Sexism Defended

Last night I finally finished Theodore Dalrymple's Life at the Bottom: The Worldview That Makes the Underclass. It's a treasure trove of anecdotes, none of which I will share here.

How was that for a bit of verbal misdirection?

Many of the anecdotes deal with women getting savagely beaten by their boyfriends. It was a commonplace thing in the hospital where he worked. Dalrymple describes how it became so ordinary. Since men are bigger and stronger, in the absence of protective fathers, cultural restraints or police intervention, they could get what they wanted by force and violence. The lack of cultural restraints had done away with both protective fathers and police intervention. The women were left to their own devices. It never ended well for them.

I used to study kung fu. At my school, we had one female instructor. She was a black sash, something we had very few of at our school - it was very, very hard to advance. I asked her once if she ever sparred with the guys. She said no, she would just get creamed because women don't have the same muscle mass as men. It was said in a very matter-of-fact tone by a woman at the height of martial arts prowess.

One of Dalrymple's themes is that the delusional theories of intellectuals make their way into society and end up doing great harm to people living life at the bottom. Equality of the sexes is one such idea. Every time I've seen modern movies where the heroine is in the middle of combat, proving herself just adept as the men around her, it has bothered me. Now I know why. It's not just total nonsense, it's dangerous nonsense.

By preaching total equality for the sexes, we have created a fantasy world where women do not need men to protect them. In our movies and all through our popular culture, this is a common theme. We now even have women's boxing on TV, something that is utterly repulsive.

Since we've decided that women do not need men to protect them and the sexes are totally equal, men are freed to do as they please. In the underclass, what they please is to use force and violence to satisfy their urges and whims. Biology being what it is, women end up dominated and pregnant.

Party on?

Here, Sir Lancelot defends a lady from a knight who is trying to abduct her. Later, she whips out nunchucks and gives them both a good beat down.

Or maybe not.