Pathetic Conservatives

Pearl Davis smacked around tradcon Michael Knowles recently, brilliantly illustrating all the things that Dalrock explained 10 years ago:

tl;dr

Around here, we have old barns that sometimes don’t make it through the winter.

This is, on one hand, a tragic loss of tradition and beauty.

But, if you went into that barn, in the year before it collapsed, you would find that none of it was salvageable. The wood was rotten and crooked. Any concrete foundations were cracked and crumbling. The roof was crumbling (if asphalt) or rusting (if metal). Basically, it was the same as the barn on the right, that is still standing, for now. There was literally nothing to save, which is why the owner didn’t try to save it. If you tried to replace everything that needed replacing, you would literally be building a new barn. So, just let it collapse. Often, the way that a collapsed barn is disposed of is: lighting it on fire.

Marriage and family, before the recent collapse in marriage and childbearing rates, was like that barn the year before it collapsed. There was nothing of the old barn that was structurally sound. You couldn’t even get around to building a new barn, until the old one had collapsed.

Conservatives want the old barn, the one that was just about to fall apart.

You can build a new barn, much like the way that barn was built, when it was new, a hundred and fifty years ago.

For example, it was only a few years ago that about 92% of both White Men and Women eventually married. But, this was often a disaster.

Going forward, it might be a lot less than this. Maybe less than 50%.

But, let’s not be too picky. Let’s just apply some basic minimum standards. Let’s say that a man should not marry a woman who:

Is over 40.
Is a single mom (never married).
Is divorced.
Is a confirmed slut (let’s say, the worst 20%, which gives a lot of room for women who actually wanted a relationship but ended up in side chick rotation.)
Has a sexually transmitted disease.
Is a feminist nutjob; whines about “patriarchy,” claims that a stay-at-home wife is a “slave,” etc.
Has blue hair, excessive tattoos, snot rings, autistic, handicapped, diseases, alcoholic, drug addict, addicted to prescription brain meds, etc.
Is a lesbian, “polyamory” fan, extra good friends with her dog, pole dancer, OF girl, etc.

We will also say that: Ugly women should be left to equally ugly men. In other words, if you are not in the Bottom 40% of Ugly men, then forget about the Bottom 40% of Ugly women, which basically means: fatties.

Since about 25% of White women end up as unmarried Single Moms, and about 50% of the remainder (50% of 75% or 38%) as divorcees, that alone eliminates almost 50% of all women. 20% are sluts (lots of overlap here), about 25% have STDs, and about 25% are, let’s say, unrecoverable Leftist feminist freaks. Then, we drop the 40% of Fuglies. We didn’t even have a line for debt, which is certainly a big penalty. How is a man supposed to take on $100K of a woman’s debt?

This is not a very demanding set of standards. Much of it (single moms, divorcees) is right in line with Biblical guidelines. But, we can see that if we apply just a few basic screens, which I think we have to do, we quickly screen out 50% or more of single women.

I’ve said that we should aim for the Top 30% of women. Mostly, try to get them young, Age 16-18, which is what you have to do to marry around age 18-20, with the stragglers done by Age 25. We will have to provide a viable and actionable alternative to going to college, which means before Age 18. A lot of women are actually not too bad at this age. No debt. No tattoos. Many virgins. No single moms.

This is what a Marriage and Family strategy should look like.

Rather than focusing on all the not-so-good girls, we should focus on those girls that, I think, would be in the Top 30% or, at the very least, the Top 50% of women. There are actually a lot of them out there and they are not too bad.

I think this girl is pretty funny. She is very mopey and that is probably not someone you should get involved with. Nevertheless, I think her “I’m such a loser” routine is strangely attractive. It is the polar opposite of the posturing girlboss. I think she could make a good wife and mother, in a modest, middle-class sort of way. She passes all of our tests above. She could marry an auto mechanic, or a house painter, stay at home, learn to cook, and raise some decent children.

Then there is this woman, “Adrianne,” who seems very nice and available (although she says she has a boyfriend). She’s a strong 8/10 — maybe even a real-life 10/10 if you adjust for digital filters — and did some modeling when younger. She doesn’t like “TradWives” much, but since 90% of young women today have some Leftist-Feminist brainwashing, including regular churchgoers, this is something you would have to deal with.