Where Are The Amazonians?

Why did Second-Wave Feminism make bees and not wasps? Bras were supposed to be extinct by now, but, far from living a less-restrained life, many self-avowed Feminists happily affixed surgical masks to their children’s faces because the BBC said so.

Where is the warrior spirit?

Your Big Daddy Doesn't Care

Millennial Feminists became Arch-Safetyists.1 For these women, there can never be enough rules from on high. Armchair anthropologists have a good idea of the underlying motivation. Our tried-and-trusted ways are falling apart, and the fairer sex feels threatened in a way men don’t. It all goes back to the time of mud-huts and mushroom-gathering. Women relied on their tribes. The tribe needed to be stable. Child-rearing is a vulnerable time, and a mother needs guarding. In summary, the instinct for communal safety lies deep within the female psychê.

The thing is, you might feel vulnerable, but your beloved government will not bail you out. That’s a psych-op. The so-called ‘Liberal’ women of the 21st century— better called ‘illiberal’— need to realize that Big Daddy will let them go hungry or be raped without a sliver of sympathy. To paraphrase Benjamin Franklin’s famous quote:

Women who would give up liberty for a little temporary safety, deserve neither.

As for menfolk, most are as useful as tits on a bull.

You need a face-slap. From another woman.

The Return of the Amazons

Strong, talented women need to organize themselves into women-only clubs where they...

I proffer: The Amazonians.

Y.W.A.C.A.

Does it sound like a kind of Girl Scouts for atheist lesbians? I hope not. It shouldn’t be a man-hater’s club. The original Amazons weren’t. The misbelief stems from bad translation. Homer called them ‘antianeiras’, which means not ‘anti-men’, but rather ‘equal-to-men’. True, in the language of the Amazons’ homeland, Scythia,3 their name was literally ‘man-slayers’, Oiorpata.4 The name is to be understood with a smile. It meant: “You think you’re tough? These bitches will rub you out.”5 Speaking of Homer, a quick dive into the historical background of the Amazons will be apt.

Tough times make strong women

The first mention of the Amazons was in Homer’s Iliad. Homer was writing in a Dark Age, c.750 BC. By this time, all the empires of his story had crumbled. Life was harder but freeer. The Amazons were one of many groups which stood up for themselves. They céperunt diem.6 Skill met a chance to prove skill. My guess is that those half-topless, Scythian archers on horseback7 weren’t just an ethnic group; they were more like the French Foreign Legion; young women in a spot of bother could seek them out and join. At any rate, this wouldn’t be the first time that the Amazons got revived. I was surprised at the number of times, while researching this post. The notion is hence much more than an ethnic group.

We are heading into one of those cyclic Dark Ages. It seems a little early to be worrying about finding food in some abandoned gardens, but better too early than too late. When the police won’t help unless you have half a bitcoin, you will be glad of The Amazonians’ existence.

Politics

The kiss of death would be making these groups too political. It doesn’t matter whether you’re Team Blue or Team Red. It’s time for oneship, not schism. Anyway, that kind of political tribalism just shows you’ve been duped.

The Amazonians would be political in the sense that it begins with a kind of anarchist insight. It begins with the insight that governments are part of the problem, not the solution. One need not be an Anarchist. One might favor governments in theory, but grasp that we are living in an era of officialdom so useless that some kind of anarchic means is welcome.

A grubby motivation

Judge a tree by its fruit. I can’t avoid bumping into the conclusion that the Gloria-Steinem-type of Feminism in the 1960s was, ultimately, to get women in the workplace, and so to get lower wages for everyone. Grand philosophical movements are often launched for grubby motives.8

Part of the reason I suggest The Amazonians, is that I want the core philosophy of Second Wave Feminism to be done right this time. The corporate workplace is Hell for the female psyché. Women need playful ways to get meaning in their lives. Sword-fighting, wrestling, learning how not to be found…

Peaceful by default

‘Learning how not to be found’? Just to be clear, I’m not floating the notion of a new militia. My idea is not like in some Tarentino movie. If you only knew me! I don’t even watch UFC. These Amazonians should be peace-loving. Just don’t pick a fight with one.

See inspiring picture below! [PG-Rated]





a small group of half-naked, ancient Amazon warriors stand in a field, one with a drawn sword and looking ready to fight the viewer

  1. As did Boomers. Gen-Xers too, but less in my experience, since their ‘latch-key’ upbringing made them instinctively back themselves. (Return)
  2. I think this is important for a happy and disciplined group; especially for women, for whom body negativity is a big source of self-limiting behavior. I was particularly inspired by this picture. (Return)
  3. In modern-day eastern Turkey. (Return)
  4. Quoted by Herodotus. The Scythian language is in the Eastern-Iranic family (so, Indo-European), and its living descendent is Ossetian, spoken in north-central Georgia. (Return)
  5. Aeschylus, the playwright, leans into the ‘man-hating’ idea. He writes in Prometheus Unbound: “thou presently shall reach the Amazonian hosts that loathe the male...” This can be explained by the fact that Aeschylus was pleasing an urban audience with very conservative ideas about gender roles; the Amazons’ choice needed to be framed as a perverse attitude. (Return)
  6. ‘grasped the day’. Also, the Latin of the webpage's description, diem obscurum capient, means ‘they will be grasping the dark day.’ (Return)
  7. They were usually painted as having one breast exposed. My guess is that their standard dress was topless, but they needed to cover the closest breast to the bow-holding arm for the good reason that the bow-string would often hit this breast on its way through. It was hence a kind of gauntlet for the breast. By the way, the legend that they had one breast removed to be better archers is ridiculous— pre-antibiotics, this would have brought with it a high risk of death. (Return)
  8. I want to make clear that, despite my appraisal of Second-Wave Feminism, I agree there was a big problem of boredom and frustration for women at the time. (Return)

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