Feminism seems to work out great for the top percentile of women striving to keep pace with the top percentile of men. For the rest of us schleps, don't try this at home .
Irregular or non-cycles could also be due to vax poisoning, as many young women bought in the fear-porn and collective safety-ism during the plandemic.
A lot of the women I work with regularly claim they are “strong, independent women”. I’m not against the idea. In principle I would imagine most adults strive for strength and independence. But to my mind, adding “woman” at the end of their self assessment invites comparisons. Not necessarily with men, but by the implication that some women are “weak and dependent”. They are also subjective ideas. For example, I think the women of previous generations had a strength and autonomy (World Wars anyone?) that modern women could never dream of matching.
“2019, in addition to its more general geopolitical ghoulishness, has been a difficult one for this particular family abolitionist,” Lewis told the audience of about two dozen. “It’s been surreal because the temporal coincidence of the Full Surrogacy launch with this unprecedented requirement for me—that I be at my closest bio-relative’s bedside—brought the stakes of my subject matter to life with almost unbearable intensity.”
The book, and its core premise, has gained widespread attention, from leftist publications like Jacobin and The Nation all the way to Fox News’s Tucker Carlson, who dedicated a June segment on his prime-time show to tearing it down. Recently, the columnist David Brooks declared in The Atlantic that the “nuclear family was a mistake.” The piece inspired a niche version of a popular Drake meme, with the singer shaking his head in disapproval at Brooks’ column in one frame, and smiling at Full Surrogacy Now in the next. (“I gave up after two minutes admittedly, but let it be known that I (incredulous) started reading it,” Lewis tweeted of the Atlantic piece. “Like….have we reached David Brooks?”)
When Lewis demands “full surrogacy now,” she isn’t talking about commercial surrogacy, or ”Surrogacy™,” as she puts it. Instead, she uses the surrogacy industry to build the argument that all gestation is work because of the immense physical and emotional labor it requires of those who do it. She often refers to pregnancy as an “extreme sport.”
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Feminists are literally working as hard as they can to go against *whatever* is natural. There is no other way to look at it.
I feel sorry for any woman reads the likes of Sophie Lewis, and thinks to herself, "Wow, maybe she's right, and I should ignore any built-in feelings I have about having a family, and waste my life chasing a false reality."
Because that's the inevitable outcome should the twisted logic of these Feminists™ be followed.
They were pushing this as far as they could get it to go. If someone were thinking logically 50 years ago or longer, one would realize that current trends would not continue. The US would not remain atop the world and the birth rate would not maintain under the pressure of feminism. Getting out-reproduced by other nations is a death sentence, ultimately. So, letting women act like men had a timeframe on it. Hope those who advocated this thought it was worth it. I'll be checked out for the final act.
The early academic feminists were too smart and too capable for their own good. Rather than just saying "the current social sexual paradigm doesn't benefit me and also I hate my dad" they instead came up with a specious but ultimately convincing totalizing ideology of oppression to justify their lesbianism and/or sexual pathologies. Luckily the smart Jewish ladies are being replaced by much dumber (and far more hideous) "POC" so the thing is basically just running on fumes now
During the latter part of my career in government, I switched my employment to a small state government corrections agency. Their paperwork system was a bit wacky. I attended video meetings and witnessed on a regular basis women literally weeping during these meetings. It was embarassing, even if I felt sorry for these gals.
Oh yes, its true. It seems they spend half their time as hardened “boss babes” and the other half falling apart. For ten years I worked as an adjunct (part-time) university instructor and women would have panic attacks while I was lecturing, completely unrelated to what was going on in the classroom. Something like 24% of American women are on some kind of psychotropic medicatioon
Modern feminists claim that western males are still not sharing child rearing burdens and that this is the cause of widespread pressure on women. It’s a fair take, and could explain a lot.
Feminism seems to work out great for the top percentile of women striving to keep pace with the top percentile of men. For the rest of us schleps, don't try this at home .
Fantastic and incredibly insightful as usual! 🙏 💖
thank you :)
Irregular or non-cycles could also be due to vax poisoning, as many young women bought in the fear-porn and collective safety-ism during the plandemic.
I've been noticing this about our society for a while now but I haven't ever read it written out in a more comprehensive way
I think that feminism does not help women, because feminism is opposed to femininity
You have this unique ability to cut right to the heart of an issue. What a talent!
Thank you so much for your comment!
