Feminism, Not Women, Betrayed Madonna

The singer Madonna has again said something stupid. She claims that women betrayed women by not voting for Hillary Clinton in large enough numbers to elect her President.

According to a new Billboard interview, she said, “It felt like someone died. It felt like a ­combination of the heartbreak and betrayal you feel when someone you love more than anything leaves you, and also a death. I feel that way every morning; I wake up and say, ‘Oh, wait, Donald Trump is still the president,’ and it wasn’t a bad dream that I had. It feels like women betrayed us. The percentage of women who voted for Trump was insanely high.”

So if you’re a woman and didn’t vote for Hillary Clinton, you betrayed all women? But doesn’t this imply that all women are the same? That women should vote for the “woman candidate,” who in this case also happened to be an actual woman? Isn’t that what feminism was supposed to fight in the first place — the characterization of all women as a group, based on irrational stereotypes and unfounded generalizations?

It makes no sense. And yet it does. It’s what happens when you replace irrational stereotypes or unfounded generalizations about women with another set of unfounded and irrational generalizations: feminism. According to feminism, women are supposed to think, feel and vote alike. Women, because of their genitalia, presumably should be advocates of high taxes, global warming theory, government social welfare policies, appeasement of ISIS, aggressive government regulation and a bankrupt welfare state. But what if not all women feel or think that way? Why are they supposed to run out and vote for Hillary Clinton rather than vote for Donald Trump, if they think he’d do a better job?

If old-fashioned, limiting and stereotypical attitudes about women had been replaced with individualism rather than feminism, women would first and foremost view themselves as individuals. In politics, there would be no “female” way of voting. Female individuals would vote for the candidate they think best qualified for the office, and not the one who’s the most female. Hopefully their loyalty would be to themselves, their ideas and their attitudes — not the entirety of their gender.

By the way, this has nothing to do with Donald Trump’s lewd comments (which he made in private) about women. Bill Clinton said and did much worse in his role as a sexual predator, and Hillary Clinton excused and enabled his behavior. Madonna was glad to support Bill Clinton in spite of it. If Trump’s attitudes about women were really the issue, Hillary Clinton’s live-and-let-live policy toward her husband would be an even bigger issue for Madonna.

Gender is not insignificant. But it’s not something you choose. Gender is not an achievement, and it’s not an attribute of one’s character one way or the other. The same applies to race. To elevate gender to the most important consideration is exactly what Madonna and other feminist-progressives do all the time. They have no choice, because as feminists and socialists they feel compelled to reject the only approach that could ultimately set women free, politically as well as psychologically: individualism.

Nobody in the cultural and political establishment will dare challenge Madonna. That’s why I wish she’d simply stop her senseless, overdramatized and repetitive prattle.

 

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