This fits in quite expectedly with something people assured me “wasn’t happening.” That is, as society has become more prudish and so-called “feminists” vehemently insist on being treated like children, feminism has begun to be about re-enforcing a form of patriarchy enacted voluntarily by women where they are returned to child-like status once more.

This is the natural wraparound of conservative notions of femininity and feminine behavior and the “progressive” re-infantilization of women. This recrudescence of stricter paternalism will be embraced aslant by both conservatives and “progressives” as done all in the service of protecting women.

It’s happening now.