No social class enforces the damaging lie of absolute gender equality so much as the elites. It is no small irony that those with the greatest wealth and social power are often the most self-righteous about their moral superiority. All humility is lost on the highest tiers of American society, and today their hubris is exaggerated to ridiculous levels. Although it may seem like a joke to those of us in the real world outside of the sheltered institutions of most hallowed academe, it is the little people who inevitably pay the consequences of power’s excess.
On February 23, Jason Mattera, spokesman for the Young America’s Foundation, criticized feminism in front of an audience in Washington DC. Now, the YAF appears to be little more than a Republican front dedicated to bringing cornfed kids into the shameful charade of national politics, so it would be a mistake to see throw our lot in with these guys. However, Harvard’s indignant response to Mr. Mattera’s criticism of feminism demonstrates the degeneration of a once proud institution into the burlesque.
For example, Mattera brought up classes such as “Cyber Feminism” and a class on deconstructing the “new feminist black man,” and criticized feminism for presenting a warped view of diversity. In response, Linda Ellison, who lectures in Harvard’s Women and Gender Studies Program, defended feminism, saying that it was diverse because it challenges conservative viewpoints on abortion and premarital sex. This is ridiculous, because this is sacred feminist dogma, and there’s nothing “diverse” at all about a feminist upholding orthodox feminist principles. This would be analogous to a Jesuit missionary in pre-Christian Guatemala calling his conversion of natives a contribution to diversity.
Linda Ellison is apparently a former Mormon who, at Harvard’s Divinity School, became an ardent feminist, so the missionary comparison is quite apt in this case.
Perhaps in part in response to increasingly vocal opposition to feminism on the part of proles, Harvard launched a “Feminist Coming Out Day” to celebrate feminist victories. Organized by the Radcliffe Union of Students and the Harvard Queer Students and Allies, the exercise in feminist triumphalism went on display in Harvard’s Adams Art Space, where Harvard luminaries such as Alan Dershowitz and Timothy McCarthy metaphorically dropped their trousers and came out as feminists. Dershowitz is a strange case here, because he has explicitly argued against certain rape shield laws that prevent any inquiry into accusers’ past sexual behavior (including past false rape allegations) on the part of the defense counsel. Maybe, to maintain his prestige in the new Harvard, he needs to declare himself a feminist, but that certainly doesn’t say much for his principles.
It has been less than 40 years since Harvard became fully coed, and in that short time it has apparently become a slave to feminist ideology. In retrospect, it is amazing how quickly such institutions can decay from pillars of tradition to hotbeds of crass radicalism, following every ideological fad that blows in like some foul wind. I wonder sometimes what should be done with them when the inevitable collapse of feminist supremacy occurs. Should these tragic failures be preserved and reformed, or should they be allowed to expire to make way for a new society?
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