Treston Wheeat of the College Conservative has some thoughts on feminism and shares them in a new post.

The Flaws of Feminism

There is a particular strand of feminism, mostly predominant on college campuses and within the online echo chambers of the social justice warriors, that is philosophically problematic at all levels. Now, feminism as a perspective is not wrong when it is articulated in the epitomized phrase “legal equality and social equity.” In fact, this is something everyone can and should get behind. However, feminism as a framework of analysis has gone beyond that simple idea and taken on problematic layers.

First, these feminists tend to be intellectually shallow. They typically refuse to engage in real intellectual discussion. Instead they simply shout trite and soporific aphorisms and buzzwords like “rape culture”, “mansplaining”, “white privilege”, “check your privilege”, or “patriarchy”. Feelings matter more than thought, and intellectual rigor is rejected outright because they cannot be challenged. Furthermore, they often abuse statistics to fit their agenda, e.g., the wage gap is only $.77 through statistical chicanery and 1/5 women are sexually assaulted on college campuses only if one accepts an unscientific, online survey of two universities.

Second, these feminists attempt to create a cosmology, a universalist philosophy, out of a single analytical tool. Everything, absolutely everything, is perceived through the lens of patriarchy and female oppression. Music, art, movies, literature, politics, even war are all forced and pigeonholded into this single tool of analysis. This is philosophically incoherent as no particularist aspect of our lives can become universalist.

Third, modern American feminism rejects the material world, human nature, and other important assumptions to undertake a realistic analysis of the world. Biology is irrelevant for feminists. The material world can simply be remade into any image they want. Gender norms can easily be undone as biology and the material world are of no importance and have no determination on the self.