Feminization of society?

I was watching a football game with a friend some years ago, and a defensive lineman knocked Tom Brady down. Well, he reached around the guy who was blocking him and shoved Brady from behind, who then fell down. The referee called roughing the passer. My friend and I both played football in our youth, and we were offended by the destruction of the game we love. I pointed out that football is a game of risk and reward. If you want to send out more receivers and keep fewer guys in to block, then you’re risking your QB getting hurt. It’s the job of the offensive coordinator to protect the QB, not the refs. That’s what makes football interesting.

My friend took a less nuanced approach: “Modern society has become too feminized for football.” That made sense to inebriated me, pretty much. A feminized society avoids risk of all kinds. Okay, I guess. Until later that night, when we watched UFC (Mixed Martial Arts – some call it cage fighting). They had a couple of fights on the card between women. My friend and I didn’t watch these. We feel dirty, watching women get beat up. We returned to the TV after one of the female fights, and the losing fighter looked more than a little roughed up.

I turned to my friend and said, “Okay, Mr. Genius. Our society can’t watch a defensive lineman sack a quarterback because we’re too feminized. But we can watch a woman just get beat to a pulp? While Tom Brady is protected from all possible harm? Because we value women? Could you explain that to me?” Both of us had had too much bourbon to explain anything at that point. But we remained stumped even when we sobered up.

Now, of course, we have moved past protecting football players. We’ve also moved past women beating up other women for our entertainment. We have now moved to The Brave New World of men beating up women for our entertainment.

Why? Because society has become too feminized.

I think. Well, something like that. Perhaps.

What’s going on? Men have become feminized, women have become masculinized, they’re all miserable, sales of psychiatric drugs have exploded, we’re putting tampons in middle school boys' school bathrooms, the oilfield pipeline welder in the TV ad for pickup trucks is always a black woman, the sports I love have been destroyed for no apparent reason, and I can’t watch TV without feeling sort of odd, like I’ve entered a parallel dimension which is sort of like Earth, but very different as well.

It's just surreal. The world I live in seems perfectly normal. But the world on TV looks foreign and bizarre. I’m watching American TV channels, and I feel like a pilgrim in a foreign land.

The part that keeps tripping me up is the question: “Why?”

Why is the left doing this? They claim to champion women’s rights. Heck, the left pushed Title 9 through just a few decades ago to protect women’s sports. And now they’re putting men in women’s sports. Why? This doesn’t help women. It doesn’t get them votes from their supporters. Why are they doing this?

If leftists consider men to be evil, then why do they want women to be more like men? What’s with the men beating up women on TV? The trans-sexual fad makes no sense to me. Why? We put a man on the moon the year after I was born. And now we can’t seem to figure out which bathroom to use. What the heck is going on?

Why? Why does the left feel this sexual chaos is so important? Democrat leaders were once normal people who liked centralized control systems. Now they seem like alien life forms. While my friends who are Democrat voters still seem like normal people. Why is the leadership of the Democrat party intentionally making themselves look alien and scary? What possible benefit is there for them in that approach?

Why are they doing this?

This is costing them the support of a lot of people. People who vote Democrat because Dan Rather told them that Republicans are mean. But people who are aware of the existence of reality. People like that. All this sexual chaos is costing Democrats a lot. It must be.

So why are they doing it? How does it help them?

I just don’t understand…