Regarding this article: http://blogs.plos.org/blog/2011/02/11/let%E2%80%99s-say-good-bye-to-the-straw-feminist/
The right wing rhetoric about gender relies upon the ideology of Christianity, to the degree that it has become mainstream. The implication it rests upon is that if some statement is painful, it must be painful because it is true. So, the statement, "women are biologically inferior to males" is going to be painful for women to hear, but this pain is itself evidence of the truth of the statement.
One wonders why sado-masochism like that, above, is deemed necessary for us all to get along. This method of appealing to sado-masochistic processes seems to be an attempt, from what Echidne has written here, to give men "back" their self esteem. It's as if the worse women feel about themselves, the more men can congratulate themselves that they are good at gadgetry.
Logically, though, somebody accepting that they are bad at something does not improve another person's ability to do something well, at least not if we consider measurements to be absolute and final. So it must be a comparative superiority that is being sought after, by theoreticians who want women to accept their inferiority.
So, what we must then ask is what is the use of men having the confidence to proclaim a comparative superiority to women?
Well, it has an emotional and confidence-boosting use, of course.
Hence, we come full circle. Men have a hugely invested interest in emotionality. That is why they want women to accept an inferior status as fundamentally 'emotional' creatures.
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