Today’s lesson in Men’s Rights pseudoscience comes from a regular contributor to A Voice for Men named Stephen Jarosek, who also goes by the name “Codebuster.” The “code” he has “busted” this time? The code of the Seekret Matriarchy That Runs the World. And he’s busted it with … SCIENCE! (Or at least a very, very rough approximation of it.)
Put on your wrong-thinking caps, because Codebuster is going to get all technical here! He starts off his essay with a lengthy discussion of sciencey stuff that includes sentences like these:
Nonlocality is crucial to explaining the binding problem. It explains how neurons (and other body cells) are entangled into a unity in a manner that is analogous to how people within a city are “entangled” through telecommunications and media. …
Once we accept nonlocality as the all-pervasive given, the basic processes, based in semiotic theory, make perfect, easy sense (just briefly, semiotic theory relates to the fundamental properties of thought processes for all living entities – motivation, association and habituation).
Honestly, I only lightly skimmed this portion of his post, because it’s only relevant as a sort of throat-clearing preface to the SMOKING GUN OF MATRIARCHAL OPPRESSION that Codebuster drops about half-way through:
It is now well established that, by far, most of a human brain’s wiring (its functional specializations) is accomplished within only the first few years of life. These are the years spent under the care of the primary nurturer.
And in most cases this “primary nurturer” is — wait for it — YOUR MOM!
Or, to be more technical, “Your Momma.”
Jarosek doesn’t mention this, but SCIENCE has already proven many things about your momma. To wit, she is:
- so nasty that she brings crabs to the beach
- so dirty that she makes Right Guard turn left
- so poor she went to McDonald’s and put a milkshake on layaway
- so lazy that she stuck her nose out the window to let the wind blow it
Science has also proven that when she sits around the house, she really is more likely, statistically speaking, to be the primary carer for small children. As Codebuster explains,
It is the primary nurturer, usually the mother, who first defines the things that matter… the things that first wire brains, to set the foundations for all that comes later. Momma knows what she wants her little man to be, and she knows what entitlements her little girl deserves.
And that’s how the matriarchy gets you!
Children first learn how to be from their primary nurturer. It’s not rocket science to realize that The Matriarchy establishes the foundations in young minds upon which “The Patriarchy” (whatever feminists imagine that to be) is built.
That’s right: the MATRIARCHY creates “The Patriarchy” and is secretly running it the whole time! Or something.
Taken individually, The Matriarchy wields far greater power than The Patriarchy ever could. There is no such thing as a patriarchy that magically materializes on its own, from a vacuum, independently of The Matriarchy that nurtures and raises it, to then go on to oppress womankind.
Your momma is devious! So devious that I have no fucking clue exactly what sinister conspiracy Codebuster is talking about here.
Anyhoo,
Based on the training and rewards that most children receive first from their mothers, boys become men who do women’s bidding, while girls become women who, feminist indoctrination notwithstanding, prioritize the raising of children …
Boys become men who provide, and girls become women who are provided for (or, in the current affirmative-action zeitgeist, they might work so long as it does not impact too adversely on quality of life).
Huh. Most of the women I know “choose” to work in order to, you know, pay the rent and buy food and, when they have kids, pay for those kids’ expenses. I had no idea that it was optional, and that women are actually paid more not to work?
I guess it’s like when the government pays farmers not to grow crops.
Codebuster also explains that “feminism’s attack dogs” are the way they are because of poop.
They can be counted on to respond on cue with the matriarchal indoctrination that they had inculcated into them from their infancy. They know their correct place as white knights saving damsels in distress. Without question, they lay their coats over puddles so that the li’l ladies won’t get their dainty feet wet. They have no idea of the matriarchal source that governs their blind obedience to their mistress. They don’t remember back when they used to have their cute little noses rubbed into their poo on the carpet, and spanked so that they never do it again.
Now, on the surface, this theory might seem a bit like utter bullshit made up by someone looking for an excuse to blame women for everything. But Codebuster reminds us again that it is all backed by SCIENCE, or at least a very very rough approximation of it.
Neural plasticity in conjunction with lived experiences, not “genetic programming,” is the key to understanding that what works in training dumb animals for circus acts also works in training dumb males as obedient lap-dogs for The Feminist Matriarchy, or as dumb providers who don’t question the provided-fors that spend their money. …
Before anyone can hope to transcend anything, they need to first transcend The Matriarchy.
