My Critics Choice membership was stupidly, hysterically terminated in March 2021, and with it HE’s advertising income. Thanks, fellas! I’ve known from the get-go that the people who called for my professioonal death in the wake of this absurd, sickening episode were primarily brittle, progessive-minded, industry-based women (fellow female Critics Choice members, publicists, trans biomales).
But until this morning I’d never considered what happened to me in scholarly, professorial, concisely written, delightfully articulate and on-target terms.
Consider Helen Andrews‘ “The Great Feminization,” posted on 10.16.25.
It is understood, of course, that the vast majority of HE commentators will ignore the substance of this article and just attack Andrews based upon their dislike of or disagreement with this or that excerpt. Some of you might want to actually read it.
“All cancellations are feminine. Cancel culture is simply what women do whenever there are enough of them in a given organization or field. That is the Great Feminization thesis: Everything you think of as ‘wokeness’ is simply an epiphenomenon of demographic feminization.
“If wokeness really is the result of The Great Feminization, then the eruption of insanity in 2020 was just a small taste of what the future holds. Imagine what will happen as the remaining men age out of these society-shaping professions and the younger, more feminized generations take full control.
“Wokeness is not a new ideology, an outgrowth of Marxism, or a result of post-Obama disillusionment. It is simply feminine patterns of behavior applied to institutions where women were few in number until recently.
“Everything you think of as wokeness involves prioritizing the feminine over the masculine: empathy over rationality, safety over risk, cohesion over competition.
“The most relevant differences are not about individuals but about groups. In my experience, individuals are unique and you come across outliers who defy stereotypes every day, but groups of men and women display consistent differences. Which makes sense, if you think about it statistically. A random woman might be taller than a random man, but a group of ten random women is very unlikely to have an average height greater than that of a group of ten men. The larger the group of people, the more likely it is to conform to statistical averages.”
Helen Andrews’ address delivered at NatCon 5 in Washington, D.C. on 9.2.25:
