The edifice of feminist theory stands on the myth of patriarchal oppression. In dispensing with this myth, Stephen Jarosek shows that feminism is a bankrupt ideology that has never been substantiated. He factors in emerging developments in the life and cognitive sciences, to show that women never were the helpless victims as promulgated in the feminist narrative. New interpretations in culture, meaning, neural plasticity and the mind-body problem provide perspectives that established life-science narratives cannot. These developments shed a fresh light on women’s agency, and the important part that women have always played in cultural destiny.
In the context of an emerging synthesis in the life sciences, the author demonstrates that feminist narratives are not impartial descriptions of reality as it is, but solipsistic projections of feminists’ own sexism. He describes the different ways in which Matriarchy and Patriarchy contribute to cultural evolution. Feminism has disrupted the balance, and has wrought considerable damage to everything that our cultures stood for. As we bear witness to society in decay, we see that behind it all, it was feminism and its industries occupying the driver’s seat.
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PREFACE
CHAPTER 1: THEORETICAL OUTLINE
THE MIND-BODY PROBLEM
GENDER ROLES IN CULTURE: THREE LEGS OF A TRIPOD
THE GAMETE MODEL OF SOCIAL ENGAGEMENT
CHAPTER 2: IN THE SERVICE OF CULTURE’S QUEEN BEE
2.1 BRAIN IN A VAT
2.2 INVISIBLE OPPRESSED WOMEN
2.3 THE CHOICES WOMEN MAKE
CHAPTER 3: MATRIARCHAL OPPRESSION IN CULTURE
3.1 MATRIARCHAL AUTHORITY’S BASIS
3.2 WOMEN AS OPPRESSORS
3.3 THE WAGE GAP MYTH
3.4 SEXIST WOMEN
CHAPTER 4: A MOST IMPORTANT EXPERIMENT
An experiment that began 50 years ago
In the absence of the constraints of childbirth
Novelty and excitement amid a sea of mediocrity
Criminality and prostitution
CHAPTER 5: IT’S THE MATRIARCHY, STOOPID
Boys and men just don’t matter
Women doing it to women
The other dimension of oppression
Conclusion
CHAPTER 6: EQUALITY WITH ESCAPE HATCH not EQUALITY
A natural law of the universe
Escape hatch changes perceived risk and motivation
The solution
CHAPTER 7: ARE ALL WOMEN GOLD DIGGERS?
Materialism as women’s porn
Designer stuff
Visceral sense of unfairness punches you in the gut
Practical implications
It’s a numbers game… for some
The egg always has the last word
Conclusion
CHAPTER 8: SUCCESS OF FEMINISM, FAILURE OF SCIENCE
Judge a culture by the company it keeps
The unraveling of science and culture
CHAPTER 9: SPIRITUALITY, THE DOMAIN OF MEN
Culture versus individualism
Western cultures have changed
The problem with PUA
Slaves to illusion
The real purpose of men
Revisiting the three legs of the tripod
PUA Game as spiritual death
Where to from here?
Scientific spirituality
CHAPTER 10: CHOOSING YOUR RELIGION
The things that we know
Towards a scientific religion
CHAPTER 11: EPILOGUE
Criticism of feminism is not criticism of women
Taking stock of our competing paradigms
Feminism trashes women’s rights
Projections of a hate movement
BIBLIOGRAPHY
GLOSSARY
INDEX
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Stephen Jarosek began questioning cultural differences in his teens, when he first began to wonder why people believe the things they do, and why people from different cultures believe different things. But he found theories about culture lacking. His first degree in engineering reflects his analytical approach, from first principles. The engineer asks, ‘Will this bridge stand?’ He asks, ‘Does this theory hang together?’ He applies his engineer’s rigor to his published research in semiotics, culture and the life sciences. Questioning why people from different cultures believe different things would invariably bring Stephen to question why men and women believe different things. His book, Tyrants of Matriarchy, is a practical, interdisciplinary application of theories in the cognitive and life sciences, directed at a general readership, with particular emphasis on gender roles. He thus establishes a framework for interpreting matriarchy and patriarchy within the context of biology and culture, in non-technical language that is easy to understand.