The Simp Society

Woke may be in retreat, but ‘Girl Power’ is here to stay

Last month, I wrote about how conservatives offer completely different advice to young men and young women. Conservatives tell young men to not go to college, move far from the cities, and embrace menial labor. They advocate downward mobility for men. To young women, they advocate upward mobility and urge them to “follow their dreams.” There are no angry denunciations of young girls for having expectations of a nice, middle-class lifestyle. Conservatives fully support the aspirations of their little princesses. Meanwhile, a guy wondering why he can’t get a good job with a college degree will send older conservatives into rage. Young men don’t deserve these jobs–but young women do.

Two viral posts last week illustrated this profound difference. A “ruralite” account advised men to move to Peru, Illinois, work at a nail factory, and watch barges go by as their sole form of entertainment. Many conservatives endorsed this as great advice., Megyn Kelly offered the ultimate example of conservative advice to young women. In an X post, she declared: “Ladies, it is possible to make your own money, have your own career, pay for your own swanky nyc apartment (etc), AND find a man who loves you, wants to have & raise kids w/you & wants to be w/you and only you. The only thing stopping you? Your decision to settle for less.” Many conservatives loved her statement. But you changed the gender here, it would’ve been greeted with furious denunciations.

This attitude is a reflection of our “simp society.” For older readers, simp stands for “suckas idolizing mediocre pussy.” It’s commonly used to mock guys who overtly praise or defend women on the internet. It suitably describes our present social mores. Our nation increasingly prioritizes the needs and interests of women above all else. Women hold an increasing amount of power in America and set most cultural trends. Women are the majority of college graduates and, in certain areas, increasingly make more money than men. Society reacts to these developments through simping, which combines a terrible mixture of traditional notions about women (such as that they are pure, innocent beings) with girl power sloganeering. Male authority and respect, in turn, is diminished. Young men, once the core part of our society, almost seem superfluous as they become an object of derision to women and older men.

One got this feeling watching Super Bowl ads. Even though it is a very male-coded event, several of the commercials seemingly operated on the principle that women are the only consumer demographic that matters. There was an endless stream of ads about female empowerment and how companies really care about their concerns. One ad did elicit conservative outrage, even though conservatives would otherwise support its message. The NFL put out an ad to highlight its female flag football league. In the commercial, a female athlete easily bests male jocks to prove girls are just as good at football as the guys. It’s odd for a league that’s entirely male to promote such a falsehood. If girls were just as good at football as the guys, you’d expect there would be at least one woman player in the NFL. There isn’t.

Critics felt the ad was far too woke for the Trump era. Many tweeted that this message was “rejected at the ballot box.” But this is mistaken. America certainly rebuked wokeness in the last election, especially in terms of gender ideology and DEI. However, the country did not reject girl power in the last election. This element has grown stronger while woke recedes. The Super Bowl ads testified to that.

Despite the outrage over the NFL ad, conservatives are just as complicit in fostering girl power as anyone else. They are now big proponents of women’s sports, albeit primarily to use as an issue against the trans agenda. Just a few days before the Super Bowl, conservatives were fawning over an ad defending girls’ sports from transgender intrusions. If the flag football ad put the male athletes in dresses, the Right would’ve thought it was the greatest commercial ever.

Everyone knows the Left is feminist. Liberal worship of girl power is nothing new and would not be enough to make America a simp society. What makes us that way is the Right’s embrace of girl power.

In the span of a decade, conservatives went from Title IX critics to Title IX defenders. The Right once saw Title IX as a product of feminism gone wild. Conservatives, accurately, claimed it discriminated against male athletes and was weaponized by the Obama administration to persecute college students falsely accused of sexual assault. Now “Defend Title IX” is a conservative slogan. There’s an understandable reason for this change: it’s a wedge issue to use against the trans agenda. Conservatives convince ordinary Americans to sour on woke by saying it threatens girls sports. There has been some success with this angle. However, it comes at the price of conservatives now endorsing one of the worst examples of the civil rights regime and embracing quasi-feminism. Additionally, conservatives now genuinely follow women’s basketball, due in part to Caitlin Clark. While Clark is an interesting cultural phenomenon, conservatives cheering on women’s basketball isn’t quite the rebuke to woke one might think. Conservatives of another generation would’ve taken that as a sign of defeat.

The simp society doesn’t view women as being just like men, despite all the girl power talk. It’s still infused with traditional notions of womanhood. It imagines they need protection from possible dangers and they deserve certain privileges based on that factor. These ideas, to be properly upheld, depend on male authority. As part of their leading role in society, men would treat women by a different set of standards as women operated in a different sphere with different responsibilities. But now with male authority in decline and women assuming the same responsibilities, we still operate on two different standards. We claim women are fully equal, but then insist they have no agency when things go wrong.

Liberals adopted this attitude toward the campus rape hysteria of the 2010s. Women who consented to sex but later regretted it were told they were not responsible for their actions. It was all the man’s fault, so they should accuse him of rape. This led to the ruin of many innocent men’s lives. Conservatives uphold this attitude towards abortion. They insist the women who get abortion are blameless–it’s all the men’s fault. One pro-life leader recently said legalized abortion is “100%” the fault of men. “It’s a tool they use to cover up their crimes or neglect women & children they should take care of or have convinced some women they need in order to be ‘equal’ to them in the workplace,” exhorted Students for Life 39-year-old president Kristan Hawkins. She ended her post by emphasizing how her husband knows his place. This simp attitude is why Pro-Life Inc. was furious when Trump suggested in 2016 that women who get abortions may face criminal penalties. Only the (presumably male) doctors should be punished if abortion is illegal. This makes as much sense as not punishing a woman who hires a hitman to kill her husband. Such are the wages of simping.

This mindset hit a low point in the debate over OnlyFans “star” Lily Phillips. Phillips gained notoriety for sleeping with over 100 men in 24 hours last December. This woman willfully chose to do this disgusting act for money. But some conservatives, incapable of believing any woman is responsible for her behavior, declared her the victim and demanded the men involved be arrested. National Review sympathized with the OnlyFans entrepreneur and pointed the finger at men.

OnlyFans itself is a thing thanks to simp society. Women can now earn insane amounts of money by titillating men through the app. The subscribers are simps, as are those who blame the subscribers for the performer’s actions. It’s a vicious cycle.

Political discourse operates on these double standards towards men and women. If men cry and get emotional in a debate, we all rightfully mock him. But if women do it, it becomes the most powerful argument in our society, as Richard Hanania pointed out before he went FULL Bud Light. If a woman is crying and screaming at you, you have little recourse. You can’t use force to stop it as that’s a major taboo. The target of this attack can only take it in silence, or attempt to soothe the sobbing woman. Whatever happens, society will take the side of the crying woman. Bystanders to such a conversation will immediately favor the female as we’re enculturated to find this tactic a captivating argument.

Women’s tears rely on simping to be effective.

One could go on and on about the feminization of society and the accompanying simping. From how workplaces are now structured to favor women to the pedestaling of clown show politicians like Nancy Mace, girl power is in your face 24/7. Conservatives, liberals, and many others are complicit in it. Its fortunes aren’t tied to wokeness. We can get rid of DEI and gender pronouns and men will still lose their jobs over awkward greetings to their female co-workers.

The answer to the cringiness of the simp society is to restore male authority to its proper place. Otherwise, we’re going to suffer through a lot more terrible Super Bowl ads, paeans to women having it all, and young men becoming superfluous. America shouldn’t settle for that.