What a strange, blinkered perspective the author has. Laser-focused on confirming a narrow thesis and ignoring the bigger picture.
"In 2019, I read an article about Larry Summers and Harvard that changed the way I look at the world. The author, writing under the pseudonym “J. Stone,” argued that the day Larry Summers resigned as president of Harvard University marked a turning point in our culture."
"The essay argued that it wasn’t just that women had cancelled the president of Harvard; it was that they’d cancelled him in a very feminine way. They made emotional appeals rather than logical arguments. “When he started talking about innate differences in aptitude between men and women, I just couldn’t breathe because this kind of bias makes me physically ill,” said Nancy Hopkins, a biologist at MIT."
Nancy Hopkins's response is risible "snowflake" behaviour of the type we see all the time from Trans Activists and their ilk, eg. Extinction Rebellion. "Triggered" in this instance by the mere utterance of a notion that there might be differences between the sexes.
This is not specifically female behaviour but a stereotypical "drama lama" response evidenced by both men and women. Of a certain class. What Trevor Phillips refers to as "the exam-passing classes", ie. university educated. We are not talking blue collar trade qualifications here.
"This cancellation was feminine, the essay argued, because all cancellations are feminine. Cancel culture is simply what women do whenever there are enough of them in a given organization or field. That is the Great Feminization thesis, which the same author later elaborated upon at book length: Everything you think of as “wokeness” is simply an epiphenomenon of demographic feminization.
The explanatory power of this simple thesis was incredible. It really did unlock the secrets of the era we are living in. Wokeness is not a new ideology, an outgrowth of Marxism, or a result of post-Obama disillusionment. It is simply feminine patterns of behavior applied to institutions where women were few in number until recently. How did I not see it before?"
Equally risible. "Wokeness" is more than "cancel culture".
Her thesis:
a) cancel culture = female thing, therefore "wokeness" = female thing
b) more women in "institutions" -> woke institutions
Which blithely ignores the fact that predominantly female professions managed to survive for decades untainted by "wokery" - until wokery wriggled its way into every professional institution under the sun.
As for "cancel culture" being a "female thing", the historical ousting of midwifery by male-dominated medicine is surely an extreme example of "cancel culture"?
"Psychology, once a predominantly male field, is now overwhelmingly female, with 75 percent of psychology doctorates going to women."
What man wants to work in a field where his traits are not welcome? What self-respecting male graduate student would pursue a career in academia when his peers will ostracize him for stating his disagreements too bluntly or espousing a controversial opinion?"
The "gender imbalance" is even more extreme in the UK:
Tackling gender imbalance in psychology
July 2020 - BPS
https://www.bps.org.uk/psychologist/tackling-gender-imbalance-psychology
"Eighty per cent of psychology undergraduate students are female and at Russell Group institutions, the proportion is even higher, standing at around 85 per cent. The result is that psychology professions are pervasively female-dominated: 80 per cent of Clinical Psychologists and Educational Psychologists are women."
But . . .
"The gender imbalance also fails to offer women any career-long benefits, with 'a leaky pipeline' effect meaning that only 63 per cent of university psychology lecturers and 33 per cent of psychology professors are female."
Which means that there is still an incentive for ambitious men to qualify as Psychologists.
All Health Professions are now majority female, though still with the most senior positions being occupied by men: the "Glass Escalator" effect with more rapid progression to senior levels for men.
Interesting idea here, that imposition of standards might have driven out men from Health Professions, leaving the door open for women to flood in to replace them, ie. rather than men leaving as a result of more women entering what were once predominantly male professions that also had less regulatory accountability:
American Psychological Association, Committee on Women in Psychology. (2017). The changing gender composition of psychology: Update and expansion of the 1995 task force report.
https://www.apa.org/pi/women/programs/gender-composition/task-force-report.pdf
"an argument might be advanced that a change in the nature of a field and the imposition of more regulatory standards on any profession may precede the departure of men from that field. That is, it is the changing nature of the profession and the departure of men that enable the entrance of women and not the reverse (Adams, 2008). For example, in the health service provider area, group and interprofessional practice settings are increasingly shaped by third-party reimbursement standards that subordinate psychological expertise to medical expertise and corporate interests. Even in solo practice settings, case conceptualization and the number of visits must adhere to third-party standards. At the same time, tenure track professorial positions in college and university settings appear to be declining in favor of nontenure track positions and part-time employment."
Contemporary Wokery / Political correctness is also "regulatory", as well as being decidedly authoritarian.
"Cancel culture" is exemplified by reporting to employers for breaches of policy and to regulatory bodies for breaches of standards just as much as by "deplatforming", bullying of venues (external or by staff mutiny) and informal methods such as "shunning", etc.
It is also much bigger than "trans activism", which is just one facet. "Counter Wokecraft" barely mentions gender identity ideology. The examples of "wokery" (Critical Social Justice) are focused on US Academia - and anti-racism.
Counter Wokecraft:
A Field Manual for Combatting the Woke in the University and Beyond
Charles Pincourt and James Lindsay, 2021
https://amzn.eu/d/cHiGopY
"Counter Wokecraft: Why I Wrote It and Why You Should Read It"
Charles Pincourt, 2021
https://www.mindingthecampus.org/2021/11/26/counter-wokecraft-why-i-wrote-it-and-why-you-should-read-it/
I don't think women invented Political Correctness or "Wokery", which contemporary Cancel Culture is part of. Or that women were responsible for regulation of the Health Industry and Professions.
Or maybe I am wrong and women rule the world but somehow I never noticed!! 😂