I agree with you there partially. I think #resistance is not futile in this case however. Declining female satisfication with life and increasing anxiety and depression are symptoms. Change will come. A re-embrace of the feminine will appear. 
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This is the problem that James is trying to highlight. The belief that these ideas are based on a body of scholarship is false. The vast majority of it is completely ignored and yet key ideas of the *ideology* still possess great cultural power and this presented as scholarly.
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A useful analogy is with religion. Take Islam for an example, We know that much, much complicated Islamic theology is written but we also know that most fundamentalist Muslims haven't read any of it. Or even the Quran. They rely instead on a few key ideas built into an ideology.
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In countries where Islam is the dominant cultural force (which is why I chose it), the Islamic scholars and leaders possess great power to influence policies because they are regarded generally as 'good' and 'knowledgeable' even by ppl who haven't read them.
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Do you share James's sense that the hegemony of the feminist ideology is too entrenched to be overturned or at least abridged somewhat?
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I am usually more optimistic than James! But I see the same problem he does and also think we have a long way to go to unpick the assumptions and norms we have talked ourselves into.
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Well, we all need to keep doing what we're doing if that is ever going to happen. So keep it up!
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Well, thank you. I say this but we prob mean same thing. If you are concerned abt current feminism but support equal opportunities & recognise overlapping distributions of traits & feel men & women can have relationships of mutual liking & respect, we do.https://twitter.com/HPluckrose/status/728750955995529216 …
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