The NeW G-Men

As unpopular as it may be to admit on many college campuses, the truth remains that men and women are not physiologically or psychologically equal.

While every stereotype certainly doesn’t apply across the board to the sexes, there are some commonalities that are quite often true. For the most part: Women seek security. Men seek respect. Women find self-worth by feeling useful and needed. Men find self-worth through their work accomplishments. Women are emotion-based. Men are analytically-based. Women are more perceptive. Men are more realistic. Women express their feelings through conversation. Men rarely express their feelings through conversation.

Our postmodern culture, heavily influenced by second-wave feminism, wants you to believe that nearly all of the differences are false, that they are simply a construct of society and not our innate nature. They seek to obliterate the distinction between natural and legal equality, ignoring the crucial distinction between differences created by biology and those forced upon us by the state. No amount of social engineering can bring about natural equality, and attempting to do so destroys social cohesion and harmony.

Indeed, the quest for total equality of the sexes has infiltrated our relationships and the family dynamic. We are supposed to base our romantic relationships and raise our children upon the premise of gender neutrality. Yet, doing so leaves many men and women dissatisfied and children confused.

Beyond the personal realm, postmodern feminists have asked us to abandon the rules of etiquette governing the relations between men and women because they consider such rules a hindrance to total equality. Never mind the fact that stripping away the rules will not make the physical and emotional differences between men and women magically disappear, and that, for the most part, these rules exist to accommodate those differences.

Thankfully, our friends over at The Network of enlightened Women have devised a way to help restore and celebrate what we have lost with the “NeW Gentlemen’s Showcase”:

The Gentlemen’s Showcase seeks to restore dignity and respect between the sexes.  Beginning in the 1970s, women were told they should never let a man pay for their dinner or open their car door because by so doing, they were giving up their independence as women.  This demise of chivalry doesn’t promote equality between the sexes.  Rather, it breeds mutual disrespect.

But the women of NeW believe that gentlemen still exist on the college campus, and we want to honor those who stand against cultural norms.

Here’s the poster advertising the Showcase:

At Intellectual Takeout, we applaud the effort. It’s about time that we grounded our relationships in reality and celebrated gentlemen. Ladies, if you’re tired of dating losers, the best way forward is to make peace with your natural desires, throw off the fabrications of the postmodern feminists, and celebrate the traits you actually want in your man.

Here’s what you can do:

Submit a short video explaining why your college man deserves the title of “gentleman.”  Go to NeW’s Facebook Fan Page and post your video under the “Video” tab. The video can show him in action or you can explain why he is such a great guy.

The top gentleman whose video receives the most votes will win a steak dinner for two.  The woman who nominated him will receive a NeW T-Shirt and Sommers’ book Who Stole Feminism?.

For more information about the Showcase, please visit The Network of enlightened Women.

For more information from Intellectual Takeout on the history of feminism, go here.