The Dying Art of Femininity

By Henry Makow, Ph.D. (originally posted in Oct. 2005, updated)

Lisa writes: Thank you for having the Fascinating Womanhood article on your site. You have NO idea how it has blessed me or my family. Your article saved my marriage and my life as well. I am now taking a class with other women to improve upon what needs work. Please if you think about it, re-run the article again. We ladies need this in our lives as we are drowning for attention and look for it where it is not found.

“Femininity is a gentle tender quality found in a woman’s appearance, manner and nature. A feminine woman gives the impression of softness and delicateness. She has a spirit of sweet submission, and a dependency upon men for their care and protection. Nothing about her appears masculine, no male aggressiveness, competence, efficiency, fearlessness, strength, or the ability to kill her own snakes.” (247)

Helen Andelin’s Fascinating Womanhood (1963) is subversive to the New World Order because it upholds the inherent difference between the sexes and the basic laws governing marriage.

Such a book would never be published today. It is only available because it appeared 48 years ago and sold more than 2 million copies.

If you have any doubt about your sexual identity, I recommend Fascinating Womanhood. It is pertinent for men as well as women. I also recommend Andelin’s Fascinating Girl for single women and her husband’s Man of Steel and Velvet for men.

I’m not saying you should treat this model as gospel or that it’s for everyone. For eg. Andelin implies women should reward men with sex. That seems dated and I told her so. My comment was met with a frosty silence!

Nevertheless, the book represents a timeless heterosexual paradigm that works. Every couple is different. Choose what is relevant to you and chuck the rest.

Femininity and masculinity are an art like playing the piano. They must be learned. We have to know the basics before we can improvise.

People are very malleable. Society is the target of a long-term hate campaign designed to degrade and discredit heterosexuality. Domestic violence and rape are highlighted to make women fear men, reject femininity and become masculine. The destruction of the family has always been the goal of the financial elite in order to control people. (See “The Illuminati Program”) I will elaborate below.

THE BASICS OF FEMININITY

Andelin, who died in 2009, says a woman’s happiness depends on her husband’s lifelong devotion and love. This book teaches women how to be attractive to men, how to be feminine.

Andelin writes that women don’t have to be beautiful to be feminine. “Acquire a feminine manner by accentuating the differences between yourself and men, not the similarities. Since the masculine manner is strong firm and heavy, yours should be gentle, delicate and light. Apply this in the way you walk, talk, use your hands and carry yourself.” (256)

I can still remember how a girl I knew closed a kitchen cupboard with a motion of her hips. This happened 41 years ago when I was 20!

When Andelin writes that a feminine woman is never “crude, vulgar, harsh, overbearing or critical,” it is apparent that the fair sex is being deliberately degraded and neutered by the media. “All your conversation should reflect tenderness, patience, forgiveness, tolerance and love.”

A wife’s first priority is her husband and then her children. Thus a single woman will consecrate herself for her future husband and children as much as possible. She will not be promiscuous.

Wives tend to put career, friends, parents, success and appearance before their husbands. “If you are a successful career woman, keep your priorities straight,” Andelin writes. “Let your husband know by words and actions that he is number one.” (95)

The woman’s primary role is to be wife, mother and homemaker. The man’s role is to be guide, protector and provider. This doesn’t mean women can’t have careers or men can’t cook or change a diaper.

A man needs to feel that he is needed, and that he excels his woman in his role. If she becomes independent, he may question his purpose and his feelings for her “since his romantic feelings partly arise from her need to be protected, sheltered and cared for.” (102)

A woman should accept her husband at face-value and not try to change him. His pride and freedom are inviolable. She should focus on his good qualities and he will improve naturally in response to her.

Reactions to Andelin are either very positive or very negative. One minister wrote on Amazon:” I have given approximately 250 copies of this book to women I have counseled in the past 5 years. In this period of time, I have yet to see ANY of them NOT improve their marriage by working on what they bring to the marriage, as an individual and to the whole.”

Many women find the book outdated and laughable. One contentious point is that Andelin advises wives to adopt a childlike petulance when upset with their husband. A lot of women find this demeaning. But in practice, most men will respond positively when their authority is not directly challenged.

Andelin may be outdated at times but she has the basic principles right; it’s up to us to adapt them.

Beautiful women are a dime a dozen but feminine women are rare. The world suffers the loss of feminine spiritual qualities: trust, modesty, grace, innocence, serenity, tenderness, patience and love. This is behind the male obsession with pornographic sex. Men unconsciously seek femininity and love to balance them. The restless masculine spirit seeks a calm harbor.

THE MONSTROUS HOAX

Men and women are the victims of a cruel hoax. They are taught that sexual differences are “socially conditioned.” Ironically this lie is the actual “social conditioning”. Sexual differences are inborn. For example, males have ten times the level of testosterone as women, and this determines their willingness to take risks, etc. Sex roles express natural differences and form the spice of life.

Feminism’s Marxist principles of “equality” do not apply to loving heterosexual relationships and are in fact toxic. As I often say, heterosexual marriage is based on the exchange of female worldly power for male love. Equal power neuters both sexes.

Our leaders are accomplices to this monstrous hoax. Behind them are the private central bankers who print our currency in the form of a debt to them. They need a world government so no country can default on it. They need a dictatorship so the people cannot end this scam. They need to stunt our natural development by fostering gender confusion so we can be controlled.

The elitists present women’s liberation as if a cherished housewife were the same as a concentration camp inmate. They present this vicious psychological assault as “progress,” when in fact it is subversion on a grand scale.

Ladies, where do you think feminism came from? It was organized by the US Communist Party, the CIA and the elite media, all instruments of the central bankers. It is funded by the Rockefeller Foundation.

This weekend yet another movie opens about a woman who is a violent killer. “Domino” is the story of a female bounty hunter. The real-life inspiration for this story Domino Harvey died recently of a drug overdose or murder. No wonder young women are confused! Where do they see wives and mothers presented in a positive light? Women are always harried, arguing with men and running off to work.

I get email from feminists who say my articles are “hurtful.” It’s eerie how they all use that word and repeat the party line. I think it’s “hurtful” that the super rich want to take the place of God and nature and enslave humanity. But these feminists don’t get it. They don’t get “A”‘s for connecting feminism with the Rockefellers, Sept. 11 and Iraq, i.e. NWO Central Banker Dictatorship.

Feminism is designed to make women feel unworthy for devoting their lives to the people they love. It forces them out of the house where their employers can control them. It forces infants into joyless day cares subject to conditioning and who-knows-what-else .

I would never stand between anyone and their idea of fulfillment. But ladies, don’t be so gullible! You’re being defrauded of a lifetime of love. Have your careers later but don’t forfeit your femininity and your chance to have a family.

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Two Great Books on Biological Gender Differences