Evolutionary Psychologist Diana Fleischman insists that 80% of the time a Female’s brain is morphologically distinguishable from that of a Male. Contrary to Feminist propaganda, Men and Women tend to pursue disparate paths through life not because of the oppressive coercion of the Patriarchy but because they are biologically, temperamentally, statistically different. Susan Pinker’s “The Sexual Paradox” cites a number of experiments conducted on mere infants before society could possibly have violated them which would seem to verify this fact. This is in no way meant to imply that Men or Women “ought” to behave in any particular way. We are dealing in scientific facts rather than morally restrictive stereotypes.
We must begin by granting that there are and no doubt always have been Men unwilling to grant Women the respect that is their due. But the fact that Western Women 500 years ago were generally restricted to the roles of Wife and Mother clearly had as much to do with the scientific/technological realities of the day as with Male arrogance. To cite Marcuse once again, his notion that Western European Civilization has been the most Systemically Misogynistic one in all of history is a gross distortion of the facts. But our concern is today and the oft repeated “progressive” charge that Women in the West continue to make only 77% of the wages of Men because of systemic oppression.
Christina Hoff Sommers has spoken and written extensively on this issue, showing how the choices of Women who cherish their role as mothers, who embrace it with joy rather than resentment, inevitably impact the statistics on Male/Female earnings. Whereas Women are far more likely than Men to take part time jobs, they are also less likely, when employed full time, to agree to the 60 to 80 hour work weeks frequently endured by their male counterparts. At the same time they would seem to voluntarily embrace jobs of lesser pay. You are no doubt familiar with the 2017 controversy at Google which fired James Damore for pointing out that in spite of his company’s expenditure of millions of dollars to entice more Women into its tech department, that niche continued to be dominated by Men. As various studies and my own personal experiences would seem to indicate, Women are more likely to be interested in careers involving personal interaction than in those devoted to the sterile domain of technology. As a result of obvious advances in the realm of Gender Equity over the last few decades, indeed of legislation specifically designed to increase the options open to Females, enrollment in the Law and Medicine departments of most Western Universities today is skewed towards Women. Yet however the future may unfold, it will no doubt continue to defy the arbitrary Egalitarian expectations of those who simply refuse to admit that Men and Women are in fact biologically and hence psychologically different!
Unconcerned with Reality, Nancy Pelosi, as already mentioned, is seeking to banish from the upcoming Congress all gender specific nouns and pronouns, the implication clearly being that Gender is merely a Social Construct. To that small percentage of every population that does not identify along traditional heterosexual lines, references to husbands and wives, brothers and sisters, boys and girls, are an apparently unbearable form of oppression.
Jordan Peterson and J. K. Rowling, both eminently tolerant and intelligent, have been widely vilified for suggesting that the Binary Gender Paradigm is the Biological Human Norm. Arielle Scarcella, a lesbian who nevertheless maintains that gender is not a social construct, has abandoned what she describes as the “insane progressive Left,” claiming that while she is a champion of Gay Rights, she has nevertheless been savagely attacked by the LGBT community for not succumbing to its prescribed orthodoxy.
As always with those apparently committed to tolerance, there is no tolerance for those who do not share their views.
Hannah Gadsby is a Gay Australian comedienne who maintains that Men, indoctrinated by the Patriarchal Stereotypes promoted here in the West, feel it necessary to put on a Macho front while really not being temperamentally distinct from Women at all. Lauren Chen reports that while Gadsby’s comedy routine gets a very high approval rating from the critics at Rotten Tomatoes, the general public finds her hate-filled rants against Men distinctly unpleasant. Her truly dysfunctional disconnect from Reality is nowhere more apparent than in her contention, as a diagnosed victim of Autism, that her perspective is no less valid than that of a “normal,” rational, well-adjusted human being. Her concept of “neurodiversity,” the idea that even being intellectually handicapped in no way invalidates her opinions, is just another example of the relativism that makes the contemporary Left little more than a joke, a joke, unfortunately, that would seem to imperil the very future of Western Civilization.