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InternationalWomensDay is about WHAT? | HBR Talk 299 · Honey Badger Radio

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  Hello, and welcome to HBr Talk two ninety nine International Women's Days About what
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  I'm your host Hannah Wallen here with nonsense annilator Lauren books Brooks, who isn't
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  here yet but will be. She's gonna be late tonight, and the personification
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  of perceptivity Mike Stevenson to take a gander or would that be a goose since
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  we're talking about females, or maybe that's sexual harassment. We shouldn't say it.
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  I don't know. We'll find out. Well, the authority is as
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  good for one as it is for the other. There we go. We'll
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  find out when the jack boots come after us. Right anyway, it's women's
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  guys, to talk about the totally organic evolution of International Women's Day.
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  you know. But but yeah, let's get on to International Women's Day,
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  which is, as you all know, the going to be endured throughout
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  the day by many tomorrow. And uh, the article starts out, it's
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  kind of kind of interesting the socialist or origins of International Women's Day. Why
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  is International Women's Day on March eighth? The answer is much more complicated than
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  you think. And I kind of like a picture because it looks it's from
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  an International Women's Day poster from nineteen fourteen, and it kind of looks like
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  everything communists and socialists put up for people to look at, like here we
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  are, this is what we're doing. Now. Ever, it's got the
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  same conspicuously red and yellow themed Yeah, it's got the case, same ugly
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  color scheme, same imposing appearance, you know, the same. You know,
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  this woman doesn't look cute and bubbly and feminine. She looks like she's
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  about to kick your ass by beating you to death with that flag. But
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  I'm not going to complain about that. I mean, that's, if anything,
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  more respectable and in some ways more attractive than the than than the bubbly
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  little fucking only fans of girls who represent feminism nowadays. Yeah, but it's
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  clear more insidious. It's clearly not made to be appealing, all right.
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  It's this. I always look at these types of posters that come from history,
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  and you look at what communists and socialists put up everywhere, and the
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  poster is almost an assault on the senses. It's like it's intended to be
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  an assault on the senses. And this this kind of goes right along with
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  that. Protest is supposed to make people uncomfortable, to paraphrase AOC, a
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  principle that has bitten her on the ass recently more than once. Yeah,
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  you know, you have to be careful about that though. I mean,
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  like, even though she originates the things that bite her on the ass,
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  at some point she's gonna find a way to meet to somebody else over it.
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  It is obviously a sexual harassment to go around biting federal legislators on the
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  ass, even if it is their own ideas that are doing it. Well,
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  you might even call it genocide. Well, you know, definitely cannibalism.
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  All right, So let's get started here in there we go. In
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  nineteen eighty seven, March was designated as Women's History Month in the United States.
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  So it's been a long time, right, nineteen eighty seven, we're
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  back to the time period just a little bit before. The other article we've
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  been reading about the history of women's studies was written sort of denoting how tracing
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  how women's studies evolved. By nineteen eighty seven, when Women's History Months was
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  designated, women's studies was a fairly widely existing area of study, and not
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  just area of study, but there was a specific major like to it.
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  So it wasn't like you couldn't say, well, I'm generally studying languages,
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  but I'm majoring in this particular set of languages or this particular language. Women's
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  studies was like that, you say, I'm studying sociology in general, but
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  women's studies is my major, and you could be taken seriously by nineteen eighty
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  seven stating that you were majoring in women's studies and you could have come out
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  of that. You could expect to get jobs after majoring in women's studies.
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  By nineteen eighty seven. You come out of women's studies, you start applying
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  around at human resources departments, you start applying around at the shelters that existed
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  before the Violence Against Women Act of nineteen ninety four, that feminist credit with
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  getting them started. And you're quite likely to get hired, and not only
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  get hired, but make a middle class income, definitely more than a teacher
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  was making. So there you go. So women's history months the mid nineteen
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  eighties was the point where I'd say the worm had completely turned, but that
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  was suggested there was a worm to be turned to. Society has always been
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  throughout history recordable. History has always been ginccentric for some reason, some way
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  or another. But the mid nineteen eighties was, for instance, the point
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  where female students overtook male students as the majority of university applicants and indeed successful
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  applicants. In fact, we can trace it to round about nineteen eighty four,
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  which is just a funny coincidence. Beyond that, that wasn't the point
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  where the feminists stopped and went, Okay, now we have parity, Now
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  we have fifty to fifty. We could stop. No, no, young
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  Bucky, No, it hasn't stopped since then, No feminists never asked themselves
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  when have we gone too far? And they still will never ask themselves that
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  because it's not in their vocabulary. It never has been, because it never
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  has been a movement for equality. It's been a movement for female supremacy,
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  as all the graphs will illustrate. And why why do we still have the
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  International Women's Day but it's already been extended to International Women's Month. What's the
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  point in having a day when it's just one of thirty one days that are
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  now International Women's Days. It's going to become a whole year at some point
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  and people are going to call it International Women's Year, and literally every year
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  is going to be International Women's Year, while they continue to insist that every
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  day is International Men's Day, even though the vast majority of people have no
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  idea when International Men's Day is because no one celebrates it, no one even
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  acknowledges it except us space lepers out in mra Land well and the feminists that
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  are trying to take it over and make it socialist as well. So and
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  that's been going on for you have this dualism, the sort of dual response
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  to international Men's Day from feminists. A large number of them object to it,
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  right, and then the other half try to use it as a means
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  of promoting feminist narratives about men. Right, and they they'll promote the toxic
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  masculinity narrative. They start talking about using it as a day to castigate all
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  men for domestic violence and like for intimate partners sexual violence. They crow about
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  different statistics that they've they've put forth and everything and insist that this is this
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  should be a day of reform for men, or they use it to paint
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  men as idiots and address something that hasn't been said in a long time,
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  which is, you know, when is International Men's Day? How come there's
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  an International Women's Day? Like though there there might be a few people who
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  live in a cave that don't have an awareness of International Men's Day, but
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  really it's pretty well known at this point that the that the day exists.
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  But if you wanted to not become a feminist day of man shaming, MRAs
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  really do need to maintain male control of that holiday. In the meantime,
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  we're gonna go ahead and continue looking here at the article. So, like
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  I said, yeah, the the time period that during when Women's History Month
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  was was designated as an official holiday month in the United States was one when
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  it was it was common already for women to be able to to major in
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  a solipsistic area of study and then get a job based on graduating from a
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  women's studies major, uh and and use that job uh to to you know,
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  propel themselves into the middle class. Ye two. Two areas really were
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  kind of dominated by women's studies majors. Human resources at that time and uh,
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  social services. So like you could major in women's studies and become a
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  case worker, you know, for for various things. You could All you
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  had to do is take some other classes to to become certified as a social
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  worker, and you could become case worker. You could be you could become
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  a child support collect collection agent also known as caseworker, or you could become
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  a caseworker for women alleging abuse. You could go to work for an organization
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  that supports women alleging rape. You could go to work in police departments as
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  part of the support system for women alleging abuse in rape. So there were
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  a lot of jobs. People lawyers are like, yeah, you want fries
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  with that women's studies degree. But the fact is it's actually quite lucrative,
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  and that's why the area of study has continued to exist all this time because
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  it is a source of income for a lot of women. And then the
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  other thing that they do. And this sort of started like nineteen eighty seven.
