(You will know who I am talking about if you are this particular kind of right winger.) I don't think those of the right wing have any conception at all as to what it would be like if society as a whole gave in to their programmes. I'm speaking specifically right now about their agenda concerning women. They cling to the notion that we are humans without bodies and that power is immaterial. Gleefully they pat each other on the backs -- the more power we take from women, the more we have for ourselves, they consider.
The world itself does not function on the basis of such a crude mechanism -- even basic economics should teach you that. What are bail-out packages and other "stimulus packages" other than a tacit acknowledgement that the harm that befalls one sector of the community is likely to befall the whole?
Yet still right-wingers hold onto the idea that the more "woman" is whittled away, the more personality he will have for himself. The idea of whittling away at her even feels clever -- it's a formula reckoned not to lose, since building oneself up whilst chopping her down seems the best way to assure that she will gravitate over to your side and come and live in your pocket.
The truth is other than this -- just as no ethereal women-concept can actually be embodied by a real woman. Material reality dictates that if somebody is whittled down, they do not fall into your pocket, but become ill, physically and mentally. Their capacity to participate in life becomes diminished. You have whittled them away.
Is there something romantic about cholera (love in the time of..?) Is there something romantic about malnutrition and an early death?
The right winger thinks there is --- and that is why he and his ideas should be eliminated.
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