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>[...] The whole generation is womanised; the masculine tone is passing out of the world; it's a feminine, a nervous, hysterical, chattering, canting age, an age of hollow phrases and false delicacy and exaggerated solicitudes and coddled sensibilities, which, if we don't soon look out, will usher in the reign of mediocrity, of the feeblest and flattest and the most pretentious that has ever been. The masculine character, the ability to dare and endure, to know and yet not fear reality, to look the world in the face and take it for what it is a very queer and partly very base mixture that is what I want to preserve, or rather, as I may say, to recover; and I must tell you that I don't in the least care what becomes of you ladies while I make the attempt! [...]

Henry James, The Bostonians

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Ow the edge

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>James regularly rejected suggestions that he marry, and after settling in London proclaimed himself "a bachelor". F. W. Dupee, in several volumes on the James family, originated the theory that he had been in love with his cousin Mary ("Minnie") Temple, but that a neurotic fear of sex kept him from admitting such affections: "James's invalidism ... was itself the symptom of some fear of or scruple against sexual love on his part."

>> No.9227405

>>9227387

He's not wrong though. Our entire culture is increasingly feminine, safe, shallow. Men die much sooner and have an much greater chance of killing themselves. The vast majority of teachers is female, and culturally they call the shots in regards to what is acceptable, with increasingly ridiculous results. New feminism is not about freedom but about power.

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>>9227405

It's just the same old shit that's been growing since christianity became dominant in the west.

>> No.9227885

>>9227413
*catholicism

>> No.9227917

>>9227405
>>9227413
So shouldn't we celebrate the fact that women, despite being a weaker sex, actively grab political and cultural power. This is nietzschean will to power wet dream

>> No.9227923

>>9227917
Found the cuck

>> No.9227927

>>9227381

Ah, okay. I might start randomly asking people to arm wrestle then.

>> No.9227933

>>9227917

It's more slave than master morality. The fact they squabble in amongst themselves (think x waves of feminism) shows they don't have a clear body of presence.

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>>9227381
What if Obese Girls make my peepee hard

>> No.9227945

>>9227405

The vast majority of teachers being female is having a very bad effect on boys and just young male adolescents.

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2008/sep/30/primaryschools.malerolemodels

But since feminists love to destroy men while they're still young, we can only applaud this undoing of the patriarchy.

>> No.9227956

>everybody before WWII held beliefs 21st century urbanite kids consider to be "le edge"

The more reason to believe this generation is wrong about everything.

>> No.9228050

>>9227933
>men have a clear body of presence
>men don't squabble in amongst themselves
nice joke.