Victims, Violence and Villains

Article here. Excerpt:

'My last essay looked at how empathy distorts moral judgment. This essay looks at how feminism exploits empathy – using domestic violence advocacy as the example.

Obviously, I am deeply concerned about domestic violence. But I am also concerned about the cynical manipulation of our empathy. In this essay, I argue that feminism has become adept at generating empathy from a victim narrative and at exploiting it for political gain.

Quite a lot of ink has been spilled on the topic of domestic violence, so I won’t revisit ground well covered by others. Rather, this essay will focus narrowly on how feminists use empathy to gain power.'