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Feminism Without Women

50 years after Ms. Magazine was founded by Gloria Steinem, the prototypical feminist magazine decided to erase women by referring to them as “birthing people” and “people with vaginas”.

Once the champions of newspeak jargon like “herstory” that was supposed to emphasize the role of women, Ms. Magazine and the Feminist Majority Foundation are now erasing women. After generations of accusing men of objectifying women by reducing them to body parts, the professional feminists are eliminating women entirely by reducing them to body parts.

Ms. is short for Miss which was itself short for Mistress. At some point, the magazine will have to be renamed to Xer or They. And the Feminist Majority Foundation owes its name to yet another romance language name for women creating a movement named after women without women.

Can there be a feminist movement without women? Will feminism have to be renamed Xerinism or Theyinism?

In 2020, 55% of white women voted for President Trump despite a drumbeat of denunciations of “white women” in the previous election. White women had built the feminist movement which then read them out of the movement. But black women, championed as the new face of feminism, have been replaced by “black birthing people” by the Feminist Majority Foundation.

What is the purpose of feminism without women except to prevent “birthing people” from birthing?

But feminism often didn’t have very much to do with women. The term was coined by the mad French socialist Charles Fourier who also believed that women should have four husbands and that human beings would grow to be seven feet tall and develop tails. More seriously, he envisioned the end of the family and collectivist living that influenced the nightmarish socialist utopias that used him as a model.

As one critic noted, Fourier envisioned abolishing marriage and using women for "sexual services" that would be "bought by society as a whole to further industrial or general economic productivity". It’s easy to mock Fourier’s deranged ideas, but his central premise of replacing marriage and the family with a collectivist system is still at the heart of modern feminism.

Fourier, like most leftist ideologues, reduced women to an abstraction, a cog in a social machine, and his contemporary counterparts abstracted the abstraction. Birthing people is the natural outcome of reducing people to a group and the group to an abstraction.

The current feminist abstraction, in which gender is a state of mind and the best way to reinforce that is by erasing the existence of women, is no less insane than Fourier’s utopian society of 7-foot-tall women with tails living in communes and practicing industrial prostitution. When you don’t deal with the reality of people, life becomes a science fiction novel written by inventing new ways of living to solve the social problems of human nature.

Leftist theories ignore human nature and blame social problems on the failure of everyone to accept their theories, abandon their genders, private property, and religion, and grow tails.

The radicals insist that they’re liberators because they reduce everything to power relations. It was simple enough in the 19th century to reduce life to simple binaries of the rich and the poor, men and women, white and black, and declare themselves the champions of the oppressed against the oppressors. In a multicultural society, the binaries become more complicated.

But leftist ideology is a machine for simplifying human complexities into the same binaries.

Intersectionality splits diversity into new diversities, subdividing each category into the oppressors and the oppressed. It was inevitable that intersectionality would come to condemn women as the oppressors within the entire category of women and then eliminate the category.

And it’s not just happening to women.

Latinos are being replaced by Latinx and divided by race. The “white hispanic” is denounced as an oppressor. So is the white gay man within the gay category. Even black men are being reinvented as the oppressors in the black category.

Or as one site put it, "Straight Black Men Are the White People of Black People".

And women, apparently, are the white people of birthing people. Can you blame feminism for turning its back on women after they turned out to be the oppressors?

Feminism, like every other ‘ism’ and every identity politics movement, was not concerned with the rights of women, but with social utopia. Identity politics is just a multiplicity of front groups for the same movement which co-opts group struggles in order to construct a totalitarian state.

"Would it not in that case be simpler for the government to dissolve the people and elect another?" Bertolt Brecht rhetorically asked the East German regime after it warned that the people must win back the confidence of the government.

But the Left does this sort of thing all the time. Having dissolved the white working class, it still claims to fight for the working class because it elected minorities as the new working class. Now it dissolved women and elected birthing people as the new women. That’s easy to do if you believe that all of life, including women and the working class, are just a set of premises, a category someone invented, a few lines in a thesis statement.

Like the way Columbus, Ohio abolished Columbus Day, but kept its name, Ms. Magazine and the Feminist Majority Foundation, not to mention the numberless other feminist organizations, are getting rid of women, but still keeping the “W” word, Ms. and Feminist in their names.

The ACLU rewrote Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s quote, “The decision whether or not to bear a child is central to a woman's life, to her well-being and dignity” to eliminate “woman” and “her”, but it hasn't renamed the ACLU Women's Rights Project that Ginsburg co-founded.

The leftist advocacy group understands the emotional power of the “W” word. When it calls Ginsburg a "champion for abortion and gender equality", the phrase has curiously little power compared to a “champion for women”. Replacing women with “birthing people” only to champion the ‘unbirthing’ of their babies is a typically self-nullifying proposition. As is championing “gender equality” while eliminating the gender that might be in need of equality from the proposition.

There’s precious little dignity in fighting for “birthing people” and “people with vaginas”.

Feminism without women is as hollow as class warfare waged by trust fund hipsters. And yet the Left must destroy that which it champions in an act of ritual ideological sacrifice.

Back to the Fourier days, the purpose of feminism was the elimination of women, much as the purpose of the civil rights movement had become the elimination of black people, and the gay rights movement the elimination of gay people. The Left doesn’t fight for equality, but equity, laboring to remake society by remaking people in its ideological image. Identity politics gains its apotheosis from reinventing identity so thoroughly that the original identity ceases to exist.

