Suggest not using the left's word "gender." The word itself is poison. It's an abstract construct from academia and leftist ideologists. Better to say "Feminism has poisoned relations between the sexes ..."
I have not seen leftist anything on Reddit but then I go there to get feedback on things like shrub recommendations in Phoenix when I wanted a living wall, or whether anyone had any experience with solar leasing, particularly Terra Energy. Or why my Apple Music library always says loading cloud library. So, I like it!
I was just wondering if it ever occurs to this woke crowd, and lately to the "No Kings" crowd, that if Trump was a king that the government would still be open??
Not to mention all of this past Saturday around the USA would not have been ALLOWED if a KING was in power nor would a KING have brokered 8 diff PEACE deals around the world in the past 9 months, and if this KING could run he would probably win an election in Israel he is so beloved there. Just so HITLER-ish right and KING-ish :) One has to wonder just how the neo Marxist DEMs ever find a way to compete vs common sense again...
Alex, Glad you are reporting on the some of the oddities on the Fem side. You have an enlightened readership (why I am one of the early Founding sponsors...lol.). I believe many (including you if you haven't seen it) will be intrigued by this (new to me, anyway) alternative explanation to Woke and why/what it is. Below I have linked the article as well as a comment from John Carter which expands on the article -- but read the article first (you will be glad you did) so the comment makes sense.
Thanks for doing all you do. Hope you appeal and win.
One thing Helen misses in this otherwise excellent analysis is the role played by prestige. Cancel culture was enabled by the unique circumstance of women weaponizing the prestige of freshly feminized legacy institutions. So long as those institutions retained their prestige, what the people who ran them said really mattered.
Unfortunately for the ladies (but luckily for civilization), this is self-limiting, because prestige is fundamentally an emergent property of masculine competence hierarchies. We see this demonstrated whenever a profession becomes coded as women's work: its prestige immediately crashes. Feminists have complained about this for years, though of course they misunderstand the mechanism (prestige is a component of male sexual attractiveness, but not of female, and this is biologically hard-wired).
This prestige collapse is now affecting essentially every coopted, feminized institution - universities, news media, publishing houses, movie studios, large corporations, various government agencies, hospitals, courts, churches, all of them wield far less cultural power than they did even a few years ago. The only people who really care what these legacy institutions say are the women who took them over. To everyone else, the angry sounds they make are nothing more than background noise.
This is probably the main reason for the vibe shift. Once the prestige of feminized institutions declined below a certain threshold, their ability to enforce social consensus began to evaporate.
It's also probably no accident that the Trump administration seems to care a lot more about what the anons of the Online Right say than it does about the opinion of the universities or the news media. All the intelligent young men got pushed out of the institutions, and those ionized particles of free male energy then began to self-assemble online into an ad hoc competence hierarchy where prestige is measured by clout rather than professional degrees, job titles, or institutional affiliations. The anon swarm is entirely informal, meaning that its outcomes are not amenable to antidiscrimination legislation or to procedural manipulation; you can screw with the algo all you want but you can't actually force people to care what women say just because they're women (thereby placing women into the position of openly trading in thirst, which gets them attention but certainly doesn't mean that anyone has to pretend to take them seriously).
All that's happened so far is that people's attention has been redirected away from crazy woke females and towards the influencers of the online right. The fever has broken but society is a long way from recovered. The institutions are still under the control of crazy woke females, and this is extremely bad, especially because they are - for biological reasons related to childlessness - only going to get crazier as time goes on. Fortunately no one really cares what they say anymore, so as they throw tantrums as the institutions are reclaimed over the next decade or so, their protests won't register as anything but irrelevant toddler noise.
You’ve earned a lot of capital among your Substack followers, Alex. We don’t worry when we haven’t heard from you in a while. It’s assumed that you’re on the job one way or another. ✌🏻
I believe Helen Andrews has it spot on with her recent article and book “The Great Feminization” which posits the woke agenda started with the cancellation of Larry Summers the president of Harvard in 2005 for reasonable statements he made that the majority radical female leadership took extreme objection to. When the American institutions have been taken over by a majority of leftist women, woke and DEI became the norm. They also tend to hire 100% leftists and vote 100% Democrat.
I only speak for myself, but I take your content as it arrives. I don't expect more or less than you deliver. I pay for what you deliver, when you deliver it, on your timetable, not mine.
Anna Wintour and Condé Nast sell luxury beliefs with luxury goods. They share a parent company with Reddit, which is a cesspool for leftist violence. Feminism has poisoned gender relations through these glossy magazines: https://yuribezmenov.substack.com/p/conde-nast-vanity-fair-vogue-new-yorker-subversion
Suggest not using the left's word "gender." The word itself is poison. It's an abstract construct from academia and leftist ideologists. Better to say "Feminism has poisoned relations between the sexes ..."
Damn straight. Sex beats gender any day of the week.