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  The year nineteen eighty seven was the year Mary P. Cosse published her
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  report on the Prevalence of rape on university campuses that became the template for feminist
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  rape prevalence studies where they instead of using crime stats or asking direct questions about
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  women's experiences, they asked indirect questions and then interpreted them to mean these women
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  were raped, and then published statistics that were disagreed with by seventy five percent
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  of their or seventy four percent of their respondents, And you know, it
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  basically created a whole new area, consent training, rape prevention training. Universities
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  started to hire people to come in and do orientation type classes where like your
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  entire freshman class would have to attend this. I remember having to attend something
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  like that when I started university and I went to a very conservative campus and
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  I had to attend a that it was offered multiple times so that you know,
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  you could work your classes around it. But I had to attend they
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  called it, i think a seminar or something like that, but we didn't
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  all get to talk on rape prevention and consent. And the enthusiastic consent standard
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  that we hear about today wasn't named back then, but it was described and
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  discussed. And of course also you know all of the admonitions don't don't take
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  sexual advantage of somebody who's been drinking, and so on, which is funny
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  because it was on a dry campus. But these are these were based on
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  materials that the student organization that held the seminar paid for. Those materials were
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  bought or access to those materials were bought, and the income from those that
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  access to those materials went to the creator of those materials, which would be
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  an individual who majored in women's studies and minored in graphic design or vice versa.
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  So these areas, these types of things have quite a bit of income
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  potential for feminists, and it was it was quite a lucrative prospect to be
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  able to go in and say, hey, you know, your students,
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  say, your university may not be aware that its rape to act sexually upon
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  a person who is incapacitated by an intoxic intoxicant. And the boomers who ran
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  the university would be like, oh, my gosh, our students are actorate.
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  We have to educate them on this topic. And then they would pay,
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  you know, to get these materials. And it worked every time.
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  All the universities in the United States pretty much did this. So we're talking
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  hundreds of campuses. The hundreds of campuses that had women's studies courses also had
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  this stuff going on. And the campuses that didn't have women's studies courses,
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  like my campus, you know, home economics was women's studies on my campus,
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  they also did this. And that's the context in which Women's History Month
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  was designated as an official holiday month. The month of March was chosen because
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  it incorporated International Women's Day March eighth. The story of how International Women's Day
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  came to be, however, is convoluted, to say the least. Low.
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  Yeah, As a historian Tima Kaplan writes, International Women's Day has its
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  origins in socialism and the conditions of working women. And we may look at
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  that article as well well on another day this month, because this is this
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  is interesting to me how how many people think that the day evolved organically as
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  a celebration of women, you know, as people and women's contribute contributions to
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  society, and a means of addressing women's issues. Because clearly, if it's
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  just about socialism and the conditions of working women, it's not about those other
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  things. It's about socialism. It is an inroad for socialism. You would
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  think socialism and communism would focus mainly on men, because men are and always
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  have been the majority of workers. And I say the majority because yes,
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  women have always had jobs, some of them have been under whatever government make
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  them have jobs, but largely there were domestic jobs for the For the entirety
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  of history, women have had at least a domestic analog of a job.
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  But men have been the ones who have had jobs that have been driven by
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  agriculture or industry or whatever is being driven at the time. So you would
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  think that, especially the earliest iterations of socialism would mainly focus upon men and
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  their struggles as workers. But weirdly enough, no, ever since it's early
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  iterations, it's been like, think of the poor women's some of them have
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  hands that are all knackered there was some anecdote about some socialist leader who met
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  a bunch of women and he said, show me your hands, and and
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  and and one of them showed her hands and they were all gnarled and covered
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  in scars and ship anyway, these are beautiful hands. These are workers' hands.
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  And that and that was that was that was held up as this mythological
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  socialists. Sorry, And I was like, look at the hands of any
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  given man, especially back in those days. Those are the kinds of hands
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  that men have always had, I mean until very recently and even recently,
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  most men have hands like that. If if you if, if that's the
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  the the analogy you're gonna work with, like socialism, but by all accounts
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  should have been a men's rights movement, but it never was. It still
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  isn't. It's the women's rights movement because it's because it's always been a self
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  contradictory movement that actually paints the bourgeoisie as the proletaria and vice versa. It's
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  because if you want to persuade people to adopt a set of ideas, you
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  show how they benefit women. You show how women are important to them,
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  or you show how women are important within them, because women have always been
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  important to men. It's just a bottom line thing. Men have throughout history
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  made a major focus of their lives finding a wife and raising a family,
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  no matter what else they were doing, you know, and it was always
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  outliers within society who didn't want that or didn't strive for it. Not necessarily
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  outliers who didn't succeed at it, but outliers who didn't strive for it.
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  And that actually has a lot to do with work, because women working and
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  men working had different social pressures involved in the work that they chose and the
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  work that they did, and the degree to which they were dedicated to their
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  jobs and so on, and they also had different motivations, right, men
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  have always had in terms of their whatever their work was, whether it was
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  you know, industrial age working for someone else, or whether it was building
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  their own business during the pre industrial age sort of renaissance of you can specialize
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  in this one type of work and people will come to you for that,
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  or whether it was before technology created so much work that that men could do
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  to help other people not have to do it themselves. You know, men
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  men engaging in agriculture and hunting and so on. That was always a means
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  of supporting wife and family, and you were always viewed as less of a
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  man if you didn't. If you weren't motivated to do that to support wife
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  and family, you were either less of a man, or you were weird,
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  or you were sacrificing an essential aspect of male satisfaction with life for some
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  other form of greatness that would compete with it too much, you know,
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  like the few men who did some great heroic thing and never married because they
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  were completely caught up in that one great heroic thing they were doing, or
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  men who isolated themselves from community and family life in order to practice a religious
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  viewpoint, actually train themselves in religious philosophy to the degree that everything else was
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  excluded. But women have always been Their income has always been either supplemental to
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  the family out of need or desperation, you know, or it's been self
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  serving and it's not been there's not You don't get viewed as less of a
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  woman for failing to earn money to support your family. Right you might get
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  viewed as a burden on your family, but you won't get viewed as something
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  to be shamed. You know. You might be viewed as disabled or having
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  a difficult time, a victim of the situation, right, and and it
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  was just not a similar thing. So because of that, women have always
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  been exempt from the pressures that led men to do jobs that were dangerous,
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  dirty, hard, horribly boring. Like there are some positions and security that
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  you have no real mental stimulation going on and no physical activity in the job.
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  So it's essentially, however, many hours of watching for something to happen
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  in an environment where nothing's going to happen most of the time, and you
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  still have to be on alert the whole time, you know. And then
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  there's other jobs that are very taxing because you have to focus intently on small
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  details or complicated things that are very mentally draining. Those are all jobs that
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  men are driven to do in order to support their families, in order to
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  support their lifestyles, in order to support their children. But women haven't been
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  historically driven to do. And the other thing is there's a history of if
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  a man is in economic distress, society views him as a threat or an
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  inconvenience. When a woman is in economic distress, society views her as a
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  victim and a project, right, someone that needs their help. And unfortunately,
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  you know, that has also created a circumstance of men being under pressure
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  to never be in that situation regardless of what happens to them, and women
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  having safety nets that kind of prevent greatness in women by preventing women from being
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  pressured to never be in that situation regardless of what happens to them. So
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  yeah, so the idea of can conditions of working women, it's interesting that
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  became a focus, And I would say the reason it became a focus was
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  because of guynocentrism, not because working women had it in particular rough in comparison
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  to working men, because really they didn't. And yes, Jen Bottle,
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  religion did play a big part in getting married. I think pair bonding was
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  a thing regardless, and I think society would have figured out something in order
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  to keep the peace because if you have competition, sexual competition taking place and
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  violence in regard to that sexual competition, you end up with chaos in your
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  society. So if religion hadn't stepped in, government probably would have anyway.
