Did you ever think what those sleepers are that underlie the railroad? Each one is a man, an Irishman, or a Yankee man. The rails are laid on them, and they are covered with sand, and the cars run smoothly over them.
Henry David Thoreau, Walden
By : Today’s culture of misandry could be
considered the greatest complex of oppression and abuse seen in the
modern age. Over three-billion men and boys are routinely exploited,
overlooked and abused, with it all rationalized as necessary, as fair,
or as simply not happening. This system of inequality is likely the
largest (by head count) oppression of a single distinguishable
demographic of the last century, if not of all history. However, there exists another structured inequality that is even more far reaching: poverty. For centuries the greater masses have been exploited by the wealthy to further grow their riches and to wage war between houses, kingdoms and nations at the whim of the plutocrats. Make no mistake, the mass poverty we experience to this day is enforced with the sole intent of sustaining the status quo; it is no accident, but a requisite of the current system.
Together, these two cultural complexes, misandry and poverty, oppress and abuse the vast majority of humanity.
Poverty consumes the working class, unemployed and homeless, and even the middle-class man is not spared mistreatment due to his gender. Alone, each seems a nearly insurmountable hurtle to overcome in the fight for an egalitarian society, and together they form the greater mass of the world’s injustice and abuse.
However, misandry and poverty are not truly separate and they do not
need to be combated individually. Born from the evolution of ancient
cultures, both are now tools of the world’s corrupt controllers,
carefully considered and cultivated for the benefit of the powerful.
Misandry and poverty support one another, feed on each other, and in
reality the fight against one is the fight against both. Men are the
fodder ground down and consumed by the modern economic system, but that
is only possible as long as men do not fight back. Were so many men not
trapped in poverty, such vitriol against their sex would not be
tolerated. Without the repressions of a misandristic culture, men would
not tolerate so many of their brothers being condemned to live with
almost nothing.
The fight for Men’s Rights is the fight
against wealth inequality. Out of the systems of misandry and male
disposability sprout the weed of poverty, using the fear and low
self-esteem of men to enrich the wealthy. Winning men their rights will
be a blow against global poverty, not because men are more important or
their financial well-being of greater impact, but because cutting away
the injustices and abuses of men and boys will strike at the roots of
the cultural complex that facilitates mass poverty. The oppressed men of
the world are the fuel for exploitation and freeing them will help free
us all.
One of the front lines of the fight for
Men’s Rights is Father’s Rights, striving for reform in family law and
changes to how society perceives and treats fathers. Modern family law
was born from seemingly well-intentioned legal agitation in the
mid-twentieth century, but it has come to contribute in profound and
long-lasting ways to poverty. Not as a conspiracy, but as a cultural
gestalt that drives people to compete for resources where collaboration
would better serve everyone’s interests. It is the Men’s Rights Movement
that will make for that collaboration.
The current landscape of family
structure in the west continues to put the greater burden of financial
earning on the husband/father. This imbalance discourages women from
contributing fully to family economy and puts all the proverbial eggs in
a single basket, leaving many families destitute in the event of the
husband losing employment, as happened en masse during the Great
Recession. Increasing men’s work-life balance will encourage married
couples to better balance their earning, insulating them against the
ravages of a fickle economy.
However, things are far worse and far
more complex when divorce enters the equation. Upon separation an even
more rigid relationship of provider-dependent is enforced. Alimony does
little to encourage female participation in the workforce and leaves men
suffocating under crushing fiscal demands. This drains his own wealth,
and keeps the woman from building hers, thereby contributing to the
poverty of both and limiting upward mobility. Serial marriage-divorces
compound the problem, creating a downward spiral of debt.
With children the problem becomes even
more pronounced. Child support doubles down on the burden of alimony.
Blatantly unbalanced custody orders leave mothers un- or underemployed
and fathers financially and emotionally trapped under the heel of the
family court and vulnerable to the whim of their ex-wife. All this
weakens the family economy, draining parents’ resources and dooming many
children of divorce to a life in poverty.
Improving father’s rights will balance
parenting time, improving the quality of life for everyone involved.
Separated fathers with meaningful relationships with their children are
happier, healthier and contribute more to the economy of the children.
Children with regular access to their fathers grow up healthier as well,
and less likely to themselves become impoverished as adults. More
balanced custody allows mothers to work and earn more, providing for
their children and their own (now independent) retirement.
