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Why Women Are So Susceptible To Political Correctness
The Federalist ^ | 11/02/2022 | STELLA MORABITO

Posted on 11/02/2022 9:26:58 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

With so many relationships broken and real conversations off-limits, what is left but the new patriarchy, the Daddy State?

The following is an excerpt from the author’s new book, “The Weaponization of Loneliness: How Tyrants Stoke Our Terror of Isolation to Silence, Divide, and Conquer.” (Bombardier Books, Post Hill Press.)

Feminists have long urged women to promote the politically correct viewpoint that they are oppressed victims. Champions of second-wave feminism — such as Betty Friedan and Gloria Steinem — emphasized valid grievances of women, such as feeling like a sex object or being passed over for career advancement. However, the media-tech complex has gone well beyond promoting any constructive awareness of these concerns. Instead, it cultivates the resentments such women have felt for past humiliations.

Two cases in point are the confirmation hearings of Justice Clarence Thomas in 1991 and Justice Brett Kavanaugh in 2018. In both, the Democrats’ playbook to derail the confirmation process was exactly the same. At the eleventh hour, a woman appears with stories of sexual harassment from decades past. There is virtually no corroboration.

Kavanaugh was a teenager when his accuser Christine Blasey Ford said he tried to take her clothes off at a party, though none present at said party could corroborate anything. Anita Hill accused Thomas of making some off-color comments while she worked in his office. Again, uncorroborated.

But Democrats trying to disrupt the confirmations were not concerned about the flimsiness of the charges. The stories — hyped big in the media — served a far greater purpose. The unspoken goal was to emotionally manipulate American women who may have been humiliated in the past. They stirred up old resentments and traumas and then projected responsibility for those traumas onto the nominees. And it worked. It dredged up old memories of mistreatment among many women across America. They then became emotionally certain that the nominees were guilty.

Hence, the nominees could be framed in the public eye as “Me Too” perps, members of Wifebeaters Inc., and so on. The Senate Judiciary Committee and halls of Congress during the Kavanaugh hearings became a circus of angst-filled women, just as planned. They screamed in the hearing room. They screamed at swing-vote senators in hallways and elevators. On Capitol Hill, there were parades of women posing in “handmaid” costumes. The slogan of the day was “Believe all women!” no matter who they are or what they say about you.

Which leads to another question: What is a woman anyway? When Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson was asked to define the word “woman,” she refused to do so and even added: “I’m not a biologist.” Given the propaganda of gender ideology — which seems to deny that males and females exist in biology or reality — why did its recent propaganda continue to speak out of both sides of the mouth as though two sexes really do exist? More specifically, why do traditional feminists like Steinem and company accept that narrative while deploring their erstwhile sisters known as radical feminists who object to it?

And since any man can claim to be a woman simply by saying so, we end up having to ask the central question posed by British novelist Dorothy Sayers in her 1938 lecture: “Are Women Human?” It is the spark of individuality, along with the biological reality of humanity as a dimorphic species, that makes us human. And we’re losing both in the morass of identity politics enforced by political correctness.

This review of women in the clutches of identity politics seems to point to two broad outcomes. First, social pressures from all corners — schools, media, popular culture — appear to be taking their toll on young women in particular. Hence, trying to navigate political correctness has been so exhausting that it added to the mental health crisis of women, especially during the Covid-19 era.

This should come as no surprise assuming they have internalized the guilt foisted on them for racism, for poverty, for environmental disaster, to properly “mask up,” and more. An Evie Magazine article noted that progressivism is an ideology “that keeps score to an exhausting degree. … [I]t’s understandable that anxiety and depression thrive in these kinds of environments.”

Second, all this slicing and dicing leads to an isolation — and exhaustion — that probably causes many struggling women to hope just to be taken care of. With so many relationships broken and real conversations off-limits, what is left but the new patriarchy, the Daddy State?

