Shortly before a male friend called me to gripe about the treatment he’d received from one of my Facebook friends after he challenged her on a poorly-considered activist idea she’d floated, I’d read Helen Andrews’s viral essay for Compact, The Great Feminization. She argues that women’s success in breaking several glass ceilings are the cause of wokeness, that it’s the result of female social and relational dynamics subsuming formerly male cultures.
Andrews’s article went viral and many have weighed in. Some have pointed out she’s a conservative writer, so I guess we should assume none of the article is a good investment in time, and others have taken her to task for gender essentialism and another makes a weak case for how ‘feminization’ hasn’t gone far enough, but I think Andrews makes some good points while yes, being a bit prone to hyperbole about how this will be the death of civilization.
I think of it as ‘The Matriarchy’, and I don’t like it. I know that formerly-marginalized groups are no better at running the show than others; and if we’re going to be I*N*C*L*U*S*I*V*E, then that means everybody—including males, white people, straight, people whatever.
