The left told them that only anger against perceived injustices creates meaning and happiness, and they’ll destroy everything in their paths to achieve those goals.
Recently, Peachy Keenan, the pseudonym of a well-known cultural commentator, writer, and critic of modern feminism, asked a question on her X account that succinctly summarizes the state of American feminism and the white liberal woman:
Why are so many women sooo angry? They won. They got everything they wanted. Men have never been doing this badly, and women have never been doing this well. They make more, they have the majority of jobs, they are the majority of college graduates, (UCLA undergrad is 60% female), they make more money, have much lower rates of suicide, addiction, and alcoholism, and live longer. They won: they took over all men-only spaces, they took over the Boy Scouts, they ended men’s bathrooms, they can fly fighter planes and be in combat. Marriage is optional, divorce is no-fault, they win 99% of the custody battles, they can control fertility at will, and they can’t get drafted. We are all living in the female future they promised.
Yes, they won, but that hasn’t changed the victim (women) and oppressor (white men) mindset that still permeates this irrational subculture. They will remain angry because they will never succeed in their quixotic quest for “meaning in their lives” based on their belief that happiness lies in “making a difference” by defeating societal demons such as “the patriarchy” or “White Supremacy.” In their addled thought process, there is no such thing as winning, only identifying new causes to keep this charade alive in perpetuity.
A case in point. About a year ago, out of curiosity, I watched a panel discussion with several feminist professors at a prestigious university. These academics were regaling a naïve and worshipful audience of mostly white women, plus a smattering of black women. The panel insisted that the new “civil rights movement” necessarily encompasses Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI), the LGBTQ movement, the plight of immigrants in the United States, the genocide in Gaza, undying support for the Palestinians, and Third Wave Feminism.
They had nothing to say about what had been accomplished over the decades. Instead, they incessantly portrayed the United States as an irredeemable racist and oppressive nation founded on white patriarchy. These leftists claimed, to raucous applause, that white privilege and resultant oppression required speeding the process to transform American culture and society, all while failing to acknowledge the transformations their movement had already precipitated.
The adoring and reverential expressions on the faces of the young women in the audience were priceless. It was as if they had suddenly discovered meaning and purpose in their apparently guilt-ridden, or cosseted, or rage-filled lives.
They no doubt thought that the prospect of being swept up in a grand crusade of promoting all manner of “civil rights” in a heartless, capitalistic society would bring relevance to their lives. What they did not fathom was that they were being manipulated by playing on their emotions and the nation’s history of civil rights movements solely to bring about a socialist one-party oligarchy
Over the past five decades, participation in protests and demonstrations advocating policies that destroy America’s culture and society has evolved into a full-time white liberal female occupation. Most of these protestors are 50+-year-old white women augmented by a vast number of vacuous, college-educated white women of all age groups who, together with their race-obsessed, college-educated black female counterparts, are mindlessly and, for many, unknowingly destroying American civilization.
Thanks to the Judeo-Christian values underpinning our nation’s founding, every generation of American society from the nation’s founding through the 1960s was swept up in one of three national movements—slavery’s abolition, women’s suffrage, and eliminating government-mandated racial segregation. The ultimate success of these movements also rested on Christian dogma and practice.
Because of the 195 years it took to achieve overall success, national civil rights crusades have become embedded in the nation’s DNA. By 1970, and for the first time in American history, there were no outstanding national civil rights issues to rectify. This potentially left the evolving agnostic narcissists in the Baby Boom Generation without an overriding national cause to rally around.
However, because they did not understand the Judeo-Christian basis of previous movements, many white liberal women obliviously fell prey to either wallowing in guilt over the nation’s past or espousing new and hitherto unheard-of “rights” as substitute religions. However, the radical left created virtually all of these “rights,” for they were determined not to let an opportunity to exploit female emotion and gullibility go to waste. The only question was: what could they successfully frame as national crusades?
Unsurprisingly, the first post-civil rights crusade was Second Wave Feminism, a movement that began in the mid-1960s and continued throughout the 1970s. It triggered religiously passionate mindsets and achieved fleeting “meaning in their lives” moments for a vast number of white women. It set the stage for overwhelming leftist women to dominate all the so-called “civil rights” movements since the 1980s and triggered the lunacy that engulfs the country today.
Thus, this movement can never win or declare victory. The never-ending search for meaning in their lives requires not only retaining the same villain—white men—but keeping the movement alive by continuously finding increasingly ludicrous policies to promote and espouse. These include their arguments regarding the following issues:
So-called transgenderism: What for centuries was considered to be a treatable mental illness (gender dysphoria) must now be cast as not only normal behavior, but a government-protected civil right safeguarded by law, which also includes, without parental consent, the unfettered access of impressionable and confused adolescents to permanent and irreversible mutilation.
Abortion: A baby in the womb does not become a human being until it fully exits the birth canal. Therefore, it can be aborted at any time prior to and including its exit from the birth canal.
Infanticide: As a corollary to and obvious extension of abortion, if a mother claims postpartum depression many months after giving birth, is on drugs, or finds a psychiatrist to confirm her mental state, it is permissible to premeditatively murder infants in cold blood.
Antisemitism dressed up as “anti-Zionism”: The Palestinians are the modern-day oppressed peoples that must be rescued and freed, as their oppressors are the Israelis and like-minded Americans. Because of the Jews and the oppressive governments of the United States and the West, Islamism and its disciples must be tolerated, accepted, and welcomed in Western society.
Illegal immigration: All illegal immigrants (also oppressed people) are welcome to come to America and, once here, including those who commit violent crimes, cannot be deported except under extraordinarily limited circumstances. Further, they are all eligible for never-ending economic assistance and eventual citizenship.
Hate speech: Government must be empowered to declare and censor what is “hateful and/or fallacious speech” by those with the “wrong” political leanings and to utilize the justice system to imprison or banish these seditionists.
Attacks on the criminal justice system: Crime is a byproduct of America’s past and a creation of an unjust society; therefore, crime must be tolerated and excused, and its perpetrators allowed endless second chances. Any undue effort to enforce criminal statutes is therefore a violation of human rights.
Because the United States is living in the feminist future that these witless, self-indulgent, agnostic, supposedly well-educated, and miserable women promoted, there is an ongoing calamitous erosion of a unique American civilization.
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