A lot of the women I work with regularly claim they are “strong, independent women”. I’m not against the idea. In principle I would imagine most adults strive for strength and independence. But to my mind, adding “woman” at the end of their self assessment invites comparisons. Not necessarily with men, but by the implication that some women are “weak and dependent”. They are also subjective ideas. For example, I think the women of previous generations had a strength and autonomy (World Wars anyone?) that modern women could never dream of matching.
Wait, there are physiological differences between women and men?!
Thanks for having the courage to tell the truth about the damage that feminism is doing to us all.
The other day I wrote:
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If someone thinks that being “pro-Family” is “anti-Feminist” — I think that tells you everything you need to know [about feminists].
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Then there's this:
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https://www.vice.com/en/article/sophie-lewis-feminist-abolishing-the-family-full-surrogacy-now/
“2019, in addition to its more general geopolitical ghoulishness, has been a difficult one for this particular family abolitionist,” Lewis told the audience of about two dozen. “It’s been surreal because the temporal coincidence of the Full Surrogacy launch with this unprecedented requirement for me—that I be at my closest bio-relative’s bedside—brought the stakes of my subject matter to life with almost unbearable intensity.”
The book, and its core premise, has gained widespread attention, from leftist publications like Jacobin and The Nation all the way to Fox News’s Tucker Carlson, who dedicated a June segment on his prime-time show to tearing it down. Recently, the columnist David Brooks declared in The Atlantic that the “nuclear family was a mistake.” The piece inspired a niche version of a popular Drake meme, with the singer shaking his head in disapproval at Brooks’ column in one frame, and smiling at Full Surrogacy Now in the next. (“I gave up after two minutes admittedly, but let it be known that I (incredulous) started reading it,” Lewis tweeted of the Atlantic piece. “Like….have we reached David Brooks?”)
When Lewis demands “full surrogacy now,” she isn’t talking about commercial surrogacy, or ”Surrogacy™,” as she puts it. Instead, she uses the surrogacy industry to build the argument that all gestation is work because of the immense physical and emotional labor it requires of those who do it. She often refers to pregnancy as an “extreme sport.”
***
Feminists are literally working as hard as they can to go against *whatever* is natural. There is no other way to look at it.
I feel sorry for any woman reads the likes of Sophie Lewis, and thinks to herself, "Wow, maybe she's right, and I should ignore any built-in feelings I have about having a family, and waste my life chasing a false reality."
Because that's the inevitable outcome should the twisted logic of these Feminists™ be followed.
The purpose of a system is what it does.
Over time the design revealed.
Feminism is working perfectly per the metrics you listed.
That it’s not working as advertised is also by design.
That it’s destroying women and damaging the human race is also again as designed.
As a man it’s impossible to feel sympathy, there’s no innocence at play but mens rea all the way.
Guilty mind.
This is and was always smash and grab and a Ponzi on our futures.
Mens Rea. Everyone knew.
They were pushing this as far as they could get it to go. If someone were thinking logically 50 years ago or longer, one would realize that current trends would not continue. The US would not remain atop the world and the birth rate would not maintain under the pressure of feminism. Getting out-reproduced by other nations is a death sentence, ultimately. So, letting women act like men had a timeframe on it. Hope those who advocated this thought it was worth it. I'll be checked out for the final act.
The early academic feminists were too smart and too capable for their own good. Rather than just saying "the current social sexual paradigm doesn't benefit me and also I hate my dad" they instead came up with a specious but ultimately convincing totalizing ideology of oppression to justify their lesbianism and/or sexual pathologies. Luckily the smart Jewish ladies are being replaced by much dumber (and far more hideous) "POC" so the thing is basically just running on fumes now
Let them suffer
During the latter part of my career in government, I switched my employment to a small state government corrections agency. Their paperwork system was a bit wacky. I attended video meetings and witnessed on a regular basis women literally weeping during these meetings. It was embarassing, even if I felt sorry for these gals.
Women weeping at work on a regular basis?? I find this hard to believe, how is that kind of behaviour tolerated.
Oh yes, its true. It seems they spend half their time as hardened “boss babes” and the other half falling apart. For ten years I worked as an adjunct (part-time) university instructor and women would have panic attacks while I was lecturing, completely unrelated to what was going on in the classroom. Something like 24% of American women are on some kind of psychotropic medicatioon
Modern feminists claim that western males are still not sharing child rearing burdens and that this is the cause of widespread pressure on women. It’s a fair take, and could explain a lot.
thank you Becky - yes great idea.