Antifeminism

Many maintain that Nietzsche's philosophy was 'all about freedom', and that therefore Nietzsche would have rejected any political/social 'oppression'.
Of course, this is palpable nonsense, deriving from the mistaken imputation of the liberal meaning of 'freedom' to Nietzsche's philosophy.
To Nietzsche, 'freedom' meant the exercise of Strong Will, and the power of Command. This Strong Will necessarily involves the oppression of other weaker wills.

To illustrate the contrast, let us look at Nietzsche's attitude towards the 'Emancipation of Women' [a hot political potato even in his times].
In one of his most important books 'Beyond Good and Evil' (1886), he says;

"When a woman has scholarly tendencies, there is usually something wrong with her uality. Barrenness in and of itself prediposes to a certain masculinity of taste: for, if I may say so, the man is the 'barren animal' ".
[Nietzsche BGE 144]

Here, the intellectually emancipated woman [who is likely to be the architect of 'women's freedom'] is seen to be unnatural, and unwomanly. Her barrenness spells disaster for the preservation of the race.

Women need to be kept down by vigorous physical punishment, according to Nietzsche;
" From old Florentine tales, and in addition from life: ' women, good and bad, need to be beaten' ".
[ib., 147]

Nietzsche has nothing but contempt for the 'Women's Movement';
"We men now wish that women would stop compromising themselves by their enlightenment, just as men once showed their concern and protection for women when the Church decreed:
'let women keep quiet in church' !
It happened for the good of women when Napoleon gave the all-too-eloquent Madame de Stael to understand:
'let women keep quiet on politics'! -
And I think it will be a real friend of women who calls out to them today:
'let women keep quiet on women'! "
[ib. 232]

Again, it ultimately comes down to the preservation of the race and the attainment of High Culture. How did the Greeks produce such excellence in their ancient days?;
"A deep man - deep both in spirit and in desire, deep in a benevolence that is capable of rigour and harshness and easily mistaken for them - can think about women only like an ORIENTAL: he has to conceive of woman as a possession, as securable property, as something predetermined for service and completed in it.
He has to rely on the tremendous reason of Asia, on Asia's superior instincts, as the Greeks once did ..."
[ib. 238]

The masculinisation of women leads to the concommitant feminisation of men;
"Women are now forgetting how to FEAR men - but a woman who 'forgets how to fear' is abandoning her most womanly instincts".
[ib. 239]

For good measure, Nietzsche looks right into the future of our civilisation - the view is bleak;
"Wherever the industrial spirit has triumphed over the military or aristocratic spirit, women are striving for the economic and legal independence of office clerks:
'Women as clerks' is written over the entrance-way to our developing modern society".
[ib.,]

I can think of only one political movement in Europe which tried to arrest this feminist poison, and that was fascism.
In that alone, we can see how Nietzschean fascism was, and how Anti-Nietzschean Western Democracies are today.