Conservative Pseudo-Individualism

Conservatives are usually very eager to talk about political freedom and its ramifications for the life of individuals, as if they were consistent in actually living without hypocritically contradicting their own claims.  When something they dislike gains cultural favor, they fall back into rightly appealing to a kind of individualism that emphasizes the people at the heart of groups over collectivist ideas.  This is a highly selective application of something philosophically correct (individualism, that is).  As soon as the cultural storm passes, and even during it, conservatives will likely talk and act as if gender stereotypes are anything but personal delusions or social constructs.  While they might or might not oppose racial stereotypes, they will almost certainly support gender stereotypes.

They will say that they think men and women are equal in all but a minority of cases.  They will say that they do not mistreat men or women.  However, they will thoughtlessly or even knowingly, proudly endorse the ideas that lead to men being treated as nothing but sources of physical labor or financial support, to women being perceived as little more than sexual distractions, to the sexual assault of men being denied or mocked, and to women being pressured to stay at home regardless of personal talent or motivation to do otherwise, to name just a handful of examples.  The only way to embrace and live out individualistic freedom is, ironically, to reject conservatism and its gravitation towards genuine sexism: not controversial ideas and acts wrongly thought of as sexist, but true sexism against both men and women.

Conservativism is actually a great match for the fallacies of gender and sometimes racial stereotypes because in order for an idea to even be conservative, it must entail an automatic respect for past or established social norms, or at least nothing more than slow change away from the status quo that conservatives enjoy.  The immense popularity of stereotypes in the past--including stereotypes of young people or people with tattoos or many other subgroups of humanity--despite their clearly fallacious and even false nature is one reason why they remain popular today, and conservatives unsurprisingly perpetuate these mistaken beliefs out of familiarity, irrationalistic laziness, and arrogance.  Stereotypes might be embraced by hypocritical liberals, but a broad conservative would almost be hypocritical if they opposed sexism (they would certainly be hypocritical if they thought traditional norms are morally obligatory or superior by default and then made exceptions).

Conservatism is by default, thanks to its illogical fixation on traditions and norms instead of an emphasis on rationalistically verifiable truths, a pit that traps more and more victims until those standing on the bodies at the bottom and those who never fell into the pit work together to fill it in or place a surface over it.  It is nothing but a love of familiar social norms or inherited ideas falsely elevated to the status of justified belief, as if even a concept that actually reflects reality is rationally accepted if it is accepted on the basis of past societal trends.  Conservative pseudo-individualism will drive its adherents to both call for individuality along freedom from arbitrary coercion and call for belief in sexist stereotypes.  As any rational person could realize in a very short amount of time, believing in both things at once is outright stupidity, and the latter is false anyway.

Logic, people.  It is very fucking helpful.