Over at The Spearhead, the boys are thinking about tomorrow – to be more specific, about the year 2020, the date at which an MRA calling himself The Fifth Horseman predicted in an eccentric online manifesto that a convergence of forces would lead to the popping of what he calls “the misandry bubble,” and that the ensuing gender apocalypse would put the uppity ladies of the world firmly in their place.
In a post, Spearhead head boy W.F. Price notes that “cliodynamicist” Peter Turchin is also predicting big changes around 2020 (though unlike The Fifth Horseman, Turchin doesn’t base any part of his theory on the development of super-hot Virtual Reality sexbots). This naturally inspires the assembled Spearheaders to start scratching their own crystal balls, enthralled with visions of a future Armageddon that forces the ladies to come crying to them for forgiveness.
Jay R, a sort of apocalyptic deficit hawk, blames the ladies for the US government’s big debts:
Government has acted as though economic principles don’t apply to it — borrowing can increase forever without significant consequence. Riiiiiiiiight. And let’s not forget that the bulk of government debt and spending is a transfer of resources from men to women. It is primarily women who owe this debt. Will they be able to repay it? Only with massive devaluation of the currency.
And then he imagines women owing men a whole other sort of debt, which he has simply made up, and predicts that this debt will come crashing down on women’s heads – a notion that seems to give him a bit of a rage-boner:
Similarly, women’s social debt to men — the incalculable damages resulting from women’s wholesale breach of the social contract — is unsustainable, and when the crash comes, women’s tears will be bitter indeed. This is justice — but still regretable, if one thinks how things might have turned out if radical feminist hatred had not comandeered the process of compromise between the sexes.
True equality for women is on the horizon. When they finally are accorded the same treatment as men, and realize how far they have fallen — how much they themselves have been devalued as a sex — they will think themselves in hell.
Rod Van Mechelen of Backlash.com has an even more elaborate apocalyptic fantasy – although he’s a bit less certain about its outcome being a good one for men. In this portion of a long comment, he speculates about a couple of possible (by which I mean completely and ludicrously impossible) outcomes:
Demographically, the relative value of fecund females is set to go hyperbolic by 2020, when insane policies in Asia and the Subcontinent will manifest a shortage of women of child bearing age. In the past, when war has created a shortage of men, peace and prosperity were the result. What will happen when we have a shortage of women? Will we see a rise in female power, with matriarchies like the ones in Robert Heinlein’s classic, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress? Will we see rampant homosexuality and mandatory sexual servitude for women, as in J. Neil Schulmann’s The Rainbow Cadenza?
Uh, I think I’m going to go with “none of the above.”
Prolific MRA commenter and regular A Voice for Men contributor Keyster predicts (surprise, surprise!) economic collapse and riots in the streets.
[W]hen the money runs out and California becomes Greece, the federal government will step in with “emergency funds” and National Guard troops…a federal government that continues to borrow abroad to sustain itself. Do you see the snake eating it’s tail yet? And we have to wonder why there’s a nationwide shortage of guns and ammo?
Naturally, the rioters will be black.
If you thought inner city blacks were angry over Rodney King, just wait until they become desperate for food. Asian shop owners will be over-run in days, further distribution to these war zones will cease – and they’ll branch out to the tony suburbs seeking sustinence and easy prey. Drones will be called in to contain the rovering marauding gangs.
Keyster predicts that all these scary riots will lead the (presumably non-black, non-rioting) ladies to start batting their eyelashes at big strong (presumably non-black, non-rioting) men.
Men will notice a decided shift in women’s once hostile attitude towards them. “Can I get you a sandwhich honey?” “Are you thirsty?” “Need a back rub?”
They will be actively engaged in seeking out male protectors and openly using sexual allure to attract them as mates. Men are so much better at defending themselves from bad guys, so you’ll want one with you if you’re a woman.
Greyghost, meanwhile, imagines that the anti-uppity-female effects of an economic collapse will be enhanced by … the development of a male birth control pill. (You may need to read this one slowly; Mr. Ghost is not what you’d call a great communicator.)
[L]et’s say a male birth control pills comes out before cold fusion or some other extender of government wealth. What happens when even a coward to stand up to the femine imperative knows this misandry is unsustainable and figures out a male pill will maybe cause a correction while he still can be a coward. A woman without child is a worker drone and not eligible for entitlements.The US may look like China with low wage factories full of female workers with male mechanics/technicians keeping the machines running.
