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We live in a matriarchy because YOUR MOM, that’s why, MRA explains

Science has proven many things about your mom
Science has proven many things about your mom

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.

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Oliver_C
Oliver_C
9 years ago

Endorsing Newton’s Laws on a feminist blog, what would Sandra Harding say?!

Moggie
Moggie
9 years ago

Thanks, EJ. My thing about “ease of calculation” was about the distinction between surface and centre of mass. If yo momma has a radius of r, “5m from yo momma” means either 5 or 5+r from her centre of mass, which certainly affects the result. I get that they probably mean her centre of mass, but that gives the surprising result that, if yo momma has a radius of 5m, yo momma’s knickers are always 5m away from yo momma.

EJ (The Other One)
EJ (The Other One)
9 years ago

r is, by convention, always expressed as the distance between centres of mass. In astro we use “x” to mean “altitude above sea level” (where ‘sea level’ is rocket scientist speak for ‘surface’) but I wouldn’t be surprised if other fields used other symbols in situations where this distinction is relevant.

Yo’ momma’s so fat that you didn’t leave home until 16 because you needed a runup to achieve c3 = 0.

Binjabreel
Binjabreel
9 years ago

Most of the ones I’ve done use a dimension (x or y) for the displacement (I.e., distance above the ground), though unless you’re far enough out in space that the distinction is irrelevant, altitude usually gets a y.

Binjabreel
Binjabreel
9 years ago

Re: Oliver c-

She’d probably tell you to grow the fuck up and actually read what she’s written.

Oliver_C
Oliver_C
9 years ago

I make it a point never to read the work of Robespierre-wannabes.

Binjabreel
Binjabreel
9 years ago

Which explains why your summary of her life’s work consists of that one quote from Wikipedia.

“I make it a point to never actually know what the fuck I’m talking about.”

Graham
Graham
9 years ago

Seems about as legit as rest of the gender studies pseudo science.

weirwoodtreehugger
9 years ago

Feminists are supposed to oppose classical physics now? What?

I don’t know who Sandra Harding is so I guess I don’t get the joke, but I can think of no context in which that assertion would make sense.

weirwoodtreehugger
9 years ago

Seems about as legit as rest of the gender studies pseudo science.

As far as I know, gender studies never claimed to be a science.

What is happening on this page right now? Nothing makes sense!

totallyalphadudebro
totallyalphadudebro
9 years ago

Milo Yiannopoulos is gay? Ugh no, get out of my orientation, you shitbag. You are a disgrace to all of gaytropolis, so please fuck off.
Mind you, I don’t want to inflict him on women. I just wish that he and all his manosphere buddies got their jollies in a pool of piranhas.

Also Elam is already involved in childcare considering he caters to (and exploits) an internet army of man-babies.

Binjabreel
Binjabreel
9 years ago

She was one of the second wave folks who challenged the idea of objectivity as something that was even remotely possible. She makes good points and some strong arguments, but this one time she called Newton’s Principia a “rape manual” because it helped start the whole idea of white guys pretending they’re fucking superior Vulcan logic brains.

She, of course, later said that was a stupid thing to say- and her point remains valid even if she said it in a stupid way- but of course that’s what every shitheel who’s never actually read anything she’s written likes to trot out.

Binjabreel
Binjabreel
9 years ago

And seriously, if you’re so fucking ignorant of the history of science that you *DON’T* know why women and minorities might still give the whole edifice the side-eye, then you’re a shitty fucking scientist.

contrapangloss
9 years ago

Bad Yo Momma joke:

Yo Momma’s like a fractal: she’s got infinite dimensions.

contrapangloss
9 years ago

(Runs back to work)

weirwoodtreehugger
9 years ago

So, Harding was trying to say that because Enlightenment thinkers were white men, a negative side effect of the Enlightenment – despite all the good that did come from what – was that it reinforced the notion that white men are the superior group? That’s legit.

And seriously, if you’re so fucking ignorant of the history of science that you *DON’T* know why women and minorities might still give the whole edifice the side-eye, then you’re a shitty fucking scientist.

Yeah.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuskegee_syphilis_experiment

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/jul/11/cia-fake-vaccinations-osama-bin-ladens-dna

Lea
Lea
9 years ago

Graham,
The social sciences are science. Just because you can’t grasp it or don;t like the facts doesn’t mean it doesn’t make perfect sense.

EJ (The Other One)
EJ (The Other One)
9 years ago

Science isn’t about test tubes and mathematical formulae. Science is about falsifiability. Since social sciences can experimentally test their hypotheses, they can call themselves sciences.

Evolutionary psychology and homeopathy, on the other hand, are not sciences despite dressing up as them. They can use all the white lab coats they like, but since they’re not falsifiable, they’re not science.

Binjabreel
Binjabreel
9 years ago

Pretty much. She was part of a larger backlash against a lot of the conventions of science, and some of it was admittedly fairly silly, though there probably isn’t a movement or philosophy that hasn’t said something profoundly silly at some point in it’s history.

sunnysombrera
sunnysombrera
9 years ago

Evolutionary psychology and homeopathy, on the other hand, are not sciences despite dressing up as them. They can use all the white lab coats they like, but since they’re not falsifiable, they’re not science.

I want to engrave this on a copper plate and hang it on the internet.

Binjabreel
Binjabreel
9 years ago

Ehhhh… There is a real science there, asking questions like, “what does the structure of the autonomic nervous system in chordates tell us about the evolution of the nervous system in prechordates?”, but that’s so far removed from racist and sexist dipshits on the internet babbling about hip ratios and jawline shapes that I’m willing to concede the point on general principle.

rugbyyogi
rugbyyogi
9 years ago

I totally want to like evolutionary psychology because there are reasons why we’ve evolved to behave as we do as individual animals and as a group of social animals and it’s kinda fun conjecturing what they may be. But since it seems to involve silly people with dangerous ideas, it makes it hard to like.

Snowberry
Snowberry
9 years ago

Also homeopathy is falsifiable. It’s just that it’s been disproved. Repeatedly. For decades. Not merely beyond reasonable doubt but beyond *all* doubt. Virtually no legitimate researcher does studies on it anymore.

Road to Servitude
9 years ago

That conspiracy theory that there is an evil matriarchy pulling the strings is certainly “pseudoscience.” So much so that I’m beginning to wonder whether there could be a word invented for stuff that is such is such “fractally wrong” nonsense that the term “pseudoscience” may not even be enough. Even actual pseudoscience can sometimes have a vague “semblance” of science, but the weird stuff discussed above is so way off (even for someone like me who has zero scientific training), I just don’t know what to call it.

EJ (The Other One)
EJ (The Other One)
9 years ago

We call it Cargo Cult Science.

http://neurotheory.columbia.edu/~ken/cargo_cult.html

So we really ought to look into theories that don’t work, and science that isn’t science.

I think the educational and psychological studies I mentioned are examples of what I would like to call cargo cult science. In the South Seas there is a cargo cult of people. During the war they saw airplanes with lots of good materials, and they want the same thing to happen now. So they’ve arranged to make things like runways, to put fires along the sides of the runways, to make a wooden hut for a man to sit in, with two wooden pieces on his head to headphones and bars of bamboo sticking out like antennas–he’s the controller–and they wait for the airplanes to land. They’re doing everything right. The form is perfect. It looks exactly the way it looked before. But it doesn’t work. No airplanes land. So I call these things cargo cult science, because they follow all the apparent precepts and forms of scientific investigation, but they’re missing something essential, because the planes don’t land.