I’ve written a lot in opposition to feminism in my time at EveryJoe. Just look up my author page and you’ll see my library of articles is filthy with the subject. That said, I’ve always admitted that it likely won’t be men who bring down feminism, it’ll be women.

As I’ve detailed before, women don’t exactly like feminism. In fact, it’s pretty safe to say that feminism is at war with femininity. Sure, there are some very loud characters who claim to speak for the entire sex, and it is a movement that exists in the mainstream, but feminism is not really doing so well with its target audience. In fact, it’s doing so badly, that only 18% of women take on the title of feminist.

All that to say that when women speak out against feminism, it’s a harsher blow to it than anything I could say or do. Enter my friend, and colleague, Nicole Russell. In a recent article she released at The Federalist, she published an article that may very well send feminists and social justice warriors running for their safe space.

The title? “What Women Really Want Is The Patriarchy”

In it, Nicole brings up points that fly in the face of the feminist narrative.

“In today’s enlightened age, women think they know what kind of man they want, but in reality, most don’t. In fact, many women, unwittingly confused by the myriad feminist mantras bombarding them daily, seek the type of committed, romantic relationship with a man that will ultimately leave both her and him inherently dissatisfied.

This is as much due to the ideology behind feminism’s flawed ideas as the men who have been, over the years, subconsciously programmed to behave according to its dictates. It’s never too late to figure out that men need to own their patriarchal prowess. If they did so, they’d soon discover this is what women really want.”

This is an important thing to bring up, because it’s not just women who have been altered by feminism’s work to separate the sexes. Men too – at least too many – have caved to feminism’s dictation as to how men should act, and not just those who have gone whole hog and become the simpering, passive men that call themselves feminists.

Men are often afraid of voicing their opinion for fear of angering women, who are now encouraged to take offense the moment a man is perceived to speak negatively about women.

For instance, men being physically stronger than women by nature is apparently offensive, and I have experienced first hand how this simple fact of nature somehow warrants an angry response. You can see it in the way feminists react when women are portrayed as being weaker than men in comics, movies and television.

Instead of standing firm, and standing with logic and fact, men will go out of their way to make sure women are not offended, so as to avoid conflict. This has done more than just appease – and enable – more feminist thought to thrive, it’s made women unhappy.

As Nicole says in her article:

“This is the opposite of what women really crave, though they are hard-pressed to admit it to—especially in a feminist-soaked society like ours. In fact, researchers studying how to create happy marriages find that people need, not anything-goes sexuality, but social scripts to follow so both partners know what to expect and how to act.”

Men need to learn to stand their ground. To realize it’s completely okay to offend someone, especially when taking offense is that someone’s primary directive. There is no progressiveness in men denying their masculinity in order to make a woman happy, because it won’t make her happy. It may please her feminist sensibilities, but this is on par with scratching a rash. It feels good, but it’s just going to make the situation worse.

If we’re truly going to eliminate the plague that is modern feminism, men will have to stop giving it quarter. This does not mean being a jerk to women, being offensive just to be offensive, or treating the women in your life like second class. It simply means putting your foot down – and leaving it there. It means being honest. It means not letting yourself become a stepping stool, as I’ve seen too many times.

Feminism, and men’s inability – or unwillingness – to stand against it, has destroyed relationships and women’s lives. While I believe women will be the ones to bury feminism, men will be the wall it won’t get over when it tries to escape.

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Hailing from Austin, Texas, Brandon Morse has been writing about politics and culture across many websites for the last six years, with a heavy emphasis on anti-authoritarianism. Aside from writing articles, he is also known for voice acting and authoring scripts. He is an avid gamer, dog person, and has a bad habit of making vague references to things no one has heard about or seen. Follow him at @TheBrandonMorse on Twitter.

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