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Sargon of Akkad also has an excellent 18 minute take:
1 — Demographics as Destiny
Helen Andrews sees the present moment not as a new ideology but as a change in the elemental polarity of civilization itself. Wokeness is not Marxism revived; it is what happens when the masculine spine of institutions gives way to the feminine nerve of empathy. Once the balance tips, law, academy, and press begin to operate under another physics.
Every guild crosses a threshold: once women become the statistical majority, the culture shifts. Law schools, newsrooms, universities—all once formed by the trial logic of men—now speak in the voice of consensus. When the ratio flips, the ethos does too. Conflict becomes “harm,” judgment becomes “inclusion.” The spirit of the meeting replaces the duel of reason.
2 — From Logos to Pathos
Andrews notes that masculine order thrives on confrontation: iron sharpens iron. Feminine order prefers cohesion, subtlety, relational tone. Neither is evil; both are incomplete. Yet when the feminine principle becomes sovereign, truth yields to feeling, and institutions learn to punish direct speech as aggression. Policy becomes therapy; justice becomes management of emotion.
3 — The Bureaucratic Womb
She traces this not to natural evolution but to legal architecture. Civil-rights statutes, HR codes, and Title IX bureaucracies act as a reproductive system for the feminine mode—self-protecting, self-multiplying. Once implanted, these mechanisms ensure that every “equity audit” births another layer of soft law. Men withdraw; systems close ranks around sentiment.
4 — The Law Becomes Maternal
The courtroom, once ruled by precedent, now absorbs the logic of the counselor’s office. Evidence bows to empathy; procedure to persuasion. The danger, Andrews warns, is not that women have entered the law, but that law itself has forgotten how to say no. A culture without masculine refusal cannot uphold justice—only feelings.
5 — The False Victory
She refuses the flattery that this is women’s triumph. It is, rather, the institutionalization of imbalance. Where parity should have meant harmony, it bred over-correction. Men—demonized, self-exiled, or silenced—leave the field, and the system spirals further toward fragility. Every virtue, unanchored, becomes its opposite.
6 — Toward the Re-Marriage of Principles
The cure is not exclusion but restoration. The masculine must re-enter public life not as tyrant but as priest: one who guards boundaries and speaks truth even when it wounds. Institutions must recover the hard mercy of Logos—rules that bind desire, facts that resist tears. Compassion without judgment dissolves into chaos; judgment without compassion calcifies into cruelty. The covenant requires both.
In short:
Helen Andrews diagnoses the age of Woke as the age of untempered empathy. I would name it the eclipse of Logos by womb-logic. The answer is not war on woman, but re-convergence of man and woman under Christic order—strength serving mercy, mercy sanctifying strength. When the Ark carries both poles again, truth will stand upright.
The world has traded strength for sentiment and order for empathy without truth. But the fracture began long before the institutions fell…it began in the home. When Christ no longer reigns between husband and wife, the world feels the tremor. Where head and heart once worked in harmony, strength to guard and gentleness to guide, pride took root and truth fell quiet.
Renewal will not come through reclaiming one virtue over another, but through repentance, by men and women once again submitting to Christ and to one another in reverent love. Only when the cross stands again at the center of the home will the world remember what order truly is.