American politics – battle of the sexes?

American politics – battle of the sexes?
By Terry A. Hurlbut
Three days ago, Donald J. Trump mathematically clinched the Republican nomination for President of the United States. By itself this event merely confirmed what everyone already knew. After all, Ambassador Nikki Haley, by throwing in the towel, had already decided the nomination. But the next night, a now-iconic panel of five commentators discussed “The Rematch” between Trump and “Resident” Joe Biden. One of them – Greg Gutfeld – returned to a theme he has sounded before. In his view, American electoral politics, especially national politics, has turned into a battle of the sexes. But this battle of the sexes is more dangerous, because the women this time have no fellow-feeling with men.
Greg Gutfeld’s battle of the sexes exposition
Gutfeld held forth on the coming (or ongoing) battle of the sexes in a segment of The Five on Fox News Channel. Ian Schwartz at RealClearPolitics provided a transcript.
This is not a rematch. This is the second half of the Trump Bowl. And Biden was merely the worst halftime show in history, worse than Maroon 5 in 2019 and that is saying something. We keep talking about the black and Hispanic vote but we are missing what it really is. The Dems are not losing the black and Hispanic vote, they are losing the black and Hispanic men, right? Why don't they break that down, that men are fleeing the Democratic party like a showing of Barbie?
It is because it is terrifying to them that they are becoming the party of AWFLs, affluent, white, female, liberals. The Democratic party has become almost a political version of the Bud Light commercial with Dylan Mulvaney. They've alienated men in order to please miserable activists, and men are like, hey, we know when we are not wanted. We will see ourselves out. We know what a woman is, right? We know what is best for our kids. We know what it takes to protect our cities and our families and we are tired of apologizing for laughing at funny jokes and having natural testosterone, right?
So they know, they know that the Democratic party has become a gender-specific party, and it is run by a specific type who deny biology, deny reality, deny common sense and laws necessary for safety and security because you know why? They're too mean. It's no different [from] a teacher's lounge at Smith College.
They have alienated men in favor of tormented activists. I would just like to know, what has Joe Biden -- what has the Democratic party ever said about men? Anything? It's about women. It's about gender. It's about trans. And it's about race. Right? And they got so obsessed with race, they forgot about the sexes, especially one half of the sexes. It's a party that is inhospitable to the Y chromosome. If you are a man, why stick around?
(Note: Schwartz insisted on inserting the word urban between the words female and liberal to “complete the acronym.” That word belongs out, good or bad, because Greg Gutfeld left it out.)
This X user, while biased against conservatives generally, at least embedded an accurate video of Mr. Gutfeld’s remarks.
https://twitter.com/DecodingFoxNews/status/1768358733631942765
Later that night, on his own program, he returned to this theme. He published his own essay the next day. In it he reiterated that Black, Latino, and especially Asian-American men are deserting the Democratic Party. They are doing this because the Democratic Party is hostile to men qua men.
As mentioned, Greg Gutfeld has sounded this theme before. In a discussion of American female swimmer Riley Gaines’ protest against mediocre male athletes “identifying as women” in order to score athletically against another class of competitors, Gutfeld said this:
https://twitter.com/abughazalehkat/status/1671995452512956416
In essence he said that if the Democrats insist on forcing parents to consent to the surgical mutilation and hormonal poisoning of their children, and taxpayers to pay for it, they will risk a second civil war. Less dramatically, he predicted that in ten years, physicians and surgeons would lose their licenses for taking part in, aiding, and abetting these practices.
What is it all about?
Mr. Gutfeld might seem to have expressed himself inconsistently and even inartfully at times. For example, the Y chromosome is no longer the disqualifying factor – not with the advent of surgical mutilation and hormonal poisoning to let a biological man pass for a woman. The key to the problem is the spectacle of mediocre males “re-identifying” as females. We see this in athletics and, more disgustingly still, in the military.
The women fighting the battle of the sexes include biological males, who never learned how to be true men, uniting with biological females who hate the true men. They share in common a disdain for all reproductive function, or any of the womanly arts. What can it matter to them, that reproduction would be impossible? Gilbert and Sullivan famously asked:
If you enlist all women in your cause, / and make them all abjure tyrannic man, / the obvious question then arises: How / is this posterity to be provided?
