It's harsh truth time

It’s harsh truth time.

Historically, men don’t protect women; they protect their own women.

That includes their family and the women of allied men.

If no man (husband, father, brother, uncle) claimed a woman as his, she was unprotected and in constant danger.

Despite our natural masculine desire to defend the weak, trying to protect strange women was a risk with no upside, and life was already risky enough without starting a fight you might not be able to finish over a woman that no one wants.

In the West, white men created high-trust societies by systematically eliminating the low-impluse control men, the same men who were violent towards women. We did this for 5000 years, changing our genetics in the process. We domesticated ourselves.

We can still be ultraviolent, but now we do it with control, which is far more dangerous to our enemies while remaining useful to us.

This all resulted in western man creating incentives that promoted the generalized protection of women and children. We became rich enough as a society to protect even strange women that no individual man cared about.

For the first time in history, a woman’s safety mattered in its own right, not because she was the property of her father or husband.

We did this out of the goodness of our hearts, unable to see the long-term consequences. Unfortunately, offering women something and expecting nothing in return led to more and more of the type of women that no man wanted to protect.

Today, an ever-growing number of men are feeling like it’s just not worth the trouble to provide generalized protection to women they don’t know and are not invested in. Society has removed the incentive structure to protect strange women.

Its going to get a lot worse and more dangerous for women in the coming decades.

The decay in the quality of women and mens response to that decay is going to bring us back again to the point where only women who are protected by a man (and his gang) have security.

In the case of the video, her group never created a high-trust society. They were always operating at the level of male gangs and in-group protection only. The men who saw her being assaulted didn’t know her; she didn’t belong to anyone they valued. She didn’t even like men. So they had no incentive to protect her.

If you liked this post you will love the video we did about it. Goes into some more depth on the subject.