Modern Feminism Has Lost Its Way
Its rejection of womanhood
The Feminist Movement has without question brought positive changes to society. It opened the doors of the academic and professional worlds to millions.
Marie Curie, a 20th-century Polish pioneer, won Nobel Prizes in physics and chemistry in 1903 and 1911 — the only person ever awarded in two different sciences.
Margaret Thatcher, the 49th British Prime Minister, inherited a country in decline and kickstarted an economic boom.
And Florence Nightingale, the founder of modern nursing, revolutionized hospital conditions — improving sanitation, ventilation, and food preparation — dropping mortality rates from over 40% to 2%.
Without feminism, those women would have never had the opportunity to make those great accomplishments. But today, that legacy is being undone. Feminism has shifted from uplifting women to reshaping them in the image of men. This pivot has been spearheaded by Hollywood, education, and sports.
Hollywood
Movies are great. They combine sound and imagery to take you out of this world, make you forget about all your worries, and absorb you into fantasy land. The power of the silver screen is undeniable — and it’s reflected by the $32.3 billion global box office revenue (2024) and the $10.5 billion Netflix revenue (Q1 2025). The success of film isn’t inherently bad. Yes, screen addiction is a growing concern, but a modest amount of escapism can be part of a healthy life.
Consciously, we know movies are fiction, but our subconscious doesn’t. What we see on screen can shape what we believe about the real world. Unfortunately, Hollywood has weaponized this influence to push a harmful agenda. That’s why modern movies are more than just entertainment.
Female characters have always been allowed to be strong. Princess Leia led the Rebel Alliance against the Empire. Ellen Ripley battled a deadly xenomorph. And Sarah Connor fought off a cyborg assassin. Sarah Connor’s strength was rooted in her maternal instinct — her transformation into a warrior came from her drive to protect her son. She was emotionally vulnerable.
On the other hand, Captain Marvel from the eponymous movie (2019) is stoic. She has no weaknesses, no emotional wounds, and no real struggle. Moments after unlocking her powers, she defeats her male mentor in less than a second. That’s Hollywood’s idea of a strong woman: she either dominates men, suppresses all emotion, or both.
Education
It’s a well-known fact that girls outperform boys across all levels of education — from elementary school to university. Research finds no overall IQ gap between the sexes, but girls often do better in verbal and memory tasks, areas that are heavily rewarded in schools, while boys do better in spatial reasoning, which is less valuable at school. But genetics aren’t the only factor. The classroom environment is especially favorable to girls.
On average, boys are more physically active and impulsive, particularly in early childhood. Although natural, this behavior is often pathologized as ADHD, labelled a problem, and met with punishment. Additionally, across Europe and North America, the vast majority of teachers are women: 97% at the pre-primary level, 82% in primary schools, and 63% in secondary schools. These teachers carry ingrained biases, leading to boys receiving lower grades than girls for identical work.
Despite the supremacy of girls across all tiers of education, they receive countless empowerment programs: schemes such as ‘Girls Who Code’ and “She Can STEM”, grants and scholarships, and targeted university outreach. Where are the equivalents for boys?
Some argue that these programs are meant to erase the ‘confidence gap’, that women are less confident than men in professional settings. So we flood them with initiatives to close this immeasurable psychological gap, while ignoring the tangible academic gap growing between the sexes. Educational feminism is driven by ideology, not evidence, and its champions are more interested in sidelining men than in achieving equality.
Sports
There’s no greater difference between the sexes than in the physical realm. Men are taller, stronger, and faster. That’s not an opinion. It’s a biological fact. With such physical capabilities, men have a sacred duty to protect women — a duty that has always been respected throughout history. However, today, that obligation has been flipped on its head.
Women are now being forced to engage men physically in the sporting world. Tamikka Brents, a female UFC fighter, fought Fallon Fox, a transgender woman, at an MMA event on September 13, 2014. In the first round, Brents suffered a concussion, an orbital bone fracture, and seven staples to the head — injuries that sent her to the hospital. Curiously, the feminists, who are so quick to decry structural disadvantages, stood silent when all this happened.
They’ll applaud a company like Electronic Arts for releasing a video game where female soccer players outperform male ones. But material like this sets the stage for the brutality of that UFC fight. It promotes a lie that women are physically equal to men, allowing men to colonize the women sporting world, doing real physical damage in the process. Is that what feminism is about? Letting women be beaten, maimed, and brutalized? The feminists try to reject biology. They put women in danger instead of protecting them.
Conclusion
In every domain, feminism glorifies women for imitating men. But that’s the total opposite of what we should be aiming for. We should celebrate feminine values: empathy, compassion, patience, cooperation, care, trust, modesty, and gentleness. We shouldn’t bury these under dominance and careerism.
Yes — women should be able to climb up the corporate ladder as high as their talent and industriousness takes them. They shouldn’t be limited by a glass ceiling, by the biases of the people around them. But we don’t need to fight nature to achieve that: to pretend that women are as strong as men; to elevate them to invincible superheroes; or to funnel millions of dollars into diversity, equity, and inclusion. We should respect natural differences instead of flipping gender roles.
What kind of feminism tells women they must become men in order to matter?