Posted on 12/21/2022 9:00:25 AM PST by Kazan
The transgender movement is the end result of feminism’s hatred of women.
In an interview, J.K. Rowling, the children’s fantasy author under siege from transgender activists, bemoaned a “backlash” against feminism. “It would never have surprised me that there would be a massive backlash, but I wouldn’t have expected it to come from what I would have broadly seen as ‘my team’.”
Like a lot of “gender critical feminists”, she misinterprets the transgender movement as a backlash against feminism, when it’s actually the culmination of feminism. No western movement hated women as much as feminism. Feminists were ruthlessly critical of women’s habits, their interests, preferences and desires. True feminism required publicly breaking with traditional roles and expressing public hostility for the women who chose to live that way.
When Hillary Clinton wanted to show off her feminist bona fides, she sneered, “I suppose I could have stayed home and baked cookies and had teas, but what I decided to do was to fulfill my profession.” Hillary was just echoing her elders, like Betty Friedan’s slur that being a housewife made it impossible “for a woman of adult intelligence to retain a sense of human identity”.
Hillary Clinton, in her iconic pantsuit, became the model for a late stage feminism that evinced contempt for feminity and adulation for masculine virtues. Younger women hate that model. 52% of younger Republican women and 23% of younger Democratic women in a recent survey said that they believed that feminism had done more harm than good. But what else is left?
While men joining female teams may be the most public face of the transgender movement, there are ten teenage girls undergoing some form of destructive ‘gender affirming care’ that’s distinguishable from any other method of self-harm only by the fact that it occurs under medical supervision for every one of those men who decides that he was born with a ‘female’ brain.
The real transgender movement is teenage girls getting drastic surgeries to appear masculine. as the culmination of a century of fashion trends that confused masculinity with empowerment.
But that’s just another way for teenage girls to destroy the image they see in the mirror.
In 2020, the number of teenage girls hospitalized over suicide attempts rose 50%. Suicide rates are increasing faster among teenage girls than among teen boys. Depression rates are also shooting up with 1 in 5 teenage girls having had a major severe depressive episode in one year.
According to the feminist model, life has never been better for women and girls. Women outnumber men in college so dramatically that there are two women going to class for every man. Women are now a majority in medical school and law school. Girls are being tracked through STEM programs, being pushed to code and to become jet fighter pilots.
And yet suicide rates, depression and general unhappiness are off the charts.
Feminists blame the unrealistic depictions of women in the entertainment industry, but the models have been shoved out the door. Any fashion photoshoot or commercial has to include at least one morbidly obese person from the ‘before’ part of a Weight Watchers ad. ‘Fat shaming’ has entered the lexicon as a hate crime. And yet everything is worse than ever.
J.K. Rowling and other gender critical feminists are right to blame peer pressure and the media for encouraging teenage girls to engage in transgender self-mutilation, but the question is why are teenage girls so much more vulnerable than their male counterparts to self-destruction?
Why do so many girls hate the idea of becoming women?
Feminism spent two generations destroying any sense of joy that girls had about femininity. The political and academic poisons quickly made their way into the entertainment industry and lifestyle publications. Girls have been told over and over again that they need to be more like boys. Is it any wonder that they’re trying to become boys at such record rates?
The transgender movement is the dead end of feminism. It’s why so many feminists have embraced it. J.K. Rowling is baffled by the betrayal of feminism. How could women who have based an entire movement on the unique experiences of women now deny that women exist?
But the erasure of women, of sex, and of the male-female binary was what many feminists wanted. Gender assimilation is their final triumph, ushering in a world where the only remaining women are men. While gender critical feminists (and most sane people) spend a lot of time discussing what’s wrong with them, it might be more productive to discuss what’s wrong with the teenage girls who are much more representative of the self-destructive social sickness.
If feminism works, why are so many women and girls so unhappy with their lives?
“I see so much conflation of femininity with femaleness. We were fighting to stop that conflation, and there they are, in my view, embracing that,” Rowling complains at one point.
Maybe that conflation is actually healthy and fighting against is what’s unhealthy.
“We’ve got these rights and we’ve got all these amazing women doing feminist analysis, and it will change, it really will change. By the time I’m my mother’s age, I thought, my daughters will have it so much easier. But now I think we’ve gone backwards. I think we’re living through a nightmare,” Rowling wondered.
Maybe feminist analysis was never the solution here. The nightmare is that feminist analysis proved no better than Freudian analysis at understanding what women wanted.
