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Fulton's avatar

Pretty good, as always. Not crazy. You are, however, locked in that libertarian/communitarian ping-pong game. Sorry to say. Like the man/woman thing, the answer is hierarchy. Women rebel against male authority (see Genesis 2 in your favourite book). Your commoditization theory is a good enough explanation for why this happened, but, ultimately, an absurd notion like "equality of the sexes"---completely at odds with the bulk of Western history and ALL of its important texts--has put us into the mess we are in. Causal reciprocity here. Damn, you must be old if you remember the original "manosphere" days. Good times. Rian Stone has preserved a lot of it in his "sidebar." Get some sleep and carry on.

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I remember being a MRA back in the day and my biggest flaw was being fundamentally liberal and expecting women to be the same as men. They're not. They're subject to vastly different evolutionary pressures which have of course acted on the brain as much as the rest of the body.

We don't expect women to become lumberjacks and shiprights because that would be insane. Equally we should not expect women to excercise direct political authority and generally act like men.

Communitarianism is an important answer, but part of that answer has to be men becoming men again and women becoming women.

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