Women Need to Re-Boot Civilization

Because of global warming the civilization that men have
created is no longer viable, if it ever was. Women had
little or no input in this 10,000-year production, and even
today they own less than 1% of the world's assets, though
they represent two-thirds of the world's labor.

This crucial truth has to be drummed into women's heads:
men have totally messed up the planet. They're also
responsible for our addiction to violence and killing. War
is men's path, the one they chose. Women were not consulted.

Men went with the chimpanzee's proclivity to violence,
rather than our other cousin's, the bonobos, predilection
for peace. The bonobos diffuse conflict by resorting to
sexual play. There's no rape among the bonobos. The females
make sure of that.

Gross Negligence and Incompetence of Males

It's now time for women to fill in the dots. Despite its
successes, feminism has largely failed by not taking the
fight to men and their "accomplishments," the world they've
created, the one we've inherited and live in today. That
world is a failure. True, it's the only world we've got and
the only one we know. But it's still a flop, and that's
what women need to convey. The male enterprise has lost not
only its invincibility, but its credibility.

This is obvious in the current fiscal meltdown. This
present "chapter" in their story illustrates how men's
economic empire—of course there are women involved
but we know who pulls the strings, who's smoking the
cigars—is a sleight-of-hand game perpetrated on the
masses.

It's a sham—the Ponzi scheme of Wall Street and
Washington—built upon a sham—the idea that we
should buy more and more of what we don't need then throw
it away—built upon another sham—that third
world countries exist for our benefit to give us things to
throw away.

Men have Done It on the Cheap

Feminists need to ask two questions: How could men they
have been so terribly wrong? And why have they relied on
violence and war to solve their problems for 10,000 years?
Even dogs know better than to let size alone rule.

The answer's easy. Men failed simply because they decided
to go-it-alone. They didn't want women to muck up the
works—especially the works of war—so they
devalued women back at the beginning of civilization. Women
became property—no longer human beings--owned by men.
Even today, little girls grow up learning to be deferential
to boys.

But in the process, men undermined their own identity. They
purged their own feminine traits, thus creating an
artificial hybrid, an out-of-balance, hybridized human
being.

Men as Hybrids

Men are, by nature—their hybridized
nature—out-of-balance. What could they create but a
world off-balance, one that made little sense, one that
utilized next to nothing of humanity's collective
creativity and imagination?

Despite our great inventions and works of art, we've been
living with basically the same stultifying, false notions
that have plagued us for 10,000 years. These racist, sexist
and elitist beliefs have resulted in constant conflict and
war. Men—to make their story "work"--decide that
constant warfare is normal. Violence and rape against
women—par for the course. Genocide for
breakfast—bring it on.

Men Trash Sex

Another part of men's story has to do with sex. Here too
their version is unraveling. Men have tainted sex, made it
off-color. They've devalued the most beautiful, meaningful
act of pleasure and intimate communication possible between
people on this planet, sexual intercourse.

Certainly feminists would be forgiven for hitting men below
the belt on this one—men deserve it and they have
been taking cheap shots at women "there" for thousands of
years.

When patriarchal men made women property (in the Old
Testament and before), they took control of their bodies
and of their sexuality. Women were to be "pure." The male
"magic wand" came into existence. With a wave of his wand,
he could declare a woman impure and ruin her for the rest
of her life. Basically, women's sexuality—their
life-giving force—belonged to men (and once again
they're taking it back).

Remnants of this ancient belief exist today on campuses of
middle schools and high schools in the USA. Girls are still
held to a higher standard of purity than boys. They're
still expected to behave according to male dictates. Men
(boys) hold power over females.

As a result of this twisted logic and manipulation of
women's sexuality, men's and woman's sexual relationships
have always been difficult. Most men see sex as a
mysterious chasm that's dangerous to navigate. They're
confused about women, especially about sex, the dark secret.

Men Scared Fitless

If women were to ask men why they trashed the world,
including women and men, they would have to answer: because
we're scared.

There's no man, no matter how powerful, that couldn't be
brought to his knees by a tiny, diminutive female--with no
discernible effort on her part--merely by her act of being
female. That's the nature of the beast, as they say. And
that's why men decided long ago that women must be shamed,
tamed, and made to blame for whatever ails men, never mind
that men had brought on all the ailing.

Men's fear of women is expressed in different ways. Muslim
men's fear forces women to cover themselves from head to
foot—while accepting the blame for having to do so.

Rape, the Male's Weapon of Choice

In India the gains made by middle-class urban women have
sparked a male backlash that has expressed itself in sexual
violence and harassment. According to the Guardian Weekly
(10/17/08), newspapers have dubbed New Delhi the "rape
capital" of south Asia. A similar situation exists south of
our own border, in Mexico, with death accompanying rape and
torture.

Rape and violence toward women is practiced throughout the
world by men. The ultimate trick is to get women to do harm
to themselves. Women are coerced—socially, it's their
choice—to mutilate, burn, and/or freeze parts of
their bodies in order to be more pleasing to men.

Women need to take advantage of this historic coming-apart
of men's carefully stitched-together narrative. They've
blown it. The planet's headed towards a meltdown; the Ponzi
scheme of economics' voodoo is floating in the water; and
men's fear-based scheme of derailing women sexually has
made a quagmire out of everything touched by sex.

Women in general and feminists in particular need to zero
in on the connection between men's disastrous attempt at
"civilization" and his decision to dispense with women.
Only then can men and women together begin the construction
of Civilization 2.0.

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