I must leave the house in ten minutes, so I'll just make one comment for the moment. This election was about more than men and women (although it highlighted that particular conflict more than earlier elections had). Or, to put this in slightly different terms, the election was not fueled entirely by conflicting claims about either men or women. Rather, it was fueled by a congeries of closely related and usually allied ideologies--those that are known collectively as wokism. Each ideology has its own target for hatred, but all have the same structure. To defeat one, therefore, means to defeat them all. Defeating feminsm, for example, would ultimately entail defeating the cultural goulash that sustains identity politics in every form: intersectionalism, critical gender theory, critical race theory, postmodernism, anti-Zionism, anti-Semitism, anti-Americanism and especially anti-Westernism. Even a mortal blow to an ideological strategy such as the teaching of contempt (in education, journalism and entertainment) or the mobilization of resentment (in party politics), would ultimately be a mortal blow to the others. Gone, even now, is the unquestioned respectability of DEI--and the dubious assumptions that made it possible in the first place. Though not entirely vanquished, it's on the way out or at least on the defensive. More and more institutions were abandoning it, in fact, even before election day. This is indeed an astonishing turning point for men, I think, and not only for men.
I must leave the house in ten minutes, so I'll just make one comment for the moment. This election was about more than men and women (although it highlighted that particular conflict more than earlier elections had). Or, to put this in slightly different terms, the election was not fueled entirely by conflicting claims about either men or women. Rather, it was fueled by a congeries of closely related and usually allied ideologies--those that are known collectively as wokism. Each ideology has its own target for hatred, but all have the same structure. To defeat one, therefore, means to defeat them all. Defeating feminsm, for example, would ultimately entail defeating the cultural goulash that sustains identity politics in every form: intersectionalism, critical gender theory, critical race theory, postmodernism, anti-Zionism, anti-Semitism, anti-Americanism and especially anti-Westernism. Even a mortal blow to an ideological strategy such as the teaching of contempt (in education, journalism and entertainment) or the mobilization of resentment (in party politics), would ultimately be a mortal blow to the others. Gone, even now, is the unquestioned respectability of DEI--and the dubious assumptions that made it possible in the first place. Though not entirely vanquished, it's on the way out or at least on the defensive. More and more institutions were abandoning it, in fact, even before election day. This is indeed an astonishing turning point for men, I think, and not only for men.
Well said. As usual.