Iben Thranholm: European Men Need to Return to Male Hero Virtues

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The difference between the Western World of today and that of previous generations is all too obvious for those with any eye to see. The family unit in particular has been hit hard, and along with it the role that the male plays within both the family unit and society as a whole.

The Western male’s position has been greatly undermined by the increasingly intrusive influence of modern liberal values in general, and specifically by modern feminism. The result of this has been a marked reduction of the masculine aspect of Western civilization, and a subsequent feminization of the culture. This weakness has also very much reached the ranks of leadership in the West, although much of what is occurring in that sphere is also due to Judaic corruption – either directly or indirectly.

Regardless, these developments have led to an entire horde of entitled, parasitic aliens quite rightly seeing much weakness in the males of the West and in Western leadership.

Iben Thranholm’s interview on RT’s In the Now segment

In a recent interview on Russia Today’s In the Now segment (on or about 24 January 2016), host Anissa Naouai interviewed Iben Thranholm, a female Danish journalist, on the topic of the feminization of the European male, especially as it relates to the recent explosion of Muslim sexual violence throughout Europe during the New Years Eve Taharrush attacks.

In this article we provide an overview of the interview in addition to some interesting quotes by Iben Thranholm.

At the end of this article we provide a full transcript of the interview for the purpose of documentation and to allow readers to copy and paste segments of it should they wish.

A featured YouTube video of the interview itself follows the transcript.

Overview of the interview

The tone for the discourse of the entire interview is quite literally set in the opening statements by both the host and Iben Thranholm herself, and is a head-on collision between the naive stupidity of modern liberal humanistic ideals and the cold hard facts of reality.

The predictable result then occurs, with the weaker of the two ending up splattered like a bug on a windshield.

“Men in minis,” the host Anissa Naouai begins. “This was the reaction by some Dutch protesters to recent mass sexual attacks in Germany – taking a stand in skirts . . .”

Accompanied by this opening statement is the surreal, grotesque footage of Dutch men taking to the streets to protest the New Years Eve sexual attacks clad in miniskirts and holding banners, with one of the banners reading: Sexual abuse is not a women problem.

“. . . what message will this send to the men who attacked?” Naouai then addresses to Thranholm.

“Well, when we see this video, it’s exactly the core problem.” Thranholm begins. “Men in Europe are – many men – are acting like women, and those men from those foreign countries, asylum seekers, they don’t respect women. So when men act like women . . . this is a big problem.”

Clearly a conservative thinker, Iben Thranholm goes on to talk of a need for a “male revolution”, and a return to “male hero virtues” during the interview, stating that the masculine essence of European society has been eroded, leaving the structure of society dangerously unbalanced.

She goes on to discuss how many men at all levels of European society, including those in leadership positions, have become feminized to the point of impotence, as underscored by the EU’s inability to deal with the manifold problems that “refugees” are causing on the continent.

She states that the liberal humanistic paradigm has proven to be a total failure, and that history teaches us the importance of fighting back when called to do so, rather than adopting the mindless impotence and passivity that liberal principles would demand.

The host Anissa Naouai clearly takes up the mantle for the liberal point of view, interrupting Thranholm on many occasions, and attempting to thrust and parry aside Thranholm’s logical train of discourse regarding strong male leadership with patently absurd statements on occasion.

At one point for instance, in bizarre fashion she decries Thranholm’s call for strong male virtues by almost demanding that: “The mass rape . . .The violence shouldn’t be happening in the first place.”

But it is happening.

On a second occasion she voices the same sentiment by asking: “Should they [European women] have to protect themselves against mass rape on the streets of their country, of their home?”

During the interview, the host indirectly admits failure on the part of the soft feminized model of Western male leadership in keeping Europeans safe, but simultaneously contradicts this sentiment by stating that strong male leadership will only act as a catalyst for further violence and even war.

So the liberal discourse here is all over the place.

By the end of the interview, the host’s leftist narrative has become a flaming train wreck, every bit a failure as the cross-dressing Dutch warriors at the start of the segment, and only serves to highlight in even sharper relief the inherent contradictions and total failure of the liberal experiment in the West.

With many men and women now seeing the failings of modern feminist dogma, it would be interesting to see what would happen should more dialogue such as Thranholm’s enter the public arena. With the alternative media continuing to grow, and people continuing to turn away from the mainstream media in droves, this is not an unrealistic proposition.

The post-modern project may be dead, but its carcass will continue to be held up as a model for society for as long as the thing can be milked.

