The idea that men require civilizing is long-lived. Peter Wright proposes a novel suggestion for how we might achieve that: by leaving men alone to be the caring and for the most part civil creatures they were from before society decided to impose its will on them.
Chivalry. It is quickly finding its way into meaning as the modern man’s “C” word, though there is much debate still as to its origin and meaning. Peter Write sets the record straight with this historical opus, sure to set the record straight.
Men are human doings, not human beings – or so we are led to believe by the gynocentric culture that thrives off men’s labor.
There have been women for centuries who have noticed how sick and degrading the pedestalization of women as “better” or “superior” to men is, and bemoaned its growing influence on culture. Peter Wright has a sterling example in the writings of Violet Paget–from 1895!
The Ancient Greek story The Odyssey describes a man attempting to go his own way while enduring temptation by the Sirens, those femme fatales who pull men away from their chosen paths and into inevitable destruction. Our hero Odysseus shows that with awareness and skill, we can sail right past the temptresses and on to our chosen destination.
Male celibacy leads directly to rape, murder and the beastly use of sodomy – so claim two women who in 1707 proposed the remedy of a bachelor tax, combined with severe punishments for unmarried men.
Lester Ward developed his ‘gynæcocentric theory’ in a speech in 1888, providing a touchstone for later feminists and evolutionary psychologists interested in female superiority.
Neither feminism, nor traditional gynocentrism. The time for the multi-option man is now.
Was coverture really erased as a social doctrine? Peter Wright takes a look.
