I’m developing a theory about how movements like feminism and relatedly #metoo quickly get co-opted by the acting dominant societal narrative. Not in this case capitalism (the easy go-to) or neoliberalism, but patriarchy and puritanism. It occurs principally since a lot of women are immersed in patriarchal notions and this conditioning will tend to “pull” them back to enforcing patriarchal gender norms on other women (and by dint of that, men) though it’ll be cloaked in a glamor of feminism and #metoo and sisterhood.
This is what I mean when I talk about #metoo mainly being used to enforce proper assortative mating, though that is not all of it.
The end result of a lot of this will be chaperoned dates, hijabs or the secular equivalents for women, increasing separation and segregation of the sexes (this is already occurring) and of course the condemnation of any men (in particular) or women who cross gender lines either for fraternization or sexual reasons.
It’ll be all new, though. It won’t be father- or brother-chaperoned dates; it’ll be some third-party service you click on through an app that sends a verified chaperone who records it, reports it and uploads it all to some cloud server somewhere. Etc. No, it won’t be the 1200s — it’ll be the 1200s with tech.