How the culture war gave birth to the war on masculinity and femininity
How did we arrive in a culture war?
In this day and age the culture war has greatly obfuscated what it means to be a man or woman. Our culture has shifted into rapidly dividing factions. Inherently, the culture war has birthed a victimhood mentality that has transcended into an almost religion. Personal responsibility has been minimized to the dustbin of morality. Selfishness and materialism seem to pervade the global consciousness. Subsequently, it’s almost impossible to navigate the gaslighting and ulterior motives of people who describe themselves as heroes of the culture war today. That’s why it’s so crucial to be proactive in our mental and physical health and live our best life!
If you’ve sensed that there’s a foreboding sense of dread and anxiety in the world right now, you wouldn’t be alone.
According to the CDC, the mental illness in our youth is rising, especially among young women.
Whether we like it or not, this culture war has spawned a gender war that is escalating to the point none of us has seen in our lifetimes. However, this isn’t just occurring here in America, but rather all across the western world. Anger, loneliness, depression, and anxiety have been exponentially rising over the past several decades and show no signs of stopping. In fact, we are coming to a point of no return in the destruction of our society and culture unless we can make drastic changes to our own lives and the way we treat others.
I did an article a few weeks back on the coming mental health crisis. Unfortunately, the more research I do, the more dire the situation seems. There seems to be major diversions of many aspects of our culture, but I believe the most important is the inversion of masculinity and femininity. There has been major backlash about this subject and it is rapidly becoming one of the most popular subjects in our mainstream talking points in the culture war. We’ve been told that left is right and up is down, but if we cannot understand the concept of the healthy natural dichotomy of masculinity and femininity then we are doomed as a society. Let’s take a look.
The war on masculinity and femininity in the culture war
What is healthy masculinity?
The main healthy masculine is that of provider and protector. Over the past several decades there has been a critical shift in the way our society has treated masculinity. Somehow, the culture war has perverted this concept to refer as any masculinity as “toxic masculinity”. This is an inversion of what traditional healthy masculinity means. It wasn’t until the 1960’s, with the rise of third-wave feminism, that we’ve seen any concept of this term. However, the current incarnation of fourth-wave feminism that was incepted around 2012 has been incredibly destructive to our society as a whole with the demonization of wide swaths of people while using diversity and inclusion as a shield as well as a battering ram to the traditional values these people despise.
Unless you’ve been living under a rock the past decade, you can see the forced propaganda all over our media, institutions, culture, education, etc. Currently, this is causing a massive backlash as people begin to wake up to this agenda. Media conglomerates have systematically been erasing and demonizing traditional masculine heroes and replacing them with a something else entirely.
For instance just take a look at the new Lord of the Rings series on Amazon. There is a massive disconnect with a widening array of groups in our culture. Even Elon Musk weighed in on the shifting in culture that is replacing traditional roles and inverting them with something completely different in the name of diversity, equality, and inclusion.
Masculine men have been demonized and demoralized as having “toxic masculinity” all while being encouraged to disregard their natural tendencies and develop more feminine traits. Consequently, female characters across the spectrum have been radically encouraged to portray more masculine archetypes.
What is healthy femininity?
Not only is there a war on traditional masculinity, there is a war on healthy femininity as well. The main healthy feminine is composed of nurturing and compassion. Kindness and understanding exude this archetype. Unfortunately, there has also been an inversion on what it means to be feminine. Within the past decade, there has been an escalating disparagement of women who want to hold a traditional feminine form.
For decades, there has been an ever-increasing pressure on young women to eschew their natural femininity to take on a more masculine demeanor. This inversion of femininity is not in all aspects of society but it’s certainly a majority. The women who wanted to focus on highlighting their feminine were labeled as oppressed and the masculine men they were attracted to were demonized as oppressors.
The truth about modern feminism
Over the years the modern woman has been told to break free from the patriarchy and provide for themselves (especially with 4th wave feminism). However, there has been a growing contingent of women who regret not finding a masculine man earlier in life. Consequently, many of these women who were told to exude a more masculine mindset have found they’ve lost the femininity that would have made them attractive to a potential masculine mate to begin with.
The masculine and feminine dance and flow symbiotic energy. Like the yin and yang, any ideal relationship would have a converging amount of each archetype to supplement the other. A very masculine man would want a very feminine woman and vice versa. This is important to note and it doesn’t matter what biological gender you prefer. It’s all about the energy!
What does this culture war of masculinity and femininity mean for the future?
As one would observe, the culture war has wreaked havoc on relationships, dating, and the nuclear family unit. Some people believe it’s a deliberate attack on the very bedrock of what originally made our society so great. Currently, much of the population simply accepts that any masculinity is toxic without even addressing the root cause of these problems. To be fair, there is both toxic masculinity as well as toxic femininity, but there is a growing contingent of people all over the world that craves a symbiosis of healthy masculinity and femininity.
