Why do you think that we bothered to publish the whole article, and
not just the title, whose euphemistic tone should please any devil's
advocate?
This being said, it is true that his pre-WW II writings on sex and
woman in the modern world are generally more pertinent and pugnacious
than his later ones, even though, in the latter, he called for a
systematic concrete sabotage of modern woman's day-to-day life ; 'Do
we live in a Gynaecocratic Society?' is part of the former.
After WW II, it seems that Evola was not as much informed as he was
before of the state of affairs in this field in Western countries, so
much so that the signora Antonietta Fiumara felt like correcting, in
the 21st of March 1954 letter to the Editor of 'Il Meridiano
d'Italia', some of the statements he had made in an article published
in the previous issue of that paper, namely 'I difetti di stile delle
ragazze italiane' : "I think that you don't need to have travelled
much and to have stayed much abroad to realise that what Evola says
against Italian women could be applied to the type which is called,
in general ... and rather strenuously the 'bourgeois woman''s, a type
which can be found in our country to a larger extent, but which can
certainly be found also in other countries, and, basically, is the
product of a specific type of society, which cannot be changed in a
overnight". Evola, in one of the following issues of that paper,
acknowledged that "it is true that my criticism should have been
directed at the type of the 'bourgeois woman' in general, who is not
exclusively Italian".
Before quoting the following sentence, let's go back over the
signora's letter for a short while, to the part in which she reminds
Evola of one of his point : "It is not woman who creates the general
form of a society. It has been said that woman is like man wants her
to be. This idea is, if not absolutely, at least partly, true. Most
of the criticisms of Evola towards Italian woman are due to man and
his attitude. If we want women to behave differently, men, too, in
our country, should behave differently".
Now, let's be serious : how do you want men to 'behave differently'
(please note that the signora doesn't say : 'like men should behave")
in a society where males are raised and educated by females from
their childhood to their late adolescence? In most Western countries,
seventy percent of the teaching staff is composed of females ; in
countries like France and England, there are ninety percent female
teachers in private schools, and the percentage of female teachers
keeps increasing, in all Western countries. Why do you think that
Plato, in 'The Republic', demands that any male over 5 years old
should be educated exclusively by men, and not by women, and insists
on the danger of letting women be involved in the education of young
boys over that age? Let's be serious and let's get real : by 13 years
old, the vast majority of young boys schooled in any institution
sponsored by a democratic government are turned into teenage-girls,
and, on this basis, there is no way of stopping the process of
feminisation they are subjected to. In this case, men are like women
want them to be, that is to say, women.
Certainly, generally speaking, it is not woman who creates the
general form of a society, but women, left to themselves and
instrumentalised by certain specific forces, can distort a society so
much so that it has no longer form and, basically, it is shapeless.
Strictly speaking, however, what is a gynaecocracy, if not a
political regime in which women are in power and, therefore, the
whole social, political, economic and legal system is oriented
according to the principles of matriarchy?
"However, it must be acknowledged, first, - Evola continues after
having admitted that his criticism should have been directed at the
type of the 'bourgeois woman' in general, who is not exclusively
Italian - that the percentage of that type in Italy is particularly
high ; then, that, whereas, in other countries, especially in Central
Europe, it is currently experiencing a radical change in a positive
sense (greater inner freedom and greater sincerity), something worse
has been arrived at in Italy : (...)". Those who have an idea of the
way the relations between sexes developed in Central European
countries after WW II see why we have suggested the possibility that
Evola was misinformed about them, which, in the 1930's, as they were
really developing in a positive sense in that area which he knew
well, he considered as a model. What is even odder is that, a few
years later, in an article published in 'Popolo italiano' 1957
about 'Evoluzioni del costume e rivendicazioni femminili' ('Evolution
of Customs and Feminine Claims'), he congratulates himself on the
fact that, in Germany, by means of a new law, any woman is free to
assume the title of Madam or that of Miss in official documents,
since, according to him, this marks a decisive step in the
establishment of "a greater independence in the relations between
sexes which already characterised the customs of Central Europe in a
sense rather different from what can be noticed both in America and
in the vague libertarian impulses of Communist 'comrades'". Leaving
aside that we fail to see how a measure of the administrative order
and which is applied only in the administrative framework can have a
concrete influence on the level of 'independence' in the relations
between sexes, far from rendering them more sincere, it can only
encourage woman to be even more insincere in this respect. It is
actually a typical case of the demagogic and pernicious use which is
made of 'freedom' and of 'rights' in democracy. That 'right', that
umpteenth 'right' which was granted to German women in the 1950's was
not long to bear fruit : Germany has one of the highest percentage of
divorce in Europe, and the percentage of men beaten by their wife in
Germany is one of the highest in Western Europe!
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evola_as_he_is@yahoogroups.com, "vandermok" <vandermok@l...>
wrote:
>
> In <
evola_as_he_is@yahoogroups.com>
> darkiexx <tristanarpe@h...> wrote:
>
> > (...) Also, with regard to Nietzsche and aphorisms:
> Number 28: If a woman possesses manly virtues one should run away
from her; and if she does not possess them she runs way herself.
> Twilight of the Idols.
>
>
> I thank you, Redbeard Darkiexx, for helping me to lull the list by
the legends of the Red Man and the spectral White Lady (the battle
between the King of fire and the Quinn of water), but the sentence of
Nietzsche seems to me only an astute nonsense joke.
> I have to report you this sentence from a woman here beside me:
> "Of course males are the good and women are the evil ones, but now
teach the other evil 50% of the mankind how to be good by your
example".
> Messengers should neither be headed nor hanged.
>
> About the woman, Evola said in 'Metafisica del sesso':
>
> "Il disvalore è relativo, esso appare tale solo perché ci si è
assuefatti al punto di vista dell'uomo in una società androcratica"
> (The negative value is relative, it looks in this way only because
we got used to the view of the man in a androcratic society).
>
> Androcratic? Probably for that reason Evola let discreetly the
question mark at the end of the title 'Do we live in a gynaecocratic
society'.
>