Male Oppression

By Chris McMichael

This book dares to ask the question, "If men are toxic by nature, oppressing others without knowing it – is it possible that men are likewise oppressed without knowing it?" According to history, the answer is yes. From battling ferocious beasts to enduring forced military service, men have been oppressed all along. The trend continues today, but now men are oppressed by the negative messages of the male-bashing mainstream media. Yet somehow, throughout eons of adversity, men managed to keep their sense of fun, inventing the practical joke and the surprise crotch-shot.

 

Male Oppression is a humorous study of the many ways in which men were exploited in every epoch – throughout history, men were considered expendable while women and children were generally kept safe. It discusses the fact that men never complained about their oppressed state – instead, they gloried in the stories they brought home from battle. It explores the evolution of masculinity and provides little-known facts about civilizations that eventually lost their focus on manly virtues. Spoiler alert: those cultures were conquered by masculine ones.

 

Toxic masculinity – the ridiculous notion that men are bad – is poisoning our society and this book is the antidote. Masculinity is celebrated in these pages, because men are specialized to be defenders, protectors, problem-solvers, and providers. Male Oppression is mind maintenance for the modern man.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Moonshine Press LLC
• Release date: May 24, 2022
• ISBN: 9798986257006

Chris McMichael

Chris McMichael was born in Mississippi and raised at deer camp. He lives in Colorado with his kids (half the time), his fiance (all the time), and an assortment of dogs and chickens.

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Introduction

If you are a feminist you should probably not be reading this. This book is for men and it is a backlash against modern feminism. This book is pro-female and pro-truth. But feminism is different. Today’s feminism is the ugly offspring of the women’s movement and the rise of feminine power in the workforce. Both of those things were good for women – I would never deny that women were forced to play a subservient role throughout most of history and that resulted in an unfair situation for them. But today’s feminism is a denial of men’s and women’s innate differences. Taken too far, it puts men in the same role women fought to escape. Not fair. So if you continue to read this book and especially if you don’t like it, remember I warned you because I was trying to protect you. That’s one of my jobs as a man.

This book is for guys who are sick of hearing about toxic masculinity. There is something wrong with our culture – why is our society so critical of men when the vast majority of us are not doing anything wrong? Look up videos about masculinity you will see titles like The Negative Effects of Masculinity and How I Learned Dangerous Lessons About Masculinity. I refuse to believe there is anything wrong with me because I was born with a penis. I like having a penis, just as an FYI.

This is my rant and my remedy. There’s some advice in here, too, in case it might be useful. I have strong opinions about how we got here and where we’re headed and that’s what you will find in these pages. It’s all random, partly due to my ADD but mostly because I like random stuff. Follow me on a journey through history and realize that men have been oppressed all along – women definitely don’t have a monopoly on oppression. It’s just that masculine men do not see themselves as victims of the system. As a result, men have been quiet on the subject while women have done all the talking. And that’s not the only cliché you will read about here, because clichés and stereotypes often have some truth to them.

At the present time, men are oppressed in a new way. I’m talking about the mental oppression of media messaging, constantly hammering home the idea that maleness is a shameful, irredeemable condition and men are responsible for all the problems we face today.

As I thought about masculinity in general, and men’s and women’s roles in life, a big picture emerged. The media and the world’s political leaders do not want a lot of strong men around because strong, capable, confident men are hard to control. So it appears there is a method to the madness of putting down manhood – it’s on the agenda because the powers that be have one goal: world domination. Don’t make it easy for them.

Chapter 1

In The Beginning

Suggested musical pairing:

Keep The Wolves Away by Uncle Lucius

The Bible states that in the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was void and without form. Then God said, Let us make man in our image, in our likeness. So he created them, male and female. We all know what happened next. The first man was oppressed by the first woman – indirectly at least. Eve ate from the Tree of Knowledge and talked Adam into having a bite. God kicked them out of the Garden of Eden, saying to the woman, I shall greatly increase your pain in childbearing. Your desire shall be for your husband and he shall rule over you. What I take away from this is that the issues women have to deal with come from the behavior of a woman – not from the behavior of men. And had it not been for the fact that women don’t listen, men would have had nice, easy lives.

