It is my position that Modern Feminism is an example of slave morality, and that as such can only serve to empower women in direct proportion to the amount of actual gender-based oppression they experience, and that in the absence of a strong, coherent and concrete male master class, the inherent re-sentiment of feminism is incapable of empowering anyone.

What I mean is that as a society approaches equality, the tools feminism provides for the empowerment of women become increasingly less useful and ineffective. I would argue that we have already reached and passed the point in history (at least in the West) at which feminisms diminishing returns become overwhelmed by the inherent limiting nature of slave morality.

Slave morality is fundamentally dis empowering because slave morality makes no allowances for the possibility of a person to act on their own agency and exercise their will to power. Slave morality, but its nature, must necessarily condemn agency and the will to power, as these are the hallmarks of the Master class, and the primary purpose of slave morality is to demonize the Master class.

Thus feminism has no concept of healthy masculinity, seeing masculinity as only a symptom of the Master and thus seeing all hallmarks of masculinity as oppressive. This is highly problematic, since traditional masculinity is a form of master morality intended to prepare boys for their potential roles as leaders of men.

Thus, traditional masculinity places extreme emphasis on personal responsibility for one's actions, honor as an assurance of good faith and trustworthiness, and stoicism in the face of hardship and pain. The man who whines constantly about his disadvantages, blames others for his failures, and insists on being rewarded and praised for existing is defined by traditional masculinity as a loser, as not really a man.

A generation of women who came of age in a time when legal and social barriers made it impossible for women to excel developed feminism as a critique and deconstruction of traditional masculine gender bias, and launched a widespread series of social changes that resulted in full legal equality for women. The generation that followed them was raised, male and female alike, with a belief in social equality.

Yet, women do not yet posses equality of outcomes with men. Men are still more likely to hold political power and economic power. Why is this? My suggestion is that it is due largely to feminism, which has failed to adjust its central premises in the face of the end of institutional inequality.

Why are there fewer women in political office than men? Recent studies have shown little evidence of gender bias amongst voters, and the problem seems to largely come down to one single factor: Women just don't run for office very often. In fact, if women had won every single race they participated in during the 2012 elections (which they very nearly did), the make-up of the government would still have been overwhelmingly male.

The traditional feminism response is to seek out blame and find an oppressive force working against women, except there isn't anything there to find. What's lacking is encouragement to women to seek power. Something which, not surprisingly, is fundamentally at odds with the worldviews that feminism derives from, in which seeking power is Master morality and inherently anti-feminist.

Thus, strangely, we see some unusual trends in society. For example, Republican women candidates are, according to surveys, seen as more competent and more qualified as leaders than Democratic women. I would suggest this is due to the fact that Republican women tend to reject the Woman As Victim, Male As Victimizer model of feminism, and instead see themselves as true equals of men -- every bit as capable of acting on their ambitions and pursuing their will to power as men are. Meanwhile, Democratic women are more likely to embrace feminism and portray women as victims of society, which in turn makes them seem less powerful (as powerful people do not see themselves as victims).

Thus it is my position that modern women, faced with the reality of political and social equality, will never gain equality of outcomes unless they abandon feminism. So long as they rail against an oppressive state that no longer exists, they cannot truly empower women. Instead, they can only turn their energies towards more and more frivilous and meaningless displays of "oppression."

This is most vividly seen in the blogs of "Tumblr feminists" -- young women who, rather than embracing the tremendous freedoms they have and seeking to make meaningful careers for themselves, instead assign themselves to perpetual victim-hood. They make charting their own victimization, mapping the intersections of their oppression, their primary hobby. Rather than empower themselves, they scream at the world "Why won't you empower me!!!"

And no wonder, when the philosophy they embrace defines being a victim as the highest good. People seek to be good, and if you teach them that being good is being a victim, they will devote their energies not to improving their own standing and achieving their dreams, but rather to proving that they are, in fact, a victim. This leads only to "oppression Olympics," where different historical out-groups fight amongst themselves over who is the most oppressed, and meanwhile the straight, white men they vilify continue to run the world -- because those straight, white men are the only ones actually expressing any interest in running it.

The modern feminist engages constantly in pointless, aggravating and irritating actions that only serve to make feminism increasingly irrelevant. Examples would include silly, incomprehensible and pointless forms of protest such as "Slut Walks," censorship campaigns to ban Robin Thicke's "Blurred Lines" (a song that literally has nothing to do with rape), and idiotic complaints about Barbie.

I don't expect this to change any time soon, nor do I expect women to make any significant advances as a class, until the slave-morality of feminism is set aside and a new philosophy, a philosophy of the Uberfrau, develops to take its place.