The truth tends to reveal itself over time. Over the last ten years, I've observed that the intrinsically anti-freedom authoritarianism of feminism is increasingly out in the open. At this point, only those who aren't paying attention can still pretend to buy into the idea that feminism and women's rights are even remotely compatible with Western civilization or resemble anything that the Western intellectual tradition would consider legitimate rights.

That is the true heart of feminism. As I wrote when I pointed out that feminists are sub-civilized: "This is what the feminist's vaunted concept of equality means. This is what it has always meant: the legal protection of a woman from all and any consequences of her actions. This includes a woman's ability to break any contract at will, to steal from anyone as she pleases, and murder even the most innocent without having to even hear a whisper of protest to make her uncomfortable."

Barbara helpfully adds an element that I neglected to include, which is that women "should be able to make you not offend" them. Being intellectually incoherent and unjustifiable in the eyes of every rational observer, feminism is necessarily an ideology of force. This is why it has to be resisted every bit as strenuously as other such ideologies, including communism and National Socialism.

And a science fiction that cannot be sexist or minority-phobic is not science fiction at all, but a dogmatically limited sub-genre in which all literary value is necessarily subservient to ideological whimsy.