![]() When women are allowed access to the locker room the dynamic of the locker room changes. The second purpose in the goal of female inclusion into male space is really a policing of the thought dynamics and attitudes of the men in that space. That may sound conspiratorial, but there is no need for a concerted effort when women’s natural, fluid interest in attention and indignation will motivate them to co-opt the narrative of Red Pill awareness. Like any other Male Space the Feminine Imperative makes it its business to ensure that ‘overseers in the locker room’ – in this case the social awareness of the Red Pill – are emplaced to control a narrative and a condition to suit its purposes. I daresay this last part is exactly what the manosphere is seeing now. It’s Man Up 2.0 make a token push to “re-empower” men just enough for them to idealize the romanticism of the responsibilities required for living up to women’s expectations. In girl-world, what directly benefits women necessarily is presumed to benefit men, so what we’ll see is a new wave of female bloggers bastardizing the world-worn ideas that the manosphere has put together and repackaging it in a female context. Adopting the male perspective seems novel, something that might set a woman apart in a sea of common fem-speak, but it’s important for Men to understand that anything positive a ‘pro-man’ female author has to offer is still rooted in her female reality. Not surprisingly this element of message delivery is lost on most women. Doubtfire, and you’ll at least reach the audience beginning with something like validity. The environment is such that anything remotely critical a man might offer is instantly suspect of misogyny or personal (‘he’s bitter”) bias, however, couch that message in a female perspective, play Mrs. No man could write this critique and be taken seriously, and therein lies the danger in women co-opting the message the manosphere has been compiling for 12 years now. It is an indictment of, and evidence of, the feminine centric social order we find ourselves in today that any man brazen enough to write verbatim the same offering would be dismissed and passed over as a misogynists at best – lose his long career and personal life at worst. My intent in that essay wasn’t to call Charen to the carpet, but rather to illustrate the point that only women are allowed to write an article that criticizes issues specific to women. ![]() You can read the whole post it was one of my earliest essays on this blog and, as I’ve come to realize, one of my more prophetic ones too. ![]() Four years ago I wrote a post titled Could a Man Have Written This? I opened that post with a short, I thought positive, critique of an article by Mona Charen in which she in turn took a then relatively unknown Kate Bolick to task over her All the Single Ladies article.
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