This comment by Piercedhead on the spearhead was very prescient:
The interesting thing about women becoming increasingly exempt from consequences is that it is precisely this that keeps them so far behind men in terms of achievement and contributing to civilization. Men’s greatness isn’t derived from being leaders, board directors, scientists etc – it comes from them being held accountable for their actions. Without this, nothing great is possible. Yet women, especially feminists, shrink from this almost violently. It’s very easy to come to the conclusion that women’s advocates haven’t really been interested in rising to become men’s equals, but have instead only formulated ways of securing status and wealth for themselves.
Since women have never needed to prove themselves in any way other than to bear children, it’s arguable that it will be forever thus. They may well have hitched a ride out of the jungle on the backs of men’s ingenuity – there was never any evolutionary necessity for them to rise above their primal state. If this is the cold reality of it, then by admitting them into all ranks of life, our future is very bleak indeed.
The interesting thing about women becoming increasingly exempt from consequences is that it is precisely this that keeps them so far behind men in terms of achievement and contributing to civilization. Men’s greatness isn’t derived from being leaders, board directors, scientists etc – it comes from them being held accountable for their actions. Without this, nothing great is possible. Yet women, especially feminists, shrink from this almost violently. It’s very easy to come to the conclusion that women’s advocates haven’t really been interested in rising to become men’s equals, but have instead only formulated ways of securing status and wealth for themselves.
Since women have never needed to prove themselves in any way other than to bear children, it’s arguable that it will be forever thus. They may well have hitched a ride out of the jungle on the backs of men’s ingenuity – there was never any evolutionary necessity for them to rise above their primal state. If this is the cold reality of it, then by admitting them into all ranks of life, our future is very bleak indeed.