As Feminism Turns Extremist, Gender Warriors Launch Counter-Offensive

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As Feminism Turns Extremist, Gender Warriors Launch Counter-Offensive

October 28, 2024 – A growing global consensus agrees that feminism has evolved into an extreme movement that harms men and women, posing an existential threat to the stability and well-being of society (1).

Commenting on the gender gap in the US presidential race, columnist Nicole Russell deplores how “extreme feminism” is advancing a message that men are ”unnecessary at best and predators at worse.” Russell concludes, “As a society, we can’t afford to have young men and women struggling with vast value differences, unable to align on politics, family and other things that matter.” (2)

Canadian commentator Janice Fiamengo likewise documents a deep-seated feminist antipathy towards men. She notes that some feminists “even write books with triumphant titles like The End of Men: And the Rise of Women (Hanna Rosin); Are Men Necessary? (Maureen Dowd); or even I Hate Men (Pauline Harmange).” (3)

And feminists categorically refuse to acknowledge the problem of female-perpetrated domestic violence, even though women are equal-opportunity abusers (4).

Such destructive stereotypes inevitably harm women, as well. British feminist Petronella Wyatt wrote an evocative article that recounts her inability to find a marriage partner and concludes, “I increasingly feel, as do many of my intimates, that feminism has failed our generation.” (5)

And charging UN Women to be a “disgrace,” Noah Rothman called out the United Nations agency for its hypocrisy and silence in response to the Hamas attacks on Israeli women (6).

In the face of such criticism, one might expect the feminist establishment to reconsider its demonization of men and marginalization of the nuclear family.

But in Australia, Canada, England, and the United States, feminists have launched a counter-offensive, shrilly calling out a new threat to the safety of women that they refer to as “misogyny” (7). Misogyny is defined vaguely so anyone who voices an opinion that goes counter to feminist dogma runs the risk being labeled a “misogynist.”

For example, the US Prevention Practitioner’s Network published a report that is replete with unverifiable anecdotes and inflammatory assertions such as:

“The ‘manosphere’ is dangerous because it is founded in anti-women hate. Individuals and networks in the ‘manosphere’ express conspiratorial and often violent beliefs about women, where a woman’s only value is her ability to procreate or to fulfil the sexual needs and desires of men…” (8)

Even in Russia, feminism has been branded an “extremist ideology.” (9) In December the government of Argentina defunded and disbanded its Ministry of Women, Gender, and Diversity (10). Now, millions of persons around the world need to raise their voices to protest the venomous effects of feminist ideology.

The Domestic Abuse and Violence International Alliance – DAVIA — consists of 166 member organizations from 38 countries in Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, Latin America, and North America. DAVIA seeks to ensure that domestic violence and abuse polices are science-based, family-affirming, and gender-inclusive. https://endtodv.org/coalitions/davia/

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