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Feminization and Wokeness: 3 Brutal Examples Behind the Culture Shift

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Feminization and wokeness illustrated with 3 brutal examples, free speech and evidence versus inclusion and safety

Feminization and Wokeness: 3 Brutal Examples Behind the Culture Shift (Video Breakdown)

Wokeness didn’t fall out of the sky. It rolled into your workplace, your kid’s school, and your “prestige” institutions like it had a grant, a compliance team, and a ten year plan.

Here’s my working theory, and yeah, it makes people uncomfortable: feminization and wokeness tend to rise together inside institutions.

Not because women are “bad.” Not because men are saints. People vary a lot. But institutions run on averages, incentives, and what gets rewarded or punished. When the moral center of gravity shifts toward empathy, safety, and social harmony, the whole place starts acting like an HR department that discovered politics.

That’s what I mean by feminization and wokeness.

[Video: YouTube video used as the basis for this post (Kg_rZ5VLx9Y) | Note: Embed this near the top so readers can watch the core argument first]

Video URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kg_rZ5VLx9Y

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Feminization and wokeness, what I actually mean

When I say feminization and wokeness, I’m not talking about style, fashion, or some goofy “battle of the sexes.” I’m talking about institutional priorities.

The pattern looks like this:

  • Empathy gets treated as higher than accuracy.

  • Safety gets treated as higher than freedom.

  • Inclusion gets treated as higher than open argument.

  • Cohesion gets treated as higher than competition.

None of those values are automatically evil. A healthy society needs care and basic decency. The problem starts when those values become the trump card that beats rules, evidence, standards, and due process.

That’s when feminization and wokeness becomes a political force.

[Image: split composition showing scales of justice on one side and a heart icon on the other | ALT: feminization and wokeness shifting institutions from evidence toward feelings]

The care vs justice split that keeps showing up

A useful framework here is “ethics of care” versus “ethics of justice.” Carol Gilligan is the usual reference point, and whether you love her work or hate it, that vocabulary has shaped how people talk about moral reasoning.

Harvard University Press overview: https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674970960

Here’s the plain version:

  • Justice asks: what are the rules, what are the facts, what’s the standard?

  • Care asks: who is vulnerable, what’s the context, who might get hurt?

If you want quick explainers that aren’t culture war blogspam, these are solid:

Now the important part. Institutions don’t just “hold values.” They enforce them. When an institution leans hard into care language, it tends to police speech, punish risk, and treat competition as morally suspicious.

That’s the highway feminization and wokeness drives on.

Why it seemed to “appear” when it did

Culture doesn’t flip overnight. Institutions change slowly, then all at once.

A lot of major institutions started opening up broadly in the 1970s and after. Over time, hiring changes leadership. Leadership changes norms. Norms change policies. Policies change what people are allowed to say.

By the 2010s, enough institutions had the demographic and cultural momentum that the “care first” moral style could become the default setting. Once that happens, even people who disagree learn fast: speak the dialect or get labeled as a problem.

That’s why feminization and wokeness can look like it showed up out of nowhere. It didn’t. It matured.

[Image: corporate hallway with inclusion posters, reporting hotline signage, and compliance language | ALT: feminization and wokeness spreading through institutional rules]

Case study 1: Free speech vs inclusive society

If you want a clean indicator for feminization and wokeness, watch what happens when you force the tradeoff: protecting speech versus promoting inclusion.

Knight Foundation reported results from a College Pulse survey where students were asked which value matters more. The gender split is not subtle:
https://knightfoundation.org/press/releases/college-students-support-first-amendment-some-favor-diversity-and-inclusion-new-knight-report/

More in Common also put out a 2023 report on how college students navigate free speech and inclusion:
https://www.moreincommon.com/media/dxrh2mjs/annual-survey-report_9-19-23-1.pdf

Inside Higher Ed covered similar tensions in a campus speech study:
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2018/03/12/students-value-diversity-inclusion-more-free-expression-study-says

And if you want a broader national survey angle, Cato’s State of Free Speech and Tolerance digs into how Americans view restricting “offensive” speech:
https://www.cato.org/survey-reports/state-free-speech-tolerance-america

What it looks like in real life

This isn’t just a philosophy debate. It turns into policies.

You start with “don’t harass people.” Fine. Then “harassment” expands into “disagreement makes me feel unsafe.” Then “unsafe” becomes “I heard something I dislike.” Then you’re living under speech rules that can be applied to anything.

That’s feminization and wokeness as an operating system.

If you want the liberty angle: free speech is the pressure release valve of a free society. Block the valve and pressure doesn’t disappear. It pops somewhere else, usually uglier.

[Internal link: insert relevant Disruptarian post about free speech, censorship, or campus speech rules]

[Video: short explainer on why free speech culture matters even when the First Amendment does not apply to private workplaces | Note: helps readers separate legal rights from institutional norms]

Case study 2: The James Damore memo and the “impact beats facts” rule

The Damore fight is a near perfect example of how feminization and wokeness handles dissent in modern institutions.

In 2017, Google engineer James Damore circulated an internal memo criticizing parts of Google’s diversity approach and discussing possible biological and psychological differences that might influence career preferences. Google fired him, saying parts of the memo violated company policy.

