{"id":98620,"date":"2025-10-20T03:00:34","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T07:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=98620"},"modified":"2025-10-20T12:17:21","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T16:17:21","slug":"the-real-reason-were-suddenly-discussing-the-great-feminization-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2025\/10\/20\/the-real-reason-were-suddenly-discussing-the-great-feminization-now\/","title":{"rendered":"The real reason we&#8217;re suddenly discussing &#8220;The Great Feminization&#8221; now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On the social media site formerly known as <em>Twitter<\/em>, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/cliftonaduncan\/status\/1979855433012568482\" target=\"_blank\">Clifton Duncan<\/a> offers an explanation for why &#8220;The Great Feminization&#8221; is a hot topic of discussion, and I think he has a valid point:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Screenshot-2025-10-20-at-09-46-06-Home-_-X.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right; padding: 0px 0px 10px 25px\" src=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Screenshot-2025-10-20-at-09-46-06-Home-_-X-480x191.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"191\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-98621\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Screenshot-2025-10-20-at-09-46-06-Home-_-X-480x191.png 480w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Screenshot-2025-10-20-at-09-46-06-Home-_-X-150x60.png 150w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Screenshot-2025-10-20-at-09-46-06-Home-_-X.png 598w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The only reason people are talking about &#8220;The Great Feminization&#8221; now is because it&#8217;s affecting women.<\/p>\n<p>Men young and old have been talking about it for decades.<\/p>\n<p>For decades boys and men have had their desires dismissed; had fathers denigrated and denied them; had their spaces, interests and hobbies invaded; had primary and higher education weaponized against them; had jobs and promotions unjustly denied them; had reputations ruined by false allegations; watched pop culture fester with anti-male slop; had wealth and progeny stripped away by prejudiced family courts.<\/p>\n<p>What happened when they voiced these complaints?<\/p>\n<p>They were called misogynists, resentful of their inability to match women&#8217;s success as they seethed over the dismantling of the patriarchy. <\/p>\n<p>They were called losers, whiners and complainers who should shut up, grow up, man up and get married.<\/p>\n<p>But now \u2014<\/p>\n<p>As men avoid women at work, or withdraw from the labor force altogether; as men leave the church; as men abandon dating and marriage; as men reciprocate women&#8217;s embrace of modernism and rejection of traditionalism; and as womanhood faces erasure, ironically (but predictably) at the hands of the very liberals and progressives women celebrate for hatcheting away manhood and masculinity \u2014<\/p>\n<p>Only now, as the consequences of treating women&#8217;s needs as all that matter and men&#8217;s needs as superfluous (and offensive) are evident,<\/p>\n<p>Only now, as men usher in a new sexual revolution by unapologetically focusing on themselves and their own happiness, refusing to serve a society that&#8217;s signaled repeatedly that it no longer values them and prompting more and more women to wonder &#8220;Where Have All the (Good) Men Gone?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Only now has it become safe for *women* to broach the topic of &#8220;The Great Feminization&#8221; and be lavished with acclaim for making the exact same points men have been chastised for making for over 25 years.<\/p>\n<p>Symbolic.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Update<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.smalldeadanimals.com\/2025\/10\/19\/the-quest-for-identity\/\" target=\"_blank\">Francisco<\/a> at <em>Small Dead Animals<\/em> posted this video of Camille Paglia talking about what women have lost through Feminism:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"854\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/iDX-MFntcAM?si=I5H_dk0DvyqOGA1_\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the social media site formerly known as Twitter, Clifton Duncan offers an explanation for why &#8220;The Great Feminization&#8221; is a hot topic of discussion, and I think he has a valid point: The only reason people are talking about &#8220;The Great Feminization&#8221; now is because it&#8217;s affecting women. 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