On feminism, child-rearing, sexual violence, porn and male responsibility: Some thoughts

From Nov 2019 - Just prior to Catholic conversion

Feminists against motherhood

This is an argument about the unintended consequences of the alignment of feminism, consumer capitalism and youth culture in the 1960s. We have managed to produce a culture of sex and procreation that works terribly for women and is so bad for men that many are blithely unaware of this fact. But instead of starting again, feminists in academia and public policy tend to double down on precisely those aspects of their ideological program that are (in part) responsible for: alienating women from their children; constructing sex as mechanical, transactional and emptied of social or psycho-affective meaning; producing weak and immature boys and men who are unable to embrace the obligations of marriage and family; compounding poverty and social exclusion for the most marginal ethnic and class groups in society. At the same time, the misogynist agenda of many biologically male trans-activists is rooted in the same denial of the biological, procreational and relat…