Feminist Cognitive Dissonance - Granite Grok

Feminist Cognitive Dissonance

“Finally, as libertarians we might want to challenge some of our feminist friends with the following consideration: if patriarchy is real and men have disproportionate power over all of society’s major institutions, why should a feminist trust the government to be the solution to problems like the gender wage gap? Even without assuming patriarchy, given the track record of government in the 20th century and before, why should we believe it will not only care about women’s interests but be able to effectively pursue them? To simultaneously complain about how Congress is controlled by men and still think that the federal government is the solution to men’s oppression of women seems… problematic. And if our feminist friends agree that the state is not the solution, then it would seem we’re all on the same side.”

Which pretty much means that they run to Daddy Government to take care of them, yes?  After all, the Party of Big Government, the Democrats, relied on single women as one of their most valuable Progressive Identity Group politics – single unwed mothers.  Their slogan? “Have we got programs for you”!

I do wonder, at times, at the marching cry of “I am woman, hear me roar” – doesn’t that mean that each and every empoowered woman can and will take care of themselves?  That they are as good as any man (re: fish, bicycle)?  Yet, this quote shows the dissonance that but the tenancy to end up supplicating Government to stand up for them instead.  This either shows a level of weakness not to be admitted or that Government has grown too large and keeps individuals from changing their society (not a “public good” at all) – or both.

(H/T: Cafe Hayek)

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