Re: Fraternities and "The Lodge" - A Lost Legacy of Our Grandfathers
Posted: Mon Apr 29, 2019 6:04 pm
We gotta start our own lodge. DaggerLodge.
Must it be war, and the bloodlust of daggers?
https://daggermag.com/forum/
Honestly there a lot of worse places to find meaning
It certainly does not help the cause that neutral environments exclusively for men are now essentially illegal (while woman only spaces exist ad-nauseam, of course). I do think a major unspoken contribution to the decline of fraternities is the result of the unresolved tension of the Civil Rights Era and the legacy of forced integration on both sides. People have largely found it easier not to interact at all, instead of trying to bride that horrible divide and create the necessary and honest discussion to reignite the flames of universal brotherhood.ganymede wrote: ↑Tue Apr 30, 2019 4:12 amI think some of the utter demoralization of fraternal orders has come from the insistent introduction of women into a previously chaste environment. When a neutral environment for men is infiltrated by women the priority amongst at least some of them will be to bang her (thankyou lizard brain) and previously friendly males compete in a more visceral way for reproductive rights. This is a widely observed phenomenon.
Male bonding is something achieved through shared experience and sportly competition (extended in our age to the recreative realms of online and tabletop gaming etc). Without an exclusively male environment this is impossible. Men are naturally homoerotic; that is to say, they value the opinions of their own sex over that of women. Sexual competition turns a friendly sport into a more competitive and erotically destructive drive to succeed.
The policy of racial integration in America has had the opposite of the intended effect. All races are more entrenched than ever and compete more voraciously than ever in identity politics, which the white man is also now beginning to partake in (for shame). Its become a cold race-war similar to before the civil rights act (1964) when the fire of racial tension was stoked every now and then by riots (nowadays its the unarmed innocent black man shot by racist police).UniversalWorldBaby wrote: ↑Tue Apr 30, 2019 4:28 amIt certainly does not help the cause that neutral environments exclusively for men are now essentially illegal (while woman only spaces exist ad-nauseam, of course). I do think a major unspoken contribution to the decline of fraternities is the result of the unresolved tension of the Civil Rights Era and the legacy of forced integration on both sides. People have largely found it easier not to interact at all, instead of trying to bride that horrible divide and create the necessary and honest discussion to reignite the flames of universal brotherhood.ganymede wrote: ↑Tue Apr 30, 2019 4:12 amI think some of the utter demoralization of fraternal orders has come from the insistent introduction of women into a previously chaste environment. When a neutral environment for men is infiltrated by women the priority amongst at least some of them will be to bang her (thankyou lizard brain) and previously friendly males compete in a more visceral way for reproductive rights. This is a widely observed phenomenon.
Male bonding is something achieved through shared experience and sportly competition (extended in our age to the recreative realms of online and tabletop gaming etc). Without an exclusively male environment this is impossible. Men are naturally homoerotic; that is to say, they value the opinions of their own sex over that of women. Sexual competition turns a friendly sport into a more competitive and erotically destructive drive to succeed.
Even the simple ritual of the barbershop is a declining trend amongst the African-American community, and soon we will find most of the concepts to be found within these organizations past to be forgotten in time unless there is a more conscious effort to revive the communal spirit. It's a very strange and sad time to be alive, by these metrics...
I agree with the "Men only" part.ganymede wrote: ↑Tue Apr 30, 2019 4:12 amI think some of the utter demoralization of fraternal orders has come from the insistent introduction of women into a previously chaste environment. When a neutral environment for men is infiltrated by women the priority amongst at least some of them will be to bang her (thankyou lizard brain) and previously friendly males compete in a more visceral way for reproductive rights. This is a widely observed phenomenon.
Male bonding is something achieved through shared experience and sportly competition (extended in our age to the recreative realms of online and tabletop gaming etc). Without an exclusively male environment this is impossible. Men are naturally homoerotic; that is to say, they value the opinions of their own sex over that of women. Sexual competition turns a friendly sport into a more competitive and erotically destructive drive to succeed.
I'd definitely be curious as to where that comes form.