Huh. So, if the early childhood years are key to everything, it would seem — to me at least — that the current generation of Men’s Rights activists are doing a very poor job of it.
Instead of campaigning for “financial abortions” and abandoning their own children to the matriarchal overmommas, they should instead be demanding that they be the primary caregivers to the world’s babies and toddlers, poopy diapers and all. Regardless of whether the poopy diapers belong to the babies, or to them.
Hmm. Paul Elam, the head deadbeat dad of the Men’s Rights movement, seems to be casting about for a new moneymaking scheme now that donations to his pocket A Voice for Men seem to be drying up.
Might I suggest he try babysitting?
NOTE TO PARENTS: Do not ever, under any circumstances, hire Paul Elam as a babysitter.
@Scarlettathena
You forget that movies and cartoons are real to these people. It’s where they get most of their ideas about the world.
Don’t mistake what this idiot is doing for writing in academic language. He hasn’t learned it and never will. This writing reeks of a sophomore or junior in college who has taken a smattering of classes in different disciplines and suddenly has a great revelation about how it is all connected. This is usually because the student hasn’t read or understood the material and takes his/her own understanding of the interconnections to be more important than any of the actual concepts. This one switches definitions of concepts but keeps the same made up word to apply to non-analgous concepts.
Students like this mistake dense wording and complex (usually incorrect) sentence structure for depth of meaning.
I used to be that kind of a student. Then I got better. Now I teach those students not to do this.
I think the argument here is that women have free will and are capable of raising children in any way they choose, but men lack free will and are incapable of breaking out of the deterministic programming imposed on them in infancy.
I suppose that we could blame women for not doing a better job of programming men. But wouldn’t it be better to figure out a way to give men free will? I bet that with a little research, we could identify the difference between deterministic and non-deterministic brains. Then we’d just copy that onto a computer chip and implant it in men; it would be kind of like a pacemaker.
Entangled through telecommunications and media… Hmmm! As a software engineer who did work on matrix frame relays in the 90’s and continues to work on inter-networked software now (well from time to time when I’m not being a sahp) the only entanglement I ever noticed was the rats nest of cabling under desks.
Trying to be too clever by half eh! I’m glad I’m not bright enough to be an MRA, whatsisnames guff went straight over my head.
This is the Timecube of “How can there be a patriarchy if my mom can make me clean my room”.
So these same douche-bags that are lamenting the (mostly) imagined unfairness of family courts towards men: they’re asserting that mothers do all the parenting.
This is specifically hosted on a voice for men. The site that uses the “family court is so unfair because fathers are parents too” cover for random misogyny. That’s the site making a “mothers are inherently closer parents” BS cover?
Now I’m glad at least one person there cottoned onto the socialization of gender constructs, but as part of a “magic quantum brain link” bullshit story, it isn’t helping them.
@PandaPool And vidya. Oh god. GamerGate makes sense. *barf* I am upset at the idea of anyone basing their gender norms off of Duke Nukem
Agent Smith?
@pandapool… Nah! It’s just a big 42u high rack that punts packets of data about the place.., last one we shipped got sent to Tokyo in 1997. It had the computing power of a 2010 lowend smartphone
It’s actually a fairly mundane feature of conspiracy buffs. They’ll believe any amount of contradictory theories as long as they all point in the same general direction, i.e. everything bad is the fault of women, the government is lying to us.
Echoing scarlettathena here. What the everloving hell? Who actually does this? Or thinks this is a legitimate toilet-training tactic?
All the moms I know use praise, stickers, and jellybeans to get their kids to poop in the potty. And they do it because it’s a fundamental skill that will make their kids’ lives easier, not because they’re raising their kids to MUWAHH HA HAAAA WORSHIP MOMMY 4 LIFE!!!!!!!!!!
But no, codebuster has seen the truth! It’s a sinister conspiracy! Basic social conditioning is child abuse because it turns babies into orbiting betas! Infant boys are helpless and dependent on their mothers, so naturally the mothers are using that little window of opportunity to indoctrinate and undermine their sons! Isn’t that what power is for? Why would you have it and not use it? /s
No, it is not “well established”. The human brain continues to develop well into the twenties, and anyway, genetics is responsible for the basic structure of the ‘wiring’. It is true that brain plasticity is greatest in early childhood, and there are certain windows (such as language acquisition and capacity for emotional attachment) that start to close by age 5, but it’s nonsense to state that brain development is pretty much all wrapped up by the time a child gets to kindergarten. Also, he’s putting way too much importance on maternal influence, as if babies and toddlers have no interactions with other people, and as if nothing else that happens after age 3 could possibly have an effect on a person.
