Just finished this book and it most certainly belongs on any MGHOW’s bookshelf or tablet.
The author, van Creveld, first published it in German around 2003 and released an updated English version in 2013. Here’s an excerpt from the 2013 version’s preface:
Now as ever, many feminist claims concerning the alleged oppression of women by men at various times and places are unfounded. Now as ever, both biologically and socially, becoming and being a man is in many ways harder than becoming and being a woman. Now as ever, men work longer hours, performing harder, dirtier and more dangerous work than women and suffering proportionally far more industrial accidents. Throughout history it was husbands who supported their wives, not the other way around. And in 9 of 10 households today, this remains the case. Women also receive proportionally far more welfare benefits. Around the world, the law in many ways treats men much more severely than women. In armed forces that admit women — and by no means all do — men proportionally suffer nearly 10 times more casualties than women. Women, meanwhile, receive far more medical attention, which helps to explain why, as mentioned above, women’s life expectancy exceeds that of men. And in many other ways, women continue to enjoy a better quality of life. Yet none of these facts has prevented feminists from shedding tears over their lot. A man who “yammers” — in the words of the late “mother of feminism” Betty Friedan — is certain to be despised or ridiculed. But a woman doing the same — and that is indeed what many feminists have done — is much more likely to get what she wants.
Heady stuff indeed.
Among many other things, you’ll learn that Angela Merkel, whose insane open borders policy toward so-called “Syrian” refugees has irreparably damaged Germany and will most likely spark an UK exit from the EU among other things, owes her meteoric rise in German national politics not to her ability as a politician but thanks to a C~~~ QUOTA which sets aside a certain percentage of parliamentary seats to women.
Chapters in the book include “From Dowries to Social Security”, “The Maw of Mars”, and “The Complaining Sex”.
Here’s another quote, this time from the book’s concluding chapter:
Whatever the future may hold for women, what it has in store for men is perfectly clear: Men will continue the pursuit of power, fame and riches so that they can lay their gains at the feet of one or more women. They will continue to be treated more harshly by parents, at school and by other institutions whose purpose is to prepare people for adult life. They will also continue to work more, and harder than, women, carrying out a wholly disproportionate number of dirty, dangerous tasks and suffering a wholly disproportionate number of accidents as a result. Whether individually or collectively, or both, men will continue to support women economically by means of whatever mechanisms exist at any time and place. Without public money, which is made up overwhelmingly of the contributions of men, most feminist organizations would go bankrupt. Faced by the rigor of law, men will continue to be treated much more harshly than women. Faced by the horror of war, men will continue to die so that women may live. In these and countless other ways, men will continue to do what they can to give women easier, better, more comfortable and longer lives than men themselves enjoy. All the while, listening – or quite often, trying not to listen – to women’s complaints about anything and everything, including them.
Mr. van Creveld obviously hasn’t heard of the Red Pill or MGTOW else he wouldn’t have painted such a dire picture of our collective fate. We won’t be stumbling down the thankless road Martin van Creveld describes towards a slave’s dark grave.
We’re going our own way and nothing – NOTHING – can make us turn back.
Do not date. Do not impregnate. Do not co-habitate. Above all, do not marry. Reclaim and never again surrender your personal sovereignty.
Sephiroth 3 years, 11 months ago.
