THE ROLE OF THE MALE

David Cameron wants to make it socially unacceptable for fathers to duck responsibility for children. But the failure of the male today is an inevitability of history. If we go to prehistory we find religions based on fertility and the feminine. Latest theories even point out man was a scavenger rather than hunter.

We can see that before history came along, the feminine and gathering food was the main human activity. Man seemed to be only required for procreation. However he eventually forged a role as a hunter, giving us a diet of meat that we did not naturally need. But man did need to be on the ascendant.

From this initial step of the male into society, history began to form around the male ego. Chiefs, kings and eventually emperors were the result, thrusting mankind into history by submerging the feminine and creating a patriarchal society.

The whole of known history has been the result of the male feeling lost and devising a system where he could be seen to be supreme. However, over the last 40 years, the feminine has again arisen and masculinity has been in decline.

If we accept this history as accurate, we can therefore see why the male seems to be failing. He no longer has ego and patriarchy as his purpose.

Hard feminists will, of course, love the idea of a man ridiculing the male in this way. But it is more serious than this. History and society in human terms is as unnatural to life on Earth as male ego, so we must ask what human society would have been like if male ego had never arisen.

Chances are we would never have had history and advancement in the first place. Rather, embedded in the feminine, we would have remained virtually prehistoric. As to the proof of the idea, with the feminine on the ascendant once more, society has embedded itself in a never ending cycle of consumerism. It seems we have become gatherers once more.

© Anthony North, Feb 2007

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