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  But yeah, religion stepped in first. Religion also stepped in before government when
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  it came to dealing with issues of poverty and bad luck, bad situations,
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  results of choices that were unwise and stuff like that. And when religion dealt
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  with those issues, the goal was to get people back on their feet,
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  to get them back on the right path for their lives and so on,
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  and it wasn't necessarily to just fund those types of lifestyles. But after government
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  took that over, that sort of changed and it became a means of funding
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  failure and habitual failure. And then it became expensive, and government started creating
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  poor laws and ways to go after family members and so on. That wasn't
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  really something that the church did. And you know, as a result,
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  you end up with a repeated pattern, I guess throughout the history. After
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  it became a government thing to financially support habitual failure, where they create something
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  in terms of the English poor laws, something similar to that, every so
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  many years they support the failure. The failure becomes expensive, the failure becomes
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  catastrophically expensive and detrimental to the advancement of civilization. The government starts handing out
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  these ideas of punishment in order to sort of discourage that habitual failure, and
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  it doesn't work, and then but it does look like it's abusive to people,
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  and a lot of wining takes place, and a lot of those measures
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  get turned off or you know, ended or whatever, and then the cycle
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  continues. And it's all basically because we can't hold women accountable when they make
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  those kind of choices. But yeah, working conditions for women. Catholic acknowledge
• 33:20
  is the importance of secular communal holidays for nineteenth century socialists, communists, and
• 33:24
  anarchists. Citing Bastille Day, May Day, and various anniversaries of the Paris
• 33:31
  Commune, these holidays were more about solidification and a sense of community than the
• 33:38
  actual date they fell on. That said, it's worth noting how oddly complicated
• 33:45
  the history of this holiday is, complete with invented backstories and shifting dates.
• 33:52
  Here's the chronology, So we're going to go back to eighteen fifty seven March
• 33:58
  eight A women textile workers strike does or maybe not happen in New York City.
• 34:06
  As Kaplan's article explains, the origin of International Women's Day was a story
• 34:10
  I have recounted or have had recounted to me numerous times, and therefore no
• 34:15
  Well, A spontaneous demonstration staged by New York City women garment and textile workers
• 34:23
  in eighteen fifty seven, protesting low wages, the twelve hour workday and increasing
• 34:30
  workloads, was dispersed by the police rather brutally. She goes on to reveal,
• 34:37
  however, that French scholars have called this origin story into question, suggesting
• 34:42
  that the strike was invented retroactively rewriting history as a way to give the holiday
• 34:50
  a compelling, non socialist backstory. So the origin story of International Women's Day
• 35:00
  is probably alive. That's what we just we just established. It seems it
• 35:07
  wasn't until the Industrial Revolution that people started noticing that women were having a hard
• 35:14
  time as well. Despite I mean, people people like to say that women
• 35:20
  have always been the gatherers, whereas men have always been the hunters. In
• 35:23
  reality, men have always been the hunter gatherers, and women have filled in
• 35:29
  a supplemental role as gatherers. But I guess this could not this such a
• 35:36
  differentiation could no longer be drawn when it came to the Industrial Revolution, because
• 35:40
  men and women were both working in factories doing very different jobs. Obviously,
• 35:46
  because women were mostly spinsters or you know, working the looms and the spinning
• 35:53
  wheels, where men were pushing the heavy equipment around, and that's also why
• 36:01
  it was up until nineteen sixty three, it was legal to pay a woman
• 36:09
  less and you know, in the same position because a lot of times there
• 36:15
  were things that she wasn't expected to do because she was not a man,
• 36:20
  unlike you know, the equally existing standard. It was also legal to pay
• 36:29
  a black person less, even though a black person doesn't necessarily do any different
• 36:36
  level of work that would justify that reduced pay, so that that actual the
• 36:43
  Equal Pay Act was actually initiated. It was created to remedy that situation because
• 36:52
  you know, they were doing the same work for less pay as opposed to
• 36:58
  women who were doing less work for less pay. But now you have to
• 37:01
  pay men and women the same if they have the same job title, even
• 37:05
  if they don't do all of the parts of that job, or even if
• 37:10
  there are expectations on men that are not part of the job description, for
• 37:16
  example heavy lifting. And probably the weirdest example I can give is and when
• 37:24
  I was at university, I dated a house tech, which is like a
• 37:29
  nurse's aide for a local hospital. And one night, this was in Alima.
• 37:37
  One night they had a gang execution that initially failed, so they had
• 37:45
  the victim of the execution was taken to hospital with his carotid artery severed,
• 37:52
  and there's not really a chance of survival in that situation, but they tried
• 37:59
  any way. The hospital tried. Everybody that worked with that patient just beat
• 38:07
  the hell out of themselves trying to prevent his death, and ultimately they couldn't.
• 38:13
  And his friends and family mobbed the hospital, and like as soon as
• 38:20
  the report of his death went out, the parking lot was filled with people,
• 38:27
  and the grounds around the front of the building where there was no parking
• 38:32
  that was a covered And what the hospital did. You know, they had
• 38:37
  their security and there were police there, but they also had all of the
• 38:42
  male nurses and all of the male housework house techs man the exterior doors to
• 38:51
  guard them so that nobody could get in and do any harm to the female
• 38:54
  employees and the patients. And so he spent all night on his night shift
• 39:02
  on guard duty, looking out at people who were enraged that the hospital had
• 39:08
  failed to do the impossible in the case of this young man. And you
• 39:14
  know, I don't know the backstory on his execution, but what I do
• 39:19
  know is the hospital wasn't at fault for it, and certainly not the men
• 39:25
  who worked there who you know, he did that after struggling to save that
• 39:30
  kid's life and not being able not being able to save him. So none
• 39:40
  of the women were expected to do that. That's not actually listed in the
• 39:45
  job description of a house tech or a nurse or any other male employee of
• 39:50
  the hospital that's not on the security team. But they were made to do
• 39:53
  it, and if they had refused, they would have been written up for
• 39:58
  insubordination and subsequently fired. So uh so, yeah, when women complain that,
• 40:09
  when you know, women work, they get paid less. I think
• 40:14
  about things like that because I don't think women understand, for the most part,
• 40:21
  what it's like to be the person who's going to get thrust into that
• 40:23
  situation. Like I didn't take a security job here. Why am I standing
• 40:28
  in this doorway looking out at these people who are on the verge of attacking
• 40:30
  this hospital. No woman has ever had to think that, you know,
• 40:38
  or if one has, it's been because there hasn't been a man around and
• 40:42
  she was the biggest girl in the area. But yeah, that's that's basically
• 40:49
  you know, my favorite example because it's so stark and dark, so let's
• 40:59
  say. In July eighteen eighty nine. In Kaplan's reading, the real story
• 41:05
  of International Women's Day, yes, singular Woman's Day in its first iteration,
• 41:09
  began when Clara Zetkin, the editor of the German Social Democratic Party's women's newspaper,
• 41:17
  Hopefully I don't butcher this glitsch Heit. Hopefully that's correct. Sorry if
• 41:22
  it's not. Attended a Bestill Day meeting in Paris, the leftist groups assembled
• 41:29
  there called for a Maydai demonstration for workers' rights. Zetkin was inspired and began
• 41:35
  to lay the groundwork to eventually establish International Women's Day as a communist holiday.
• 41:45
  Notably, Kaplan writes that Zetkin was a virulent opponent of feminists inside and outside
• 41:52
  her party, but she was concerned with the rights of female workers, so
• 41:58
  she was a feminist anti feminist, like I see this stuff and I read
• 42:04
  it, and I'm like, all right. Feminism is based on the gender
• 42:13
  wide, demographic wide allegation that women are oppressed by men as a population who
• 42:21
  have kept them down by designing society in ways that hinder women's advancements and hinder
• 42:30
  women's freedoms for no reason, no benefit to women, and no real benefit
• 42:37
  other than men getting power over women. Right, that's the allegation that feminists
• 42:43
  have, And if you look at allegations in regard to discrimination against female workers,
• 42:51
  it's pretty much the same thing. Right, Businesses discriminating against female workers
• 42:59
  would would really fail in terms of they wouldn't be able to get women to
• 43:07
  work for them. You know, in a situation where the economy wasn't completely
• 43:13
  tanked, right, where the economy was decent and you know, people had
• 43:17
  what they needed to use the shopping system, you wouldn't have an issue of
• 43:25
  finding jobs. If you didn't like who you were working for, you could
• 43:29
  work somewhere else. Right, But the argument that female workers are uniquely oppressed
• 43:36
  in comparison to male workers, that they are uniquely discriminated against, is the
• 43:44
  argument that a patriarchal society has designed the environment of the workplace in a way
• 43:52
  that oppresses women to no benefit to women and for no good reason. Right
• 44:00
  that So it's it's it's feminism. It's the same argument. There's nothing different
• 44:06
  about it. The more things change, the more they stay the same.
