A Victory That Still Is Not Enough

Being a woman, by contrast, is a wonderful thing. Every door is open to her, in politics, on supervisory boards, in refuse collection, in all the spheres of influence that were once male domains. The patriarchy is now only a memory.

Victory across the board. What more could woman want?

Ah, there is always more. Some of the ladies apparently want to keep fighting until final victory. Men? They can go. They are all sexists and rapists. Men belong on the scrapheap. They are pigs.

Men, as we can see, are also joining in the game of making a problem of themselves. Masculinity must become suspect everywhere, we are told, because men are the problem. Of what, exactly? A reason will surely be found.

At that point, as a woman, one is sorely tempted to sigh: Men, do not leave me alone with these deranged females and their male counterparts. They are welcome to believe whatever they like. But why do they find such a willing echo in the media?

The trans ideology that has seduced young people into mutilating themselves owes its success above all to media and political credulity. “Trans women are women”, we are told. And therefore victims. Of men, of course. And who does not want to be a victim nowadays, when it pays so splendidly?

The Demographic Alibi

There is no end in sight to this media narrative, because since 2024, what was true for centuries no longer applies, namely that in purely demographic terms there are more women than men on our planet. No: there is now a global surplus of men.

Is it because, in countries such as China or India, female fetuses are selectively aborted because of cultural preferences for sons? Or perhaps because men no longer die years earlier than women? Or because there are not enough wars to get rid of the surplus?

Demography, after all, was always the reason behind the campaigns of conquest by supposedly “surplus” men, meaning the third or fourth sons who could neither inherit their fathers’ estates nor find a place in the clergy. So they conquered or emigrated until the surplus had taken care of itself. The result is visible in European countries massively overburdened by male migration from societies marching to a different cultural beat.

Yet not even the police officer on the news dared to say that a very specific and very real danger arises here, especially from immigrant men, although the crime statistics of his own authority vividly demonstrate their overrepresentation.

What, apart from restricting immigration from foreign cultures, would help women and men live together peacefully? To start with, restoring value to the things men can in fact do better than women. But the number of jobs that require strength and dexterity, as well as the ability to endure hardship, is declining in a service-based society.

Even the role of breadwinner and father is losing significance. On the one hand, feminism does not want it in the name of equality. On the other, a surplus of men means that not every man has the chance to start a family and reproduce. Women may now be in the minority, but in return they have the better choice. Presumably, and wisely, they will turn to the better-off men.

No Country for Young Men

What, by contrast, do the sociological sciences recommend? Restoring value to male roles and tasks? No. Strengthening the position of women in society.

But can it really become any stronger?

Men who know their worth may be able to let the media-amplified hatred of men that confronts them everywhere roll off their backs. Perhaps they are also lucky enough to be with a perfectly normal, loving woman, and such women are certainly in the majority.

Yet what does this hatred of men do to the young, who are insecure about their role and still searching for a male identity?

In fact, boys have long been the losers at every turn. Girls are far more likely than boys to obtain the school-leaving qualification that gives them access to university. That is not necessarily good news, since far too many people are studying anyway. As a society, we currently need skilled trades far more urgently than degrees in feminist studies.

Perhaps instead of yet another support program for girls, a support program for boys should be launched, one that takes male inclinations, strengths and talents into account.

Boys are not simply inferior girls. There are, after all, natural differences between the sexes. But what counts as “natural” behavior in men and women? Entire gender seminars are devoted to that question without ever reaching agreement.

Yet there do appear to be deeply rooted male reflexes that reveal themselves whenever acute danger threatens.

During the recent attack on the White House Correspondents’ Dinner in Washington, which apparently targeted Donald Trump, the many videos from the evening show astonishing scenes. As the gunman tries to storm the event, the men on the security detail immediately draw their weapons, while their female colleagues take to their heels. Above all, many men in the room placed themselves protectively in front of their wives.

We women need men like that today more than ever.