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- 0:00Speaker 1: Hello everybody, and welcome to Honey Badger Radio. My name
- 0:03Speaker 1: is Brian. I'm here with Alison. This is maintaining frame
- 0:05Speaker 1: number one ninety four. Did liberal feminism or women in
- 0:10Speaker 1: the workplace? Where we're going to be looking at? Well,
- 0:15Speaker 1: it's sort of like a discussion that's been going on
- 0:20Speaker 1: because I have a couple of different angles on it.
- 0:23Speaker 1: So there was this woman. I think it all started,
- 0:27Speaker 1: or at least this current, let's say, manifestation of our
- 0:32Speaker 1: modern society's obsession with white nightting for women.
- 0:37Speaker 2: It started with this discussion that was brought about by
- 0:42Speaker 2: an essay written by a woman named Helen Andrews, the
- 0:47Speaker 2: Great Feminization.
- 0:49Speaker 1: And ever since she put out that essay it's on substack,
- 0:53Speaker 1: she's been doing the rounds, going on various podcasts and
- 0:58Speaker 1: doing interviews and experiencing some probably a lot of resistance
- 1:06Speaker 1: for even making the claim essentially that feminization is destroying
- 1:13Speaker 1: like you know, business, politics, relationships and other things. And
- 1:22Speaker 1: the one article that was an article is a New
- 1:25Speaker 1: York Times called did Liberal Feminism ruin the Workplace? Which
- 1:30Speaker 1: is actually just a transcript of an interview that was
- 1:34Speaker 1: a podcast and a video on YouTube which I actually
- 1:39Speaker 1: watched like a week ago or so, and I think
- 1:42Speaker 1: I sent it to you because I looked into this
- 1:45Speaker 1: Hell and Andrews thing like a while back, and I
- 1:48Speaker 1: thought was really interesting and cool that like there was
- 1:51Speaker 1: more people having this talk like earnestly at least. But
- 1:57Speaker 1: apparently it hasn't gone over well with all women, as
- 2:02Speaker 1: someone wrote a response to the original interview video that
- 2:10Speaker 1: I guess we're looking at today, which is what this is, right,
- 2:13Speaker 1: it's a video transcript Okay, yeah, response article to the
- 2:21Speaker 1: original discussion, which begs the question or asks the question,
- 2:26Speaker 1: did liberal did women? Actually? Did women ruin the workplace?
- 2:30Speaker 1: Was originally what it was called. They softened it by
- 2:33Speaker 1: saying did liberal feminism ruin the workplace?
- 2:39Speaker 3: Actually, they moved it to uh, are you yeah? With
- 2:43Speaker 3: there's a bit of an echo. They originally went from
- 2:47Speaker 3: our women ruining the ruining the workplace, and they changed
- 2:51Speaker 3: it to our feminine vices ruining the workplace? And now
- 2:56Speaker 3: they settled on is lesbian lesbian liberal feminism ruining the workplace?
- 3:02Speaker 3: So one of those three and uh, a commentator called them,
- 3:09Speaker 3: uh they didn't have a good good sense of self preservation,
- 3:14Speaker 3: which really begs the question who's who's targeting them for
- 3:18Speaker 3: things that are contradictory to continue to draw breath. But yeah,
- 3:23Speaker 3: so those were the Those were the options that they
- 3:25Speaker 3: had or they went through, and then they settled on
- 3:28Speaker 3: did liberal feminism ruin the workplace? You seem a little
- 3:32Speaker 3: distracted today, Brian.
- 3:34Speaker 1: No, I'm looking at the chat and I'm listening to you. Okay, No,
- 3:39Speaker 1: that's that's no, that's right. I thought I was. I'm
- 3:43Speaker 1: paying attention.
- 3:45Speaker 3: Okay, all right.
- 3:46Speaker 1: So then okay, so we're gonna so what's this response
- 3:50Speaker 1: to it? Because I didn't see this.
- 3:54Speaker 3: Well this response, so I figured we could go through
- 3:57Speaker 3: the article and we could discuss it and instant densally.
- 4:01Speaker 3: I know I'm tooting my own horn, but I talked
- 4:05Speaker 3: about this for years now, right, It's interesting to see
- 4:09Speaker 3: that people who are or women who are specifically zone
- 4:14Speaker 3: is zeroing in on specific aspects of what I talked about,
- 4:18Speaker 3: how our world is losing the masculine toolkit and basically
- 4:24Speaker 3: the workplace has become feminized. And one of the big
- 4:28Speaker 3: problems with that is we have no actual narrative to
- 4:31Speaker 3: hold women accountable for the pitfalls that they generally have.
