Feminism

Another in our series re-examining topics discussed in Rush's first two books

American society has become incredibly emasculated in the last few decades. The hard emphasis on “getting in touch with feelings”, never offending anyone, and appealing to emotional responses rather than logic has come about as a direct correlation with the rise of feminism. Many on the right, terrified of being called misogynists or sexists, have avoided talking about feminism at all, and avoided any issues where women are effected, like abortion. Rush, however, had no such qualms. He addressed feminism all the way back in his first book, The Way Things Ought To Be

“…Militant feminists are, in truth, searching for power, and the absolute best way they can exercise it is in the area of reproduction. The real message of that Murphy Brown episode was that women don’t need men, shouldn’t desire them, and that total fulfillment and happiness can be achieved without men or husbands. Many feminist leaders are humorless, militant, pugnacious and very unhappy people who do not want to equalize the state of women, but instead want to irreversibly alienate women from men and vice versa.[1]”

Rush goes on to cite two examples in particular, one where a prominent feminist calls for the abolition of marriage for women to be free, and another group claiming that women must be lesbian to be feminine. Rush was recognizing that the original feminist movement had been coopted by radicals who actively wanted to destroy the relationships between men and women. Rush himself recounts being on the receiving end of some of these tactics when dates would be angered if he complimented their appearance. That logic has now been extended far beyond anything Rush experienced in the 1990s.