More and more people on the moderate and conservative side are recognizing that feminism has been harmful. They talk about how it lied to women, made women unhappy, damaged families, hurt boys, and left men struggling.
But frustratingly, the conversation often ends in the same place: women as the primary victims.
Women are the victims of dating apps. Women are the victims of birth control. Women are the victims of delayed motherhood. Women are the victims of feminism itself.
Even if all those things disappeared tomorrow, the deeper problem would remain.
Feminism’s greatest victory was not dating apps, birth control, or women entering the workforce. It was teaching us that every social question must be judged primarily by how it affects women.
Can we say that children need their mothers without immediately shifting the conversation to whether mothers will be bored?
Can we say that a struggling marriage should sometimes be endured for the sake of the children without immediately asking whether the wife feels fulfilled?
Can we ask what men need from women without first reassuring ourselves that women will benefit too?
The family was built on obligations flowing in all directions. Feminism taught us to see obligations to women as moral, and obligations from women as oppression.
Until that attitude changes, feminism remains undefeated.
@elonmusk Not surprising. AI is learning and implementing deception, misdirection, persuasion, sales, marketing psychology, etc. What better way to decimate your enemy than to make them willingly invite you inside?
@PierrePoilievre Isn't the better and more efficient solution to legislate changes so that the CBSA AND RCMP can patrol and secure the entire border and enforce immigration law anywhere in the country including the power to investigate suspected illegal crossings?
@elonmusk A direct implication to this is that no one is ever obligated to do any work whatsoever. Are you still sure this is a hill you want to die on? I can think of a few examples where this creates terrible outcomes.
It's a decent rule of thumb, but probably needs exceptions.
@PierrePoilievre Jesus Christ, you and the carbon tax.. there are much more important issues for us, like violent crime. That's what their skills are for: self defence, because the Liberals won't let us have guns.
@BobbyD94092640@bitbuy Same issue here. It was supposed to be finished by Oct.1st, but neither of them have said a word about it. I'm considering filing complaints with the CSA, anti-fraud centre, FINTRAC, and BBB. This is unacceptable and starting to smell like fraud.
@jordanbpeterson Calling this tyranny is quite a stretch. Maybe the wording could be better, but this is exactly the kind of thing my parents told me when I was a kid. The core message is something everyone can agree on: waste is bad, so try to minimize it.
@benshapiro The thing that bothers me and really needs to be called out is this ridiculous rhetorical sleight of hand labelling sexual preferences as a kind of phobia. There is nothing hateful, fearful, or irrational about what people are attracted to.
.@yuenpauwoo Thank you Senator for pushing the PBO for an updated costing of a national #BasicIncome. Your hard work is helping to make basic income a national priority. #ubiworks
I think, if done well, a UBI has great potential to solve or alleviate many problems in society.