Self-destructive behavior is usually considered a mental disorder, and rightly so. This is why liberalism has been regarded as a mental disorder by many. In its current form, liberalism advocates the destruction of the very cultural norms that make liberal thinking possible. There are so many examples of that it's hard to know where to start. But one little subsection of liberalism, feminism, is just that much more extreme, and therefore more self-destructive, than liberalism in general. For example, feminism has actually brought reproduction itself into disrepute, advocating self-fulfillment (promiscuity and self-indulgence) as a higher value than motherhood. Whew! But it's a lot worse than that, because even the nice-sounding goals that it
does approve of turn out, upon being attained, to be considerably less desirable than they were said to be. Indeed, sometimes they turn out to have the
opposite result from the one advertised. Matt Forney says that the actual final conclusion of feminist theory and practice is that
Chicanas y Chinitas and the anglo women who have to compete with them for men know how to act like women. sorry y'all in yankee territory are stuck with the ones who'd never make it here on the border.
ReplyDeleteYou know, the article to which you linked links to this article. Reading the second article was particularly interesting to me because it reminded me of the moment that I really, really, turned against Ampersand's blog. The exact issue happened to me there: we were talking about the McDonald's employee who had been strip-searched by the guy who was being tricked on the phone, and someone had asked how someone would not have just run away - I made a comment to the effect that if she really felt she had no choice, that might be seen as an indictment of the way McDonald's deals with its employees; that is, if you feel powerless to stop your supervisor from violating you, perhaps the place has too authoritarian a culture.
ReplyDeleteI was lambasted because, as far as I can tell, I didn't say enough about how men were evil.
That's when I realized that the blog was run by psychotic losers.