Confronting the Feminist Eternal Little Girl: The Urgent Case for Female Accountability
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It's time for the grownups to challenge #MeToo victim feminists with vintage grudges, who simply refuse to grow up.
Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned.
I think I speak for many when I say I’ve grown cold to the tired narrative that human females are helpless little victims of the patriarchy. Especially when a love affair ends in emotional pain.
The Free Press covered a few recent frivolous #MeToo allegations beginning with a Stanford Law professor. Megan Wachspress proclaimed a fairly vague ‘grooming’ allegation against Daniel Biss, a mayoral incumbent just before an Illinois election in June. His opponent was the sort of uber-far-mega-left social media influencer type that’s about the only thing that brings Millennials and Zoomers to orgasm anymore. Fortunately, his path to victory was not derailed by a whiny Eternal Little Girl’s claim that he ‘groomed’ her for—well, we’re not sure for what, since no sexual contact took place, but it was the only allegation she could offer given that her story was riven with obvious consent.
Wachspress had been a 20-year-old college student, and he, a 26-year-old teacher, and she took one of his classes. They went out several times after the term was over and she clearly dug him, then he cut it off because he didn’t feel quite right about the situation.
This took place in 2004.
She came up with a lot of silly, unconvincing reasons last month why this was ‘grooming’.
Wachspress got hurt. But she’s a Millennial, so if she was ‘groomed’, it was by her parents, educators, and her peers to believe she’s entitled to a harm-free existence. She still doesn’t understand, at age 39, when she made the accusation, that love and romance are messy and we don’t always get what we want. Or who.
Wachspress is an Eternal Little Girl still pouting over an unhappy love affair when she was an immature college student.
The forever statute of limitations
Eternal Little Girls are found primarily among Millennials and Zoomers. The roots of female victimhood stem from the Boomers and Gen X, but for good reason: Women really were oppressed, suppressed, and subject to male predation far more than today.
But to misquote John Cleese, We gawt bettah.
Not all of the older generations, of course. I’ve written before about wrinkly feminists still stuck in the ‘80s.
#MeToo has turned into a monster with no statute of limitations on accusations. Women can claim victimhood against a man at any time, without evidence, just her word. #MeToo’s power may be thankfully waning, as in the case of Mayor Biss, although maybe the allegations simply came too late in the campaign to harm him. I hope it’s the former. Because that was a really dumbass story Meghan Wachspress told.
We need to shine the light on women who don’t feel victimized at the time, but change their minds much later, often encouraged by their fellow fragile flowers on social media. Victimhood is a lovely place to live for the sisterhood.
Victim feminists—women who see females as perpetually at the mercy of all-powerful patriarchs—hold back women and ‘turn back the clock’ more effectively than any ‘right-winger’.
‘Twas the older generations who raised today’s Eternal Little Girls, who seek validation through collective #MeToo narcissism. The movement was a great idea—to hold males accountable for genuinely bad behavior, but like all social movements, it overrreached, because it was spawned by Eternal Little Girls rather than grownups.
The Eternal Little Girl, the Puella Aeterna, is a concept originating with Carl Jung, who described them as adults who resist growing up. They prefer to remain youthful (in actions if not in the inevitability of a body maturing into old age), playful, carefree, idealistic, and avoid emotional depth. The Puella Aeterna of today’s victim feminists expresses as an inability to take responsibility for one’s actions and feelings and forever blame others (primarily men), for whatever’s wrong with their lives. It’s the hallmark of today’s girl-women exemplified by Megan Wachspress: Spoiled three-year-olds trapped in women’s bodies.
The Eternal Little Girls of #MeToo
#MeToo has failed the accountability standard over and over. When they finally called for women’s ‘accountability’ in their interactions with men, it was to blame real victims—women—for not doing what men wanted.
Ironically, a movement which claims to, in their own words, “channel their unique empathy in community with one another, and in service of a future free from sexual violence,” champions the right of fully-equipped males to invade women’s and girls’s locker rooms, bathrooms, and even prisons. Even those who have been physically and sexually victimized by men, are now expected to swallow their trauma and deal with it, according to countless #MeTooers.
To please men.
Who needs right-wingers to oppress women when we’ve got progressive Handmaids for the Patriarchy? They refuse their own statement by failing to protect women and girls from sexual predators—in spangly pink bikinis.
Social movements, left and right, are never good at drawing boundaries. The desire to resist acknowledging victory, to keep the momentum going, to feel part of a united ‘tribe’, to relish that ‘us against the world,’ feeling is why movements, unchecked, invariably go off the rails.
Trump’s MAGA movement, and Christian nationalism/fundamentalism, are both ideas from the other side taken way too far.
The best, probably truest, #MeToo stories emerged in its earliest days. That’s when they took down power and clear predators. Others told tales of sexual harassment, groping, and other pretty clear-cut cases of male entitlement to female bodies. But as the movement progressed, the stories became less lurid, and sounded more like whining or minor complaints rather than serious sexual encroachment. The stories began sounding suspiciously made-up, coming from anonymous accounts who would never be held responsible for their posts or tweets unless they named names and someone filed a lawsuit.
