Recent events reveal more women who are waking up and rejecting woke feminism, even though that doesn’t always seem to be the case on the surface.

Consider Lindsay Clancy, for instance, who was on trial for allegedly strangling her three young children. The case resulted in a mistrial, on account of one juror, one of only three men on the jury, who refused to go along with the others in dropping the murder charges against her. Supporters for Clancy gathered at the courthouse, standing vigil and holding signs calling for Clancy to be freed. Others posted videos on TikTok and other social media declaring their support Clancy.

Around the same time, Massachusetts governor Maura Healey signed an abortion-up-until birth bill into law. The women surrounding her applauded and turned on bright smiles for the photographers.

Other women, however, are expressing their outrage and disgust. In her American Thinker column, Patricia McCarthy pronounced the lone holdout on the jury a hero. “This is the now-institutionalized playbook of the woke left,” she wrote of Clancy’s supporters.

Those ladies in pink are essentially a cult of wokery: What is wrong is right to them and what is right – accountability for one’s crime – is now wrong. They are of the cult that calls for the destruction of the nuclear family, the erasure of gender, the stupid belief in ‘toxic masculinity’ that has successfully made male-female relationships fraught with anxiety.

Writing for Townhall, long-time commentator Laura Hollis addressed the horror of the Healey scene and the Clancy verdict, then added to that list of scorn and shame New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill’s recent signing of a law which will likely prohibit sidewalk protests and prayers against abortion. Hollis also mentions, but doesn’t support, the women on social media now proclaiming they’d give up their right to vote under the 19th Amendment if it meant putting an end to the insanity of these leftist feminists.

Meanwhile, Gen Z podcaster Roni Fouks provided visuals of some of the women who either turned out for the courthouse rallies or posted their support on social media while spotlighting three factors driving their responses. She first addresses “this crazy brainwashing groupthink that liberal women seem to be more susceptible to, this conformity, whatever the consensus is, they go along, almost this social contagion.”

Fouks then brought into play perhaps her most important point, discussing “this language that’s moving from moral to therapeutic.” Foulks continued:

Instead of saying that she did something immoral, something evil … we’re talking now about postpartum psychosis and how the system failed her and how she was seeking help and crying out and nobody listened. And it’s this kind of copping out, letting her get away with it because she was mentally ill – this is something we see in the legal system more and more.

Finally, Fouks looked at the scapegoat used across the board in our culture: men. “A lot of women are blaming Patrick Clancy, the husband, for murdering the three children. This anti-male conspiracy is the only way they can see the world. It’s always the white man who’s the problem, who’s the perpetrator.”

Fouks concluded:

What we’re seeing here is the logical conclusion, the manifestation of this insane, woke, feminist culture and ideology that most liberal women are swimming in today. It’s the anti-male culture; it’s the idea that the problem isn’t within. The blame’s always projected on the system. And I hope that things will change, that motherhood will become something again that women want … but right now things are looking pretty nuts.

For decades now, a handful of females – academics, politicians, activists – have claimed to speak for all women. Some women fought against the ideology of this big tent approach to gender, yet their voices were rarely heard in the mainstream media.

But that is changing now, in part because more and more younger women are rejecting extremist feminism, and in part because social media have given those who were previously silenced – not by a patriarchy, but by a matriarchy – platforms on which to lodge their opposition. Today’s women have greater opportunity and greater freedom to speak for themselves as individuals rather than being the tools of ideologues.

Women have long possessed the rights common to everyone in this country. It’s long past time that feminist ideologues allowed them the right to be themselves.

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This article was made possible by The Fred & Rheta Skelton Center for Cultural Renewal. 

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