The Heart of Wokeness? Radical Disorder

There's a recent essay which is generating a lot of comment--deservedly so.  It's by Helen Andrews, and it notes with alarm the feminization of the culture.

NonVeni provided a few pull-quotes which are dead-on observations.

... “Cancel culture is simply what women do whenever there are enough of them in a given organization or field. That is the Great Feminization thesis, which the same author later elaborated upon at book length: Everything you think of as “wokeness” is simply an epiphenomenon of demographic feminization....

IOW, it's the feline remedy.

 ...Wokeness arose around the same time that many important institutions tipped demographically from majority male to majority female. The substance fits, too. Everything you think of as wokeness involves prioritizing the feminine over the masculine: empathy over rationality, safety over risk, cohesion over competition. One survey, for example, found that 71 percent of men said protecting free speech was more important than preserving a cohesive society, and 59 percent of women said the opposite....

Did you notice that the Current Hot Thing in grade schools is referring to the students as "Friends" rather than 'boys and girls' or 'students' or 'children'?  See above graf again if necessary.

 ...“Female group dynamics favor consensus and cooperation. Men order each other around, but women can only suggest and persuade. Any criticism or negative sentiment, if it absolutely must be expressed, needs to be buried in layers of compliments. The outcome of a discussion is less important than the fact that a discussion was held and everyone participated in it. The most important sex difference in group dynamics is attitude to conflict. In short, men wage conflict openly while women covertly undermine or ostracize their enemies....

That is called "backstabbing."  Yes, men use it too--but they learned it someplace.

The author, Andrews, fears for the legal system's future:

... “A feminized legal system might resemble the Title IX courts for sexual assault on college campuses established in 2011 under President Obama. These proceedings were governed by written rules and so technically could be said to operate under the rule of law. But they lacked many of the safeguards that our legal system holds sacred, such as the right to confront your accuser, the right to know what crime you are accused of, and the fundamental concept that guilt should depend on objective circumstances knowable by both parties, not in how one party feels about an act in retrospect. These protections were abolished because the people who made these rules sympathized with the accusers, who were mostly women, and not with the accused, who were mostly men.”...

Logically, when the legal system goes off-kilter, the rule of law will let go.  Yeats wrote about that.

Turning and turning in the widening gyre   

The falcon cannot hear the falconer;

Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;

Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,

The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere   

The ceremony of innocence is drowned;

The best lack all conviction, while the worst   

Are full of passionate intensity.

Boil this all down and you can deduce the real name of the problem:  disorder.  Genesis--of course--set up Right Order wherein women were subject to men, not their overlords.  It is understood that men--while retaining 'headship'--are expected to sacrifice themselves for the sake of women 'as Christ loved the Church'; that is, even unto death.

But Right Order does not contemplate nor allow women to hold 'headship.'

Thus the malaise of US society.