Today I'd like to extend a big "f*ck you" to the individuals who helped to engineer the Spirit of the Age; in particular, I would like to acknowledge those who have worked hard to undermine gender and relationship roles, and challenge the idea that women should value and seek out pregnancy, children and family.
Their goal was to convince women that having children is just an impediment in the way of self-actualization - which has degenerated into time spent studying useless bullshit, like fashion, or gender-baiting studies, or just swiping around on Tinder and farming likes on Instagram. In this new world order, female emotional chaos reigns supreme, and even for men acting on impulse and following momentary emotions is held up as what self-actualization is supposed to be about. Listed below are the key ideologues behind this madness, who incidentally all descend from the Tribe.
Betty Friedan, one of the founders of modern feminism as we know it |
Their goal was to convince women that having children is just an impediment in the way of self-actualization - which has degenerated into time spent studying useless bullshit, like fashion, or gender-baiting studies, or just swiping around on Tinder and farming likes on Instagram. In this new world order, female emotional chaos reigns supreme, and even for men acting on impulse and following momentary emotions is held up as what self-actualization is supposed to be about. Listed below are the key ideologues behind this madness, who incidentally all descend from the Tribe.
- Bella Abzug
- Kathy Acker
- Rachel Adler
- Larisa Alexandrovna
- Gloria Allred
- Rebecca Alpert
- Pauline Bebe
- Hanne Blank
- Lisa Bloom
- Judy Blume
- Daniel Boyarin
- David Brooks (journalist)
- Susan Brownmiller
- Judith Butler
- Aviva Cantor
- Judy Chicago
- Hedwig Dohm
- Andrea Dworkin
- Eve Ensler
- Amy Eilberg
- Sandy Eisenberg Sasso
- Susan Estrich
- Susan Faludi
- Shulamith Firestone
- Betty Friedan
- Sarah Michelle Gellar
- Ruth Bader Ginsburg
- Ilana Gliechbloom
- Emma Goldman
- Elyse Goldstein
- Lynn Gottlieb
- Blu Greenberg
- Tina Grimberg
- Charlotte Haldane
- Nina Hartley
- Tova Hartman
- Judith Hauptman
- Dorothy Ray Healey
- Brenda Howard
- Sara Hurwitz
- Paula Hyman
- Elfriede Jelinek
- Erica Jong
- Roberta Kalechofsky
- Michael Kimmel
- Lydia Rabinowitsch-Kempner
- Naomi Klein
- Edith Konecky
- Barbara Kruger
- Anna Kuliscioff
- Michele Landsberg
- Lori Hope Lefkovitz
- Gerda Lerner
- Ariel Levy
- Fanny Lewald
- Rosa Luxemburg
- Frederica Sagor Maas
- Hana Meisel
- Annie Nathan Meyer
- Haviva Ner-David
- Martha Nussbaum
- Tillie Olsen
- Judith Plaskow
- Letty Cottin Pogrebin
- Rachel Pollack
- Katha Pollitt
- Virginia Postrel
- Sally Priesand
- Trude Weiss-Rosmarin
- Tamar Ross
- Muriel Rukeyser
- Danya Ruttenberg
- Zalman Schachter-Shalomi
- Rosika Schwimmer
- Mendel Shapiro
- Christina Hoff Sommers
- Sandy Eisenberg Sasso
- Susan Sontag
- Daniel Sperber
- Gertrude Stein
- Gloria Steinem
- Sandra Steingraber
- Yona Wallach
- Wendy Wasserstein
- Trude Weiss-Rosmarin
- Naomi Weisstein
- Ruth Westheimer
- Naomi Wolf
- Joel B. Wolowelsky
- Elizabeth Wurtzel
- Cathy Young