As it was asked for the context, someone brought up that whole 'fourteen points of fascism' and I was looking at it, and it included 'Fascism is Sexist'.
And my brain made a VERY loud 'PING' and went 'Fascism indirectly caused the sexual revolution.'
It's not even a very hard thing to explain, ww2 was a terrible event, most men went to war, women were needed on the home front to work in factories, the increase in financial strength and the freedom from traditional gender roles were changes that could never be undone, and as such women gained the freedoms we enjoy today. Feminism gained its power in the aftermath of Rosie the Riveter and the rest is actual recorded history.
But this smacked me back into these 14 points and it makes me go 'wait wait wait. Point five isn't a sign of fascism, it's that the times where the fascist movements were strongest were times when women had a very repressive position in society'.
And even modern fascist movements harken back to the simpler times OF THOSE PERIODS, rather than claim an inferiority of women.
And it just spilled back to me that the entire analysis is itself historically illiterate. It's akin to going to a hospital to study patients with pneumonia, and the ward is full of redheads, and from there declaring that based on that evidence all redheads are carriers of the illness.
Like, 'supremacy of the military' and 'Obsession of National Security' are also very good examples because, and this is important here, the major fascist regimes came about in the aftermath of literal fucking wars, when war was still a common thing and national borders were still fought over. When Empires still to some degree existed and were won (and lost).
And thus the note, that one cannot truly analyze a thing by removing it from it's period and evaluating it purely from a modern standpoint.
