The dudes of the manosphere are concerned, deeply concerned, about the fate of young women today who won’t have the opportunity to marry dudes richer and better educated than they are, as they are apparently hard-wired by evolution to do. Turns out when women start investing in good educations and getting good jobs, some of them end up making more than most dudes! Clearly, this portends disaster, for these young ladies, and for civilization itself.
On his Alpha Game blog, reactionary racist doucheblogger Vox Day has a puckish solution to the Hypergamy Crisis: we should just eject a good chunk of women from our universities – as 36 of Iran’s universities have recently announced they will do, starting in the coming academic year, by making 77 different fields of study male only.
Vox explains his, er, logic:
[T]he Iranian action presents a potentially effective means of solving the hypergamy problem presently beginning to affect college-educated women in the West. Only one-third of women in college today can reasonably expect to marry a man who is as well-educated as they are. History and present marital trends indicate that most of the remaining two-thirds will not marry rather than marry down. So, by refusing to permit women to pursue higher education, Iran is ensuring that the genes of two-thirds of its most genetically gifted women will survive in its gene pool.
Well, that’s one … way of looking at it.
No doubt the Iranian approach will sound abhorrent to many men and women alike. But consider it from a macro perspective. The USA is in well along the process of removing most of its prime female genetics from its gene pool as surely as if it took those women out and shot them before they reached breeding age. Which society’s future would you bet on, the one that is systematically eliminating the genes of its best and brightest women or the one that is intent upon retaining them?
Let’s just say I’m going to bet on the one that respects and utilizes the talents of all of its people, instead of treating half the population as little more than egg repositories and baby-making machines.
This isn’t the first time dear Vox has addressed the dangers of allowing women into college. See here for some comments from him that are a good deal worse than the ones I quoted here. (TW: Violence against women.)
My eyes! The goggles!
Re 50 Shades of Puke
I have not read this book, but I have heard it is apallingly bad. I refuse to read it on principle alone. I’m really tired of hack writers earning fame and fortune over some regurgitated piece of literary feces. First Stephanie Meyer, now this hack. Meanwhile good writers lives their lives in obscurity.
I think there was a “study” a while back that basically just looked at the amount of dom fanfiction out there and was all “see, this totes proves all women want to be dominated in bed”. Except, you know, it actually just proves a lot of people enjoy reading and writing dom fic.
@cloudiah
I SAW IT TOO!!! I was just heading back into work after my lunch break and happened to glance up and THERE IT WAS! I couldn’t tell what it was at first, and I was all “That is one weird looking aircr–WHOA!”
Everyone I’ve told so far has been super-jealous. And it was pure serendipity on my part.
@ostara
So, like, just a thought here…did it ever occur to them that some of the women writing/reading that fiction might want to dominate rather than be dominated?
My favorite recent snark about 50 Shades:
http://cheezburger.com/6568880384
@Fembot:
50 Shades of Grey started out as Twilight fanfic. All she did was change the names from Edward/Bella to whatever the fuck the idiots names are now. So, she took shitty fiction and wrote even shittier fan fiction about it. You want proof that we don’t live in a meritocracy? Just look and see what fiction is on the bestseller list.
Yeah okay, I’m a snob. Don’t care. Just found out today that TLC is going to air a special about a 1,100 pound woman who killed her nephew by sitting on him. They’re calling it “Half Ton Killer.” I am not making that up. Sometimes it’s okay to sneer at popular culture is all I’m saying.
@Karalora, Pretty much serendipity for me too. I was in my boss’ office and we noticed that people had gathered on top of a nearby building and were pointing (or more likely holding up their cellphone cameras). So we went over to the window to see what they were looking at and — hey, it’s the Space Shuttle!
@Blitzgal
Holy Shit, I am totally going to watch that TLC show. I’m being serious here.
I am not as much as a snob as I used to be. I was probably the most serious teenager in my town. Everything I read had to be “intellectual.” I scoffed at the reading assigned by my teacher (The Great Gatsby), and ditched class to read Sartre and Rimbaud in the library. I’ve mellowed out a lot since then. I’ve actually become a total Reality TV junkie, which is probably about as anti-intellectual as you can get. So when I say I’m going to watch “Half Ton Killer,” I mean it 😀
50 Shades of Grey huh? Interesting that on the reviews on Amazon have more bad reviews then good reviews….also look at all the snark sites about 50 Shades…they are all by women. So I guess that blows that theory that women just luuuurrrrrve men treating them like shit. I have had a few friends that read the first book and were all like MEH! Just because people were curious about the book because of all the fucking marketing and hype..does not mean it is well loved. /rants more about mediocrity being praised. At least the Harry Potter books were GOOD!
As for the OP….fuck you, my mom worked and was highly educated and I turned out fine.
I try not to be a snob, but my god is 50 Shades some shitty shit. And I like me some hackneyed bdsm porn. But there’s just nothing to redeem this nonsense: lame characters, lame dialogue, lame sex. I started skipping through but the sex scenes start out tame and improbable and get sparser and tamer as you go…
Anyway, if the popularity of any given kind of porn were a guide to what ALL the members of a given gender were into, then what does that say about the VAST quantities of femdom stories on Literotica? All written by dudes.
My theory is that reality tv is just the newest incarnation of the carnival sideshow. We love us some freaks, humans do.
http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/340987215
This is the best review of that stupid book of fifty shades of dull I have ever read.
I fully agree. 🙂
@Cassandra yeah, didn’t appear any of them did. I wish I could find it, I think someone did a mockery of it on another blog somewhere but I can’t remember which or when. I feel like it was a year or more ago.
And yeah, I’m not touching 50 shades with a 10 foot pole. Except if I happen to working the library and have to pull someone’s hold on the effing book for them. Then I touch it and try to hide my opinion from whoever’s picking it up.
And I hear that a lot of straight women are into gay male porn. I love me some hot man on man action 😀
So according to the review there isn’t even all that much sex, mostly just sexualized abuse and stalking? No wonder I don’t know anyone who bought this piece of shit.
@fembot
I’d like to see the MRA’s explain slash!
@princessbonbon
Yeah, that review is hilarious!
I love the visuals she puts with it. In the second review she gives a very good graphic rendition of how bad the sex between those two is.
It may or may not involve Spongebob Squarepants.
MRA, no new ideas, just regurgitated poop.
http://cheezburger.com/6453623296
Hey, there’s even a scene from the original House on Haunted Hill in that review! That’s one of my FAV flicks! (yeah, I know……… I’m weird………)
IS NO ONE GOING TO MENTION THE GENDER SILOS? I seriously expected someone would mention the gender silos:
The Breakdown of the Gender Silos: Crisis of the West, by somedouche.
>So according to the review there isn’t even all that much sex, mostly just sexualized abuse and stalking?
now the first chapter was mostly about what a terrible human being the main character is and how bad she feels about her hair and her general style. That’S as far as I’ve read because, yeah she IS a terrible human being.
If the Gender Silos collapse anything like this, then we are surely doomed.
Anyone else want to do some appropriation of the meme Mr. Truthie linked us to?
http://www.quickmeme.com/meme/3r0mc1/