Posted On: Saturday - May 9th 2026 7:23PM MST
In Topics: Political Correctness Feminism Pundits ctrl-left Female Stupidity
I don't mean THAT kind of domination. "Beat me, whip me, make me write bad checks" was the funny line some friend used to keep saying... well, I mean it was funny THEN! The headline here was getting too long, but I mean domination of workplaces, universities, all the institutions that half a century ago were still filled with a majority of men. That's what Helen Andrews means.
Peak Stupidity has railed on the great pundit Steve Sailer for thinking Wokeness has been just some fad. Who has making a great effort to squash it all lately? That'd be the current President. Otherwise, wokeness wasn't going to just fade away to oblivion like hula hoops, pet rocks, or My Space, and it will certainly reappear or, better way to put it, BE revived, if we don't strike it through the heart with a stake.
Wokeness didn't start as a fad either. It has grown over the last half century, or I can at least claim 4 decades, first in its more mild form as Political Correctness, but having ramped up to Wokeness during this century. Peak Stupidity has never claimed as a fact that there were all-hands planning meetings and such for this Cultural Revolution 2.0 - what it has become, basically - other than knowing about the Frankfurt School and the like. Mostly, IMO, there are people, in this case Communists, Globalists, whatever, who think alike and push the same agenda somewhat independently.
Wait, who is this Helen Andrews? I first heard her name a few years back as a pundit who said some very nice things about Steve Sailer. She's a fine Conservative pundit* with some integrity and a good head on her shoulders. It's probably been a couple of months since I first watched her discuss her theory of the origin of Wokeness.
Miss** Andrews's theory is pretty simple. Women don't act, work, and think like men, so since they've become dominant, in numbers and otherwise, in various fields of endeavor slowly in some and very quickly in others, these places of employment and other positions in society have changed for the worse. As she puts it, "Wokeness is fundamentally female, as it prioritizes "empathy over rationality, safety over risk, cohesion over competition." That sounds pretty mild, but it's not. Any reader who has worked in a big organization with a serious HR department would have seen this.
I will say that, had a man come out with this theory (and probably many, many men have understood this), even at a Conservative event, I'm not sure he'd get this great a reception. It's an "Only Nixon could go to China" type thing, because Helen Andrews is a woman herself.
I've watched the first 2 of the 3 videos featured here today, and I'll order them from shortest to longest, as they come close to doubling each time. It's pleasant to listen to Helen Andrews, and she's a change from the young cleavage displaying women youtube pundits who distract us from whatever they might be talking about.
Back yet? Yeah, so I'll include my opinion on this theory before the videos, or else the reader may never get to this. Peak Stupidity has long maintained that Wokeness has been pushed - again, not necessarily all via precise planning - on America and the "West" for obvious reasons of cultural ruination. The people behind it, and the useful non-idiots who run this Cultural Revolution WANT to ruin nations. it's not just some boner about which we can explain to them how they've been making some terrible mistakes here.
Call them Communists, whatever, and I will, but either way, these Communists understand at some level that Feminism is a powerful way to ruin the nuclear family. They've been very successful at implementing it and achieving that result. Is the BLT-G+ business, the hard-core anti-White programme, and all the rest of what we call Wokeness just another weapon to go along with Feminism to attain these ends? Or, is it just that the female domination of formerly male endeavors results in support for all these things, because women like to be "inclusive" and caring... of weirdos and anyone NOT normal... well, the reasons that Miss Andrews theorizes very convincingly? In other words, this theory says Feminism has had an unintended affect of changing what was just Political Correctness or even normality into Wokeness due to this pervasiveness of female
Or WAS it unintended? Did these Communists plan out carefully that, besides direct ruination of the nuclear family, the dominance of women in professions would cause this Cultural Rev 2.0? Nah, I just don't see them, or really anybody, being that smart and conspiratorial, that is, both of these.
What I can see is an interplay between the theory of Wokeness origins Peak Stupidity has supported and that of Miss Andrews. Feminism has been pushed on us for half a century, and the Wokeness has been pushed for somewhat less time by the same crowd. It's a synergism for the the Commies that the preponderance of woman in these positions, a result of Feminism, now means Wokeness can spread quickly and be pushed by the useful female idiots with more power than women have ever had before. If this theory is correct, until Feminism is destroyed, something I don't see happening very quickly, it'll be much more difficult to destroy Wokeness. Boys, we're in a tight spot!
After all that, I never really addressed the basic premise of Miss Andrews' theory, that Wokeness is "fundamentally female". Is that the case?
That Cultural Revolution 1.0, the big 'un, in mid-1960s to mid-1970s China was very top-down, from Chairman Mao himself. Some aspects of Feminism had been forced on Chinese Society by the Communists mainly for the one goal of getting more work out of the poor peons, though I guess the same family destruction was a goal too. Were the women the worst instigators of the Red Guard terror and the whole mess? There is something Orwell wrote in 1984 about this sort of thing...
I'll have to think about this more. Or, WWSSS?
* Just a little more biography from wiki:
Andrews is a former senior editor at The American Conservative and the former managing editor of the Washington Examiner. While working at First Things, Andrews began writing Boomers, a book with the thesis that members of the "Baby Boomer" generation harmed American culture. The book chooses as its six examples Steve Jobs, Aaron Sorkin, Jeffrey Sachs, Camille Paglia, Al Sharpton, and Sonia Sotomayor.** The www has let me down on whether she is married or not.
From 2012-2017 she was a think tank researcher at Center for Independent Studies in Australia. She also won a Sydney Award in 2018 for her essay "Shame Storm" which explored online dynamics and cancel culture through a personal lens.
In January 2025 Commonplace magazine announced that they had brought Helen on as "our new features editor." Commonplace is a magazine launched by American Compass and is focused on right-of-center political, economic and cultural issues.
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