- 4:36Speaker 3: We can't even have it. We outside of here, we
- 4:39Speaker 3: can't even have a discussion or it's very difficult to
- 4:41Speaker 3: have a discussion about any potential pitfalls that women bring
- 4:45Speaker 3: to the workplace. It's ver baiten like it's verboten. I
- 4:50Speaker 3: think that's the right word. So it's interesting to see this,
- 4:55Speaker 3: but it is great to see this discussion sort of
- 4:57Speaker 3: getting out there and doing the rounds. And uh, I
- 5:00Speaker 3: wanted to pair this article discussion of this article with
- 5:05Speaker 3: a medium blog rejoinder to the discussion of this article
- 5:11Speaker 3: because I figured that would be edifying for a certain
- 5:15Speaker 3: quality of edifying. So, yeah, do you want.
- 5:20Speaker 1: To just uh oh, wait is the response that you
- 5:23Speaker 1: because you I didn't. I got like the document It
- 5:26Speaker 1: just says, dear New York Times, don't threaten women with
- 5:28Speaker 1: a good time. I didn't know that was a medium blog.
- 5:31Speaker 1: I didn't have the original link to the website.
- 5:33Speaker 3: Yeah, well it's okay. And I also uploaded a animation
- 5:38Speaker 3: of the article.
- 5:39Speaker 1: Yeah, I have that up.
- 5:40Speaker 3: She's leaning quite hard to the left in the animation.
- 5:44Speaker 3: That wasn't intended to be symbolic.
- 5:46Speaker 4: It's just.
- 5:49Speaker 3: But yeah, so we could also we will look at
- 5:51Speaker 3: the response, the medium response and yeah, let's start with.
- 5:54Speaker 1: Just the article with the medium response.
- 5:56Speaker 3: Then do you want to start with the medium restarts?
- 5:59Speaker 1: We could? I mean, the article is like long because
- 6:02Speaker 1: it's it's essentially a transcript of a conversation which is
- 6:05Speaker 1: about an hour. I could. I did try to upload
- 6:11Speaker 1: the discussion to Coral to get time codes, but for
- 6:14Speaker 1: whatever reason, Coral didn't like it. So I don't know,
- 6:19Speaker 1: but I could have it look at the transcript and
- 6:22Speaker 1: maybe extract timecodes from a transcript, which is what the
- 6:25Speaker 1: article is. But so yeah, I know, yes a lot.
- 6:30Speaker 3: Yeah, Okay, well, okay, the honest to god truth is
- 6:34Speaker 3: we'll have no context for this, but maybe it doesn't
- 6:36Speaker 3: need a CONTEXTU.
- 6:39Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, like the I think we can provide context.
- 6:43Speaker 1: I can find hold on a second here, I can
- 6:46Speaker 1: find the appropriate things. But why don't you in the
- 6:48Speaker 1: meantime do the things? And I also have a super
- 6:52Speaker 1: chow that we got yesterday from Peto that we could
- 6:58Speaker 1: like shout out really quick too.
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- 7:51Speaker 1: We'll do the media, start with the response and then
- 7:54Speaker 1: like if we need to, I can like hunt.
- 7:55Speaker 3: I do have a request. Okay, don't do it at
- 8:01Speaker 3: a little faster speed, trust me. Otherwise you know we're
- 8:05Speaker 3: gonna have to spend too much time on this.
- 8:08Speaker 1: It's fine one okay.
- 8:11Speaker 3: Yeah, that's kod that's fine.
- 8:12Speaker 5: YT.
- 8:13Speaker 6: Don't threaten women with a good time by Kate Cassidy.
- 8:18Speaker 6: By now, I assume most of us have read last
- 8:21Speaker 6: week's infamous New York Times Think Peace about women ruining
- 8:24Speaker 6: the workplace. Once the gold standard of American journalism, the
- 8:28Speaker 6: Times is now the kind of publication that produces podcasts
- 8:33Speaker 6: known for platforming insurrection apologists as.
- 8:36Speaker 3: Okay, yeah, I know, I know, I know.
- 8:41Speaker 1: What is interesting is that is that when The New
- 8:43Speaker 1: York Times lost you, is that when it happened, That's
- 8:48Speaker 1: when they lost credibility.
- 8:49Speaker 3: Okay, it's interesting that the problems have gotten to the
- 8:52Speaker 3: point where people are discussing them on the New York Times,
- 8:57Speaker 3: to be honest, like it's it is. That is That's
- 9:01Speaker 3: one hell of a statement in of itself. And maybe
- 9:05Speaker 3: maybe while we're all, you know, describing the toes of
- 9:08Speaker 3: the giant, maybe eventually people will be ready to accept
- 9:13Speaker 3: that the toes are attached to a foot, and a
- 9:16Speaker 3: foot is attached to a calf, and the calf is
- 9:18Speaker 3: attached to a thigh, and the thighs are attached to
- 9:20Speaker 3: a torso, and yeah, there's a gigantic giant right there
- 9:26Speaker 3: in our culture. Then nobody wants to admit exists, or
- 9:29Speaker 3: at least doesn't want to admit exists as a bad thing,
- 9:33Speaker 3: as a potentially negative thing. In our world. But you know,
- 9:38Speaker 3: maybe once we get enough of people noticing the toes,
- 9:41Speaker 3: eventually we can move on to like the instep and
- 9:45Speaker 3: God forbid, you know, within the next two hundred years
- 9:47Speaker 3: we get to actually recognizing the entire shape of the
- 9:50Speaker 3: thing that is the problem.
