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With the recent passing of Gloria Steinem, I have some questions for feminists.
Why are you still angry? You won. The following statements are generalizations—of course, there exists anecdotal evidence to rebut each statement. Nonetheless, there is consensus that they are currently generally true.
- Every accomplishment by a woman is greeted with cheers and shouts of “You go, girl.” Every accomplishment by a man is greeted with yawns.
- Feminism's creed predominates in the vast majority of American media. If any fictional plot requires a character to be stupid or evil, that character will be male. If the plot requires a character to be particularly resourceful or clever, that character will be female. Unless they pretend to be Tom Clancy, male authors can’t get published.
- Women outnumber men in any occupation women care about. Women outnumber men in any college major they care about.
- If everything else is equal, women get hired, promoted, and elected*, before men.
- In the workplace of old, men would physically intimidate women. In today’s workplace, women intimidate men.
In light of the circumstance above, I ask the following:
Has your victory made the world a better place? How? Have businesses and institutions run by women been made objectively better than the old version?
Has your victory made women happier? Can you point to any statistics demonstrating that increase in happiness?
TikTok seems to be filled with angry women sitting in their cars yelling, screaming, or crying. Is this progress?
Why is there no male equivalent to “Karen”?
In college, Gender Studies still appears to be grievance studies. Why aren’t feminist academics studying, documenting, and celebrating victory?
If feminism is supposed to increase a woman’s choices, why is the choice of "tradwife" mocked and ridiculed? Why aren’t traditional wives permitted to be consciously happy?
How many decades are men supposed to go along with the idea that it is okay and appropriate for women to hate men before you might expect him to develop a hatred for women?
Please appreciate that these questions are really just questions. As a man, I have learned that I am destined to lose every argument with a woman, so I have no desire to provoke one. I have been clueless for over seventy years, and I am content to remain clueless. But, again, with Gloria Steinem passing on, I just thought it might be okay to ask.
Oh, and one final question. Climate change is not, and has never been, an existential threat. Low reproduction rates, by definition, are. Is there a feminist solution for low birth rates?
G-Pub
* In a presidential election, there is no such thing as “everything else is equal.”
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Because:
1. Performative outrage is their default position atm. (There are SO male Karens, btw.)
And
2. It didn’t solve all their problems - and it created some which they dare not mention or even acknowledge to themselves.
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Not sure there are a lot of feminists on Ricochet. Maybe you would have better luck asking your questions of feminists where there were some?
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Yes, they become feminists - because they were angry. They are no different than any other grievance group. It isn't confined to the left. Republicans have their share, I call them the hissy fit voters. Their guy didn’t win in the primary so they whine, refuse to vote, or vote 3rd party. Some DeSantis voters are always telling us how great things would be if we had only voted for him in the primary, hissy fit voters in GA threw away their two seats because the candidates Trump chose won their primaries, several NR and other magazine writers, and now I am watching the rise of the hissy fit voters in SC who intend to write in their choice, who BTW, didn’t run for reelection in his House seat, lost his bid to run for governor in the Republican primary, then entered and lost the special primary to pick a replacement for a Lindsey Graham, who died after he won the primary. Having a grievance has become contagious.
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Perfect. And are any of these gracing Ricochet?
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