The Aug. 20th edition of Common Sense with Bari Weiss concerned Louise Perry’s recently published book “The Case Against the Sexual Revolution.” Headlined “I’m 30. The Sexual Revolution Shackled My Generation,” it was subtitled “Sexual symmetry between men and women was, is, and always will be a lie.”
Insisting she remains a feminist and not some religious reactionary, Perry admits that as a millennial she was thrilled by the new freedoms afforded women by the sexual revolution. And yet, she now says, the real world repercussions of those freedoms ultimately engendered a regime in which men could behave with promiscuous abandon while women, for obvious biological reasons, were left to bear the burden of their recklessness. The sexual revolution, she argues, was actually a victory for mindless male aggression, the results of which validated the need for the sort of moral constraints and institutions typically associated with Christianity. She is now a staunch defender of marriage and the nuclear family. She is, that is to say, a feminist who does not subscribe to the ludicrous egalitarian notion endorsed by many radical feminists that Men and Women are indistinguishable and therefore ought to perform as such in every niche of the socioeconomic realm.
Believe me, no one could be more committed to women’s rights than myself. Where male arrogance can be proven to have deprived them of those rights, it needs to be exposed and denounced. But a definition of “social justice” which demands that Women achieve statistical parity with Men in every realm of human activity is utterly superficial if not downright stupid. A rationalist rather than an egalitarian fanatic, Louise Perry is perfectly willing to admit that Men and Women are in fact different in all sorts of ways, both obvious and subtle, that must inevitably manifest themselves in the real world.