Greater father’s rights will further
boost the economic well-being of families by (a) reducing the number of
needless divorces spurred on by the current system, and (b) stopping the
extortive flow of money into the overfull coffers of family law
attorneys. Father’s Rights is a cornerstone of the fight for Men’s
Rights, and one that will help raise many broken families out of the
clutches of poverty.
Deeper than abuse of fathers, however,
and perhaps a core cause of it, is the larger cultural view of men as
cattle. Cattle to be driven to work and strain until they die seven
years younger. Cattle to be forced onto the front line of war, disaster
and danger because it’s their “duty”. Cattle to suffer in silence and
“take it like a man” so others can be given life-saving aid. All this
has been trained and beaten into men for millennia until even men
themselves don’t question their own martyr complex, their self-valuation
based on utility.
This is why misandry thrives. Men are
conditioned to not speak up and to internalize the hate they encounter
everyday, and hate it is, even the so-called “noble” ideals of
self-sacrificing manhood. To teach a boy that his life is less valuable
than his sister’s is to teach him to hate himself. This also contributes
to global poverty by teaching men to accept being an exploitable
utility without wanting anything in return. Men have always been the
backbone of the economy, whether as serfs or salarymen, doing the lion’s
share of labor, paying the majority of income tax and putting in more
hours at paid work. Where men go, the economy follows, except that the
men themselves do not control the flow of wealth they produce. This
allows the rich to feed off the working class, draining resources for
their own self-serving desires.
Liberating men from their cultural
shackles will free them to build wealth for themselves and those they
choose to care about, not for the anointed few or whomever society
decides to force upon them as dependents. Men should not be shamed and
pressured into working themselves into early graves. Let every adult
contribute equally and then share in what is earned, because we will all
be wealthier for it.
The fear must also be stopped. Men are
cowed into their role of utility by imposed, irrational fears leveled to
control and exploit them. “Performance culture” drives men to disregard
their own well-being for the sake of impressing others, fearing being
rejected as sub-standard. The gynocentric structure of relationships
burdens and drains men as little more than gift cards; spend and
discard. Any man who dares speak out against the practice is shamed and
punished, so wealth continues to be siphoned away to products and
industries men don’t even care about, leaving them with little but their
bread and pay-per-view circuses.
Men must strike out, not violently
against their oppressors, but boldly onto a new trail. Men are half the
population, and the greater bulk of the world’s production force. The
economy is in their hands, if they will take hold and demand that, for
once, it do something for them. Not out of selfishness or greed, but
because the system as it stands exploits them and their families and
only the men themselves can make it better.
Don’t waste money on shows of wealth;
cars, suits, property and trophy girlfriends give only a false sense of
worth. Your money will just feed into the pockets of corporations who
don’t give a damn about you.
Stop letting others drain your hard
earned wealth; pay your taxes, donate to your favorite charity, but
don’t let anyone tell you how to spend your money. Every dollar is a
piece of your life and it is yours. Don’t be an ATM for anyone else’s
bad habits.
Refuse to participate in the
scalping-fest of family court; no sane man should expose himself to the
risk of divorce. It is little more than self-accepted human bondage.
Corporations can’t do a damn or earn a
cent without you, so don’t settle for that cubicle job just because
you’ve got alimony due and your new date likes expensive wine. Work
should be fulfilling, not soul crushing, and if you cut off all the
fiscal leeches you will have much greater options in jobs.
Men will never be given rights. Rights
have to be demanded, taken, and defended. When men free themselves from
their shackles, the industrial machine will have lost its sheepish
workforce, and men will become the force working for their own good, the
good of their brothers and of those they love. The gross injustices of
male homelessness, unemployment and early death are all ignored by the
leisure class because they facilitate our culture of unsustainable
spending, but it is time to stop tolerating the abuse of our fathers and
brothers and sons.
There is enough to go around if we
don’t let the select few hoard resources. It is shame and fear of
rejection that keeps men working and dying for strangers, rather than
finding their own definition of self-worth and working to enrich their
lives, not someone else’s bank account. Stand up and refuse to be
anyone’s utility; that is when the cycle of bloodstained consumerism
will be stopped. Men carry the economy, but they don’t have to be
crushed by it.
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