-physical, indecisive, slack-jawed, fearful males who, while still heterosexual in theory and practice, have not even a vestige of the old macho spirit, so deprecated today, left in them.
Beyond these pitiful casualties of the modern era, however, are the much larger numbers of White males who still think like men -- more or less -- but are constrained from expressing their maleness in many of the ways which were natural in the past. One of the most important of those ways was supporting and protecting a mate. To be sure, many men are still able to fill this traditional role of provider and protector, but a rapidly growing number of others are not, and the psychological consequences for the latter are profound.
Really, "demasculinization" is an inadequate word for describing what has happened to the Western male. Certainly, the number of effeminate males has increased greatly -- not just the sexual inverts, who actually have taken pseudo-female sexual roles, but even more the legions of sissies and weaklings, of flabby, limp-wristed, non-aggressive, non-physical, indecisive, slack-jawed, fearful males who, while still heterosexual in theory and practice, have not even a vestige of the old macho spirit, so deprecated today, left in them.
Beyond these pitiful casualties of the modern era, however, are the much larger numbers of White males who still think like men -- more or less -- but are constrained from expressing their maleness in many of the ways which were natural in the past. One of the most important of those ways was supporting and protecting a mate. To be sure, many men are still able to fill this traditional role of provider and protector, but a rapidly growing number of others are not, and the psychological consequences for the latter are profound.