Today you answered what after 30+ years study Freud could not:
What do women want?
And....like many answers to “Freudian questions”... the answer is not pretty. Though, unlike many such answers, it is straightforward and only apparently tangled to satisfy the “needs” of the interlocutor.
As I think I commented on a previous essay, feminism today assumes that a successful woman should be indistinguishable from a successful man. When we talk about seats at the table, we have to acknowledge we just accepted that the seats were all male cognitive and social structures seats.
That those seats were the value. It makes sense for racial and ethnic integration. But male and female, due to the dimorphisms you mentioned, have different seats of value.
Modern feminism views only the masculine structures as valuable and, when they can't compete as well, seek to feminize and attack. Instead of building their own superpowers, they become frustrated that they struggle in the male structured environment.
May 14, 2023·edited May 14, 2023Liked by Helen Dale, Lorenzo Warby
Nice work- keep it up. The diverse references are a strong indicator of the quality of your reflections and help substantiate your insightful analysis. The source list is a great addition - I dove into it last time, a rewarding exercise. But what is to be done? The deficient persuasive abilities of the pseudo leftists who’ve established the biggest beachhead in corporate media are painfully obvious, apparently even to themselves, hence the weird collective attempt to strong-arm the rest of us. Our would-be puppetmasters are trending beyond obnoxious and getting a bit scary.
“To acknowledge the Emancipation Sequence and its successful inclusions is to undermine any division between the moral wonder of the imagined future and the moral perdition of the past or present.”
Also, to acknowledge successful past reform is to acknowledge that reform is possible, an idea that (as I understand it) Critical Theory forbids. Society, theorists claim, has been so corrupted by its past that it cannot be improved, only destroyed and replaced by (as you very aptly put it) the transcendent imagined future.
“The narratives, norms, expectations we create around sex are indeed socially constructed. But they are socially constructed on a biological base.”
Assertions that this or that institution or norm is a social construct combined with implicit claims that “we” can alter it at will are appearing more frequently. Such claims ignore the fact that, as you observe, many such institutions are grounded in (evolutionary) biology and were not created ex nihilo but evolved over centuries or millennia.
Certainly, our actions can alter such institutions, but the reactions and interactions of others together with the constraints of nature all but guarantee that the results will not be what we intend - witness the increasing unhappiness among women that you report.
Today you answered what after 30+ years study Freud could not:
What do women want?
And....like many answers to “Freudian questions”... the answer is not pretty. Though, unlike many such answers, it is straightforward and only apparently tangled to satisfy the “needs” of the interlocutor.
Thank you. Again.
As I think I commented on a previous essay, feminism today assumes that a successful woman should be indistinguishable from a successful man. When we talk about seats at the table, we have to acknowledge we just accepted that the seats were all male cognitive and social structures seats.
That those seats were the value. It makes sense for racial and ethnic integration. But male and female, due to the dimorphisms you mentioned, have different seats of value.
Modern feminism views only the masculine structures as valuable and, when they can't compete as well, seek to feminize and attack. Instead of building their own superpowers, they become frustrated that they struggle in the male structured environment.
Lorenzo is one really smart guy. Love his work. Thanks for sharing his work.
Wounded veteran of the Sexual Revolution here. Thank you for these essays. They put my life in perspective and context.
Nice work- keep it up. The diverse references are a strong indicator of the quality of your reflections and help substantiate your insightful analysis. The source list is a great addition - I dove into it last time, a rewarding exercise. But what is to be done? The deficient persuasive abilities of the pseudo leftists who’ve established the biggest beachhead in corporate media are painfully obvious, apparently even to themselves, hence the weird collective attempt to strong-arm the rest of us. Our would-be puppetmasters are trending beyond obnoxious and getting a bit scary.
Trans is the ultimate logical consequence of feminism.
Great articles, have some catching up to do before the next one! ps Doctor Hammer sent me.
“To acknowledge the Emancipation Sequence and its successful inclusions is to undermine any division between the moral wonder of the imagined future and the moral perdition of the past or present.”
Also, to acknowledge successful past reform is to acknowledge that reform is possible, an idea that (as I understand it) Critical Theory forbids. Society, theorists claim, has been so corrupted by its past that it cannot be improved, only destroyed and replaced by (as you very aptly put it) the transcendent imagined future.
“The narratives, norms, expectations we create around sex are indeed socially constructed. But they are socially constructed on a biological base.”
Assertions that this or that institution or norm is a social construct combined with implicit claims that “we” can alter it at will are appearing more frequently. Such claims ignore the fact that, as you observe, many such institutions are grounded in (evolutionary) biology and were not created ex nihilo but evolved over centuries or millennia.
Certainly, our actions can alter such institutions, but the reactions and interactions of others together with the constraints of nature all but guarantee that the results will not be what we intend - witness the increasing unhappiness among women that you report.