Today, Steve Sailer asks this question:
“Why did “widows with children” become “single mothers?” There used to be a hierarchy of respect and sympathy for young mothers without husbands: widows were at the top, divorcees in the middle, and never married single mothers at the bottom. Now, even widows call themselves “single mothers.” Is society better off because of this? Let’s be frank: women who have children without a husband are harming society. Why should they be treated as sympathetically as a mother whose husband has died?”
I once told Razib that Sailer educated me far more than my classes have. But if I’ve learned anything useful studying English, it’s been how to handle any feminist, on any campus, by noting the similarities in their education, tastes, and philosophy.
One of feminsts’ major goals is not to hurt the feelings of women. Well, not women at large as Christina Hoff Sommers can attest, but women with the right sympathies. The single mother hierarchy is rather reminiscent of high school hierarchy, e.g. the girls who got along best with boys were on top. This causes horrifying flashbacks for the feminists who were on the bottom of this totem pole (so was I, but I grew up and got a life). Out of their own immaturity, as well as misguided sympathy and empathy, they smashed these hierarchies to improve the self-esteem women who have illegitimate children.
These are dully materialistic people who see things in terms of victims and victimizers, rather like ignorant anti-Americans who argue moral equivalence attack on the World Trade Center and bombing accidents like the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade. Goals, plans, and the moral importance of individual choices and motivations are unknown in this flat, monochrome worldview that sees effect but is so uninterested in the individual that it can’t be bothered to distinguish between ethical and unethical causes.
Another covert cause is to protect the feelings of black women. 69% of black children are illegitimate.. Even though illegitimacy occurs at all levels of society, it is most common among blacks. To an extent, tolerance of illegitimacy is simply an extension of our attitude regarding other largely black pathologies that white liberals admonish everyone to politely ignore.
P.S. Dennis Prager has an insightful article on this subject. As usual it fails to mention race, but still a good read.
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