647. Masculinity Is Obsolete And An Anachronism
Ruthless capitalistic people do not hesitate to enhance their profit, and propagating masculinity is just one example:
Ruthless capitalistic people do not hesitate to enhance their profit, and propagating masculinity is just one example:
"Where male attitudes are concerned, a new study implicates magazine advertisements specifically aimed at men as helping to reinforce a certain set of views on masculinity termed "hyper-masculinity.""
"Hyper-masculinity is an extreme form of masculine gender ideology comprising four main components: toughness, violence, dangerousness and calloused attitudes toward women and sex."
"Vokey's results are consistent with considerable prior research showing a positive association between hyper-masculine beliefs and a host of social and health problems, such as dangerous driving, drug use and violence towards women. "
Masculinity is not only a hazard to women and sometimes also to other men, it is also obsolete and an anachronism when considering the circumstances of modern life.
What is usually defined and understood by the word masculinity, are either physical traits or traits and behaviors derived thereof.
- Strength, endurance, stamina, high libido
- Muscles, speed and fitness acquired by physical exercise
- Skills acquired by sports and exercises like catching and throwing objects, fighting, riding, climbing
- Aggression, violence, competition, risk taking, fearlessness, domination.
Masculinity does not include any intelligence and cognitive skills, which depend exclusively upon the quality of the brain. Masculinity is understood as what distinguishes men from women. The cognitive qualities, which women can have as much as men, are not used to define masculinity. This reduces masculinity to physical traits.
Men can easily demonstrate their innate physical advantage by beating up, abusing and raping defenseless women, while any male claim of higher intelligence contradicts reality. Only fools deny the evidence of women's cognitive equality.
A positive attitude to their masculinity is men's pathetic attempt to interpret their biological advantage of merely physical strength as an alleged superiority. It really is both sad and ludicrous to consider it a sign of superiority, when someone is physically able to force his will upon a helpless victim.
In prehistoric times the survival of hunter and gatherer societies depended upon men's attributes of masculinity.
- Hunting for food and fighting for the protection against wild animals and marauders required physically strong and fit men, who cultivated masculinity.
- Leaders had to proof their abilities by fighting and competing over other men.
- When resources were extremely scarce, fighting over access to the resources was fighting over who would live and who would perish.
- High male libido deprived women of a choice and caused many unwanted pregnancies. This may have contributed to the survival of the human species by compensating for the high mortality.
Today, masculinity is obsolete.
- Any intelligent, trained and educated person of both genders even with physical disabilities can do research and construct or invent machines, tools, appliances, chemicals, which are stronger and faster and more efficient than any prototype of an extreme masculine man could ever be.
- Politicians, leaders, rulers, bosses need to be elected for their wisdom, responsibility, justice, intelligence, education and the ability to cooperate and to communicate. Those who get to the top by successful fighting are the wrong ones to be there. I suspect that masculinity contributes to the Peter principle.
- Today, the global resources suffice for a modest, frugal life for all living humans, a fair distribution requires cooperation. Fighting over resources today is fighting for unjust greed, not for basic survival.
- Today, male high libido causes women's suffering and global overpopulation. Today, those who invent the best and safest birth control methods compensate for the damage, that male libido does.
Today, many of those people of both genders, whose qualities enable them to contribute to the technological, medical, chemical and social progress, would have been failures and losers as cave men. The females would have been wasted as breeders. Femininity is as obsolete as is masculinity.
When persons of both genders are wearing comfortable clothes like jeans and t-shirts, the most prominent visual distinction between natural and unmodified men and women would be a man's beard. A beard is in fact the only distinctive sign a man's maleness, which neither does harm women nor can be used to do so by a man's choice.
It is weird and absurd, that men shave off this sign of being men and then they compensate for the lost distinction by enhancing and accentuating what they consider as masculinity and what makes them hazardous. A man with a beard presents himself so unmistakably as a man, that neither muscles nor aggression can add anything to this.
What is needed is a model of humanity, which is contrasted with animality and which replaces the gender distinction. Those cognitive qualities, which are the enabler of progress are gender-neutral.
Only primitive fools derive their identity from their masculinity and as being different from women. Wise intellectual men derive their identity from the cognitive qualities of their brains. They recognize this as shared with women but as a decisive distinction from animals.
Nothing of what I and many other educated and intelligent women wish to share with a man requires masculinity.
