Has feminism made America a conservative society?

In many ways, our society has regressed in its thinking to a more primitive state that is also an imbalance. The move was towards more authoritarian and less liberal ways of thinking. Feminism played an unwitting role in this because it created a normative femininity. (It is doubtful whether women and girls do better in such a society. This shift has not happened in France, which has similar degrees of gender parity. The hyper-masculine aggressivity that is rare in Europe and common here is an over-reaction, based on the mistaken idea, in an anti-intellectual business society, that manhood is about physical strength and combat). When our society was normatively masculine, it still served, imperfectly the 'gods' of Reason and Justice. The new 'gods' of our normative femininity are, instead, Relationships and Feelings. The basic problem is that an orientation to reason and justice makes possible a politics, while an orientation to relationships and feelings makes it hard to contest anything. Judging people in terms of Relationships and Feelings is more authoritarian, even if it may seem happier. This is why women are the more conservative sex. They care more deeply about people (and tend to demand this from men), but are more fearful (so more people are inculpated as criminal), need more certainty about what they believe and are less likely to question or examine it, and are less like to contest anything or allow it to be contested, while being more likely to criticize individual men for faults or misdemeanors. Also, because it has been an anthropological constant that men exchange women, while men may enjoy transgression, women tend to fear it, which is why Christianity suited them. When a woman does not like a man, he is either, in escalating extremeness, immature, mentally ill, or a criminal. If a man expects to be treated justly by a woman in authority, he is likely to be disappointed, and if he responds with an expression of anger, the women see that as a micro-aggression and will call him out for being unaware of his feelings. That is because women are supposed to depend on their feelings and men to control them. Of course, if he argues with her, he will be treated as a criminal. The commonly made accusation in institutional contexts that someone is "raising their voice" (as if speaking up were a violent crime) is evidence of this. While much of this has to do with the American extreme form of capitalism, which is a police state in ways that extend well beyond the activities of actual police officers and security guards, feminism served it functionally, in ways largely unintended.

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