I can't wait to see someone pull the ethernet cable of Return of Kings for good.

[LJ_Reloaded]

I despise these guys as much as I despise radical feminists.

They're just not as loud or conspicuous and they don't have institutional power the way radical feminists do. They don't have any of their trolls on the General Board either, but they should, because this place is just right for their intellect. Water seeking its own level and all that.

As is to be expected, Return of Kings manages to fuck up, epically. They took a single incident of women being unable to work together and used it to justify the idea of Patriarchy, which doesn't even exist in the West anymore.

http://www.returnofkings.com/32053/this-accidental-experiment-shows-the-superiority-of-patriarchy

Quite a few years ago, I had the pleasure of watching the Dutch version of Survivor (Expeditie Robinson) with my feminist roommate. That particular season would have two islands, one populated by men and one populated by women. My roommate had been promoting that particular series to me and the other students in the house for weeks because it would show us, according to her, what a society run by women – free from the evils of patriarchy – would be like.

And it did. Oh it did.

Here is what happened: initially both groups were dropped on their respective islands, given some supplies to get started and left to fend for themselves. In both groups there was some initial squabbling as people tried to figure out a local hierarchy. The men pretty much did whatever they felt was necessary – there was no leader giving orders. Men who felt like hunting, foraging or fishing did so. Another guy decided he was fed up with sitting on sand and started making benches. Others built a hut that gradually grew and evolved. Another guy cooked every night. Within days a neat little civilization was thriving, each day being slightly more prosperous than the previous one.

The women settled into a routine as well. The hung up a clothesline to dry their towels, then proceeded to sunbathe and squabble. Because unlike men, women were unable to do anything without consensus of the whole group. And because it was a group of at least a dozen women, consensus was never reached. During the next few episodes, the women ate all their initial supplies, got drenched by tropical storms several times, were eaten alive by sand fleas and were generally miserable. The men on the other hand, were quite content. There were disagreements of course, but they were generally resolved.

Eventually, the people running the program decided something had to change. In order to help the women out, three men would be selected to go to their island. In return, three women would take their place at the men’s island. The look on my feminist roommates face during this episode was priceless.

This is not proof of the Patriarchy's superiority. A non-existent culture wiped out of existence by the mid 20th century is called obsolete, by definition it cannot be superior.

This is also not proof of the Patriarchy's existence. This is proof of ENTITLEMENT on the part of the women, and sorry but that's been the case with and without any Patriarchy. Ever since we came down from trees or grace (depending on your views), it's been the men - the gender that women have deemed expendable - who do the hard work and dangerous shit. What happened in this Dutch show was a case of ENTITLEMENT backfiring.

And given how few women nowadays subscribe to self-entitled feminism, much less Patriarchal thinking, it's an absolute certainty that at some point, another episode of this Dutch show will have women doing better than the men.

Some MRAs actually cited this article recently. What a fucking shame.