I don't disagree, and it's a powerful framing - but to put a note of caution there - there are millions of "swing voters" in this sort of culture war. And they can be won over if the excesses of current gender fashions + a basic "boys-and-white-people-are-bad" moral calculus finally cease being defended as a rote orthodoxy that every rig…
I don't disagree, and it's a powerful framing - but to put a note of caution there - there are millions of "swing voters" in this sort of culture war. And they can be won over if the excesses of current gender fashions + a basic "boys-and-white-people-are-bad" moral calculus finally cease being defended as a rote orthodoxy that every right-thinking person must conform to. It's really, really, really annoying, for one; and I don't see how - present company excluded, of course - an overbearing rhetorical drive on all the above (even the word patriarchy can be loaded - Ruxandra Teslo compared it dryly to the pre-modern miasma theory of medicine) has helped, even the people it's supposed to help. Liberalism is losing almost everywhere. My particular little crusade is to raise a kind of cultural centrism to normative respectability. There's a lot of work to do without letting eager gender studies department staff choose our values for us, forever.
I don't disagree, and it's a powerful framing - but to put a note of caution there - there are millions of "swing voters" in this sort of culture war. And they can be won over if the excesses of current gender fashions + a basic "boys-and-white-people-are-bad" moral calculus finally cease being defended as a rote orthodoxy that every right-thinking person must conform to. It's really, really, really annoying, for one; and I don't see how - present company excluded, of course - an overbearing rhetorical drive on all the above (even the word patriarchy can be loaded - Ruxandra Teslo compared it dryly to the pre-modern miasma theory of medicine) has helped, even the people it's supposed to help. Liberalism is losing almost everywhere. My particular little crusade is to raise a kind of cultural centrism to normative respectability. There's a lot of work to do without letting eager gender studies department staff choose our values for us, forever.