Many of us on the blogsphere are familiar with the prominent feminist argument that Feminism increases a country’s wealth and prosperity. Feminists look to first world countries and say:

Hey, this country is rich AND feminist, therefore feminism caused the wealth.

Then they look at impoverished countries and say:

This country is poor AND anti-feminism. The anti-feminism is making them poor.

Yet this is an example of the statistical fallacy of “correlation = causation.”

Feminism on its own does not directly make a country wealthy. Rather, feminism is a symptom of wealth. After all, Feminism is a rather expensive drain on the state that only first world countries can afford.

FEMINISM, A DRAIN ON THE STATE

Feminism requires the following State and Corporate funding to function:

Paid maternity leave, subsidized child care, government funded women’s shelters, government enforcement of domestic abuse law – alimony laws – child support law- child protective services, the enforcement of quotas and affirmative action, and government funded women’s interest groups.

The most feminist countries in the world, Sweden for example, are also the most socialist countries in the world.

As we can see, Feminism is not a natural state. It is an artificially created state that requires massive funding to exist.

Without government interference, society requires strict conventions and social norms to function. Culture does not pop up arbitrarily from the ground. Centuries…nay…millenia of cultural and religious norms have existed because society could not function without these norms. Yes, this is an atheist blog. But I have the understanding that humans have created Gods for the purpose of holding society together. Religion is Santa Claus for adults, a function of the social imaginary that rewards and affirms social positive behavior, while condemning and instilling fear of social negative behavior.

FEMINISM CANNOT EXIST WITHOUT MODERN TECHNOLOGY AND STATE FUNDING

The reason that feminism did not exist before the industrial revolution is not because everyone was stupid, but because it simply wasn’t possible. A man’s strength was required to work the fields and fight wars. A multitude of children was required to help maintain the estate. Only wealthy, high class women had the luxury to get an education and (sometimes) build lives of their own choosing (look at the prolific French Author George Sand). The rest of women were required to perform certain tasks out of necessity: child making, food making, clothing making. Society simply could not BE without supportive family women.

OKAY, BUT NOW SOCIETY CAN AFFORD FEMINISM, SO WHAT IS YOUR PROBLEM?

Well…that’s the thing. With the recession and a government in debt, society CAN’T support feminism. Need an example?

Look at Topeka Kansas:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2011/10/09/topeka-kansas-considers-decriminalizing-domestic-violence/

Topeka Kansas is actually considering decriminalizing domestic abuse because the courts can no longer afford the costs of mediating in marriages.

With the Mancession in progress, many men can no longer afford the alimony and child support costs demanded by the courts. Jails are running out of room and funding to process and convict run away fathers and men convicted of spousal abuse.

I predict that as the economy declines, feminism will also be diminished in the ashes of the wake (yes, I do listen to Lamb of God).

SO WHAT IS YOUR POINT? DO YOU WANT US TO RETURN TO RELIGIOUS CONSERVATISM YOU HYPOCRITICAL ATHEIST YOU????

No, absolutely not. A culture can accept a philosophy without being religious. For example, the Chinese have Confucianism and our founding “deist” fathers were influenced by the Enlightenment Movement. A society can adopt a supportive philosophy without being religious.

Our society needs to adopt and form some new value of family responsibility, gender equality, and humanism. We don’t necessarily need something that is rigid to the nuclear dynamic of the 50’s, but we need to hold all people accountable for their actions (men and women) and offer support and solidarity to one another.

HOW TO CREATE WEALTH AND IMPROVE CULTURE WITHOUT FEMINISM

Dismiss Alimony, Equal Pay acts, Welfare, and all the other entitlement programs that give the lazy a free ride. Without the government acting as Enabler Daddy, people will find strength in numbers, strength in culture, and support from family – as our ancestors have for centuries. These entitlements make people lazy and drain our society of the need for culture and family responsibility.

TAKE ME AS AN EXAMPLE:

I am currently a college attending female, in my early 20’s. I am earning a low enough income to qualify for welfare. I make under 20,000 a year and am living in a high cost area. My parents are poor and cannot support me. Yet I would never apply for welfare because I do not want to be a drain on my state. I am currently taking out loans and have a job. At one time I had three jobs and attended 12 credit hours of school because I refuse to mooch off of anyone. There is nothing special about me. If I can do this, anyone can.