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The-Counter-Feminist-Essays.Pdf What follows is a conceptual ecosystem masquerading as an e-book. Please share this with many humans, and encourage those to share with many more. Make it go pyramidal Illustration by Daniel Bailey What is the worst name you can call a feminist? A feminist How many feminists does it take to screw in a light bulb? Three. One to hold the bulb, and two to make the world revolve around it When a feminist explains feminism to you, what are they really doing? Building a smokescreen Because feminism is NOT the world It©s just that simple DISCLAIMER You, the reader, are alone responsible for how you exploit the ideas contained in this work The author and his associates are not responsible for that. Neither is any third party, anywhere It©s all on you Have a care, and practice non-violence If you claim inspiration from this and yet compromise yourself, we will disavow you ~~~~~~~~ Heard something interesting? Doing something interesting? Just want to speak your mind a bit? We probably won©t reply, but all communications sent to the following will be looked into and thought about: [email protected] ~~~~~~~~ Live well and live free in the Liberty of the Non-feminist Sector The Counter-feminist Essays Reflections upon the feminist problem: What is feminism? Where do non-feminist people stand? What is to be done? by Fidelbogen ~~~~~~~ Dedication: to the Individual Current year 2020 C.E. or 2005 from the battle of the Teutoberg Forest Published under Creative Commons 3.0 This book may be non-commercially distributed at will provided the text is not altered and author attribution is retained. Contents Preface by the Author . 7 Foreword by Elizabeth Hobson . 9 The Counter-feminist Essays . .12 Appendix A - The Poison Manifesto . 448 Appendix B - Open Message to Non-feminist Women . 465 Appendix C - The SAF Manifesto . 488 Appendix D - The JS38 Manifesto . 496 Appendix E -Aphorisms . 504 Appendix F - The Counter-feminist Cyclopedia . 519 Preface by the Author The present anthology is a selection of my writings against feminism, dating from 2005 to 2019. It is given as a series of essays, many of which were first published on the Counter-Feminist blog. These have been edited for style and clarity and somewhat updated, but not much changed from when they first saw the light of day. So here you have it: my gift to kindred souls who cherish deep reflection in the still hours of the night, while the world sleeps. We may never meet, but never mind, we shall have met regardless. When I was first writing, I had no thought that I would bind these words between covers. I never properly concieved this as a “book”, and even now the governing motive is archivalism: I want to preserve the material for posterity in some expedient form, on the advice of colleagues. If you cannot or will not comprehend feminism's black heart, then most of what you read here will be incomprehensible. Otherwise, you will find it spot on. I have arranged the selections in chronological order so that the evolution of ideas through time might be at least broadly apparent. Dates of first publication, if still available, have been given. Otherwise, I have “guesstimated” the sequence. I may have gotten it wrong a time or two, but it's the principle which counts. After all, human affairs unfold in the fourth dimension, and we want to make clear that certain things have been unfolding for years. Let us say that we wish to assume ownership of space-time. There is a history and a fullness behind all of this. A trajectory. The reader will find similar ideas and themes repeatedly brought up. That is to the good, because repetition and rethinking etch things into the brain. The material may be consumed either cover to cover or (as people often read the Bible) by opening at random and letting their eye light upon something. Reading twice might also prove helpful; the second time around, things will settle into place because you'll have the context that you didn't have the first time. But remember that the system contained here cannot be given in linear form like ducklings waddling in single file. It can only be given holistically, so you must dive in and find your own way. The material targets a self-educated, middlebrow intelligentsia. It is pointedly not academic, but even so, it is not styled for a popular audience. It aims to communicate ideas for which common language does not suffice, so it tends to be cerebral. Sometimes ya just gotta roll that way if ya wanna get 'er done! The essays have been given numbers for ease of reference. A final note: the word “meme” appears in a few places. When it does, it should be understood in the way that Richard Dawkins originally explained it, way back in 1978. A lot of people nowadays think a "meme" is nothing but a graphic image with a clever caption, circulated on the internet. Readers of the present volume ought to know better. -------- ~Fidelbogen - Current Year 2020, the Great Northwest, USA~ Foreword by Elizabeth Hobson In the development of my thoughts on gender politics, one mentor came first, and set my mind onto a formative track which it has followed ever since. This mentor happens to be a blue-collar man, with an encyclopedic knowledge of history (in all its forms, from military to cultural), who has likely forgotten more than I will ever know. He has been a constant, placid and ever-engaging friend, and my gratitude to him is boundless. His name is Fidelbogen. Historically, feminists have campaigned for both a.) rights and liberties that women, as individuals, are entitled to, and b.) privileges and immunities that women, as human adults, are not entitled to. The latter practice composes the entirety of present-day feminist activism. Examples would include: selective empathy over the mutilation of children's genitals, “equal pay” lobbying which secures equal pay for work of unequal value, securing advantages for women in the academy, securing positive discrimination in the workplace, securing preferential treatment for female offenders, and erecting barriers in the way of shared parenting legislation. Every struggle that feminism presently engages in, is to preserve and expand upon special treatment for women. Not only this, but feminists disingenuously play victim to a mythical patriarchal menace over and over again while in fact they represent the dominant, colonial culture. Yet many feminists seem quite convinced of the morality of their mission – as much as any other fanatical cult group. Fidelbogen's message in the face of this challenge is post-argumental. For as long as feminism has existed, opposition to it has existed (and we call this perennial resistance the non-feminist revolution). The activated non-feminist sector won the intellectual argument with feminism many moons ago. Fidelbogen argues that we are yet to assume the practical authority this victory affords us. He points out that the non-feminist sector of society is a non-feminist majority, and as such needs only to “muster the fortitude to stand up and enunciate our existence as non-feminist men and women, in such a way that the feminist establishment cannot ignore us or silence us.” Feminism, as the original aggressor (by virtue of being a moral collective), must be held accountable. The world then is ours, if only we recognise the non-feminist revolution which is already underway, and “harness the disordered energy of it so as to make it politically efficient.” Feminist tactics have not changed over the years. The opposition which has existed throughout has made barely a dent or scratch in feminism's armour, while feminism has consolidated power to the point of cultural hegemony. The Fidelbogian approach to feminism offers an alternative to the tried and tested, morally laudable but strategically insufficient men's rights pathway. Fidelbogen diagnoses a weakness in the men's rights movement proclivity to fall back on an andronarrative voice and a politics of male complaint, which are far too easy for a feminised establishment to dismiss, to ignore, or to misrepresent. Hence, a call is made for a division of political labour within the activated non- feminist sector. This would see some carrying on the legacy work of men's advocacy, while others would take a Strict Anti-Feminist role. The latter would sound less like men complaining and more like gods condemning, and more occupied with feminism's wrongs than men's rights. This comes at a weary point in history, for we have lived through a century of strident feminism that seeks to “increase the power of women with no clearly understood limit or endpoint”, that claims a unique right to dictate how individuals live and how societies are organised, and has developed a unique power to ride down all opposition. But in the wake of all this, Fidelbogen's mountaintop view lays out an exciting new roadmap of resistance. Feminism is the problem, and Fidelbogen is THE counter-feminist philosopher, par excellence! A truly original and astute dissident thinker in an age of conformity, his Counter-feminist Essays will provide the finest analysis of what feminism really is (in plain talk, stripped of sophistry) and how it operates, while suggesting watertight methods for undermining feminist underhandedness. I should add, that the Counter-feminist Essays are eminently quotable and memetic. Onward to the Non-feminist Breakout! -------- ~Elizabeth Hobson - Current Year 2020, London, UK~ The Counter-feminist Essays ªFeminism! We saw what you did there!º The Counter-feminist Essays 1.
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