For pretty much my whole life, feminism has been there, and I generally agree with the proposition that many women have been denied opportunities to develop their lives and minds for themselves, and in ways that can enrich us all.
If I’m against feminism, I’m against the more militant, blindly idealogical, and threat-making wings of feminism. I’m deeply suspicious of its totalitarian impulses and the inability it has to critique itself (the limits of both gender and equality arguments which have been its drivers, and are now playing themselves out in the political arena).
I find that through failures like these, feminism promotes thinking which can be quite dangerous to political stability and free-thought. Like most reasonable people, I usually find myself too busy and too sane to engage such extremism.
Here are a few questions I’ve posted before that might have some use:
1. Were the idealogical excesses of the women’s movement an acceptable outcome in the goal of securing more freedoms for women?
2. How much public support can you give to the gender equality arguments without surrendering private freedoms?
I harbor more doubt our professional and educational institutions when they admit such ideas unchallenged.
