Our thanks to cp for this piece on “The MGTOW Solution” website. The text on the “About” section of the website:
“After several decades of experience with women, I came to realize that they are simply not worth the exorbitant cost. This “awakening” led to my embrace of freedom, as exemplified in this photo. It also led me to write “The MGTOW Solution”, available as a free download or at Amazon for Kindle users. [J4MB: The link is dead, but you can buy the Kindle ebook, The MGTOW Solution: Reclaiming your life, your happiness, and your freedom for £4.11 here. 79% of the reviews are five-star, 17% four-star. I’ve just added the book to our list of recommended books, the website to our list of recommended websites.]
My goal with this site is to help men understand that they are under no obligation to conform to society’s expectations, particularly the females/feminists who demand that you comply with their agenda. The solution is simple: Don’t. Nobody has the right to tell you how to live.
Being a man of a certain age, I have some hard-won knowledge to share. I’m one of those guys that was MGTOW before MGTOW was a thing. Upon discovering this community, my reaction was one of relief in learning that I’m not alone. The word is getting out now, and my intent is to help spread the message in my own way. For the New Guys, welcome! Your life is likely to improve dramatically by reclaiming your independence.”
Onto the originator of Briffault’s Law. Robert Briffault (1874-48) was a French surgeon who found fame as a social anthropologist and later in life as a novelist. The remainder of this post is the full text of the section on Briffault’s Law:
“Briffault is known for what is called Briffault’s law:
The female, not the male, determines all the conditions of the animal family. Where the female can derive no benefit from association with the male, no such association takes place. — Robert Briffault, The Mothers. Vol. I, p. 191
Briffault clarifies that this rule applies only to nonhuman animals, and not to humans: “There is, in fact, no analogy between the animal family and the patriarchal human family. The former is entirely the product of the female’s instincts, and she, not the male, is the head.” In the chapter where Briffault outlines his law, he applies it to tigers, elks, lions, zebras, gazelles, buffaloes, deer, monkeys, beavers, lions, birds and other animals, and only references humans briefly in order to contrast human behavioural patterns from those of animals:
“There is in fact no analogy between that [animal] group and the patriarchal human family; to equate the two is a proceeding for which there is no justification. [J4MB emphasis. I think we can agree to disagree with Briffault on this. The Mothers: A Study of the Origins of Sentiments and Institutions was published in 1927, 98 years ago, when divorce was harder to obtain, likewise custody of children for women. We need only consider that 75%+ of divorce applications are filed by wives, a far higher percentage when the couple has children. A Kindle edition of the book is here, it costs £6.88.]
The patriarchal family in the form in which it exists today is a juridic institution. Whatever external and superficial similarities there may be in the constitution of the human and of the animal family, there is one profound and fundamental difference. The patriarchal family is founded upon the supremacy of the male as ‘pater familias,’ as head of the family. This is not the case in the animal family. it is, on the contrary, entirely the product and manifestation of the female’s instincts; she, and not the male, is its head. We may occasionally find the male employed in foraging for the brood and for the mother, while the latter is lying quiescent in charge of her eggs or brood; but there is nothing in those appearances to justify us in regarding the animal family as patriarchal; on the contrary, the conduct of the group is entirely determined not by the male but by the female.”
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