“Feminism,” the rabbi said, “like other associated liberal concepts, is mistaken at its core. Feminism sees people solely as individuals, that they are not members of a family, of a nation, or even of society at large. Feminists are not good neighbors. They prefer loose personal connections so they can focus on themselves. This is not appropriate human behavior, which should involve concern for those around you. It’s no wonder that feminism has destroyed families, with both men and women as its casualties.
“People are not meant to live in isolation; they are a part of something. All of halacha (Torah law) regarding families does not relate to individual men or women but to a formula for healthy family life, which automatically includes how life is best lived by men and women — as husbands and wives, fathers and mothers. Feminism promotes external individual achievements, such as female army service, without much interest in family life.
“Due to the feminist movement, many men are more reluctant today to form connections with women. They feel that they are looked upon with suspicion and that they need to prove their innocence. They feel that they are constantly being scrutinized under the watchful eye of the feminist police."
Thursday, September 13, 2018
Mistaken at its core
A reader sent in this criticism of feminism made by a rabbi. I think it's well argued.
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This ties in with something I read recently on a Jewish blog. It was making the point that Judaism, the religion, is conservative and that nothing in the religion would push people to be Leftists OR Liberals.
ReplyDeleteThe one who did the main post at the Ricochet website goes on to say in the later comments:
ReplyDeleteRegarding first-wave feminism, I’m all in.
And there we have the right-liberal portion of the dialectic that enables the more obviously rabid and poisonous waves of feminism to continue their march forward.
Honestly, this thinking on "first-wave feminism" among right liberals strikes me as the more poisonous in reality because of the common consensus of its benignity. One need not have one's defenses up against something thought so benign, and yet all the more are defenses against it needed.
"Regarding first-wave feminism, I’m all in."
DeleteAnd there we have the right-liberal portion of the dialectic that enables the more obviously rabid and poisonous waves of feminism to continue their march forward.
Honestly, this thinking on "first-wave feminism" among right liberals strikes me as the more poisonous in reality because of the common consensus of its benignity. One need not have one's defences up against something thought so benign, and yet all the more are defences against it needed.
I agree very very strongly. This is why right-liberalism is much more dangerous than marxism ever was.
Once you accept part of the liberal agenda, or part of the feminist agenda, you must eventually end up accepting all of it. There's no halfway house. Once you go down the rabbit hole you can never get out again.
Mark,
ReplyDeleteThis is an interesting way of showing the subversive nature of liberalism in non-Western cultures. The problem of homo economicus is at the root of why Japan is being pushed by the elite to go down the same path of mass immigration as the West. Also relevant to read the comments, most of whom seem to be Western expat liberals. There is a clearly seated intolerance of anyone seen as privileged to maintain exclusion and tradition. Some commenters do express the angst of being a "rootless cosmopolitan" more honestly than is experienced in regular partisan discourse.
https://boingboing.net/2018/09/12/tokyo-street-interviews-shoul.html
o/t but related, on the ethics of transplanting uteruses into men:
ReplyDeletehttps://www.mercatornet.com/conjugality/view/do-transgender-women-have-a-right-to-gestation/21709