it is not surprising that 'feminism' is taking a bashing in THIS warmongering world which also is ecocidal. After all since ancient times Earth was thought of as Mother. So it is no coincidence that to criticize 'feminism' fits well with carry-on-as-usual trashing the Mother, which is matricide!
But it is also how the mostly male feminist-bashers always lump 'feminism' into one bin, as though of not being aware there are different types JUST as there are in 'masculinism' (oh look I just made up a new term), and some groups have critiqued other groups.
Example, critiquing feminists who do not include women of colour.
There is Eco feminism, and so on.
But the bottom line is this: The attack ON the feminine is not some thing dreamt up by elite men, like Bernays. What arrogance. But goes wayyyy back, and right to the heart of the deep psyche. The presumed 'masculine consciousness', presumed by ancient philosophers fearful and against the 'feminine body', and 'female unconsciousness', animals, and the whole natural world. Seen as a trap for the 'masculine superior rational mind'.
it goes DEEP!
@williambanks said so many things so well, I cannot add much. There is no battle for supremacy to be had, only understanding, or at least acceptance and harmony, to be won, and then much more.
I noticed this, though:
If it is psychopathologizing, the sword cuts both ways equally well.
An image was once conveyed, I do not know which way, of the Yin and Yang, where the black has a small white spot and vice versa. The "female unconsciousness" has the potential of much greater, more thorough and "natural", because untapped and untrained, consciousness than that of any male, and it can and will force the conscious male into an unconsciousness much deeper and more perfect than that of any female. Which is how constant oscillation around perfect balance is achieved in this weird "game", as often as it is played.