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DAVID SOLWAY: The Despair of Feminism. What we are witnessing, in Robert Curry?s terms from Recla?

By Ed Driscoll

DAVID SOLWAY: The Despair of Feminism.

What we are witnessing, in Robert Curry?s terms from Reclaiming Common Sense: Finding Truth In A Post-Truth World, is a war on the crucial role common sense plays in our lives, for example, ?the denial of plain fact that humans are either male or female,? with all that the genetic binary has implied since the beginning of recorded time. This ?plain fact? has been routinely and programmatically denied by feminists and gender mavens, for whom sexual differentiation is ?fluid? and a matter of choice or feeling. The real ?deniers,? however, are the feminists and their male enablers among us who have rejected what Adams called ?the axis of rotation? in the spirit of love, as well as the fixed Archimedean point in biology. As a result, the culture is in disarray and its future, as Kierkegaard saw, is despair.

To borrow Roger Kimball?s title, when does the recovery of culture begin?

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on October 18, 2020 (boomark / email).