• 44:09
  I'm not a feminist, but I do think women women need more rights and
• 44:15
  men need fewer rights. And I call this a quality. And yeah,
• 44:21
  the same shit has happened in these days, especially with people all across the
• 44:25
  political spectrum. I going, I think feminism is over. You'll need to
• 44:34
  stop talking about feminism. You'll need to stop blaming feminism for everything now,
• 44:37
  there's far more important things to talk about, like like this transissue. As
• 44:44
  though that's not a direct result, it's not even an outcropping, it's still
• 44:50
  the same thing. It's just it's stage four cancer instead of stage one cancer,
• 44:54
  and people are talking about it like it's not cancer, No, it's
• 44:59
  the it's it's the same. Just because you don't call it feminism doesn't mean
• 45:04
  it's it doesn't have all the same hallmarks, all the same attributes as this
• 45:09
  phenomenon has always had. In fact, communism and feminism, as we're discovering
• 45:17
  in this article, have always been I don't even want to say different heads
• 45:23
  of the same hydra. It's it's a hydra with one head. It's a
• 45:28
  massive fucking dragon, and that's all it's ever been. It preys on the
• 45:32
  people who actually have no power, namely men, on behalf of the people
• 45:38
  who actually have all the applicable power, namely women, just because you call
• 45:45
  it something else doesn't mean it's a different thing. Why can't people get their
• 45:51
  heads around this? Yep? And it's it's sad because if we could get
• 46:00
  get rid of this notion, this patriarchal oppression idea, right that that this
• 46:07
  has been throughout history, the male population is designed civilization to hold women back
• 46:16
  for men's benefit at women's expense. That that idea is, that idea could
• 46:22
  just die and people could see through it, realize how stupid it is,
• 46:28
  abandon it, and then start looking at things with open eyes. We could
• 46:35
  get rid of a whole bunch of different ideologies that are currently tearing the first
• 46:42
  world apart. But for some reason, and I can, I can tell
• 46:50
  you what it is. We seem to have a continual feed of people,
• 46:57
  even if they've seen the light a little bit, dropping back into that victim
• 47:02
  mentality and wallowing in it and choosing to go back there, and can choosing
• 47:08
  to wallow in it and and remain there, like, oh, you know,
• 47:13
  it was it was fun being a a tough gal for a while,
• 47:19
  or it was fun being a u you know, a chad for a while.
• 47:24
  But it's a lot easier for me to settle back into this victim narrative
• 47:29
  and fit in with society. Right. But in terms of women who do
• 47:35
  it, there's a lot of power in exercising one's female victimhood in society.
• 47:43
  There's a lot of money in it. There's a lot of an ability to
• 47:49
  convince oneself that one is not missing out or failing on things one should be
• 47:55
  achieving or enjoy in life based on one's own failures. If one is missing
• 48:05
  out, it's somebody else's fault, so you don't have to feel bad about
• 48:07
  it. It's not oh, gosh, I fucked up and now I don't
• 48:13
  get this great result. It's this other person victimized me, and now I
• 48:20
  don't get this great result, and I'm gonna work up a good mad and
• 48:24
  shame them for it and then move on with my life with a clear conscience
• 48:30
  that I did nothing to myself. It was all their fault. And I
• 48:34
  think a lot of it, a lot of it is that shortcut mentality and
• 48:39
  that sort of defensiveness against feeling like you fucked up. But yeah, so
• 48:53
  if communism and feminism not really two separate things. March eight, nineteen oh
• 49:01
  seven, This date is accepted by many Europeans, as the inaugural International Women's
• 49:07
  Day allegedly started to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the aforementioned textile workers strike,
• 49:15
  of which there is no real evidence. Kaplan notes that this odd shifting around
• 49:22
  of dates and origin stories is a result of long standing conflict between feminists and
• 49:29
  communists over whether women have rights beyond those they hold as workers. So that's
• 49:38
  an interesting conflict because when you talk about communism with a man who is a
• 49:45
  communist, and I've done that quite a bit, when you start talking about
• 49:50
  human rights, the first thing they do is start denying that human rights are
• 49:54
  a thing, like you don't have a right to life. Why do you
• 50:00
  have a right to life? What right do you have to live? You
• 50:06
  know, prove this right exists, and you know it goes goes on that
• 50:14
  sort of tangent. And same thing with bodily autonomy, same thing with the
• 50:21
  right to you know, independence of any kind, voting rights, all that,
• 50:28
  if it's not connected to your your status as a worker and your role
• 50:34
  as a worker. Communist men do not acknowledge rights, but communist women do.
• 50:45
  They're not your rights, that our rights. That's right, and that's
• 50:50
  the point. So when when feminists, you know, start talking about other
• 50:57
  rights bodily autonomy, things like abortion and stuff like that, that they try
• 51:02
  to shoehorn into bodily autonomy, even though there's a second body there. They
• 51:07
  don't want to talk about it. Does Communism doesn't have space for that.
• 51:20
  But yet communists still manage to create holidays to celebrate women, and communism does
• 51:29
  use celebration of women as a means of getting women to comply with communist takeovers
• 51:36
  of their their nations. He like, how many people have heard the phrase
• 51:42
  women hold up half the sky and thought who holds up the other half?
• 51:50
  So nineteen o women trans Women. August nineteen oh seven, under Zetkin's leadership,
• 51:59
  a group socialists women met in Germany to discuss how to publicize their goals
• 52:05
  of equality. March eighth, nineteen oh eight, New York City's Social Democratic
• 52:10
  Women's Society held a large meeting on women's suffrage. So again, we're socialists
• 52:16
  here, So women's suffrage has a bit of connection with socialism. This was
• 52:29
  significant because it marked a shift. Previously, American and European socialists and suffragists
• 52:37
  had been politically at odds with each other. Now they began to express solidarity.
• 52:43
  The vote is a bit like the safety net that we were talking about
• 52:50
  earlier on. Now you can argue that a safety net is a good thing.
• 52:59
  It isn't necessarily a good thing, but you can argue that it is.
• 53:04
  But if you do, you kind of you kind of have to give
• 53:07
  it to men and women if you if if you don't think a safety net
• 53:14
  is a good thing, then you can't give it to men or women.
• 53:16
  And this is this is a problem we keep coming across. If if women
• 53:22
  need a safety net, then so do men. But a safety net is
• 53:30
  much like the welfare state. It's on paper or on the surface, it
• 53:36
  seems like something that can only possibly improve lives, but in practice it kind
• 53:40
  of doesn't because without that safety net, people would learn to actually stay on
• 53:47
  the trapeze, not fall. And it's it's it's much the same with the
• 53:53
  vote. People are like, well, well, if if men have the
• 53:58
  vote, I mean, I mean it didn't. For the longest of history.
• 54:05
  It was only the upper class and maybe the upper middle class who had
• 54:08
  the vote, And eventually people went, well, if they're going to have
• 54:13
  the vote, then women should have the vote as well. No, one
• 54:15
  ever asked themselves, maybe nobody should have the vote. Maybe having the vote
• 54:20
  in the first place was what led us down this there, down this garden
• 54:27
  path into the the dark half of that meme, you know, the mean
• 54:32
  where there's the where there's the dark parts of the left, and then the
• 54:37
  bright paths to the right, which should which is illositive of what the left
• 54:42
  means, of what the right means. Has it ever occurred to you that
• 54:45
  women shouldn't have the vote and men shouldn't have the vote either, Maybe maybe
• 54:52
  we were better off when when? When? When this was never an option?
• 55:00
  Well before suffrage, you know what the vote was, right, It
• 55:05
  was the torch and pitchfork mob that would show up with the castle and drag
• 55:07
  the king out and get rid of him hanging he had him whatever, or
• 55:13
  the emperor or the dictator of whatever type you choose. If the decisions of
• 55:22
  the executive leader of a large territory were detrimental to the public to the degree
• 55:30
  that the public found them insufferable, then that happened over and over again throughout
• 55:34
  history. Like that's a vote. Everybody voted no confidence, and no confidence
• 55:39
  took the form of a rope, a fire a blade, a gun.
