Reader Joshua Smith sends the latest from Jeff Culbreath, who embodies what's wrong with the world; fresh from rallying the Christian Taliban to purge the Muslims, he's now going after women, inspired by Catholic University's re-instatement of single-sex dormitories:
[I]t's hard to know who's more to blame, the men or the women. There's plenty of culpability to go around. In general, though, women usually follow the lead of men. Feminism would have gone nowhere if not for overwhelming male support. While at late night adoration in a chapel near a state university, I had the misfortune to overhear the rituals of a frat party at a nearby residence. The men and women were chanting various obscenities back and forth, with the women promising to do all kinds of colorful favors for the men, which I will not describe here in this very public space. These, I recalled, are America's finest, destined to be the best educated 27% of American adults, the future leaders of the free world. The vulgar, barbarian women who now dominate our culture were largely created by vulgar, barbarian men who thought they would benefit from the situation. The more I think about it, the more obvious it seems that feminism is an illusion, the creation of a minority of powerful men - "alphas", if you will - who will stop at nothing to secure the "benefits" of female volatility, rootlessness and discontent. Liberal thinking may, in practice, result in absolving women of all moral culpability, but in theory it proposes that women and men are equal moral agents. The traditionalist understanding is quite different: women are morally responsible, to be sure, but men are the primary moral agents of the human race. Women follow. If this rule often falters in individual cases - an intentional phenomenon that helps give it cover - the rule is absolutely iron-clad in the aggregate. Feminism would come to an end immediately if even a minority of powerful men demanded it.
Lydia McGrew (also of anti-Muslim bigotry fame) also posts at this blog. On Mr. Culbreath's view of things, this would seem to suggest her husband, philosopher Tim McGrew (Western Michigan), gets the real blame for her moral depravity.
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