- 9:53Speaker 6: Okay, all right, they examine pretend concepts like toxic empathy
- 10:00Speaker 6: and muse about the iPhone's role in America's declining birth rate.
- 10:04Speaker 6: If you ask me, they really screwed the pooch by
- 10:06Speaker 6: not blaming women for this one too, talk about an
- 10:09Speaker 6: air ball.
- 10:09Speaker 3: I'm all right, we're not blaming women for what.
- 10:13Speaker 1: Or let me go back a little bit. She's trying
- 10:16Speaker 1: to like poison the well before she gets into it
- 10:18Speaker 1: by saying, you know, they they embrace made up concepts
- 10:22Speaker 1: like toxic empathy. I mean, like, I don't think the
- 10:27Speaker 1: term toxic empathy is correct in terms of describing the problem,
- 10:33Speaker 1: but I do think the phenomenon it's trying to describe
- 10:35Speaker 1: is absolutely real. It's really not empathy. It's sollipsism disguised
- 10:41Speaker 1: as compassion, self serving, self righteous, narcissistic. You know, that's
- 10:48Speaker 1: what it is when people virtue signal on your behalf,
- 10:51Speaker 1: on behalf of like the marginalized, And this is like
- 10:54Speaker 1: a thing that women are really good at. They excel
- 10:57Speaker 1: at it. It's not toxic empathy because because there's no
- 11:00Speaker 1: empathy there. It's just like, I don't know, it's it's.
- 11:06Speaker 3: Hoo victimhood by Munchausen syndrome.
- 11:08Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, victimhood by proxy.
- 11:11Speaker 3: Yeah, victimhood by proxy.
- 11:13Speaker 6: Yeah is declining birth rate If you ask me, they
- 11:16Speaker 6: really screwed the pooch by not blaming women for this
- 11:18Speaker 6: one too, the.
- 11:20Speaker 1: Birth rates as well.
- 11:21Speaker 3: Yeah. Why do women like this have such a problem
- 11:27Speaker 3: with blaming women? Like I've always wondered that it's just
- 11:32Speaker 3: like they just have this knee jerk reaction. Oh my god,
- 11:35Speaker 3: how dare you blame women? Oh? Women are always being blamed,
- 11:38Speaker 3: which is patently false. We have a gigantic and completely
- 11:43Speaker 3: unsupported narrative of blaming men for everything wrong in the world.
- 11:47Speaker 3: So no, women are not subject to the same level
- 11:49Speaker 3: of blame. And the people who say that we always
- 11:52Speaker 3: blame women are have an invested interest in saying that
- 11:57Speaker 3: because they want to always blame men. I'm like, well
- 12:00Speaker 3: why not? Okay, so I guess I've just answered my
- 12:02Speaker 3: own question. But on the other one, you know, you
- 12:07Speaker 3: just just take the blame, like, just just take it,
- 12:09Speaker 3: just take it. No, Yes, women are to blame. Let's
- 12:12Speaker 3: fix things. Now, let's let's move on to the point
- 12:15Speaker 3: of fixing things. Don't you don't you have any interest
- 12:18Speaker 3: in that? No? No, Like for me, it's like, well,
- 12:22Speaker 3: women are to blame in these ways, and I'm like, Okay,
- 12:24Speaker 3: that means that we have these abilities in our toolkit
- 12:28Speaker 3: to fix things. But for women like this, it's like,
- 12:32Speaker 3: oh my god, I'm just gonna melt. I'm like the
- 12:34Speaker 3: wicked witch being doused with water.
- 12:38Speaker 6: Okay, okay, talk about an air ball. I'm all right.
- 12:44Speaker 6: Apparently an air ball it's basically like basketball where you
- 12:50Speaker 6: miss the shot completely.
- 12:51Speaker 3: Oh yeah yeah.
- 12:52Speaker 1: And she's saying this is a missed opportunity to blame
- 12:54Speaker 1: women that because you know, we totally do that too much.
- 13:00Speaker 3: It's a genuine missed opportunity to blame women.
- 13:03Speaker 1: Yeah, it's legitimate.
- 13:04Speaker 3: I feel like we could have shot.
- 13:06Speaker 1: I think that the New York Times probably blamed men
- 13:09Speaker 1: for the for the birth rates, probably the birth rate.
