Empowering women is important, but nothing can replace a real man

Despite the changing times, we are constantly reminded that men are custodians of a rogue power, which they are unable to contain.

Many books have been authored lecturing men on how to tame their sexual energies. No one would dare point out that there are as many nymphos whose urges overshoot those of men by a mile and yet yell about men being inadequate. The primary intention of such messages is to portray men as villains and women as saints.

A majority of readers are women and college students. Most men simply want to get work done and be able to put food on the table for their women and children. 

Because we live in a femicentric society, books and magazines that castigate men while soothing female egos are naturally more appealing. With that trend, from a retail sales perspective, the purchasing decision is automatically well-guided on the products to invest business money in.

On the home front, these are the same reading materials that our sons pick and read, increasingly shaping their opinions to favour our gynocentric ideals making many of them regret just how tragic it is to be born male.

Boys therefore view the world from a feminine lens and they slowly learn to hate being men while build tendencies that lean to femininity because they are encouraged that being female is the only right thing. In our days as children, we perused through remnants of the popular magazine ‘Weekly Review’ - a largely masculine read.

Today’s home bookshelves are a mix of feminine magazines such as Cosmopolitan, Love Happens, Vogue, Essence and many others that will never feature thoroughbred self-made men who beat all odds to become business and political leaders.

When the self-professed chairman of Men’s Conference Jackson Kibor recently died, we witnessed the end of an era of men who had the backbone to be who their Maker intended them to be. Funny enough, we wish our sons would miraculously shape up into such blokes.

Because we are known for collective actions, we are able to gang up against a product that does not meet our expectations and drive it off the market.

Men are aware that females outpace males by far in the global book reading arena and since everyone is looking for a broad base readership and viewership of content, they are safer appealing to women clientele than standing firm for anything in defence of the males.

Mainstream newspapers are made of hard content that is not fun and does not necessarily focus on gender wars, thus only 15 percent of women consume the content.

And, since we are raising boys hooked to fun magazines that only feature news about the success of women in academics, business, politics and on the domestic front as breadwinners of single-family units, we can almost confidently project that the papers will grind to a dead-end as soon as the boys transition to maturity.

No one will be interested anymore in articles done by Macharia Gaitho et al. Maybe the likes of Chris Hart will have to move to a completely unique platform to continue selling their articles on relationships because that is the prime message the modern generation wants to internalise so as to calculatedly manoeuvre how to outwit the other in the dating space and emerge unscathed.

Deloitte Global predicts that males in almost every country will continue to spend less time reading books, and read them less frequently, than females. Such powerful projections are what inform the kind of appeal writers would prefer going forward, in order to stay in business.

While we may be our own enemies in some subtle existential ways, we are largely wholeheartedly united where our rights are being infringed and we will stop at nothing to ensure that gynocentric trends fully permeate the male fabric and take pride at it.

But it is only after achieving that feat that we shall appreciate that no sex toy can replace a thoroughbred male.