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MASCULINE VS. FEMININE

The world we live in today is designed to make the world safe for cultural liberals and feminists. Resting comfortably upon their government sinecures and the flattery of their media courtiers, these people lash out with fury against anyone objecting to the wonderful world they have built. But theirs is not the only way to live.

The feminist way replaces the organic safety net of family and neighbors with rational, bureaucratic institutions that deliver social services to the needy, but without spirit and without heart. In particular the social services most important to women are sterilized into rigid bureaucracy: schools, health care, and relief of the poor.

The bureaucratic model is a male-oriented and goal-oriented culture. It is the structure of the army and of one-size-fits-all that orders everyone to serve a single goal from the top. It is hardly adapted to the community of women. Women’s culture relates less to fixed goals and more to the detection and satisfaction of particular needs in the welfare of families, the care of children, and the relief of the poor.
— Christopher Chantrill

In Honor: A History James Bowman says that for men honor is courage; for women honor is chastity, or as I would say, being a Good Little Girl.

A century ago, sociologist Georg Simmel said that women would adapt the public square to suit “a more feminine sensibility.”

If you want to understand wokism, and its talismans of “microaggressions” and “safetyism,” you can start with the feminizing of the public square.

A business start-up is like a male hunting band. It is all courage and risk-taking and the knowledge that it will probably all fail.

An established institution is like the neighborhood community of women, where everyone has to get along, and being a Good Little Girl is where it’s at.

“What Do You Care What Other People Think,” wrote Richard Feynman. You think he got to develop quantum electrodynamics by being a Good Little Boy?
— Christopher Chantrill

I think the feminization of the public square has happened and lies at the root of the woke revolution. This revolution mostly happened because men have not found a way to push back against women without being canceled.

Now the feminization of the public square could of course be positive overall. However, I think that the masculine style works better in the public space because stoicism, fewer emotions, lower level of neuroticism, and competition tend to foster effective collaboration even if the individual goals differ significantly. The feminine style works better in the private space where goals of the group are more cohesive. For example, the use of empathy (an emotional spotlight that tends to obscure more than it highlights in the public space) in favor of compassion (a rational approach to help others but can be cold in the private space).
— pkriens

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