- 13:12Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, yeah, you're you're grouping off to the left there, Brian,
- 13:16Speaker 3: maybe center.
- 13:17Speaker 1: A bit Oh, I could just move the camera.
- 13:21Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean I don't, I don't have to move
- 13:24Speaker 3: all right, All right, there we go. Everything is good.
- 13:29Speaker 6: The editorial leadership put so much careful thought into this
- 13:33Speaker 6: episode of the Interesting Times podcast that they thought it
- 13:37Speaker 6: worthy of transcribing into an op ed that had to
- 13:40Speaker 6: be renamed not once, but twice because of the backlash
- 13:43Speaker 6: it received. They simply never could have a bit.
- 13:46Speaker 3: I mean, this could have just been ABC title testing,
- 13:49Speaker 3: you know, lady.
- 13:51Speaker 1: It could have been or or being that it's The
- 13:55Speaker 1: New York Times. You know, the phone call came from
- 13:58Speaker 1: inside the house, you change it. Maybe it wasn't backlash
- 14:01Speaker 1: from the outside, the monster in the house. That's what
- 14:06Speaker 1: if I had to guess, I bet that that's that's
- 14:09Speaker 1: what happened. They Yeah, I listened this out, and people
- 14:13Speaker 1: who worked at The New York Times were like Taylor
- 14:15Speaker 1: Wrenz or whatever got on the phone and was like, no,
- 14:18Speaker 1: I will not do this.
- 14:20Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah. And of course that really says something
- 14:25Speaker 3: about the culture of being able to speak these truths
- 14:28Speaker 3: and hold women accountable, because that's the primary problem with
- 14:31Speaker 3: women in the workplace. How do you hold them accountable?
- 14:35Speaker 3: The answer is you don't because they are empowered with
- 14:38Speaker 3: certain social tools to destroy anybody who tries to hold
- 14:43Speaker 3: them accountable unless they're also women. But they're pretty good
- 14:46Speaker 3: at that too. They're pretty good at destroying other women.
- 14:49Speaker 3: So how do you hold women accountable? Especially when there
- 14:51Speaker 3: doesn't seem to be a very strong intrough female will
- 14:56Speaker 3: to hold each other accountable? This is something I notice,
- 14:59Speaker 3: you know, women don't seem to have the will to
- 15:03Speaker 3: actually police each other, particularly when it comes to their
- 15:06Speaker 3: behavior towards men or their responsibility to anything besides the
- 15:12Speaker 3: concept of the sisterhood, whereas we have a justice system
- 15:16Speaker 3: because men seem to have sort of this instinctive kind
- 15:20Speaker 3: of yeah, yeah, you know, Ted's go over there doing something,
- 15:23Speaker 3: you know, something we don't like, I think, or something
- 15:25Speaker 3: that is contrary to the interests of the group and
- 15:28Speaker 3: also very harmful or morally bankrupt, and we got to
- 15:31Speaker 3: go stop him, thus police, thus prisons, thus a judicial system,
- 15:38Speaker 3: you know. And I think that that's why we have
- 15:41Speaker 3: those things. And if it were up for women, they
- 15:46Speaker 3: would probably be blaming the victims because if you had
- 15:51Speaker 3: like an all female society, I would bet dollars to
- 15:55Speaker 3: donuts what would happen. Is the female leaders in that
- 15:58Speaker 3: society would blame the victims, because otherwise they'd have to
- 16:02Speaker 3: recognize that men that women aren't perfect, aren't morally blameless. Yes,
- 16:09Speaker 3: and that's not gonna happen.
- 16:11Speaker 6: Okay, all right, all right, blaming an already marginalized group
- 16:15Speaker 6: that makes up more than half of the nation's population.
- 16:19Speaker 1: Wait, that sentence makes is okay, a marginalized group that
- 16:25Speaker 1: makes up more than half of the nation's population. So
- 16:28Speaker 1: how are they marginalized? Is it just because men are
- 16:31Speaker 1: stronger or whatever? Like? What it? What? Like? It's weird
- 16:35Speaker 1: that you're like, they're marginalized and also the majority.
- 16:39Speaker 3: Well, of course, Well, it's because women are so superior that,
- 16:43Speaker 3: no matter what, they're always oppressed. Yes, they can't use
- 16:48Speaker 3: their superior ways of cooperation to overcome the male hegemony
- 16:54Speaker 3: because reasons. Also, uh yeah, everything that feminism asserts is
- 17:01Speaker 3: absolute direk Like, every single one of their talking points
- 17:05Speaker 3: is not scientifically sound and fails if you actually apply
- 17:09Speaker 3: any kind of scientific rigor to it. So, no, women
- 17:12Speaker 3: are not marginalized. This is this is just one factually true.
