Attacking the underlying meme

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Found this memetic nugget from the Hawaiian Libertarian who was excoriating "conservative women" who nevertheless subscribe to a feminist worldview:

Feminists threw away the moral superiority of women, a beautiful counteraction to the physical superiority of men.
What is uniquely risible about conservative feminism is that it is a heresy, not a separate, distinct entity. It bends the truth, distorts definitions, short-circuit's logic and looks like the truth, while leading them astray ever so slightly that they don't notice until it is too late. Many studies have shown, and many have observed independently for generations, that fathers are as critical, if not more so, to the "civilizing" of young women as women are to the "civilizing" of young men. The conservative instinct that fathers are so necessary to the development of children is at odds with this belief which is still well-entrenched, if more subtly, in conservative circles.

It is not that feminists threw away the idea of natural female moral superiority so much as it is that they demonized most aspects of femininity, motherhood in particular. Conservative women who spout this nonsense are pathetically ignorant of all of the rousseauian, feminist narratives of the peaceful, matriarchal past. Mainstream feminist thought is a Marxist class conflict translated to gender relationships with women assuming the role of the oppressed, but noble proletariat; to say that they don't believe in the "natural moral superiority of women" is just ludicrous.

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