{"id":26960,"date":"2015-07-21T01:00:49","date_gmt":"2015-07-21T05:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=26960"},"modified":"2015-07-14T21:04:31","modified_gmt":"2015-07-15T01:04:31","slug":"qotd-the-feminist-movement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2015\/07\/21\/qotd-the-feminist-movement\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: The feminist movement"},"content":{"rendered":"

As entertaining as these little vignettes may be, they\u2019re also indicative of a more dispiriting and concerning philosophy that has overtaken a great many young people, both men and women, at the beginning of the 21st century. The early Western feminist movements generally possessed a nobility and righteousness that rendered the ideology both powerful and admirable. It is no small feat, after all, to reverse several millennia\u2019s worth of systematic oppression and discrimination, and the women\u2019s rights campaigns of the 19th and 20th centuries are some of the crown jewels of Western civilization. Emmeline Pankhurst may have been a bit radical here and there, but at least she was right. Nowadays among the ranks of feminism you\u2019re less likely to find a principled zealot like Pankhurst and more likely to find a repellant, theory-drenched curmudgeon like Andrea Dworkin.<\/p>\n

There is a word that embodies the kind of single-minded fanaticism of modern feminism: a cult. […]<\/p>\n

It\u2019s fashionable these days for feminists to try and convince others of their own latent feminism; \u201cYou\u2019re a feminist,\u201d they claim, \u201cif you believe in equality between the sexes.\u201d Political and social equality between the sexes is one of the most worthwhile and noble goals to which a society can aspire, but as we\u2019ve seen, modern feminism is about so much more than that: it\u2019s a neurotic, insular, self-aggrandizing, and paranoid ideology that aims to spread fear, small-mindedness and agonistic self-criticism and self-doubt over even an uncomplicated and enjoyable idea such as the bouquet toss. Is it any surprise that many prominent young women<\/a> are rejecting the label altogether? <\/p>\n

Daniel Payne, “The Many Fabricated Enemies of Feminists”, The Federalist<\/em><\/a>, 2014-07-22.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As entertaining as these little vignettes may be, they\u2019re also indicative of a more dispiriting and concerning philosophy that has overtaken a great many young people, both men and women, at the beginning of the 21st century. The early Western feminist movements generally possessed a nobility and righteousness that rendered the ideology both powerful and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,10,53,41],"tags":[987,622,720,303,43],"class_list":["post-26960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-liberty","category-politics","category-quotations","tag-feminism","tag-ideology","tag-protest","tag-sexism","tag-women"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-70Q","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26960"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26962,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26960\/revisions\/26962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}