In this chapter, Carlson addresses modern feminism. First, he addresses its roots in the writing of Betty Friedan, who divorced her husband and founded the National Organization for Women. He explores the unusual phenomenon that the "equality" sought by feminists has been largely achieved, but women's happiness is steadily decreasing, not increasing.
Carlson also looks at feminists' attitudes towards abortion, shifting from defending it as an unfortunate necessity to championing abortion as a positive good in and of itself. This, of course, totally negates the value of the one thing women are uniquely capable of, which is motherhood.
Feminists, Carlson notes, are strangely unconcerned with the treatment of women by Muslims. While searching for ever-more obscure and minor offenses from white men, feminists completely ignore the sexual abuse of women and their second-class status in Muslim societies. Because of this strange habit, the evil practice of female genital mutilation has now made its way into Western countries.
Carlson also examines the bizarre rise of transsexual ideologies, and, again, its implications for the value and treatment of actual women.
Finally, and this is the part of the chapter that affected me most, Carlson looks at the declining fortunes of men in the United States, their mistreatment, neglect and decline, and what implications this has for society as a whole.
I will post sometime in the next day or so a thread to poll about what book we should cover next. As I said, I have my own opinion, but if I ran this blog just by my preferences, at some point, none of you would be here, so let's see what everyone thinks.
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