Discussions about masculine vs. feminine tendencies in any area of life produce polarized reactions these days. One pole insists there are no meaningful differences between the sexes, an assertion falsified by scripture, and one the Christian cannot accept. The other pole declares itself a diehard member of Team Men or Team Women, breaks out the heavy artillery and goes to war, a strategy unlikely to lead to the perpetuation of our species. Between the poles, the careful Bible student tries to observe and comment about potential spiritual danger zones for each sex in a fair, balanced and reasoned way.
We are not the same, and neither are our temptations and struggles to live out Christ in a fallen world. That’s where I’m going to try to go today: right down the middle. On this subject at least, I think that’s where the Lord would prefer us to be.
Yesterday’s post on the feminized workplace is our starting point. In mid-October this year, Helen Andrews wrote an article entitled “The Great Feminization” for Compact Magazine that started the fur flying online. In three words, Andrews believes Women Equals Woke. Our DEI woes on the job, she says, are all due to the increasing number of women in the workforce. Any workplace with sufficient numbers of women, Andrews says, will inevitably become a hive of wokeness and an unwelcome environment for most men and all women who put principle ahead of custom. We don’t often get to choose our preferences, and our children may find themselves with even fewer options than we do.
A Future of Insanity
Let’s start with a few more Andrews quotes:
“The happy thrill of discovering a new theory eventually gave way to a sinking feeling. If wokeness really is the result of the Great Feminization, then the eruption of insanity in 2020 was just a small taste of what the future holds. Imagine what will happen as the remaining men age out of these society-shaping professions and the younger, more feminized generations take full control.”
Yes indeed, there’s the rub.
“All of us depend on a functioning legal system, and, to be blunt, the rule of law will not survive the legal profession becoming majority female. The rule of law is not just about writing rules down. It means following them even when they yield an outcome that tugs at your heartstrings or runs contrary to your gut sense of which party is more sympathetic.”
We’re already there. Supreme Court candidate Ketanji Brown Jackson professed herself unable to provide a definition for the word woman. That’s what the future holds.
“No civilization in human history has ever experimented with letting women control so many vital institutions of our society, from political parties to universities to our largest businesses. Even where women do not hold the top spots, women set the tone in these organizations, such that a male CEO must operate within the limits set by his human resources VP. We assume that these institutions will continue to function under these completely novel circumstances. But what are our grounds for that assumption?”
Social Justice Convergence
Andrews cites examples. Majority female departments in today’s universities are oriented to goals other than the unfettered pursuit of truth. What good is a university oriented to anything else? If journalists are too afraid to alienate anyone, how will we ever find out what’s actually going on? The implications for any society are serious.
This is not a new idea, but it’s new for the mainstream. Political philosopher Vox Day pointed out way back in 2015 that institutions invaded and coopted in the interests of social justice are inevitably unable to fulfill their primary functions. He called this sort of paralysis “social justice convergence”. In SJWs Always Lie: Taking Down the Thought Police, he wrote:
“The public schools can no longer educate, so people are turning to homeschooling. The universities can no longer provide liberal arts educations, so people are becoming technology-assisted autodidacts. The banks no longer loan, the state and local governments no longer provide basic public services, the military does not defend the borders, the newspapers no longer provide news, the television networks no longer entertain, and the corporations are increasingly unable to provide employment.”
Andrews simply takes this a step further and says, “Er, it’s women in numbers causing the problem.”
No Merely Natural Phenomenon
She concludes by asserting feminization of the workplace is no merely natural phenomenon:
“Feminization is not an organic result of women outcompeting men. It is an artificial result of social engineering, and if we take our thumb off the scale it will collapse within a generation.”
To prove this, Andrews cites statistics showing that institutions have a tipping point. After the 50-50 mark, feminization increases year by year with no upper limit in sight:
“That does not look like women outperforming men. It looks like women driving men away by imposing feminine norms on previously male institutions. What man wants to work in a field where his traits are not welcome? What self-respecting male graduate student would pursue a career in academia when his peers will ostracize him for stating his disagreements too bluntly or espousing a controversial opinion?”
Enough already, you can read it for yourself if you’re interested. She’s writing it, I’m currently living it, and soon your sons and daughters may be too. So then, how is a Christian parent to advise their children?
Three Suggestions
1/ Do Not Train for or Apply to Work at Feminized Businesses
This sounds terribly harsh, and it applies to young Christian women as well as young men. Why? Because although the social dynamics and reporting structure of a feminized business might initially be easier for a young woman to navigate, no business can thrive when it backburners its own raison d’être. In Corporate Cancer, Vox Day documents numerous cases of corporations killed or in the process of dying because they prioritize social justice virtue signaling over good business practices, sales, profits and retaining loyal customers. If you’re popping into a corporation already converged for a couple of years to keep your mouth shut and pad your resume, fine. If it’s a career plan … don’t. The long-term prospects of feminized businesses don’t exist.
2/ Pick Careers Women Generally Dislike
As a Christian alternative to playing videogames until forty in your parents’ basement, you can’t beat a trade. You cannot be passed over for promotions you don’t want, downsized out of careers in which women decline to compete, or have your job outsourced to operators overseas in jobs where they need someone physically on site. Young women currently overlook careers as vehicle technicians, electricians, engineers, aircraft mechanics, carpenters and joiners, plumbers, construction workers, surveyors, mapping technicians, painters, tool operators, pest control, pilots, railroad conductors, loggers, groundskeepers, servicepersons, truck drivers and garbage collectors in large numbers. A young Christian man can learn to ply his trade, provide for a family, do something productive for society, and dodge the social justice dragnet for a while yet. Some of these professions pay as well or significantly better than office jobs, many of which tend to have a low pay ceiling. Many are minimally risky, and you won’t have to worry about looking over your shoulder for Human Resources all the time.
3/ Plan on Skipping College/University
The colleges and universities in Canada and the US are social justice hives. The best part about bypassing the traditional higher education stream for a young Christian man is that it gets him straight into the workforce at an early age with no school debt, ready to marry and raise a family for the Lord. Take only the higher education that your apprenticeship program or company of choice requires. Find a godly younger woman with the same mindset, and you’re good to go. The other good thing about saying “no” to a decaying institutional system is that the absence of young men in large numbers from the system is bound to hurt it financially in the long run, forcing changes that can hardly make things worse for the rest of the world.
Stay Tuned
Some readers will undoubtedly think I’m too quick to jump on the Andrews bandwagon, and that some of her ideas are either flat-out wrong or poorly substantiated. Others will feel she’s being way too hard on women. In order to give Andrews’ critics equal time, I’ll deal with the major published objections to her controversial thesis this coming Sunday. Stay tuned!
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