The Intelligent Woman & The Cultural Castration of Men
Why Gynocentrism is rampant today
"The best protection any woman can have is courage." – Elizabeth Cady Stanton
One of the most interesting and intriguing subgroups of personalities or archetypes to have ever existed in the history of the world is the intelligent woman. She is known by a variety of names, including dark triad, Machiavellian, girlboss, Cassandra, femme fatale, a wolf. She can be exploitative, manipulative, cunning beyond measure — mostly because she is beautiful, kind, sweet, elegant and poised— hm, she is smart, she is conscious, she is present in the moment and she knows. She’s thought three steps ahead and is playing the game on a winning streak. Even if it’s done involuntarily, she is wired to win, predisposed to wielding a mystical power over other women, and men, a master of scenes, able to tip any situation in her favor, due to her intellect and charm. This very woman is also a lady of her word and vibe. She would much rather be alone and secluded than heavily immersed in the cesspool. She makes up for it with her hundreds of intellectual pursuits spent in blissful solitude, tinged with a healthy amount of vanity, much required for a beautiful lady. Oft she has a best friend or two, even better, a man who is almost the mirror reflection of her in the other sex, but also much more clever than her, who keeps both — himself and her — in place. In that optimal winning spot, of the least friction and the most successful output they lead lives of gold freckled with a slight amount of blood. Yet the intelligent woman is a tragic story when chained down like a bird, or when without her Batman. In all three parallels, she is so immensely hated. Ironically, hated by only those who are a product of every mortal sin.
But why is the woman so feared yet so loved?
Both, male anxiety & the fascination with female sexuality can be connected to one of Paglia’s best theories of sex — vagina dentata, the vagina with teeth.
This vagina dentata represents the primal fear of castration and emasculation that underlies let’s say here, all male desire. In so many cultures and myths, the vagina with teeth is this monstrous or dangerous entity that threatens to devour or harm men who seek sexual contact with women. This same fear reflects deeper anxieties about female sexuality and the perceived power of women to control or manipulate men through their bodies, which you see the whole redpill talk about today, “beautiful, fecund, intelligent, dark triad women run the world.”
Men both desire and fear the vagina dentata because it symbolizes the dual nature of female sexuality as both nurturing and destructive. On one hand, men are drawn to the vagina as a source of pleasure, intimacy, and procreation. On the other hand, they are wary of its potential to castrate or emasculate them, either metaphorically through rejection or betrayal, or literally through genital injury. And gynocentrism while seeming to keep people “safe” is cultural castration at its finest.
Throughout history, men have sought to assert dominance and control over women’s bodies as a means of mitigating their fears of vulnerability and powerlessness. We see this everywhere — myths, legends, religion, and art all depict women as both objects of desire and sources of danger, and rightly so, no? The modern world takes this a step forward — Camille Paglia has this wonderful quote, “The rapist is the failure of social conditioning” which means biologically this is what men and programmed for, women, naturally bear more risk and responsibility from sex (pregnancy) are wired to be more cynical so that their skepticism keeps them outside closed doors with men who shouldn’t be with them. However, decadent times, increasing indulgences, vices, and hedonism have led most women to lose this one primal side of themselves while retaining the others (so now the sum total is more unpleasant) to add that protective filter that cynicism served, gynocentrism comes into place to “protect” women by increasing male anxiety.
It is one of my best (and most hated, how feminine) theories about how women do not want to be protected. Actually, they don’t need to be. “Female nature, freed from Judeo-Christian sequestration returns to animal nature.” (Vamps & Tramps) The walking woman, tramp, as Paglia states is, “The woman "on the stroll" (streetwalking) is a prowler and predator, self-directed and no one's victim.” She is both, truly free. And this is what women want. To be free. Free from rules, restrictions, expectations, consequences, the whole bucket. It is in feminine nature to want to be free, femininity in a universal sense is chaos because she is not bound by nature, she takes her course, as she pleases. Women want to be able to wear what they want, say what they please, roam wherever without any fear of an attack — this is not them caring or asking for protection, it’s a cry for freedom. This very freedom like a mug of stale coffee, has tipped over books and spread to the pages of society staining every page, leading us to CP’s poignant reminder - “Freedom means rejecting dependency.” It is the gonadal suppression of women today by modern feminism that dismisses true female agency and power. It forces women to see themselves through a broken lens as inferior creatures without the virility men possess. But this is untrue because a woman's sexual nature is as aggressive, domineering, and rapacious as a man's.
All of this compounds to the first law: policed language, because language forms the extent of your world.
"Feminism is being taken over by a fanatical, Orwellian left-wing that uses a tiny handful of test cases to try to suppress free speech." CP
Paglia is right in stating, “If civilization had been left in female hands, we would still be living in grass huts,” because this gynocentrism would only seek to pedestalize women and comfort them, not caring to build, conquer, and achieve. This is why the patriarchy achieves something - because men need to be given something worth striving for, a wholesome system to be part of, not victims of a bitten apple time after time. Yet gynocentrism prevails and ergo, culturally castrates the blind man.
Who wins? The snake. And of course, the woman, with the power of Ceasar1.
Part 1 in this series. Stay tuned.
“Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's. Mark 12:!7 ie., power of the modern world, not from God.