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Backlash against college educated women
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Anonymous
I voted for Obama and was a huge Democrat just like my parents. All my friends were Democrats, and I fully believed in hope and change when I voted in 2008. After I met DH, I gradually became more and more conservative. I have to tell you it's amazing how much more fun I have now. |
Anonymous
I’m sorry, but this response is an example of Carville’s “preachy female.” Also a validation of the critique of sucking the fun out of everything. Rather than engage on substance, it is (a) fake empathy, (b) followed by name calling and (c) then even more fake empathy about how she feels so much worse for your kids. The response is not designed to engage the topic but rather shut down the previous poster by shaming the poster into silence by presupposing the intellectual and emotional superiority of the responding poster. The “weird” label on Vance worked for a few weeks this summer because it appealed to the same feminine style of persuasion (mean girl, group validation, rejection of the “unapproved” different). But once people got to know Vance the impact of the label faded away and to non-core Democrats Vance came out of the summer as an asset to the Trump campaign. Y’all can keep doing what you’re doing, but when Carville tells you it is a problem it light be worth thinking about. |
Anonymous
I think the issue is that we've had women in institutions for a generation now. Can anyone point to an institution that is--in an absolute sense--better with women involved in leadership? Look at universities: The parties are lamer, the grades are easier, the number of useless degrees has proliferated, the quality of scholarship has declined (see, e.g., the replication crisis), and the ability to debate has evaporated. All that has happened as women have become a larger portion of faculties, administrative leadership, and student bodies. |
Anonymous
This. And it’s not just about in the workplace. There is a move to change social mores about women’s choices over their bodies. See recent cabinet nominees with sexual assault allegations. If it’s ok for “leaders” then it will become ok for certain men (white). |
Anonymous
Civilization has controlled women for millennia. There are two ways to look at that history. All civilizations were cruelly and unnecessarily harming women, or those civilizations understood that to thrive and grow, they needed to reduce women's influence. Honestly, based on the way things have gone since 1971 (when women were happier), I'm starting to wonder. |
Anonymous
I think it’s both. They needed to reduce women’s influence to thrive and grow in a way that favors men, and if ever the balance got out of whack, they remembered that they’re physically stronger and resorted to cruel and unnecessary harm. |
Anonymous
Some of this phenomenon is laid out here. The different impulses and proclivities of the sexes lead to different institutional character. On top of that we've had to endure the silly canard coming from some circles that men and women are the same. Just a lot of foolishness and delusional thinking. https://quillette.com/2022/10/08/sex-and-the-academy/ |
Anonymous
So are you. |
Anonymous
Yeah. Hating on people is fun. |
Anonymous
What is this sourced from? This sounds like a fancy way of a man saying “I know what’s best and you should be happy.” Why do you think women were protesting in the streets in 1971? It wasn’t because they were happy with the status quo. |
Anonymous
You just admitted to being a follower basically. Which tracks. |
Anonymous
It wasn’t a backlash against college educated women. It was a backlash against the failed Biden-Harris liberal agenda. However, I am a college educated woman, and I wholeheartedly agree that colleges are liberal indoctrination centers. There is no ideological diversity at most college campuses. There is a uniformity of liberal group think. When I was in college and after I graduated, I was fairly liberal. It wasn’t until I experienced the real world that I realized how destructive a lot of the liberal agenda is and essentially became a Republican voter. I’m not a big fan of the Republican Party. However, the Democrat party has been pushed far to the left by ultra liberal progressives. They are now out of touch with much of the country and have essentially abandoned working class voters to become the party of coastal elites. |
Anonymous
Women, in general, are more suited to the particular and the relational and less suited to the abstract and detached calculus needed to order civilization in a way that will not lead loss for most everyone involved. As a group, college-educated women in particular are too self-regarding and have little sense of honor, duty or accountability. This is evidenced by their total lack of regard for the plight of women "lower" than them on the economic and educational totem pole. It is folly to try to contrive order in a society crafted for the appeasement of the exceptions to time-tested general rules. The hubris of humanity can never and will never win in a contest with the Almighty. |
Anonymous
We’ve had men in MOST leadership positions in this country for hundreds of years! It that why things are soooooo great? |
Anonymous
NP. Idk. I’m a Harris-voting Democrat and in general the people I know who are either far right or far left tend to be equally miserable, but I’d say that of the folks clustered more towards the middle, the happier ones skew a bit more conservative. |