• 55:44
  You know, of throughout history, there's been different throwing somebody off of a
• 55:46
  cliff, different means by which if a leader was really lucky, they just
• 55:53
  exiled them right to another country where they were not wealthy to the degree that
• 56:01
  they had been in their own for the rest of their lives. But men
• 56:06
  and women participated in that together, right. And then in terms of voting
• 56:10
  history, people think of voting voting as something that men just always had,
• 56:16
  but they didn't. For the longest time, there was no vote besides you
• 56:22
  know, revolution, and when voting rights sort of evolved, it was something
• 56:30
  that started with the men who were responsible for sections of the leader's territory,
• 56:39
  so you know, knights or lords or barons or you know, various terms
• 56:46
  for people who served under the monarch, the dictator, the whatever name you
• 56:52
  have for your dictators, as faithful loyalists who would oversee large territory territories and
• 57:01
  maintain peace and order within those territories, they were the only people that had
• 57:08
  voting rights. And when when it expanded to more and more uh landowners and
• 57:17
  heads of smaller and smaller territories within those bigger territories, it was on the
• 57:24
  basis of having responsibility for territory that was those land territory and also territory that
• 57:34
  was economic territory, and that that was changed for the ability to give women
• 57:43
  the vote. And it's something that never gets talked about in terms of suffrage,
• 57:49
  you know, it never gets discussed how voting rights evolved as a means
• 57:54
  for people in position of positions of economic responsibility and leadership over segments of a
• 58:07
  population to contribute to the decision making process that would affect their ability to do
• 58:13
  their jobs and the people under their authority and their responsibility and their care.
• 58:21
  Women didn't have that as voters. Women never really had that as voters.
• 58:25
  In mass A few women may have had enough money to their names and enough
• 58:32
  power to their names to qualify for that, but it was not women being
• 58:38
  denied voting rights just on the basis of their sex when men had them just
• 58:44
  on the basis of theirs. That never happened. That's a historical lie that
• 58:51
  is based on ignoring the difference between what men were responsible for throughout history and
• 58:57
  what women were responsible for throughout history. And so when women started exercising their
• 59:04
  voting rights, they didn't exercise them the way an individual would who got their
• 59:13
  right to contribute to that decision making process as a cog in the wheel of
• 59:19
  the machine that ran the country. They did it. They did their voting
• 59:27
  as recipients of the benefits of that machine. And that is why we see
• 59:32
  so many women voting for Gibbs. That is the underlying cause. So whenever
• 59:40
  we hear the Democrat Party, it's not as ironic or inapplicable as it sounds
• 59:47
  that they call themselves the Democrat Party. Whenever we hear shills of the Democrat
• 59:52
  Party call us an existential threat to their democracy, we kind of compelled to
• 59:59
  go, well, what they really mean is we're a threat to the hegemony
• 1:00:04
  of the Democrat Party. We're a threat to their power because we're scrambling for
• 1:00:08
  anything other than that, we actually are a threat to democracy because because we
• 1:00:15
  don't want to be called a threat to democracy, because you know, we
• 1:00:19
  we love democracy and everything. Maybe maybe we were barking up the wrong tree
• 1:00:23
  there. Maybe maybe we're just playing into their hands. What exactly is wrong
• 1:00:28
  with being a threat to democracy. Maybe we should be leaning right into that
• 1:00:32
  description and say, hell, yes, we are a threat not just to
• 1:00:37
  whatever you're calling your democracy, we're actually a threat to democracy, because we've
• 1:00:43
  come to the conclusion the democracy is the god that failed. The democracy has
• 1:00:50
  had a few centuries of of hegemony and it's not working. It's it's it's
• 1:00:57
  finally coming to a head where democracy has become a system far more totalitarian than
• 1:01:05
  any monarchy ever has been. The kind of the kind of ship that's happened
• 1:01:12
  in the last few years as a result of a demtic system across the West
• 1:01:19
  is far more unbelievably despotic than any monarchy ever has been. So consider that,
• 1:01:31
  friends, consider that you should be a threat to democracy. Consider that
• 1:01:37
  you could advocate for an alternative, and that could be monarchy. It could
• 1:01:42
  be an actual republic for those countries out there who are supposed to be constitutional
• 1:01:49
  republics or or in the constitutional monarchies that that that covers your country and my
• 1:01:57
  country, Hannah, where neither of us are supposed to be supposed to be
• 1:02:00
  democracies. We're not. Yeah, And yet we keep capitulating to these to
• 1:02:07
  these twap bags who keep saying you're a threat to our democracy. Yeah we
• 1:02:09
  are. We're not democracies. We never have been. So stop trying to
• 1:02:15
  play us like we are. We want something else. We want the rule
• 1:02:20
  of law, whether it's but a rule by you know, documents that we've
• 1:02:28
  written out that you're supposed to be following, or maybe even by a figurehead
• 1:02:34
  like a monarch who who who we are perfectly willing and able to behead should
• 1:02:44
  they fuck up too much, because if that's the only option we have,
• 1:02:49
  then we're far more likely to resort to that option. If the monarch does
• 1:02:52
  shit we don't like, then there's way more of us than they are of
• 1:02:57
  them. There's literally one of them, and there's millions of us, so
• 1:03:01
  so so we're far more able and far more likely too to take up arms
• 1:03:07
  against that one person, even if they do happen to have a queen's guard
• 1:03:12
  full of people with with fucking animals on their heads or whatever. And democracy
• 1:03:21
  creates this illusion that we have power, that we can that we can just
• 1:03:25
  vote and and that will somehow change things. For four years. It doesn't.
• 1:03:31
  It doesn't change anything. It just it just puts someone else in in
• 1:03:37
  the wind cage where they can grab as much money as possible for four years
• 1:03:40
  before someone else is in power. And and and then they have to evade
• 1:03:45
  any accountability for another four years and none of it even matters. At what
• 1:03:52
  point do we say, yeah, this isn't working. Democracy isn't working.
• 1:03:58
  Can we maybe try something else? We can at least start by maybe electing
• 1:04:03
  an hand cap like they did in Argentina would be good stuff. I like
• 1:04:09
  that idea. I really like that idea. You know. Yeah, the
• 1:04:13
  old saying about democracy being two wolves and a sheep voting on what's for dinner
• 1:04:17
  is one true and I don't want to be either the wolf or the sheep.
• 1:04:23
  That adage I think has been apocryphally applied to Churchill like so many have.
• 1:04:30
  Yeah, I don't know who actually said it. That democracy is the
• 1:04:34
  worst system ever devised, apart from all the other ones. Yeah, no,
• 1:04:39
  that's not true. It's literally the worst system system ever devise. It
• 1:04:43
  just happens to take centuries before it gets before it realizes its true potential as
• 1:04:50
  the worst evil ever committed upon the world. Democracy only works if everyone in
• 1:04:59
  the democracy see is both wise and ethical, and unfortunately that's not the real
• 1:05:06
  world. Most people aren't both at the same time. If they are one
• 1:05:15
  or the other, they're not. They're not If they are one, they're
• 1:05:20
  definitely not the other. And and it's sad. It's not that they're the
• 1:05:27
  antithesis of each other. Like I've run into people who are both wise and
• 1:05:30
  ethical uh. And I've run into people who are very wise and very ethical,
• 1:05:35
  but a lot of people are very short sighted and they mistake compassion uh
• 1:05:46
  and simple compassion sympathy uh for for ethics. And it's it's not the case.
