Anyway, I know you ladies have been wondering how you could get through your days without more wisdom from the master, and I admit I've been lax in passing on his bons mots to you. I'd like to correct that now.
From commentary published about a week ago:
a woman foolish enough to wait more than two decades before attempting to have children has no one to blame but herself. As for the likelihood that the technological future will eventually solve such problems, it is worth noting that no society that possesses artificial wombs, robot sex dolls, multiplayer video games and 24-hour sports networks is one in which men are likely to show a tremendous amount of interest in relationships or the opposite sex.
He's right, of course. The only flaw in his argument would be if there were any reason to have sex besides procreation, or any men who would rather have sex than play video games or watch sports. And who want to have it with women who want to have sex with them because they're attracted to them sexually, not because they're programmed to do so.
Since none of that is true, there's nothing in that paragraph to fire upon.
Now, onto the serious stuff. I know that 96% of you gals reading this must be planning the ways in which you can catch a man. Fortunately, Vox is here to help.
there are a number of steps that a woman whose priority remains marriage and children can take in order to happily achieve those goals:
Don't engage in casual dating relationships after 18. They're fun, and they'll also prevent you from pursuing more fruitful relationships.
Stupid fun orgasms...
Make those potential long-term relationships your top priority. If you put college or your job first, there's a reasonable chance that a job is all you'll have at 40 ... and 60. Consider the president's new Supreme Court nominee. The unmarried and childless Creepy McCrypto is on the verge of becoming one of the two most powerful professional women in the country – does she really represent the ideal American woman?
No, that would be Veronica Mars. Or Holly Hunter.
Don't hesitate to end relationships that aren't leading toward marriage, or with men who are less than completely positive about the near-term prospect of children. If he hasn't proposed in 18 months, he has no intention of doing so. Cut your losses. Most men know how to string women along and know they'll have no problem replacing you when you finally call their bluff. Never confuse the masculine desire for conflict avoidance with malleability.
Wait, conflict avoidance is a masculine desire? Damn. Another way in which I'm just a big woman.
Shed your man-hating friends, as well as those who buy seriously into the Equalitarian dogma. Misery loves company and miserable women like nothing better than to make everyone within a five-mile radius miserable, too.
But if you put it to a catchy beat, there's a market in it.
If you want the odds of easily bearing healthy children to be in your favor, set a goal of marrying by 25. You can always go back to school, you can't go back in time.
I don't know. You seem to be living in the 1950s.
Remember that love is a choice, an action and a commitment, it is not a feeling.
I think I'm beginning to understand why he finds the notion of robot sex dolls so appealing. Well, as you might imagine, one of my many blogger crushes Amanda Marcotte had some things to say about this article in Pandagon.
Best of all, she let me know something she says "most of you probably know by now," but I didn't, namely Vox Day's secret identity. All I had on him was that he is
a novelist and Christian libertarian. He is a member of the SFWA, Mensa and the Southern Baptist church
And as I remarked a couple of months ago, Christian, libertarian, sci-Fi writer, Mensa and Baptist strikes me as a really good combination. But wait, there's more. Amanda?
As most of you probably know by now, the supposed "libertarian" Vox Day is actually a spoiled rich brat named Theodore Beale. And of course he's never had to work hard for a day in his life--the delusion that one could be completely self-reliant in a libertarian paradise pretty much requires that you've never had to rely on yourself for anything, or it would fall to pieces. But the important thing to remember here is that Beale is rich as shit, and he's rich in a society where those rare women willing to trade in complete submission for marriage go to the highest bidder. You everyday misogynist slobs who listen to Vox's bullshit about what you supposedly deserve and will get from a woman--cringing servitude--pay very close attention. Vox can buy that sort of self-hating woman. You can't.
Ahhhhhhhh. It's going to be a good Sunday...
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