The thing your (excellent) analysis lacks is the sacrifice of motherhood a girl must make to "Be a Man".
Being a Man is performative. It is shown by demonstration.
To achieve the skills and attitude, to demonstrate the male virtues a woman must GIVE UP the chance of a family and children.
Feminists idolise the virtues of capability, independence and earning-power that a good man should demonstrate. For a woman to have a career and earn manly money, she attends university (or trade school) and then develops her professional skills to advance her career.
She graduates university at 23 (after fucking like a man) and then gets stuck into her career. Nine short years later she is 32 and her time is up. Her chance of getting pregnant halves every year until it vanishes. All pregnancies after 32 are considered, medically, to be a geriatric pregnancy.
As a work-around, many women decided to sperm-jack some poor sap, or, just as bad, "settle" for a man beneath her for just long enough to have a kid before she kicks him out five years later. This dooms her to a life of (relative) poverty. A two parent household earns about twice as much as a single parent household. She can either neglect her kids and earn money, or be poor as fuck. Pick one.
Women, in general, make shitty men. They don't earn as much, they don't do dirty jobs and they neglect their biological role of mother. Even Mulan, in the movie, could not beat any of her fellow soldiers in tests of strength or speed. She was clever and resourceful, but that wasn't really enough. Her team had to carry her.
Destruction of the family is an explicit goal of Marxism and the Neo-Marxist movement of feminism.
tldr; For a young woman to pursue the male virtues and to demonstrate manly characteristics in society requires her to sacrifice her chance at a family.
Define Patriarchy.
Not kidding. Actually define it.
Christianity (specifically the protestant branch) paired with the capitalist free market has been the method to lift more people out of poverty than any other in history.
The issue is that to change society enough to deeply ingrain the cultural foundations of protestant Christians takes more than three generations.
Having given the subject deep thought, I have some ideas as to why.
Honesty: Merchants who deal honestly with their customers benefit both parties. The customers form a relationship and (probably) come back. The customers get an honest deal. The effect on the greater economy is vast. Something like 40% increase in overall GDP. This is on top of the social benefits of living in a society where people are not lying cunts. Honesty is closely related to the value of Justice. An honest man sees the value in a just society. An honest man does not fear judgement.
Penance and Forgiveness: With a path for rehabilitation and reacceptance to polite society, there is a way to take problem actors and allow them to participate productively. Obviously this doesn't work in every case, but in general, it is more scalable across a nation. This replaces banishment, which worked just fine for a little desert tribe or a city state. Not so much for a country that spans a continent or an empire that rules the waves. The Christian method puts the responsibility directly on the individual. You screwed up? Fine. YOU do the work to make amends. We will watch. Forgiveness isn't the same as forgetting and it has limits. Even Jesus picked up a lash and scourged those fucking moneylenders.
Work Ethic: Protestants are famous for their cast iron work ethic. They work hard and they face their community every week in church. While it isn't specifically a Christian value, it is very much a cultural value.
The free market allows immediate feedback for your actions. People who add the most value to society earn the most money. It is vital that personal earnings be tempered by social values that maximize the individuals value to greater society rather than just the economy. A significant portion of the bible is spent instructing that rich people should be held to the same standards or even higher standards than everyone else. Your obligations to god and your fellow man do not change just because you are wealthy or even very rich.
In Russia the socialist movement first tore down the church and then tore down the family. The institutions of the state were subverted and used to keep the citizens obedient and afraid.
I was raised in the protestant tradition. I didn't think much of Christianity and I certainly didn't see the point of church. Now I am later in my life I have distinctly changed my mind. Frankly it doesn't matter if God is real or not. If we act like God exists, the world is a better place. History shows this pretty clearly. The most successful cultures of all time have been from the Christian tradition, with the strongest of those being Protestant and Lutheran.
Depending on how well run your prison is, keeping a prisoner ties up a limited resource and costs $300 a day or so.
In lots of places judges must only sentence the most terrible of criminals because the prisons are literally full to bursting.
In this perspective the Singapore system of public beatings gives a distinct advantage. Offenders are tried quickly, beaten with the rattan ( a bamboo-like cane) and then deported or released.