• 1:05:56
  So it's not even the people are stupid. Is that people can be
• 1:06:00
  easily led by by a consensus. And we happen to live in an age
• 1:06:06
  where people don't just live their own lives with their own families and their own
• 1:06:15
  localized jobs. We live in an age where people sack glued to the television
• 1:06:21
  almost all day every day, assuming they're being told the truth by this,
• 1:06:26
  by this goggle box. And yes, it's very easy to control people and
• 1:06:32
  to divide people when when they're paying more attention to this screen that's that's regulated
• 1:06:41
  by by government propaganda, and they're far more interested in that than they are
• 1:06:46
  in their own personal You also have an issue of people failing to engage their
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  their logic functions when they are responding emotionally to something. So so you run
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  into a person, for instance, that has hit rock bottom and they're in
• 1:07:04
  severe economic distress and they have serious problems in their lives, and maybe they're
• 1:07:11
  addicted to something and they're homeless or they're about to lose everything they have or
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  whatever. Because of that, a lot of people want to just throw money
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  at the situation when the individual needs a little bit of money and a lot
• 1:07:29
  of social support. And there's a little bit of laziness in wanting to just
• 1:07:34
  throw money and not offer the social support, but there's also a lot of
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  immediate you know, like when you hear a person crying or when you see
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  someone suffering. Your first if you know you have a heart, your first
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  impulse is to want to solve the immediate situation, and then you feel like
• 1:07:59
  you've done it when you saw the immediate situation, So you know, you
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  give somebody a meal, or you give somebody a few bucks, you know
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  you've done something right. But if the individual is in even more desperate need
• 1:08:15
  of social support to improve their situation than they are in need of a few
• 1:08:24
  bucks or a meal, then you've sort of thrown your your concerns and your
• 1:08:31
  resources into the void, and tomorrow they're going to be in the same situation
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  and it's not going to get any better. And when people apply that in
• 1:08:46
  terms of democracy, you end up with social safety nets that support habitual failure,
• 1:08:54
  that discourage getting out of that hole, Like to the that you go
• 1:09:01
  for help when you're in a temporary but very inconvenient situation, and you get
• 1:09:10
  the help you need, and then you find a way to improve your situation.
• 1:09:13
  You go back and you say, thank you very much, I can
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  graduate from this system. You helped me, and I'm back on my feet
• 1:09:20
  and I don't need any more help. So you have my gratitude and you
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  go to walk away, and they're like, well, you know, if
• 1:09:27
  you divorce your husband, you can still continue to collect these benefits. And
• 1:09:32
  you're like, well, what, why would you tell me that? Why
• 1:09:40
  would you encourage that? What the fuck is wrong with you? They're part
• 1:09:45
  of a system that relies on your habitual failure in order to justify their jobs
• 1:09:55
  and their goal. They may not even be militia in attempting to cause this,
• 1:10:02
  Like you would think, you know, how could you not be malicious
• 1:10:05
  when you say you should divorce your husband? But a lot of these people
• 1:10:11
  believe that marriage is a trap for women, that you know, you don't
• 1:10:15
  need that. You can get divorced and still be in love and still be
• 1:10:18
  together and all that stuff, and it'll be just fine. Nothing will go
• 1:10:23
  wrong with that. You're not gonna cheat, you're not gonna be less dedicated
• 1:10:27
  and all that, and maybe that's fine. May maybe don't get married in
• 1:10:30
  the first place. If you're gonna have that attitude toward your relationship, that's
• 1:10:34
  your business, all right, But you know, it's still weird advice,
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  right. And then the other thing is, obviously, you know, they're
• 1:10:45
  talking about the breakup of a family under on paper in order to continue milking
• 1:10:50
  a system. They might feel like they're doing the individual of favor, right,
• 1:10:55
  you don't have to lose this income, you can keep this income,
• 1:10:59
  just you know, lie about your economic status. But really they're encouraging unethical
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  behavior and reliance on handouts. And it's that they may feel like they're helping,
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  and they may not think about it hard enough to realize that it's the
• 1:11:16
  opposite, that they're being enablers, just the same as when you pay an
• 1:11:23
  addicts electric bill, and then they feel like they can go out and buy
• 1:11:27
  more heroin because well, this month you paid their electric bill, so maybe
• 1:11:30
  next month you will too. So it is quite a situation of malicious draining.
• 1:11:44
  And that's what we end up with as a result of we've ended up
• 1:11:47
  with this is really as a result of women's participation in systems of government,
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  but we've ended up with it even more so as a result of systems of
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  government in general. You don't have welfare if you don't have a government.
• 1:12:09
  But again, going back to the paragraph that we read and what started all
• 1:12:16
  of this, and there's remind you socialists and suffragists had been politically at odds
• 1:12:25
  with each other, and they began to express solidarity over women's suffrage. Why
• 1:12:33
  because women more more likely to want to usher in socialism government control of the
• 1:12:43
  means of production and the distribution of the product to benefit women. Of course,
• 1:12:54
  February nineteen o nine, American socialists declared the last Sunday in February as
• 1:12:59
  National Women's Day. Sunday was chosen as it was the only day working people
• 1:13:04
  had off because we used to have a six day work week in the US.
• 1:13:09
  A meeting in New York City focused on equal rights and women's suffrage.
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  So again, there they are. They're on women's suffrage. Addressing a Brooklyn
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  audience, Charlotte Perkins Gilman said, it is true that a woman's duty is
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  centered in her home and motherhood. But home should mean the whole country,
• 1:13:33
  and not be confined to two or three or to three or four rooms,
• 1:13:39
  or a city or a state. I want to point out here, I
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  don't think the concept of a woman's duty has been discussed as a political idea,
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  probably in my entire lifetime. Men's duty, yeah, men's duty to
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  support their families, men's duty to support their communities, to contribute to their
• 1:14:10
  communities, men's duty to defend their countries, to be prepared to defend their
• 1:14:15
  countries. But women's duty, I haven't heard word one about that outside my
• 1:14:21
  parents' house. It was just not a thing. I don't know if women
• 1:14:30
  even have a sense of duty anymore. March eighteenth, nineteen eleven, the
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  first International Women's Day was held in Europe, focused on women's rights and suffrage.
• 1:14:49
  The date was chosen because it was the anniversary of the Paris Commune.
• 1:14:54
  Women marched and demonstrated all across Europe. Americans continue to celebrate the last Sunday
• 1:15:00
  in February. World War One, however, ended all possibility for social reform
• 1:15:03
  for five years. It's hard to be bitching about women's women's situations when all
• 1:15:14
  the men are off in trenches getting shot at it's hot, but they did
• 1:15:19
  it anyway. They were busy handing out white feathers. February nineteen thirteen to
• 1:15:29
  celebrate Women's Day, Russian Bolshevik women march to protest poor living conventions, condition
• 1:15:34
  conditions, high rents and food prices, and widespread layoffs. They chose the
• 1:15:43
  last Sunday of February to celebrate the day American style March seven, nineteen fifteen,
• 1:15:53
  Zetkin gathered socialist women for anti war demonstration February nineteen seventeen in the name
• 1:16:00
  of Women's Day, Russian Bolshevik women took to the streets again, and when
• 1:16:05
  the Russian army was ordered to shoot the strikers, the events that led to
• 1:16:12
  the February Revolution began nineteen twenty two. After the war, the formerly socialists
• 1:16:23
  that can became communist. Gosh, but socialism is totally not communist light and
• 1:16:30
  it's definitely not the gateway drug to communism except in her case, Zkin worked
• 1:16:39
  with Vladimir Lenin to establish International Women's Day March eighth, as a communist holiday.
