In the dim glow of 2025's cultural twilight, where facts flicker like faulty fluorescents and feelings reign supreme, Helen Andrews drops a bombshell in Compact: "The Great Feminization." It's not a screed against sisterhood; it's a autopsy of how demographic drifts, women surging into power perches, have tilted the West toward empathy's embrace, at the expense of reason's rigour. Echoing Joakim Andersen's Arktos dispatch and Hanne Nabintu Herland's critiques of Marxist feminism's family-fraying fury, Andrews paints a picture of professions pivoting from merit to mood, law to leniency, and truth to tribe. The result? A society where "in-group consensus suppresses unpopular facts," as Andrews warns, teetering on the brink of irrational implosion. We've traded the scalpel for the hug, and the bill's coming due. Is this the oestrogen-fuelled endgame, or just evolution's awkward phase? Let's dissect the drift before the lights go out entirely.
Flashback to 2005: Larry Summers, Harvard's helmsman and econ oracle, muses at a conference that innate sex differences might explain women's STEM scarcity. Cue the coven: Nancy Hopkins bolts, claiming nausea; the faculty ferments a no-confidence vote; Summers slinks away, tail between legs. For Andrews, this wasn't mere melee, it was wokeness's Big Bang, a feminine flex where emotion eclipsed evidence. "The women were not interested in debating Summers's hypothesis," she notes. "They were interested in how his words made them feel." Fast-forward, and the data deluge confirms: Institutions tipping female-majority sync with society's slide into sensitivity over sense.
The stats sting like a spreadsheet slap: US Law schools went majority female in 2016 (now 56% in 2024); journalism staffs in 2018 (NYT from 10% in '74 to 55% today); med schools in 2019; college-educated workforce in 2019; instructors in 2023. Managers? 46% and climbing. Psychology PhDs? 75% to women. Andersen piles on: Media, law, academia, once male bastions, now echo chambers of empathy, where "feminine patterns" birth cancel culture and woke whims. Herland hammers home the history: Radical '60s feminism, Marxist-flavoured, swapped familial love for self-love, pitting sexes in perpetual war. It's not conquest; it's creep, pioneers in the '70s, parity in the '00s, dominance now. And with it, the vibe shifts: From open brawls to backchannel barbs, risk to restraint, facts to feels.
What is wokeness, if not femininity unchained? Andrews nails it: "Everything you think of as wokeness involves prioritising the feminine over the masculine: empathy over rationality, safety over risk, cohesion over competition." Surveys seal the deal, Noah Carl, Bo Winegard, Cory Clark flash data: 71% of men prioritise free speech over cohesion; 59% of women flip it. Joyce Benenson's lab lore: Men duke out debates, then high-five solutions; women chat chumminess, skim the task. Translate to today: Title IX kangaroo courts ditch due process for accuser sympathy; Kavanaugh's crucible crowns "credibility" without cross-exam; journalism jettisons "prickly individualists" for harmonious hacks.
Andersen amps the alarm: This is "gynecocracy" per Evola, feminised attitudes infiltrating spirituality, politics, culture amid decline. Herland howls: Marxist misogyny made sexes foes, destabilising society with "fake victimhood." The upshot? A West where "watchdogs of ideology" (read: women in ISA strongholds) muzzle dissent, empathy excuses excess (lenient sentences for "oppressed" offenders), and cohesion crushes competition. Woke isn't weird; it's womanly, scaled up, unchecked.
Here's the kicker: Men aren't just outnumbered; they're outmoded. Andrews: Feminisation "drives men away by imposing feminine norms on previously male institutions." Anti-discrimination laws mandate it, every workspace "feminised," per force. Andersen: Men degenerate into "tepid, low-powered males," brotherhood banished, autonomy eroded. Europe exemplifies: Women helm governments (von der Leyen, Meloni, but also Merkel's migrant mercy), men marinate in oestrogenic ennui. Herland: Radical feminism birthed self-love silos, shattering families.
Merit? Mauled. Law bends for sentiment, Black criminals coddled, victims sidelined; illegals prioritised over citizens. Academia: Unpopular facts flushed for feel-good fictions. Journalism: Objective obits for opinion orgies. As "remaining men age out," per Andrews, and "feminised generations take full control," the rational ramparts crumble. Andersen: Collapse looms, a "witch-state" where empathy eclipses evidence, gynocentrism guts heroism.
Andrews' augury: "The eruption of insanity in 2020 was just a small taste." Imagine: Legal systems like Title IX writ large, rules as rubber, justice as jelly. Society "divorced from reality," facts forsaken for fellowship. Andersen: "The rule of law will not survive" — emoting erodes equity. Herland: Marxist feminism's hate harvest, families fractured, societies splintered. Yet, glimmers: Andrews urges legal tweaks, ease HR hammers, foster male spheres. Andersen: Reunite brotherhood with womanly respect.
Is this death knell or detour? Feminisation's flood might foster balance—empathy tempers excess ambition. But if Andrews et al. ring true, we're witnessing Western waning: Velvet veils over vigilant eyes, hugs halting hard truths. The fix? Reclaim reason without rancour, merit as mosaic, not monolith. Otherwise, the spark dims, and society's silhouette softens into shadow. Of course at this late stage, easier said than done.
https://www.compactmag.com/article/the-great-feminization/
https://www.unz.com/proberts/societal-death-by-feminization/