By Paul Craig Roberts

Helen Andrews has written an important article, “The Great Feminization,” thus saving me the effort.
https://www.compactmag.com/article/the-great-feminization/

I have never cared for former Harvard University President Larry Summers’ economics or his role as a Treasury official in blocking Brooksley Born from regulating dark derivatives, but I have always thought Summers got a raw deal when Harvard’s female faculty cancelled him as president for expressing a truth. The women couldn’t wait to get a male, even a Jewish one.

Andrews writes that the feminist attack on Summers changed the way she viewed the world. She saw it as the birth of “wokeness, an epiphenomenon of demographic feminization.” Females emote and males reason. A concentration of females leads to emotion regardless of fact prevailing over reason and analysis. This is the symbol of our era. Facts no longer matter.

Andrews reports that law schools became majority female in 2016, with dire consequences for law. Journalism became majority female in 2018, with the consequence that emotional commitments have replaced objective reporting, or what little of it that had survived liberal bias.

“Medical schools became majority female in 2019. Women became a majority of the college-educated workforce nationwide in 2019. Women became a majority of college instructors in 2023. Women are not yet a majority of the managers in America but they might be soon, as they are now 46 percent. So the timing fits. Wokeness arose around the same time that many important institutions tipped demographically from majority male to majority female.

“The substance fits, too. Everything you think of as wokeness involves prioritizing the feminine over the masculine: empathy over rationality, safety over risk, cohesion over competition. Other writers who have proposed their own versions of the Great Feminization thesis, such as Noah Carl or Bo Winegard and Cory Clark, who looked at feminization’s effects on academia, offer survey data showing sex differences in political values.”

Andrews sees a problematic future. “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.” We are already living in a world where “in-group consensus can suppress unpopular facts.”

“The rule of law will not survive the legal profession becoming majority female.” Emoting will lead to judgments based on where female sentiment resides. At the moment it resides with black criminals instead of with their victims and with illegal aliens instead of with US citizens.