Geez. The very first paragraph from her you quoted was breathtaking in its utter lack of historical knowledge. The YouTube algorithm has been feeding me vids on British monarchical history and “logic” and “rationality” are not characteristics of these manly men rulers.
I’ve started thinking a lot about how strongly these right-wing arguments rely on selling a fantasy past that never existed, and how frequently they “hetconn” the past in order to do so. I’ve been mapping different fantasies and feminization theory reads a lot like a restorative past fantasy, but is surprisingly far sloppier intellectually than you’d hear from a Project 2025 or even the average tradwife. Andrews seems out of her depth! Not sure she has the juice.
The Phyllis Schlafly of our day. These people are groomed by their fundamentalist religion which brainwashes women into self-subjugation. We need a stronger wall between religion and government and they have recently taken some serious chunks from the thin wall we have.
I’m an atheist but it’s clear that secular people have values that they seek to impose on all of us via government (e.g., wokeism). While the idea that male MAGA is the repository of reason and rationality makes me laugh, it may be the case that women are more inclined than men towards egalitarianism, which manifests in voting/pushing for big government and “pathological altruism”.
This is a textbook strawman and a topic shift. I didn’t claim secular people don’t have values, or that women are uniquely virtuous, or that MAGA men are irrational by definition. The issue is whether religious fundamentalism is being used to roll back women’s rights through the state—and it demonstrably is.
Women aren’t more egalitarian because of some natural disposition; they’re more egalitarian because they’re the ones most constrained by hierarchical systems—especially religious ones that explicitly subordinate them. When hierarchy works against you, equality isn’t “pathological altruism,” it’s basic self-interest.
Many women are and have been very religious. Also, as child-bearers, who depend/ed on the community for survival, they likely evolved to be egalitarian. Religion subordinated men, too, most of whom lived at the bottom of the hierarchy.
Geez. The very first paragraph from her you quoted was breathtaking in its utter lack of historical knowledge. The YouTube algorithm has been feeding me vids on British monarchical history and “logic” and “rationality” are not characteristics of these manly men rulers.
The women hurt most by the spread of female group psychology are the non-conformists - women who resist the tribal pull.
Absolutely.
I’ve started thinking a lot about how strongly these right-wing arguments rely on selling a fantasy past that never existed, and how frequently they “hetconn” the past in order to do so. I’ve been mapping different fantasies and feminization theory reads a lot like a restorative past fantasy, but is surprisingly far sloppier intellectually than you’d hear from a Project 2025 or even the average tradwife. Andrews seems out of her depth! Not sure she has the juice.
The Phyllis Schlafly of our day. These people are groomed by their fundamentalist religion which brainwashes women into self-subjugation. We need a stronger wall between religion and government and they have recently taken some serious chunks from the thin wall we have.
I’m an atheist but it’s clear that secular people have values that they seek to impose on all of us via government (e.g., wokeism). While the idea that male MAGA is the repository of reason and rationality makes me laugh, it may be the case that women are more inclined than men towards egalitarianism, which manifests in voting/pushing for big government and “pathological altruism”.
This is a textbook strawman and a topic shift. I didn’t claim secular people don’t have values, or that women are uniquely virtuous, or that MAGA men are irrational by definition. The issue is whether religious fundamentalism is being used to roll back women’s rights through the state—and it demonstrably is.
Women aren’t more egalitarian because of some natural disposition; they’re more egalitarian because they’re the ones most constrained by hierarchical systems—especially religious ones that explicitly subordinate them. When hierarchy works against you, equality isn’t “pathological altruism,” it’s basic self-interest.
Many women are and have been very religious. Also, as child-bearers, who depend/ed on the community for survival, they likely evolved to be egalitarian. Religion subordinated men, too, most of whom lived at the bottom of the hierarchy.
You might want to study up on logical fallacies.