Teaching Slaves to Read
“Men making other men Red Pill aware, is like teaching slaves to read.”
“A generation of women was raised to hate men. Feminism is to blame.” — Brian, Whatever Podcast.
Feminism is the go-to rationale for Red Pill hustlers and TradCons alike. No matter the gendered issue, sexism, or misandry, the specter of Feminism is always the easiest way to dismiss a workable solution. It’s one of the few unfalsifiable shibboleths of modern degeneracy both sides can agree upon. But feminism is now a convenient scapegoat to explain away the natural inconsistencies and duplicity of women since the Sexual Revolution.
In 2017, Milo Yianopolis said less than 12% of American women “identified as feminists.” This, of course, was meant to imply that feminism was on a sharp decline, and more women than ever were coming to the realization that feminism was never about the best interests of women, much less about gender parity. My criticism then, as now, was that in the 21st century, it is effectively meaningless to identify as a feminist. For anyone born in a WEIRD (Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, Democratic) country after 1965, feminist ideology has influenced the way we understand male and female nature.
Ideological “feminism” has become such a part of our social fabric that four generations after Gloria Steinem and Betty Friedan, we have 19-year-old girls on Fresh & Fit Podcast reiterating what used to be radical feminist rhetoric as self-evident facts. Sixty years later, pull quotes from Our Bodies, Ourselves, and The Feminine Mystique are parroted by women who “don’t identify as feminists,” oblivious to the source. Feminism transformed Western societies so thoroughly that Gynocentirsm as the normative social order is something we take for granted. But ‘feminism’ is a dead meme. As an ideology, it served its purpose by generationally redefining the culture. The Patriarchy is smashed, replaced not by Matriarchy or egalitarian utopianism but by Gynocentrism — a society organized by women, for women.
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