Paul Craig Roberts — paulcraigroberts.org April 6, 2023
The backbone and principal resource of every country is the male heterosexual population. Without them there is no country, no births to take the place of deaths. Men have the temperament and strength to fight and to lead. They protect women and children, property, borders. They lead families, communities, businesses, and governments. That has always been their role throughout history. When men become effete, the society collapses. In America this indispensable resource is being destroyed.
It begins with boys, which means they never become men. I remember when boys were trained for leadership. They received more discipline and were given more independence than girls, who were trained for nurture and motherhood. The roles of the sexes were as distinct as the sexes. There was no such thing as a girl who wanted to be a boy or a boy who wanted to be a girl. Transgenderism is an invention of a sick and dying society.
Everything related to becoming a man has been banned. School playground fights, today an excuse to call police and arrest children, were part of growing up. Sports were where you developed confidence as you learned to catch a high fly, field a grounder, throw a strike, hit a single or a home run. Boys were encouraged. They had their own space, sandlot teams, Little League, Boy Scouts. They had after school jobs–newspaper routes, bagging groceries, cutting lawns, washing cars. Girls developed cooking skills, sewing skills, artistic skills, chaste demeanor. None of this meant that women were barred from professional lives. They were authors, Registered Nurses, accountants, para-legals, teachers, scientists, scholars.
The destruction of the male began with feminism. The feminists were the first transgender advocates. They insisted on no difference in the role of men and women. It was the feminists’ insistence that the male role was better than the female’s and that women assume male roles and male sexual promiscuity, combined with their attacks on men as misogynists, that destroyed the role of men in society. All of a sudden it was not alright for boys to have their spaces. Boy Scouts had to have girls. Little league teams had to have girls. Think about this for a minute. Parents felt they had to support the girl players. Effusive praise would follow a girl catching a high fly, fielding a grounder, getting a hit. But as these are things the boys were expected to successfully do, they didn’t get the praise, and it went on from there. As “diversity” and “multiculturalism” progressed in America, it was less safe for girls to be as independent from home as boys. The equality on which feminists insisted meant that the independence of boys had to be curtailed. Today American parents who allow their male children the independence my generation had are arrested for child endangerment.
The feminist desire to turn women into men meant a diminution of male leadership roles in society as women entered politics and corporations were pressured to create “gender balance” in executive roles and in academia. Just as white people are sidelined by the accusation that they hold back blacks, men are sidelined by the assertion that they held back women.
Years ago Christina Hoff Sommers addressed the destruction of the male role in family and society. But nothing came of her warning. No lesson was learned. Today behavioral problems of boys, declining academic performance, depression and suicides arising from the loss of their role is falsely explained as girls having better self-control, as boys’ slower development, and attributed to alleged hormonal and neurological causes. No one notices that these blamed causes are new as are the conditions. Neither cause nor conditions were present when boys had leadership roles.
The facts are bald-faced. Normal young white heterosexual males grow up in a non-merit-based society. They witness preferences for females, preferences for blacks, preferences for sexual perverts. What do the normal white men get out of it? The theft of their leadership role and blame for holding back others.
Recently I heard men of the passing generation comparing women of their time with those of today. The adoption of young women of the stripper’s G-string as beach attire, the female use of four-letter words, and so on. They all agreed that the emotional support a wife gave a husband is a thing of the past. They wondered what this means for the marriages of the younger generations. Divorce which once implied failure now has no negative connotation. Are marriages becoming commitment-free? Has marriage become a temporary sexual and economic contract that once a better one is found becomes void?
In my day boys were forbidden to bully girls. Today men are bullied by women. The role of men today is to get out of the way of women and preferred racial minorities. This is not a picture of a society that is succeeding.
“The destruction of the male began with feminism.”
Wrong! It began in 1945 with the devastation of the people of Germany and Japan; all done by the useful lackeys of the demonic jew.
Of course, none of this ‘just happened’. It was planned with malice before hand by a very malevolent group of people and the consequences are what they hoped for. It’s interesting that most of the radical feminists of the 1960s, Friedan, Sontag, Abzug, Steinem et al, were all from that very special ethnic group. Makes you wonder!
And the root of it all is greedy rich people finding ways to get richer.
“In my day boys were forbidden to bully girls.”
Ah-ha!
Big mistake. That’s where they learned they could get away with anything.
“No matter how pure the heart or innocent the intent, the notion of pleasure without consequence, intimacy without commitment, sensation without deliberation, is an illusion.
The structural contradiction involved in the myth of sexual fulfillment. The sexual revolution focused upon the individual’s right to pure sensation. At the same time that it liberated sex from guilt, it encouraged us to divorce it from love and commitment.
The sensate focus, the proclamation of the right of individuals to share sexual sensations with whomever they pleased, carried with it the idea that liberated sex could be divorced from continuity of caring, from consequences, from children, from community. Stripped of its context, sex became a happening between genitals that were only incidentally connected to persons who had a history and hopes for the future. Sensation divorced from feeling and expectation. Thus “liberated”, sex became a game, a sport.
An experience emptied of emotional and moral content became the candidate for providing fulfillment, a sure recipe for schizophrenia.
