Very good. But I have to disagree with the title. ‘Private life’ means family life in the context of this article, and it’s not that feminists have ‘forgotten’ it surpasses public life, they never thought that in the first place.
Feminists have always been ideologically opposed to the nuclear family, and they have surely succeeded beyond their wildest dreams in destroying the institution. Three-quarters of divorces are filed for by wives. Divorce is, among other things, a state-sponsored transfer of financial assets from men (and their forebears) to women. Just one of the reasons we started the blog Men Shouldn’t Marry.
Divorce was one of the 20 areas covered in our 2015 general election manifesto (pp.57-60).
Not a conservative myself I am constantly amazed at the naiveté of the Conservative party leadership who are such willing enactors of what is a clearly articulated programme to destroy the traditional family. Its not as though its a secret, as you point out.
‘ … I have to disagree with the title … it’s not that feminists have ‘forgotten’ it surpasses public life, they never thought that in the first place.’
I think they’ve always been aware that private life takes precedence over public life, whatever that is, which is why they have worked so assiduously, for so long, to destroy it. Without private life there can only be ‘public life’ and thus public scrutiny of and accountability for every aspect of everyone’s formerly private life, which is the only way to enforce total and unquestioning obedience and conformity.
‘Divorce is, among other things, a state-sponsored transfer of financial assets from men (and their forebears) to women.‘
Your parenthetical observation ‘and their forebears’ is apposite. Those men who have done well without inheriting previously inherited wealth have done so with, usually, the backing and emotional, intellectual and financial support and investment of their parents, a form of inherited capital which they in turn, usually, pass on to their children. Women do not think of capital, or the work by which it is acquired, in the same way as men. If that capital is transferred to women it is likely to be squandered in wholly unnecessary and wasteful consumption, bringing that cycle of investment and inheritance of emotional and intellectual capital to an end. Who will provide then?