Disclaimer

Stalk me to find new posts.

The Spy in the Fortune Cookie says:

There is no original, only obscure. We cannot manifest that which we cannot perceive. We cannot perceive that which does not exist outside our reality.

Friday, February 12, 2010

A preliminary theory on male social power

Let me begin by stating that I am a feminist who is quite afraid of gender equality. Such a world would bring me lifelong loneliness (If men lost the majority on mate selection, I'd be fucked). Fortunately, loneliness is not my greatest fear; my greatest fear is a total loss of power.

First, I shall define the key phrases:
Grierklem.
Grierklem is like chi. It is the metaphysical currency for social power. Each person has an amount of social power. Unlike chi, one can earn or lose it. It is the degree to which others care about what you want and their willingness to act on its behalf. It does not tell the difference whether the person would act similarly isolated from manipulation or if they really care.
Social power.
Social power, contrary to the contemporary bullshit, is not the degree to which other people care about what you want. What an idyllic and idealized world that would be! No, social power means being able to steal grierklem or control the grierklem economy.
Woman.
Store. In today's world, women are not considered human beings. They are the stores at which men spend grierklem to buy things like food or sex.

We all have an amount of grierklem. We are not equal. The first thing that defines the base amount of grierklem owned depends on age. I can guarantee that, during my age, grierklem is first determined by physical beauty. It's like an occupation, and I am working at that stereotypical fast-food joint. As I would want to gain social power (well feminists have to work in this system, too), I have to get grierklem to spend. So I must steal.

I gain grierklem by oratory action. Simple. I make friends. They care about what I want. Some might even act for it. So I decide it's time to go to the store (notice that I say "the store", not "a store"). Oh, but it's an auction... with one of my best friends? I quickly find myself out of grierklem and out of hope.

It is by this that I must remind you that women cannot be equal. Why? It would mean every person on the face of the planet with the same amount of grierklem while having a population that is exactly 50% male and 50% female. Gender equality. Can you possibly imagine the day when women can get paid the same wages? When they can have the same responsibility in government? When they can have the same confident conviction in saying, "no"? I cannot. If some sort of grierklem stasis were maintained, I'd be alone forever. My 50% would never be able to overcome the resisting 50% of anyone I'd fall in love with. Yet I still justify my feminist attitude with my desire, not for total equality (women could be more powerful, but not the same), but for increased respect for women. Just to the point of destroying the grierklem economy. I want to see those who have monopolized on it for so long to fall and suffer. In this sense, I am very much a communist. But even the Socialist Republic of Grierklem wouldn't give me her. And I know that. In this economy, I have nothing to gain but the satisfaction in the suffering of the former heads of the oppressive capitalism that cut and burned me. Oh but in real life, I'm very much a capitalist because I CAN move up.

Look over this again and see its application on general power (So I looked it over and decided I hate my writing. Somebody just stab off a finger so it'll stop). Power is determined in relative "ability" within "arenas". We must be careful in understanding the concept of power as being relative in different contexts.

No comments: