There’s Something Wrong with Liberal Women
Typically, Culturcidal doesn’t cover what’s happening in Great Britain, but since this article looked interesting and we see exactly the same kind of pattern happening in America, it seemed worth discussing.
Apparently, many women in Great Britain are quite angry, and my guess is, if you polled liberal women in the United States, you would hear many of the same sentiments you are about to read:
Let’s start with an excerpt from the article that gives you the gist of it:
...Women in middle-class professions are less likely to say they feel valued by society and are less likely to believe that if they work hard, they will succeed in life when compared with their working-class counterparts. Young men are now more likely to be unemployed than young women, yet young women are far more financially cynical: They are 21 points less likely than young men to believe they will ever out-earn their parents. White women are more likely to feel the country is racist than non-white women.
...Anna’s politics had become more radical during the long process of getting personal independence payments for her disability. She felt the whole system was set up against her. The experience made her feel dehumanised. “I no longer feel politically aligned with this country,” she said. She told me that all of the accounts she follows online are run by women or disabled or queer people. “There is this real sense of panic and hopelessness,” she said about politics. “We have policies that aren’t looking after us. We have a government that doesn’t seem to give a shit if genocide happens.”
Anna has a boyfriend, whom she described as “a fucking Labrador.” (Emphasis mine) “He’s reading books about how climate change isn’t actually that big a deal, and it’s hard to separate that from the fact that he’s not really faced much adversity in his life as a straight white man who was privately educated,” she said. “I’m probably the adversity in his life.” (Emphasis mine) When he and his friends talked about the world and politics, it sounded very different to the way she talked with her friends, who were all either female or non-binary. She couldn’t imagine a group of men sitting around at the pub, saying things like, “I’m really worried about what the DWP is doing to disabled people.”
...The literary conversation was winding down. I asked the table how they felt about the young men they knew. “I don’t care for them,” said a girl called Ruby imperiously. (Emphasis mine) She had red hair and lots of silver jewellery. “They’re not bad people, but they refuse to call out their friends who make other girls uncomfortable. They’ll laugh at jokes that are sexist, racist, homophobic; they don’t care about political issues… I don’t think they like women a lot.” If a man is attracted to you, she said, he might talk about things like toxic misogyny. If he doesn’t fancy you, he won’t bother. “I feel like a lot of it is quite sexually motivated with men.”
I asked if they’d consider dating a man with different politics. They all immediately said no. “I don’t think I’d even be friends with one,” said one girl. “They don’t see you as human.” Only one woman, Evelyn, admitted to having male friends (though she was worried this made her a “pick me,” trying too hard for male attention). (Emphasis mine) Evelyn was concerned about what the men she knew were watching online. “The stuff that’s being said about women is crazy,” she said. “They’re getting all these reels, talking about, like, bad stuff about women. And I get reels of women saying bad stuff about men. I try to think, not all men are like this, but…” (Emphasis mine)
Ruby had recently carried out a survey for a course. She asked 30 final-year students – 15 men, 15 women – how they’d vote at the next general election. Most of the women said Green or Labour. Men said Conservatives or Lib Dem. (All the women around the table told me they’d vote Green.) Ruby also asked her respondents where they see themselves when they’re 30. Of the men, all but two said they wanted to be married with children; only three women said the same. Even the women in relationships didn’t want to get married. (Emphasis mine)
None of the Leeds group found this surprising. Most of their friends felt that way. “It’s a much bigger deal for us to become mothers – we have to get rid of our career,” Evelyn explained. “I’m not fully against kids. I just really don’t want to lose the other things and become just a mother. I want to still be me, and I will probably lose that.” (Emphasis mine)
...It all felt impossibly bleak. Most of the women I met were educated, engaging, bright, and charismatic. But they weren’t excited about their futures. They didn’t like the men they knew, or the idea of those they didn’t. Men were just a threat who could harm or trap them. (Emphasis mine) And the most privileged women were the most downcast.
... Among those under-30, younger women feel the bleakest: women under 25 are most likely to believe things are “stacked against me, no matter how hard I try.”
All the women I spoke to were involved in what they viewed as deeply moral missions to change a world that they believed didn’t care about them. Of course, it wasn’t making them happy. That was kind of the point, though. “I think to be a person that cares about other people,” said the Leeds student with the pink hair, “you’ve got to be pessimistic.” (Emphasis mine)
Wow, there is so much here to unpack.
To begin with, it’s worth noting that despite seeing a level of bitterness, rage, and unhappiness that practically reaches off the screen and grabs you by the collar and shakes you, these women do not live in countries like Afghanistan, Sudan, or Yemen, where women are heavily oppressed. They’re also not in a war zone like, say, Ukraine, Lebanon, or Iran. These are women who live in a Western country where they make roughly three times as much as the average person in the world. In other words, these women are certainly not repressed in any meaningful sense, and although they’re probably not doing as well as they would be in the United States, they do live in the top tier of economically successful nations.
