“ These developments can’t be understood, let alone reversed, without grasping a crucial element at the heart of the authoritarian wave: the persecution of women.
Across cultures and continents, women champion democracy, and tyrants target them as part of their playbook for amassing power.
Failing to treat the repression of women as the crisis it is all but guarantees that democratic erosion will continue unchecked.”
I think it’s always telling who people attack. Because people attack out of fear. And apparently there is a great deal of fear surrounding the so-called “weaker sex.”
I think part of it as well is that authoritarians in general are drawn to very rigid hierarchical systems. They really do like the idea that certain people need to be at the top because of race, gender, etc. and others need to be subordinate.
Any system that allows women as a group to participate equally with men implies at least a weakening of those types of hierarchies.
horseradishstalker | a day ago
“ These developments can’t be understood, let alone reversed, without grasping a crucial element at the heart of the authoritarian wave: the persecution of women.
Across cultures and continents, women champion democracy, and tyrants target them as part of their playbook for amassing power.
Failing to treat the repression of women as the crisis it is all but guarantees that democratic erosion will continue unchecked.”
I think it’s always telling who people attack. Because people attack out of fear. And apparently there is a great deal of fear surrounding the so-called “weaker sex.”
Korrocks | 20 hours ago
I think part of it as well is that authoritarians in general are drawn to very rigid hierarchical systems. They really do like the idea that certain people need to be at the top because of race, gender, etc. and others need to be subordinate.
Any system that allows women as a group to participate equally with men implies at least a weakening of those types of hierarchies.