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May 7, 2023·edited May 7, 2023Liked by Helen Dale, Lorenzo Warby

Long and commendable. I was a soldier once and served with women. They were all great troops. But then we were all still in a masculinized Army. The American corporate world has long been feminized, but even that is being challenged by offending sensibilities thought to have triumphed. One begeat the other.

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Wow! You gave me many leads to improved maps! Especially grateful for The Gossip Trap hypothesis. https://erikhoel.substack.com/p/the-gossip-trap

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May 8, 2023Liked by Helen Dale

"replacing a robust culture of free speech and thought (captured by the schoolyard ditty “sticks and stones may break my bones, but names can never hurt me”) with a far more intolerant and controlling public culture of words are violence and that’s offensive"....see this piece on Honor, Dignity, and Victim Cultures:

https://www.overcurious.org/blog/honor-dignity-and-victim-cultures-explained

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May 9, 2023Liked by Helen Dale, Lorenzo Warby

How sad is it that I agree with nearly everything in this piece and still have the thought that this is misogynist.

I always thought of the woke takeover of geek spaces as due to an inability + unwillingness to push back making these spaces easy targets. The framework of feminine mindsets, compassion over teamwork specifically, aligns with my experience. I don't know this, but I'd guess that lower status men adopt feminized strategies when they don't think they can compete on the typical playing field.

Insightful as always Lorenzo, thanks for your writing!

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"Faced with the corrosive effects of feminisation, there are three possible outcomes."

There is a fourth outcome. Failure in war. Either failure to fight a necessary war or failure to win a war. This is the ultimate test of one society versus another.

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May 9, 2023Liked by Helen Dale, Lorenzo Warby

The "feminisation trilogy" has been an incredible add to this series. Although Part II noted the common sense observation that simply flipping from male to female "modes" only traded one set of strengths and weaknesses for another, Part III explains the dysfunction of the "female mode" and why its contrary to civilizational success, based on historical examples/parallels.

One of the reasons is that one of the most prominent features of this mode - conformity via shame and social pressure - is also its self-defense. Once feminization hits "critical mass" and takes the reins, attempts to walk it back, improve the feminized society, etc. back to either the male mode or towards something new are deflected by the "words are violence" type rhetoric. *Who are you to hurt our feelings and criticize our prescriptions and attitudes?*

If there's to be a way out of this spiral, then I think it has to be (like many have asked of "wokery"): how do you reason with folks who reject reason? Or what kind of argument can be made against people led by personal emotions? Do men and the more male-modal need to use the language of "oppression" to get their even share back? So far, this approach has been met with scoffs and derision. Perhaps because its not our native tongue.

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Well given the rate and pace of technological progress gender issues will be moot in the world where AGI rule. and if not the transhumanists will use genetic engineering and embryopods to procreate .

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May 10, 2023Liked by Lorenzo Warby

I think something that needs to be more closely reviewed are intelligence differences between the sexes. Males demonstrate consistently a 3-5 point mean IQ advantage. In addition to the highly underdiscussed mean difference, there is also a significant difference in variance. This means that there are vastly more males at the high (and somewhat low) end of the cognitive spectrum. It seems clear to me that this intellectual superiority is incredibly important in understand why feminization may have some of the consequences that it does. There is also evidence to suggest that intelligence is not linear in it's application. Meaning that persons at the high end of the spectrum may be contributing to society disproportionately, or even exponentially. This is the smart fraction theory and I think it has merit. Perhaps females use their superior verbal skills to suppress information and research that suggests that males have superior numerical, figural, and overall intelligence.

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May 12, 2023Liked by Helen Dale, Lorenzo Warby

Wonderful essay. Explained a lot of this tendency towards wokery. But the extremes of woke seem to become self-defeating in the end. I do hope it's a phase.

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Jul 20, 2023Liked by Helen Dale

It seems to me that for some women, those weaker or lower status than them do not fall into the category of "every general needs an army, and no man gets left behind", but rather they are either objects of pity and coddling (children), derision, or are flat out ignored. There is not enough of a sense that vulnerable women both deserve dignity and have agency. And not enough of a sense that people in general can need a hand up to become someone who can stand shoulder to shoulder to you and face the world together, and that you do them an injustice by cursing them the moment they cease to be perpetual children.

This reminds me of another topic actually: the way the progressive left curse minorities in their coalition of being traitors the moment they disagree with the (overwhelmingly posh, female, and - amusingly enough - white) radical wing implies that they don't think of this as a coalition of equals where new problems and interests are constantly negotiated, but as a lord-and-serf arrangement.

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Jul 22, 2023Liked by Helen Dale, Lorenzo Warby

https://theupheaval.substack.com/p/the-change-merchants

This is another substack I enjoy following which has commented on feminism and also China. There was one entry regarding the feminization of China and how Xi was cracking down on feminized males but I couldn’t find it off hand. Thank you for your work. Such interesting times we live in.

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Oct 1, 2023Liked by Lorenzo Warby

@Lorenzo, just a heads up the ‘pyramid of skulls’ article you linked to in this essay (https://indictales.com/2022/05/17/mughal-minars-of-hindu-heads-sign-of-victory-of-islam/) has been censored at the site.

I lol’d as I read their reasoning. You will too.

Best,

Michael

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