- 17:17Speaker 3: They do not experience marginalization relative to men in our society.
- 17:22Speaker 3: You might argue there could be some in like a
- 17:27Speaker 3: a theocratic state, but that doesn't like the outlier does
- 17:33Speaker 3: not prove the norm or does not change the norm.
- 17:37Speaker 1: Yeah, and it's probably the men are probably also like, yeah,
- 17:41Speaker 1: that men are also having time.
- 17:43Speaker 3: Yeah, nobody really, nobody really enjoys the theocratic regime. They
- 17:48Speaker 3: tend not to be fun times. They're not They're not like,
- 17:50Speaker 3: you know, all inclusive to get to I don't know
- 17:55Speaker 3: a resort in the Caribbean, no theocratic regimes or no
- 17:58Speaker 3: nobody's friend. Okay, okay, some more.
- 18:03Speaker 6: Of a system that wasn't built by and has historically
- 18:06Speaker 6: excluded them might not land asped.
- 18:10Speaker 3: What are you talking about, I mean.
- 18:12Speaker 1: Yes, talking point. Yeah, men own the system. Therefore they
- 18:18Speaker 1: used it to benefit themselves and women and at the
- 18:22Speaker 1: expense of women. It's just all feeds. Is like, I'll
- 18:25Speaker 1: just invoke this again.
- 18:26Speaker 3: Consider this. Consider this, which is much more consistent with
- 18:30Speaker 3: the empirical evidence. Men created the system in order to
- 18:35Speaker 3: siphon resources to women. It's not that women weren't also
- 18:38Speaker 3: creating their resources, but for the most part, the external
- 18:40Speaker 3: system was to siphon resources to the family and to women. Okay,
- 18:46Speaker 3: and then when women started to get into that system,
- 18:49Speaker 3: they didn't understand the mindset. So the mindset is that
- 18:52Speaker 3: men are cooperating to construct a system to bring resources
- 18:57Speaker 3: into their families, and the system has to be what first,
- 19:01Speaker 3: because that's where the resources come from. And women who
- 19:04Speaker 3: are used to receiving resources and then manufacturing I mean
- 19:09Speaker 3: in previous areas that would receive the resources and manufacture
- 19:12Speaker 3: them into something, but just receiving resources because again we
- 19:16Speaker 3: have this consumer identity developed by Hollywood progressives in like
- 19:21Speaker 3: the fifties, and so they're used to receiving these resources.
- 19:25Speaker 3: They go out into the system intended to create resources
- 19:29Speaker 3: and they think this is a resource for me to receive,
- 19:33Speaker 3: and that attitude is exactly diametrically opposed and destructive to
- 19:39Speaker 3: the purpose and the functioning of the system that creates
- 19:42Speaker 3: the resources, because then you go in and you're like, oh,
- 19:46Speaker 3: I like this gear that's for me. Oh I like
- 19:51Speaker 3: this shoot that's for me. Oh I like these raw
- 19:54Speaker 3: materials that's for me. And then you have no factory
- 19:59Speaker 3: because every body's gone in and decided that they're going
- 20:01Speaker 3: to take it all apart for resources, not realizing that
- 20:06Speaker 3: the point of the thing is to cooperate to create them.
- 20:09Speaker 3: All right, it's a thought, it's a thought experiment. I
- 20:12Speaker 3: think they could also apply to socialists, but I won't
- 20:15Speaker 3: get ahead of myself.
- 20:15Speaker 6: She originally asked readers to ponder the not at all
- 20:18Speaker 6: problematic question did women ruin the workplace?
- 20:22Speaker 3: Before it was noticing it isn't problematic? Like if okay, lady,
- 20:26Speaker 3: all right, can I just point something out. It's not
- 20:29Speaker 3: problematic to assert that men constructed society for their own benefit.
- 20:34Speaker 3: But it's that's fine, that's perfectly acceptable, even though it
- 20:38Speaker 3: has absolutely no, it's not true. Like I don't know
- 20:41Speaker 3: how to emphasize this enough. It is not true. And
- 20:45Speaker 3: then but it's but it's okay, it's okay. No, it's
- 20:50Speaker 3: not okay. It is problematic to say maybe women are
- 20:54Speaker 3: a problem in the workplace. Men can be a problem
- 20:57Speaker 3: for the entire universe, but cannot be a problem for
- 21:01Speaker 3: the for the workplace. I'm just I know, I know,
- 21:06Speaker 3: I know the illogic, I know the double think, but
- 21:08Speaker 3: it just I just wanted to point that out clearly.
- 21:10Speaker 1: Oh, it's okay, it's all right, it's okay, all right.
- 21:15Speaker 6: Revised have feminine vices taken over the workplace, and because
- 21:19Speaker 6: they're seemingly very low on both brain power and self preservation.
