Bizarre Roots of the Feminist Movement No One Talks About

<p>The English Romantic poet Percy Shelley, who died in 1822 at age 29, played a significant role in developing the ideas of the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.dailysignal.com/2020/05/26/she-wrote-fake-news-for-cosmopolitan-and-now-regrets-misleading-women-on-feminism/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">feminist movement</a>, author Carrie Gress says.&nbsp;</p><br><p><br></p><p>Ideas of the “the occult, smashing the patriarchy, and free love” played a significant role in Shelley’s writing and ideology, says Gress, author of the new book “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/End-Woman-Smashing-Patriarchy-Destroyed/dp/1684514185" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The End of Woman: How Smashing the Patriarchy Has Destroyed Us</a>.”</p><br><p><br></p><p>Shelley was a “barbaric man” who was “involved in the occult,” Gress says. His wife was Mary Shelley, author of the 1818 novel “Frankenstein,” she notes, and Shelley drew on the ideas of her parents—a vision of a “women’s revolution where there’s no monogamy, there’s no marriage, all of these things are just erased, and people just live this bucolic life without any reference to their&nbsp;<a href="https://www.dailysignal.com/2011/12/19/are-human-rights-the-same-as-natural-rights/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">human nature</a>.”&nbsp;</p><br><p><br></p><p>Shelley’s ideology contributed to the modern feminist movement, a movement that has led to what Gress calls “The End of Woman.”</p><br><p><br></p><p>Gress, also a fellow at the Washington-based Ethics and Public Policy Center, joins the show to discuss the history of&nbsp;<a href="https://www.dailysignal.com/tag/feminist/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">feminism</a>&nbsp;and explain how the feminist movement has harmed women and left women unfulfilled.</p><br><p>Enjoy the show!</p><br /><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more informat