i think it's a little bit of both.

these critiques are not new. greer & her colleagues made them themselves.

but, the flip side of this is a little bit of existential dread, and that's the idea i think should be focused more strongly on. the people that are using ad hominems and dismissive language aren't helping in developing an understanding of what's actually happening.

so, let's be blunt: is it possible that a big component of what's happening with young women right now is that they're rejecting the freedom their mothers won for them and longing for an era where they were less free? that they are looking over the precipice and suffering extreme anxiety from it?

i mean, you can frame it however you want, you can use whatever language you wish - but is that not the real crux of it?

these reactions are fine, even expected in a broader view of history, it would just be useful if these people would understand that they're standing up for conservative value systems and stop pretending otherwise...

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/feb/02/thats-patriarchy-how-female-sexual-liberation-led-to-male-sexual-entitlement