Time coverage: https://time.com/4890901/google-fired-james-damore-diversity/
Bloomberg coverage: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-08-08/google-fires-employee-behind-controversial-diversity-memo

Later, Wired reported the National Labor Relations Board found Google’s firing was lawful, partly because some claims in the memo went beyond protected workplace criticism:
https://www.wired.com/story/labor-board-rules-google-firing-james-damore-was-legal

The part people keep skipping

I’m not here to canonize Damore or pretend every sentence was perfect. That’s not the point.

The point is how the fight was framed. It wasn’t mainly “here are the facts, here’s why you’re wrong.” It was “your words might create harm,” “this makes people feel unsafe,” “this could damage inclusion.”

That’s the “impact beats facts” rule. Once an institution treats emotional fallout as the highest metric, it will naturally prioritize care language, safety language, and inclusion language.

In other words, feminization and wokeness wins by default in the rulebook.

[Image: tech campus scene with a Code of Conduct sign and a blurred crowd in the background | ALT: feminization and wokeness enforcing inclusion over disagreement]

[Internal link: insert relevant Disruptarian post about DEI, corporate HR power, or institutional compliance culture]

Case study 3: The Kavanaugh hearings and the evidence problem

The Kavanaugh hearings were a national spectacle, but underneath the shouting was a moral conflict.

A justice minded approach says: evidence, corroboration, standards, due process.

A care minded approach says: trauma, credibility, lived experience, empathy first.

You can read the official Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing transcript on GovInfo:
https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CHRG-115shrg32765/pdf/CHRG-115shrg32765.pdf

You can also view released documents from the Senate Judiciary site, including Ford’s prepared testimony PDF:
https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/09-27-18%20Ford%20Testimony.pdf

And if you want a full narrative argument from the right, Hemingway and Severino’s Justice on Trial page is here:
https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Justice-on-Trial/Mollie-Hemingway/9781621579847

The brutal takeaway

If a system decides tears are a form of proof, the standard changes for everyone.

You can feel sympathy for an accuser and still believe that ruining someone’s life requires more than vibes. That’s not cruelty. That’s the point of due process.

This is where feminization and wokeness can erode due process without ever declaring “we oppose due process.” You just redefine “harm” as decisive evidence and treat cross examination as moral violence.

[Video: quick explainer on due process and why evidence standards exist | Note: keeps the reader grounded when emotions try to take over the entire conversation]

“So Ryan, are women the cause?”

No. That’s lazy framing.

The better framing is incentives and selection.

Institutions select for certain traits. They reward certain moral language. They punish other language. Over time, the people who rise are the people who speak the house dialect.

Right now, in many elite institutions, the dialect is care coded, safety coded, and inclusion coded. That’s why feminization and wokeness often tracks together.

Also, none of this denies that men can be censorious or that women can be hardcore free speech people. Reality is mixed. The claim is about averages and institutional drift, not moral worth.

What research says about risk and competition

If you want a less political angle, economists have studied gender differences in preferences for decades.

Rachel Croson and Uri Gneezy’s widely cited review, “Gender Differences in Preferences,” summarizes evidence that women, on average, can be more risk averse and less competition seeking in many experimental settings. Tons of caveats apply, but it’s a serious starting point:
https://rady.ucsd.edu/_files/faculty-research/uri-gneezy/gender-differences-preference.pdf

Now combine that with modern institutional liability culture. Lawsuits. PR disasters. HR compliance regimes. Nobody wants to be the manager who “allowed harm.”

What do you get?

More safetyism. More policy padding. More speech control. More conformity as a career strategy.

That’s not a conspiracy. That’s bureaucratic self preservation. And it reinforces the same tendencies that show up in feminization and wokeness.

The libertarian warning label

I’m a free markets, free speech guy. So here’s my warning label.

When institutions treat safety and inclusion as the highest moral goods, they start managing people like fragile inventory. That kills innovation. It also makes power less accountable, because “harm” is vague. Vague accusations are a bureaucrat’s favorite weapon.

A society that can’t tolerate sharp disagreement won’t stay free. It’ll stay managed.

That’s why the real fight in feminization and wokeness is not about personalities. It’s about whether we’re allowed to argue openly without being treated like criminals.

How to push back without detonating your life

If your workplace or school is deep into feminization and wokeness, you still have options that don’t involve going full scorched earth.

1) Ask for standards, in writing

“What policy did I violate?”
“Where is it written?”
“Is it applied evenly?”

2) Stay calm and factual

Don’t give them an emotional clip to weaponize.

3) Refuse language traps

“Harm” is not the same thing as “discomfort.”
“Unsafe” is not the same thing as “I heard an opinion I dislike.”

4) Build parallel institutions when you can

If the institution is captured, stop begging and start building alternatives: independent media, private groups, mutual aid networks, local communities, homeschooling pods.

That’s the free market answer to cultural capture.

[Image: small community meeting in a local hall with handmade signs about free speech and voluntary association | ALT: feminization and wokeness countered by voluntary alternatives]

The honest bottom line

I’m not claiming this theory explains everything. Money matters. Politics matters. Social media matters.

But as a working model, feminization and wokeness explains why elite institutions drifted the way they did, and why they enforce the drift with such moral certainty.

If you want to keep a free society, you need more than slogans. You need rules, evidence, competition, and the ability to offend each other without calling the cops.

That’s not cruelty. That’s adulthood.

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