Men on Strike: Why Men Are Boycotting Marriage, Fatherhood, and the American Dream - and Why It Matters

by Helen Smith

it is fraught with nothing but risk and you are basically walking on eggshells throughout it all. There is just way too much emotional, psychological, financial, and gender risk at stake for the man. Women are infused with a sense of power over men and entitlement that should not exist. If you go against the feminist ideas with which they have been bred, you are simply dead in the water . . . and you become nothing more than a proof point for all the negative things feminism taught them. Also, why would you want to get married and have children? Would you want your son or daught...

smart, visionary, logical, problem solving, sensible, good natured, great looking, healthy ones? That’s what they will learn, plain and simple. Even if there’s a pre-nup regarding the assets, the other risks are just too great for a guy since money is only one aspect of a relationship that can go bad. I foresee a nation of primarily single people by the latter half of th...

Women and their minions want men isolated so they won’t band together politically, and it keeps men under women’s thumb in the domestic realm. If a man does something at home that a woman doesn’t like, he’s one step away from the police or social services stepping in with a restraining order or worse, taking his kids. Or he is afraid of being kicked out of his own house.

I wonder how much of the demonization of men leads to our staggering male suicide rate? Men kill themselves at much higher rates than women: four men for every one woman. It’s politically correct to laugh at men, beat them or hurl insults their way. Most men don’t say anything and just retreat to the basement to tune out the world, and who can blame them?

When a partner isolates their spouse from friends, associates, and public places, it’s called domestic abuse. When it’s done to an entire gender, it’s called feminism.

Men have been listening to what society has been saying about them for more than forty years; they are perverts, wimps, cowards, assholes, jerks, good-for-nothing, bumbling deadbeats and expendable. Men got the message;

now they are acting accordingly. As you sow, so shall you reap.

The Concordia is just a microcosm of what is happening in our greater society. Men are opting out, bailing out and going on strike in response to the attack on their gender; a society can’t spend more than forty years tearing down almost half of the population and expect them to respond with “give me another” forever. Pretty soon, a lot more men will be taking Captain Schettino’s lead and jumping ship—only it will be on a lot larger scale than a boatload of people. The war on

men is suicidal for our society in so many ways, and treating men like the enemy is dangerous, both to men and to the society that needs their positive participation as fathers, husbands, role models and leaders.

Virtually every society that survived did so by socializing its sons to be disposable. Disposable in war; disposable in work. We need warriors and volunteer firefighters so we label these men heroes. Men need the approval, and want to be eligible for marriage and fatherhood, so we all have a vested interest in not questioning this socialization for disposability. Thus, men don’t speak up and women don’t hear what men don’t say. But exactly because men’s attitude toward their own problems

remains “when the going gets tough, the tough get going,” and because few men realize that their facade of strength is their weakness, this outreach to the silent sex is all the more important.11

Whether because of support from the state or earned income, women became much better able to support a child without a husband over the period of 1960 to 2010. As women needed men less, the social status that working-class men enjoyed if they supported families began to disappear. The sexual revolution exacerbated the situation, making it easy for men to get sex without bothering to get married. In such circumstances, it is not surprising that male fecklessness bloomed, especially in the working class.16

Men are both being forced out and dropping out of the workforce in spades and our society doesn’t care unless women like Lisa Belkin use the fact to complain about how it affects women. Maybe when there are no more men working, people will start to notice, until then, they will just continue to discuss the “war on women” until there are no men anywhere.

It seems that the task of living up to women’s expectations is so high that many men just don’t measure up. They simply give up and find a life that brings them some reasonable amount of comfort. Yes, the basement, video games and porn might be a poor second (or not), but at least it’s attainable and doesn’t sit around trying to shame them for not performing up to par.

With fewer available men to marry, many women are left to live alone or have children by themselves. According to the New York Times, “more than half of births to American women under 30 occur outside marriage.”24 What price will these children and society pay when the kids grow up without a father or even a male role model because men are afraid to coach Little League for fear of being called a pervert? And if more women are bringing up kids without a father, they are likely to have fewer children.

With women raising kids alone by choice or otherwise, men will go off and do their own thing. Many will succeed and live a fine life, but others, mainly younger ones with fewer resources, may end up with few job skills or a dead-end job, little education, and feelings of alienation from society—which can lead to social instability. Men as a whole want to be doing things and taking risks that lead to innovation and economic growth, not hanging

out all the time in the basement without purpose.

Set boundaries with your girlfriend or wife as early as possible. Once bad behavior starts, it is hard to change. If you find yourself in the middle of a divorce, lose the pride. Fight back, get a good lawyer

and don’t be afraid to take back what is yours. Quit the chivalry and inferiority complex that tells you that you weren’t man enough and made the wife leave. It was her choice. I am always shocked by the men who tell me they lost everything in the divorce, but then find out that they never fought hard in the first place. If you try and still lose, at least you didn’t sit back and do nothing.

Another way to go Galt is to live on your own terms, make enough money to get by, and stay out of the system’s way. I have noticed a number of men in my hometown who get joy out of driving around, drinking beer, and working on their own hobbies in peace and tranquility in their own homes or in homes they share with other guys. They don’t have to worry about going down to the man cave as they have the run of the house, or that

their hobby will be shelved or stopped because of a spouse’s refusal to allow it.

White knights and Uncle Tims are both types of men who elevate women to a privileged position in different ways, often for different reasons. The white knight wants to take care of women and sees her as a damsel in distress who needs his

masculine protection to get by. His status rises because he is seen by some men as chivalrous and by women as a protector. If he is a politician, he might be more conservative and will see certain unfair laws against men as necessary to protect the little women from the big bad wolf—men, of course. Realize that this guy wants to be seen as a hero, but you must treat him as a fool. This will humiliate him and get him to rethink his chivalrous tendencies, which often lead to men being harmed and women gaining privilege.