Twenty minutes after writing the previous post, I stumbled on the suggestion, in chapter 8 of Piñeiro’s The Time of the Flies, that women get heavier prison sentences than men for the same crimes. This is so divorced from reality that it’s kind of scary.
It’s clear why this brand of feminism eagerly embraced the idea that men make better women than women. For Solnits and Piñeiros, women are profoundly inferior. Women are always victims. There’s nothing a woman can do to not be a victim. Women have absolutely no agency. It stands to reason that one would harbor secret contempt for such weak, pathetic creatures and want men, whom Solnit and Co imagine as all-powerful and godlike, to substitute them.
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