Chateau Heartiste is mostly credited with popularizing the term “beta male” as a term of art to describe the over-class definition of masculine. I have no idea if it is true, but it seems right. The site is the Mecca and “game” theory, which is different than game theory. In that world, dividing the male population into betas and alphas is important so it makes sense they would be heavy on the use of the term. It does not matter much other than to point out that within the Resistance, there’s a strain of rebellion against the imposition of the Beta Male on American culture. The guys reading that site may not want to be hairy chested he-men, but they want to get laid and if that means being a little butch in public they will do it. A virtuous cycle that is under assault by the CML. The same people drugging little boys in school are peddling the pajama wearing queer in the health care ads.

The war is taking an odd turn this week. Mark Steyn takes on the hilarious story of the Duck Dynasty guy getting axed for being a public Christian. Steyn’s take is that it is a part of the stifling of non-leftist speech. He’s certainly right that the Left wants to stamp out religion, particularly Christianity. Liberalism in America is a lot like Islamic fanaticism. The reason is the the leading thinkers in Islam learned at the knee of Western leftists. The list of things that are unmentionable in public grows longer every day and most of Christianity is now on the list. I suspect we will look back in a few decades and wonder how an open Christian like George Bush won election. The day when that is a disqualification from office is at hand.

The hysterical reaction of National Review’s house gay, Jason Lee Steorts, shows there is another angle. The Duck Dynasty guys are emblematic of the traditional American male. That’s the guy who shaves because he has to, likes blowing things up and shooting guns. You see guys with big beards and bandanas and you assume they are not to be trifled with, unless you are a tough guy. Guys like Steorts hate these people because their mere existence puts the lie to effete culture. The Duck Dynasty guys are the ones who go out in the streets when there is trouble. Steorts stays in the salon and comforts the women. It is a lot easy to pretend your an alpha male if there are no alpha males around to prove otherwise.

I’m reminded by a story G. Gordon Liddy used to tell about one of his roommates at Fordham. The guy was French and it was just after WW2. Liddy, after getting to know him, asked how it was the Germans were able to march right through the French. His roommate replied that after the Great War, the French mothers prepared their sons  for peace, while German mothers prepared their sons for war. Perhaps humanity has advanced to the point where the Eloi can now enslave the Morlocks. Maybe we don’t need the Morlocks at all and we can regress to living like children in a land of plenty. If that’s true then the beta males will win. If not, then the serious looking men with beards will have the final word.

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