Posted on 05/17/2024 9:07:49 AM PDT by MtnClimber
You’re not imagining it: Women are at the forefront of today’s leftist movement, accompanied by emasculated men. What’s going on?
One of the things we’ve seen in videos of the anti-Israel protests is a parade of young, white women with jihadi wraps on their heads, screaming and chanting for the cause of Hamas, a Muslim terrorist sect that proudly tortures, rapes, and kills women just like them.
Looking at these images, Heather MacDonald recently wrote an essay for City Journal, in which she asks the question that is on our minds: Why are all these plump, unhappy white girls protesting for Hamas and against Israel? Ms. MacDonald offers:
One possible reason is that women constitute majorities of both student bodies and the metastasizing student-services bureaucracies that cater to them. Another is the sex skew in majors.
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In progressive movements, the default assumption now may be to elevate females ahead of males as leaders and spokesmen. But most important, the victim ideology that drives much of academia today, with its explicit enmity to objectivity and reason as white male constructs, has a female character.
The female influence has increased inside and outside of the academy. The left is dominated by a grievance narrative founded on the idea that women are oppressed and that it’s up to the government to keep them safe. Indeed, the women involved have no tolerance at all for risk and no ability to analyze risk, which is an immature approach to life. They are instinctively censorious and intolerant of anyone who would disagree, especially when the disagreement is grounded in the Bible. (Witness the uproar about Harrison Butker’s impressive speech, which is grounded in core Catholic principles.)
MacDonald points out that the women’s craziness has a firm basis in ignorance:
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Just wait until they take their new beau Mohammed home to meet Mom and Dad. Hilarity will ensue when she tells them a grandchild is on the way.
MGTOW.
Feminism - specifically victim feminism - was one of the first social movements to adopt the oppressor/oppressed filter formalized by Horkheimer as a part of Critical Theory. That implies that there should be a solidarity between oppressed classes that is not dependent on the nature of those classes, but only of the oppressor/oppressed dynamic. This lack of distinction is why we see such unlikely bedfellows as misogynist Muslim radicals and feminist radicals. It's a voluntary blindness that serves in place of actual discernment, an expression of emotion that the lazy substitute for reason. It is definitely not restricted to females but it is very typical of the unthinking Left. Reason itself - yes, Horkheimer actually said this - is an attribute of oppression.
And sure enough, stripped of the strictures of reason we see all sorts of weird apparitions among the screechers who appear in the media. You're welcome to tell a keffiyeh wearing feminist that she is behaving illogically and she'll tell you that logic is racist, sexist, misogynist, whatever the flavor of the day with respect to isms on campus. The wall is impenetrable.
Sexual "freedom" and license have been commie values since the beginning.
This was in 2013.
That is my favorite quote describing the brainwashing going on today.
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