From: ibshambat@gmail.com   
      
   E. E. Cummings said that the final secret is the man; but I believe that the   
   final secret is the woman.   
      
   Men are not all that difficult to understand. Many of them are quite boring.   
   Whereas the woman offers a lot more of a challenge, as well as having many   
   qualities worth discovering.   
      
   There are many beautiful qualities with which women are more endowed naturally   
   than are men. These qualities include such things as kindness, compassion and   
   beauty. In attacking these qualities in women, the third wave feminists have   
   done a vast    
   disservice to womanhood. They have put women in a race with men in which they   
   can only come second. Meanwhile they have destroyed the places in which the   
   women come first.   
      
   One joke with valuable input on the matter is, “God makes Adam and says   
   'ugh.' Then he makes Eve and says, 'Practice makes perfect.'”   
      
   The problem with fixation on equality is that ignores absolutely everything   
   else. Cats are being taught to be dogs and to suppress their feline qualities.   
   For me, a good woman is not only an equal to the next man. She is in many ways   
   his superior. And in    
   their fixation on equality, the feminists have put women in a race in which   
   they can only come second while destroying the place in which women are vastly   
   better than men.   
      
   It is certainly rightful for women to seek better treatment in relationships   
   and better social status. It is in no way rightful to claim that good feminine   
   qualities are incompatible with that aim. I used to believe that women were   
   better than men. My    
   interactions with American feminists cured me of that error. I did not replace   
   my stance with that of Eminem or Osama Bin Laden. I replaced it with the   
   rational stance, namely that anything capable of choice can be good or bad.   
   There are matters of    
   nature and there are matters of choice; and both have a vast influence.   
      
   Naturally, there are many ways in which women are better than men. But if they   
   become Third Wave feminists, they destroy these good qualities and become   
   inferior to men. At which point the rational stance will be to reject them and   
   support those – both    
   men and women – whom these women stand to injure or to oppress.   
      
   If I – someone who's written three books of poetry for three different women   
   – get portrayed as a misogynist, then something is very wrong with people's   
   perceptions. Indeed their whole mentality reveals itself to be a lie. A person   
   who cries wolf    
   becomes not credible when a real wolf appears out of the woods. So now, after   
   a whole bunch of women told a bunch of lies about all sorts of men, the real   
   victims of domestic violence and incest become not credible. This is just one   
   of the many toxic    
   effects that Third Wave feminism has had on the world.   
      
   The Third Wave feminism has had a vast effect on my view of the world. It got   
   me to examine my attitudes, which once again used to be universally in favor   
   of women. These people were refutation by counterexample of an irrational   
   worldview that I had.    
   Here were women who were absolute jerks. One cannot credibly go on thinking   
   that women are better than men if one has had dealings with the American Third   
   Wave feminists.   
      
   As for the heroic women who have rejected the American Third Wave feminism:   
   You have my admiration and you have my support. You have remained The Final   
   Secret. Remain as good as you are and influence others toward nobler conduct.   
   Make the world a better    
   place by your presence in it. And show to others – both men and women –   
   how good life can be when people act nobly.   
      
   Ilya Shambat   
   https://sites.google.com/site/ibshambatpoetry   
      
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