In 2012, the reelection campaign of President Obama hoped to lure young women voters with just that message by presenting an infographic called “The Life of Julia.” It offered up a utopian story about an atomized woman and showed how the government would take care of her and her child from the cradle to the grave. In 2021, the Biden administration released a similar infographic called “The Life of Linda,” another isolated Stepford wife to the state.

Both infographics provide a perfect illustration of sociologist Robert Nisbet’s point that “the State grows on what it gives to the individual as it does on what it takes from competing social relationships.” The government’s showcasing of Julia and Linda represent the push for a new social order that replaces our intimate relationships with a mass relationship with the state. The biggest losers of all are children and their childhoods. But the propaganda is meant also to destroy motherhood, fatherhood, and the whole family.

That leads us to wonder about the role of men in all this. I would say it all depends on the strength of women to reject the dystopia being foisted on us by a totalitarian force. We should reject the narrative that men are the bad guys and women are always the victims. In general, men take a lot of their cues from women. I would guess that elitist men take their cues from men who are higher in the pecking order.

But the de-masculinization of men and the bullying of women and girls by men who inject themselves into female sports by claiming a female identity are of a piece. Obedience to political correctness — out of fear of being socially rejected — drives much of it.

This psychological chaos is brought on by utopian power elites of both sexes. Divisiveness between the sexes is key to family and relationship breakdown across society. That division proved critical to the breakdown of the black family in America and, increasingly, to the American family across the board.


Stella Morabito is a senior contributor at The Federalist. She is author of "The Weaponization of Loneliness: How Tyrants Stoke Our Fear of Isolation to Silence, Divide, and Conquer." Her essays have appeared in various publications, including the Washington Examiner, American Greatness, Townhall, Public Discourse, and The Human Life Review. In her previous work as an intelligence analyst, Morabito focused on various aspects of Russian and Soviet politics, including communist media and propaganda.


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To: SeekAndFind
How does being politically correct provide security?

It doesn't.

PC "gaslighting" presents an illusion of security which is specifically effective for deceiving women. It is very evil.

21 posted on 11/02/2022 10:14:23 AM PDT by flamberge (Those who pose the greatest danger to you are living within five miles of you.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Ignoring God.

To the woman he said,

“I will surely multiply your pain in childbearing;

in pain you shall bring forth children.

Your desire shall be contrary to your husband,

but he shall rule over you.” (Genesis 3:16)

22 posted on 11/02/2022 10:15:20 AM PDT by Tommy Revolts
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To: SeekAndFind

Women want to be liked and to think people have positive thoughts, ideas about them.
So they take on issues that make it seem like they “care”.


23 posted on 11/02/2022 10:18:24 AM PDT by TexasM1A
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To: SeekAndFind

Women need to be loved, men don’t have that problem. The cult is designed for women’s needs and nurturing.


24 posted on 11/02/2022 10:24:26 AM PDT by bray (The Republic of Texas is available on Barnes and Noble )
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To: cgbg

The pollsters seem to get some pretty lopsided responses when they survey those cemeteries!


25 posted on 11/02/2022 10:25:24 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: SeekAndFind

The crux of Political Correctness is blaming white men for personal shortcomings and accountability is kryptonite for women.


26 posted on 11/02/2022 10:26:50 AM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: SeekAndFind

Edward Bernays knew what it take to brainwash women. 24/7 NPR.


27 posted on 11/02/2022 10:30:48 AM PDT by dljordan
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To: SeekAndFind
And here comes Brandon, right on cue.

Joe Biden Plans Dramatic Speech Warning of Republican ‘Threat’ to Democracy After Attack on Paul Pelosi

President Joe Biden plans to deliver another fervent warning on Wednesday about Republicans and the threat they pose to the future of democracy in the United States.

The president plans to talk about “preserving and protecting our democracy” and will “address the threat of election deniers and those who seek to undermine faith in voting and democracy” according to a media advisory from the Democrat National Committee.

The speech will take place at Union Station in Washington, DC, on Wednesday night at 7:00 EST.

