Conservatives across the nation’s campuses, take hope in dealing with radical feminists.
Kate O’Beirne who’s newest book, Women Who Make the World Worse: and How Their Radical Feminist Assault Is Ruining Our Schools, Families, Military, and Sports, might be able to be a rallying point against a resurgent feminist movement. O’Beirne’s book names, names and provide quotes, detailing how feminists are hurting what they claim to be helping.
“The modern women’s movement does not speak for most men and women,” she said in a recent speech to 50 college students at the 13th Eagle Forum Collegians (EFC) Annual Leadership Summit.
O’Beirne provided EFC with numerous examples of the misdeeds of the movement. Pulling from her book, she talked about how feminists have alienated themselves from everyone even some of their most staunch supporters, the Democrats.
“No more than 43 percent of white men have voted for a Democratic president since 1976” she said. “When the feminists became such a powerful force in the Democratic Party, a whole lot of men left. And they took their wives with them. The Democrats have not been able to bridge that problem with male voters. Republicans can.”
Turning the tables on the idea that men and women are totally equal, O’Beirne sited that no female firefighter died on Sept. 11. She said the feminists weren’t angry about this, because if they are trapped in a burning building, they want someone who can carry them out of the burning building.
Though a few complaints had been raised to the New York Fire Department about their strenuous physical tests which few women could pass, the department didn’t budge. O’Beirne scoffed at the suggestion of changing the test from carrying a person out to dragging them out, laughing at the thought of someone hitting their head on every step the entire way down.
She was angered by the police and military watering down demands for employees and sending women into the field and into combat. O’Beirne likened it to a couple being awakened in the middle of the night by a strange noise downstairs.
“What sorry excuse for a man sends his wife downstairs to check it out?” she said. “Male chivalry protected women way better than feminism jokes and calendars ever could.”
According to O’Beirne this doesn’t acknowledge inferiority, but shows that women and men are distinctly and inherently different. Growing up, O’Beirne was raised Catholic and modeled herself after her mother, sisters and her high school teachers at Catholic high school in New York.
“It was unthinkable to the nuns I had in high school that we were any less as equal to the boys around the corner,” she said. “In fact, we had a sneaking suspicion they thought we were superior.”
At times, O’Beirne said, women are superior to men. And the stereotype that females are better in school is becoming self-fulfilling because of the feminist.
“Girls are getting 57 percent of all undergraduate degrees,” O’Beirne said. “Which is terrific, but not at the expense of boys. The modern feminist movement is by far more anti-male than pro-female. In fact it’s always been that way.”
She said this anti-male sentiment is personified in Title IX, a law requiring an equal amount of opportunity in sports team at school for both sexes. Passed in 1979, Title IX has become a reason to cut male sports for departments to stay in compliance with the mandate.
“In Title IX, they’ve taken a law that outlaws discrimination against women and demands discrimination against men,” O’Beirne said. “When male teams are eliminated, it does not mean more women are playing sports. It means the department is more proportional.”
In Florida, O’Beirne said, wrestling teams are the number one team to get the axe. Why? Because of the violence involved. She said feminists would love to put football in the top slot, but no school would ever think about cutting the sport which provides funding for most of the other sports a school offers, male and female; yet another reason to hate the sport.
O’Beirne knows it is a large fight against the modern feminist. She said they don’t play by the rules and they don’t like to be proven wrong. They will fight for their cause no matter how it is hurting the perception of men, the freedom of women or anything else.
“Most radical feminist are qualified for only one job—professional feminist,” she said. “I couldn’t have stood educating myself in feminist theory. In fact I couldn’t have done it. It’s dreary.”
O’Beirne hopes her book gives some ammunition to those fighting the movement and opens some eyes as well. She said most people see feminism as a 1970’s thing and don’t realize it is still very much alive and hurting the causes it used to support.
“American women have more freedom in their personal and professional lives than any man—or woman—in the history of mankind. Please, excuse the expression,” she said jokingly.
Trevor Hayes is an intern with Accuracy in Media, Accuracy in Academia’s parent group. He can be contacted at trevor.hayes@aim.org.
