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Originally Posted by Cecil Terwilliger
As with many movements it seems as though decades of being taken advantage of and being victims has led the pendulum to swing way in the other direction and some extremist/reactionary views being developed.
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Leftist ideology of the sort peddled on campus is obsessed with power disparity, attributing virtually every social ill to it. Whoever has more power in our social structures has all the control and all the responsibility, and whoever has less is oppressed and acted upon. The weaker party in any social relationship does not have responsibility because they do not have power.
Combine this with a dogma that says all men have institutionally-supported power over all women, and it follows that men are responsible for their actions in relationships and women are not. It also follows that the weak can't rely on our justice system and due process to protect them.
This is why we're seeing a generational divide in feminism. Older feminists fought to have the same rights and responsibilities as men, in defiance the social norms that said women were too fragile to handle this freedom. To them, new feminism looks an awful lot like the hand-wringing over female fragility that they spent their own youth challenging.