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I read an article this week that I can't stop thinking about.

And in fact, it seems to have caught a lot of people's attention.

It's a piece by Helen Andrews in Compact Magazine called The Great Feminization.

And in it, she makes the case, quite persuasively, in my opinion, that everything we would

conceptualize as wokeness is the byproduct of a feminized society en masse.

I mean, just think about it.

Political correctness, identity politics, the Me Too movement, cultural affirmative action,

DEI, social emotional learning.

All of it involves, in Helen's words, quote,

prioritizing the feminine over the masculine, empathy over rationality, safety over risk,

cohesion over competition, end quote.

This is in part explained by the general differences in how men and women approach conflict.

While men are wired for war, they're primed to compartmentalize, they deal with conflict directly

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