“Stand up! Look up!... There is another way, one that accounts for the full dignity of (and differences between) both sexes without indulging comparisons of essential worth” - Helen Roy on feminism and red-pill. How freeing that there is ‘another way’, one that we need a wake-up call to, but which is good for everyone.
Excellent piece Helen. I wanted to say thank you for such incredible work you’ve done last couple years, I first heard about your article “Thwarted Mommy Brain” on Andrew Klavan’s show on the Daily Wire and have been following you and Fairer Disputations crew ever since. Have read Harrington’s book and also Perry’s and Bachioci. I also loved your piece “Cruelty as Care” the title alone says it all, truly amazing work. There aren’t many writers out there that I really connect with and feel that they speak to what I’m seeing in the world, but you truly do, so thank you for that, God Bless you, and for goodness sake, please keep writing.
How fascinating. I’d not realised how little the generations who came after Gen X understand about the world that shaped feminism, or how recent it was. I was a bright teen girl in the 1980s who was told by a deputy headteacher that it didn’t matter if I liked to debate and was good at it (and was beating the boys at it), I needed understand that men didn’t like too-clever women and I would need to tone myself down to be acceptable to a future husband. I was told at university (first in my family ever to go!) that all I should aspire to was an MRS degree. And so on.
The height of online female hubris stoked by social media platforms was what, 2007-2015? And all the misogyny that never went away was picked up as “new” and “refreshing” and a way to help young people who were ready to settle down make sense of why they didn’t want to be perpetual adolescents, after all.
I feel so lucky to have settled down and married before I had to be crammed back in a traditionalist box to do so. I hope my children will have the same opportunity to forge their own work-life-parenting balance, instead of being force-fed narratives about what men and women should want.
“Stand up! Look up!... There is another way, one that accounts for the full dignity of (and differences between) both sexes without indulging comparisons of essential worth” - Helen Roy on feminism and red-pill. How freeing that there is ‘another way’, one that we need a wake-up call to, but which is good for everyone.
What a refreshing article. Thank you.
Excellent piece Helen. I wanted to say thank you for such incredible work you’ve done last couple years, I first heard about your article “Thwarted Mommy Brain” on Andrew Klavan’s show on the Daily Wire and have been following you and Fairer Disputations crew ever since. Have read Harrington’s book and also Perry’s and Bachioci. I also loved your piece “Cruelty as Care” the title alone says it all, truly amazing work. There aren’t many writers out there that I really connect with and feel that they speak to what I’m seeing in the world, but you truly do, so thank you for that, God Bless you, and for goodness sake, please keep writing.
Oh, Jeff! Thank you for this generous comment. Made my day.
How fascinating. I’d not realised how little the generations who came after Gen X understand about the world that shaped feminism, or how recent it was. I was a bright teen girl in the 1980s who was told by a deputy headteacher that it didn’t matter if I liked to debate and was good at it (and was beating the boys at it), I needed understand that men didn’t like too-clever women and I would need to tone myself down to be acceptable to a future husband. I was told at university (first in my family ever to go!) that all I should aspire to was an MRS degree. And so on.
The height of online female hubris stoked by social media platforms was what, 2007-2015? And all the misogyny that never went away was picked up as “new” and “refreshing” and a way to help young people who were ready to settle down make sense of why they didn’t want to be perpetual adolescents, after all.
I feel so lucky to have settled down and married before I had to be crammed back in a traditionalist box to do so. I hope my children will have the same opportunity to forge their own work-life-parenting balance, instead of being force-fed narratives about what men and women should want.