FROM the excellent collection of essays The Sword in the Mouth by Caryl Johnston:

Because the body was, to feminism, the inescapable fact, feminists directed considerable animus against the constraints of biology. Either by chance or design, feminists went to bed with the Archons of Big Medicine, who were only too willing to bankroll themselves by altering the terms upon which men and women had heretofore propagated themselves. The feminists failed to see how they had merely substituted one patriarchy for another. Mary Shelley, the daughter of one of these great feminists, the 19th-century Mary Wollstonecraft, had already seen which way the wind of anti-biological feminism was blowing, and created the famous Dr. Frankenstein of legend. As the wife of libertine poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mary Shelley had experienced the dross left behind by freethinkers and once declared that she was sick of them. But anti-biological feminism was gold in the hands of the medical men, the source of endless revenue puffed as “liberation” — from having children, from being a mother, maybe even from being a woman! The current Ivy League fad of transgenderism is only the latest round in this saga, perhaps the last stop before one may opt out of the task of being human altogether…..

…. Now that science has finally caught up with Mary Shelley — that is, with the feminist anti-naturalism of the Frankensteinian program, we begin to see the dark fruits of the revolutionary creed. But where Mary Shelley repented and warned, the harem of scientists did neither. Feminists raised no warning about Western mankind’s gross infatuation with technique. Nor did they put in a kind word for the fragile and ever-threatened ecology of protections known as customs or the rule of law, nor did they temper their bullying attitude with any hesitations derived from common sense, morality or human experience. Perhaps attention to such things was not to be expected from a movement that had abolished thinking. Still, it’s hard to miss how liberation movements have a way of turning into new forms of enslavement.

[Caryl Johnston, The Sword in the Mouth; Lulu.com, pp 113-114.]

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