Success Quote by Tammy Bruce

Tammy Bruce’s line is built like a warning flare: name a villain (“Feminist Elite”), announce a covert program (“reinforce”), and cast the audience as the target (“to women”). It’s less an argument than a frame, designed to turn a messy set of cultural shifts into a single, legible conspiracy. The genius here is rhetorical, not evidentiary. “Elite” does double duty: it flatters listeners as the clear-eyed outsiders while suggesting that feminism isn’t a mass movement with internal disagreements, but a top-down project imposed by credentialed schemers. That move preempts debate; if critics push back, they can be dismissed as part of the elite machinery.

“Men are obsolete” is the emotional payload. It’s an absolutist phrase that converts conversations about patriarchy, autonomy, or changing household economics into existential rejection. The subtext isn’t actually about men disappearing; it’s about status anxiety. If women are being “taught” men are unnecessary, then male worth becomes contingent, and traditional bargaining chips - breadwinning, protection, cultural authority - look shakier. Bruce is tapping into that fear and rebranding it as political grievance.

Context matters: late-20th and early-21st-century gender politics often revolve around who gets to define progress. By insisting the goal is male obsolescence, Bruce shifts feminism from critique to attack, from policy to identity threat. It’s a polarization engine: it invites women to choose loyalty (to men, family, tradition) over solidarity (with feminists), and it invites men to view equality not as redistribution of power, but as erasure.