They don’t know, and they don’t care. Their time horizon extends no further than an immediate revenge for real or imagined slights. This is what Gutfeld means by
a specific type who deny biology, deny reality, deny common sense and laws necessary for safety and security.
It is not the Y chromosome to which the Democratic Party is inhospitable. It is men who know how to be men, and the idea that the sexes are in fact different. At the same time they know the sexes are different – and seek to divide them.
How the battle of the sexes began
The battle of the sexes has its roots in the earliest tensions between men and women in civilized society. Sadly, they result from an institutional failure, on the part of men, to attend to their responsibilities as men. Paul of Tarsus, in his Letter to the Ephesians, addressed several superior-subordinate relationships. These included employers and employees (actually masters and slaves in his day), parents and children – and husbands and wives. While exhorting the subordinates to submit to their superiors, Paul also enjoined the superiors to treat their subordinates fairly. He also reminded everyone in such relationships that with authority comes responsibility.
Sadly, in the United States, too many men shirked that responsibility. They took to drink, and, in addition to not being able to carry out their responsibilities under its influence, spent their earned substance on intoxicating liquor. Charles Gloyd was one such man. A physician who had fought in the Union Army, he was plainly addicted to alcohol. In Holden, Missouri, where he settled after the war, he met a certain young woman and, against her parents’ better judgment, married her. But he proved a poor husband, separated from his wife after the birth of their daughter, and died of medical complications of alcohol abuse.
How women’s rights became a thing
Five years later, that wife, Caroline Amelia Moore Gloyd, married a lawyer named David Nation. She also began the work that made her most famous: smashing liquor kegs. But more than that, she led some of the first women’s rights marches – in protest against the availability of alcohol. In 1918 her efforts, and those of fellow members of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union, paid off.
After one year from the ratification of this article the manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors within, the importation thereof into, or the exportation thereof from the United States and all territory subject to the jurisdiction thereof for beverage purposes is hereby prohibited.
Amendment XVIII of the Constitution of the United States
Then – in fear that the men would rally to repeal that Amendment, women agitated for a vote – and got it. These two acts set a precedent: men couldn’t be trusted, so women would take care of themselves. That precedent opened the way for women to experiment with unhealthy philosophies – and the men made little effort to regain the trust they had lost.
Every part of the unhealthy philosophy behind the battle of the sexes became inevitable from that moment forward. The sexual revolution, abortion on demand, and the first medical experiments in surgical and hormonal alteration of human males and females, all stem from that change in the basic relationship between men and women. These movements might now have reached their logical endgame – when a class of women declare not only independence of, but war against, men.
Healing the rift
Happily the rift is not as severe as the women fighting that battle might imagine. The “Bud Light Controversy” shows that only a small fraction of women care to carry it on. That brand crashed and burned because most people recoiled in horror from the advertisements Greg Gutfeld mentioned. Were this rift as great as these women pretended, Bud Light might have lost half its customer base. Instead it lost almost all of it.
But the one thing that can stop the battle of the sexes is for the adults – particularly the adult men – to reenter the room. Of course the Democratic Party doesn’t want that; the women fighting the battle want to continue it. They’ll inevitably lose that battle, for if they give no thought to the lack of posterity, they will have none. But to avoid a Pyrrhic victory, the adult men must reassert their authority – and take the responsibility too many of their ancestors shirked. If any women are to trust men again, men must show themselves trust-worthy.
Link to:
Video: Greg Gutfeld on Democrats as the Party of AWFLs:
https://twitter.com/DecodingFoxNews/status/1768358733631942765

Transcript from RealClearPolitics:
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2024/03/13/gutfeld_democrats_have_become_a_gender-specific_party_black_and_hispanic_men_know_theyre_not_wanted.html

Essay: Democrats forgot the battle of the sexes:
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/greg-gutfeld-democrats-race-people-alienated-men

Video: do Democrats risk civil war?
https://twitter.com/abughazalehkat/status/1671995452512956416

The Prohibition Amendment:
https://constitution.congress.gov/constitution/amendment-18/

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