I think the rareness is where I find hope. Certainly in this country (UK) time after time surveys find the majority of both sex express very traditional aspirations. Of course the men are ignored while feminist organisations always loudly demand all these women are "educated" out of such ideas. Yet in fact in my daily life most people do indeed reflect the survey results. Whereas a relatively small number of men and women in our civil institutions are fully on board with feminism. Effectively those who went to "Oxbridge" or Russell Group Universities. Now the wheels are gradually falling off this "elite's" hold, in a very deferential society, as people look on incredulously at notions such as "trans" and multiple genders wildly divergent treatment of different groups (most notably the "asian grooming gangs") and evident direct discriminations in favour of women. There is considerable attempts to hush this disquiet and lots of handwringing about the "chasm" between those in authority and the wider public. With the supposedly "woke" younger generations far more skeptical of feminism than the supposedly conservative "boomers" I have hope that there will be a shift. In a similar way the formerly PC Scandinavian and northern european nations have made a massive change of attitude to immigration and multiculturalism, under huge pressure from their people. In short I'm hopeful. I think there is a danger to assume the outcomes, for instance the UK being Europe's leader in % of single parent/blended/chaotic "families, is what people aspired to.
I think the rareness is where I find hope. Certainly in this country (UK) time after time surveys find the majority of both sex express very traditional aspirations. Of course the men are ignored while feminist organisations always loudly demand all these women are "educated" out of such ideas. Yet in fact in my daily life most people do indeed reflect the survey results. Whereas a relatively small number of men and women in our civil institutions are fully on board with feminism. Effectively those who went to "Oxbridge" or Russell Group Universities. Now the wheels are gradually falling off this "elite's" hold, in a very deferential society, as people look on incredulously at notions such as "trans" and multiple genders wildly divergent treatment of different groups (most notably the "asian grooming gangs") and evident direct discriminations in favour of women. There is considerable attempts to hush this disquiet and lots of handwringing about the "chasm" between those in authority and the wider public. With the supposedly "woke" younger generations far more skeptical of feminism than the supposedly conservative "boomers" I have hope that there will be a shift. In a similar way the formerly PC Scandinavian and northern european nations have made a massive change of attitude to immigration and multiculturalism, under huge pressure from their people. In short I'm hopeful. I think there is a danger to assume the outcomes, for instance the UK being Europe's leader in % of single parent/blended/chaotic "families, is what people aspired to.