FEMINISM: THE RIGHT OF WOMEN TO FUNCTION LIKE MEN
Yesterday Dr Zac Porcu wrapped up his seven weeks' podcast series on feminism (playlist). He gave an overview on the earlier episodes, which covered just about every aspect of the movement. But what stood out for me personally was the actual genesis of what we think of today as women's liberation. No one ever touches on its historical roots, which is the economic conversion to industrialization that changed life on earth. The traditional way of life that had served mankind since the Fall of Adam and Eve was rudely upended by the Industrial Revolution.
Feminism Series Intro: Eve vs. the Devil (playlist),
Up to then the extended household was the norm, ruled over by the women and the mater familias. With the invention of mechanization men, women and children went to work outside the home in a factory.
With women's biological lives being unsuitable for this way of life, a protest movement sprang up, which "Reactionary Feminist", Mary Harrington (link) called the feminism of care.
Somewhere along the line this effort was coopted by a group that reversed the logic. 'No, women going out to work at factories is a good thing and it is her right to be able to function as a man!', is the logic of the feminism of freedom.
When you are looking at creation as a mechanical universe, as has been the case since the Scientific Revolution in the 16th century and the Enlightenment of the 18th, every problem and contradiction is approached as an engineering problem.
The conundrum of natural versus economic needs was finally solved in the 1960 with the invention of the pill that regulates women's biology. And with the legalization of abortion and widening of the law to this day to the point of the killing of healthy newborns, we seem to have reached 'the end of history' in that respect.
The new digital age makes work outside of the home in factories obsolete, but the minds of CEOs are evidently not ready yet for the retransition. It's always hard to give up power, and it hardly ever happens without struggle.
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