This is why it is better to empower men than to empower women.
empowering women was a strategic mistake because women, as a group, tend to prioritize individual benefit over collective or long-term social responsibility once empowered.
When women gain financial and legal independence, the incentive to cooperate with men in building families weakens, not strengthens.
A man with resources typically uses them to create and expand….a wife, children, a household, and eventually extended family. Women, once empowered, tend to consume and consolidate, focusing resources inward on personal comfort, lifestyle, and emotional satisfaction.
Every society that has maximally emancipated women has seen the same outcome:
Falling marriage rates
Declining birth rates
Population collapse
This isn’t coincidence…it’s pattern. Empowerment removed dependency without replacing it with obligation. Women were freed from men but not bound to society in return. The result is decision-making driven by short-term self-interest rather than continuity.
The issue isn’t that women can’t contribute….it’s that, when given unrestricted choice, they choose themselves first, even when that choice undermines family formation and demographic survival. Sexual liberation, economic independence, and state protection removed the cost of opting out, so many opted out.
Empowering women didn’t fail because men resisted it.
It failed because female decision-making, when unrestrained by family-centered incentives, does not prioritize societal survival.
Mike
