Resistance To Gender Ideology Started On The Left, Matt Walsh. Get Over It.
I can prove it because time only flows in one direction in this universe
“Social conservatives have to reckon somehow with the fact that it wasn’t us who struck the decisive blows against gender ideology — but uncompromising, biology-first feminists,” Sohrab Ahmari, the editor of UnHerd, wrote on X recently.
“This is not true at all,” conservative podcaster and satirist Matt Walsh responded as if to prove Ahmari’s point. “I’ve been in this movement for many years and the vast majority of the people fighting alongside me have been conservatives.”
Put more honestly, Walsh does not see the American feminists fighting genderwoo because he does not want to see them. “It may be a little different in the UK, but in the US there just is no question that conservatives led this charge.” It is telling that his main concern is partisan political credit.
The death of gender ideology is perhaps the greatest and most decisive conservative cultural victory this century. I have no idea why Sohrab would want to counter signal it or give the credit to feminists, which is an a…
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