Suzanna Danuta Walters, The Washington Post (2018), [10] The End of Men. Men are becoming aware of the bias in divorce and family court and steering clear of marriage. ■ (b). Manipulation. Help us get better. American Media. [11] [12] The English word centre is derived from the Latin centrum. Many animals and especially human beings, have a capacity to regulate and control their behavioural responses to instinctual and emotional impulses that come from the lower areas of the brain. Whilst we may have no control over feeling our primal urges, we do have control over whether we decide to act on them and base decisions on them. The literal interpretation of free will might be an illusion, but self-control does exist and we have parts of the brain dedicated to exercising self-control. That’s where this thinking comes from and the manosphere is not immune to sliding into this fatalistic line of thinking that women are the centre of everything. As discussed in Paul Elam and Peter Wright’s article, “Slaying the dragon”,1 this understanding was a major foundational element of many religions and is addressed in cultural mythology, such as the seven deadly sins of Christianity and the story of Odysseus resisting the Sirens call. Despite what feminists claim, women really cannot do everything a man can do or just as well (Women are not inferior. FULL-TEXT: Gynocentrism continued to appear in literature throughout the nineteenth century and into the present with a stable meaning of female centered, and especially to a culture so disposed, in which: “It is arranged with a view to the convenience and delight of women. After the February Revolution of 1917, feminist lobbying gained suffrage and general equality for women in society; however, in the 1960s and 1970s, women continued to experience discrimination in certain career-paths as well as income inequality and a greater burden of household work. For the individual man, you either overcome gynocentrism or you suffer for it and in some cases lose everything, including your life. This is the naturalistic fallacy in action. The reason modern evolutionary biology does not cite Briffault’s Law as a “law” or established theory, is because the facts and evidence do not support the absolutist position of female omnipotence it rests on. The Reality Zone. Superorganisms as Angry Harry explained, have enormous influence over our society and the individual behaviour of people. Change ), You are commenting using your Facebook account. Rudman, Laurie A.,Goodwin, Stephanie A. Men are valuable and men do matter. [13] The word κέντρον is derived from the verb κεντεῖν, [10] [12] meaning to sting (of bees), [10] to prick, [10] to goad, [10] and to spur. Related to the previous reason behind why gynocentrism is normalised, is the influence of superorganisms on society and how they have succumbed to gynocentrism. Gynocentrism: centred on or concerned exclusively with women; taking a female (or specifically a feminist) point of view. Peter Wright & Paul Elam, A Voice For Men (2016). Think of how many less people there would be without electricity, machinery, antibiotics, modern medicine and modern agriculture that men were mostly responsible for. The same general emotional response to neoteny drives millions of people daily to dog videos on YouTube. Ben G Thomas. As Gynocentrism Theory tells us, women already had a "high price on their blood" - much higher than that of men, at almost any time in history. Of course there is considerable overlap (the sexes are more alike than different7) between the sexes and exceptions, but that is the general pattern. We do have a predisposition9 to show greater concern for female well-being in certain contexts. The assumption (which is precisely what it is), that gynocentrism is some insurmountable and hardwired instinct and behaviour we are slaves to, is complete and utter nonsense. There are even in this hypersexualised culture, sizeable communities of people that still practice sexual abstinence before marriage. Maintaining the lie that men are expendable and only women are valuable in the culture, is critical to maintaining gynocentrism. However eventually such a process terminates when costs to survival become too high and natural selection pressure begins to exceed sexual selection pressure. [2], The term gynocentrism has been in use since at least 1897 when it appeared in The Open Court stating that Continental Europeans view Americans "as suffering rather from gynocentrism than anthropocentrism." Antifeminism, also spelled anti-feminism, is opposition to some or all forms of feminism. Learned helplessness has been linked to depression17 and is no doubt a major factor driving the epidemic of male suicide. The fact gynocentrism has natural or biological underpinnings, does not then mean it is morally acceptable, desirable, inevitable or a healthy expression of human behaviour. Marketing in particular has made multibillion dollar industries out of exploiting superstimuli. Many boys and girls in school can now go through most of their education from kindergarten to postgraduate education, with few male teachers. A casino does not want to discourage you from gambling your life savings. Gynocentrism is not itself an instinct but rather a product of human instinct, emotional impulses and cultural conditioning. Religions, governments, corporations, institutions and cities are examples of superorganisms. In several decades if everything goes right, we may have a permanent, sizeable and self-sustaining settlement on Mars. Instead of blaming it all on toxic masculinity, how about we look at fatherlessness and mental health. Both sexes for instance have evolved and display neotenous features. Wikipedia (Accessed 2018), [15] Uri Bezmenov: Deception Was My Job (Complete) G. Edward Griffin. Human adult males are also not immediately replaceable either, especially talented and gifted men. [Reprinted from Feminism: From Pressure to Politics, Angela Miles and Geraldine Finn, eds., Montreal: Black Rose Books, 1989] Feminist perspectives in psychology are slowly emerging, a process that is a painful and controversial one, but one that is beginning to provide important ovarian theory and data for the broader feminist struggle. Men going their own way (MGTOW) is a pathway out of gynocentrism for men. ( Log Out / [13] How did life become Multicellular?-Mysteries of Life #2. YouTube (Accessed 2018). Equity feminism has been defined and classified as a kind of classically liberal or libertarian feminism, in contrast with social feminism, difference feminism, gender feminism, and equality feminism. It is time men broke free of their psychological bondage and dared to recognise and accept their true intrinsic value, in the face of a gynocentric society that would prefer they did not. The notion that females determine all the conditions of the animal kingdom (or Briffault’s Law13), is part of this programming and demonstrably false. It should. [8], They define gynocentrism as a worldview based on the implicit or explicit belief that the world revolves around women, a cultural theme that they claim has become 'de rigueur' behind the scenes in law courts and government bureaucracies, resulting in systemic discrimination against men. I understand Sargon is talking about Emma here, but he is also talking about the growing numbers of single people in general (male and female). But like I said nothing happens overnight. The education system has now essentially become a system of feminist indoctrination and gynocentrism. Gynocentrism is widespread because we consider it to be normal and the culture reinforces it as a good thing. Women do not control all the conditions of society. We recognise and counter efforts to undermine those social and legal measures (like addressing attacks on due process and freedom of speech). This ancient understanding that natural impulses can be destructive when taken to extremes, was known thousands of years ago. [17] Nathanson and Young make a comparable claim that gynocentrism is a form of essentialism as distinct from scholarship or political activity on behalf of women, to the extent that it focuses on the innate virtues of women. “Gynocentric.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gynocentric. [15], Some authors[ who? ] Gynocentrism is merely one of many manifestations of the sexual instinct, desire to pair bond, our emotional response to neoteny and our parental brain. Think of the impact a handful of men in society have had on civilisation over the last two centuries and by extension the evolutionary success of the species. The claim of greater female biological value, is sometimes used to explain the origins of gynocentrism and even justify gynocentrism in society. Think of all the revelations that have come out on the working environments of employees in the tech sector and in academia and the disruptive and violent protests on university campuses. Psychology definition for Gynocentrism in normal everyday language, edited by psychologists, professors and leading students. 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Of course there are also long term consequences building from decades of neglect of boys needs in the education system and the epidemic of fatherlessness, that will threaten the social cohesion and economic prosperity of a number of developed nations in the coming decades.