So poor Adam was kicked out of the Garden as a result of the power that Eve had over him. After that, life became a lot harder. Men and women sheltered in caves and learned to hunt and gather their food.

Cavemen were oppressed, too. Their first responsibility was hunting for food. And while edible plants were important to the prehistoric human diet, the calories and nutrients gained from meat and fat were essential. Armed with nothing more than sticks and stones, our cavemen ancestors hunted giant animals that are extinct now because they were so good at it. A case in point, the ancestor of the modern domesticated cow was called an aurochs and the earliest cave paintings feature lots of them. This beast weighed up to 2200 pounds – almost twice the weight of a modern cow. And they were ornery. It was dangerous to get close to them, much less try to kill them. Their legs were longer than the cattle we raise today so they could run much faster. They had long, angled horns for fending off predators like wolves and they were not afraid to use them on cavemen, either. The men of those days had to be fearless and clever to hunt such animals.

And the aurochs wasn’t the biggest animal that early men took down on a regular basis. There is evidence that men hunted mammoths 45,000 years ago. The marks found on the bones indicate that the hunters used spears to kill them. Imagine a group of prehistoric men hunting a woolly mammoth that was fourteen feet tall and weighed 12,000 pounds, armed with nothing but spears. They had to get close enough to thrust a spear through all that hair, hoping to hit a vital organ before the mammoth’s 10-foot tusks could obliterate them.

This is our first example of a time in history where men were expected to put themselves on the front line for the good of the group, not knowing from day to day whether they would survive to head home to the cave. Men of this era also had to develop an excellent sense of direction and sufficient outdoorsman skills to travel wherever they needed to find game and to live off the land for the duration of the hunt. In my opinion, that is why men rarely get lost and why we instinctively feel at home in the outdoors. More on this later.

This period in time lasted thousands of years, with men and women evolving specialized skills to make them successful in their roles of hunter and gatherer, respectively. This was possibly the golden age of male-female relationships. The men spent long days slaying fearsome beasts or crafting weapons and the women wore themselves out preserving whatever the men killed, collecting and drying edible plants, and taking care of the children too young to help out. This resulted in both of them being too tired to fight at the end of the day. And in my imagination they respected each other’s contributions and didn’t get in each other’s way.

Next came the dawn of agriculture. The excess food produced made it possible for early humans to specialize even more and gave them the luxury of leisure time for the first time in history. They used their time off the same way we do today – to get drunk and fornicate. Seriously! They definitely got drunk. The ancient clay tablets found in Mesopotamia, the cradle of civilization, include recipes for beer and other intoxicants. And the growth of the early human population makes it logical that fornicating followed drinking. People haven’t changed much, if the enduring popularity of Jimmy Buffett’s Why Don’t We Get Drunk (And Screw) is any indication.

Around the same time that people became party animals, wild animals ceased to be as important as a food source, since sheep and goats were domesticated early on – between 9,000 to 11,000 BC. The domestication of animals and plants occurred around the same time, resulting in the creation of the first settlements. People needed to stay in one place to tend their crops and protect their livestock, so hunting became more of a sport and a way for men to get out of the house and away from their wives, who were relatively safe at home, where they could enjoy each other’s company. For the first time in history, men could play practical jokes on one another and light their beer-induced farts away from the judging eyes of the female half of the species.

But it wasn’t long before men were oppressed in new ways, often by other men called kings, thanks to the exploding human population and the resulting disputes over territory and resources. People might have thought that they finally had it easy when they began to settle, but the first people to live in cities were immediately oppressed by the first city governments. Taxes made their oppressive appearance in 6,000 BC, in the city-state of Lagash in ancient Mesopotamia – the tax code was

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Staring the point in the face and missing it anyway.