American feminism has moved beyond merely missing the point to actively harming women. By Anna Danvers.
In the prehistoric 1990s, my parents taught me that there was no wrong way to be a girl. Today, if a girl dislikes the color pink and prefers trucks to dolls, she’s told that womanhood is not for her but that we can fix wrong girls at the gender clinic.
In just three decades, the vision of womanhood in which girls can be anything has been replaced by a medical protocol to fix girls who are not girly enough. We block their puberty with cancer drugs, flood them with testosterone, and give them hysterectomies and double mastectomies. We give them Frankenstein surgeries in which we slice the skin off their forearms to create an appendage intended to resemble a penis. Then, presumably, these girls are finally acceptable to liberal feminists: when they’re men. …
The doctrine also teaches teenagers that saying no to sex based on someone’s genitalia is “transphobic,” so girls are no longer allowed to say no to sex for any reason they please, or no reason at all. Gone are the days of that old-fashioned no means no tripe. …
More and more western countries allow so-called “self-ID,” which permits any man to access women’s spaces based only upon his claim that he “feels” female. This poses obvious risks to the safety of women but according to American liberal feminists, denying men access to women invalidates the men’s feelings, which is apparently the one cardinal sin a feminist must never commit. …
The good news is that the average man recognizes gender identity disguised as feminism for the misogyny it is. For over a decade, I got nowhere blabbing about women’s rights at my house. Yet now, in the upside-down world of 2021, my husband is suddenly a feminist for the same reason that Tucker Carlson is: they acknowledge that womanhood is real, and they’re man enough to say it.
Feminism was mostly about getting good jobs for upper middle class women. The welfare of other women was, in the final analysis, incidental — just a means to an end. Get with the program, comrades.
