[analphilosopher] Keith Burgess-Jackson: Harvey C. Mansfield Jr on the Feminist Revolution

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Posted by Keith Burgess-Jackson:
Harvey C. Mansfield Jr on the Feminist Revolution
http://www.analphilosopher.com/posts/1136502734.shtml


   HRP: What is the feminist revolution and what's wrong with it?
   Mansfield: The principle of it is that men and women are equal in the
   sense of exchangeable. Anything a man can do, a woman can do. And
   anything a woman can do, a man can do. This is an extremely radical
   principle which has never been tried by any human society. Most of the
   feminists are moderates. A moderate feminist is one who believes that
   it's possible for a woman to have a family and a career, and a radical
   feminist denies that and is more or less openly opposed to the family.
   This revolution I do not think can succeed, because it denies natural
   differences that cannot be repressed. So it will lead to and has
   already produced a good deal of frustration--in both sexes. Women will
   never succeed in being men, in being as successful in occupations
   which require aggressiveness as men are. And so, realizing this, or
   half-realizing this, they are trying to change the nature of those
   occupations to fix it so that aggressiveness counts for less.