Leonora Barclay: The Great Feminization Hasn't Gone Far Enough

I don't have any fixed view of this stuff.

Men and women (and, for that matter: males and females more broadly, to include nonhuman animals) tend to have some psychological differences. The male tendencies tend to be better for hunting and fighting, and the female tendencies for nurturing and raising young.

That doesn't tell us much about much, though.

It's likely that the influx of women is harming academia in the following sense: women are less likely to support free speech and objective inquiry, and more likely to be sucked into bullshit like critical theory, postmodernism, CRT and feminism.

Contra Ms. Barclay, I'd bet some money on the proposition that cancel culture wouldn't have happened without a lot of women influencing that aspect of the culture.

Now: women have also had good effects on academia, undoubtedly. In philosophy, in particular, I think the influx of women helped tone down the excessively combative style of analytic (or post-analytic) philosophy. That really was some stupid shit...and I say this despite having been very good at it... We all used to defend it by representing it as some kind of crucible of truth...but egos got too much involved...and it became like a kind of pathetic battle for dominance... A really pathetic one...

Anyway, thing is, we'll have to admit that both male and female tendencies can be good and/or bad, depending on what we're doing. Men's overall natural tendencies aren't the best thing in every context, and neither are women's.

And, of course: they're just general tendencies--they're not exhibited by every man, woman, boy or girl.

The greatest current danger is to refuse to criticize women's general tendencies, and to over-criticize men's. That certainly wasn't always the case. Currently, male-bashing is everywhere...but even obvious points that so much as suggest criticism of women's general tendencies are verboten e.g. in academia.

So we have to get over that shit.

Oh and: politics:  women have been a--or perhaps the--main driving force in the Woketarian madness that's wrecked the country--and the Western world--for a decade. Women lean left politically...and that's a catastrophe...at least when it goes as far as it has recently. (I'm not impressed by Barclay's counterpoint here...but admittedly it deserves more thought).

However: it's really unmarried women who are the core of that problem.

Right now, it looks like unmarried women and nonwhites are likely to vote us into a Euro-shit future. And that would be a catastrophe.

Of course, from the perspective of the left, those groups are on track to save us...