This is going around. Are there comments on it?
Max Remington recently had a very long article on Substack regarding this phenomenon.
I can’t think of another moment in history in any civilization where men and women were each other’s primary competitor.
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Even as men and women have held differing political persuasions throughout history, we’ve never seen an instance where the two sexes have diverged so wildly. At a time when women are more often than not the driving force in socio-political trends, there’s no way this isn’t going to have revolutionary implications for society moving forward,
He talks about how men are increasingly falling behind and how society is more apt to view men and masculinity in a negative manner. However, like a lot of mainstream writers he's quick to insist that women have it just as bad and tempers any hint of criticism directed towards women with assurances that men are equally to blame. I've never seen a mainstream writer point out the fact that women, not men, were the first ones to abandon and rebel against traditional gender roles and if they don't like the current status quo then they can be the first ones to go back to them.
Anyway, he thinks, based on historical statistics, that if the ideological political gap between men and women is to be closed it will be because men will become more liberal until they are closer in their beliefs to women. He thinks that because that's what has been happening thus far. I think he's wrong on that count.
If you look at the last 60 years of our cultures, it's true that men have indeed been becoming more liberal on gender roles. However, I don't think that will continue. I think what's changed is that a lot of men are realizing it didn't result in some idealized notion of fairness between the sexes despite what feminists insist.
Instead, we've ended up with a society where marriage and family formation is plummeting and where women, despite getting the things they claimed to want (careers, easy divorce, Sex in the City lifestyle, etc.) are more miserable and medicated than they were under the patriarchy. In short, men are realizing that it isn't working and are correcting course. Pandering to women is making things worse, not better, so I don't expect men to become even more liberal going forward. Women on the other hand appear to be doubling down on their woke beliefs.
I do agree with his final point though -
If men and women are in constant conflict, then they’re going to have difficulty coming together to form unquestionably the foundation of any civilization: families Without families, there’s no reproduction. Without reproduction, there’s no continuity. We’ve become too decadent, too nihilistic to care at this point, so if nothing else, Americans should care because this state of affairs will create conflict and tumult that’ll shake the foundations of our order.
I think a lot of what we're seeing going on in the West is the culmination of the Battle of the Sexes and we have two fundamental paradigms, the masculine vs feminine models of morality, clashing.
