I think that the claim that the future is female is missing the point both about the past and the present.
Golly, use just one figure of speech around this lady, and she’s all over a guy for it. You DO know what I mean, but we can argue about literal versus figurative some other time. Like the next time I catch you exaggerating?
But I have long suspected, that you severely under-estimate the ubiquity and the power of the American matriarchy. It is a lot less to do with separating men from women or fathers from children, though yes there is plenty of that, than it is an effect of fully-intact families in which the man’s role is an openly subservient, second-class one. It really is way more the norm than I think you think it is. Spend more than the length of a professional visit and really get neck-deep in American life, and I guarantee you’ll see what I see: that women rule.
And it will only be a matter of time, the time it takes for the idiocy and futility of what you know as feminism to reveal itself and run its course, before more and more women who are not thinking of themselves as feminists, wives, mothers, church ladies, rock-ribbed conservative womanhood, begin to occupy more and more professional positions of leadership and seniority. It’s been happening already, in nursing, education, retail and small business, just as examples, for generations, and is only gaining steam. Because it is no movement, and it is no ideology. It is simply what is happening, and men look to be having less and less interest in trying to keep up with it.
Professor, you can harangue me all you want about biology and traditional gender roles. I’m not the one you need to convince. The current history of the American people, is. And you’re just wrong. Our women are not waiting around for tradition to re-assert itself, and are finding more ways all the time to answer their biology, AND run their society. It IS happening.
And no, it has hardly anything to do with feminism, and I have said so all along. I’ve read the same sources you have to some extent, so you can split hairs with me over antecedents and origins and laws and policies and what led to what, and you’d be right. But the American matriarchy is at best the vast unintended consequence of feminism, and certainly was never among its stated objectives, you’ve been right about that all along.
