Politically Correct Errors and Better-Construed Feminism

For a long time, political correctness has dominated academia and the media, pushing 
aggressive and heavy-handed party line in a manner quite reminiscent of fascism and Communism. It is time that there be a real challenge to political correctness - a challenge that is intellectually valid and that addresses their arguments at the core.

One core claim of political correctness is that beauty is in all cases a product of social 
norms. Want to know how to strike a body blow to this argument? It is as follows. In a recent 
experiment, a psychologist named Judith Langlois - a woman - showed that a face with certain 
proportions will be regarded as beautiful by people from all around the world. What this 
shows is that there is such a thing as beauty that is not culturally relative or 
taste-dependent and that all "beholders" recognize as beauty. Which not only refutes the 
politically correct claims on the subject but also supports a strong argument that true beauty is universal to all humanity, possibly even to all of life.

Another refutation of the political correct claims on this subject is the behavior of the 
politically correct. If beauty really were relative, then they would be attacking all women, 
however attractive or unattractive they happen to be. And yet the politically correct attack 
beautiful women and leave the ugly women alone or enlist them as their soldiers. What this 
shows is that the politically correct, like everyone else, know what beauty is and what it 
isn't. And their claims on the subject is inconsistent with their own behavior, which makes 
them hypocrites.

Another core claim of political correctness is that sex is exploitation of women or 
degradation of women. By that standard, all economic activity is exploitative; yet none of 
them are advocating unemployment. By that standard, the practicioners of political 
correctness themselves owe their lives to exploitation and degradation of their mothers; yet 
none of them are committing suicide. 

A further claim of political correctness is that there are no inherent differences between 
men and women. This is where they confuse two concepts: Similitude and equality. Equality 
does not mean being the same, it means having equal rights and equal powers. And in pushing 
similitude with the worst of men as key to personal advancement, the practicioners of 
political correctness destroy good and valuable qualities - such as compassion, warmth, 
beauty, and ability to produce and nurture life - that are more common to women than they are 
to man (or, in case of ability to produce life, uniquely feminine). The result is womanhood 
eviscerated and robbed of the wonderful qualities that are distinctly feminine and pressed 
into behaving like the worst of men. This does not benefit women, and it doesn't help women 
to get ahead. This makes the women who have believed political correctness the worst women to be found.

Perhaps the most outrageous claim to have come out of political correctness has been the idea 
that the politically correct speak for women, and that anyone who argues with any of their 
claims is a misogynist or a chauvenist. There are two main problems with this argument. One 
is that other women have not voted for the practicioners of political correctness to speak 
for them, and their claims that they do is a vast and illegitimate grab for power. Another is 
that the practicioners of political correctness are the worst women in known history, and the 
worst elements of a type have no right to speak for the type. A good woman will want to be 
good to men in her life, in the same way that a good man will want to be good to women in 
his. Both the politically correct women, who preach nastiness, and the fathers' movement, 
which preaches violence and oppression, are the worst elements in their gender; and in each 
case 50% of humanity is ill-served through representation by such degenerate elements.

It is wrong for political correctness to claim that it speaks for women's advancement, or 
social progress, or anything along the same line. What we see here is a product of an 
academic groupthink in which a bunch of cold, mean-spirited, hateful harpies have decided 
that they speak for all women without other women having voted for them as their 
spokespeople. It's not progress, it is a digression. It's not women's empowerment, it's 
harpies' empowerment. Women, for the most part, have not benefited one bit from political 
correctness, and many have lost much as a result of it as they were robbed of their right to 
be beautiful, their right to be warm and loving, and their right to be loved by a man.

Most demonstrative of the wrongness of political correctness has been the fact that in 
countries where women actually hold advanced status - such as Sweden and France - the women are not under pressure to be ugly, mean or asexual. Women there are free to be the best of 
what they are; and they also have rights and powers that in most cases exceed those of the 
American women. Political correctness is not women's rights, and it's not social progress. 
Political correctness is a historical error; and it has only gotten as far as it has because 
not enough people have had the intellectual courage to confront it.

With many men howling that women should obey them and that they should have right to batter 
them, clearly there is a need for feminism; but it has to be a better construed feminism. It 
has to be a feminism that recognizes that women have qualities that are different from those 
of men, and that many of these qualities are good. It has to be a feminism that recognizes 
that equality is not sameness, and that a cat does not need to be a dog in order to have an 
equal value with the dog. It has to be a feminism that accepts and values beauty, love, 
romance and sexuality and allows these beautiful qualities to live and grow. And it has to be 
a feminism that is represented by the best among women and not by the worst women in history.

Feminism, as such, is a rightful, even a noble, cause, and one that should have the support 
of people of goodwill and people of intellect in both genders. But required on the part of 
feminism itself is movement away from grievous errors, such as ones I've described. Women 
benefit from thought that affirms instead of negating the feminine, and they also benefit 
from better representation than is afforded them by political correctness. Moving toward 
feminism that allows the woman to be the woman while protecting her from ill-treatment would 
actually benefit the lot of women in the world.