{"id":44885,"date":"2013-05-21T15:25:56","date_gmt":"2013-05-21T15:25:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/theanchoress\/?p=44885"},"modified":"2015-03-13T00:29:12","modified_gmt":"2015-03-13T00:29:12","slug":"the-whole-world-in-her-hands-a-gyno-maniacal-war-on-men","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/theanchoress\/2013\/05\/21\/the-whole-world-in-her-hands-a-gyno-maniacal-war-on-men\/","title":{"rendered":"“The Whole World in Her Hands”: A Gyno-Maniacal War on Men? – UPDATED"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

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My First Things column<\/a> this week<\/strong> draws on the coarse and destructive hook-up culture<\/a> that has been not only embraced by women but is in some ways being driven by them<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Writing for The Atlantic in September of 2012, Hanna Rosin argued that the \u201chookup culture\u201d so prevalent on college campuses and in the lives of young adults is \u201can engine of female progress\u2014one being harnessed and driven by women themselves.\u201d She wrote:<\/p>\n

To put it crudely, feminist progress right now largely depends on the existence of the hookup culture. And to a surprising degree, it is women\u2014not men\u2014who are perpetuating the culture, especially in school, cannily manipulating it to make space for their success, always keeping their own ends in mind.<\/p>\n

For college girls these days, an overly serious suitor fills the same role an accidental pregnancy did in the 19th century: a danger to be avoided at all costs, lest it get in the way of a promising future.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In other words, women have succeeded in becoming the men they hated.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

From there I jump off a weirdly gyno-maniacal statement<\/strong> from Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) that women need to have the whole world in their better-than-mens hands (!) and then use two very different books to argue that a gyno-centric world is an ultimately destructive idea: <\/p>\n

If forensic psychologist and men\u2019s rights activist Helen Smith is correct, Schakowsky and her friends may have their hands full of the world, and sooner than they think. In her upcoming book Men on Strike<\/em><\/a>, Smith offers up statistics and her own research to suggest that men are consciously boycotting marriage, fatherhood, and the \u201cAmerican Dream\u201d because they feel beaten down by politically correct preferences and practices\u2014in school, in the workplace, and in society in general. If the women want the world and all the power, the thinking goes, they can have it; the men will simply retire to whatever man-caves they are permitted.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n

The sexual revolution promise that women could \u201chave it all\u201d has always been oddly paradoxical: It encouraged women to find their best selves by aping men and conforming to traditionally male valuations of worth and relevance. Mistaking the word \u201cequal\u201d for the word \u201csame,\u201d these \u201chookup feminists\u201d have become precisely the shallow, insincere, career-fixated, people-users that early feminists decried. From spare button-down shirt in the office, to meaningless sex, Don Draper has not disappeared; he has just changed his name to Donna. Women replace men, but the story\u2014contra Schakowsky\u2014stays the same.<\/p>\n

Schakowsky\u2019s hope for a world led by women is also challenged by Mary Eberstadt\u2019s just-released book How the West Really Lost God<\/em><\/a>. Eberstadt challenges the accepted notion that faith supports marriage and the family, asking whether it is not actually the other way around\u2014that the forming of families leads to faith.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The conclusion may surprise you.<\/strong> You can read the whole thing, here<\/a><\/p>\n

And of course, there is an antidote<\/em> to all of this<\/a><\/p>\n

UPDATE:
\nYes, gyno-mania<\/strong> is a bad, mind-bending and destructive thing as Simcha Fisher notes here<\/a><\/p>\n

Image courtesy of shutterstock.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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