The Revolution Will Not Be Sexy
On the ugliness and dismal Puritanism of Woke white female activists
At the height of the 2020 George Floyd riots—nice way to memorialize his name, by the way—my wife made a striking observation.
We were watching news coverage of an anti-cop, anti-American demonstration in front of the White House. Some Caitlin Dimbulb—excuse me, some young white Woke woman—was hurling invective at the line of police officers confronting the mob. Her face was distorted with rage and hatred; she was screaming, practically spewing spittle, completely unhinged.
My wife remarked that she was reminded of the ladies of the Manson Family, a number of whom perpetrated the Tate–LaBianca murders. (Historical footnote: Weather Underground diva Bernardine Dohrn, spiritual godmother of today’s Woke, greatly admired the bloodthirstiness of the killers.) I saw what my wife meant. The desire to commit some act of violence, to shatter something, to burn something down, to injure or kill a cop, to spill blood in the streets of the nation’s capital, was plain on Caitlin Dimbulb’s hideously twisted face. No doubt she was brought up in middle-class comfort, was loved and doted upon by her parents, received a good education—a preparation for adulthood somehow resulting in the shrieking harpy I saw capering on my TV screen, at once pathetic and malevolent.
The Caitlin Dimbulbs of the world are well represented in the ranks of the Woke, and they were prominent among the vicious mobs that despoiled our cities in the name of social justice. If Charles Manson was Leslie Van Houten’s dark god, Black Lives Matter is Caitlin’s, and the nihilistic violence and destruction in which she delights was long ago branded: Helter Skelter.
Of course progressives have a deep if not always confessed belief in the transformative power of revolutionary violence. That’s why they were thrilled by BLM’s message: Give us what we want or we’ll burn the motherfucker down and take it anyway. Nothing new there, of course. Like practically every other dumb idea sloshing around in the heads of the Woke, it’s a Sixties rerun. Caitlin Dimbulb is the Bernardine Dohrn of our times.
It seems that women—young white women in particular—are fatally attracted to the cult of transformative revolutionary violence. My wife thought of the Manson girls, but I was reminded of Faye Stender, the radical lawyer who gave her life—all too literally—as defender, political comrade and lover of both Huey Newton and George Jackson. She embraced their revolutionary posturing, blinding herself to the baseline fact that her clients, whatever the injustices done to them, were violent criminals, dangerous sociopaths. And that willful blindness cost Faye Stender her life.
Fourth-wave feminism is different, however, in its prissy postmodern Puritianism, which has supplanted the political-is the-sexual vibe of the Sixties. Sex, indeed, has become somewhat disreputable in feminist circles, this thanks in part to the surreal complexities of gender orthodoxy. Nowadays even lesbians can’t catch a break on sex. If they decline to get it on with “transgender women,” out come the accusations of bigotry and transphobia.
So instead of giving her heart to a charismatic revolutionary figure, Caitlin Dimbulb sells her soul for the sake of ideological abstractions: justice, equity, inclusion—the prematurely aged, exhausted Woke litany. There are no heroic figures for Caitlin, just victims like George Floyd, a sad-sack career criminal who had the bad luck to cross paths with a racist white police officer.
Fourth-wave feminism’s peculiar amalgam of self-righteousness, self-pity and obsessive grievance-mongering has no doubt facilitated the cloning of Caitlin Dimbulb. Such clones are well represented among the activist Woke, rattling off their second-hand ideological bromides, parading their ignorance and malice, utterly convinced that what is most base, most ugly, most vile, is most virtuous. The recently concluded pandemic was a happy time for them, I’m sure, providing as it did so many opportunities for virtue-signaling and—better still!—vicious character assassination.
But I retain my faith in cosmic justice. In six or eight years Caitlin Dimbulb will find herself slaving away as Assistant Vice President of Diversity & Inclusion at Giganicom Corporation, living with her cat in a cramped apartment, eating vegan takeout, perpetually masked, scared to death that she’ll contract some nasty virus in the subway, and wondering why he never called her back…
You might find some actionable items here.
Woke Self-Defense 101
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https://yourunclepedro.substack.com/p/woke-self-defense-101
White males of the GOP want you to forget about the rage and hatred of white males, including those on January 6 like the Oath Keeper sentenced to 18 years in prison this week.
Deflecting to women when it’s actually males that are the most violent, committing and applauding rape and murder is what they do.
White males of the GOP are the homicidal and unhinged. Deflecting to women comes straight from the racist and sexist GOP playbook.
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