The expectation that uninhibited sex would lessen agression proved false. To reduce communion between persons to contact between bodies, anonymous sex organs, and nerve endings is already an act of violence.
The touch that heals always feels and cherishes the other as a unique person. It includes the implicit promise of friendship, care, and respect.
Is it any wonder that the media seeks to fill our imaginations with pictures of blood-smeared flesh. Stabbings, rapes, mutilations, fights, the sadistic punishment of the flesh.
Sadism sells because it is an unconscious cry of despair: “If I am nothing more than a machine made of flesh, a body divorced from spirit, then destroy the flesh, smash the machine.”
We inevitably read the world-story through the lens of our own autobiography. The human psyche is the gateway to whatever we may know of the beyond. Hence we may know, or trust, that the universe is friendly, only in the measure that we may come to know ourselves as beings who are motivated by the impulse to become lovers.”
Sam Keen
That quote from Sam Keen is from the early 1990’s, the not so ‘gay’ nineties. And now, talk about ‘smash the machine’.
You can explain by focussing on the word “Equality”, which means that the inferior are being favoured, and it is an enemy who is doing this. You can put the dividing line anywhere, but let us choose 50 per cent: that many people are inferior to the other 50 per cent, so they will get behind any politics that favours them. The better you are, the more you more you are being robbed, in an “Equality” scenario, but excessive greed has given Commies the excuses they need.
Second “more you” not needed
Mr. Roberts;
You forgot the massive estrogen/soy diet fed to Amerikan men, in almost all food, and massive in their new favorite beer, IPA.
In 2021, Japanese researchers were successful in transforming a male catfish into female with a steady diet of soy.
This wasn’t an accident that it became so prevalent in most foods, at least here in Amerika, where in the so-called ‘pandemic’, I tried to ‘lead by example’….which was a complete failure, as, even now, it’s mostly men still wearing masks in stores, or driving ALONE in their vehicles.
My friend chided me that although in the ‘Lockdowns’ (which I paid not the slightest bit of attention to), I was training 3 women in the use of their firearms, safety, and how to move, engage, and move.
My friend reminded me that “Men are the ‘real’ warriors”, and that I should be training men.
“So find me some men”, I replied, as he was one of the first to send me a pic of himself…..masked, and it was mostly ‘men’ who screamed at me for going maskless or not observing the “6′ law”.
Pathetic.
By the way, Mr. Roberts?
Are you STILL telling readers ‘Islamic terrorists did 911’? I’m just curious…..
Crazy people ruin everything.
Yup. Definitely the work of white men. Sioux !
Everything Paul Roberts points out in this essay is right on; except for one little thing; he doesn’t mention the ethnicity of the early feminists who really pushed this anti-male agenda. I don’t have to mention it either as we all know what is at the bottom of this. The next time you see a photo or video of a cruel weirdly dressed individual swinging an innocent chicken around his head(to rid himself of sins or something), that’s the ethnicity we’re talking about.
judaism for the goyim like communism, feminism .
Great post. Thanks for some hard-hitting truths
Much like American democracy the American male was a figment of everyone’s imagination. Never existed,,, does not exist and will not exist. It was built upon the bs of American media. The new tranny bs is to replace that with something new.
You know,,, a few years back the little women of the world eliminated male clubs, even the 100 year old Boy Scouts. Today the male to female tranny’s are eliminating women sports. I don’t think it’s right but I call that Karma. The obvious reason for all this is the destruction of culture,,, required to bring about Destroy It then Build Back Better. Since no one seems to want to defend their culture, language, country, I say Enjoy what the Parasites are bringing you!
Millions of moronic white males obliterated pro white Germany in WWII & then wonder why society & the world is the way it is..
Of course the women are just as broken as the men..well..probably more so..
Poor things..
and PCR’s belated observations are correct but as always there is always more..
Calhouns Moustopia experiments being another interesting and probably contributing factor..
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-doomed-mouse-utopia-that-inspired-the-rats-of-nimh
After all Oswald Spengler was discussing the denouement of Western man well before PCR was even born..although of course the furrow wasn’t quite as deep back then..
But it was all in the ‘post’ so to speak..and soon to be delivered..even if the details were still in the….
Devil..
Adrenochrome?
https://twitter.com/1ightbring3r/status/1644787399464214528?t=Ye2uDQHLav-NfhTv0NfdSg&s=19
Following Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s rainbow coalition coup-d’état, the Ukrainian gender dysphoric community, were accorded the right, to legally change the sex given on their passports, from male to female or vice versa.
During early March of this year, the Kyiv Government, issued notice that former women who now identified as men on their passports, would no longer be granted leave to seek refugee status abroad. Instead, they would be conscripted into the Ukranian army, in order to flail helplessly at the Wagner Battalion, like any other patriotic man of fighting age.
I don’t know if the inverse works, for male to female transsexuals – whether or not, men in skirts get priority refugee transportation but I wouldn’t be surprized, if this were the case.
Authentically outre. As wacky as the wackiest law, passed in the Wackyland Parliament.
Jews turn everything to feces.