Political activism is a terrible place for women

Political activism is a terrible place for women.

Constant conflict and king of the hill games.

It’s a meat grinder that shreds them up mentally and emotionally.

The same conflict that strengthens men weakens and embitters women.

Only the most disagreeable and masculine women can survive for more than a few months in that environment. But even so, they end up leaving.

So what can women do to help?

• Men’s political solutions adapt to the size of the group.
• Women’s social solutions cater to the unique needs of the individual.

When women become activists, they either try to advocate for masculine solutions that are often counterintuitive to them and that men must implement. This causes conflict with disagreeable men.

Or they try to scale up feminine solutions, which require men to act like women, which never works and always antagonizes men.

This happens on both the right and left. It’s not done out of any malice on the woman’s part. They just want to help and be included in a traditionally all-male space.

And that’s part of the problem. The idea that women should directly affect political action was never part of any high culture. It would be shocking for almost all of human history.

Yes, occasionally a woman would be directly included, especially in Germanic culture, where we had first-function spiritual women who might advise a king or act as a judge. This was exceedingly rare, and these women were male cognates.

The role of women in politics was to support men’s (husband or father) choices, inform them of their and their children’s needs, and inspire them to righteous action. This was a powerful role, especially effective with virtuous men who loved their families.

In turn, men would consider the needs of their wives and children (and the families of their kith and kin) in their decisions while also bearing the burden of implementing the political decisions that they made.

Over the years, I have had many young women reach out to me about these things, and I generally tell them to stay away from the whole online right, as it’s a dirty war between grifters, government spies, perverts, the mentally ill, and a few good volks like myself and those I associate with.

Women today can still be wonderfully inspiring, promoting beauty, virtue, goodness, value, and building up good men. A woman who is interested in political activism but limits herself to these things and does not entertain feedback from men who are not her kin will do well for herself and her people.

“If a German tribe was caught up in a fight while migrating or moving for any reason, women would not be left behind.

Germanic women would yell at their fighting men, sometimes with their children on hand to witness the fighting.

The women encouraged their children to yell and, with bare breasts, shouted reminders at the men that they must be victorious in combat or their families would be captured and enslaved… or worse, slaughtered wholesale.

Their shouts encouraged their men to fight harder, as women were considered holy spirits. Letting them fall into enemy hands was the ultimate failure.”

War is politics and politics is war. The domain of men, yet women had a role to inspire and care for the men.

The Roman Senator and historian Tacitus wrote in his work, Germania:

A specially powerful incitement to valor is that the squadrons and divisions are not made up at random by the mustering of chance-comers, but are each composed of men of one family or clan. Close by them, too, are their nearest and dearest, so that they can hear the shrieks of their women-folk and the wailing of their children. These are the witnesses whom each man reverences most highly, whose praise he most desires. It is to their mothers and wives that they go to have their wounds treated, and the women are not afraid to count and compare the gashes. They also carry supplies of food to the combatants and encourage them.

It stands on record that armies already wavering and on the point of collapse have been rallied by the women, pleading heroically with their men, thrusting forward their bared bosoms, and making them realize the imminent prospect of enslavement — a fate which the Germans fear more desperately for their women than for themselves. Indeed, you can secure a surer hold on these nations if you compel them to include among a consignment of hostages some girls of noble family. More than this, they believe that there resides in women an element of holiness and a gift of prophecy; and so they do not scorn to ask their advice, or lightly disregard their replies.The women were more than just morale builders, though. They provided aid and comfort to their men after the battle was over, of course. And they would bring supplies and food to their male warriors in the middle of the fight.