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Michael Woudenberg's avatar

As I think I commented on a previous essay, feminism today assumes that a successful woman should be indistinguishable from a successful man. When we talk about seats at the table, we have to acknowledge we just accepted that the seats were all male cognitive and social structures seats.

That those seats were the value. It makes sense for racial and ethnic integration. But male and female, due to the dimorphisms you mentioned, have different seats of value.

Modern feminism views only the masculine structures as valuable and, when they can't compete as well, seek to feminize and attack. Instead of building their own superpowers, they become frustrated that they struggle in the male structured environment.

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Derek Simmons's avatar

Today you answered what after 30+ years study Freud could not:

What do women want?

And....like many answers to “Freudian questions”... the answer is not pretty. Though, unlike many such answers, it is straightforward and only apparently tangled to satisfy the “needs” of the interlocutor.

Thank you. Again.

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