The Feminarchy

Today, the Zman discusses the qualities of our elites, particularly our technology leaders whose positions resulted largely from luck.

What’s interesting to me though is that Zuckerberg is a wimp. Look at the pics of him coming into the event and sitting for the show, and he looks nothing like what one would expect from a captain of industry. The joke on social media is that he is actually a lizard or maybe a robot, bit in reality he is just a middle-aged teenager, more worried he will get a zit on his nose than about conquering mankind. He’s not an exception. Look around at the oligarchy and you don’t find many tough guys. We are ruled by girly-men.

Indeed, it is delightfully cringey watching Zuckerberg appear before the Senate. He actually has presidential ambitions! He is quite out of his league, and seems to know it but tries to pretend he doesn't. That is, he tries to behave as if his fortunes were built off his personal attributes, not that he was a moderately competent kid who got lucky when his app took off. It is apparent to everyone watching that he has no leadership qualities. If he does run for president (please please please!) he'll be like Hillary, in that the more people are exposed to him, the less they'll like him. Just watch.

Listening to him feels more like listening to a woman speak than a man. You get the impression that he prepped heavily for his Senate appearance, but was prepped by women. Or that, generally, he tends to copy the speech patterns of women more than men. This likely isn't his natural speaking pattern. Not that he's dripping with testosterone when he's casually hanging out at the house, but it's interesting that the way he thinks he should be speaking skews highly feminine.

When feminists offer evidence of the patriarchy, the always talk about gender proportions of executives, especially in the tech sector. Zuckerberg is a premiere example, but does this really seem like male dominance? This evil male patriarch is a woman trapped in a boy's body, who is led around by his female lieutenants like Sheryl Sandburg. Facebook is a matriarchy with a vaguely male figurehead.

Here is Twitter's Founder & CEO, Jack Dorsey.

It seems his body is perfectly calibrated to hold up a phone, a light jacket, his gargantuan cranium, and little else. Maybe that's all you need these days, but he certainly doesn't portray much masculinity. Again, this is your patriarchy. A dainty fellow whose company spends most of its energy trying to ensure that no one gets their feelings hurt on the internet. It's a very maternal operation.

We're also told there is no further proof of patriarchy than the fact that all US presidents have thus far been men. (No one here denies a patriarchal past). But, in the present era, you have to account for this guy.

Like Zuckerberg, there's something quite feminine about him. Not in his speech, at least. Obama was a skilled orator who adopted a proper tone. But his demeanor gives him right away. And, like Zuckerberg, he was a weakling who surrounded himself with women. His tight inner circle included Susan Rice, Valerie Jarret, Samantha Power, and a few men. Other high-level officials and Cabinet members reportedly groaned that they had very little access to the president. The power was consolidated in his female-dominated clique. This proof of patriarchy was, in reality, America's first feminine administration. His major achievements included world apology tours for America having ever hurt someone's feelings, socialized health care, and a directionless and disastrous foreign policy legacy.

The modern patriarchy.

The patriarchy is a myth. The current power structure is neither a patriarchy nor a matriarchy, but a feminarchy. Feminine values reign supreme, even when enforced by rich men in suits. This blog frequently cites the cause of the vicious reaction against Trump as a reaction of the deep state against his outsider populist politics. And it's certainly true, but it doesn't explain the sheer and widespread hatred projected against him. After all, Obama's campaign rhetoric was even more dominated by anti-imperial foreign policy rhetoric. Trump is the masculine figure; a real patriarch. The mainstream feminist orthodoxy has reacted from a much deeper, more visceral level than mere policy agendas. If our society was a patriarchy, it would embrace Trump. Instead they hate him with all the hatred they can muster. He is a reminder of just how effeminate our rulers have become.