The coming era of feminine tyranny
Feminism plus safetyism means a more invasive, finger-wagging government
Leftists and feminists have seized control of the vast majority of our civic institutions and are coming for the rest of them. For a glimpse of what this future could look like, observe what’s been happening on some of our most prestigious college campuses. Administrators, disproportionately female, are seizing tight control over the student population through aggressive COVID policies (see Michael Tracey’s excellent coverage of this). College students, nearly 100% of whom are vaccinated already, have been limited in their activities, prevented from socializing and gathering in groups, and even stopped from leaving the county, in the case of Princeton University. So far, colleges have also been slow to remove restrictions.
Many campuses opened up snitch hotlines or email addresses for people to rat out their fellow students for failing to adhere to mask mandates or other COVID policies early in the pandemic. At a few colleges, administrators have required the use of certain technologies to track students’ movements as part of their COVID enforcement efforts. (By the way, if you want to get a sense of what a joke a university like Princeton has become, check out this woke question time with the president from the 2/17 Daily Princetonian.)
You can also look to New Zealand for a utopia of feminine tyranny. Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern’s heavy-handed policies have kept COVID in check with only around 55 deaths. This is remarkable, but it has come at a tremendous cost to citizens of the island nation who are now starting to lash back against all of the mandates. Unfortunately, the authoritarian feminist hero couldn’t lock everyone down forever or keep COVID out forever and cases are, after 2 years, skyrocketing for the first time.
Meanwhile in my hometown of Washington, DC, the mayor has lifted the month-old vaccine pass requirement for restaurants and other public accommodations, but life has not returned to normal and many leftists are not about to give up their masks or determination to control others. DC Councilmember Brianne Nadeau thusly tweeted her outrage about the lifting of the mandate before backing down on Friday.
Obviously these are only a few stories, but if, as so many on the left hope- the future is female- it is probably going to be an authoritarian nightmare. Just as Jacinda Ardern intends to “make life difficult” for those who refuse to submit to her permanent vaccine regimen, Canadian Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland is now making life hellish for anyone associated with the truckers protesting against COVID mandates. Obviously, the World Economic Forum is calling the shots, but Freeland is being used skillfully by Justin Trudeau to soften the delivery of vicious new financial policies, which include going after those who merely donated money to the truckers.

For as long as I can remember the Democrats have been the more feminine political party, however in recent years it has reached a place of deranged goddess worship. The benefits are great for a few women here and there, like Kamala Harris and Biden’s forthcoming Supreme Court pick, but this elevating of women to “hero” status in the public discourse basically just pits us all against each other. Not to mention the fact that it has pushed feminism into the bizarre reaches of doing “exposés” on cheerleaders being sexually harassed.
The Women’s March was perhaps the moment at which boorish, incoherent, arrogant feminism took over the modern left. This hogging of the spotlight as the “victims” of Trump merely being elected was a mass-scale act of narcissism. The pink hats and the handmaid outfits were just the kind of emotional display that plagues social media discourse and is ruining our children and many of us.
This unchecked feminism has taken its cultural toll. Just lately it has taken a virus deadly only to the old and obese and turned it into a giant, multi-year hoax, dragged out this pandemic in ways that maximize harm to the least vulnerable (and extroverts), and broadly sought to eliminate danger in society. This is perhaps a commendable goal on its face, but exposure to danger is a good thing, especially for boys. A mother and father are, or should be, in a constant tug of war over how to protect their children versus give them the right amount of freedom. This is how a child grows. The left has destroyed this concept as you can see everywhere- new playgrounds in DC and big cities across the country are padded now. Yes, padded or filled with wood chips. There’s no pavement to hurt yourself on anymore and the playgrounds are usually occupied by more grownups than kids.
Children, teenagers, and young adults are paying the price of this safetyism, a term coined by Jonathan Haidt, worst of all in the form of dramatically rising rates of mental illness. But it doesn’t leave anyone unscathed. Mental illness has shot up everywhere and Fauci has made all of this much worse by dragging out this pandemic in the name of safety, of course. The only thing that seems to stop the left from doing anything is fear of it being called racism. This bizarre trend has closed the Overton window almost completely to Christians and anyone slightly conservative. That should work out well.
I’m all for women having great success in politics or other career endeavors, so long as they aren’t working to destroy the American people and take away their faith and common sense. But the endless spread of wokeness by so many women and their male allies/worshippers has completely redefined basic morality for so many. The praise of BLM protesters and statue-destroyers against the moral condemnation of truckers is one example especially maddening to those outside the matrix. The statement “Black Lives Matter” while a few hundred thousand black babies in America are aborted each year is nonsensical and evil, really. Free speech for liberals and calling everything you don’t like “hate speech” is another of these moral incoherences.
These double standards that are being increasingly institutionalized do not make sense and cannot hold. They’re tearing the nation apart because both sides are starting to think the whole system is unfair. And they’re increasingly right as Derek Chauvin rots in solitary confinement for kneeling on a 6’5”, 250-lb. intoxicated man who just had a panic attack while a young man in Louisville is bailed out within hours of shooting at a mayoral candidate.
It is part of the broader trend of anarchotyranny and it is coming to a community near you. Under the guise of advancing women’s interests or a more progressive criminal justice system, we’ve allowed our fundamental shared values- individual liberty, autonomy, free speech, due process, and much more- to collapse. I’m not sure of the way out but it seems like the drug companies and big tech and big government are using this new feminized landscape to push too hard on the people and force us towards some kind of grand-scale cultural re-evaluation.
Feminist is too nice of a name for toxic, vindictive, loud mouthed, argumentative, controlling and ruminating in victimhood.
The leftist/WOKE philosophy is as flexible as a Möbius strip. While men are being emasculated by being labeled as toxic, some men are reacting to this by pretending to become women. We live in a sick and perverted society, much like Rome during the reign of Caligula. Unless things turn around very quickly, our nation, our culture, and our history will be erased and forgotten.