Posted on 10/20/2025 11:06:09 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Helen Andrews argues woke culture is the inevitable result of women taking over pivotal industries such as law, media, and medicine.
Writer Helen Andrews turned a viral speech into an essay for Compact that’s been driving the Internet wild since it published Oct. 16. She argues woke culture is the inevitable result of women taking over the majority of academia and other pivotal industries such as law, media, and medicine: “Everything you think of as ‘wokeness’ is simply an epiphenomenon of demographic feminization.”
“Everything you think of as wokeness involves prioritizing the feminine over the masculine: empathy over rationality, safety over risk, cohesion over competition,” she writes.
As usual, Andrews bravely makes some countercultural points with enjoyable flair, and a lot of what she says is true. Everyone should read her whole article. Rather than simply replicate what she gets right, however, I would like to argue a few finer points. First, I don’t think it’s accurate to claim we have a “feminized” society. Second, I think Andrews applies her thesis too broadly, arguing it can explain more than it actually does.
Our Society Isn’t Feminine At All
It seems obvious that decaying Western societies are in fact not femininized, because our societies do not champion female hallmarks. The top exhibit for this is the lack of babies. The vast and troubling Western fertility crisis would not exist if women were feminine, because it is feminine to naturally seek children.
Yet 64 percent of American women younger than 50 say they don’t want kids, according to Pew Research last year. Not feminine.
Our culture has also become incredibly immodest, another rejection of a primordial female trait, as Wendy Shalit memorably explained in the late ’90s. Some of the most conservative families I...
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A conservative woman -- Joy Pullmann is executive editor of The Federalist Her latest book with Regnery is 'False Flag: Why Queer Politics Mean the End of America' -- rushes to counter another conservative woman -- "Helen Andrews is the author of Boomers: The Men and Women Who Promised Freedom and Delivered Disaster" -- which validates my bride's thesis. Women's garden clubs.
The subtleties between their messages is not the stuff of much more than a tiff. I'd go along with either, and/or both, when compared to a Hillary Clinton or a Kamala Harris, not to mention the detestable Nancy Pelosi.
Best to take aim at the biggest and most visible targets. Leftist women.
After all, which conservative women is messing up some state or university or company? A few no doubt. But Lefty women the likes of AOC and Karen Bass and more are the issue.
I remember in high school (over 30 years ago) I called for the end of beauty pageants and a push for all-star celebrations of academic excellence. I was mocked because they did not see that I was looking to restore what was lost by cultural rot. They would rather have numerous beauty pageants for girls and leave boys in the off with nothing. Title IX has advanced the anti-male cause further.
We’ve feminised our schools. We are cutting boys’ activities away. We give girls everything.
And was I right.
Insurance is the reason we saw drag racing lose 320 feet in CH3NO2 classes after Scott Kalitta died.
Attend a postmodern church with the loud rock concerts and everything’s heavily feminised. Emotionalism in the songs, sappy, and no strong teaching of the Bible.
Modern church music is for 25-45 women who do not attend church, yet churches play it all the time. Choirs are being replaced by dancers and bands.
Modern church music is for 10-year-old girls.
The cultures are not feminized, they are feministized.
Big difference.
This woman is confusing feminine with feminist.
Effeminate might also be appropriate.
10 year old girls.
I remember when the research was the labels and stations made it clear the target was women from a 2003 WND article.
The church that ran me out frequently had services where teenage girls led worship, and it was solely hits off the radio they sang. They sang the latest femme pop tunes, and the congregation just cheered.
I’m just saying the “Glory and Praise” type church music reminds me of Disney musicals.
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