Re: on not blaming feminism

Thanks for a very interesting and thought-provoking post. I don't really think we differ except on technical details, but I shall just make a couple of minor points. Whether it was the cause of negative attitudes towards boylove, feminism provided the ideological justification for such negative attitudes on the left of politics (and now in the mainstream), on the basis of discourses of male power. Of course, feminism itself was the outcome of changes in society of the kind that have been written about recently by Pharmakon and Sick Rose, but that doesn't make the opinions espoused by feminists towards us any more palatable. I agree that the far right have their very own hatred of us that cannot be blamed on feminism. Feminism, and the weird unhealthy pedophile obsession of the far right, are the two teeth of the vice between which we are currently being squeezed. Of the two, feminism is currently the strongest, because feminism is the Establishment, whereas the far right is not, though of course this might all change. I quite agree that there are marginal feminist writers who have interesting things to say. The problem for me is that these writers have little to do with the actual feminist movement - the one that has "official approval" - which is the one that is seeking our destruction. Until the feminist movement ceases to persecute and destroy us, I'm afraid I shall remain largely opposed to it, even if, here and there, there is the odd writer of interest. Really, it does sometimes seem to me that we are acting like Jews voting for Hitler. The rest of what you write, about Alisdair MacIntyre and so forth, I find most interesting. I certainly think that we do need these semi-autonomous communities within this dark age. Insofar as we have allies, therefore, they will be among those who are opposing the sovereignty of the modern state. I don't think the state will be broken up (unfortunately), but we can do whatever we can to limit its reach. I suppose the strategy I'm suggesting coincides with the outlook and strategy of anarchism, from which it only differs in being more pessimistic about the eventual outcome!