Bat shit crazy broads vs. the rest of us
Is that how the next civil war will break down? It's plausible...
This post has been a long time developing. Back during the #MeToo pogroms, and the pink pussy hats, and the screeching on Capitol Hill, and the Stalin-esque career-killing accusations and the disappeared men, I wanted badly to write something titled “Why Are Women so Angry?”—for watching #MeToo had been like watching the spread of a contagion, a mind virus, to use Elon Musk’s term, and a contagion that was spliting society further into two camps.
This particular iteration of the same general idea—and taking it one step further with the notion that there could be a civil war and that’s how the divisions could break down—was given words for me by Bill Whittle, when I heard him speak at an American Freedom Alliance conference titled “The War on Men” where I was also a speaker.
I’ll admit that I wasn’t paying much attention to Whittle, even though he is hugely smart and entertaining. My turn was coming up. I was very nervous, so I was frantically going over my notes, when one line made me sit up straight in my chair. “The next civil war will be between bat shit crazy women and everyone else,” he said.
I’ve since learned that “bat shit crazy women” is a thing. There are memes, YouTube confessions and tee shirts (modeled by women) flaunting the status.
I guess his idea, in the context of a humorous talk, hit a nerve because it is my impression that women are far outpacing men in the really overtly crazy department. That doesn’t mean men aren’t having all sorts of breakdowns too, but these days they do it quietly with the slow suicide of drug addiction and withdrawal into NEET.
There is certainly a growing political divide between men and women. Women are more likely to be left-wing and in so far as left wing is crazy….
Miranda Devine of the New York Post commented on the political split in her column this very morning, for instance, while noticing that the recent rapturous embrace of the University of North Carolina frat boys who saved Old Glory from the Jihadis during pro-Hamas demonstrations on their campus (So far half a million dollars have been raised on GoFundMe to throw them a raver) is part of a growing societal disgust with censorious Karens, and a “manifestation of the growing political divide between men and women that has been evident in opinion polls for some time.”
“There is a 10-point gap on most issues between men and women,” she writes. “Young unmarried women, in particular, skew very left, while young men are becoming markedly more conservative…These toxic femmes gobbled up the unjust privileges of affirmative action and the punitive fakery that the #MeToo movement became and then found they were more miserable than ever.”
But instead of, say, admitting a mistake and reversing course, the new swaggering macha code demands that they “double down,” she writes, “offloading blame onto the patriarchy or toxic masculinity or whatever excuse they can find to avoid looking in the mirror.”
Now, rampaging leftism will certainly get you to crazy pretty fast, but it’s this quality of crazy even among women who aren’t overtly political: The quality is there in the blowsy thirty-something woman in the unflattering bike shorts and crop top doing an illegal climb to the top of a fragile Mayan pyramid in the Mexican jungle, where she does a bawdy dance (Instagram, don’t you know.) It’s the much older women having affairs with teenaged boys and then filming themselves (Trigger Warning! This is an actual YouTube genre) making out with much younger men, even boys. It’s the flagrancy, the exhibitionism, the unhingedness we saw so often during the Gaza Encampments among the women who often seemed to be leading the crusades and who, so often, just seemed to be using “Gaza genocide” as an excuse to get hysterical.
The New York Times reports that the NYPD “showed that most of the more than 100 people arrested in the sweep of Hamilton Hall and other parts of campus on Tuesday evening were in their late 20s, white and female. The average age was 27; more than half were women.”
There are actually good reasons (not excuses, reasons) why Bat Shit Crazy contagion should be at peak right about now:
We’re still living in a world Feminism 2.0 shaped for us
Feminism 2.0 was unleashed upon the world sometime in the mid-seventies. That means most women grew up in a landscape shaped for them, without their permission, by feminism’s second wave, which got a disproportionate amount of attention and therefore had a disproportionate influence on the culture.
Unfortunately, I can’t think of one good thing the feminism of the Friedans, the Steinems, and the Robin Morgans accomplished. We’d gotten the vote and property rights. There was nowhere for these bossy, entitled, generally privileged control freaks to go but into the workplace, the church, the classroom, the home and the bedroom.
The Second Wave bestowed the idea that “the personal is political,” which brought political theory about oppressors and victims into every area of life, including the most nuanced and crucial areas of marriage and sex. This has been a disaster for marriage, for child-bearing, for heterosexual bonding.
