Adam and Eve After the Vibe Shift
What the post-woke era means for marriage, manhood, and meaning
This week, we’re excited to announce another new Featured Author: Patrick T. Brown.
Patrick T. Brown is a fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, where his work with the Life and Family Initiative focuses on supporting families as the cornerstone of a healthy and flourishing society. He writes the weekly “Family Matters” newsletter on Substack.
Patrick has written for us before on pro-family policy that gets beyond the mommy wars (see “From the Archive” below!) and he was one of the conveners of our recent book club on Flowers of Fire. Here’s what he has to say about Fairer Disputations:
In Patrick’s first piece for us as a Featured Author, he writes about how the “vibe shift” is influencing the future of relations between the sexes, and explores the opportunities—and challenges—posed by the current “post-woke” moment.
Adam and Eve After the Vibe Shift
Patrick T. Brown
Yet the political winds never blow the same direction for long. Overreach and backlash is to be expected, and the vibes, inevitably, will shift again. When they do, with what will this current post-woke era leave us? A rediscovered license to use dehumanizing language, or the renewed freedom to use accurate words to describe the realities of human existence? Will we be newly able to build a society that recognizes the biological reality of sex, or will we simply lapse into essentialist memes about men just needing to be men?
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From the Archives:
In his first co-authored piece for us, Featured Author Patrick T. Brown wrote about a pro-family approach to work that allows women to cultivate a professional vocation (if they so desire) while also remaining also embracing motherhood.
Moving Past the Mommy Wars: Pro-Family Policy for the Rest of Us
Patrick T. Brown and Serena Sigillito
“Some—perhaps even most—mothers want to share their gifts and talents with the world through some form of paid work. Policymakers should make it easier for them to do so, opening up alternative pathways to the totalizing, male-normative ideal of career progression that has dominated our culture for so long.”
Women live longer than men. There is a time and a season for mothering, and a time for careerism. Instead of freezing eggs and embryos, they should embrace motherhood in twenties and thirties, and stop competing against men for jobs then - the wages for all would go up, making single income families easier. They can embrace careers (or grandmothering!) in the decades after, instead of chasing the frankentube.