He also plans to frame the upcoming midterm election as a critical moment to preserve and protect democracy, positioning himself and his party once again as national saviours while attacking his conservative opponents.

Read more at Breitbart.

28 posted on 11/02/2022 10:33:35 AM PDT by Bratch
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To: SeekAndFind

As a woman, I’ve never understood this. Except for abortion, for the pro-murder women, and deadbeats who don’t want to work and prefer to live on food stamps and Medicaid their entire life, it makes no sense.


29 posted on 11/02/2022 10:35:16 AM PDT by peggybac (My will is what I wanted. God's will is what I got.)
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To: SeekAndFind
How does being politically correct provide security?

She won’t be cast out of the tribe. Thrown outside the circle. Left alone to fend for herself.

30 posted on 11/02/2022 10:35:27 AM PDT by atc23 (The Matriarchal Society we embrace has led to masks and mandates and the cult of "safety")
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To: MeganC

Bingo!!


31 posted on 11/02/2022 10:38:17 AM PDT by AuntB (Trump is our Ben Franklin - Brilliant, Boisterous, Brave and ALL AMERICAN!)
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To: Codeflier

Right, you can look at those red/blue maps showing what an election would look like if only one group of people voted. If only men voted, the map is a sea of red. If only white men voted, even California would be red!

Ann Coulter once said she would give up her right to vote if all other women had to give it up, too. If that could only happen, we conservatives would always get the presidents we wanted.


32 posted on 11/02/2022 10:38:24 AM PDT by Nea Wood
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To: SeekAndFind

It’s in their Jeans.
.
Genes


33 posted on 11/02/2022 10:39:38 AM PDT by Big Red Badger (We Are JONAH)
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To: dljordan

Great comment on Bernays.

The guy’s genius was at its peak when he convinced women that smoking proved they were “sophisticated”.

The fashion industry is another great example—there is a reason why the women’s clothing market is big bucks while men’s clothing is a boring commodity market.


34 posted on 11/02/2022 10:43:19 AM PDT by cgbg (Claiming that laws and regs that limit “hate speech” stop freedom of speech is “hate speech”.)
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To: cgbg

Goebbels sent him love letters.


35 posted on 11/02/2022 11:18:43 AM PDT by dljordan
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To: Codeflier
I read an analysis after 2016, that if you removed the vote of women, the Democrats would have something to the effect of 6 senators, about 50 Reps, and never win the presidency.

I’ve seen similar analyses that show two versions of the political map, one if only men voted and one for women. The difference is stunning (but not surprising). If only men voted, the map would be solid red from coast to coast, with just a small number of small blue enclaves. The map for women-only is exactly the opposite. Of course, if you isolated married women it would tell a very different story, but all of those young single, more impressionable women really skew things.

36 posted on 11/02/2022 11:40:00 AM PDT by noiseman (The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.)
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To: Dr. Thorne

LOL! I haven’t heard that one.


37 posted on 11/02/2022 12:30:56 PM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: SeekAndFind

As women were the first “oppressed” group to get their grievances addressed, they were also the first group to resort to inventing imaginary grievances after the real grievances had disappeared.

Every other victim group just followed in their footsteps.


38 posted on 11/02/2022 12:35:37 PM PDT by Boogieman
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To: cuban leaf

“This is not a statement that we shouldn’t have given women the vote...”

Well if you won’t say it, I will. Men as head of household should be voting for both themselves and their wives. And wives should look to their husbands to satisfy their need for security and let men worry about the government. The government is a rabid, untameable beast that needs to constantly be kept in check with the whip, and women don’t have the stomach for it.


39 posted on 11/02/2022 12:45:25 PM PDT by Boogieman
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To: All

Woman innately want security because they are the mothers who care for their children and because they are more vulnerable than men.

Men innately want to protect women because they are vulnerable.

It’s nature’s law...God’s Law.


40 posted on 11/02/2022 12:58:40 PM PDT by Karoo
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