Helen Andrews is author of Boomers: The Men and Women Who Promised Freedom and Delivered Disaster (January 2021). Previously she was a senior editor at The American Conservative, managing editor of the Washington Examiner magazine, and a 2017–18 Robert Novak Journalism Fellow.
From 2012 to 2017, she lived in Sydney, Australia, working as a think tank researcher for the Centre for Independent Studies. Before that she was an associate editor at National Review.
Tomorrow, she is joining Francis and Konstantin in New York to discuss her recent article The Great Feminization and how it has changed society in the 21st century, how men and women compete in the working world and her arguments for why feminisation is not an organic result of women outcompeting men, but an artificial result of social engineering.
Comment yourt questions for Helen below.
I agree with your argument that increased female influence has, among other consequences, made culture more attuned to and focused on emotion. What I’m trying to understand is why, at the same time, we often fail to name the emotional forces driving much of male behavior — loneliness, humiliation, status anxiety, anger, rage. These shape politics and public life dramatically, yet we rarely describe them as “emotional.” If the culture really is more emotional now, why do we still treat male emotion as something else — as politics, ideology, or crisis — rather than acknowledging it as emotion too?
In your view, which countries have most successfully advanced women’s progress and protected their interests while avoiding the pitfalls you’ve so brilliantly articulated? And here in America, was there a time when the pace and culture of change was about right......where, if we’d just stayed that course, we might have gotten it right in the end?