Unfortunately, we are all hurt by this inversion of gender roles but it seems to be effecting women more so than men.
The effects of mental health on relationships
One can simply look at the rise in single parent homes and the rapidly increasing rates of divorce to surmise that there is a deep-seated problem that very few people are addressing. As family courts, divorce courts, and society as a whole have adopted this inverse ideology, they’ve demonized both traditional masculinity as well as femininity.
This has caused several offshoots of factions and has sent both men and women to forgo even trying to find a partner. As a matter of fact, this has given rise to the phenomena called MGTOW (Men Going Their Own Way) where men are just giving up on relationships all together. There are several other sub-genres of MGTOW that you can look up on your own, but overall, these men feel like their life is better off by simply cutting off what they believe has become a toxic feminine culture. The 4th wave feminists basically believe the same thing but on the other side of the spectrum and it’s further driving a wedge in society and fueling the culture war.
The culture war and population growth
As population growth is crashing all over the world, and with replacement rates dwindling, there is going to be a very difficult future for several generations unless something is done to correct the situation. Personally, I believe that if we address the root of the decades-old problem then a massive correction may not be needed, but there needs to be something done about it fast. If not, we will have an aging population exiting the workforce with a dwindling, feckless replacement generation that will be unable to produce. This would be catastrophic for not only the American economy but would most likely cause a massive global depression and die off.
The tribalism effect of “the left” vs “the right”
The pendulum has swung back and forth between demonizing masculinity and femininity with an inverse of each. Unfortunately, this has created a deep divide in our culture whereas it has polarized the two factions in escalating fashion. Consequently, this division has caused great chaos and a loss of empathy and compassion for each side. The further the divide in our culture, the more it propels people to feel isolated, alone, confused, frustrated, and angry.
This growing division has mostly been divided into what people call “left” and “right” whereas the former has more progressive values and the latter has more traditional values. Realistically, most people have a range of beliefs on both sides of the spectrum, but this has been fractured. This is mainly because of rage filled talking points designed to drive profit and power by pundits, celebrities, and wanna-be influencers. This has fueled a maelstrom of dissonance simmering with escalating forms of tribalism.
The gaslighting of the culture war and the propaganda machine
This tribalism effect has caused a cascade of media, pundits, social media, corporations, social leaders, celebrities, government officials, etc., all to profit by fueling this division. From both the left and the right, the hopes of these ideological and economical tyrants is power and fame. The majority of people fail to realize this polarization will be the destruction of our society as a whole. This escalation is rapidly getting out of control. Perhaps it’s already past the point of no return, but if we don’t tone down the rhetoric soon, we will get to the point where there is no going back to civilized discourse with those in which we disagree.
As hard as it is to believe, there has been a coordinated effort on both sides of the spectrum. This is not only done for ideological reasons, but also for profit. With the advent of social technology and the rise in tribalism among our cultural leaders, this creates a perfect storm for a dangerous ideological totalitarian state.
The dangers of falling into totalitarianism
This is a very real possibility. Inevitably, culture warriors that are guided either by profit or ideological reason will eventually need the division to escalate. In order to keep their house of cards from falling they need to “unperson” their political enemies and drive their own people into a cultish and dangerous mass formation state. The individual (quite literally) will not believe what their ears here and their eyes see. Consequently, rational thinking is a thing of the past as individuals will form into factions that are guided by destruction of the other factions at all costs in ever-escalating violence and atrocities towards their fellow human beings.
What can we do?
Both the healthy masculine and feminine are crucial to any relationship or great society. It doesn’t matter what your sexual preference is, they are co-equal and you cannot have one without the other. With such polarization in the world, it’s hard to imagine finding a peaceful resolution. There are so many differing opinions, especially when you factor in the massive divergence in generations. Some just want to spread darkness and destruction. That’s why if someone slaps you (metaphorically) it’s important to turn the other cheek and not retaliate. It’s pointless anyway.
Like I said before, most people have varying views and take more moderate positions. However, with the advent of big tech and vertical monopolies controlling the levers of what information reaches people, it takes a very discerning person to navigate what is propaganda and what is not.
Unfortunately, most folks on either ends of the extreme are far too gone to reach. However, I do believe that there is an awakening happening among the general population where they have a craving for natural order. Especially with independent creators, people are beginning to break away from the matrix. Perhaps there is no solution and we are destined to destroy ourselves, or perhaps people will transcend the trivialities as they continue to seek a higher level of being.
Only time will tell, but in the meantime, we should strive to fully understand ourselves and find our purpose in the world. We should not judge others but rather exude forgiveness, humility, compassion, and understanding. By living a good life you serve as a beacon of hope to others who are lost. You serve as a shining light on a hill as a modern day hero for people in the darkness. They will see you and and say, “I want to be like that!” So go forth and live your best life today! Peace.
