However, what everyone failed to take into account was that prior to the dawn of the Experiment, women had been subject to strict legal and social boundaries placed upon their behavior, their rights, and their ability to exercise influence over their children and in society. Their behavior had been constrained and controlled for generations, thereby leaving both men and women of the 20th century somewhat in the dark concerning the full range of their preferences and priorities.
Now, after barely 50 years of women’s liberation, we are beginning to understand that perhaps those outdated and misogynistic opinions were not actually outdated, and, rather than being rooted in misogyny, they were based in a eutopian desire to protect both society and civilization from the darker, more chaotic side of female nature.
Camille Paglia saw this early on. For, as she wrote in Sexual Personae (1990):
If civilization had been left in female hands we would still be living in grass huts.
Already our institutions, our birth rates, our borders, and even our bridges are collapsing. How much more data do we require before ending the grand Experiment? And will it end before, or after, the civilizational cataclysm?
Because it will end, one way or another. It will definitely end.