Male Sovereignty: What Not To Do and Who Not To Be

Female Influences - What Not To do and Who Not To Be

written for Going Your Own Way forum

Adam and Eve c. 1550 - Jacopo Tintoretto 

To get the right answer, we need to begin by asking the right question. And the right question seems to be, “what do I want do and what do I want to be.” This question is basically addressing self-worth and self-identity; two crucial feature of any man. But again, these questions are too broad and so we have to focus it. Hence a good follow-up question would be “what do I not want to do and what do I not want to be,” and these two new questions are much easier to answer;

We don’t want to serve women’s desires and we don’t want to be slaves that serve women’s desires.

Lycurgus (2014) offered us a great history lesson when he posted the reason behind the decline of Sparta.

“…the men of Sparta were always obedient to their wives, and allowed them to meddle in public affairs more than they themselves were allowed to meddle in domestic concerns. Now, at this time the greater part of the wealth of Sparta was in the hands of the women, and this made the work of Agis a grievous and difficult one. For the women were opposed to it, not only because they would be stripped of the luxury which, in the general lack of higher culture, made their lives seem happy, but also because they saw that the honour and influence which they enjoyed in consequence of their wealth would be cut off…”

Plutarch, Life of Agis (245-241 BC)Parallel Lives

According to Plutarch, Agis wanted to reform Sparta to its glory days but he had a major obstacle; women. The women opposed the reforms because it would mean that they would lose their political influence and wealth; the women wanted to remain dissolute. In the end, Agis was put to death by the Ephors of Sparta in a time when a man his age would be granted an easy pardon, just because he wanted to make Sparta great again (Dryden, 2009).

We can now clearly see that even before Jesus was born, women’s behavior was appalling and their very behavior was one of the reasons that Sparta declined. But the men of Sparta were also accountable because they were blindly subservient to their wives and we can see parallels in our society today when we look at traditionalists, gender traitors and the female psychosis or as we know them; White Knights, Mangina and Feminists. 

By examining these 3, my aim is to prove that their way of life is the very reason why our society is ailing on a worldwide scale and that we need to abandon it if we are to survive not only as a society but as a civilization. 

Reference:

Dryden, J (2009) Agis by Plutarch. [online] 2009 available at Internet Classic Archives http://classics.mit.edu/Plutarch/agis.html [accessed Mar 26, 2014]