Yet, what were some of the words tossed around to describe these, let’s be honest, fairly privileged women in this piece? “Financially cynical.” “Dehumanised.” “Panic and hopelessness.” “Stacked against me, no matter how hard I try.” “Pessimistic.”
They also seem to have pretty stereotypical views of men and marriage for feminists as well. They don’t want marriage, they don’t really seem to want children, and they seem to dislike men, who they view as a “trap” who will ruin their wonderful careers in… what? Podcasting? Middle management? Human resources?
Before we go further, let me just note that this phenomenon is happening in the United States as well. Not in EXACTLY the same way, but the data tells a very similar tale.
First of all, men haven’t changed much ideologically, while women have become MUCH MORE liberal:
Rather notably, as women became much more liberal, they also became much more mentally ill. So, which came first? The chicken or the egg? I’d posit that mentally ill people are drawn toward liberalism AND that liberalism makes people more mentally ill, but certainly that point could be argued:
Of course, there are real consequences to all of this that go far beyond politics. For example, conservative women have more children than liberal women:
Additionally, conservative women are MUCH HAPPIER with their lives than liberal women:
This begs, what seems to me at least, an extremely obvious question that is based on logic so old that even the Bible alludes to it:
If you are embracing an ideology that leads to unhappiness, mental illness, intense anger, a desire not to produce children, and an intense dislike of the opposite sex, how can that possibly be a good ideology? What is the upside to embracing a way of looking at the world that OBJECTIVELY makes your life worse across the board?
We could certainly argue about how much liberalism benefits the poor, the middle class, America and the world (I’d say it’s a huge negative for all of those groups and liberals would probably say it’s wonderful), but what exactly are these women accomplishing by ranting about some imaginary genocide against disabled people, raging that men won’t do what they want them to do or screaming at people in the street over whatever the latest trendy cause of the day is? Absolutely nothing. Not a thing.
Furthermore, it’s great that liberal women think they’re on “deeply moral missions,” but guess what? I write this Substack because I want to make a difference in the world. Elon Musk would tell you that he created his businesses to help humanity. So, we both think we’re on deeply moral missions. Know who else thinks they’re on a “deeply moral mission” of one sort or another? The Catholic church, Al-Qaeda, Iran, George Soros, the NAACP, the Mormon church, the NRA, Planned Parenthood, etc., etc. Some of them are right about the goodness of their cause and some of them are wrong, but there’s nothing unique about thinking you’re doing things for moral reasons.
However, for your own sake, I hope you realize that if your “deeply moral mission” requires you to live your life as an angry, bitter, outraged, anxiety-ridden, childless misandrist, then OBVIOUSLY you’re doing something wrong. Until you can see that there’s a problem and your way of thinking is at the root of it, there’s not really much that can be done to make your life better.
There is a great season of the TV series Fargo where Kirsten Dunst plays a wife, Peggy Blumquist, that illustrates the modern female problem very well. This was set in the 70s I think. Peggy has a loving and caring husband in a small town. He isn't a looker though... (actor Jesse Plemons), They both have reliable working-class jobs. She is a hairdresser; he is a butcher and dreams of taking over the butchery from his boss who is about to retire. He talks of buying a house on some land and raising children. That isn't enough for her. She is obsessed with becoming "self-actualized". Peggy's feminist boss that owns the salon keeps pushing her to spend money on a self-actualization seminar.
I think Dunst knocked it out the park in her role. I won't spoil the end, but her brain foggy behavior not knowing what she really wants results in a very bad ending outcome.
Notable lines include:
"I'm a victim, too! I was a victim first!"
"I never meant for any of this to happen. You know? Not to Ed. Not to anybody. I just wanted to be someone."
"No, see? I wanted to choose, be my own me. Not be defined by someone else's expectations."
"It's a lie, okay, that you can do it all, be a wife and a mother and this self-made career woman, like there's 37 hours in a day."
"It's just a flying saucer, Ed. We gotta go!"
"I'm sorry... but how is sittin' here gonna help me be the best person I can be?"
"Don't think about the person I wanna be, just be that person!"
She is in a fog of not being satisfied with life, but she really does not know why and does not really know what she wants.
That is the way I see these educated liberal females. They rage even though they have achieved their career "self-actualization". The problem is that they are in a biological and evolutionary mismatch. They are in a reverse life-choice box of their own making. They are designed for marriage, making babies and raising a family. However, that life seems so constraining to them and less attractive than the life of a career man. Or so they thought. But then they get to that life they decide that it sucks too. They really don't like working those long and hard hours. They certainly don't do any hard manual labor that can be dangerous.
They cannot admit that they want marriage, family and babies. And they hate their jobs and careers as not being fulfilling enough. However, females in general are terrible at self-awareness, self-reflection and self-accountability. They are a perpetual victim and it is other people's fault that they cannot decide what they really want in life, make the choices that require tradeoffs. They want it all, but they don't know what "all" even is. And of course, nobody can have it all.
This is the female pattern. They are wired to find someone to care for them. And yet the feminist movement lied to them and told them that they were going to be happy taking care of themselves. Now they are pissed that there is nobody taking care of them while they practice vulnerable narcissism that sends good men running far away from them.
