>There are a few women around here that have a far more sophisticated grasp on our evolutionary biology than a lot of us men. Women have a hard-wired mastery of the politics of the small groups in which our ancestors evolved, and the tribal group is the focus of their attention. At its best, that can keep everyone nurtured and happy, but at its worst that can lead to manipulative behavior to which a man has no inbuilt cognitive defense. Leftist tactics are essentially feminine ones: name-calling, ostracizing, demonstrating. Men evolved to deal with what is outside the group, which was not very much at first. Just predators to fight and prey to capture, but very rarely, other tribes. Men would range about over a wide area around the tribe, while women tended to keep to the center with the children. I think holidays are a big deal for women precisely for that last reason. They would get tired of the same old place, its resources exhausted, so it would become time for the tribe to move on to a fresh locus, an upheaval which required much organizing. Men, being mobile, had no compelling imperative to uproot. >Which is why I like your feminist point. They screwed over women because they can spend all of their time running around in circles convincing them selves of bullshit because **at the end of the day men make everything and men make everything run.** As human numbers grew, the men who ranged outside the tribal center would encounter other tribes more and more, and so evolved peaceful ways to trade and de-escalate conflict through ritual, gift-giving, and eventually, linguistic means to communicate with the many groups in an area. To this day, small tribes in South America and South East Asia maintain rituals of greeting. There was a documentary on a South American tribe which had no such rituals, and they were pariahs, maintaining their distance from all. It is this culture of dealing with the outsider, rather than the politics of the small tribe, which became the foundation of civilization. It was singular, while the small groups remained multiple, separate and eventually, embedded in the larger structure. This structure of women on the inside and men on the outside remained until quite recently historically. It may have been universal literacy that burst this bubble, or more likely, universal employment in industry. The inner structure, of which women were master, shrunk down to single-generations of one family, but the outer structure, created by men, exploded in size and significance, through the stone-age kingdoms celebrated in Homer, to the large states we have in the present day. States operate on the basis of realpolitik, which is based on the male way of seeing things. There are historical examples of female rulers, but they tended to operate differently. Bargaining was less important to queens, and they were more warlike and driven to annihilate enemies (as a threat to their babies, maybe?) rather than come to a truce, a fact which contradicts the feminist equation of maleness and violence. >Only in the last 5 years are we really seeing the consequences of female self delusion as they struggle to take on male roles in society according to feminist standards. I mentioned that leftist ideology and tactics were essentially feminine, and that the male viewpoint has a blind-spot in regard to dealing with these. Alinsky tactics are all just methods of rallying support and pestering an enemy into a state of confusion and acquiescence by attacking them where they have no rational defense. Collectivism is the politics of the small tribe writ large. It has profound emotional resonance, even if it maps extremely poorly on to reality. Victim groups are essentially the tribe's infants, so anyone who is seen to oppress them must be annihilated from the feminine point of view which has also been adopted by feminized males. Diversity and inclusion are also feminine values which are benevolent in the small tribal group, but a become pathological in a wider society where it is crucial to discern between allies and enemies. >All of the SJW stuff is basically feminists trying to run things and beta males letting them. The original feminine inside-group has become a new and threatening outsider, against which civilization has as yet, very poor defenses because it attacks through the blind spots, does not recognize the evolved rules that worked so well to create that civilization and does not understand the value of what it is trying to destroy.