Feminism promised to liberate women to live their lives as they pleased. Instead it tore down what they had, chained them to a set of masculine expectations and punished them when they wanted to do something else. The economic system welcomed a massive labor force, the decline of marriage and the family, even as it’s killing our society and young women.
Western nations have become societies of broken people who are unhappy with themselves. And there can be no happiness without a sense of fulfillment that comes from purpose and meaning. Plugging a generation of young women into the panopticon of social media hasn’t produced purpose of meaning, only depression and a greater appetite for self-destruction.
Millions of Americans of all ages and sexes have decided that they don’t want to exist anymore. They’re killing themselves at unprecedented rates with shotguns and fentanyl, with mass shootings and unnecessary surgery. There’s something in the mirror that they don’t want to see and the thing they don’t want to see is themselves. Escapism, binging Netflix, video games, bad novels and worse politics can only do so much. They’ve been told that the end is near. Global warming will wipe out the environment. And it’s no loss because we’re all a bunch of racists.
Good riddance.
You can’t tell people that they’re a plague on the world, that they want all the wrong things and that the world would be a better place without them and not expect them to act on it.
Young women are more vulnerable because they’ve been hollowed out by feminism. All the programs that were meant to build up their self-esteem have instead destroyed it. They are told that life offers them nothing except the opportunity to be the best men they can be. Is it any wonder that they spend thousands of dollars destroying the girl looking back at them?
What some used to do with drugs and alcohol is now being performed with exotic surgeries, but the end result is still the same. Feminism has won its ultimate victory over those women.
The transgender movement is not a backlash to feminism, it’s a consequence.
Feminism fell to selective greivance.
They stopped almost immediately about being for women and turned quickly into political bludgen.
...where the money’s at.
Then they got men to wear pu$$y hats; men who ask permission to watch them put on their socks.
Probably a stoopid question but, how come the feminazis aren’t up in arms about these entities “ID’ing” as females and crushing opponents in sports? 🤔
Nothing ‘Feminine’ about Feminism.
Rush was right, it was all about allowing unattractive women greater access to the mainstream of society.
Feminism became a useful tool for the Democrats. These so called feminists never cared about women but only the democrat agenda.
I would make the more general comment that all sex roles are now FUBAR’d.
It’s not just females who want to transition to men.
Many men seem to have no desire to fulfill a masculine role. Masculinity is yucky. A fair number of males want to transition to female.
Feminism is part of the problem but there is more to it than that.
Well, all the benefits of being “masculine” have been stripped away, so what’s the point?
Without feminism, we wouldn’t have guys like “Brittney Griner” playing professional woman’s basketball.
It’s almost as if going against God’s creation leads one to misery. Or let’s say one is an athiest. Going against hundreds of thousands of years of evolution leads one to misery. After all that time, suddenly, one can be born the wrong “gender?” It is a lie to destroy people by evil commies.
That sentence, alone, is impossible to decipher. In my college comp class, it would have gotten an 'F.' Today, it qualifies as journalism.
Definitely need glasses. I thought that said “Feminism killed Eminem.”
That’s crazy...........🤣👍
Feminism does not celebrate femininity or embrace the feminine. It’s about making women act like men (often the worst aspects of the masculine BTW). Now women are literally mutilating themselves to become men, but they are fooling no one. A mutilated women can never be a better “man” than a real man.
See my tagline.
well, they’ve already pretty much destroyed what used to be the U.S.A. It only took a little over 100 years.
““I see so much conflation of femininity with femaleness. We were fighting to stop that conflation, and there they are, in my view, embracing that,” Rowling complains at one point.”
So, the way that I understand that is that organisms don’t really have any innate traits that define them. That any “thing” can be whatever it wants and has the “right” to do so.
So a man can be made to have the traits of a woman, a dog can be made into a horse, etc, etc. As a matter of fact, you are not supposed to notice that a man is a man and a woman a woman - they are the same - interchangeable. It’s why they want to obliterate words like man and woman, father and mother, son and daughter, etc.
This is insanity of the highest order. The good news is that reality will sooner than later get its revenge... The bad news is that it won’t be pretty.
It’s nominalism. The end of categories and teleology. We are freed from labels to enter the nihilistic chaos of postmodernism.
First Wave is political: Women get the vote
Second Wave is economic: Women get careers
Third Wave is cultural: Women get their freak on
Fourth Wave is biological: Women get cancelled
Because its not about being a woman. Modern feminism is about wielding power.
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