• 1:16:46
  It was also celebrated in communist China and Spain. The holiday remained associated
• 1:16:54
  with communism for some decades. A nineteen thirty two Soviet poster proclaims, eighth
• 1:16:59
  of March is the day of rebellion of the working women against kitchen slavery,
• 1:17:05
  down with the oppression and narrow mindedness of household work. So that whole idea
• 1:17:15
  that the kitchen is a place of oppression for women came from communism. Feminism
• 1:17:23
  took that directly from communism, and in the forties and fifties in the United
• 1:17:28
  States, that spread around this idea that women were trapped in there, that
• 1:17:32
  they were prisoners of the kitchen, that they were oppressed by being in the
• 1:17:36
  kitchen instead of having to go out into the workplace like men and do jobs
• 1:17:44
  for money. And you know, honestly, like I've been, I've never
• 1:17:49
  been a homemaker that was just only a homemaker. In my adult life,
• 1:17:58
  I did a lot of things that homemakers do. When I was in school
• 1:18:02
  and support of my mom doing things that the family had discussed and agreed that,
• 1:18:11
  you know, we would all be willing to participate in this and be
• 1:18:14
  part of this and pick up homemaking activities and tasks in order to support this,
• 1:18:20
  and that included our family business, which you know, back in the
• 1:18:26
  day, there wouldn't even have been a discussion before the Industrial Revolution. It
• 1:18:30
  wouldn't have been photography obviously because I hadn't been invented yet. But whatever my
• 1:18:34
  parents had decided to do was their family business, which probably would have been
• 1:18:39
  what their parents had done, so we would have been farmers. There wouldn't
• 1:18:42
  have been this discussion about are the kids going to step up as teenagers and
• 1:18:47
  become part of the homemaking part of the household so that mom and dad can
• 1:18:55
  do the work of the family business together. That just would have been the
• 1:18:58
  norm, and in fact, we would have been as we did, learning
• 1:19:03
  the family trade, and that wouldn't there wouldn't have been a you know,
• 1:19:10
  well, you know, the woman's job is just in the kitchen discussion.
• 1:19:15
  There there was there was no that wasn't a thing until the industrial age.
• 1:19:21
  But but yeah, uh, down with the oppression and narrow mind business of
• 1:19:28
  household work came right out of communism, and and a lot of what feminists
• 1:19:32
  did in the United States and in Western society all over the world came right
• 1:19:39
  out of communism. Women can get quite possessive of their kitchens. Have you
• 1:19:46
  noticed this when when they when they're hard at work in the kitchen, A
• 1:19:54
  lot of them don't resent it that they get quite into them business, and
• 1:20:00
  if anyone comes into the kitchen, they're like, get the fuck out of
• 1:20:02
  my kitchen. I'm busy. And even though they get even though they get
• 1:20:08
  quite touchy about it, they're at the same time quite possessive of it because
• 1:20:13
  in a way they enjoy it in much the same way as any artist enjoys
• 1:20:17
  their work. They don't want to be interrupted well while they're while they're you
• 1:20:24
  know, owning their craft in a way that men have never been. Possessive
• 1:20:30
  in the same way about the jobs that they do. They very much if
• 1:20:35
  anyone else, if one wants to come in and help me, who's who's
• 1:20:41
  actually efficient and indeed proficient, they're quite like, yeah, for God's say,
• 1:20:48
  come in and help me. This is this is difficult work. Even
• 1:20:51
  if it's a woman. If it's a woman who's actually good at the job,
• 1:20:56
  and as long as they're not gonna hull all this me too, harassment
• 1:21:00
  bullshit, and I hell yeah, come in and help me. We're a
• 1:21:04
  team. It's very ironic, given the the subject of communism, that men,
• 1:21:15
  while they're at work are quite willing to stand shoulder to shoulder and help
• 1:21:20
  each other in whatever line of work that might be, whereas women they're working
• 1:21:25
  in the kitchen very much. No, don't get anywhere near my shoulder.
• 1:21:30
  This is this is my place. It's all about me, and that's very
• 1:21:35
  much how they wanted. Not all hashtag, not all women obviously. Oh,
• 1:21:40
  it's very competitive about it. Actually, Yes, some women don't like
• 1:21:45
  that they're in the minority, but it's not even a smallty. Some some
• 1:21:48
  women don't particularly like the kitchen, just like a lot of men don't particularly
• 1:21:53
  like the kitchen. And yeah, they shouldn't be forced into it either,
• 1:21:57
  but they never have been, certainly not since the Industrial Revolution. They've had
• 1:22:02
  the option of working in factories or working in whatever the early twentieth century equivalent
• 1:22:12
  of an office was. This actually would be a good point at which to
• 1:22:17
  mention a history tidbit. Everybody knows Typhoid Mary the story of typhoid. Marry
• 1:22:25
  the woman who after she contracted the bacterial infection that causes typhoid fever if you
• 1:22:33
  get it in other people's food. The health department workers that came to talk
• 1:22:41
  to her about how to prevent that from happening, came into her kitchen and
• 1:22:47
  started talking to her about the process and usefulness of hand washing, and she
• 1:22:54
  chased them out with a meat fork, brandishing this meat fork, I will
• 1:22:58
  stab you. That was her response. Don't tell me how to operate my
• 1:23:03
  kitchen. So they had to put her in an institution to keep her from
• 1:23:09
  killing the children of any more families by infecting them with typhoid fever because she
• 1:23:14
  refused to learn to wash her hands. They didn't trust the science until the
• 1:23:18
  TV told them to trust quote unquote the science. So there we go.
• 1:23:32
  But in the nineteen fifties, leftist started claiming that the original National Women's Day
• 1:23:38
  was on March eighth, nineteen oh seven, and that it was held to
• 1:23:42
  mark the fiftieth anniversary of a woman textile workers strike in New York City and
• 1:23:46
  on March eight, nineteen or on March eight, eighteen fifty seven. So
• 1:23:51
  basically they lied about a time period one hundred years earlier that people didn't really
• 1:23:57
  know how to research and disprove debunk. The French correctly pinpointed the day's origins
• 1:24:04
  to before the Russian Revolution, but they made up an even older mythological history
• 1:24:11
  to especially d Bolshevik the day and make it more palatable for non Soviets.
• 1:24:19
  Nineteen sixty seven, International Women's Day is revived in the United States by a
• 1:24:25
  women's group in Chicago, which included daughters of American communists who remembered having heard
• 1:24:30
  of the holiday. Kaplan notes that these feminists revitalize the celebration and infused it
• 1:24:36
  with new meaning. And then shortly after I was born, we have nineteen
• 1:24:41
  seventy five the UN International Women's Year codified International Women's Day as March eighth,
• 1:24:49
  So we have had an International Women's Year already. So I guess now there's
• 1:24:54
  going to have to be a women's decade that's going to drag on forever.
• 1:25:00
  The holiday's radical political origins have been largely forgotten. And that's your history lesson
• 1:25:06
  for the night guys. That's how communism was introduced to the West. Jory
• 1:25:14
  Bezmanoff is sleeping in his grave He's done a good job of illustrating how the
• 1:25:20
  fuck this happened. Yep. So let's get into we have some we don't
• 1:25:30
  have. I don't think we have any super chats, but we have two
• 1:25:31
  super chows. So Meredith g before the show, gave us five dollars and
• 1:25:35
  said, HBr talked two ninety nine, honey for the Badgers. I feel
• 1:25:41
  about International Women's Day or Women's History Month the way Morgan Freeman feels about Black
• 1:25:45
  History Month. Yeah, that's why I'm doing this discussion, debunking some of
• 1:25:53
  the I guess myth and mystery around. You know how great this holiday supposedly
• 1:26:01
  is. I think a lot of people have been unaware that it is a
• 1:26:06
  It's actually just communist propaganda, like International Women's Day and is communist propaganda.
• 1:26:15
  Women's Month is communist propaganda. And a great deal of what is modern feminism
• 1:26:26
  is communist propaganda. And pre modern feminism had the same ideas that communists had
• 1:26:33
  at the same time that communists had them, whether they were influenced by communists
• 1:26:36
  or not. The feminism and communism are both euphemisms, by the way,
• 1:26:45
  and I'm going to draw any of this to an origin that's not its real
• 1:26:51
  origin. It's all like aphobia. It is what happens when when it's society
• 1:27:00
  reaches the point where it's decadent enough, and as as machines doing most of
• 1:27:06
  its work, at the point where it implodes it it pulls itself inside out.