The Singaporeans take a similar approach with hangings. Smuggling drugs through Singapore is a really dumb idea.
It is like pulling that thread on your sweater. Shortly later you have a pile of yarn and a stupid look on your face.
Holy shit, it was all connected? How did I not notice that before? It is all (more or less) the same thing?
Read my comment again. Where did I say that she wasn't a psychopath? Or that she could be saved?
BtAS Harley is a tragic character. Her own weakness and shitty choices have put her were she is. Perhaps she might be redeemed, but she wont, she keeps doubling down and making bad choices. I don't cut her any slack for being cute, but there is more to BtAS Harley than just being a quirky slut.
A shame he picked a shithouse campaign team that went out and insulted the ever-loving-fuck out of a big slice of his audience.
I am not even against DeSantis, but you could write a book on how not to run a campaign with his example.
So he isn't an alternative.
I was not typing for the benefit of the troll.
Read my comment again.
I said:
- Insulting trolls isn't making you a better person.
- They absolutely are not worth your time.
Guy. Harley Quinn got repurposed from being a tragic character with her own journey (in BtAS) to just a "quirky" slut who parades her victim status for clout and more cocks.
So yay for you for enjoying Margo Robbie in cosplay for spank material. You want upvotes for that?
You are not going to win any friends by celebrating the destruction of Batman. "BuT SHe Iz hOT thO!" is bad. You should feel bad.
Super mature. I can tell that social media is making you a better person. /s
Guy, you don't argue with zealots on the internet to change their mind. You do it because people read your comments and you might influence the bystanders.
Either bring your best game or it absolutely isn't worth your time. This "insult the trolls for lols" is beneath you. Or it should be.
BuT AlL JeWz ArE LiTEralLY the DEVIL!
He isn't the only one around here. Gizortnik vacillates between Idiot Savant and just Idiot.
He very clearly has deep knowledge of several fields ... but some of the stuff he says is just bonkers. Sometimes reading his comments are a rollercoaster ride; especially when it is a field I happen to know in depth.
Remember on Reddit when a tool would lose so hard they would go and downvote every comment you had ever made?
Good times!
What?
I asked the guy to suggest a different political candidate!
I don't even have a dog in this fight. I don't vote in the USA.
I personally think that Trump is the best chance because he is scrupulously honest and from totally outside the system of graft and bribes.
The Australian tertiary education system (Universities) are explicitly funded by selling a pathway to Australian citizenship to foreigners.
So much so that when COVID closed off access to those students and their money there was a literal collapse of the Australian university funding model.
So, no. It is not a consolation. Not even a little bit.
Present an alternative to Trump or shut up.
There are no solutions, only compromises. Present a better one.
Resist? Ghana begged the UK to administrate their country. The local king could see the advantages of being an English colony.
The UK initially refused, because they didn't want to make the investment.
Africans would much rather have been subjects of the crown, with all the rights and privileges that conferred, than being conquered by the neighboring tribes and sold as slaves; which was very much a reality for many.
The quality of life of the colonial subjects shot up immediately after the colonial power moved in. They plummeted the minute the colony was abandoned. Ask Cambodia how that turned out for them.
Stalin has the high score, no question! But for sheer cultural impact, Pol Pot has to get an honourable mention.
Just think about it. Every single Cambodian that survived.Pol Pot's leadership was forced to murder their friends and family. Every last one.
Change comes from the barrel of a gun.
Pol Pot is the real MVP. He took out 40% of the population of Cambodia.
A series of horseshoes in proximity to a horse's ass.
Hey, didn't JFK do that?
I mean, it worked out for JFK, right?
Until we get the Exploding Atomic Cars of Peace.
Women, in general, control about 70% of the household income. As far as I can tell, they always have.
One of the primary complaints raised in the Declaration of Sentiments in 1848 was that women were first financially dependent on their fathers and then financially dependent on their husbands; with the obligations that came with that.
The alternative to men earning the money is that women would earn the money. This neatly erases the male role in a family. Women do not stay married to men who do not provide.
It is interesting to me that men's role to bring home resources for their partners and the mother of their children; and are so hated and resented for it.