The Patriarchy Paradox

'If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear' (George Orwell). Use it or lose it. The statements and opinions in this video are not necessarily agreed or authorised by Eton College or its subsidiary companies. I haven't tried to be original in this talk. The references, in chronological order throughout the talk, are below. I would recommend Steven Pinker's 'The Blank Slate' or Debra Soh's 'The End of Gender' if you're keen to learn more. Here is a brief summary of the relevant science: https://www.ucd.ie/artspgs/langimp/genderbrain.pdf Definition of patriarchy - the Concise Encyclopedia of Sociology edited by George Ritzer, J. Michael Ryan (Wiley, 2010), p.441 Doris Lessing's remarks https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2001/aug/14/edinburghfestival2001.edinburghbookfestival2001 Masculinity and the Marvel movies http://edwardfeser.blogspot.com/2019/10/masculinity-and-marvel-movies.html James Tooley, The Miseducation of Women (Rowman & Littlefield, 2003), p.132 Arguments for free speech - Stephen Hicks, Explaining Postmodernism (Connor Court, 2019), p.224 Procreate, provide, protect - David Gilmore, Manhood in the Making (Yale, 1990), pp.222-3 Gametes - https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-dangerous-denial-of-sex-11581638089 See also https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12129-020-09877-8 Byrne - https://arcdigital.media/is-sex-socially-constructed-81cf3ef79f07 https://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/civil-rights/332246-if-progressives-believe-gender-is-fluid-then-why-not-race https://www.marinecorpstimes.com/news/your-marine-corps/2015/09/10/mixed-gender-teams-come-up-short-in-marines-infantry-experiment/ https://runrepeat.com/state-of-ultra-running https://www.pnas.org/content/115/4/E832 Male violence - Richard Wrangham and Dale Peterson, 'Demonic Males' (Bloomsbury, 1996), pp. 125, 172 Standing up to fight https://journals.plos.org/plosone/articleid=10.1371/journal.pone.0019630 Evolution of the hand https://jeb.biologists.org/content/216/2/236 A world without men Martin van Creveld, The Privileged Sex (DLVC Enterprises, 2013), p.236 Fairer treatment for witches Christina Larner, Witchcraft and Religion (Blackwell, 1985), p.28 Male sexual assault in jail https://www.ncjrs.gov/App/Publications/abstract.aspx?ID=139657 Links to studies cited in the table https://quillette.com/2020/07/27/the-myth-of-pervasive-misogyny/ Chief Justice M. C. Chagla's ruling Anjani Kant, Women and Law (APH, 2003), pp. 138, 141 How many women describe themselves as feminists https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-47006912 Closed system Scruton, Ellis-Jones and O’Keefe, Education and Indoctrination (Sherwood Press, 1985) Jonathan Gottschall, The Professor in the Cage (Penguin, 2015), p.90-91; see also Anne Campbell, 'A Mind of Her Own' (Oxford, OUP), p.2002 Leacock, Eleanor, et al. “Women's Status in Egalitarian Society www.jstor.org/stable/2741993 Establish and defend boundaries Manhood in the Making (Yale, 1990), p.76-77 Women's intrasexual aggression https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/behavioral-and-brain-sciences/article/staying-alive-evolution-culture-and-womens-intrasexual-aggression/2728A6266E77F48243975BD5268B8012 See also https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/ab.20413 and Anne Campbell's book 'A Mind of Her Own' (OUP, 2002) Female relational aggression https://www.psychologytoday.com/gb/blog/out-the-ooze/201506/is-the-tongue-the-sword-woman See also Randal Collins, 'Violence: A Micro-Sociological Theory' (Princeton, 2008), p.159-60: 'Girls are more active in malicious gossiping and spreading rumours...Girls verbally bully others chiefly in terms of their low status in the sexual attractiveness/dating market; boys physically bully others chiefly for their perceived low standing in physical aggression'. Females exploit their power of sexual choice Moxon, 'The Woman Racket' (Imprint Academic, 2008), p.54 Preferences for masculinity in male bodies change across the menstrual cycle https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17466990/ There has never been a matriarchy - 'Demonic Males', p.125 Men adore us https://quillette.com/2018/12/20/feminisms-dependency-trap/ https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2019/apr/16/why-andrea-dworkin-is-the-radical-visionary-feminist-we-need-in-our-terrible-times Andrea Dworkin's vision Woman Hating (Dutton, 1974), p.190-92. Full link here: https://www.feministes-radicales.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/Andrea-DWORKIN-Woman-Hating-A-Radical-Look-at-Sexuality-1974.pdf Simone de Beauvoir's petition to legalise paedophilia https://www.theguardian.com/world/2001/feb/24/jonhenley Child abusers are the most despised offenders in jail https://doi.org/10.1177/1043986204271704 and https://doi.org/10.1037/1076-8971.4.1-2.505 Childbearing is the main stem of the family Carle Zimmerman, Family and Civilization (ISI, 2008), p.197 Facts on the nuclear family http://www.civitas.org.uk/content/files/cs31.pdf