http://www.the-spearhead.com/2010/02/09/feminism-and-the-prison-industrial-complex/
by Welmer
February 9, 2010
I was recently looking over US prison statistics, which demonstrate
that the United States imprisons more people by far in terms of both
percent of population and overall number than any other country in
the world. In fact, the United States may have the highest peacetime
incarceration rate in recorded history we are certainly somewhere
near the USSR at the height of the GULAG system (not counting post-war POWs).
While looking at graphs detailing the steep rise in incarceration
that began around 1980, it occurred to me that the implementation of
feminism and women's liberation coincided almost perfectly with the
rise in the incarceration rate. As single motherhood and
"innovations" in family law spread, the number of men in prison grew
at a fantastic rate. In the 1990s, Clinton's 1994 crime bill further
increased the growth of the prison industrial complex just as the
Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) took hold.
It often takes great effort and force to prop up an unnatural social
system. The reason the implementation of Communism was accompanied by
mass incarceration was that the Communist system wasn't the best fit
for the societies it enslaved. Likewise, although sexual liberation
and the destruction of families may come naturally to many possibly
most women on an individual basis, it doesn't really work in modern
human societies, and probably hasn't been adaptive since the end of
the middle paleolithic.
The decimation of American families began to gain steam during the
1960s, when the illegitimacy rate of black Americans rose rapidly,
foreshadowing the current explosion of white illegitimacy. This was
accompanied by a record crime rate in the 1970s. As social chaos
began to take hold and women marched in the streets for easy divorce
and abortion, conservatives' attention was largely focused on the
poor behavior of the young male cohort. As conservatives are wont to
do, they blamed men exclusively for the problem, possibly because of
their cherished fantasy that all women who have children out of
wedlock or who get divorced are innocent victims of rapacious men. In
reality, the boys who were out in the street misbehaving were, as
often as not, victims of their mothers' choices.
In addition to the criminality brought about by illegitimacy and
broken families, the economic issue of welfare came to be a major
point of political contention. As single mothers went on welfare en
masse, pressure built up to make fathers pay again, often for the
poor choices of women. Tougher laws were passed to rein in the social
chaos in inner cities and attempt to coerce young men into behaving
like Ward Cleaver even as their role as provider husband or father
had been subverted by revolutionary family law and feminist policies
in school and the workplace. Of course, it was impossible for many of
these young men to beat the odds stacked against them, so the
punitive option was brought to bear, and prisons across the country
received them with open arms.
An interesting thing about the meteoric rise in incarceration is that
it continued apace for over an entire generation. Starting around
1980, it continued to grow throughout the last Bush administration.
If you are a young man today, your chance of being thrown in the
slammer has grown tremendously from the day you were born. Even as
your real wages have declined, your educational opportunities eroded
by higher costs and female domination of higher education, and the
likelihood you will have a stable, lasting marriage and family has
largely evaporated, you now have a greater opportunity than ever to
live the life of a convict.
Feminist policy created a self-reinforcing loop of male
disenfranchisement, male crime, public outrage and calls for
punishment, incarceration, and then more disenfranchisement as
children grow up with daddy in jail or otherwise on the wrong side of
the law. There is nothing more responsible for the destruction of the
American family than feminism, and there is nothing that breeds crime
like broken families.
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