Monday, September 15, 2014

Why I LOVE Rural Revolution


Waaaay back when I first started blogging one of the first blogs I hooked up with was Patrice's Rural Revolution. I think all the others from back then have come and gone but not her's.

Of course the very first thing that attracted me to her blog was Patrice's stance on Feminism. Back then to see a Woman write about the horrors and destruction Feminism has done and is doing was a very rare thing let me tell you. Since those days I have seen a few other talented Women speak out against Feminism but never in the style Patrice manages.

I would venture to say Patrice has done more good in striking a blow against Feminism than any other personality I know of. She does it well and she does it in a way only a Woman can. Patrice writes from a Woman's perspective and over the years I have watched as her talent, skills and experience brought in the followers like wildfire.

Not just the level headed true homestead types either. At first glance her blog appeals to all the dried up old feminist that grow three tomato plants and keep a chicken and want to float around on blogs discussing knick knacks and Wymminz issues. Not that Patrice ever stoops to such things but the fact that she is a Woman writer attracts those types (and some Beta Men who follow em for conversation and pandering as well)  like moths to a flame.

So Patrice writes about the cows getting out, canning or growing Strawberries in her raised bed, mucking out a stall or whatever and the Greenie, Bad Old Dayz, We are More equal Feminist types eat it up.

Then every couple of weeks or so Patrice drops the Blogging equivalent of an Anti-Feminist Atom Bomb on these unsuspecting shrews and the sparks fly.

Her recent WND article Feminism has Slain Our Protectors certainly didn't disappoint even though the good discussion was over on the WND site and not her own blog this time. However, if you go back and check her archives you can find many such anti-Feminist posts she has made and some quite lively and annoyed comments from disillusioned  readers who thought Patrice was goign to be the Estrogen Messiah come to save them all. They usually start off with the standard Feminist talking points about the Bad Old Days and how all Women were treated as cattle and enslaved for nothing more than a Man's will or some such gibberish. Then the long time readers and followers begin to slap em into place and you can just feel the wind leaving their sails as the replies dwindle.

Why some of the most memorable trolls I ever had here have come from arguments on Patrice's posts. There was the Greenie Puerto Riccan Woman who declared her wrought iron fence was carbon neutral and because it was pretty was more ecologically sound than saving grass clippings as mulch and decided I was Timothy McVeah reanimated. The Womynz Studies PHD who claimed Women were used as draft animals in the Middle Ages by the domineering Men who enslaved them. Or my personal favorite some guy who declared all Women should be revered for no other reason than one gave birth to you.

Sorry I don't think giving birth is a transferable commodity although I am certainly glad of one instance of it :)

I have to say reading one of Patrice's anti-Feminist posts is always the highlight of my day because I know the discussions are going to be good. Click on the WND link to her article and check it out if you don't believe me.

And Keep Prepping Everyone!!!




22 comments:

  1. She explained it better than either of us could have done, too bad she is right.

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  2. Did you see who was in Iowa over the weekend proclaiming "I'm Back"?? Good old Hillary.

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    1. I thought it was BJ who was taking up most of the spotlight?

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  3. Articles like Patrice's are one reason I don't comment/blog much - but I respect you so I feel I owe you my take. I AM a libtard - upbringing, class and my liberal arts degree. At school I met a lot of hard-core feminists who I argued against (i am quite the "liberal") as their position was extreme and a direct threat to me and to men. BUT I could respect their position and their arguments as they were clear and well-articulated.

    Has feminism altered our society too far in many ways? Absolutely! But that is what happens when a pendulum swings the other way. Say what you want about patriarchy and slavery today vs woman's and minority rights, the fact is, those institutions were real and not so long ago - a just society has to right it's wrongs and these things take time. White men today are in the unfortunate time zone of backlash - 200 years ago we acted out our will with near impunity. Blame it on history.

    What I CANNOT abide by is half baked drivel like Patrice’s - anti-feminist rhetoric that is more of an insult to me that the hard-core “feminazis”. I am NOT, by definition, a garbageman, nor do I exist to be "trained" the right way in order to do harm to another man because some self-proclaimed “real” woman thinks that is where I belong in society. I am my own man and I will be damned if someone tells me what I should be ,for “my own good” when it is really for hers.
    And that garbage about the Mongols is such white-trash drivel it barely deserves mention – Those poor white “civilzations” had just finished doing the same to the middles east – such hypocrisy!! The Mongols were and advanced nomadic tribe that schooled pompous inbred aristocrats big-time.

    I could write a book on how offensive her article was, I hope this is enough for you.

    If you think Kymber believes Partrice speaks for her, she is even more pissed than I.

    cheers buddy!

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    1. Jamby - Well I am afraid I cannot agree with your assessment of either Feminism or other Historical areas. The myth of the bad old days is nothing more than a fairy tale the Feminist and other liberals have been preaching for years now. It used to work for them, as you are showing but not so much anymore. As with the so called mistreatment of Women or minorities in the past or Europe trashing Mid East countries the problem is the same. It has never been a one way street. It has been back and forth since time began.

      Here's the rub though. Men in general and Europeans in particular rarely make the descendants pay for the crimes of their ancestors. Not so with the Liberals you claim to agree with today.

