THE MENACE OF FEMINISM
IAN BUCKLEY looks at one of the most dangerous enemies of the nation
ALMOST half of British marriages end in divorce; the fastest growing category of the population as revealed by the last census is single one-person households. The depredations of the Child Support Agency have been well documented by various journalists. This evil organisation, founded by Margaret Thatcher, has been the major contributing factor in at least 55 male suicides (This figure has risen since this article was first published). Changes in the divorce laws now mean that unscrupulous women - assisted by crafty lawyers - can reduce their unfortunate ex-husbands to destitution. The number of women choosing never to have children is climbing steadily. Masculine values and attitudes are under constant attack in the mass media. A common strand in all of these developments is the anti-life doctrine of feminism.
The most important figures in the early feminist movement were Gloria Steinem and Betty Friedan. Steinem's Ms magazine and Friedan's The Feminine Mystique assiduously promoted the idea that women should find fulfilment in jobs and careers, rather than marriage and children.
Once Friedan and Steinem had done the initial work, a bandwagon was set in motion. During the mid-1970s Time and Newsweek magazines extensively and enthusiastically covered the subject.
We can sense a contradiction here. Feminism was claimed as an anti-establishment idea, but it has always acted in tandem with the establishment. The capitalists wanted to move over to a cheaper, largely female workforce and feminism provided the spurious intellectual justification for this process.
Minority background
No one could deny that the relations between the sexes have fallen out of balance during the modern era. But this has been largely caused by industrialisation, urbanisation and the Judaic part of Christianity. Interestingly, the anti-female attitudes of Judaism provided the background from which nearly all the leading feminists came.
Their theories have had devastating effects on the future prospects of our folk. Recent surveys have indicated that just over 20 per cent of women born since 1960 are unlikely ever to bear children. A variety of causes are implicated in this demographic catastrophe, including poverty, materialism and sheer indifference. This bare figure of 20 per cent has not been broken down in any way, but there is no doubt that the figure is much higher among better-educated and more intelligent women - the very section of the population who should have the most children if the overall quality of the population is to be maintained or improved.
Even more grotesquely, sterilisation clinics have reported increasing numbers of enquiries from women of 19 and 20, who wish to be sterilised immediately to avoid jeopardising their careers.
At the other end of the age-range, fertility clinics see an endless line of well-to-do women in their forties who have suddenly found that the careers for which they sacrificed the best child-bearing days no longer offer fulfilment. Now they are desperate for children, but have probably left it too late.
Dupes of fashion
The feminist propaganda which encourages these tends speaks of 'freedom' and 'individual choice', but the reality is that those who are taken in by these blandishments, far from thinking freely for themselves, are the unthinking dupes of fashion and artificially induced hostility towards men and children.
In most cases, it really isn't their fault. The destruction of the traditional male breadwinners' jobs by the advances of economic globalisation is forcing more and more women out to work to try to make ends meet. Naturally these new wage slaves want equal pay and opportunities with their male counterparts. As with the population as a whole, many women's' natural instincts are dulled by materialism and urbanism.
Then there is the ceaseless brainwashing by the mass media. To pick two choice items from the sewer, Carlton TV's Lovebites and HTV's Dating the Enemy both assiduously pump out the idea that marriage and kids come last.
Where will it all end? History provides us with many examples of societies that lose the will to live. Over to L.P.Wilkinson, Emeritus Professor of Classics at Cambridge: -
"The old Roman marriage contract specified that the aim was the procreation of children. But by the second century self-regard prevailed over public spirit. The poor might be reluctant to raise children for economic reasons: but with the richer classes another factor at Rome, as in contemporary Greece, was the loss of interest in perpetuating ones' family, class or nation, and consequent reluctance on the part of parents to undertake the responsibility of rearing children, or, in the wife's case, the trouble of pregnancy, the pain and the danger of childbirth, and the disfigurement these caused in what was now a sexually competitive world¼ B.R.Dodds has diagnosed all of this as a 'disease endemic in the entire culture of the period¼ an endogenous neurosis, an index of intense and widespread guilt-feelings'."(The Roman Experience, Alfred Knopf Inc)
Thank you, Professor. That was most illuminating. And so dusk descended on the Roman Empire, as it now threatens to descend on the home islands of the dismembered British Empire.
The Observer of 15th September 1996 published a two-page feature contrasting the richest and poorest areas in Britain. In Sunderland, the poorest area, the streets are called 'garths', a name derived from the Old Norse gardr. The present-day descendants of the Vikings were having a rough time, stranded in the wasteland created by liberal economics: the docks were rusting and idle, shops were derelict and permanent unemployment a way of life. But, in spite of everything, a trace of a community still existed.
Decadence at the top
The report from the richest area, the Barbican in London, seemed far sadder: -
"Considering the number of flats - 2,000 - there are surprisingly few children on the estate and it is no accident that the expenditure on children's toys and games in the most expensive postal district in England is 20 per cent lower than the national average. Marks & Spencer sent leaflets to all Barbican residents extolling the delights and convenience of its new store close to the Barbican. You can buy men's and women's clothing there, but no clothes for children. There just isn't the demand."
The prosperous inhabitants of the Barbican have fallen victim to the endemic disease of our time; they are committing genetic suicide. Though many other factors are also implicated, the influence of feminism should not be under-estimated.
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