The irony of the anti-patriarchy movement

One of the main aims of modern "progressives," particularly the social justice warriors who work hard to advance the cause of cultural marxism and destroying traditional authority structures, is to "take down the patriarchy."

The idea is to take down a male-dominated society, which would seek to keep women down and away from power. Complaints about traditionalist patriarchy would include men treating women as sensitive and shielding them from certain responsibilities or hearing harsh things.

The expression, "there's a lady present," used to indicate that someone should avoid using profanity or harsh language would be a classic example of the kind of patriarchy that modern feminism is seeking to destroy.

An example of the progressive move to replace the patriarchy has to include things like President Obama's "life of Julia" ad from the 2012 campaign in which voters are taken on a hypothetical journey with a woman in her life in which the state provides all of the protection and benefits she needs to thrive that would normally be provided by her father and then husband.

Naturally, the University system plays a major role in this as well, yet progressives never seem to catch the tremendous irony from a scene such as this one:



That's a young feminist at Yale unloading on a professor who suggested that responses to Halloween costumes were overly sensitive and that adults shouldn't try to dictate what other adults wear. The student screams at this professor, explaining that "creating a safe home" for students should be the goal of Yale University, not creating an intellectual climate in which different voices are allowed to be heard.

"Trigger-warnings" and "safe speech" are now common buzzwords at Universities where young women outnumber young men and are expecting the University to provide for them in the way that young men or their fathers aren't. These measures are really no different from saying, "hush, there's a lady present," all that has changed is the politics behind the sentiment.

You see, apparently the aims of "The Patriarchy," which were to protect and shield women, aren't the problem for these people. The problem seems to be that absentee fathers and emotionally/mentally-weak young men are failing to fill the role society needs them to fill and the result is a generation of bitter children who have a deep mistrust in traditional authority figures.

It's a huge problem, and the failure of both the state or the University system to fill the gap is going to become increasingly apparent.