      And that is a big difference too.

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  4. PP - love you buddy! but here is the cmment i left at Harry's blog:

    "i actually took great offense to Patrice's article. i found it in very poor taste for her to say the we want men around to do the dirty work. provide for us, protect us and then take out the garbage. she actually said that we need men to do the hard jobs that women don't want to do, can't do or just won't do.

    i understand her points but it could have been written differently. i will gladly take out my garbage, i'll even take out yours! but i am glad to be in a respectful, and equal, partnership with a man. he will protect me as i will protect him. we will make bread together. he will lift the heavy things and i will lift the lighter things.

    he is an excellent provider and protector and i would never demean him by saying he takes out the garbage, is a volunteer fire-fighter, is very good at plumbing and wiring. if you re-read Patrice's article, you will see that she says just that.

    much love always to you and yours buddy! your friend,
    kymber

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  5. Rural Revolution..... the blog where Beta Men have been living vicariously though a woman for years!

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    1. +100 to anonymous! you nailed it buddy!

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    2. I think you are missing the point of the forest by focusing on a single tree here Kymber. Regardless of what an individual relationship consists of Patrice's point in my opinion was about social rules as a whole. Civilization will certainly pay if we continue to alienate Men with obvious bias towards Women. Are governments have made many illegal laws and regulations that are geared for nothing more than taking from Men and giving to Women yet the society still thinks it is it's right to enforce old school social norms on these same Men.

      It doesn't work that way.

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  6. I do love Rural Revolution, but Patrice seems to lack historical perspective. If you spend a little time delving into sources on the legal situation of women up to the 20th century, you cannot but conclude that feminism was crucial in bringing change to a godawful situation. Mind you, this is the story told by hard facts, by laws of the time.

    I am very grateful for feminism - which, as any ideology, has its weaknesses and room for improvement. I do not agree with all feminists either - but then every single ideology inluding every religion has its very own lunatic fringe.

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    1. On the contrary Patrice is spot on. The problem lies with your attempt to read more into things and judge by a different set of standards than those of the time, not to mention falling into the trap of expecting Men to be shackled under 19th century rules while you and other Women are not. On top of that you are completely ignoring out right favoritism and bias as well.

      My bet you will be grateful for Feminism until the day comes there is no longer a daddy state government to enforce it.

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  7. So I have deleted a few comments for the first time on my blog. I will not delete any comment that has a discussion or point even if I disagree with it but one line insults are not tolerated no matter what.

    Unless I make em :)

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    1. ya, but that's just because yer a good guy, one of our true men, and i thank you for deleting those one line insults.

      wait for later buddy. i gotta go make supper for my mine who is building a shed with a roof that is actually the cab for our truck - oh no worries - there will be pics! but some of your responses......*SS-KICKING BOOTS is all i can say. but i gotta feed my man. so your *ss-kicking will have to wait a bit.

      i love you, ya wiener - bahahahahahaha! (it never gets old!)

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    2. LOL the Boots are coming are they?

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  8. Patrice's Mongol example was pretty strange. The Mongols were extremely well trained by non-professional army standards. The clobbered the Europeans who went to face them because they had command-mobility on the battlefield. The individual German/Hungarian knight was generally a match of a Mongol horseman if they came to grips. The Mongols, like the Germans later, just made sure that didn't happen very often. If the Khan (Emperor) hadn't died, the history of Europe would have been very different.

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    1. Russ - The Mongol example should have come with a time and place stamp as it didn't apply to all of them and really doesn't fit well with today's ideas of PC. By the standards of the day it made sense I think but loses something now. As a general warning though it has merit for social awareness just maybe not any for the military minded.

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  9. I do agree with Patrice and I was a sort of Feminist even as at 12 years of age I was the first female to to play football in Idaho and the second to play little league baseball. I did not get any special considerations from the "the State" I simply could play the game or I would be benched. Sure a few times I was the focus of the opposing team as I was"just a girl" and after I knocked a few of those guys on their butts, I got treated with respect. Should a women have to prove she can play with the boys? I'd say yes, if everyone meets the same standard no matter if the job is traditionally male or female.
    I always found that most guys respected me as I did work harder to make up any lack of upper body strength and many worked with me on my running skills to get me up to an 8 minute mile required by airborne.

    Men and women are different and we tend to have skills that will work in harmony if we let them. Instead of picking some arbitrary valuation crap. kymber is great at cooking and preserving foods and Jambaloney is persistent at getting all vehicles working as well as carpentry. That makes you a team and not competitors. Guys tend to be good at some stuff, gals tend to be better at some stuff. Why is this a problem?

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    1. MASR - The problem I think stems mostly from those who feel the differences you point out should not also be limiting. No matter what to them Nature is unfair and everyone should pay to make square pegs fit in round holes.

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  10. Wow. I leave the blogosphere for a little while and your blog becomes a liberal rantfest. Nice! All I can say is...

    PATRICE FOR PRESIDENT!

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    1. OJD - Oh not a liberal rantfest just a bit left of our extreme right :)

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  11. Nicely done - also a Patrice fan and love to think of the AFAB (anti-feminist atom bomb) making people squirm.

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