The Rise Of Imbecile Women
One of the many false claims of feminism is that it promotes the equality of the sexes, whatever is meant by that phrase. What it has done in practice is subject women to the Peter Principle, that is promoting them beyond their level of competence. Coupled with that other specious piece of claptrap, intersectionality, it has led to some truly shocking results.
When a seat arose on the United States Supreme Court under the Biden Administration, Joe Biden said he would fill it with a black woman. There is no shortage of judges in the United States who are both female and black, but Biden chose to nominate Ketanji Brown Jackson who was humiliated by Marsha Blackburn when she was unable (or unwilling) to define the word woman, something even a humble Trowbridge housewife, can do. Well, maybe not so humble, but you get the point.
More recently, she was humbled by fellow Supreme Court Judge Amy Coney Barrett who commented on her dissent in an important judgment:
“We will not dwell on JUSTICE JACKSON’s argument, which is at odds with more than two centuries’ worth of precedent, not to mention the Constitution itself. We observe only this:
JUSTICE JACKSON decries an imperial Executive while embracing an imperial Judiciary.”
In other words, the Executive makes policy, not judges, even Supreme Court judges. That takedown came as a surprise because it must have been approved by Chief Justice John Roberts. Supreme Court appointments are for life, but no one should be too surprised if Justice Jackson retires at some point in the next year or two on health grounds or some other contrived excuse.
On the other side of the Atlantic, feminist brainwashing led to the erroneous belief that too few women were involved in politics. In 1979, there were only 19 female MPs, but as one of these was Margaret Thatcher, even extreme leftists may have doubts about the wisdom of pushing too hard to increase their participation.
Today, there are well over 250 female MPs, but leaving that aside, women have always been very active in local politics which although a lot less glamorous is no less important for ordinary people. Britain’s new Labour Government has no shortage of women in positions of power, including Rachel Reeves, the first female Chancellor of the Exchequer; there is an obvious joke here but it cannot be published on this site. Reeves has been a disaster for Britain, and is, like so many of her fellow Labourites of both sexes, a serial liar.
Angela Rayner has also been a disaster; she is the woman the historian David Starkey said was the first Secretary of State to leave school with more children than A Levels.
It isn’t only politics where women are promoted to beyond their level of competence. There has been a concerted push to advance them in policing. The first female chief constable was appointed only in 1995, now there are too many of them, but the worst by far had to be Cressida Dick who was appointed Police Commissioner in 2017. Not only was she a diversity hire but she is a classic case of someone failing upwards. Twelve years earlier, she had been in charge of an operation that led to the fatal shooting of a totally innocent man. Jean Charles de Menezes was literally executed because he was suspected of being a suicide bomber. During her tenure, she encouraged the recruitment of female officers, which is one reason the Metropolitan Police in particular is held in such low esteem.
Finally and more generally, women have been a disaster for the social sciences, especially those who embraced second wave feminism. These include Catharine MacKinnon (who is now being designated Catharine A. MacKinnon and is not to be confused with any woman who has the same or similar name). In the 1980s, she and her now deceased collaborator Andrea Dworkin tried to to effect a national ban on pornography in the United States by playing the sort of stupid word games feminists love. They succeeded in having a local ordnance passed but that was struck down by the courts.
Peggy McIntosh and Kimberlé Crenshaw are nowhere near as odious as MacKinnon and Dworkin personally, but if anything they have been even more successful in pushing bogus ideologies on the world. McIntosh pioneered the spurious doctrine of white privilege while Crenshaw came up with intersectionality. Here is AK Nation debunking white privilege in less than a minute and a half although it shouldn’t really be necessary to debunk the ravings of one of the most privileged women who has ever lived, a woman who thought this privilege came from her white skin instead of from Winthrop J. Means, the incredibly gifted father who raised her in a town where the median income is four times the national average.
Curiously, not only does her father have no Wikipedia page of his own, he isn’t even mentioned on hers.
As for Crenshaw, this is the woman who believes black women are lower down the totem pole of oppression than black men, a claim that is hardly credible, as most black men will concede.
Unfortunately, these insane ideas have been swallowed whole by not only academia but by vast tranches of the mainstream media and Western establishments, and that is before we mention so-called critical race theory, queer studies or the insane and toxic trans movement.
There are some people who suggest that the root cause of the problem is female suffrage, and that it can be rectified only by stripping women of the franchise. A better idea would be to reduce the franchise to males aged over 21 and married mothers. There is an historical basis for this; when they were granted the franchise in Britain, it was restricted to women over thirty. There was also a property qualification. We might go further and restrict the franchise only to married mothers; this would mean most men would have to give up pornography, but if it were left only to mothers, how many would willingly see their sons die in the endless wars we have seen since the lunatics in Washington decided to make the world safe for democracy?
Elevating responsible women over ambitious imbeciles (of both sexes) might indeed be our road to salvation.