So, another International Women’s Day has come and gone, and the usual plethora of dubious statistics, socialist ideology, and tendentious history, coupled with unrelenting virtue signalling, back-slapping, and the obligatory passive aggression, has been foisted on an innocent and unsuspecting public. And once again women the world over have fallen for the idea that International Women’s Day is simply a celebration of women and their achievements – and not the public face of a radical movement intent on overthrowing almost everything the average woman (or man) holds dear. It’s simply astonishing the disparity between the ideological reality of modern feminism and it’s benign perception by the public. This is particularly so in relation to women who have been propagandised into believing that feminism and women’s rights are the same thing. Or, to use a big word, coterminous.

Feminists, to give the members of an ideological cult a backhanded compliment, have been unrelentingly clever. They’ve weaponised an evolved female personality trait that privileges appearance (and sexually attracts men) – makeup, clothes, pretence, coquettishness, charm, sexual innocence – and which disguises reality (the female will to power) and made it into a grand political strategy.

This apparently benign, civilised, temperate trait disguises the feminist ambition of overthrowing the ‘patriarchy’, that unfalsifiable conspiracy theory, which is as irrational as The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, and is the ideological motivation behind a host of invented or imaginary discrimination. Feminists claim that everywhere, at all times, in every situation, there is systemic oppression of women that is invisible to all but the elect, who are currently, and because of feminism, the woke. The contemporary problem for feminists, though, is while the foot soldiers of Woke feminism are fanatical, they aren’t particularly bright.

For example, the guileless theme of this year’s International Women’s Day, ironically, was ‘equity’, which is an incongruous idea for feminists to champion, because, after half a century of female-positive discrimination, what equity implies is that women cannot compete with men on a level playing field. Moreover, what the concept of equity ignores, paradoxically, is the fact that women are absolutely the equal, or are superior, to men in multiple ways – women do hold up half the sky, but perhaps, in contrast to feminist ideology, not in the ways that feminists have been shouting, or shrieking about, sorry, we’re not supposed to say that, for decades.

This is the root of the problem. Because, while biology, to be clear, is not destiny, it is definitively an aspect of what the philosopher Martin Heidegger, to give one example of common-sense reasoning, called ‘facticity’: the reality of age, strength, intelligence, attractiveness, sex, stature, personality, etc., that delimits life’s possibilities for people in the reality-based world in which we live. (What Heidegger poetically called the Worldhood of the World.) There is no denying this truth, no matter how many feminists claim that everything is socially constructed. We are, to paraphrase that modern-day sage, Kenny Rogers, dealt cards in the game of life, and each of us play the game to the best of our ability because there’s no alternative. Equity, then, is a chimera or a strategy for social control.

Two broad subterranean ideas, though, hide under the benevolent surface of modern feminist activism: the divisive ideas of diversity, equity, and inclusion, and the more important, but ignored, idea that the anti human rights, anti science, and the anti fact-based epistemological agenda of Wokeness is the culmination of feminist theory. We’ve reached peak feminism and it’s an ugly, repellent vision of society, one which brooks no dissent, idiosyncratic thought, or eccentricity – the fundamentals, in other words, of freedom, justice, and democracy.

What feminists have done is brought the virtues and vices of an all-female high school to the international stage and put the head girl in charge. In the same way that too much masculinity is ugly, too much femininity is toxic. When feminists are not being malicious, they’re being passive-aggressive, crying, or saying the proverbial ‘it’s fine’. Culture is now so dominated by female personality traits that mental strength and competence are derided while weakness is celebrated, which is the opposite of what feminists have relentlessly told us about the psychology of women. Neuroticism and anxiety, personality traits that feminists claimed the patriarchy falsely ascribed to females, are now the modus operandi of institutions, because of feminism, in western democracies. Woe betide any man who doesn’t bow down to these strictures. A trembling upper lip, the emotion of the moment, or the invocation of unkindness or hate speech, in other words, anything a woman doesn’t want to hear, in any situation, overrides facts and evidence.

The current feminist zeitgeist in which we unwittingly find ourselves is also a recipe for civilisational collapse, because no society can survive on a diet of never-ending emotional incontinence. From women marching wearing ‘pussy hats’, which definitively ensures that you won’t and can’t be taken seriously; to the unequivocal statement that ‘all men are rapists’; to the sheer idiocy of making an issue of ‘manspreading’; to the factually provable statement that ‘believe all women’ is the epitome of dishonesty and injustice; to claiming, correctly, that men commit most violent assaults, while simultaneously saying there’s no biological difference between men and women, but that women need protection from men because women and men are different; to the idea that biological males should be allowed to play women’s sports or allowed in women’s spaces (the small number of Trans Exclusionary Radical Feminists doesn’t invalidate the overarching theme). There is an endless list of peevish, envious, malicious examples of feminist ‘theory’ masquerading as intellectualism. We now live in the world of feminism and feminist ‘knowledges’. Everything is upside down, inside out, and illogical, which is ironic, because feminists have claimed that female irrationalism is a millennia-long conspiracy of the patriarchy. But, as the saying goes, here we are.

Happy belated International Women’s Day. Remember, though, when International Men’s Day comes around, you’ll hear nothing except a lone cricket or the silence of the grave. Then again, men don’t need to be constantly reminded how stunning, brave, strong and powerful they are. The future, of course, in case you’ve forgotten for five seconds, is female.

Welcome to the asylum.