Our Culture Degrades Women by Trying to Make Them Men

Aug 27, 2017 by

by Annie Holmquist, Intellectual Takeout:

In preparation for the 2017 International Women’s Day, the UN Secretary-General dutifully declared his devotion to women’s rights and equality, saying:

“Women’s rights are human rights. …

Empowering women and girls is the only way to protect their rights and make sure they can realize their full potential.”

Undoubtedly, the Secretary-General is well-meaning and sincerely desires empowerment for women. But is it possible that seeking ever greater equality between the sexes will not accomplish true female empowerment?

That’s a question explored by University of Chicago philosopher Richard Weaver in his book Ideas Have Consequences. Rather than go along with the conventional, politically correct wisdom of today, Weaver joins with such revered thinkers like Alexis de Tocqueville in noting that equality has degraded women instead of exalting and empowering them:

“The rage for equality has so blinded the last hundred years that every effort has been made to obliterate the divergence in role, in conduct, and in dress. It has been assumed, clearly out of this same impiety, that because the mission of woman is biological in a broader way, it is less to be admired. Therefore the attempt has been to masculinize women. … Today, in addition to lost generations, we have a self-pitying, lost sex.”

This transformation, Weaver notes, has weakened a woman’s position and diminished her enthusiasm and vision for life:

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