And its problems cease to exist with it.

But bereft of any new ideas, identity politics only revisits what it claims to want to escape, resurrecting the plantation for black people and the harem for women in the name of progress.

The reversion to slavery and oppression promises to usher in a new age that abolishes all distinctions between human beings in which we will all, perhaps, inhabit a Fourieresque world of seven foot tall socialists with tails living in communes, but the age never actually arrives. It’s much easier to erase women or human nature from language than to actually change reality.

Feminism can act as if women no longer exist, but the realities of biology will outlive the unrealities of leftist ideology.





Daniel Greenfield is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's Front Page Magazine.

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  1. Thank you for this eloquent explanation of the inexplicably, and grotesquely nonsensical Berthingpersonism to your head-scratching and aching-for-normalcy readership (AKA The Great Deplorable(TM) Pouncers(TM), or perhaps even the Great Unwashed.

    You alluded to the psychological need (nervous habit?) for Leftists to destroy everything they touch---starting with language (for all the right reasons of course---i.e., to improve life on this earth! to achieve UTOPIA!) ultimately leading to destroying themselves.

    Nothing new here, of course, but you described it exquisitely (and, even more importantly, with just the right seasoning of humor).

    ...such that their confused, inarticulate and insane message rings loud and clear: to save humanity, one MUST first exterminate it.

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    1. The only humanity worth preserving is one that aligns with leftist ideology

      all else must go

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  2. Now you've stepped in it. I can almost see the ships turning, readying a full broadside!

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  3. Anonymous30/9/21

    Daniel,

    The Left is constantly splitting people into some form of us vs them, citing diversity, intersectionalism, or whatnot. What is truly happening, however, is we are being forced into ever smaller social contexts, and reduced to mere caricatures and stereotypes. The ultimate result is to isolate and dehumanize everybody.

    We are all being canceled and erased.

    MadKangaroo

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  4. I believe that we've been through a Color Revolution during 2020/21; and that the Elites have already moved on to Phase II of implementing their 'Great Reset.' Feminism served its purpose for the Elites during their 'Long March' by degrading women and disempowering men. Now the Elites have no further use for it; it's being discarded (i.e. purged) because androgyny and transhumanism (at least among the masses) is what they have planned for the future.

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  5. Anonymous30/9/21

    J.P. Sartre posed the moral giant while treating
    Simone de Beauvoir like crap. Picasso likewise.
    Your stories call up memories of “Larry” from
    work long ago.

    Larry’s heart ached for the downtrodden, oppressed.
    He writhed in anguish for them. None cared more
    than he did. Who were these victims? We really
    didn’t know. Blacks? Women? Handicapped?

    As long as they stayed unknown, nobody could come
    up to Larry with an I.O.U., redeemable in actual
    stuff or action. They never did, and Larry never
    acted like a decent, friendly guy.

    Bombastic morality scolds who use foggy words are
    just paving their escape route. They’ll need it.

    Charlie

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  6. Good article. I would add a critical point. The Left creates mindless, contradictory terms and models; it is true. They do so intentionally to make everyone crazy and incapable of making decisions or understanding what is happening. Orwell noted that, as did many others. Even the Left's exalted critical theory specifically avoids defining terms or rational thinking. Look it up. By creating chaos, they hope to seize power.

    Their precept, which turns the origin meaning on its head, is "In the valley of the blind, the one-eyed man is king" (Desiderius Erasmus' Adagia (1500). Curiously, it also appears (around 500 CE) in the Genesis Rabbah as "בשוק סמייא צווחין לעווירא סגי נהור", meaning "In the street of the blind, the one-eyed man is called the Guiding Light". Since the Genesis Rabbah is a Jewish document, it is commonly neglected and canceled.

    The Left early on canceled fatherhood as "the patriarchy." The effect on men and boys is incalculably damaging—just one more blow against the Republic.

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  7. If I called my bride of 20 years my birthing person I'd be sleeping on the couch for the next 20.

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  8. The Left not only "eats its own" in terms of people; showing that it never had any in the first place, it eats its own principles.

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  9. It's very simple.
    Female: XX chromosome
    Male: XY chromosome
    The science is settled.

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  10. Hi! The title reminded me what I said in a text March 2015: "Feminism may be discarding women as Socialism made with proletarians". "Women Against Feminism and Feminism against them - part 4: twenty years of silence", avezdoshomens2.blogspot.com/2015/03/women-against-feminism-and-feminism.html

    But the question is worse than your article makes it seem to be. A reader who is not aware about this issue can think it's some internal matter within the leftist movement, specially within the LGBT-Feminist movement. But even without this "inclusive language", this Feminism Without Women will enter in the normal persons' everyday life. If an ordinary woman is not interested in this issue now, she will be when she sees either a movement that defends something harmful for her in her name, or men in general afraid or uninterested to be close or to make something to her.

    Incidentally, we're not going to have a Feminism Without Women, but a world without women; because these so-called women achieved to show themselves equal to men or worse. Can you imagine a man interested in sex with a nowadays woman? If you are interested, you can be jailed, fined or fired.

    A heterosexual hug!

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