Thread by @JewhadiTM

I Am Woman, Hear Me Whine (via Bruce Thornton) frontpagemag.com/fpm/2020/03/i-…

Why do the luckiest, most privileged women ever to exist keep on whining about “patriarchy” and “sexism”?

As is the case with Hillary Clinton, criticism of a political persona dripping with schoolmarm condescension, self-righteousness, and arrogant disdain is redeemed by transforming these flaws into question-begging slurs like “shrill” and “strident,”

and dismissing them as an “irrational prejudice,” a neurotic failure on the part of men to acknowledge her superior talents and “competence.”

Once again, we see how a movement that started as the removal of barriers to equal opportunity and women’s agency, has degenerated into an identity-politics weapon that strangely reinforces what equity feminism tried to eliminate:

The notion that women who are supposedly equal to men are in fact victims still needing protection from men, their stubborn sexist prejudices and “toxic masculinity.” Half a century after feminists started to “roar,” they’ve regressed to the whining of the weak.

One manifestation of this incoherence is the return of the once demonized “double standard,” with feminists now employing it to serve their interests.

So a Clinton or a Warren should not be criticized by men, at the same time women can be as vicious as they want to their ideological rivals.

Who can forget what Hillary and her minions did to Bill’s sexual assault victims like @atensnut?

So, according to the new double standard, Warren can brag about publicly berating and insulting Mike Bloomberg during a debate.

But nobody accuses her of misandry, using sexist “dog whistles,” displaying “toxic femininity,” or throwing around crude stereotypes about boorish men insufficiently sensitive to the fragility of women.

At the same time, she whines about the Bernie Bros whom she accuses of assaulting her with “hateful tweets.” And have you noticed how Tulsi Gabbard––smeared by Hillary as a “Russian asset”–– has been disappeared as thoroughly as Trotsky from a Soviet May Day photograph?

And where is the feminist outcry against the sexist DNC for changing the rules in the middle of the game in order to keep “woman of color” Gabbard from participating in the next debate?

All we hear are crickets from the same “woke” scolds whining about a primary finale starring two old, rich, heterosexual white males, the epitome of “racist, sexist, classist privileged” evil.

In other words, women are the equals of men––until it comes to the political or business or dating arena, which in real life has no laws.

But now, when a woman loses an election, fails to get a promotion, or uses bad judgment in picking a date, suddenly we’re back in Victorian England, where men were supposed to follow the chivalric code predicated on women’s weakness and need for male protectors.

Today that knight is usually the feds, with its HR commissars and poorly written harassment laws, that monitor and punish insufficiently “woke” men, even if the behavior is decades old.

Look no further than the recent Kavanaughing of ultra-progressive MSNBC host Chris Matthews.

A politically clumsy comparison of Bernie Sanders’ campaign to the Nazi invasion and occupation of France was punished by excavating charges that he made “inappropriate” comments about some women’s appearance and flirted clumsily.

Now, a truly strong, confident woman knows how to handle such behavior, if she really finds it offensive. But the new snowflake feminists, whether through careerist cunning or a sincere sense of grievance, can rifle through a powerful man’s history and, like Beria, find the crime

It’s this presumed fragility of women that violates the whole foundation of first-wave feminism. And it insults generations of women who had the cultural, religious, and familial resources for handling boorish males.

This infantilizing of women, moreover, follows from the class origins of modern feminism among the women who benefited most from modernity.

Rather than the strong, autonomous, independent women that equity feminism set out to create, today’s feminists are petulant whiners, always blaming others for their own shortcomings, and dependent on the new patriarchy of the Big Daddy Government.

Whatever you want to call them, they’re not feminists.