“Driving away” women from philosophy would be like “driving away” women from an NFL football team.
First of all, women don’t even try out for the team. Second of all, if they did try out for the team, then they would fail big time. Women can’t withstand or endure the physical try-outs and expectations. Women can’t lift as much, push as much, run as fast, or run as long. Thirdly, there is the “female privilege” of “do not hit women”. So women would be unwelcome, in the end, if an apex female hypothetically could withstand the physical rigor. There would still be the problem of “well I shouldn’t hit women, so I have to go easy on this NFL woman”. That is perhaps the biggest, hypothetical problem. Men and women, both subconsciously agree on “female privielge”, of not hitting women.
In a way, NFL football proves to women that men are valuable: “See how big and strong we are, we can protect you”. The winning NFL team proves their masculinity, to women. It’s very much a display of prowess and manhood. It proves this to other men too. “We are the most masculine and manly team, for winning the Superbowl”.
Only the craziest of Feminists/Feminism would think it’s a good idea, or feasible idea, that “women should be NFL players”. Obviously, this argument doesn’t exist, historically. It doesn’t exist now. Nobody on this forum argues or believes that “women should be NFL players”.
So, yes, female privilege is the unspoken truth. Men and women are not equal. Women are the protected, privileged gender. And I’m fairly certain that women want to continue to enjoy this privilege. Women are becoming a little too over-confident, and asking for too much. Women can be cheerleaders, but they can’t really be NFL football players. It’s not really in their natural, biological, genetic programming anyway.
A woman could, possibly, hypothetically, prove me wrong. But they won’t. They probably can’t. And they probably shouldn’t anyway.
The feminists, and feminism, is flatly wrong. Men and women are not equal. And should not be equal. It’s fine the way it is, with traditional gender-roles, expectations, and relationships. Men do somethings. Women do others. Men play in the NFL, throw the ball, catch the ball, make some touchdowns. Women use sex to seduce the NFL football players. Each to their own devices. Women feel insecure about this fact. They say, “aren’t I more than just my sex”. Yes, women can be “more than sex”. But that is on women to prove and explain, to justify. If a woman wants to be “more than her sex”, then she must prove how and why. I don’t see any men saying “I am more than my sex”. Because men must already compensate, by being NFL football players. By being engineers. By being priests. By being politicians. By being janitors and sewer cleaners. By doing everything else.
All men must do things, to compensate for the low sexual value of “being a man”. Women don’t need to, don’t have to “do things”.