The Priority—a Cultural Question

me with the family in the mid-90s; me being grandma in 2012

I want to talk about things I’m thinking about, trying to understand changes in culture, while still holding on (not necessarily clinging bitterly) to traditional principles. This is about what is expected of women. And of men.

It is my assertion that feminism has worked to turn women into bad men, and maybe as a side story also turn men into weaker creatures.

This touches on economics, family, education, and a whole lot of things.

Where to begin?

There was a Jordan Peterson lecture, quite a number of years ago, in which he looks at the societal change of women in the workplace, men and women working together, and saying we haven’t worked that out yet: how to behave toward one another, how to become simply professional coworkers, in a world in which men and women find each other attractive, or not, or maybe want to have friendships with the people they work with but don’t know how to navigate that. He pointed out that half a century is not nearly enough time to navigate such a dramatic societal change.

That’s just a piece of it. What I’d like to start with is the current expectation that women are in the workplace—not at home raising children.

Chances are, you had some kind of reaction to that last sentence, and it was based on a whole lot of unfairness that has been pointed out to you in media of all sorts, and in education, and probably some personal experience—just everywhere.

Somewhere underneath the surface is a change from family economic units to individual economic units. It has been a seismic societal shift in a relatively quick few decades.

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