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Why Men Leave Female-Dominated Professions
Perceiving femininity as inferior, and what we can do about it
Look at how they frame it without giving it a second thought and, i assume, without interrogating any normal man : "men see femininity as inferior, that's why they dont want to work with women ! It's on them !"
This is such a simplistic, blaming cop-out. Of course, one could mention the existence male-hostile attitudes in female dominated fields, therefore the rightful reluctance of men to work there or the reluctance of HR to even hire them if not it's tendancy to fire or replace them. But given that they seek to blame men morally by pretending to scrutinize their very psyche, i will take their BS at face value, just to show how much truth is ahead of any feministic foid's BS.
The toxic egalitarian dynamic they mention and seem to consider as something new was reported as far as the 50's, and imo the most significant of cases is when women started to enter the originally male-dominated cheerleading, hardly a very competitive field therefore not an ego thing, and yet the very same thing happened : men started to leave. But not only until almost not a single one of them was left, but until the esthetic and social codes of the field completely changed and became thoroughly feminized. People's disbelief when i tell them that cheerleading used to be a male activity is proof of how symbolically potent and subversive feminity is, as it devoured the previous male symbolism as far as up to it's MEMORY, it's possibility of HAVING MERELY EXISTED.
Something virile, sporty and serious - therefore solemn - became dainty, lascivious and jolly - therefore frivolous.
In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, cheerleading at sporting events was largely a male domain. It was about leading organized chants and encouraging the crowd, often using physical strength to control the energy of the audience.
How'd you make this version cohabit with the current one ?
If such a dramatic and zero-sum unfolding is the conclusion, it perfectly justifies the gut feeelings those retreating men had : sharing the activity with Becca, Molly and Amy fucking sucked because, above all, they simply felt uncomfortable as the rise of foids participation led to a massive and inevitable perception shift be it for the onlookers or the participants, be it external or autoreflexive ; a sane man is compelled to feel ontologically attacked when foids try to cohabit with his codes, his identity, because he knows that they're deeply different - not necessarily MUH INFERIOR but DIFFERENT - AND THE WHOLE WORLD IS THERE TO MAKE HIM REMEMBER IT, ESPECIALLY WOMEN THEMSELVES, even moreso than his own fucking psyche.
One might then retort that why women don't feel the same thing ? I think the response lies in the developement itself ; there's practically no reverse example of what i developed here, ie women devouring men symbolically through sheer presence. Because, staying on the topic of cheerleading, the aforementioned dichotomy between solemnity and frivolity obviously evoke rigidity/verticality faced with fluidity/horizontality, and one can't be collectively solemn without esprit de corps (a word often used in military doctrine, directly pertaining to male camaradery), ie some level of rigid/vertical autoreflexive gendered identification which is incompatible with a fluid/horizontal model :
"Esprit de corps refers to the loyalty one gives to their peers in relation to society, the nation, or beliefs. In practice, this requires having shared experiences (positive or negative) that create a sense of being 'apart.' Subsequently, when the survival or simply the interests of the group are threatened, its members will rally together more effectively in its favor: they 'form a united front.'
In its positive sense, esprit de corps allows, for example, a group of veterans to have better discipline and greater trust, or a sports team to better withstand setbacks (it then closely resembles team spirit, but at a deeper level)."
While frivolity is being pretty, admired for it and having a good time - how were men supposed to fucking relate to that ? The esprit de corps was crushed while women were having fun, it's a proto annoying TEEHEE. Foids gendered identification is automatic and takes no effort, but it's precisely why it's stronger than ours in contemporary chaotic social contexts ; by means of it's fluidity/horizontality it will penetrate a porous rigid male structure as well as cut it at it's vertical base, which is exactly what happened for male cheerleading - men and women actually couldn't coexist without women destroying their space and taking over it.
This is but a microcosm, but it's one of the many possible egalitarian induced manifestations of an ontological unbalance between men and women. And if men feel it no matter the space, then it means that their instinct are right. It's less about perceiving femininity as inferior but rather as deeply different, annoying and subversive in nature, because it fucking is. Men are totally right to feel that way lest they end up like this poor forgotten spectre of a male cheerleader - with no identity and totally subverted.
And maybe the most cruel thing is that this not only happens on it's own, but foids - now that we're not in the 50's - actually enforce it as everyone knows : HR, false accusations, making you walk on eggshells, etc, but they still have the gall to shit out such articles. Edit : I didn't read it by the way as i have no access to it, but a comment does mention cheerleading so she touched on the subject apparently but i bet she doesnt explore the why and how as she's only there to blame men. What an insufferable cunt.
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