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The Relationship Between Reactionary Feminism and the Recent Past
I think what reactionary feminism does is it has a completely different relationship with the recent past. There are lots of ways in which our contemporary culture is extremely strange compared to how all other people in all other times and places have lived. What we can do that is instructive in looking at the past and looking at other cultures is to say, what are the common threads here? And if we don't believe in the progressive narrative, then we can start from the premise that actually our ancestors weren't bad and stupid.