We were talking about how men and women are different. Normally I'd start a chapter like that with “Aside from the obvious physical differences ...” But I couldn't even do that. There are feminists and transgenders' rights activists who claim that even the physical differences are not present at birth, but present themselves based on how the parent of the child treats them throughout their childhood.
This is nonsense, obviously.
But I wanted to talk about a couple other aspects of feminism and where I think it's gone wrong. If you're interested in this sort of study, check out Christina Hoff-Sommers, the most brilliant feminist I have had the privilege to listen to.
Feminism seems to have been a movement where women were standing up and trying to prove – be it the case or no – that they were just as capable as men were. I mean, great. Of course, women and men have different strengths and should play to them, but I get the idea; women are just as valuable as men, just as important to the symbiosis that they inhabit together. So I can get behind that.
These days, however, feminism seems to want to go backwards. Girls at colleges who hear opposing viewpoints claim that they need therapy, and that the patriarchy has violated them. A law student at Harvard Law asked for the word “violated” to be removed from the curriculum because it was triggering to her. There are books and entire subjects that women across the country – women my age – are claiming they cannot study because it is too mentally scarring for them.
They're claiming that they can't handle men coming on to them at all, and that a man just looking at them wrong is a violation. That men desiring to sleep with women is disgusting, especially if they show their desire, but if they don't, they're pigs who have unrealistic beauty standards.
Newsflash, it's not that you're ugly, it's that you're a bitch. Who is ugly.
Men want women who are aware of themselves and their appearance. Women who make an effort. Typically not the kind you see on magazines, but the kind who puts some though into their outfit for a date. Men typically don't want women who think all men are pigs. Men typically don't want women who have tried out enough men to seriously believe that all men are pigs.
(I'm speaking in terms of short to long-term relationships; for casual sex men might not consider these things so much).
Women in this country are claiming they have been molested if a man sits wrong on the subway; meanwhile, in the middle east, girls as young as seven are being married off to strangers. In Europe, Familial Rape Gangs where fathers, sons, cousins, etc., go out for a night of actual molestation of teenagers are becoming a thing. In Europe (Rotherham in the UK, if you feel like Googling it).
The part about women suddenly trying to claim that we are fragile and unable to learn certain subjects is the least upsetting of all these developments in Western Culture. We need to turn from this kind of behavior. We need o go back to the days when we were trying to prove that we were just as capable (even if in some areas, we're not. But that's okay).