I wonder if, when 17th-century writer William Congreve inspired the proverb, “Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned,” he wasn’t talking about women in relationships, but the future of women who compose the modern-day feminist movement?
Feminists have worked to accomplish gender parity under the law, at work, and in society for decades. However, in the past few years, today’s feminist movement has ratcheted up its emphasis on bean-counting and quotas over merit and excellence. Anger has driven feminists to accomplish this at significant cost—revising history, lowering standards, and even compromising women’s own needs and goals—and advocating for gender quotas ensures their cause fails.
“I think every institution needs to go out into the hallway and ask, ‘What kind of message are we sending with these oil portraits and dusty old photographs?’”asks Leslie Vosshall, a neurobiologist at Rockefeller University and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.
School officials at Rockefeller, the Yale School of Medicine, the department of Molecular & Integrative Physiology at the University of Michigan, and Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, which is one of Harvard’s teaching hospitals, are all playing down the patriarchal scientific achievement—and those are just the ones mentioned by NPR. The solution? Move the portraits of men to a “less noticeable spot” or in some cases, also feature female pioneers of science.
Commending accomplished women makes sense; gaslighting future students, as if previous contributions didn’t happen at all, is a pipe dream fueled by irrational jealousy under the guise of fairness. Never mind that some of the men featured spearheaded monumental scientific or medical breakthroughs—they’re offensive because they’re male and the portraits fail to showcase an equality that not only didn’t take place, but strives to pretend women achieved the same things and just didn’t get the recognition.
Vocation Quotas
The gender gap is especially obvious in many vocations and exists for a variety of reasons, beyond just sexism. However, instead of encouraging women to exceed expectations in these fields—or to admit perhaps that men and women are innately wired differently, possess different strengths, and make different life choices regarding family—some occupations are simply lowering the bar to ensure a gender quota, regardless of merit, is met.The U.S. military has done the same thing in multiple branches at various levels, capitulating to the feminist mob, contradicting the fact that high physical standards help maintain national security—which is, in fact, the military’s top goal—not gender equality. Strangely, women ignore how insulting this is and instead, applaud the faux progress.
The cause to ensure gender parity in the United States was most certainly noble at first. However, modern-day feminists demand gender quotas be filled at all costs, even if it means they must revise history, lower standards at the workplace, and sacrifice women’s goals to accomplish it.
That’s not equality, that’s checking off gender quotas instead of favoring merit—the antithesis of why women demanded equality in the first place.