- 21:22Speaker 3: Instinct of self preservation to change it.
- 21:26Speaker 1: Yeah, these are the people who retitled the article that
- 21:32Speaker 1: she's talking about. So she's calling the New York Times
- 21:35Speaker 1: people dumb, which I'm not entirely against, but I but
- 21:39Speaker 1: I don't think I think that this was actually like
- 21:43Speaker 1: a good step. Like I I commend the New York
- 21:48Speaker 1: Times for even entertaining this as a concept, but I
- 21:52Speaker 1: think they had no choice because, like I said, Helen
- 21:55Speaker 1: Andrews's original substack essay was everywhere and everyone was, even
- 22:01Speaker 1: people involved in gamer gate stuff. Yeah we're talking about it.
- 22:05Speaker 1: So it's like it's taken on a life of its own.
- 22:09Speaker 1: It's gone pretty viral, and now the New York Times
- 22:14Speaker 1: had no choice but to address. They couldn't pretend like
- 22:17Speaker 1: it wasn't there. So they were like, Okay, let's talk
- 22:20Speaker 1: to this lady. She seems reasonable. She's not one of
- 22:23Speaker 1: those Andrew Tate, Nick Fuentes manisphere types, and so they
- 22:28Speaker 1: had her on And I mean, you know, I think
- 22:31Speaker 1: that that was a good thing because I think that
- 22:34Speaker 1: Helen Andrews, she's writing a power level a bit in
- 22:37Speaker 1: my opinion, so she's probably got more going on than
- 22:41Speaker 1: people suspect. But but yeah, so they went ahead and
- 22:44Speaker 1: entertained it, and that for this woman was a bridge
- 22:47Speaker 1: too far. Whose of course it was.
- 22:51Speaker 3: So yeah, because it's no problem having half the workplace
- 22:56Speaker 3: population have not be able to criticize them at all.
- 23:00Speaker 3: You can criticize men as a group, but you cannot
- 23:03Speaker 3: criticize women, and that's not going to create a problem.
- 23:05Speaker 3: That's not going to create a problem with the entire
- 23:08Speaker 3: group of women. Okay, right, yep, all right, just one
- 23:14Speaker 3: more time?
- 23:14Speaker 6: Do we all think differently now that it's called did
- 23:18Speaker 6: liberal feminism ruin the workplace?
- 23:20Speaker 5: For one?
- 23:21Speaker 6: I'm not sure. I think I need it to be
- 23:23Speaker 6: changed to should women even be allowed to work anymore?
- 23:26Speaker 3: Yeah, that's a good question. I know you're being sarcastic.
- 23:30Speaker 3: That is actually a really good question. If workplaces have
- 23:34Speaker 3: no control over female employees, and female employees are capable
- 23:38Speaker 3: of utterly destroying workplaces to cohere or to make them
- 23:47Speaker 3: feel better, the female's employees feel better, m hm, should
- 23:54Speaker 3: women be in the workplace?
- 23:56Speaker 1: Now?
- 23:56Speaker 3: I know that feminists always go absolutely a shit when
- 24:00Speaker 3: I say things like that. But I'm saying, either women
- 24:05Speaker 3: are held accountable or they should be removed from positions
- 24:09Speaker 3: where not being held AUP accountable is going to harm systems, industries, whatever.
- 24:17Speaker 3: Right that there's two options there, and of course feminists
- 24:20Speaker 3: always default to we want you want to take away
- 24:23Speaker 3: women's right to work. No, I really want to hold
- 24:27Speaker 3: them accountable. I'm just pointing out that those two things
- 24:30Speaker 3: are incompatible.
- 24:33Speaker 1: Okay, Yeah, we can't like have them be essentially have
- 24:37Speaker 1: power or authority over you know, things like entire businesses,
- 24:43Speaker 1: modes of building wealth and productivity, and even like controlling
- 24:49Speaker 1: you know, the the economy of an entire country or
- 24:54Speaker 1: at least like a region. If they can't be criticized, like,
- 24:58Speaker 1: that's insane, that's insane, right, So I like that this
- 25:04Speaker 1: this your character looks a little bit like Kamala Harris.
- 25:09Speaker 1: I don't know if that was on purpose or if
- 25:11Speaker 1: the AI just like came up with something that sounded what.
- 25:17Speaker 3: There's not AI. That's just that's I actually purchased a
- 25:20Speaker 3: puppet kit. Backdrop is AI because I didn't have an
- 25:26Speaker 3: avocado toast job.
- 25:28Speaker 1: Backdrop is fridge is just full of broccoli. Yeah, it's broccoli.
- 25:35Speaker 3: Well it's I think that's supposed to be avocados, but.
- 25:37Speaker 1: No, those are that's the massive avocados, or they're alien brains.
- 25:43Speaker 1: But I'm gonna go with broccoli on that one. Yeah.