This guy needs to be introduced to Occam’s Razor, and stop coming up with ridiculously paranoid, convoluted explanations for how the world works. What an intellectool.
My favorite: “Your Mama’s got a glass eye with a fish in it!”
It’s just so ludicrous.
I wonder if this guy is mates with that bastion of good sense, rmaxgenactivepua? Here’s his blog:
http://www.donotlink.com/fkm0
Though I give this blog a big trigger warning for those who find excessive amounts of word salad give them indigestion, not to mention apoplectic levels of women hatred. Though it makes me chuckle when he backs up his arguments with quotes from himself.
@ Alan
I tip my hat to you, sir.
@ikanreed
It’s also the site that asserts that women’s place in life is to be mothers and wives.
And now they’re complaining that mothers are indoctrinating kids with feminism.
Welp, I guess the answer is for women to go to work and men to stay at home, eh MRAs?
@Buttercup Q. Skullpants,
I really hope that line:
They don’t remember back when they used to have their cute little noses rubbed into their poo on the carpet, and spanked so that they never do it again./
is inspired by his referring to Shives and Binder as attack dogs, because while I know some dog owners do that with puppies, no one should be doing that with a human child.
I mean, he’s right about children growing up to reflect their environment, but to then say that only the mother has any influence is really dumb. Children are influenced by all the adults and children they grow up around, which is why it’s so important they be raised in a stable and positive environment, and away from anything resembling a ‘red pill’.
Oh poo, I only meant to italicize the third paragraph.
http://pinkie.mylittlefacewhen.com/media/f/rsz/mlfw8608_small.jpg
Even if I was a science genius I still wouldn’t know what this a-hole is talking about. It’s like he found a bunch of new words in his new thesaurus and he had to use them to sound smart.
magnesium | June 16, 2015 at 1:34 pm
This is the Timecube of “How can there be a patriarchy if my mom can make me clean my room”.
ikanreed | June 16, 2015 at 1:34 pm
“So these same douche-bags that are lamenting the (mostly) imagined unfairness of family courts towards men: they’re asserting that mothers do all the parenting.”
You gotta love that Mra logic
“There’s no patriarchy but there is certainly a matriarchy because my mom took my video games away.”
“It’s unfair in family court but the women should take care of the children”
“If sky is green then why patatoe? Checkmate Feminachos!”
This spider that greeted me in our basement (peeping out of the – now that I look at it – rather dirty door leading to a crawl space) would make a better babysitter than Elam:
http://i.imgur.com/186GBBs.jpg
The nail, a two-incher, was included in the shot for scale.
The white dot is the flash reflecting off of its eyes.
This post was really just an excuse to share my horror with you nice people.
Confused Vanir Is Confused.
Is it women’s fault that “patriarchy” exists (i.e. men oppressing women) – OR is it women’s fault that “matriarchy” exists (i.e. women oppressing men). He seems to argue for both, at the same time.
Are women “programming” boys to be oppressed or oppressors, which one is it?
Considering the saga of Elam and the anti-diarrhoeal medicine and Roosh’s dislike of toilet paper…
Are we sure this guy isn’t pulling a Sokal? That BS about nonlocality and semiotic theory makes me wonder whether he’s thinking “I’ll crank up my English-to-Lacanian converter and see whether the suckers fall for it!”
@sn0rkmaiden
You shouldn’t even do that to dogs, either. It doesn’t help.
@proxieme
Aww, cute little guy you have there! It’s hard to tell from the dark picture, but judging by the big eyes, some sort of wolf spider?
He’s fantasizing about abusing little girls. Let us hope he has no children and never will.
As for moms in the patriarchy, we were bit by the same dog everyone else was. We’ve got it too.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11063631
I want to point out that the boys later “outshining” girls as motor skills go follows the expectation that they will have better motor skills. It’s a self fulfilling prophesy, like “girls don’t like to get dirty” and “big boys don’t cry”.
Moms are also more likely to pay attention to boys, just as female teachers do. (Anybody read Reviving Ophelia and the follow up? Sad stuff.) Women internalize misogyny. We’re all steeped in it. We all have to learn to free ourselves from it. Other bigotry works much the same way.
My eldest daughter has called me out on allowing her younger sister less independence than her brothers. It’s true. I struggle. It’s a process.