I think there is something to Sharia Law. As women in those countries are oppressed and there is definite abuse and tragedy related to it, in general it seems that the culture might be a better fit for the general female condition that is the culture of the modern feminized and educated industrialized West.
There are a number of reasons for this that could be explored but I'll confine myself to the main one:
Women are far more conformist than men. I first observed this in high school where I saw that the girls were the ones who believed what teacher said, did what teacher told them to do, failed to see obviously false things the teachers and the text books said.
One day a leftist teacher of American history whom I especially disliked spent much of the class period carrying on about how wonderful, kind and Christian Abraham Lincoln was and how rotten White Southerners (our ancestors) had been not to reciprocate and reflect his benevolent goodness.
I am not a "professional Southerner" and I am not interested in squabbling with Northern Whites. We have a full plate of other problems and we need to get along and work together. I also think the Civil War was simply a catastrophic mistake on both sides, a useless war that could have been and ought to have been avoided by sensible people on both sides. We should have sat down and talked rather than rushing to the guns to kill each other.
But...
My ancestors and their relatives held significant positions in the Confederate Army and government. As the leftist history teacher rattled on attacking my forebears I was annoyed that she - a disagreeable person I disliked - expected us to believe something as ludicrous and as obviously false as the idea that Abraham Lincoln, the man who killed more Americans than any other enemy in our country's history, was some kind of Sweetie Pie and wanted to turn me against my grandmother, my great aunts and uncles, who had told me about the Civil War.
So, when she - expecting us to grovel to her and be an echo chamber for her opinions - opened the floor for our, I raised my hand.
I reminded her that we were sitting in a city that Abraham Lincoln had burned to the ground. His troops had hauled the sick out of the hospitals, thrown them on the ground, torched the hospitals, destroyed the surgical instruments and medical supplies, burned the food stores, burned down the civilian populations houses with winter coming on....and so on.
I spoke politely but firmly and concluded by pointing out that we (Americans) had executed Germans for lesser crimes than these.
I need not go into the hysterical rage this provoked from my leftist teacher.
What is pertinent to the problem of most women in our times being brain dead liberals is the reaction of some of the girls in my class.
When we were eating lunch in the school cafeteria a couple of hours later, a number of the girls were angry....at me!
They told me I had no business disagreeing with teacher.
Since I had been polite, well-mannered, thoughtful and not an obnoxious trouble maker in making my contribution to the class discussion of teacher's lecture and since what I had said was undeniably true (especially since we were sitting in Atlanta, one of the city's Lincoln burned to the ground), I was taken by surprise that the girls apparently believed that the right thing to do was to swallow everything whole that the goofy teacher said and not to "make trouble" by pointing out the obvious falseness of teacher's narrative.
The point:
Women are hardwired by evolution and biology to want to get along, to go with the flow, to obey authority.
The authorities today are the journalists in the System Media. Women comply with what the authorities say. They are not constituted like some men to oppose the voices of authority.
They are the way they are because nature made them that way. Even the ones who say they don't want a marriage and don't want children are instinctively acting out of a woman's concern that she have a safe next for her biddies (children).
There's no reason to be unhappy with them about that. Under normal circumstances this is the right way for them to be...but we live in abnormal times.
One last pertinent example for European history:
In 1871, after their crushing defeat by Bismarck and his Germans and after the collapse of the monarchy and the flight of the King to England, the French elected a constituent assembly to write a new constitution.
The Monarchists, unfortunately, were split 3 ways (Bourbon Legitimists, Orleanists and Bonapartists). Otherwise, they would have won the elections and a monarchist majority in the constituent assembly would have sat someone on the Throne and spared France a republican government.
As it was, the Monarchists were close to having a majority in the constituent assembly.
In the new French constitution, France had the misfortune of becoming the first country in the world to allow universal MALE suffrage.
The issue was raised of whether women should also be given the right to vote.
Today, we would expect that it would be the leftists (the republican socialists) in the constituent assembly that would have wanted women to vote.
Not so.
It was the anti-monarchist, leftist delegates who voted down universal female suffrage and kept women from voting, not the Monarchists.
The leftists were sharp. They read the tea leaves. They understood.
The leftists denied women the vote precisely for the reason that women are conformist and obedient to authority.
They said that the authority figures (back then - not today) the women would obey were the priests and aristocrats. Therefore, they would vote monarchist in the next election, the republic would fall and the monarchy would be restored.
As I said, the authority figures in our society are the leftist journalists in the System Media (and the teachers, professors and textbooks used to indoctrinate kids in our pathetic "educational" system).
So, women are leftists.
Not because they are feminists like Gloria Steinem and Betty Friedan (although, as instructed, they worship such freaks) but because they are instructed to be feminists and leftists.
They "rise up" because they are told to rise up.
If we could change the authority figures back to what they were 5 generations ago, women would obey the Kaiser and direct themselves to "Kinder, Kirche, Kuche" (Children, Church and Kitchen) the way Kaiser Wilhelm told the German women to do.