- 25:46Speaker 3: Well, there's there's a lot of green there's a lot
- 25:49Speaker 3: of green stuff being vended in this room, which I
- 25:53Speaker 3: thought was, you know, that's fine. And then there's a
- 25:55Speaker 3: lot of green things in teacups, which I assume some
- 26:00Speaker 3: maybe some maca. So yeah, the the backdrop is ai
- 26:05Speaker 3: but the puppet is actually created by human hands, I
- 26:08Speaker 3: believe so. And yes, she does look like Kamala Harris,
- 26:12Speaker 3: or she does look like the uh, the the brown
- 26:17Speaker 3: urban professional, which a lot of corporate material seems to
- 26:23Speaker 3: prize the the not too black urban female professional trope.
- 26:29Speaker 3: That's a that is that is right there.
- 26:31Speaker 1: So mm hmm, okay, anyway, my.
- 26:37Speaker 6: Mind about the very serious lady problem facing modern corporate America.
- 26:42Speaker 6: At least the unflappable editors did firm with the subhead
- 26:45Speaker 6: of the article that's remained unchanged and has been taking
- 26:49Speaker 6: up prime release estate in my ever growing mental role
- 26:51Speaker 6: index of.
- 26:53Speaker 3: You know, this has absolutely no actual logical analysis or
- 27:02Speaker 3: argument over the content. It's all this offended me, so
- 27:06Speaker 3: I'm going to act like a I'm going to act
- 27:09Speaker 3: like a mean girl.
- 27:10Speaker 1: It's like, yeah, there isn't. I was gonna say, it's
- 27:14Speaker 1: not it's a it's it doesn't. There's no substantive things
- 27:20Speaker 1: being made at all. And this is almost halfway done.
- 27:25Speaker 3: Mm hmm.
- 27:26Speaker 1: So like it's just bitching about the fact that they
- 27:28Speaker 1: even dared to write and there even post this thing
- 27:31Speaker 1: to begin with. I did get time codes for the
- 27:34Speaker 1: actual video she's mad about, so we can look at that.
- 27:37Speaker 1: It's an article. No, I have the video. There was
- 27:40Speaker 1: a video.
- 27:41Speaker 3: There's a video.
- 27:42Speaker 1: Oh yeah, the article is a transcript of the video.
- 27:46Speaker 3: Oh cool.
- 27:46Speaker 1: There was originally a podcast that was an interview between
- 27:50Speaker 1: two women, Helen Andrews and someone else and the host
- 27:54Speaker 1: who is a man.
- 27:56Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, let's look at that.
- 27:58Speaker 1: Yeah. Do you want to finish this for first or no?
- 28:00Speaker 3: Yeah, let's finish it. Let's uh, let's complete this looks
- 28:04Speaker 3: complete the cycle.
- 28:05Speaker 6: Yeah, it asks in earnest Can conservative feminism fix it?
- 28:11Speaker 3: I don't know.
- 28:13Speaker 6: Can tell you where literally anything is?
- 28:16Speaker 3: Literally nothing feminism can fix feminism.
- 28:19Speaker 1: There is there is I don't even want to get into.
- 28:21Speaker 3: The No, like this, this entire word and concept needs
- 28:27Speaker 3: to be discredited.
- 28:29Speaker 1: Right with liberal feminism is not the liberal.
- 28:32Speaker 3: Parts feminism part Right, this.
- 28:37Speaker 1: Term liberal feminism, you guys made that up. You're trying
- 28:41Speaker 1: to salvage something. I see what you're conserve the shell game.
- 28:44Speaker 1: You're trying to hide feminism in something in places you're
- 28:49Speaker 1: basically just saying feminism equals women and now we're gonna
- 28:51Speaker 1: move it over here. No, no, no, there's no such
- 28:55Speaker 1: thing as conservative feminism. You made that up to salvage it.
- 28:58Speaker 1: And of course this is the New York Times is
- 29:00Speaker 1: part to play in this because they're the ones trying
- 29:03Speaker 1: to salvage it, because people who are like, well we
- 29:05Speaker 1: need some kind of feminism. What they're doing is they're saying,
- 29:08Speaker 1: if this goes away, women will die, Like like that's
- 29:12Speaker 1: the like, this word is the only defense that women
- 29:16Speaker 1: all over the world have against men. It's the only
- 29:20Speaker 1: it's the final you know, the the last stand. It's
- 29:24Speaker 1: the last bit of defense. It's the final shield against men.
- 29:28Speaker 1: And it's like, literally, you don't need it, so let
- 29:30Speaker 1: it go, let it go, You'll be fine. Men are
- 29:32Speaker 1: not trying to hurt you. They're not no.
