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General Discussion / Is she correct about Feminism?
« on: February 06, 2026, 04:08:27 PM »
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWLbq7PlrIA
Helen Andrews on Feminism = Wokeness... Men and women, on average, tend to behave differently. According to her, the key distinction is this: Women tend to prioritize relationships and consensus-building, while men tend to prioritize rules, justice, and abstract principles.
The great feminization thesis makes two claims:
1. When women numerically dominate an institution — whether a profession, a university, or a bureaucracy — that institution will naturally drift toward more “feminine” priorities.
2. What we now call “wokeness” is simply the institutionali zation of those priorities. Hence, everything is base on emotion, not facts or rules.
One of the most important data points in connecting wokeness to feminization is survey data. You can go around and ask men and women questions like, if a speaker who thought transgenderism was a form of mental illness came to your campus, do you think that speaker should be allowed to talk? Or if that speaker said that Black Lives Matter was a hate movement and that police shootings of Black men is not a huge social ill, if that speaker came to your campus, should he be allowed to speak? And it is a consistent finding across just about every study you want to look up that women are less in favor of free speech than men. Men will tend to say, "Yes, sure, let's have all the speakers on campus and we'll have an open rational debate." Women in survey data are more likely to say, "No, that speaker should not be allowed to come to my campus and speak."
example: If you're walking and see a butterfly trap in a web... would you save it? More women would say that they would and more men says they won't. More women would help the buttefly because it's beautiful and the spider is nasty... whereas, the men tend to believe that both deserve to live but let nature takes its course.
Helen Andrews on Feminism = Wokeness... Men and women, on average, tend to behave differently. According to her, the key distinction is this: Women tend to prioritize relationships and consensus-building, while men tend to prioritize rules, justice, and abstract principles.
The great feminization thesis makes two claims:
1. When women numerically dominate an institution — whether a profession, a university, or a bureaucracy — that institution will naturally drift toward more “feminine” priorities.
2. What we now call “wokeness” is simply the institutionali zation of those priorities. Hence, everything is base on emotion, not facts or rules.
One of the most important data points in connecting wokeness to feminization is survey data. You can go around and ask men and women questions like, if a speaker who thought transgenderism was a form of mental illness came to your campus, do you think that speaker should be allowed to talk? Or if that speaker said that Black Lives Matter was a hate movement and that police shootings of Black men is not a huge social ill, if that speaker came to your campus, should he be allowed to speak? And it is a consistent finding across just about every study you want to look up that women are less in favor of free speech than men. Men will tend to say, "Yes, sure, let's have all the speakers on campus and we'll have an open rational debate." Women in survey data are more likely to say, "No, that speaker should not be allowed to come to my campus and speak."
example: If you're walking and see a butterfly trap in a web... would you save it? More women would say that they would and more men says they won't. More women would help the buttefly because it's beautiful and the spider is nasty... whereas, the men tend to believe that both deserve to live but let nature takes its course.
