Toxic Feminism
Posted on January 8, 2023 by Baron Bodissey
The following essay was written by the Swedish author Katerina Janouch. When she was a child in Czechoslovakia in the 1960s she was called Katerina Janouchová, but her name was shortened when her family moved to Scandinavia.
Ms. Janouch has lived in Sweden since the 1970s. In addition to being an immigration-critic, she writes and gives presentations on relationships, addiction, kinship, parenting, cohabitation, and writing. She is the founder of Katerina Magasin.
Many thanks to LN for translating this op-ed from Insikt24:
Toxic feminism is crushing love
Is toxic feminism making relationships impossible?
That’s the opinion of author and debater Katerina Janouch.
I talk to a male friend who tells me about his latest attempt at a love affair. They are both in their thirties, an age when many people choose to start a family, and my friend is longing to become a father. The woman he met through mutual friends initially seemed level-headed, sensible and honest and is on the same emotional wavelength. But very soon it turns out that my friend had gotten himself into a veritable inferno, where he is just supposed to keep quiet while the woman dictates all the terms, and if he protests, he is told that he is an evil man who should be ashamed of his lack of respect. I wonder now what our society will evolve into if women behave like spoiled brats based on some kind of confused radical feminist credo?
My dear friend is just one example of men testifying lately that it seems to be more the rule than the exception that women go completely off the rails, blaming their emotional breakdowns on the fact that it is obviously the men’s fault, while at the same time making impossible demands on how men should behave for a relationship to even be feasible. Being kind, understanding and able to talk about feelings doesn’t go very far. Even the man who conforms and does exactly as the woman says can have a hell of a time. Why?
Well, because suddenly he may have accidentally adapted too much, and doesn’t understand that the woman needs a little “chewing resistance”. In his desire to please, he becomes a servile doormat, and these galoshes don’t fit when she whimsically decides she wants an independent hunk. The woman becomes like a child in a sandbox, unable to choose between a red or a blue spade, and breaks down in a hysterical fit that results in her hitting the person who tries to comfort her. The emotionally disturbed radical feminists seriously believe that they have the right to behave as badly as they want and yet never have to encounter a patrol. They rule, demand, whine, are mean and impossible, moody and unpredictable. They are unstable and believe that even women’s violence against men is men’s fault. They are happy to vent their hatred against the entire male sex while screaming at the top of their lungs if they themselves receive the slightest criticism. It’s safe to say that avid social media use hardly does them any favours when the slightest outburst gains hundreds of ‘likes’ and unctuous cheers, even if the conflict may be based on some unreasonable behaviour she herself has engaged in, and then subsequently received a backlash for.
Not only that. A year later she may find out that the sex that took place actually happened without her willing consent, and that therefore the man can be charged with some kind of negligent rape. Later on in the trial, she alone is listened to, because she “felt” something, and as long as it is a woman who feels, the feelings are absolutely true. The man has no voice at all, and although he presents undeniable facts pointing to reciprocity, he is treated like a pariah, and the verdict is in the woman’s favour. I wonder what man would want to expose himself to such risks? Many don’t. They have stopped dating. They are resentful, disillusioned and resigned, and actually start to dislike women.
The behavior can be likened to the left’s strange psychotic break we see now after the [Swedish general] election. After the socialists have destroyed all of Sweden, they now demand that the succeeding government clean up the mess in a few short months. A feminine, emotion-based behavior, where they also got a bunch of bitches, who usually bring a penis substitute with them when traveling by train. All logic and common sense is gone; what remains is a red-hot, hysterical, frothing-at-the-mouth Left, with whom it is impossible to have a normal discussion. Everything is everyone else’s fault, they themselves are victims, and despite their behavior leading to a veritable societal collapse, they refuse to take responsibility. Responsibility, by the way — they can’t even spell it. They are like toddlers who lack all forms of logic and consistent thinking. It actually scares the hell out of you, when you think about it and realise that these are grown-up people behaving in this way. No wonder Sweden has gone off the rails, having these types of individuals in important decision-making positions and in positions of strategic authority.
As my old dad used to ask me: “Katerina, Sweden used to be a country governed by wise people? what happened?” Well, Dad, bitchy women and ‘batik witches’ and a completely derailed feminism came into being, I reply. A wave of emotion-soaking snowflakes installed themselves, and the traditional males checked out. Because the truth is, as long as real men ruled Sweden, most things worked. We had a good economy, a good (virtually fossil-free and environmentally friendly) energy supply, health care, schools and elder-care that worked, and a strong military defence.
Then the men were manoeuvred away by the mad furies of the Left, and everything went to hell.
Yes, a somewhat simplistic account of history, but broadly speaking this is exactly what happened. And women have become worse off in many ways. Rapes are at an all-time high, women hold down two jobs, and they’re not happy with the herring-milk men* who barely dare to touch them — for fear that the caresses won’t turn out to be consensual.
What we have now is severe polarisation and a full-scale war between women and men, with both sexes the losers. But perhaps the biggest losers are the women themselves. Because the world is still a pretty harsh and cruel place, and loneliness is hard, no matter who feels lonely. Traditionally masculine qualities are not learned overnight by women, just because our emotions tell us that this should be the case from a “non-normative” perspective. Life usually becomes more difficult, as it is filled with hatred and constant conflict.
I wonder who benefits from this pointless gender war? The women certainly don’t. Neither do the children, who are fed the message that dad is some sort of superfluous figure, who is really just mean and stupid. Not infrequently there is no father, only a sperm donor.
I think about what it might be like when the hysterical, radical feminists grow up and have children of their own. Some of them are so immature that they have never left that sandbox. They are self-absorbed, and will get a severe shock when they realise that the child must be put first. A man they can mess around with, sure, but a little baby won’t buy their nonsense. The baby screams, needs to be fed and will need to be nurtured to become an independent individual. The man they’ve thrown on the trash heap in the deluded belief that all of TINDER is teeming with better, hotter, and more insightful vegan dudes, who they can get together with instead. And when they realize that no one wants them, full-scale panic erupts. Toxic feminism sours, and what’s left? Pure gender hell, which nobody actually wants.
Is this really what feminists wanted? I find it hard to believe. |
