"Gender is now seen as a moral failing because men are seen as oppressors and perpetrators, morally bad, and women are seen as innocent victims, morally good."
(forgive me jumping in here, this is such a great blog/ thread)
I'm not sure how much the new generation of progressives even care about feminism's treatise on gender (men bad/ women good). It feels like that whole debate peaked around 2014 and has now given way to a whole new conversation about gender. It feels like the whole 'battle of the sexes' has achieved its true goal of making gender a giant dumpster fire for everyone.
The new generation of progressive ideologues are not even seeking to win the 'battle of the sexes' or resolve the differences between men and women. They are now seeking to escape gender altogether.
And just as the pill/ abortion/ welfare/ daycare allowed women to escape the horrors womanhood/ motherhood... we now have new technologies which will allow young people to escape the horrors of the gender binary (or so the marketing claims).
Feminism's social construct theory has already detached gender from biology/ reproduction/ pair bonding/ parenting to the extent that many young people now don't feel part of a binary species (or a binary universe) any more. They have become fully atomised and fully configurable, thanks to an vast array of hormonal, fashion and makeup choices, neo-pronouns and sub cultures.
Social constructivism dismantled gender, and now technology is giving everyone a chance to rebuild it ('build back better'), but this time on their own terms, and not the terms dictated by nature (sexual dimorphism, the demands of reproduction etc).
While we adults continue to look for a way to reconcile men and women, and heal the split created by decades of feminist poison, the kids are being lured into a Brave New World of transhumanism (which I contend has been the unstated goal of feminism for at least the last 100 years).
The battle to reconcile the sexes, is now a battle to retain our human form and our biological function (fertility is plummeting/ pregnancy complications and dysfunction are soaring), and even to retain the principles of male and female in our culture (let alone celebrate them!)
Artificial wombs are only a decade away (so we are told). And in the mean time the youth are being offered 100 new pseudo-genders of their choosing, complete with buckets of glitter and rainbows and fashion accessories, none of which have anything to do with natural reproduction. The idea of 'abstract' genitalia is now a thing, with surgeries being proposed which do not even attempt to mimic penises or vaginas ...
And while all this is going on those two old fashioned (outdated) genders (male and female) are being quietly ushered out of the back door and bundled into the back of a van, and taken off to their retirement homes (or thrown down a well).
Let's not forget that feminists themselves are being kicked off the bus if they continue to hold to a gender binary world view. I contend that feminism (as it was) is over. It has taken society as far as it can, and has now passed the baton over to a whole new breed of gender ideologue: the gender queers and non binaries.
Only feminists who accept gender as a 100% social construct (ie a meaningless and arbitrary term) can avoid being thrown off the bus. In a recent debate with a TERF, I pointed out that she is no longer radical or welcome in the mainstream feminist movement, and that her views are now conservative in nature (as is anyone who adheres to a binary view of gender), and that she should consider herself a conservative ex feminist).
How relevant is feminism (as it was) if even feminists are being thrown off the bus and labelled 'phobes' for sticking to their old fashioned narratives about 'men' and 'women', as if such concepts are still valid?
Reading the accounts of transitioners (and detransitioners), I see a whole new take on gender which is mostly solipsistic, narcissistic, hedonistic, identity based and informed by online digital culture.
In modern post industrial cities the difference between men and women were minimised. Men and women rode the subway together, shopped together and worked in offices together. But online there is no gender at all, no physicality, no pheromones, no scent, no chemistry and no electrical charge in the air. This is where young people now live and interact. What does 'gender politics' even mean if everyone is online, and the physical realm is just a means to get from one screen to another?
The digital / social credit dystopia will make us all equally enslaved under a technocracy in a completely gender neutral way. Gender equality will finally have been achieved. Yay! Everyone gets to be a digital salve (global citizen).
"feminism offers no path to redemption."
Exactly. Nor was it ever meant to IMHO. Feminism achieved its goal of turning gender into a dysfunctional, depressing, run down slum..... and now new technology is providing a one way ticket out of there.
