Semantics Cause Depression
There's a new study out claiming that men are depressed to be men now because women have too much power these days. Apparently, they want to go back to a time when they had all the jobs and women stayed home to raise their children.
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Hm. I don't believe that study. I know men. They like it when the little woman goes out to work because it brings home more money for them - and at divorce time, it gets split 50/50. They also like it that they get paternity leaves and even have the option of staying at home with the kids if they want to, without fear of being laughed at by all the Feminist moms at the playground.
In fact, they get a lot of praise, men who stay at home with children. Lots of praise. Way more praise than do women who do the exact same thing. It's all, "Ooh, look at him. What a real man he must be. A terrific father, too. He's made some ugly Feminist bitch a lucky woman. What kind of ungrateful skank goes out to work while her wonderful husband has to stay home with the children and do her job for her while she tarts around town trying to be one of the boys?"
I don't know any men who are afraid, embarassed, depressed to call themselves a "man" either. Not a one. In fact, they sing it, these days - loudly - when they're playing Guitar Hero or Rock Band: "I'm a man! Don't you know what I am!"
I get it that men would like Feminists to go away, though. Tough nuts, boys. Seriously. Toughen up your nuts. Because we're just going to become worse ballbusters as we prune up. I mean, I'm really vain and I have no intention of having any kind of surgery to make me look weird and completely discredit anything I have to say about grrl power.
Because that's the other thing isn't it. This push to convince women they need to have surgery to look good when even the visually impaired among us can see very clearly that all surgery does is make you look weird - and probably shorten your life - which is the one place we had it over men now that we've stopped bleeding to death in childbirth.
(And I speak of here in the West. In Africa, 1 in 8 women still dies in childbirth. I haven't seen the study, so I'll do it here for you, boil it right down, too: Feminism = A better life for women.)
Anyway, I think all this whining about how Feminists have ruined being a man is coming from the Right. That's because it's just as terrified of men having role choices as it is of women having role choices. And guess what? Women will continue to take over in the workplace because men enjoy spending more time in the home. They really do. And they won't give it up. So soon, the workplace will be chock a block with women trying to break through that glass ceiling that won't even be there anymore, so egalitarianized will the workplace have become.
Because I don't know if you've noticed, but it's all about teamwork in the workplace nowadays. That's bullshit, too, of course, but most work is, you know. I've worked and I've stayed at home raising kids and now I'm back working. If you're looking for meaning in life I can tell you where you'll find it and it ain't at work.
Better yet, just stay home and don't raise kids. Before you know it, you'll have so much meaning in your life you'll have to write a book.
Anyway, if there's one thing studies about how Feminism has ruined men all leave out - conveniently - it's that men do NOT do things that are not in their best interests. If there's one kind of primal wiring that's in no danger of being switched around by Feminists it's that men have an uncanny knack for sussing out what they want and going for it and ignoring what everybody else thinks - including Feminists.
So I think we can all count on social progress going forward. Sure, NeoCon men will be depressed, but who cares? They're clearly just a bunch of whiny assholes who can't keep up. Take a pill, dudes. I'm sure that's where this study about men being depressed to call themselves men is leading anyway - a new depression medication for men who are depressed to call themselves men thanks to Feminism - "Feminisgra".
