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In the afternoon, I went out fishing and took the dog. On the way, I was listening to a podcast, like I'll tend to do. It was a Catholic Answers Focus interview of Carrie Gress and it was profound. I'll post on that elsewhere.
Here is elsewhere.
The title of the episode, and it should be easy to find, is Can Catholic's Fix Feminism? Gress' answer seems to be no, but what was so interesting about it is that she, as a woman who holds a PhD has had a career as a professor was frank on some things that we've addressed here repeatedly, but from a more academic standpoint, and she was able to thread them together. Without really expressing it the same way we have here, she's spoke on metaphysics, theology and evolutionary biology, as well as political science.
We've typed out all of that here, but without really including the Marxism portion.
Gress basic thesis is that feminism really came out of the same radicalism as Marxism, and adopted a Marxist view that women should be compelled to live to the male standard. It didn't really free women at all, it forced them into the male world where they're now judged on how well the live up. . . and down, to it. She dared to say something that's an anathema to modern Americans, that your career will not make you happy, and it very well may make you miserable.
Tying it in to Marxism is also a bit of an anathema of a topic too, to most, but if you look at it, it's hard not to go there, at least in a fellow traveler's sort of way early on. To at least a degree, even if you want to just lighten it up, early feminism fits into the family or radical movements of the early 20th Century, all of which were pretty heavily dominated by far left thought. Communism itself was very hostile to motherhood and marriage, and wanted to destroy the latter. The early radical Communists were opposed to both, and Whitaker Chambers discusses in Witness. The association, at least tangentially, is there. And of course, as the far left saw human value only in terms of people being "workers", this makes sense. The American far left still speaks this way today, with Bernie Sanders, for example, being in favor of warehousing children so that their mothers can work, adopting the traditional leftist view that a human's value is found only there.
We've dealt with all of this before, of course, and frankly we've taken it one step further.
We are so in the thick of this that we hardly appreciate where we at on these matters now. But this explains much of the misery of the modern world. We don't live in accordance with our natures, or at least very few of us do, and we're really not allowed to. An aspect of that is this topic. Women have careers open to them, and should, but they are now compelled to act like men within them, in every fashion.
I've recently had the displeasure of witnessing this in a peculiar fashion. It hasn't been a pleasant thing to observe. The interesting thing is that in observing it, when people feel free to make comments, they grasp their way back to the old standards, as with so much else, even while not living them.
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