Feminism Killed Feminism

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.

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?

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.

“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.

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.

Some very smart leftist once said:

“The issue is not the issue. The revolution is the issue.”

The latest leftist cause destroys earlier leftist causes.

Meanwhile the confused “conservatives” still defend the old leftist causes!

“The transgender movement is not a backlash to feminism, it’s a consequence.”

And they’re both the consequences of our obsession with “equality”, and definining fairness as equality.

Feminism and transgerism are to physical body “justice” what “equity is to economic “justice”.

No one should have more than anyone else at the economic level, and no one should not have whatever trait they wants at the physical level.

It’s an all out fight against reality... and guess who’s going to win?

“Feminism is part of the problem but there is more to it than that.”

It’s the delusion (desire?) that you can be whatever you want and that you have the “right” to that.

And medical and technical advances have gotten to a point that you can crudely satisfy those desires and delusions.

I compare it to some woman being unhappy with their hooked nose and wanting very badly to have a pretty nose.

Up until recently you had to live with that unwanted ugly nose, but over the past 50 years or so medicine has gotten to the point that reconstructing that nose into a beautiful thing is no big deal. Same with other cosmetic surgeries.

And so it is with transgenderrism. Some are unhappy with the body they were given, so if they could change it they would. It’s a “pursuit of happiness” type of thing.

Of course changing from a woman to a man is significantly more complex than fixing a nose, but who knows, someday it may be possible to do that as easily as changing a nose.

I cannot even imagine the consequences of that to society. Brave New World, here we come!

“I suppose I could have stayed home and baked cookies and had teas, but [...]”

When are we men going to be given that option?

Oh, that's right: We're all the "oppressors!"

Regards,

“We are freed from labels to enter the nihilistic chaos of postmodernism.”

Yes, at its core, postmodernism is the denial of reality and logic, and it’s absolutely the cause of these insanities.

But, reality and logic will get their revenge.

I haven’t quite figured out exactly what that revenge will look like. My best guess, is that our delusional society will disintegrate and societies that are more grounded in reality, like the Chinese or even Muslims will just walk in and take over.

That sentence, alone, is impossible to decipher.

Well, it's largely because the subject matter is self-contradictory and nonsensical.

What you're doing is sorta like criticizing the unintelligibility of an English translation of "Mein Kampf." - If it seems turgid and confused, it's probably not the translator's fault, after all!

Regards,

‘It’s about making women act like men (often the worst aspects of the masculine BTW).’

Yes, a caricature of masculinity. Because none of them actually know what it is to be a man. And of course they covet what they perceive as the benefits of being a man but have no interest in any corresponding responsibilities or burdens.

In that respect, they are exactly like “transgenders”, except with the trannies, the caricaturing can go in either direction.

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