What is really funny and would be interesting to check out. Knowing women from reading and discussing female nature with you all here in the manosphere in general with the male pill being a pleasant wife might be the herd status symbol of the future. Take civil unrest combined with poor economic opportunities with men having the finale say so on who gets pregnant or not and we have a new status symbol.
Like Keyster, who once boasted on The Spearhead of dating a 14-year-old when he was 25, Greyghost seems enamored of relatively weak and dependent gals:
Next to a dog female fear is a mans best friend. Fearful insecure women tend to be more polite and pleasant to those around her.
Dream on, guys. Dream on.
Next to a dog female fear is a mans best friend.
I can’t count the times that female fear sat near me as a child, licking my face and comforting me with its warm fuzzy presence. Female fear and I would play fetch, and go for walks, and every morning I’d give it a big bowl of kibble. “Who’s a good widdle strong negative emotion? You are! You are!”
They’re like Bizarro Nate Silver.
Also, kind of sad that even in fantasy they can’t imagine a woman actually liking them for them, and have to resort to fantasizing about how maybe someday women will be forced by necessity to fake it.
Knowing women: you’re doing it wrong.
I would like to hear more about this “femine imperative,” though. 🙂
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Am I being dense, because I really don’t get this male birth control thing. Have these guys never heard of condoms? Or is this some weird off-shoot of the slavering beast argument? I couldn’t possibly have remembered that the giant life-sucking vagina was trying to steal my sperm when all my faculties has been zapped by the presence of the giant life-sucking vagina?
Any light?
Sorry to burst your apocalyptic fantasy boners, dudes, but this is not going to happen. Funny how even they know it’d have to be the end of the world for any woman to pay attention to them.
…I pretty much died laughing.
This again. MRAs not very original after you read their whining for a month.
Bagelsan, I wish this site had a like button!
Hah. Everyone knows that doomsday is coming sooner than 2020. Proof!
These TRUFAX courtesy of my friend DN, who loves him a good doomsday prophecy.
The sad thing is that most of these nitwits are married and are mad that their wives are not compliant with their ever shifting demands.
And why would I run to a man to defend myself? That is what baseball bats are for if you do not play baseball.
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I can’t think of anything to say in response to these guys and their line of thought except for: Ew, just, ew.
When the apocalypse totally for real happens and we poor defenseless women (who are for some reason incapable of using weapons, I don’t know, maybe our arms fell off) get desperate for male protection, why will we turn to a bunch of wimpy middle-class white guys who are busy getting their asses kicked by tough black dudes from the inner city? Why won’t we suck up to the black dudes?
The black dudes sound more useful in a crisis, and they probably hate women a whole lot less.
patterrssonn: that’s not female fear to these guys, that’s nagging. And misandry.
“in the year 2525….”
Aaaand just what compromises do men make in an MRA’s faux-1950s (or perhaps 1850s) fantasy?
These two made me sporfle through my Coke Zero:
matriarchies like the ones in Robert Heinlein’s classic, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
WHUT? That’s my favorite Heinlein (the only one I still read on occasion): Manny is clueless, but I adore him, and Mike/Mychelle ROCKS.
And I’m, WHAT matriarchy? The line marriage with the women deciding which husband sleeps with which wife on what schedule???????????????????
Knowing women from reading and discussing female nature with you all here in the manosphere in general
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHH *wipes eyes*
Because, yeah, that’s some depth of knowledge and experience you got under your belt, bucko.
What I want to know is: what is this “social debt” I apparently owe to men?
In addition, I’d like to know why anyone could realistically believe that, with a world population of 7 billion, of which women make up approximately half, there will be some hugely society-collapsing shortage of women of child-bearing age in just 8 years?
I’m also curious, in regards to the question of “Can I get you a sand which honey?”, which honey is getting the sand? And why is it so imperative for women to get sand for men? Are we going to start using litter boxes instead of toilets?
Inquiring minds want to know.
More seriously, I have a bone to pick with the notion that the bulk of US debt has gone toward entitlement programs to support women. The defense budget, whether one feels the expense is justified or not, is the single largest budget item for the federal government.
patterrssonn – not sure of your point, because all the examples you picked make sense if you don’t want the bloke to be an idiot and kill or injure himself. But it’s women’s fear of men, not for them, that this creep thinks is a good thing.
Ellex – maybe we’re gonna put sand in their sandwiches. Or in their honey.
I could go along with that. 😉
@Ellex
According tothis MRA, apparently we are.
@princessbonbon
I don’t have a baseball bat, but I don’t worry too much as long as I have one of these in my kitchen.
http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/70152740/
Although mine is bigger and weighs about 5 pounds. I dropped it on my foot once and was limping for two weeks.