Guest post: An attack on the idea of judgment
Guest post by Josh Slocum
The contemporary worship of the concept of being “inclusive” is in direct opposition to drawing boundaries. Personal boundaries, conceptual boundaries, physical boundaries.
It’s not merely a soft-hearted plea to be more helpful to others. It’s a disguised attack on the right of people to have any personal, emotional, or intellectual space. It’s an attack on the idea of judgment and discernment.
It’s an attack on the most basic foundations of being a healthy, confident person.
It’s also female socialization weaponized. Women are trained to deny themselves and their own needs. They’re encouraged to see virtue in the act of relaxing boundaries to give to others. This leads to many women believing that it’s immoral for others to draw boundaries.
In this way many women are not only participating in their own subjugation, they’re actively subjugating others. They chastise “non-inclusive” behavior in others as if it were an instance of violence or bigotry.
This is dangerous.
Female socialization weaponized – that’s the exact term I was searching for earlier today while talking to my therapist. Thanks.
Good post Josh.
I would say weaponized female socialization.
And yes, religion more than any other facet of our civilization is subjugating women. Religion is pure poison for reason.
It’s not religion that I’m pointing to. This is universal. It’s as commonly held among secular liberals as it is among the religious. It would be a grave mistake to lay this at the feet of religion. It’s much worse, and much more widespread, than that.
As someone who has long regarded religion and religious texts as human inventions, this seems almost self-evident. The misogyny preceded the gods. The world that gave rise to these ideas was one where women were seen as needing to be controlled and oppressed, so they wrote that into their sacred texts and gave divine sanction to what was believed even without any gods. The works written are a description of what is, not a prescription of what should be.
Religion enables women to inferior. Today, in 2019, there are very few if any leftover ‘prescriptions’ that enable, with authoritarian justification the view that women are inferior besides religion.
I agree that religion recapitulated what was already their but it’s the biggest game in town.