This week Nancy Mace tweeted regarding her graduation from The Citadel.
https://x.com/NancyMace/status/1883847427309846687?t=6CGkg9qVR0LzJCpbBYDTzw&s=19
While I don't think there is any likelihood men in miniskirts can take away her achievement of graduating from the Citadel, the responses from right-wing talking heads indicated there is a desire to ensure no other woman ever has the opportunity to achieve that same goal.
Women: The Gateway for Male Predators
A cursory glance into the search results for “Nancy Mace” resulted in a wave of hate for a woman who simply attended a tax-payer funded public college.
Not only did these men lambert a woman for having the gall to attend a tax-payer funded public college, they laid the choices of men who violate the privacy of women by entering female private spaces at her feet. Yep, they claim Nancy Mace is the reason male predators seek to violate women's privacy. The claim is that women wanting access to public spaces of education are the same, if not worse, as predatory men wanting access to women and girls in private spaces.
Apparently, men have no agency or accountability for their actions or choices. They are at the mercy of women who lead them, unable to resist, astray. The dichotomy of women being portrayed as both stupid and masterminds of global game craft is gold medal mental gymnastics.
Moving beyond the smearing of Nancy Mace as the leader of the male predators, her acceptance into The Citadel is being framed as a DEI acceptance.
Misogyny is the New, well eternal, Black
Women were accepting into The Citadel in 1995 based on a federal judge’s determination that it was a violation of the 14th Amendment to bar women from attending a public college.
This quote from the President of the Citadel at the time is priceless.
“Watts, The Citadel president, acknowledged that other military institutes such as West Point admit women, but he said the presence of women at The Citadel would drastically alter the environment of the school. He said he was disappointed by Houck’s comparison of the case to racial discrimination cases. ‘Black and white men you treat the same,’ he said. ‘You don’t treat men and women the same. There’s a physiological difference.’”
It is a time capsule of the evidence of misogyny as DEI. He is absolutely correct that “there’s a physiological difference” between men and women. Yet, he viewed accommodations for the biological needs of women attending the college as an issue of merit, rather than correctly identifying them as simply the differences between the sexes that require support to coexist in a public space. There was no need to “dumb down” the intellectual or physical requirements for acceptance or participation in the college’s courses. In fact, the first woman, Shannon Faulkner, to attend the Citadel was originally accepted, but then her acceptance was revoked only because the college discovered she is female.
It was the “burden” of accommodating women’s biology on campus, not in the classroom, that was being offered as the reason women should be barred from attending the public college. No issue of merit. Just a problem with women’s biology. The framing of women’s biology as inherently a flawed version of men’s was already woven into the mind’s of some right-wing men. As I have stated on my Twitter account many times, the “woke right” have been present for decades. This is nothing new to women who have existed within Republican and Conservative circles.
Some of those on the left who were left behind due to the implementation of critical theories within the Democratic Party may have not seen it before because they were framing it as pure misogyny, but didn’t see the link to DEI. (You can see the drastic shift in the left based on the defense of Ms. Faulkner’s 14th Amendment rights to attend the Citadel by the ACLU in 1995, while the ACLU of 2025 can’t define “woman.”)
The allure of kindness and compassion for those deemed less fortunate regardless of their personal actions or choices and simply because of their race or sexuality, otherwise known as toxic or suicidal empathy, is a lot to overcome for the bleeding-heart liberal. I know because I was that bleeding heart liberal in the late 1990s/ early 2000s. Yes, I was a racist bigot who viewed those of other races and sexualities as inherently oppressed. For that, I can only apologize and continue to speak out against the ideologies that promote such soft bigotry. After my flight from the critical theories of the left, I only temporarily sought refuge in the right. It became clear, very quickly, that the misogyny that I faced as a child being raised in a bastion of right-wing politics and religion was still present in the late 2000s, and is still present now.
Like the concerns of President of the Citadel regarding the physiological differences between men and women, there was much gnashing of teeth by right-wing talking heads over the inclusion of women in the military. They pointed at this as a reason women shouldn’t be admitted to the Citadel. Yet, the Citadel, described as a military college, has no requirement to serve in the military.
There is no threat to the efficacy of the military if women are allowed to participate in the education at this public college. The Citadel isn’t a classroom to frontlines/barracks pipeline for women. Women at the Citadel excel in the classroom, generally outperforming men in GPA as of fall of 2024. Women excel in sports, business, finance, engineering, politics, as officers and pilots, and in many other avenues of public and private life following graduation. I am embarrassed I was unaware of the remarkable women, including (as of 2019) 520 female graduates, who have achieved so much, including being more likely to graduation than their male counterparts.
The implementation of DEI has been so thorough and successful that we have the left denying women’s existence and the right claiming women’s biology is evidence of a lack of merit. This is it. It is the fundamental struggle we are facing as a culture. We were all sold a lie that it was an either/or situation.
Equality: Is it an Illusion, Choice, or Inconvenience
Women are told we either deny biology and have equality or embrace biology and get thrown to the wolves.
It isn’t just men that perpetuate this lie. Women embraced this lie when we embraced birth control and abortion as our ticket to equality, freedom, and success. This is a very complex and interwoven dynamic of men, both left and right, who desire to reduce women to lesser versions of men and women who are attempting to gain some control over their future and current stability.
