Writing my Senior Thesis on How Feminism is Destroying the West
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Marriage decline might be feasible, especially if qualitative sources were tied with GSS survey data. Approaching it from a "feminism is destroying western culture" outlook is damn near doomed from the get go, though. The problem with the destroying culture topic is you'd have to establish western culture as originally being free from any form of feminism, then proving western cultures decline, then offering forth evidence of feminism as being the cause of the decline. Defending feminism as the direct cause of, and not a correlation of the decline would be difficult because there likely isn't that much research he could cite specifically backing him.
This would likely be doctoral research rather than undergrad senior thesis work.
This would likely be doctoral research rather than undergrad senior thesis work.
You would be better off arguing that second-wave feminism is a manifestation of the decline of the American psyche- a key point made in "The Culture Of Narcissism."
However, like others have said, you are opening a can of hateful worms. No ideology is more sacrosanct on college campuses than feminism.
Honestly, the more on point you are (drawing on pscyhological research that shows that two-parent homes produce healthier children than one-parent homes, straight-up debunking of feminist theory) the more hate and ire you will draw. For most left-wing professors, feminism need not be justified because it necessarily is on point about its claims. Hell, calling it an ideology is offensive to them.
If you really want to ruffle some feathers, argue its a religion and then use the book "When Religion Becomes Evil" by Charles Kimball.
His five warning signs:
1. Absolute Truth Claims
2. Blind Obedience
3. Establishing The Ideal Time
4. The End Justifies Any Means
5. Declaring Holy War
I will mostly likely be doing an ROK post on this sooner rather than later.
However, like others have said, you are opening a can of hateful worms. No ideology is more sacrosanct on college campuses than feminism.
Honestly, the more on point you are (drawing on pscyhological research that shows that two-parent homes produce healthier children than one-parent homes, straight-up debunking of feminist theory) the more hate and ire you will draw. For most left-wing professors, feminism need not be justified because it necessarily is on point about its claims. Hell, calling it an ideology is offensive to them.
If you really want to ruffle some feathers, argue its a religion and then use the book "When Religion Becomes Evil" by Charles Kimball.
His five warning signs:
1. Absolute Truth Claims
2. Blind Obedience
3. Establishing The Ideal Time
4. The End Justifies Any Means
5. Declaring Holy War
I will mostly likely be doing an ROK post on this sooner rather than later.
Feisbook Control
Kingfisher
Another angle you could take that might fly right under their radar but be worth massive lulz from us would be to research the popularity of carousels, or the ownership rate of cats by different demographic segments. Your professors might think the topic a little obscure, but they probably wouldn't be in on the joke. You could write the whole thing as though it were serious and scholarly, but you could embed a whole lot of manosphere memes in there.
Thanks for all the responses. Just to clarify, this is for High School, not college. It's also a rather conservative Christian High School, so they are probably already half-way on board with me (besides the girls in my class, who are gonna have their pouty faces on the whole time).
That being said, I'm definitely going to narrow my topic down to something more specific. I really like the angle that proves feminism is a religion, but also showing the link between unhappiness and feminism seems like a good angle. I'll definitely be active in this thread for the next few months at least, asking for advice and such. I have a list of books which might prove helpful to me (it was also an assignment for the class). Some of the books include The Way of Men, The Rational Male (thanks JoyStick), The War on Men, etc.
I think I'm going to get The Way of Men regardless of whether I decide to do this topic or not. It looks amazing.
One thing I've found most interesting is that most of the books on anti-feminism I have seen were written by women, not men.
I think I'm going to get The Way of Men regardless of whether I decide to do this topic or not. It looks amazing.
One thing I've found most interesting is that most of the books on anti-feminism I have seen were written by women, not men.
Lizard King
Pelican
This piece for a magazine was written by a British academic in 1997, and is way ahead of its time.
It is written using a pseudonym, the author's name is Adrian Leftwich. I know very little about him.
I have been meaning to forward this article to Heartiste for some time, if anyone could I'd be grateful, as his exegesis of it would be interesting.
It is written using a pseudonym, the author's name is Adrian Leftwich. I know very little about him.
I have been meaning to forward this article to Heartiste for some time, if anyone could I'd be grateful, as his exegesis of it would be interesting.
Anything that involves value-judgment terms like "destroying" sounds like a political hack piece.
If you, as above suggested, did something simpler like correlational studies of increasing cat ownership with decreasing fertility; you make the point with numerical data that can't easily be questions.
Then , if someone starts accusing you of thinking "women can't be independent" because you point out they all have cats, you can throw i back on them "You think women with cats aren't independent?"
If you, as above suggested, did something simpler like correlational studies of increasing cat ownership with decreasing fertility; you make the point with numerical data that can't easily be questions.
Then , if someone starts accusing you of thinking "women can't be independent" because you point out they all have cats, you can throw i back on them "You think women with cats aren't independent?"
A quick update for you guys. I decided that "feminism is destroying the west" is a bit too big, so I'm narrowing it down onto defining what the masculine gender role is. I may even whittle it down further by focusing on the classical idea of "virtue" and how it originally only applied to men. I have a nice list of 20 books I'm in the process of acquiring that will hopefully make me well educated on the biology of gender in the brain.
AnonymousBosch said:
Extremely impressive post. Easily one of the best written on the topic.
puckerman
Ostrich
You should also read Thomas Ball's last statement:
https://www.facebook.com/notes/thomas-ball-foundation/thomas-ball-last-statement/176506585757677
https://www.facebook.com/notes/thomas-ball-foundation/thomas-ball-last-statement/176506585757677
I would recommend also Christina Hoff Summers work and Gad Saad, check out both of them on twitter, they have some excellent rational, non-hysterical analysis of how the socially accepted female imperative perpetuated by much of the MSM undermines and tries to discredit masculinity.
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