The piece argues feminism didn’t dismantle patriarchy but outsourced masculine authority to the state, which then centralized 'provision, protection, and punishment' in agencies, universities, corporations, and media. Political parties traded benefits and protection for women’s votes, entrenching a paternalistic, punitive bureaucracy that eclipsed household‑level male roles.
— This reframes debates on feminism, DEI, and administrative power by claiming identity‑driven bureaucratization reproduces—rather than dissolves—masculine dominance through the state.
Alan Schmidt
2026.01.16
60% relevant
The essay’s anecdote about layoffs of administrative assistants and the resulting drop in morale and functionality speaks to the broader claim that bureaucratic structures concentrate masculine or impersonal authority while eroding dispersed, relational forms of power—showing how removing low‑status staff changes institutional outcomes.
T. Greer
2026.01.12
72% relevant
Both pieces diagnose how cultural dominance is reproduced through institutional power rather than mere ideology: the article argues Silicon Valley lacks the ambition to create institutions that would preserve technological gains, which complements the existing idea that masculine/elite authority gets outsourced into bureaucratic institutions—together they show how elites or the absence of elite institution‑building shapes state capacity and cultural outcomes.
Bradley J. Birzer
2026.01.06
88% relevant
Nisbet’s core claim—that the modern territorial state strips authority from church, guild, family and local associations and thus centralizes masculine authority in agencies—parallels the existing idea about bureaucratic centralization substituting for other forms of social authority (the review cites Nisbet’s emphasis on the State pulverizing mediating institutions).
Mary Harrington
2025.12.02
48% relevant
The author criticises a managerial state that centralises control (WEF/Great Reset ambition) yet fails at delivering core public goods, which connects to the argument that bureaucratic centralisation can reproduce paternalistic, top‑down authority even as it undercuts practical competence.
Michelle Braunstein
2025.10.06
100% relevant
The authors cite the proliferation of 'departments for women,' NGO ecosystems, and the Clinton/Blair era as the inflection where institutions absorbed and amplified masculine power; they contrast this with local male mutual aid during Australia’s 2009 Black Saturday fires.