Feminist
The most prolific source of views and narratives that harm women.
A group containing almost no mothers, which suggests that for women, like any other group of people, there is incredible variance in their values, preferences, priorities and attitudes. This implies that a movement alleging to speak for them as a group is tepid at best - like every other movement.
A feminist insists that the best way to adjudicate differences between the sexes is by making it political. This will, by definition, generate conflict between men and women, which then has a tendency to devolve rather quickly into a MARXIST depiction of reality. This is by design.
Like every other political special interest, it relies on dancing the rhetorical line between legitimate advocacy and self-serving accumulations of power. Any power will be enjoyed almost entirely by the loudest and most affluent feminists, who will masquerade as martyrs for a cause that alleges to benefit all women. Feminism as a movement reduces the vast majority of women to pawns, whose numbers alone give the illusion of legitimacy to the special interest that only benefits the ambitious few leading the charge.
Once enough power has been accumulated, women everywhere will be thanked for their ‘support.’ Women will be reminded (yet again) that feminists do not represent their interests in any meaningful sense, that is, unless your interests align precisely with theirs. Otherwise, you are not a woman worthy of representation because you do not serve the cause. Whose cause exactly? That of the academic intellectual feminist, of course.
Feminism has never been about choice; it is about prescription. Simone de Beauvoir believed that women should not be given a choice because too many would pick motherhood and domesticity over alternatives. What are these alternatives? Those that align with the interests of a select group of affluent intellectual women, of course! Forego everything that provides both men and women with their most reliable sense of purpose so they can pursue demanding careers that take a toll on both their mental and physical well-being. Feminists seem to think this makes men happy – it does not – because they associate power with fulfillment, and this is the glaring flaw in their approach.
A feminist tries to convince others that the best way for women to behave is as the worst version of men.
This racket will be recycled for subsequent generations of young women, where it will be rebranded as the next wave in female liberation. This guarantees that women will be miserable forever while they are lied to about what genuinely makes people happy.
Also, you must be one. Or else. Apparently.
See: CUTTLEFISH, INTELLECTUALS, POLITICS
Revised: 17 Mar 2023
