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Southport residents previously fundraised to buy Axel Rudakubana’s brother, Dion, a new wheelchair. Taxpayers will also likely be funding disability benefits — in addition to the cost of rehousing the entire family with a new identity. Why are these people in the UK??

My wife just gave birth and it dawned on me that the modern Western maternity ward must be the most technologically sophisticated of any purely matriarchal enterprise that has ever existed. It is striking enough how many of these wards seem to be truly, exclusively female; but what is really uncanny is watching this purely female crew exercise authority over advanced machines and computers, without any men anywhere to be found. For better or worse, just anthropologically speaking, one cannot find such a sight anywhere in the West today, and so surely you cannot find it outside of the West, or in the past of the West, to a greater degree. I am aware of these stories about how women once ran the telephone switchboards or what have you, but it would seem that kind of work is much more rote and mechanical, i.e. less technically sophisticated. In the materntiy ward, you must admit, these are quite elaborate operations over which women successfully exercise real agency and mastery. Of course, it is also true that the modern hospital is a financial catastrophe, and perhaps pockets of unchecked female authority have something to do with this, but we can set that aside for now. The maternity ward is at once, somehow, an undeniable empirical support for feminist claims about female capability, and also, an exception to the patriarchal rule so singularly uncanny that it seems to vindicate the universality and legitimacy of that rule beyond question.