Female Supremacy Articles - Page 19

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Women, especially alpha ones, love guys who tell them to shut up. They need someone who sees through their hormonal neuroticism and keeps their feet on the ground. My wife compromised; she kept both the job and me, but didn’t gripe so much. Unlike omega males, I was confident with my end of the deal: I was young, fit and handsome, and I was giving her a lot of hot sex. She wasn’t going to kick me out.

Men do have a caring side. We are vulnerable, considerate and protective of our loved ones; but in equal measure, selfish, libidinous and cruel. Historically, men have generated almost all the great art, science and philosophy; we’re also to blame for almost all the war, carnage and mayhem. The two sides are inextricably linked. If we didn’t have such huge egos to feed, we wouldn’t bother with the arduous labour of writing novels or decoding the genome. We live for glory, be it in sport, music or battle.

But now men, particularly middle-class ones, deny this part of themselves. So we have a culture bereft of heroic male figures, and a generation that struggles with retarded identities and a terror of women. Once, icons such as Marlon Brando and Steve McQueen portrayed men in their entirety. They played roles that were gentle, stoic, vicious and explosive — believable, multifaceted characters. Now, men are encouraged to admire Chris Martin and Franz Ferdinand’s Alex Kapranos — creepy, weirdo nerds who, in the past, would’ve been buried under all the sand kicked in their faces.