• 1:27:17
  It can be called communism, it can be called feminism, it can
• 1:27:21
  be called I mean democracy. Yeah, I don't want to. I don't
• 1:27:30
  want to blame feminism on communism, feminism or point to any None of this
• 1:27:36
  can be pointed to any one particular phenomenon that any of us have in our
• 1:27:43
  vocabulary. They're all euphemisms for a phenomenon that is so ingrained in our society
• 1:27:50
  that we don't even have a sufficiently descriptive word for it. But we're seeing,
• 1:27:55
  we're starting to see what it is. But as it just happens to
• 1:27:58
  have been manifested and in the in in various things that we have euphemistic words
• 1:28:04
  for. Among them are feminism and communism and socialism at E. S.
• 1:28:11
  G. And DEI and all the fucking modern things. You think of it
• 1:28:15
  in terms of a like a uh wrecking ball on on a construction vehicle.
• 1:28:24
  So wacophobia would be the chain on the on the device, and the ball
• 1:28:31
  is the act of taking a segment of society and falsely accusing them of of
• 1:28:40
  oppressing another segment of the same society. So members of your home, your
• 1:28:46
  community, your country, your your family, your population, of of oppressing
• 1:28:55
  other members of your same population by having success, simply having success, taking
• 1:29:02
  responsibility and enjoying the fruits of their personal accountability, rather than by real means
• 1:29:13
  of oppression that involve taking weapons and gathering people up and locking them up and
• 1:29:18
  so on, putting them in camps and putting them in change. That's oppression,
• 1:29:25
  right. But where you look at modern allegations of oppression in first world
• 1:29:32
  countries like the United States, where we have demographics that are claiming to be
• 1:29:38
  oppressed by the success of other demographics at exercising accountability for fun and profit,
• 1:29:47
  that that's definitely a false allegation and that's the that's the ball. And we've
• 1:29:55
  evolved to need enemies. Yeah, we have a this sense of fear,
• 1:30:00
  this sense of paranoia, which is very helpful for staying alive. But for
• 1:30:05
  most of our history as a species, our enemies have been saber toothed tigers
• 1:30:13
  and and and and mammoths and any other large animal that we can that we
• 1:30:19
  can see with all our we can notice with all our senses are actually our
• 1:30:26
  enemies. But a long time ago, we conquered the saber tooth tigers,
• 1:30:30
  yeah, saber toothed cats, I should say. And after after we conquered
• 1:30:33
  them, we had nothing left but other humans. Who are who are?
• 1:30:39
  Who? Were our enemies and that's that's when we developed xenophobia. But eventually
• 1:30:45
  we we dominated the earth so much that even other humans I guess they still
• 1:30:55
  for most of ancient times, other humans were our number one and our own
• 1:31:00
  enemy really, but once we got as far as the Industrial Revolution, even
• 1:31:08
  even other civilizations of humans couldn't hold a candle to That's why it's taken off
• 1:31:15
  in the West so much, because because once we developed machines that could blow
• 1:31:20
  the smithereens out of anyone else, we were like, well, even xenophobia
• 1:31:25
  is not going to cut it anymoy. Even other groups of humans can't touch
• 1:31:30
  us anymore. But we still need enemies because we're evolutionarily designed two to need
• 1:31:39
  to have some concept of who our enemies are. And if we can't find
• 1:31:43
  those enemies outside ourselves. Then we're going to find them inside ourselves. And
• 1:31:49
  and until we've taught ourselves too to direct that need for an enemy somewhere healthy,
• 1:32:03
  this is going to keep happening. And I don't because I was about
• 1:32:05
  to say, well, we have to direct it inwards, but that's that's
• 1:32:10
  not gonna help either, because that's just going to create self hatred. But
• 1:32:13
  I think to some degree, this is what religions are for, so you
• 1:32:18
  can develop some spiritual way of making uh of of realizing that the only enemy
• 1:32:27
  is within, it's it's with, it's it's this ingrained need in ourselves to
• 1:32:31
  find enemies. That's what that's that's what should be our enemy. And we
• 1:32:36
  should and we should work personally and individually on on on on fighting the enemy
• 1:32:45
  within ourselves in a not in a self hating way, but in a in
• 1:32:49
  a sort of self improving way. And that's yeah, that's trying to think
• 1:32:59
  of a more profound way of saying that, but I think that's where it
• 1:33:01
  ends. Yeah, Basically, our enemy is getting into thought patterns that are
• 1:33:09
  dysfunctional and damaging instead of helpful. We take too many shortcuts, and as
• 1:33:15
  soon as we figure out one shortcut is stupid. We move on to the
• 1:33:18
  next short cut, and they all work like that chain and wrecking ball combo.
• 1:33:26
  But the underlying chain and wrecking ball still seems to be that issue of
• 1:33:33
  a need for an enemy. I don't think it's easy to identify self destruction
• 1:33:43
  as your worst enemy, especially when you're in the throes of it. You
• 1:33:48
  hit that, you end up, you hit that level where you are able
• 1:33:53
  to do that. Then you end up becoming enlightened and shit run around wearing
• 1:33:59
  a robe and hiding in the mountains. But there you go. There's no
• 1:34:05
  end to this. It's it's just a case of juggling it and having having
• 1:34:14
  fun with the juggling learned. Learn to juggle than eurosis that exists in our
• 1:34:20
  soul as human beings. Just remember when you when you walk into a circus
• 1:34:26
  and you want to find who's to blame, go straight for the juggler.
• 1:34:32
  And with that we will go on to the next Oh we have let's see,
• 1:34:38
  did I finish that? I did finish that one. Okay, so
• 1:34:40
  the one good man gave us five dollars and said, interestingly, I didn't
• 1:34:43
  lose my last shred of respect for feminism until I heard an interview with Aaron
• 1:34:46
  Pitsy, hated by feminists and loved by MRIs. Mike, your rant on
• 1:34:53
  white rage was frigging awesome. Thanks, And then we have the one good
• 1:34:58
  man gave us another five dollars and said women were not allowed to fly aircraft
• 1:35:01
  until the twentieth century. Oh, this is great. We're not allowed in
• 1:35:05
  space until the nineteen sixties and there are still no female trillionaires. I'm off
• 1:35:11
  to oppress my hair. I'm like the oppressive and yet pathetic inceel I am.
• 1:35:16
  It's important to know one hundred percent of space crime is committed by lesbians.
• 1:35:20
  That is true so far. But I like that. And you know
• 1:35:28
  that thing is in twenty years people will be saying that, and there will
• 1:35:32
  be people who don't understand why it's funny. At some point, there's a
• 1:35:41
  list going around. I think Alison put it in our little chat for HBr
• 1:35:45
  talk that it's a list that very much needs to be debunked, and it's
• 1:35:51
  full of stuff that, oh, until this date, women couldn't do this
• 1:35:55
  thing, you know. And then you look and you realize that actually most
• 1:35:59
  people male or female couldn't, but some men and some women could, so
• 1:36:03
  that was bullshit. And every single item on the list has some set of
• 1:36:09
  details like that that make it a either a bullshit claim or a claim with
• 1:36:15
  bullshit implications. And well, we'll have to go over that sometime during a
• 1:36:20
  show. But it's not long enough to make I don't think it's long enough
• 1:36:24
  to make a whole show out of it. Watch may be proved wrong by
• 1:36:27
  that, but we'll see. It'll probably be after we I don't know,
• 1:36:34
  maybe we'll do we'll finish the article we were going to finish this week next
• 1:36:41
  week, and then do that the following week. We'll see. But in
• 1:36:44
  any case, that is all of the super chows and we have no super
• 1:36:50
  chats, we have no paid rumble rants, so I am going to call
• 1:36:55
  it a show. Thanks everybody for listening. I know this is kind of
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  a dry episode, and we've been in kind of dry episodes but uh for
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  a while, but I think this is kind of necessary. Thanks Mike for
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  sticking out. This is kind of, like I said, a dry sausage,
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  but it was an important one. And thanks to everybody who works in
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  the background to make HBr talk happen. In goodnightl