Clay Travis and Peggy Noonan on angry feminists

yazan Pavellim: Clay Travis

The idea of a father who murdered his three kids getting a round of applause from other men outside the courthouse, Clay Travis says that's a scenario that just doesn't exist, that it's not how men operate. He's reading a tweet that lays out all the ways women have supposedly won: they earn more, hold most jobs, are the majority of university graduates (UCLA is sixty percent women), have lower suicide and addiction rates, live longer, control their fertility, win ninety-nine percent of custody disputes, and aren't drafted. They've taken over the Boy Scouts, ended male-only restrooms, can fly fighter jets and serve in combat. Marriage is voluntary because of no-fault divorce. So Travis asks: if women have all this, why are they so angry? Peggy Noonan's take is that they're fighting a caricature of society or patriarchy, an image pushed by a trendy movement that's become almost a new religion. Ordinary married women in the suburbs are convinced they must liberate themselves from husband, family, children, that these things are oppressing them. Walk into any bookstore and there's a whole genre of books telling women to divorce their husbands for freedom. Noonan points to Lindsay Clancy as a victim of this ideology, someone who was trying to liberate herself and reached the other side. But she stresses that motherhood is difficult, life is difficult, no matter your money or privileges. And she rejects mental illness as a justification for murder, all murderers have disorders, so why is this woman getting a break? That question hangs there, unanswered.