"Gender is now seen as a moral failing because men are seen as oppressors and perpetrators, morally bad, and women are seen as innocent victims, morally good."
(forgive me jumping in here, this is such a great blog/ thread)
I'm not sure how much the new generation of progressives even care about feminism's treatise on gender (men bad/ women good). It feels like that whole debate peaked around 2014 and has now given way to a whole new conversation about gender. It feels like the whole 'battle of the sexes' has achieved its true goal of making gender a giant dumpster fire for everyone.
The new generation of progressive ideologues are not even seeking to win the 'battle of the sexes' or resolve the differences between men and women. They are now seeking to escape gender altogether.
And just as the pill/ abortion/ welfare/ daycare allowed women to escape the horrors womanhood/ motherhood... we now have new technologies which will allow young people to escape the horrors of the gender binary (or so the marketing claims).
Feminism's social construct theory has already detached gender from biology/ reproduction/ pair bonding/ parenting to the extent that many young people now don't feel part of a binary species (or a binary universe) any more. They have become fully atomised and fully configurable, thanks to an vast array of hormonal, fashion and makeup choices, neo-pronouns and sub cultures.
Social constructivism dismantled gender, and now technology is giving everyone a chance to rebuild it ('build back better'), but this time on their own terms, and not the terms dictated by nature (sexual dimorphism, the demands of reproduction etc).
While we adults continue to look for a way to reconcile men and women, and heal the split created by decades of feminist poison, the kids are being lured into a Brave New World of transhumanism (which I contend has been the unstated goal of feminism for at least the last 100 years).
The battle to reconcile the sexes, is now a battle to retain our human form and our biological function (fertility is plummeting/ pregnancy complications and dysfunction are soaring), and even to retain the principles of male and female in our culture (let alone celebrate them!)
Artificial wombs are only a decade away (so we are told). And in the mean time the youth are being offered 100 new pseudo-genders of their choosing, complete with buckets of glitter and rainbows and fashion accessories, none of which have anything to do with natural reproduction. The idea of 'abstract' genitalia is now a thing, with surgeries being proposed which do not even attempt to mimic penises or vaginas ...
And while all this is going on those two old fashioned (outdated) genders (male and female) are being quietly ushered out of the back door and bundled into the back of a van, and taken off to their retirement homes (or thrown down a well).
Let's not forget that feminists themselves are being kicked off the bus if they continue to hold to a gender binary world view. I contend that feminism (as it was) is over. It has taken society as far as it can, and has now passed the baton over to a whole new breed of gender ideologue: the gender queers and non binaries.
Only feminists who accept gender as a 100% social construct (ie a meaningless and arbitrary term) can avoid being thrown off the bus. In a recent debate with a TERF, I pointed out that she is no longer radical or welcome in the mainstream feminist movement, and that her views are now conservative in nature (as is anyone who adheres to a binary view of gender), and that she should consider herself a conservative ex feminist).
How relevant is feminism (as it was) if even feminists are being thrown off the bus and labelled 'phobes' for sticking to their old fashioned narratives about 'men' and 'women', as if such concepts are still valid?
Reading the accounts of transitioners (and detransitioners), I see a whole new take on gender which is mostly solipsistic, narcissistic, hedonistic, identity based and informed by online digital culture.
In modern post industrial cities the difference between men and women were minimised. Men and women rode the subway together, shopped together and worked in offices together. But online there is no gender at all, no physicality, no pheromones, no scent, no chemistry and no electrical charge in the air. This is where young people now live and interact. What does 'gender politics' even mean if everyone is online, and the physical realm is just a means to get from one screen to another?
The digital / social credit dystopia will make us all equally enslaved under a technocracy in a completely gender neutral way. Gender equality will finally have been achieved. Yay! Everyone gets to be a digital salve (global citizen).
"feminism offers no path to redemption."
Exactly. Nor was it ever meant to IMHO. Feminism achieved its goal of turning gender into a dysfunctional, depressing, run down slum..... and now new technology is providing a one way ticket out of there.