Thank you for this wonderful article, Dr. Fiamengo. Very astute observations and well-supported arguments. I've long been fascinated by feminism's attempts to regulate an economy of victimhood so that women will always be "the haves" and men "the have-nots." Much like other regulatory bodies--such as the Federal Reserve in the United States--that seek to stabilize or strengthen currencies by adjusting interest rates, the regulators of the value that feminism wants to place on victimhood seem to view fear as a tool that they can manipulate to ratchet victimhood into the range where it optimizes perceptions of the pitiable female victim at the hands of the scurrilous male oppressor. I'm sure they're also emboldened by the custom of allowing regulatory bodies to act with a high degree of impunity: few investigators or media agencies--aside from people like Dr. Fiamengo--will call them out on their ruthless, senseless, and generally deplorable tactics.
Thank you for this wonderful article, Dr. Fiamengo. Very astute observations and well-supported arguments. I've long been fascinated by feminism's attempts to regulate an economy of victimhood so that women will always be "the haves" and men "the have-nots." Much like other regulatory bodies--such as the Federal Reserve in the United States--that seek to stabilize or strengthen currencies by adjusting interest rates, the regulators of the value that feminism wants to place on victimhood seem to view fear as a tool that they can manipulate to ratchet victimhood into the range where it optimizes perceptions of the pitiable female victim at the hands of the scurrilous male oppressor. I'm sure they're also emboldened by the custom of allowing regulatory bodies to act with a high degree of impunity: few investigators or media agencies--aside from people like Dr. Fiamengo--will call them out on their ruthless, senseless, and generally deplorable tactics.
I've never thought of the subject in quite this way: ingenious use of the economic metaphor!