OPINION:
Early last month, during exam week, a pro-Hamas mob stormed Columbia University’s Butler Library, shouting the usual slogans and making the predictable demands.
Three-quarters of the demonstrators arrested were women. That’s typical of the wave of antisemitic violence sweeping academia. The loudest, most obnoxious and most confrontational protesters tend to be women.
Good feminists that they are, support the monsters who orchestrated the gang rape and sexual mutilation of Israeli women during the Oct. 7, 2023, massacre. #WTF.
Increasingly, the left is female-driven.
The latest new voice of the Democratic Party is Rep. Jasmine Crockett, Texas Democrat, who displayed her charisma and charm by mocking the disability of Texas Gov. Greg Abbott.
Still, Ms. Crockett has stiff competition for the title of leftist girlboss.
Rep. LaMonica McIver, New Jersey Democrat, has been charged with two counts of assault on a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent for attempting to break into a Newark detention center on May 9. In a video of the clash, Ms. McIver appears to be in training for the World Wrestling Federation championship.
Suspended Milwaukee Circuit Court Judge Hannah Dugan was arrested on charges of obstruction and concealing an individual to escape arrest. The charges stem from an April 25 incident at her courthouse, when she tried to help an illegal alien charged with assault evade ICE.
Once, feminine virtues included modesty, compassion and honor. Feminism has replaced them with vulgarity and aggression. Has it made them happier? In a 2020 Pew Research poll, 56% of liberal White women younger than 30 said they suffered from a mental health issue.
Older White women account for 58% of adults who have used antidepressants for at least five years. No wonder Hillary seems so calm.
For decades, young women were told that they could be happy only with work outside the home and that housework was domestic slavery to which women had been consigned by the evil patriarchy. Cue “The Handmaid’s Tale” dancers.
As a result, marriage and fertility rates have taken nosedives. The indispensable work in any society is childbearing and child rearing, and the best environment for both is lifelong, monogamous marriage.
The U.S. fertility rate has reached the lowest point on record: an average of 1.62 births per woman in 2024, with 2.1 births needed to replace current population. The typical household has more pets than children.
In her book “Domestic Extremist: A Practical Guide to Winning the Culture War,” Peachy Keenan observes: “Our supply chain of newborns is caught in a tremendous bottleneck. Demand has dried up. We can no longer produce enough raw material to keep the cribs filled.”
The procreation problem is primarily a marriage problem. In 1970, 76.5% of adults were married. Today, it’s 51%. According to Gallup, 40% of adults say it’s not important for a couple to marry, even if they have a child.
Some women have traded a husband, home and children for a studio apartment and junior executive position in a marketing firm. Their nameplate will cry at their funeral.
Feminism started by fighting for women’s suffrage and equality before the law. Then came no-fault divorce and abortion on demand. Now, they are fighting for the right of people with penises to invade women’s sports and locker rooms.
Feminism begins with a denial of the reality: that there are profound psychological and physical differences between the sexes.
Generally, men are stronger and more aggressive. By nature, women are nurturers. Carrying a child in your body for nine months and nursing it gives you a perspective that even Dr. Rachel Levine lacks.
Of all of the mutations Marxism has produced, feminism is the most grotesque and the most useful. By separating women from men and children, it has created a dependent class and several generations of psychologically castrated males.
You don’t need men for security, liberals tell women. That’s our job. We’ll assure you nondiscrimination in the workplace and that all-important reproductive health, even though you won’t be doing much reproducing. We’ll give you birth control to prevent pregnancy, abortion in case that fails and in-vitro fertilization if you decide to try to give birth in your 40s.
What they won’t give you are husbands and children who don’t come from frozen eggs.
You can find fulfillment in dyeing your hair purple, getting multiple body piercings and screaming about the war in Gaza.
• Don Feder is a columnist with The Washington Times.
