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It’s been a season of being reminded that even conservatives are very feminist—which doesn’t bode well for restoring American greatness.
Last week, when I wrote on “Miserable Judy,” I acknowledged I’ve been on a bit of an “anti-woman” kick, which is continuing today—and the broken record keeps on looping!
Now, I often describe myself as a “slow processor,” but as an AT friend refuted a few months back, maybe it’s not so much being “slow” but “deliberate,” “deliberative,” and intentionally thoughtful, all of which require me to remove myself from my personal emotions on a subject so I can analyze as objectively as possible. (I seem to be distinct from too many women in this regard—as you’ll see.) I conceded that point to him, though that “deliberative” thought process still often manifests in a “slow” response when I’m confronted with new information.
In the same vein, maybe anti-woman isn’t exactly an accurate description either; perhaps I should be clearer and say it’s an anti-feminism bent in my character, even when those feminists are political “conservatives.”
First off, consider the Lindsay Clancy proceedings. It’s just been reported that the judge has finally declared a mistrial, after seven days of deliberations. Sure, we don’t “know” who the heroic holdout is, but we know. I’m calling it now: one brave man… against two simps and nine feminist women. This presumed man was the dam, the only person holding on to justice for little Cora, Dawson, and Callan.
We all know the leftard nutjobs love Clancy, because they love what is evil and hate what is good. That’s old news. But I’ve seen countless politically conservative women also jump to her defense and make the most asinine feminist cases for why she’s not actually guilty of murder—before they then meander off into leftist socialist B.S. for future policy. Example? One woman recently lectured me about how we’ve got a mental health crisis in this country, and told a heartbreaking story of her own friend who committed suicide as she struggled with postpartum mental illness. She then told me she had another friend who had some postpartum issues, but was able to afford a $10,000 treatment that worked for her. She said this needs to be made available to all mothers. Well-meaning, but completely idiotic; an emotional and unreasoned position. Who’s going to pay for that? Is postpartum mental health treatment now a “human right” too, one to be funded by “government”? God help us. This person of whom I speak would say she’s a conservative, she’d say she’s pro-life, she’d say she’s for fiscal responsibility, low taxes, and self-reliance, but then, without even recognizing it, she’s stumping for socialism. And she votes. God help us again
“I’m not saying she didn’t do it, but….”
But nothing. Clancy did it, by her own admission. “Empathy is the Christian response, Olivia…” Yes, but what a twisting of what is true. Oddly, her empathy is directed first and foremost to a mother who walked her three little trusting babies down to the basement and wrapped exercise bands around their necks until she choked the life out of them. I can pity Lindsay and hate her sin, but to pity her more than the children? I just can’t relate—but feminists can, even the “conservative” ones!
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Let’s just be honest, everything we love about our great nation is a product of uncompromising masculinity. This isn’t to say whatsoever that women didn’t have a role in our history—quite the contrary. As I was talking with someone the other day, he noted that men build and innovate… for women. He admitted that if it were all just a bunch of men sitting around, they’d make do with the bare minimum, noting that women inspire men to get creative and do great things. Men bring function, but women, by virtue of their femininity, compel that function to be made beautiful.
But… women’s opinions and ideas aren’t what made this country the greatest one that’s ever existed in human history.
George Washington didn’t ask Martha for her “Christian” opinions on empathy, then make decisions based on female rationales; he went out and got really violent on the battlefield and won us a war and a new nation.
Thomas Jefferson didn’t ask the local ladies what they thought about guns before he drafted the language of the Second Amendment; he understood the God-given right to self-defense, and enshrined it into government law.
These men didn’t even give women the privilege of voting, because they knew women shouldn’t have any serious influence in matters of great civic importance.
If we want to restore any of that, it has to be done with a radically anti-feminist approach, and we’re going to have to upset not just the leftist women, but the “conservative” ones too.
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