Re: I blame feminism somehow!

I think I would be careful not to conflate feminism as a movement with famous feminist writers. The writers feed in to the movement but are not identical with it. Of the writers, you choose one whose book (The Feminine Mystique) came out in the early 60s and somewhat before feminism was forced to react to the gay movement's inclusion of boylovers. I think it would be hard to deny that the feminist movement reacted by abjecting the boylovers. I do not claim that feminism is the sole source of our abjection. Homosexuals in general were severely abjected at the time when Mary Wollstonecraft wrote her work. But feminism has been the principal channel through which our abjection has been articulated in the political and cultural mainstream in recent decades. To suppose that feminism has nothing to do with our current situation is like saying that Zionism has nothing whatever to do with the current killing in Gaza. After all, Einstein called himself a Zionist. But he didn't support the creation of a Jewish state with its own armed forces. Ergo, Zionism is not to be blamed in any way whatever for what's happening in Gaza. Except it has everything to do with what's happening in Gaza! For despite Einstein's humanistic perspective, the Zionist movement became a movement to establish a state of Israel in such a way as to involve the forcible expulsion of Arab people from their ancestral homes, and it supplied an ideological justification for this action. Since the 1980s, feminism has cast us as the ultimate evil, and presented any erotic interaction between adults and children as the most evil imaginable thing one can do to a child, something that causes permanent and irreperable damage to the child. This has had an effect on society so great that it is now an axiom of the far right as much as the mainstream. You seem to have a commitment to the brute inexplicability of the world, as though any attempt at a theoretical grasp of our situation is some kind of sin!