Self-awareness was also chased out of the arena. As far as I can tell, one’s not supposed to look within, to examine one’s motives, to be self-critical, to consider the ways in which one’s behavior might have contributed to one’s situation.
Of course one of the sisters’ first acts was to exile Freud from civilized society. He’s the king of looking within first to understand one’s fate.
Now there’s always something external to blame. To think of ways to improve is to cooperate with the forces of patriarchy. Someone is trying to body shame you or install a Glass Ceiling. If you feel uncomfortable in a profession (I see this often with women and law), it’s not that you might be tempermentally unsuited for that profession, you’re just picking up sexist dog whistles trying to turn you back.
“Rationality is itself a masculinized concept,” explains one feminist. “Anger is one of those highly gendered emotions and, as an emotion categorized as male, has long been denied to women. That’s exactly what makes it one of the most powerful resources women have to combat our oppression — it is the fuel for our liberation.”
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Add moral relativism and the waning influence of the church and synagogue which delienate what goodness and evil look like, and post-Second Wave generations of young women were left without brakes, without guidelines, without boundaries. Everything is permitted—except violence to the climate, I suppose. Men get some introduction to a moral code and the notion of trying to do better on sports teams and often on their less-forgiving, more embodied jobs, where success and error are much clearer.
Meanwhile having thoroughly chased men away from marriage and fathering, childless women over the age of, say, thirty, are prone to suffer…certain biologically-based longings. This discontent, this sense of emptiness of the childless, hits especially hard in middle-age which explains the Bat Shit Crazy Syndrome on Steroids for Women of a Certain Age, as seen recently in the E. J. Carrol v. Donald Trump matter which I wrote about in January.
The Sexual Revolution still casts a shadow
Second Wave Feminism absolutely detested hard-wired biologically based sex differences for some reason (was it the narcissistic insult that something had been preordained, decided for you? That’s certainly behind the trans-craze and its notion of “genders assigned at birth.”)
Flailing against the reality of biologically based sex differences, they then did tremendous damage by teaching young women that female and male sexual response are identical. They mocked girls’ impulses toward modesty, timidity, and any need for delay. Gifted with this deluge of biological/psychological misinformation, those generations of women then lived with totally unnecssary self-doubt and misery.
Men and women are radically different. This is what makes for the specially potent attraction but also what makes communication and successful pairing very difficult.
Paradoxically, in other words, the Sexual Revolution left behind at least two (are we at three now?) generations of women who have experienced long bouts of sexual loneliness. Teenaged girls grew up knowing nothing about normal female sexual response and felt shame when they did not feel compelled to act like their male cohorts, when they found, for instance, hook up culture so deeply unsatisfying.
Ask the experts (if you can’t just ask your grandmother) solid female arousal depends on time. It’s actually hard-wired. An investment of time is a sign that a man might invest time when it’s needed most, during the years of pregnancy and child-raising. So women get turned on by someone who has gone to the trouble of trying to seduce them, but the elements of seduction, which starts with glances, casual, but usually complimentary, comments, and casual touches, have been driven out of the public sphere by sexual harassment regulations. In the modern workplace, at a college, even glances can be dangerous.
So, women under the age of about 80 actually have good reason to be angry, but they’re misdirecting their anger—at men instead of the feminists who have been shaping public policy since the mid-seventies. The Sexual Revolution was a terrible deal for women, and eventually for men too.
Unmonitored testosterone use
I don’t know how widespread this phenomenon actually is but I know that it’s out there. Abigail Shrier might have a reputable number because of her research on gender “transitioning,” but just spend a short time spent on Reddit where young women compare notes on how to procure prescriptions from Dr. Feel Goods, and you will get an eyeful of the self-dosing craze. Too much testosterone, of course, makes you crazy, like foaming at the mouth, very aggressive crazy.
Is all of this a recipe for civil war? Probably not.
People who throw around the notion of an incipient civil war seem to forget that wars still depend on a huge supply of young men, fit and motivated enough for that “bitter arithmetic” and, what with very real testosterone deficits among men these days, we barely have enough sufficiently aggressive men to fill our regular army.
So we may not see civil war (at least along these lines) any time soon, but we can expect lots more Bat Shit Crazy before a new CINC can help restore sanity.