Slouching Toward the Dark Side

I'm starting to have a new appreciation for the challenges that vice cops have, staying 'clean' while they fight evil, and not being overcome by the temptations of the Dark Side.

I noticed this phenomenon in myself a few months back, a backslide toward doing wrong in the battle to do right. I'll explain how it happened in an effort to illustrate how easily it is to be tempted into doing evil instead of speaking truth to power (interestingly, it also coincided with a low point for myself spiritually).

You see, it is quite easy to acquire a knackered view on life and relationships between the sexes if you frequent feminist sites and their opposition, MRA sites. There's a lot of resentment and anger out there, and it's easy to become caught up in it. In fact, I'd say that for FRAs, MRAs, or anyone else interested in recovering from the inverted flat spin our society finds itself in, perusing men's sites may actually be more dangerous in that one's guard against the machinations of evil may not be as high. We all know that feminists hate non-feminist women and non-self-loathing men. Moreover, we know that they wish to inflict evil upon men as punishment for whatever imagined crimes. This hatred in turn generates frustration, anger, and some hatred too in men, and that sometimes spills out into what we do, how we act, and what we say, despite our mission to right the evils of feminism. Thus if all one reads about, all one takes into their mind, all one takes into his heart is how feminists screw men (and most women) over and are speedily laboring to turn back the clock on civilization to a more primitive form, it tends to jaundice your outlook a bit.

From there, it's not a big step from that jaundiced outlook--particularly in someone congenitally glass-is-half-empty such as myself--to thinking evil thoughts and eventually doing evil itself. It's not hard to get the logical train of thought going--it's easy to conclude that since feminists do evil to men and other women, and that since most women are feminists to some degree or another, and that those feminist women would do evil upon a man in a heartbeat, and since it is bordering on masochistic to treat feminist women the same way as one would treat non-feminist women (as the former intentionally does evil, the latter may not), therefore a man may be justified in treating a female feminist--a creature by definition lower on the equalitarian hierarchy of humanity--poorly, rudely, even exploitatively. Heck, one may fantasize about killing feminists for their grave misdeeds if one lets the ill will go far enough.

This phenomenon, probably best exemplified by this post over at MarkyMark's place, may be what Coffee Catholic was getting at. And I myself at one time had rationalized the poor treatment of self-abasing women at the hands of non-believing men, just as I had rationalized a bifurcated standard of sexual conduct between Believing men and unbelieving men. And even though I explained how I got there in the paragraphs above, I was wrong to do this.

The problem is that treating people poorly and/or or exploiting them for sex (players of either sex) or money (dating/divorcing women) is just wrong. For Believers, God told us to agape-love each other, kindof a cosmic Hippocratic Oath: first, do no harm. For unbelievers, the same also applies, although perhaps in a more self-interested fashion...e.g., the Golden Rule or karma or whatever. Never mind what Sally the Slut does, her behavior doesn't give us license for licentiousness. Our awareness, and our mutual fight against evil, calls us to a higher standard of behavior, and if that means that we don't marry and/or have children because the good gals (or guys) are already taken and what remains are the dregs, well then that's just the way it goes. We can lay the fault for that sorry state of affairs at the foot of feminists and their mangina femnablers when we apply corrective political measures.

The bottom line is that, if one does evil to someone, say a feminist who fully deserves it because she herself does evil too, one is still doing evil. If this is you, stop it. Culturally, we all swim in the same ocean and breathe the same air, and just because some skank or player fouls the water with their depraved morality, doesn't mean that it's right for one of us to dirty up the ecology even more by dumping our own bucket of immoral shite into it.