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The "Feminization" Discourse as Partisan Hackery

There is no evidence more masculine movements care more about truth

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Richard Hanania
Oct 17, 2025

Helen Andrews’ piece in Compact “The Great Feminization” has been making the rounds. This is a quite popular topic, as she notes that her talk on the subject has become “one of the most viewed speeches in the history of the National Conservatism conference.” My second most read article of all time is the one on women’s tears and some of Andrews’ arguments on civil rights law reflect my own in The Origins of Woke. There’s been some mockery of her complaint that it’s illegal to run a business like a frat house but not like a kindergarten, but I generally agree that the market should decide what kind of environments people want to work in, and what makes sense from a business perspective.

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