A very interesting article at the Compact Magazine website, by author Helen Andrews. She argues that the whole “woke” movement is just the shadow cast by the increasing feminization of our society. Hat tip to RealClearPolicy for the link.
Everything you think of as “wokeness” is simply an epiphenomenon of demographic feminization.
Wokeness is not a new ideology, an outgrowth of Marxism, or a result of post-Obama disillusionment. It is simply feminine patterns of behavior applied to institutions where women were few in number until recently.
Everything you think of as wokeness involves prioritizing the feminine over the masculine: empathy over rationality, safety over risk, cohesion over competition.
Fortunately wokeness is on the back foot at the moment. It isn’t Donald Trump’s style, nor that of his appointees - male and female. The martyrdom of Charlie Kirk seems to have driven it back further.
This is a good article, I recommend it to you. It argues an interesting thesis in a compelling way. It provides a rationale for the sex differences in political orientation superior to any other of which I’m aware.
Let me propose an extension of Andrews’ thesis. Perhaps globalization, the EU, and the WEF phenomenon are further elaborations of feminization at the international level, with Trump’s neo-nationalism as an antidote thereto. Does that fit?