I have not seen leftist anything on Reddit but then I go there to get feedback on things like shrub recommendations in Phoenix when I wanted a living wall, or whether anyone had any experience with solar leasing, particularly Terra Energy. Or why my Apple Music library always says loading cloud library. So, I like it!
Welcome back Alex and good luck!
I was just wondering if it ever occurs to this woke crowd, and lately to the "No Kings" crowd, that if Trump was a king that the government would still be open??
Not to mention all of this past Saturday around the USA would not have been ALLOWED if a KING was in power nor would a KING have brokered 8 diff PEACE deals around the world in the past 9 months, and if this KING could run he would probably win an election in Israel he is so beloved there. Just so HITLER-ish right and KING-ish :) One has to wonder just how the neo Marxist DEMs ever find a way to compete vs common sense again...
Alex, Glad you are reporting on the some of the oddities on the Fem side. You have an enlightened readership (why I am one of the early Founding sponsors...lol.). I believe many (including you if you haven't seen it) will be intrigued by this (new to me, anyway) alternative explanation to Woke and why/what it is. Below I have linked the article as well as a comment from John Carter which expands on the article -- but read the article first (you will be glad you did) so the comment makes sense.
Thanks for doing all you do. Hope you appeal and win.
https://www.compactmag.com/article/the-great-feminization/
John Carter
@martianwyrdlord
One thing Helen misses in this otherwise excellent analysis is the role played by prestige. Cancel culture was enabled by the unique circumstance of women weaponizing the prestige of freshly feminized legacy institutions. So long as those institutions retained their prestige, what the people who ran them said really mattered.
Unfortunately for the ladies (but luckily for civilization), this is self-limiting, because prestige is fundamentally an emergent property of masculine competence hierarchies. We see this demonstrated whenever a profession becomes coded as women's work: its prestige immediately crashes. Feminists have complained about this for years, though of course they misunderstand the mechanism (prestige is a component of male sexual attractiveness, but not of female, and this is biologically hard-wired).
This prestige collapse is now affecting essentially every coopted, feminized institution - universities, news media, publishing houses, movie studios, large corporations, various government agencies, hospitals, courts, churches, all of them wield far less cultural power than they did even a few years ago. The only people who really care what these legacy institutions say are the women who took them over. To everyone else, the angry sounds they make are nothing more than background noise.
This is probably the main reason for the vibe shift. Once the prestige of feminized institutions declined below a certain threshold, their ability to enforce social consensus began to evaporate.
It's also probably no accident that the Trump administration seems to care a lot more about what the anons of the Online Right say than it does about the opinion of the universities or the news media. All the intelligent young men got pushed out of the institutions, and those ionized particles of free male energy then began to self-assemble online into an ad hoc competence hierarchy where prestige is measured by clout rather than professional degrees, job titles, or institutional affiliations. The anon swarm is entirely informal, meaning that its outcomes are not amenable to antidiscrimination legislation or to procedural manipulation; you can screw with the algo all you want but you can't actually force people to care what women say just because they're women (thereby placing women into the position of openly trading in thirst, which gets them attention but certainly doesn't mean that anyone has to pretend to take them seriously).
All that's happened so far is that people's attention has been redirected away from crazy woke females and towards the influencers of the online right. The fever has broken but society is a long way from recovered. The institutions are still under the control of crazy woke females, and this is extremely bad, especially because they are - for biological reasons related to childlessness - only going to get crazier as time goes on. Fortunately no one really cares what they say anymore, so as they throw tantrums as the institutions are reclaimed over the next decade or so, their protests won't register as anything but irrelevant toddler noise.
You’ve earned a lot of capital among your Substack followers, Alex. We don’t worry when we haven’t heard from you in a while. It’s assumed that you’re on the job one way or another. ✌🏻
I believe Helen Andrews has it spot on with her recent article and book “The Great Feminization” which posits the woke agenda started with the cancellation of Larry Summers the president of Harvard in 2005 for reasonable statements he made that the majority radical female leadership took extreme objection to. When the American institutions have been taken over by a majority of leftist women, woke and DEI became the norm. They also tend to hire 100% leftists and vote 100% Democrat.
Yep, feminism is solely about a woman being as big a d!€k as a man…
I only speak for myself, but I take your content as it arrives. I don't expect more or less than you deliver. I pay for what you deliver, when you deliver it, on your timetable, not mine.
Full steam ahead!!!
Ohh the intrigue Alex - can't wait to see what you have cooked up for an October surpise!!
Keep cooking, we'll wait.
Take your time, looking forward to it!
In the meantime, if anyone would like some reporting on the sinister AAP and how it drugs children into conformity, you might like this piece on ADHD:
https://gaty.substack.com/p/synthetic-children
We trust ya, dude.
Thanks, Alex!
Looking forward to reading that!
Yes good luck Alex. I don’t think you should give up. As great philosophers of Generation X once said, “Goonies never say die!!”
Love the meme ; ).