Helen Andrews: The Great Feminization
The explanatory power of this simple thesis was incredible. It really did unlock the secrets of the era we are living in. 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. How did I not see it before?
Possibly because, like most people, I think of feminization as something that happened in the past before I was born. When we think about women in the legal profession, for example, we think of the first woman to attend law school (1869), the first woman to argue a case before the Supreme Court (1880), or the first female Supreme Court Justice (1981).
A much more important tipping point is when law schools became majority female, which occurred in 2016, or when law firm associates became majority female, which occurred in 2023. When Sandra Day O’Connor was appointed to the high court, only 5 percent of judges were female. Today women are 33 percent of the judges in America and 63 percent of the judges appointed by President Joe Biden.
The same trajectory can be seen in many professions: a pioneering generation of women in the 1960s and ’70s; increasing female representation through the 1980s and ’90s; and gender parity finally arriving, at least in the younger cohorts, in the 2010s or 2020s. In 1974, only 10 percent of New York Times reporters were female. The New York Times staff became majority female in 2018 and today the female share is 55 percent.
Medical schools became majority female in 2019. Women became a majority of the college-educated workforce nationwide in 2019. Women became a majority of college instructors in 2023. Women are not yet a majority of the managers in America but they might be soon, as they are now 46 percent. So the timing fits. Wokeness arose around the same time that many important institutions tipped demographically from majority male to majority female.
The substance fits, too. Everything you think of as wokeness involves prioritizing the feminine over the masculine: empathy over rationality, safety over risk, cohesion over competition. Other writers who have proposed their own versions of the Great Feminization thesis, such as Noah Carl or Bo Winegard and Cory Clark, who looked at feminization’s effects on academia, offer survey data showing sex differences in political values. One survey, for example, found that 71 percent of men said protecting free speech was more important than preserving a cohesive society, and 59 percent of women said the opposite.
The most relevant differences are not about individuals but about groups. In my experience, individuals are unique and you come across outliers who defy stereotypes every day, but groups of men and women display consistent differences. Which makes sense, if you think about it statistically. A random woman might be taller than a random man, but a group of ten random women is very unlikely to have an average height greater than that of a group of ten men. The larger the group of people, the more likely it is to conform to statistical averages.
Female group dynamics favor consensus and cooperation. Men order each other around, but women can only suggest and persuade. Any criticism or negative sentiment, if it absolutely must be expressed, needs to be buried in layers of compliments. The outcome of a discussion is less important than the fact that a discussion was held and everyone participated in it. The most important sex difference in group dynamics is attitude to conflict. In short, men wage conflict openly while women covertly undermine or ostracize their enemies.
Bari Weiss, in her letter of resignation from The New York Times, described how colleagues referred to her in internal Slack messages as a racist, a Nazi, and a bigot and—this is the most feminine part—“colleagues perceived to be friendly with me were badgered by coworkers.” Weiss once asked a colleague at the Times opinion desk to get coffee with her. This journalist, a biracial woman who wrote frequently about race, refused to meet. This was a failure to meet the standards of basic professionalism, obviously. It was also very feminine.
Men tend to be better at compartmentalizing than women, and wokeness was in many ways a society-wide failure to compartmentalize. Traditionally, an individual doctor might have opinions on the political issues of the day but he would regard it as his professional duty to keep those opinions out of the examination room. Now that medicine has become more feminized, doctors wear pins and lanyards expressing views on controversial issues from gay rights to Gaza. They even bring the credibility of their profession to bear on political fads, as when doctors said Black Lives Matter protests could continue in violation of Covid lockdowns because racism was a public health emergency.
One book that helped me put the pieces together was Warriors and Worriers: The Survival of the Sexes by psychology professor Joyce Benenson. She theorizes that men developed group dynamics optimized for war, while women developed group dynamics optimized for protecting their offspring. These habits, formed in the mists of prehistory, explain why experimenters in a modern psychology lab, in a study that Benenson cites, observed that a group of men given a task will “jockey for talking time, disagree loudly,” and then “cheerfully relay a solution to the experimenter.” A group of women given the same task will “politely inquire about one another’s personal backgrounds and relationships … accompanied by much eye contact, smiling, and turn-taking,” and pay “little attention to the task that the experimenter presented.”
The point of war is to settle disputes between two tribes, but it works only if peace is restored after the dispute is settled. Men therefore developed methods for reconciling with opponents and learning to live in peace with people they were fighting yesterday. Females, even in primate species, are slower to reconcile than males. That is because women’s conflicts were traditionally within the tribe over scarce resources, to be resolved not by open conflict but by covert competition with rivals, with no clear terminus.
The jewish War on Boys would be more accurate than “Feminization”. Larry Summers is about an odious of a jew that ever crawled out the the Shtetl swamp too.
