> But for now, the important thing to say is that the horror of Charlie Kirk’s murder shouldn’t prevent us from admitting that his influence was largely built on catering to white male resentment.
“Admitting? That’s exactly what we were celebrating!”
-Resentful white males sanctifying Kirk
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> In essence, Charlie Kirk argued that Goldin’s quiet revolution was all a mistake and should be reversed: “Having children is more important than having a good career … I would also tell young ladies, you can always go back to your career later, that there is a window where you primarily should pursue marriage and having children.”
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> This was a value judgment rather than a statement of fact. As any woman can tell you, “you can always go back to your career later” is simply false if it’s meant to imply that you can enter the work force later in life and have anything like the career you could have had without that delay.
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> What we can say, however, is that Kirk was calling on America to stop being the society it is and go back to being the kind of society it hasn’t been for generations. Or, rather, he wanted us to enact his fantasy about what our society once was like. If you imagine that America before the quiet revolution was a nation in which all marriages were happy and all stay-at-home wives were contented, you should read Betty Friedan — or the novels of John Updike.
My theory of everything is basically this topic, not economics or housing, or LVT. That, as Goldman calls it, the quiet revolution has caused a worldwide backlash against women who are just now, for the first time in history, reaching parity with men as career oriented provides for families.
This is a massive cultural shift that has only happened very, very recently and upends gender norms going back to all of human history. You see this recement as the core of basically every aspect of the alt right surge.
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> But for now, the important thing to say is that the horror of Charlie Kirk’s murder shouldn’t prevent us from admitting that his influence was largely built on catering to white male resentment.
“Admitting? That’s exactly what we were celebrating!”
-Resentful white males sanctifying Kirk
> In essence, Charlie Kirk argued that Goldin’s quiet revolution was all a mistake and should be reversed: “Having children is more important than having a good career … I would also tell young ladies, you can always go back to your career later, that there is a window where you primarily should pursue marriage and having children.”
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> This was a value judgment rather than a statement of fact. As any woman can tell you, “you can always go back to your career later” is simply false if it’s meant to imply that you can enter the work force later in life and have anything like the career you could have had without that delay.
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> What we can say, however, is that Kirk was calling on America to stop being the society it is and go back to being the kind of society it hasn’t been for generations. Or, rather, he wanted us to enact his fantasy about what our society once was like. If you imagine that America before the quiet revolution was a nation in which all marriages were happy and all stay-at-home wives were contented, you should read Betty Friedan — or the novels of John Updike.
My theory of everything is basically this topic, not economics or housing, or LVT. That, as Goldman calls it, the quiet revolution has caused a worldwide backlash against women who are just now, for the first time in history, reaching parity with men as career oriented provides for families.
This is a massive cultural shift that has only happened very, very recently and upends gender norms going back to all of human history. You see this recement as the core of basically every aspect of the alt right surge.