#MeToo never embraced the notion of personal responsibility for one’s life and safety, rejecting it outright in favor of a narrative that portrayed women as permanently innocent victims of alleged male rapaciousness. It laid down no boundaries for differentiating minor complaints (“He touched me lightly on the chest”) from more serious sexual allegations, like a boss who pushes an employee up against the wall or an actual rape. They catastrophized that which wasn’t serious enough to get engagement.
#MeToo was birthed by an Eternal Little Girl, Tarana Burke, and its presence heavily boosted by an influential Eternal Little Girl, actress Alyssa Milano, whose childlike devotion to victimhood seriously needs to be purged by the adults in the room. It’s 2026, not 1986, young ladies.
Now let’s talk about #MeToo, victim feminism, and alleged rape.
The death of ‘Believe All Women’
We can comfortably have this conversation about exaggerated and false rape claims, now that many victim feminists have denied the documented mass rapes of Israeli Jewish women on Oct. 7 by Hamas.
If we no longer have to ‘believe the [Jewish] women’, we no longer have to believe anyone else, either.
The proper response from the grownups in the room to any ancient sexual assault allegation for which a woman has no police report and no other proof (like genetically stained clothing) is:
That must have been awful. Sorry to hear that.
Many of today’s Eternal Little Girls do it for the attention. They receive support from other uncritical Eternal Little Girls. Still, even as we challenge them, we must recognize one element that’s legitimately not their fault: they were raised in a culture of safetyism, primarily by progressive-leaning parents, to believe their opinions mattered as much as an adult’s, to ignore rules they didn’t like, and that bad things that happened to them were never their fault.
Because they taught they were incapable of bad judgment, they couldn’t learn from their own mistakes. We have to undo a lot of harmful parenting.
We’re past the point where sexual assault allegations and predatory tactics aren’t taken seriously. Now they’re taken entirely too seriously, with testimony accepted outside the court as hard evidence when it’s not. Years after the fact, it’s she-said-he-said.
Women shouldn’t be accorded more than passing attention when their accusations are older than a fine cheddar cheese. We should make it clear there’s a statute of limitations on their public credibility, and it’s a short one, if they don’t report a sexual assault before they destroy the evidence. Here are the hard facts, like ‘em or not: It’s a woman’s right not to report, but the social consequences are she may, in fact, not be believed later. It’s her choice. She abrogates the right to ruin the man with what may well be false accusations twenty years later.
Victim feminists won’t acknowledge that victims are entirely too powerful, when they can ruin a man’s reputation or career with unsubstantiated allegations. I hope that men will also begin to fight back by suing women who do this.
And we adult women need to support them.
How to handle Eternal Little Girls
Let’s discuss what the grownups can do.
Enforce the Currency of Consequences
The Self-Esteem Generations will stop throwing tantrums if we hold them accountable for their unfair cancel efforts. Even if the target isn’t a saint. A man who gropes women on the subway isn’t a nice guy, but unless he’s forcibly pushing his penis into someone, he’s not the same as a rapist. Language matters: Eternal Little Girls and others of modern progressivism expand definitions when it suits them, and limits them when it doesn’t. We need to call out the ‘Graces’ of the world, and women like Megan Wachspress, and point out the facts as she’s stated them: It wasn’t grooming, it was a guy who hurt a legal adult, however regretfully. And shouldn’t she be over it by now?
If more adults speak up and challenge the Eternal Little Girl, they’ll be less likely to act up in public. There’s nothing like consequences to teach children they’re responsible for their own emotional regulation.
Starve the #MeToo Narcissism Economy
Please don’t feed the narcissists. Don’t provide Eternal Little Girls their incessant craving for attention and validation via appropriated or exaggerated victimhood. Genuine trauma is one thing, but you can’t always be certain they’re not just pulling it out of their heinies. I keep the timeline, and proportionality, firmly in mind. A rape she says happened last week requires a lot more concern and support than one she says happened fifteen years ago.
Raise Resilient Women, Not Fragile Victims
Life is hard. Just ask the Buddha, who thought life was fun and games and beauty until he escaped the Palace prison and encountered old age, sickness and death.
Challenge the parents who’ve been raising these coddled Eternal Little Girls. Point out she can’t defend herself against a potential sexual assault—every mother’s worst nightmare—when she thinks of herself as a victim. If more people called out laissez-faire parenting in public, they might get angry retorts back, but those parents may have a private conversation with Missy-poo later. Shaming works both ways.
And as for the Eternal Little Girls, who have been raised to be emotional weaklings, we need to say No far more often, especially when they’re adults. Eternal Little Girls are taught to say No, but not to accept it. That must change.
NO to exaggerated trauma. NO to assumed victimhood. NO to catastrophism. NO to treating other people poorly or ‘cancelling’. NO to not taking charge of their lives and their safety and most of all, their emotions. Tellingly, Wachspress told her story on Substack and prohibited commenting.
I rest my case.
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