The biology and innate primal drives of the European male, on the other hand, are not dead.

As the Finnish pan-European nationalist Kai Murros has stated:

Europeans have been persuaded to commit an ethnic suicide . . . But, as our situation deteriorates, the harsh realities of life will force the European people to open their eyes . . . and as [their] desperation and anger grows, the old instincts start working again. We are biological beings after all, and we have the will to survive, the need to protect our offspring, and the urge to defend our territory still intact. They cannot cannot erase all of these things from our genetic makeup. You can fight nature only so far, but once you have crossed the line, nature strikes back.”

The collective beast of the Europeans will take over and replace the soft, polite, liberal and civilized superego. It is clear that when the beast takes over, tolerance and moderation step aside.”

This is when the tribulations will really begin – when further laws are enacted, and uniforms, batons, tear gas, and guns will be implemented.

Interview quotes by Iben Thranholm

On a return to male hero virtues:

Men need to take responsibility to go back to the old male virtues, to defend the women, the children, and the culture.”

We need a sort of male revolution. And it’s just as important as the struggle for women’s rights back in the 60s.”

The vacuum that feminism has created means that women are becoming victims of those [Muslim] male aggressions.”

And now I know from people living in Germany that many women are scared to go out in the street at night, and we don’t want a society like that. So men need to muster up and go back to the old virtues – to protect people.”

On the need to fight back:

Back in time in history, you have to fight back, I mean it’s just reality.”

On the failure of liberal humanism:

Secular humanism is just an illusion, because it doesn’t work.”

We see how the post-modern values are just a construction and it’s very fragile fundament.”

This post-modern project is dead – it doesn’t work. And if we continue to be, like, soft and we have this idea that there is no evil, everybody is nice, if they just get a car and a job, and they get well-integrated, everything is fine – it’s not going to work.”

And we need to look at reality; this is the reality. They [Muslims] don’t respect women; they look at women as weak. And when the politicians are trying to be inclusive and all-embracing, for them it’s just weakness, and we have to deal with that – it’s weakness.”

The interview

(On or about 24 January 2016)

Anissa Naouai:

Men in minis. This was the reaction by some Dutch protesters to recent mass sexual attacks in Germany – taking a stand in skirts.

[Footage of men walking in miniskirts holding banners is shown]

But will it solve the problem? Joining me In The Now is Iben Thranholm, a journalist who was an editor and a radio host at the Danish Broadcasting Company. She’s with us from Copenhagen. Iben, I guess the message about women, “they are not the problem” [the message displayed on the banners of the miniskirt-clad men], what message will this send to the men who attacked?

Iben Thranholm:

Well, when we see this video, it’s exactly the core problem. Men in Europe are – many men – are acting like women, and those men from those foreign countries, asylum seekers, they don’t respect women. So when men act like women, I mean we do have a problem because we have no masculine power in our society to fight back this aggressive male aggressive culture, and this is a big problem because it – [gets cut off by host]

Anissa Naouai:

But I mean this clip that we’ve shown, to be clear, was in Holland, it was a small, relatively small protest. This doesn’t necessarily represent all of European men.

Iben Thranholm:

Well, I think if you look at our politicians, they’re very soft. They’re like mothers. I mean, they’re embracing, they’re inclusive, and they talk about how we should embrace refugees. Of course we should help people that are in need. But, I mean they can’t deal with the rapings, they can’t deal with terrorism, so I mean European politicians look very weak, and that’s because our culture has become feminized. This militant feminism that has been going on for decades; now we see the consequences that many men here are brought up to be women and think like women, and be soft-minded. I mean our – [gets cut off by host]

Anissa Naouai:

But that is, that is what Europe is about. That is part of European qualities that the European Union promotes – it talks about promoting at least – all the time, and these refugees are coming to Europe. Shouldn’t they adapt to that?

Iben Thranholm:

Well, I think that was not what Europe used to be. I mean, normally we have had, like, male hero virtues, and you know a culture needs to be balanced. It’s fine that we have women’s rights, and I really defend them. But I think a culture to be balanced, and to work out well, you need to have both the masculine part and the feminine part. And now the masculine part is lost, and we see the consequences; we see how the post-modern values are just a construction and it’s very fragile fundament. And now we see that you don’t have any male that can stand up, who can fight, who can fight back those males aggressions that we are facing. So the vacuum that feminism has created means that women are becoming victims of those male aggressions.

