Perry Rod

Men are attracted to pretty women. And women are attracted to masculine men.

The voices of people who fall outside these categories has never been louder.

But that doesn’t mean that they will overturn millions of years of human evolution through whining.

On the surface, it may appear that the shaming of “toxic masculinity” is producing a more feminine society. But in fact, what is happening is that masculinity is becoming more emboldened and powerful than ever.

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I was tortured and abused in grade school. I was ignored and rejected by girls in high school. I’m not one to naturally sympathize with masculinity.

Except…

I always had this strong desire …to fuck.

I learned that in order to attract a desirable woman, I couldn’t just be a victim. I had to stand up, take risks, be bold, and be heard. And with some of my natural disadvantages, I had to do even more. I had to be competitive and smart.

Being bullied as a kid didn’t weaken me. I’m thankful that I was introduced to reality at a young age. I learned that life is not fair and that people can be awful. They can discriminate, persecute, and not care about me. I had to care for myself and face tough challenges.

I’m glad that I’m not part of the generation that thinks it’s the end of the world when a child is bullied or feels like a loser. My difficult childhood experiences prepared me to stand up to a repressive world out there trying to put me in my place and control me.

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Today’s culture is pushing men to apologize and feel ashamed for the behavior of other men and for their own masculine impulses. It’s a modern example of cultural (and sexual) repression and control.

The average man chump is the one being ‘put in his place’. He’s a creep, “addicted to sex”. He should react with indifference to a woman walking down the street in tight clothes.

Nevermind that a woman in tight clothes is showing off a body that was produced by millions of years of human evolution and sexual selection – that’s millions of years of fine tuned bod designed for sexual attraction.

Meanwhile, women chose strong men over wimps throughout history. Today’s woman is still trying to attract the most masculine man she can find – the very man who ignores repressive cultural norms and suggestions that most modern men succumb to.

It’s sexually frustrated people who end up complaining the loudest about how this all works or pretending that we are in the process of overturning human biology.

We’re not.

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Young men have always been and always will be pathetic, hiding out with their raging hard-ons plotting on getting some kind of satisfaction. And here lies the rub. Girls ignore most boys. Young men have an uphill battle. Some make up for their disadvantages with masculine competitive self-improvement and talent. Some go feminine. Others end up doing terrible desperate and pathetic things.

The terrible pathetic things are not masculine. Approaching a person on the street in a respectful way is masculine. Catcalling is weak and a sad attempt at being masculine. Capturing and leading a woman’s imagination and heart is masculine. Grabbing and forcing a woman is awful and pathetic.

Yet, boys are hearing that masculinity in general is questionable because some men do terrible pathetic things. Worse, they fear the risk of making mistakes on the road to masculinity lest they are banished from modern civilization.

Where does that leave us?

It leaves us with fewer masculine men, of course. Yet, those few are taking over the world, and more brutishly masculine than ever.

Notice that dictatorships and authoritarianism is on the rise. The masculine men remaining in this worldwide cultural condition do not shrivel up and hide. They just take on a greater burden of human nature’s desire for masculinity. The cycle we’re in is not just a rise in superficial feminine cultural optics among the masses. It’s a deeper rise in unique masculine strength and authority amidst the desperate cultural cries from sexually repressed people. Fewer masculine men means more responsibility and authority for those remaining – further tilting the balance of power away from the many towards the few.