Steve Moxon: ‘Modern extreme feminism…[has] always been in the interests only of the elite of women’
"Modern extreme feminism...[has] always been in the interests only of the elite of women. This core of the 'progressive project' has been the old perennial elitism disguising itself in pretending to be the opposite. Not just elitist, it's also separatist."
Several of my readers are fans of The Woman Racket (pictured) by Steve Moxon, and we've run some excerpts from his book. Moxon takes things further than I would, of course, but he's an interesting read. Below is Part I of my Q & A with Moxon.
Q: If the modern man takes only one thing away from reading your book, what should it be?
A: Well, I'd say either – oops, cop out (!); but they're related -- it's that there is no such thing as dominance or 'power' between the sexes – it's only ever within-sex; or that the most seriously disadvantaged sub-group in all societies is that of the majority of (that is, all of the non-high status) men, and not women at all.
Re this last, given that women generically are actually privileged – over-privileged indeed – then they should be brought down from off their pedestal: we should stop 'bigging' them up. And correspondingly we must stop 'doing down' men; both because they are actually disadvantaged and because they are not responsible for 'oppression'.
In this way we tear up the list of special pleading to be a victim, and don't add men to the list. If men were added to the list, it would then contain everybody in at least one category, and with many people counted as victims twice or more over (through being not just non-men but also non-abled, non-heterosexual, etc). Absurdity incarnate this would be, though still better than what we have presently: all of the wrong people on the list, with the real disadvantaged disqualified from being listed at all. Better to junk it altogether.
Q: How should the modern woman view your book? How is the book useful for women?
A: Women are damaged by a completely false understanding of men and the respective functions and roles of the sexes and of what is the male-female dynamic. This seriously gets in the way of healthy relations between the sexes, in many instances serving to preclude them at all. Nothing could be more destructive to society: sociality being rooted in mechanisms to allocate sex/reproduction (a line I develop in a scientific paper of mine shortly to be published in a science journal). If women appraise themselves of a true analysis of men-women (as my book provides) then in time they will jettison their misplaced indignations, blaming, etc.
Modern extreme feminism, and indeed all the various feminisms, have always been in the interests only of the elite of women. This core of the 'progressive project' has been the old perennial elitism disguising itself in pretending to be the opposite. Not just elitist, it's also separatist. The establishment appears to be seeking a niche for itself not just at the apex of society but somehow separate from it.
The elite of women is a small group indeed. Less than 5% of women are 'careerists', and have completely different attitudes to most aspects of life than do women who stay at home or who balance the home and work (see Catherine Hakim's research, as I discuss at length in the book). The interests of the great majority are harmed by taking the less-than-5% as representing women collectively.
Even the focus on what would seem to benefit all women in fact doesn't. Take breast cancer. It's now argued by the UK's leading breast cancer experts that the screening is of little use, and that the drugs to treat it are very expensive and ineffective. The concentration of resources here has taken away resources from such as a bowel cancer screening programme and drugs for other cancers that do work. In sum total, more women die through over-focus on women-only conditions. And look at maternity leave and pay. Upping this to the generous provision it is now in the UK makes it far harder for women to get work in the commercial workplace.
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