A Jewish woman will not adopt a little Haitian boy.
I’m sorry but I can never take anything from mainstream “conservatives” at face value.
The author Helen Andrews is a fluffer for the 1%. That much is evident in her truly malicious book about “boomers” which literally had “why do children hate their parents?” on the dust cover. No one who is genuinely concerned with tradition and civilisation would promote dividing families and setting different generations against one another.
Ive said it before I’ll say it again: the baby boomer generation are being set up for the biggest looting in human history since they are the last generation of ordinary people – ordinary white people in particular – with significant amounts of personal wealth.
You dont see groups being vilified in the way they are without something bad being in the offing. As Catherine Austin Fitts says “before they kill you first they kill your name”.
So forgive me if I’m not skeptical about Andrews’ latest effort. Yes there may be some truth to it. But twhat people like her are paid to do is to always critique society without mentionning the astronomical wealth of the top 1% and 0.1% in particular.
I picked a few holes in her arguments on Twitter and she blocked me.
Men can moan about white liberal women all they want. America is plutocracy and Britain is an oligarchy and the people running our countries will get what thry want regardless of what subset of women think or vote for.
“Everything you think of as wokeness involves prioritizing the feminine over the masculine: empathy over rationality, safety over risk, cohesion over competition.”
Everything you think of as wokeness involves the 0.1% doing everything possible after Occupy Wall Street in 2011 to change the subject away from the return of class politics. race, gender, trans, refugees, migrants, it was all on the table for discussion. But not the banks, the corporations and the people who own them. Nor the wars.
Have a look at that new book which has come out “Counter gangs”. It’s all about the elite’s use of groups like Antifa and BLM to further their agenda which of course is to defend their wealth and power.
I mean woke is already receding. It’s high water mark was in 2020 to 2022. Theyve backed off on it as it started to rattle too many comfortable middle class people.
If the only thing you can see is the heebs, you’ve already lost. The parasite is well suited for what it does but it requires aids to help it settle in and begin the process of infestation of its host. Women are excellent at that. If one looks back into the ancient times, women were often seen as wild beasts that needed to be kept “on the leash” lest they cause destruction. They’re women, it’s what they are, it’s what they do. When a people start to run out of men (in the proper sense of the term) then you’ll see them start to run wild. Things are proven quite right on that and there’s a quote from Cato the Elder that sums it up (paraphrasing) “Women are wild beasts and need to be kept on the reins, lest they kick over the traces. Women want total freedom, or to call it by its proper term, total license. Do you think giving equality to women will make them easier to live with? No, if you give women freedom, they’ll become your masters.” He was right a few thousand years ago and nothing that I’ve seen has proven him wrong about the female animal, especially White females.
I love the ladies, but Nature trumps all, and Whites have long abandoned Nature. Some of that (especially in these modern days) is due to jewish dominance of technology and the world of thought, ideas, entertainment, and the almost permanent state of semi-hypnosis that the world is in due to eyes being so often glued to screens, allowing a successful bypassing of the conscious mind to implant what it is they desire. Other parts of their domination come with their alliances (open or not) with different minority groups…which DOES INCLUDE White women. Though THAT alliance is being slowly dissolved as White women have long been prepped for the chopping block, they were merely left to run wild so long as they (one must admit this reality) joyously slit the throats of White men (whom they’ve long held as an oppressor, some genuinely and others just mere thoughtless programming).
The real critique I have of this piece, I don’t remember it being mentioned, is that, perhaps late 2023 early 2024, researchers decided to take a second look at determining the levels of female psychopathy. Previously, it was held that for every 10 male psychos, there was one female. That entire study was based on the preposition that there were no actual differences between males and females. When they took a second look at the study, realizing that there ARE differences and how those differences manifest, it came to a new rate of 1 male for every 1.5 females. The study made them realize that the level of female psychopathy in society is staggeringly high and that it’s very likely that a lot of positions of authority are held by these women. From CEOs, to politicians, to teachers, psychologists, the list goes on. That’s something that also feeds into the heavy dose of feminization and the risk of women having total authority over men (most White men are slaves of their wives of girlfriends or are mommas boys, let’s be honest).
I know that there are a lot of gentlemen who take umbrage with this view due to long dug in views of women as these angelic beings who do no wrong and the sense of chivalry that comes with it but a more realistic view is what’s needed in the realm of the sexes.
Make no mistake my friend, the jew is a parasite that has long since need to get the boot. And they’ve had a heavy hand in a lot of the severance that has happened between White males and females but it isn’t some unique magic. It’s an ability to exploit weaknesses in a host and the White races failure to obey the laws of Nature and instead fester and rot in a glorified playpen called Western Civilization.