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Feb 7, 2022, 5 tweets

People talk about the feminization of public discourse at an abstract level. What does it look in practice? Cancel culture results from combining official belief in equality with human nature, which means no one taking that belief to its logical conclusion richardhanania.substack.com/p/womens-tears…

Confrontations between men have a natural end point. You argue, make your position clear, and then fight or move on. These options are not available when getting yelled at by a woman. Men are somewhat baffled by what to do here, and most will do anything to end the confrontation.

A blow-by-blow of the Yale Halloween costume video from 2015. Most of the inquisitors are women, and they behave very differently from the men who are involved.

Hillary Clinton: “Women have always been the primary victims of war. Women lose their husbands, their fathers, their sons in combat.”

Is every branch of conservatism a cope? Each invents a male enemy to avoid the idea that all they're fighting is women's tears. War-mongers (Saddam, China), populists (capitalists), obsession with philosophy (Foucault).

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