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    The year the West erased women

    A review of the assault on women.

    The year the West erased women

    If 2022 has been the year of the “woman”, it is a tale with two different final chapters: one hopeful, one less so. The first is set in a distant country, where an archaic, theocratic regime threatens to be toppled by women throwing down their hijabs and demanding their emancipation. The second plays out in a more familiar setting but in an unfamiliar language; a Western nation where the word “woman” itself no longer has any meaning, its definition rewritten to include “an adult who lives and identifies as female though they may have been said to have a different sex at birth”.

    This is the paradox of the past 12 months: the existence of women is being questioned in the very place where female emancipation has come furthest, while in places where women remain shackled to medieval notions of honour and chastity, true feminism is at its strongest.

    ...Those who would divorce “woman” from its biological implications often present their ideas as innocuous. They are, we are told, simply champions of “inclusion”. But their ideology is hardly uncontroversial, and surrendering to it is not harmless. The past year has seen reports of transgender women attacking women in female-only spaces and unfairly winning trophies in women’s sports. The spirit of these failures was perhaps best-distilled in the words of Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, who in March was unable to define what being a woman entailed during her Senate confirmation hearing. “I’m not a biologist,” she said, as if one needed to be a professional scientist to know basic biological facts.

    ...there still seem to me to be similarities between today’s gender activists and theocratic subjugators. Both believe, on the basis of a contentious ideology, that they have a monopoly on truth. And both, in a sense, are champions of the subjective over the objective: in one case, particular religious beliefs are said to tell us how society should be run — and in the other, mere feelings are said to abolish material reality.

    This is why gender ideology advocates are a threat not just to women but to Western ideals, too. Western culture prides itself on the achievements of the Enlightenment and science — in other words, on objectivity. It was on an objective basis that previous generations of feminists staked their claim: their plight was based on an appeal to reason. Now, so-called “progressives” — another term that has been redefined into meaninglessness — stake their claim on subjective feelings and happily ignore or dismiss its material effects.

    ...It is not just feminism and the rights of women that are at stake here: so, too, are the best ideals of the West itself. If 2022 is the year of the “woman”, let’s hope 2023 will be the year when we can delete those quotation marks.
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    You also have the Euro nations telling its women that it is racist to expect the migrants from North Africa, the Middle East, and SW Asia to actually honor women's rights inside Europe.
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    I don't see anything there about the withdrawal of a female's right to choose to have an abortion in the USA
    Why is that?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Beevee View Post
    I don't see anything there about the withdrawal of a female's right to choose to have an abortion in the USA
    Why is that?
    Because the article is not about that but the issues arising from divorcing gender from its biological basis.

    I see a connection. Right to choose also divorces gender from its biological basis as well. It also divorces pregnancy from the human life of the unborn.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Beevee View Post
    I don't see anything there about the withdrawal of a female's right to choose to have an abortion in the USA
    Why is that?
    Why would we mention something that has not happened? Evil idiots on the left can still kill babies to their heart's delight.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Beevee View Post
    I don't see anything there about the withdrawal of a female's right to choose to have an abortion in the USA
    Why is that?
    why does it need to be a Right?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Beevee View Post
    I don't see anything there about the withdrawal of a female's right to choose to have an abortion in the USA
    Why is that?
    See the word Federalism, and try to figure it out.
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    Quote Originally Posted by stjames1_53 View Post
    why does it need to be a Right?
    Who gave you the right to own another person's body?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Beevee View Post
    Who gave you the right to own another person's body?
    Isn't that equally true of the unborn human being?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Peter1469 View Post
    See the word Federalism, and try to figure it out.
    Interesting you put that ahead of females.

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