Anissa Naouai:

One could argue though that fighting, or standing up, or being strong isn’t exactly going to solve problems. A lot would argue that strong male, like you say, leaders, might be more inclined to start wars – to fight, to build conflict.

Iben Thranholm:

Yes. I see, I get your point, but the problem is that we see those physical attacks – violence – that is coming into our society. So, I mean, like back in time in history, you have to fight back, I mean it’s just reality. Maybe this secular humanism is just an illusion, because it doesn’t work. I mean, we see that women are threatened in many centres for people that come as refugees. We have violence against Christians, rapings, I mean, and our politicians don’t know how to deal with it. You see that the terrorist has the upper hand. I mean, our leaders cannot protect our culture because they don’t know how to be masculine, they don’t know how to fight back, because they don’t dare to, and I think it’s a huge problem. So we need a sort of male revolution. And it’s just as important as the struggle for women’s rights back in the 60s – [gets cut off by host]

Anissa Naouai:

What does that – what does that exactly mean: “a male revolution”? We need to fight, you think, for male rights in Europe?

Iben Thranholm:

You know, it’s very simple. It means that men need to take responsibility to go back to the old male virtues, to defend the women, the children, and the culture, because now, I mean because this post-modern project is dead – it doesn’t work. And if we continue to be, like, soft and we have this idea that there is no evil, everybody is nice, if they just get a car and a job, and they get well-integrated, everything is fine – it’s not going to work. So if you don’t stand up for our values – [gets cut off by host]

Anissa Naouai:

Isn’t that going back with all we’ve fought as a woman, as women, isn’t that going back to say that only men can protect and run Europe? I mean a lot of people would argue that Angela Merkel is a much stronger leader in a sense than François Hollande.

Iben Thranholm:

Well, look at reality. The reality that she has no control! I mean that aggressive males are raping German women in the streets, and where were the men? There were no German men to protect them that night. I mean, I really wonder, where were the men to protect those women? So it’s good to have strong women and female values, but if it’s unbalanced and you have no masculine force in the society, it’s going to break down.

Anissa Naouai:

Right, but the mass rapes shouldn’t be happening in the first place.

Iben Thranholm:

[Doesn’t hear comment properly] I’m sorry, I didn’t –

Anissa Naouai:

The mass rape, the mass rape. The violence shouldn’t be happening in the first place. These are guests essentially, who Europe has welcomed.

Iben Thranholm:

I’m not so sure, because those people from those countries, they have a different culture, they have a different religion. And they only respect strong men. They don’t respect women. And we need to look at reality; this is the reality. They don’t respect women; they look at women as weak. And when the politicians are trying to be inclusive and all-embracing, for them it’s just weakness, and we have to deal with that – it’s weakness. So if we want to go on like this I mean it could be, you know, a catastrophe for our culture, because I mean, maybe we cannot win this fight, and we’re going to be taken over by somebody else, by another culture.

Anissa Naouai:

Alright. You’ve written recently – I want to point this out, to these individuals – I assume you mean refugees and migrants in Europe, “Strong European women are easy, and easy victims; they have respect only for strong men, and strong men aren’t exactly thick on the ground in Europe.” You’ve made this point. But I mean isn’t this a little bit of victim-blaming here?

Iben Thranholm:

No. I think it’s just looking at reality. I mean we see that we need somebody to protect those women, because obviously, they cannot protect themselves. I mean, they were victimized, because they were victims of this type of crime – [gets cut off by host]

Anissa Naouai:

Should they have to protect themselves against mass rape on the streets of their country, of their home?

Iben Thranholm:

You know, I would love to see women be able to protect themselves, but the reality at least for this crime, or this event, it did not happen. And now I know from people living in Germany that many women are scared to go out in the street at night, and we don’t want a society like that. So men need to muster up and go back to the old virtues – to protect people. And I don’t think think that women are being weaker because men are protecting them. I think it’s just the balance we need in our society, and it’s a huge problem on many levels, that men have been brought up by women that want them to become women, and many men today in the European society, they’re very insecure about their own masculinity. And it means that society is going to be unbalanced, because there is a certain order in this world. And it’s based on the kind of complementarity between masculine and feminine. And if one part is lost, I mean, there will be consequences like before, when the women were suppressed – that was not a good thing either. So you need to keep a balance, and so we have to go back to trying to build up again a manly culture.

Anissa Naouai:

Alright, balance I can agree on. Iben Thranholm, a journalist who was an editor and radio host at the Danish Broadcasting Company in Copenhagen. Thank you so much for being In The Now.