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.
Say, Hrovitnir, would that work with old cats and kitten food? Fribs is much the same – seventeen, losing condition as they do, and has hyperthyroid (she’s on tablets for that). Her appetite’s fine, I was wondering if kitten food might have good ingredients for her, though.
Definitely works for cats and kitten food. Kitten/puppy food can be an easy fix for animals with high metabolisms anyway, or as they get old and skinny. 🙂
One of our first cats was particularly Oriental-ish and we fed him kitten food. He was still very skinny but stopped his bones from showing. 😛 Was more of a pain when we got two more cats with slower metabolisms, haha.
Great! I’ll see if there are any kitten foods Fribs would like.
Ha, I should introduce Mads to the term slower metabolism. Skinny she ain’t. 😀
lol I have two fatties, and they’re my girls. 😛 All the boys are pretty svelte – Klaus gets fat in winter, loses it all really fast in summer! He must be super active when I’m not looking.
While we’re talking vet advice, Motley (my kitty) is throwing up pretty much every day. What can I do about that?
For how long? Is it semi-digested food or biley/totally digested food? If it’s semi-digested, still whole kibbles, often changing to a larger biscuit they can’t bolt then vomit back up can help. If it’s bile or brown liquid, you might want to see a vet. If it’s black liquid you definitely want to see a vet.
Other thing you can do is keep them inside, starve them for 12 hours, then give chicken and rice/I/D (prescription food for digestion – we’ll sell it to people without a prescription as it’s basically just bland food.) for a couple of days and see.
General rule with sickness is 2-3 days with no improvement means it’s probably worth seeing a vet.
Other thing with vomiting up whole biscuits is putting a bowl inside the bowl so they have to nibble around the outside. Aaaaand sometimes it’s stress, they aren’t feeling safe where they eat so are scoffing and making themselves sick. Sometimes it’s a new cat staring in through the window where they eat/something else changing.
Semi-digested; she’s a bolter.
You can get special digestion biscuits but certainly the Hills ones are still really small. We’ve actually had really good success with Royal Canin Maine Coon because they’re freaking enormous. Hills T/D would probably work similarly and would have the bonus of helping their teeth but it’s more expensive.
Any BIG biscuits can be really good. But for free, the upside down bowl inside the bowl to make a moat of biscuits can work well.
The food she’s on right now is a really small biscuit, so I’ll try a different kind. Thanks for the tips!
No worries – good luck!
hrovitnir: Thank you for the excellent advice!
I don’t know what all tests the vet has done, but she is very hands-on – then again, our last check was in the summer and I know decline can happen quickly.
It would never have occurred to me to give her puppy food. Mostly I try to stimulate her appetite with human food (eggs and meat, not processed junk). I guess that would be OK if the young (1 1/2 yr old) dog gets into it? There’s no way to stop them from stealing each other’s yums, it’s a game to them.