Cecilia Davenport reports on what it was like to be a woman at the National Policy Institute conference last month. I don’t disagree with much of what has been said by others about why women among us are so rare. There are a number of reasons. But let me posit this: most women (though, obviously, not all) are less independent than men in a number of ways, including politically and intellectually. Saying that women are “natural followers” might be too strong, but generally speaking, I think that women like to be led by men. They are simply less likely to come across our ideas on their own; and even if they did, not knowing anyone who shared those beliefs personally, they would likely immediately dismiss them as fringe, crazy at best, evil at worst. Only losers would be so socially unacceptable, so outside the mainstream. Women, more so than men, crave social acceptance. In order to participate in something so socially unacceptable as the Alternative Right, most women will require something more to join the movement than the assent of their rationality.
Posted on: Sun, 01 Dec 2013 03:21:04 +0000
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