Women As Property

According to politically correct thought the world was brutally sexist, patriarchal, and oppressive towards women until a matter of decades ago. From this viewpoint, women were debased and traded around like property. Indeed women were given over to a suitable bidder when they came of age, but this system certainly was not oppressive to women. It was not oppressive to women because now, in the 21st century they prefer to make themselves into property of their own free wills.

When one examines surveys of what women want in a mate and observes the mates women actually choose, the answer is always the same. They want a provider who has the means to protect and support their children. Universally, women bring to opposite sex relations an agenda of calculation that the opposite sex can scarcely comprehend. From the female objective of acquiring support and protection it follows that it is in her interest to become property with a price tag attached to it. Those who can pay the price are potential providers.

Every aspect of traditional courting revolves around the need of the man to demonstrate value. In spite of the platitudes of popular sentiment, nothing has changed. A man is expected to buy gifts, flowers, meals for any woman he hopes to be seriously involved with. Less directly, he must be dressed in the right clothes, he must have enough money to get into the public places where women congregate. Few people seem to realize that after schooling is completed, a man must be prepared to pay to even be in the same room with potential mates—and it is no coincidence that women choose to congregate in places(clubs, restaurants, bars) where men must either pay money to get into or must spend money once inside of.

When it comes to marriage, a man who fails to buy a diamond ring would be rejected outright as ‘cheap.’ In other words, he has failed to pay the sale price for his bride. He has failed to purchase the decorative band that publicly announces his contractual ownership of the product. A diamond ring is a girl’s best friend because it is a final flaming hoop a man must jump through to prove his ability and motivation to provide. The female’s self reduction to property is her last, best defense against ending up with children in an insecure, dangerous situation.

The old system far from being oppressive towards women was the greatest of allies. She did not have to look for a suitable mate herself. Her parents and community did it for her. While she had no need to put in any effort, suitors went through great difficulties trying to sway her parents enough even to have the privilege of showering her with gifts. Once given permission to demonstrate value, a man had to outcompete other suitors and in some cultures and circumstances he would even have had to do all this while ingratiating himself with the girl as well. The system worked in the favor of women then and nothing has changed. It is still true in romance and indeed in most opposite sex dealings that men must earn while women deserve.

If women were victims of being made into property by a ‘patriarchy’, it is inconceivable that they would gleefully provide the wrapping paper and ribbons themselves. Whenever I have glimpsed the interior of a young woman’s bathroom, I could not but be taken aback by the wide array of beauty products. I have long been amazed by the variety and expense of female self-decoration. It is of course, a form of advertising. Every woman understands that her body is quite likely to be the greatest source of wealth she will ever possess and invests considerable time and effort maximizing its potential. It is both a source of immense satisfaction for her and a source of shame that her inner merits will be perpetually overshadowed. It is a source of pure power that no woman is able to resist tapping into for whether she is considered ugly or beautiful only concerns a measure of degree. Every woman has considerable power from the fact of her sex while men without the customary pieces of plastic and paper are essentially worthless in any tally of social value. The fact that women frequently rail against men of privilege only illustrates how the vast majority of men living lives as expendable laborers are not only unsuitable for these women, they are actually invisible.

It is understandable that one might point out that women have many considerations in choosing a mate, many of them based on guileless affection and emotional attachment, but before a man can ever enter the arena as a candidate for her affection, he must first be worth something. Without enough value to be a suitor, she must be a desirable product on the other side of a store window, forever beyond his reach. And in this case it is the product that put itself for sale.

Women’s status as property is a result of typical female behavior and expectations. When one pays for his date’s meal, he is hiring a stranger to eat in his presence. He is buying his date. The man does so because female companionship is a product that must be bought whether one is looking in a brothel or searching for a bride.

Here we come to the question of equality. Part of the reason why the idea of women as property is reviled under the politically correct circumstances is because it becomes quite difficult to conceive of the sexes as equal when one earns and the other deserves. Females have historically been compelled into the condition that women now typically choose of their own free will.

Women are now free to stop being property, and by so doing stop dehumanizing both themselves and their suitors. Yet, the old pattern continues. Even women who become wealthy from careers simply raise the bar of worthiness to men even richer than themselves. The search for a provider of superior means seems to be the fundamental female instinct when it comes to selecting a mate, but perhaps society can find ways of channeling their nature that are not destructive. To even begin to consider such changes, both men and women must be made aware of the truth—that romance is not romantic. There is a deeply rooted drive in most men to protect women, but until men begin to act against the property system, little can be done to move towards any true or meaningful measure of equality between the sexes. After all, women’s incredible power is product of the male drives to desire and protect. Women have always had some idea of this reality—far more than most men—but until men become powerful enough to challenge this system, women will continue to abuse the extraordinary corrupting powers that men have given them—all while being told by tradition that they are virtuous for doing so. Until then, both men and women will be caught in a brutal mutually sustained cycle that reduces both the expendable enabling earners and the privileged exploitative deservers within it to their monetary values.

Gender feminism, the notorious lobby for females(particularly the wealthy, educated ones) has successfully eliminated almost everything men once got in exchange for playing the part of the buyer. Children and family, domestic security, domestic labor, child care, an assured outlet for sexuality have all been destroyed by feminist laws in the West. The prices on the age old market have become so inflated by reckless feminist activity that the bubble is bursting. Greedily, they are killing the golden goose that is the male population and by so doing, inadvertently bringing about an opportunity for some modicum of true equality and unity between the vastly different fundamental characters and biological imperatives of men and women. It would be wise to prepare for such an opportunity so that it is not squandered or worse—gives rise to a new, even more crass and degrading system.