Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2009 14:03:09 -0500 From: Jack Carrozzo <jack@crepinc.com> To: lawrence.auster@att.net Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: "My race is just nothing": Some thoughts on the political psychology of women Message-ID: <2ad0f9f60902191103o5f8f4025v6aecb61506cfa0e1@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20090219185443.BOVW18810.cdptpa-omta02.mail.rr.com@k4k6l> References: <20090219185443.BOVW18810.cdptpa-omta02.mail.rr.com@k4k6l>
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What the shit is this? Why would you pick this list for it? -Jack Carrozzo On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 1:54 PM, Lawrence Auster <lawrence.auster@att.net> wrote: > "My race is just nothing": Some thoughts on the political psychology of w= omen > > By Kevin MacDonald > > February 19, 2009 > > It seems that the signs of white dispossession are everywhere these days.= Edmund Connelly describes how non-Jewish whites are being pushed out of el= ite institutions like Harvard. An article titled "The end of white America"= catalogues the lack of cultural confidence of whites these days. It quotes= a student who says "To be white is to be culturally broke." > > Writing in vdare.com, David A. Yeagley quotes one of his female students = saying "Look ... I don't see anything about my culture to be proud of. It's= all nothing. My race is just nothing." Yeagley notes the Cheyenne saying, = "A nation is never defeated until the hearts of its women are on the ground= ." And he places this in the context of the recent election in which 46% of= white women voted for Obama compared to 41% of white men. > > These percentages are somewhat inflated because they include Jews and imm= igrants, such as South Asians, who are classified as white but do not ident= ify with the European-American majority. Nevertheless, they do point to a s= ignificant gender gap. While it is certainly true that voting for McCain-Pa= lin is not a sign of white consciousness =97 even implicitly, it is also th= e case that voting for Obama is a good sign of a lack of racial consciousne= ss for European Americans. > > The good news, of course, is that a majority of white women did not vote = for Obama. And, as Steve Sailer has shown for the 2004 election, if one sep= arated out women who are married and have children, the results would show = an even greater tendency to vote against Obama. > > Nevertheless, there is a real problem. Those of us with some acquaintance= with European-Americans who do have an explicit ethnic identity and a sens= e of their ethnic interests are quite aware that there is a very large sex = ratio imbalance at gatherings of like-minded people. The attendees are almo= st all male =97 an exception being the redoubtable Virginia Abernethy. And = there are stories of men who have stopped attending meetings or who provide= support only in the most furtive manner, mainly because their wives are af= raid that the attitudes of their husbands could become public and ruin thei= r social life. Making such things public is just the sort of thing that org= anizations like the SPLC and the ADL love to do. > > Judith Warner of the New York Times describes the result of an informal "= email inquiry" on women's reactions to Obama. Some imagined having sex with= Obama and replacing Michelle Obama as First Lady. Others imagined themselv= es at social engagements with Obama. All wanted deeply to have some of the = Obama aura rub off on them. Warner's email contacts doubtless reflect her l= iberal readership, but I wouldn't be at all surprised if they are quite gen= eral, especially among white women who voted for Obama. > > What does an evolutionary psychologist say about all this? Parentheticall= y, I realize that the great majority of Americans do not believe in evoluti= on. Nevertheless, evolutionary theory is a very powerful and scientifically= credible way of looking at human behavior. It is no accident that one of t= he main strands of Jewish intellectual activism over the last century has b= een to oppose evolutionary theory as an explanatory tool in the social scie= nces. Darwin did indeed have a dangerous idea =97 dangerous to Jews because= it provides a rational grounding for the ethnic identity and interests of = European-derived people. > > The evolutionary theory of sex is one of the bedrocks of evolutionary psy= chology =97 probably accounting for half of all the research in the field. = The basic idea is simple: Females invest a relatively large amount of time = and energy in reproduction. In the world we evolved in, the only way for wo= men to reproduce was to endure a 38-week pregnancy and then nurse the child= for an even longer period. Even after nursing, child care was mainly a fem= ale responsibility. > > Because women are committed to this very large investment, they become ve= ry valuable in the mating game. And because they are valuable, they become = discriminating maters: Just as a worker who puts in more time and energy is= in a better bargaining position than one who puts in little time and energ= y, women become the choosers in the mating game. > > And what do women want? Women are expected to want men who have high soci= al status. From an evolutionary perspective, such men are attractive becaus= e they may be willing to provide valuable resources that would help in supp= orting the mother and raising the children. (When men do contribute resourc= es, they also become choosy, but that's another story.) And even if a wealt= hy man does not provide resources, he is likely to have good genes =97 gen= es that predispose his children to be successful. > > In any case, women do indeed prefer wealthy, high-status men. For example= , a recent study found that wealthy men give women more orgasms: "The pleas= ure women get from making love is directly linked to the size of their part= ner's bank balance." Other research shows that women are likely to