{"id":28511,"date":"2015-12-19T01:00:39","date_gmt":"2015-12-19T06:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=28511"},"modified":"2015-12-09T06:53:01","modified_gmt":"2015-12-09T11:53:01","slug":"qotd-reactionary-views-on-gender","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2015\/12\/19\/qotd-reactionary-views-on-gender\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Reactionary views on gender"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>So the two things Reactionaries like to complain about all the time are race and sex, and since we have <em>more<\/em> then gone overboard with our lengthy diversion into race, we might as well take a quick look at sex.<\/p>\n<p>As far as I know, even the Reactionaries who are really into biological differences between races don\u2019t claim that women are intellectually inferior to men. I don\u2019t even think they necessarily believe there are biological differences between the two groups. And yet they are not really huge fans of feminism. Why?<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s start with some studies comparing gender roles and different outcomes.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/09\/26\/business\/26leonhardt.html\" target=\"_blank\">Surveys of women show<\/a> that they were on average happier fifty years ago than they are today. In fact, in the 1950s, women generally self-reported higher happiness than men; today, men report significantly higher happiness than women. So the history of the past fifty years \u2013 a history of more and more progressive attitudes toward gender \u2013 have been a history of women gradually becoming worse and worse off relative to their husbands and male friends.<\/p>\n<p>This doesn\u2019t <em>necessarily<\/em> condemn progressivism, but as the ancient proverb goes, it sure waggles its eyebrows suggestively and gestures furtively while mouthing \u2018look over there\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Scott Alexander, <a href=\"http:\/\/slatestarcodex.com\/2013\/03\/03\/reactionary-philosophy-in-an-enormous-planet-sized-nutshell\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Reactionary Philosophy In An Enormous, Planet-Sized Nutshell&#8221;, <em>Slate Star Codex<\/em><\/a>, 2013-03-03.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So the two things Reactionaries like to complain about all the time are race and sex, and since we have more then gone overboard with our lengthy diversion into race, we might as well take a quick look at sex. As far as I know, even the Reactionaries who are really into biological differences between [&hellip;]<\/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":[53,41,13],"tags":[987,254,575,43],"class_list":["post-28511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-quotations","category-usa","tag-feminism","tag-gender","tag-happiness","tag-women"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-7pR","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28511","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=28511"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28511\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28512,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28511\/revisions\/28512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}