Domestic Extremist: A Practical Guide to Winning the Culture War (Peachy Keenan)

Peachy Keenan's happy warrior broadside against feminism, and all its works and empty promises.
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"My aunt, one of my father’s two sisters, died in 2020, at the age of eighty-five. She never married, because when she was young, she convinced herself that what mattered was having a career-in her case, as a virologist. She attended all the best schools: Miss Porter’s; Bryn Mawr; and Harvard Medical School, graduating in 1959. She was pretty, quirky, engaging, but most of all, she thought she was always the smartest person in the room. She believed, she knew, that by placing career over family, she was would earn a Nobel Prize. She did not get a Nobel Prize." . . .

[@WiseGuyGene]

The 80's are best remembered as the time when the Right put the blinders on. Reagan won so the war was over. As we listened to the speeches at the National Review 25th anniversary dinner, just after the election of 1980, my father said , "the battle hasn't even begun and these people think they've already won." As we know, Reagan chose not to fight the battle at all, at least domestically. The left had already dug in and they kept their pernicious jobs... I can see 80's nostalgia because people remember the good times, and a lot of people had a good time in the 80's. Me, I'll take the 70's. But the truth is, the long march through the institutions began in earnest in the 30's. This country has a lot of ruin in it.

[@shayneswenson]

The subtitle “winning the culture war” was a massive mistake. There are 10k other books with that dumb subtitle and it’s so common in the collective psyche that most people who, as Charles said “need” to read this book, will ignore it outright from sheer lack of interest in that dead-horse discourse.
The subtitle should have been more “women-focused” and I think if they would have used a subtitle that reflects more the focus on authentic femininity, they may have hooked and converted many potential readers who otherwise wouldn’t have picked up a book like this. Huge oof moment imo.

[@properpolymath2097]

I've been hearing people talk about "winning the culture war" lately, but as i understood it the culture was isn't a finite "battle" that one side can win: it's an everlasting ebb and flow and it's nothing new under the sun.

[@shayneswenson]

Great synopsis nonetheless, Charles. I tend to ignore most of these RW anon twitter people as I find most of that sphere painfully pretentious and hopelessly addicted to outrage farming and do-nothing ideological navel gazing. This book has actually been presented in a way by you that makes me reconsider my aforementioned prejudice and I’m considering buying a copy of the book now.

[@theimproooooooover]

Oof the opening monologue about your aunt was brutal, a quiet, whimpering death heard by no-one.