"It’s impossible for the erased males to command any respect from the people…and still less from their women."
– Bronze Age Pervert
Where have all the good men gone? Well, part of the answer is that, outside the elite and laboring classes, they’re increasingly out-competed by women. Men predominate today at the very top and very bottom of the socioeconomic layer cake, in super-elite and dangerous or physically strenuous work. But many sectors are now majority-female—and this is concentrated in the middle.
This majority-female mid-tier knowledge class produces the priestesses of cyborg theocracy. Their bio-libertarian worldview seeks to replace embodied men and women with the tech-enabled, self-fashioning, post-human “person.” This is the worldview that saw Bristol University student Raquel Rosario Sánchez disciplined by university officials in 2021 for organizing a feminist consciousness-raising session that explicitly excluded males, despite the fact that the right to do so is protected under the 2010 Equality Act. And the same worldview reaches impressive heights of absurdity, and cruelty, where it colonizes settings in which embodied sex clearly remains a factor. Recall, for example, the ACLU campaign to force New Jersey’s prisons to accommodate males who identify as women, and the two women subsequently impregnated by a male fellow-inmate at New Jersey’s Edna Mahan Correctional Facility.
Gender-critical feminists have worked fiercely to defend some exceptions to this abolition of sex, in contexts such as women’s prisons and sports teams where physical embodiment still matters. They’re right to do so. But there’s also a cognitive dissonance at work here, which parallels the common gender-critical feminist enthusiasm for biomedical mastery of sex difference in some contexts but not others. It’s a dissonance usually pointed out only by embittered anons in the manosphere: that is, there exists a precedent for current assaults on all-female spaces, and it was driven by the women’s movement.