choose h= igher status men than their husbands when they have affairs, resulting in t= he possibility of a lower status male helping to raise the children of a hi= gher-status male. > > What about the idea that evolutionary theory implies that people should b= e attracted to people who are genetically like themselves? Evolutionary th= eory predicts that women will be attracted to men who are genetically simil= ar to themselves compared to men who are from a different race or ethnic gr= oup. For one thing, this makes them more closely related to their own child= ren. > > The problem is that this attraction to genetically similar mates is only = part of the story. It must compete with the tendency to be attracted to wea= lthy, powerful men. And quite clearly, the phenomenon where large numbers o= f white women fantasize about having a relationship with Obama reflects his= power and social status, not attraction to a genetically similar person. > > The media is a major part of the hostile elite, so it is not surprising = that it has played a leading role in the idolization of Obama =97 the slobb= ering love affair between the mainstream media and Obama. It's the same rol= e that Edmund Connelly has called attention to in his writing on the images= of blacks created by Hollywood in recent decades. Black action heroes are = now household names, and more than one commentator has pointed out that the= re were several black presidents in the movies and on television long befor= e Obama was elected. > > These images from the media tap into women's psychological attraction to = high-status males. It was probably fairly common for white women to fantasi= ze about having sex with Will Smith or Denzel Washington or even the "wise = and saintly" Morgan Freeman long before the world had ever heard of Barack = Obama. > > Another sex difference that contributes to women's political behavior is = that women are generally more nurturant, affectionate, empathic, and caring= than men. This is another aspect of female psychology that can easily be d= erived from evolutionary thinking =97 the vital importance of nurturing chi= ldren and developing close family relationships in our evolutionary past. T= hus it is not surprising that many of Judith Warner's women not only fantas= ize about having sex with Obama, they see themselves married to him and bec= oming first lady. They develop a close and caring relationship with him, or= they see him as a good friend. I suppose this is also the reason why women= are more likely than men to support social programs that promise to aid ch= ildren and poor people. > > This relatively greater empathy and nurturance was certainly adaptive in = a world of family groups and close relatives. But in the modern world, it c= an easily lead to maladaptive altruism and ignoring real dangers. For exam= ple, white women enamored of images of sexy, high-status black males are no= t informed by the mainstream media of the very large racial imbalance in cr= ime, particularly black men raping white women. > > Another problem with women being relatively high in nurturance and empath= y is that these traits are linked to greater compliance and greater inclina= tion to seek the approval and affection of others. Again, these are very ad= aptive traits in the world of small groups and close relatives. But in a wo= rld dominated by elites that are hostile to the interests of whites, these = traits can lead to mindless acceptance of anti-white cultural norms. Challe= nging social norms =97 even ones that are obviously against one's interests= =97 carries a very high psychological cost to people who seek the approval= and affection of others. > > This implies that once the intellectual and political movements described= in The Culture of Critique had seized the intellectual and moral high grou= nd, they became difficult indeed to dislodge. Challenging these norms bring= s accusations of moral turpitude ringing down from the most prestigious po= litical, media and academic institutions of the society. People who seek th= e approval and affection of others are definitely not inclined to go there.= This in turn may well be a large part of the explanation for why there are= so few women at gatherings of European-Americans concerned about the futur= e of their people and culture. > > This paints a fairly bleak picture. But there are some rays of hope. It i= s likely that at some point the gap between rhetoric and reality in America= n life will be so large that no one will believe what they are hearing from= the hostile elites that dominate public discourse =97 much like the Sovie= t Union in the decades before its fall. When that happens, the cultural ico= ns promoted by the media will lose their credibility and allure as well. > > And because of the internet, the opportunity to hear divergent opinions a= nd become aware of information that is suppressed by the mainstream media h= as never been better. All around us we can see the collapse and increasing = irrelevance of the old media. The internet has already created communities = where prestige and social approval can be obtained completely outside the n= orms created by our hostile elites. And at least some of these communities = are dedicated to transforming America by asserting the legitimacy of white = identities and interests. > > The dispossession of whites is already substantial, but it promises to be= a whole lot more obvious as time goes on. As whites become a minority, it = is difficult to imagine that they won't develop more of a group consciousne= ss and challenge the prevailing anti-white norms. And that includes even th= e more nurturant and empathic among us. > > Source with hyperlinks : http://www.theoccidentalobserver.net/articles/Ma= cDonald-Women.html > > > ------------------------------------- > > You or someone using your email adress is currently subscribed to Lawrenc= e Auster's > Newletter. 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