While appreciating and endorsing your biblical parallel wholeheartedly, I would like you to consider another frame of analysis. One that I have become somewhat fixated with over the years, and only intensifies: the feminization of society. I would dare to suggest that much of this kind of legislation is driven largely by women - the Creasy worldview - the mindset to embody in law, the entirety of human relations. The health and safety creep, safe spaces, covid hysteria - all symptoms of a society that puts safety above all else, and has lost the ability to evaluate the pros and cons of doing so. How on earth did this get to a second reading, and how on earth do arbitrary misogyny laws get passed in a country with a history such as our own that used to be the archetype of free speech? Why has empathy become the singular virtue of modern Britain? At heart this bill is about empathizing with the greater percentage of women that are in direct client facing roles. As Jordan Peterson quite rightly says “empathy does not scale!” and it certainly should not be the only metric that our governors use when forming policy. But we are so weak as a society, nobody dares push back against the feminist tide, just as much as they won’t push back on multiculturalism and mass immigration. Your colleague Rod Liddle made the point some months ago that woke is largely a product of the radical feminist movement, not as many think from the over reach of civil rights. He didn’t get much traction with that, but I think he’s bang on the money.
Whenever I see some new bill introduced that has anything to do with human rights, I almost inevitably see female names as the promoters. If we don’t reverse this tide - get rid of the 2010 Equalities Act for starters, we are going to continue this authoritarian pathway until we do reach 1984.
While appreciating and endorsing your biblical parallel wholeheartedly, I would like you to consider another frame of analysis. One that I have become somewhat fixated with over the years, and only intensifies: the feminization of society. I would dare to suggest that much of this kind of legislation is driven largely by women - the Creasy worldview - the mindset to embody in law, the entirety of human relations. The health and safety creep, safe spaces, covid hysteria - all symptoms of a society that puts safety above all else, and has lost the ability to evaluate the pros and cons of doing so. How on earth did this get to a second reading, and how on earth do arbitrary misogyny laws get passed in a country with a history such as our own that used to be the archetype of free speech? Why has empathy become the singular virtue of modern Britain? At heart this bill is about empathizing with the greater percentage of women that are in direct client facing roles. As Jordan Peterson quite rightly says “empathy does not scale!” and it certainly should not be the only metric that our governors use when forming policy. But we are so weak as a society, nobody dares push back against the feminist tide, just as much as they won’t push back on multiculturalism and mass immigration. Your colleague Rod Liddle made the point some months ago that woke is largely a product of the radical feminist movement, not as many think from the over reach of civil rights. He didn’t get much traction with that, but I think he’s bang on the money.
Whenever I see some new bill introduced that has anything to do with human rights, I almost inevitably see female names as the promoters. If we don’t reverse this tide - get rid of the 2010 Equalities Act for starters, we are going to continue this authoritarian pathway until we do reach 1984.
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