I have written on this at length in other forums, so I will keep it brief here. Those who promote abortion as the means by which women can achieve equality are stating women are inherently unequal to men due to their biological differences. Those who promote abortion as the means by which women can achieve freedom are stating women are being held captive by their biology. Those who promote abortion as the means by which women can achieve success are stating women’s biology is an obstacle to success. The focus is squarely on the problematic nature of female biology. It is misogyny to the core.
Some prochoice women believe these things to be true. Many others, throughout history, don’t necessarily believe their own biology to be the problem but are trying to navigate a society that does. Faced with the reality of “get an abortion or lose your job” or “get an abortion or I will beat that baby out of you,” women seek to gain back control over their own lives and to maintain stability.
Yes, women have the same legal rights as men do. We aren’t being denied rights that men have. Yes, women have some protections, at least on paper, from abusive partners and misogynistic employers. However, there are still many barriers to stability, equality in the workforce, and access to the public arena women face that cannot be legislated. We have a cultural problem that government cannot fix. Government is downstream of culture. We create it. We cannot use it to fix ourselves. We must fix ourselves in order to make a broken governmental system obsolete.
I am not justifying abortion here. I have spoken at length about my regret of my own abortion, my personal loathing of abortion, and my biological/philosophical/sociological reasons for being prolife in other forums. I am simply pointing out some of the realities women face. I continue to advocate at legislatures, in print, by my actions in my personal life, and in speaking opportunities against abortion and for alternative solutions to bring about the change I think we need to see culturally. You can see just one of the many times I have discussed these ideas here: https://x.com/TruthAgape/status/1285558481689415681. Over time, I have become much more of a minarchist on a federal level, conservative on a state level, and classical liberal on a local level. Why? Because the closer we get to home the more responsibility we have for and to the people around us.
So, if scapegoating women’s biology isn’t equality. What is? And how did misogyny morph into DEI?
Misogyny to DEI: A Pipeline
Equality doesn't mean "the same without account for biology or immutable characteristics." It means "the same with acknowledgement of biological differences."
The reason DEI was so successful is it was a lie built on a truth.
There are fundamental, immutable physical differences between the sexes. Those differences mean men and women require different things to maintain their biology, their physical health, including in the workplace. There are not fundamental, immutable, physical differences between races or sexualities. Race and sexuality are not characteristics that define physical capability or intellectual capacities.
While there may be differences in perception based on biological sex, there is no evidence of differences in intellectual capabilities based on biological sex. DEI scapegoated the very real fundamental, immutable, physical differences between the sexes to build a scaffolding on which the lie of equity was launched.
Side note: The irony here is critical theories did this all the while peddling the lie that women's biology is inherently flawed because it isn't like man's. This is why queer theory and transgenderism grew from the birth control and abortion movements. The connections between those founding these movements, funding these movements, language manipulation, pathologization of healthy biology, weaponized empathy, and the DARVO tactics employed by both aren’t coincidence. This isn’t just me making this claim. Queer theorists shout this themselves. You can read some of their claims here, here, and here. But, I digress back to the lie of equity.
Equity is an attempt to force equal outcomes. It requires we ignore individuality, consent, and freedom to choose in order to preclude some from excelling while trying to force others to succeed.
Equity pretends individual differences are based on inherent, immutable, intellectual differences between races and sexualities. Equity is racist and bigoted. It determines whether or not you are capable of succeeding without interference from your superiors, the elites, based on your race and sexuality. Equity assures us anyone who is not "white" or "heterosexual" is at an inherent disadvantage. You can't help it. You were born that way. Don't worry though. Those much smarter and wiser than you, usually rich white "cis" people in proximity to power, will determine what you need to succeed.
You are invited into perpetual victimhood based on your race and sexuality. In exchange for declaring yourself inherently less capable than "cis" white men, you will be given access to what your superiors deem you deserve access to. Nevermind if you don't feel oppressed or inherently disadvantaged. Nevermind if your focus is not race or sexuality. Because if you try to break free from the equity paradigm, you are a traitor to your "kind." Your internalized racism, homophobia, and bigotry will deem you incompatible with the equity programming. You are thrown off the plantation.
Because all of this DEI garbage was built from the truth that men and women have inherent, immutable, physical differences; those who adopted DEI had no option but to double down on scapegoating women's biology as inherently flawed rather than beautifully compatible.
Misogynists, no matter their political affiliation, see the physical differences between men and women as a flaw in women rather than a feature of our sex binary. They deem women's biology unworthy of consideration and protection, unless of course women are willing to give up their autonomy.
Conclusion
And we come full circle. Women are told we must give up respect and support for our biology if we want equality. We are told we can't have protection from those with inherent physical advantages who wish us harm unless we give up equal access to spaces of learning, governing, and marjeting that those with inherent physical advantages occupy.
Women are told we have to choose between protection or equality. We have been deemed inherently flawed.
There is much I could lay at the feet of feminism that perpetuated this scapegoating of women's biology, and I have. Over and over I have pointed out the evils of the Sexual Revolution and women's embracing of birth control and abortion as a transference of power.
Sure, men cheered as they were happy to lay the blame at the feet of women. Some of those men are also willing to take account for the actions and choices of men who perpetuated this DEI view of women. Unfortunately, many are more interested in doubling down on the idea that women are just inherently flawed and must pick safety or equal status in the public square.
Misogyny is alive and well in the Year of Our Lord 2025.