🗨️ the feminist’s greatest enemy is not men, but stories about how things have always been

Excerpts from The Perpetual Present Tense:

The feminist’s greatest enemy is not men, but vast cultural narratives about gender itself: stories about how things have always been, what men and women are naturally inclined to want, what our bodies and minds were built to do.

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the hallmark of the urgent-tense is that its claims, even if technically defensible, are rarely precise or substantiated with data

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There’s a pattern here: address an undeniably real problem, sever it from historical context with the urgent-tense, re-assign its origin somewhere in the last 20 years, and then gesture towards recent issues when assigning blame for its cause

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