- 29:35Speaker 3: So well, here's the thing, Like, most of these problems
- 29:41Speaker 3: or I don't know how many of these problems, like
- 29:44Speaker 3: I know you had a guest recently that talked about
- 29:47Speaker 3: evolutionary or biological basis for these problems, And I'm like,
- 29:51Speaker 3: why don't we start, Okay, before we start the re
- 29:56Speaker 3: engineering the human race, why don't we start by no
- 30:00Speaker 3: longer charging people for a near a false narrative that
- 30:06Speaker 3: men have constructed society for their own benefit at the
- 30:08Speaker 3: expense of women. The primary effect is well, aside from
- 30:15Speaker 3: negative psychological effects on men and boys, one of the
- 30:20Speaker 3: big effects is that women always have a go to
- 30:23Speaker 3: to deny their own culpability. Okay, like they always have
- 30:28Speaker 3: a narrative that allows them to hide their accountability and
- 30:32Speaker 3: deflect blame. Okay, that is the problem. Now, what our
- 30:36Speaker 3: first step could be Stop paying for it. Stop taking
- 30:41Speaker 3: it out of people's taxes, stop taking it out of
- 30:45Speaker 3: their sales tax, stop taking it out of their purchasing
- 30:50Speaker 3: power by inflating the currency or increasing the amount of
- 30:55Speaker 3: currency in circulation, because you're making treasuries to pay for
- 30:58Speaker 3: stupid programs that promote a lie. Right, just let's start.
- 31:02Speaker 3: Let's start scaling back on all that. Kick it out
- 31:05Speaker 3: of academia. Finally, like, get rid of it. Discredit every
- 31:11Speaker 3: female or women studies professor, every feminist bit of research,
- 31:16Speaker 3: get rid of it, get it out of AI models.
- 31:19Speaker 3: Let's start there, okay, and we'll see what happens when
- 31:24Speaker 3: women and men aren't subject to an omnipresent threat narrative
- 31:30Speaker 3: against men blaming them for everything in society and doing
- 31:34Speaker 3: so with absolutely no validity, like this is this is
- 31:39Speaker 3: what happened is feminists decided a bunch of shit. You know,
- 31:43Speaker 3: there's just like I don't know, in some kind of
- 31:45Speaker 3: flop house somewhere, and they decided the most egregious, absurd crap,
- 31:52Speaker 3: and then they hijacked academia to start manufacturing evidence for
- 31:59Speaker 3: their absurd crap. That is the exact opposite of how
- 32:02Speaker 3: things are supposed to go right. You're supposed to have
- 32:06Speaker 3: ideologically neutral data proving your premises. But yet they hijacked academia,
- 32:13Speaker 3: they highjacked academic authority, and they produced garbage. Which is
- 32:18Speaker 3: why sociology and in particular feminism has a replicatability crisis.
- 32:24Speaker 3: And I just like last night, oh maybe I should
- 32:26Speaker 3: save this for deeper in I don't know, I'm talking
- 32:30Speaker 3: about my Twitter adventures, and everybody's going to probably be like,
- 32:32Speaker 3: oh my god, Allison's Twitter adventures. But okay, let's let's
- 32:37Speaker 3: let's keep going. I'll save that if people are interested.
- 32:41Speaker 6: Why don't you name another imaginary concept that only exists
- 32:45Speaker 6: in the minds of famously forward thinkers like Sarah Palin.
- 32:48Speaker 6: Kudos to digging the hole deeper than any of us
- 32:50Speaker 6: thought possible. And because who needs to be burdened by
- 32:54Speaker 6: critical thinking anyway?
- 32:55Speaker 3: For why do you why do you have to retain
- 32:58Speaker 3: any of this? Like guys that saying conservative will conservative
- 33:02Speaker 3: feminism to protect her or this is just more of
- 33:06Speaker 3: the same crap. So she gets so far, so close
- 33:10Speaker 3: actually hitting the nail on the head, and then they
- 33:13Speaker 3: pivot to something like conservative feminism.
- 33:16Speaker 1: Well, this is New York Times pivoting though not her. Yeah,
- 33:19Speaker 1: and this isn't even Helen Andrews pivoting to that either.
- 33:22Speaker 1: I think The New York Times is trying to to
- 33:26Speaker 1: They're trying to salvage the word. They're trying to salvage
- 33:30Speaker 1: the word feminism by like trying to reframe it. Let's
- 33:35Speaker 1: add another word to the word and then it'll save
- 33:38Speaker 1: the original word. Now this woman is like, at least
- 33:42Speaker 1: I guess rightfully saying word like this isn't a thing
- 33:46Speaker 1: because conservative feminism is an oxymoron, and so she's like, no,
- 33:52Speaker 1: that's like Sarah Palin and obviously that's one of those
- 33:55Speaker 1: non women that I really hate. So this is not acceptable.
- 34:00Speaker 1: But so they're both arguing or making arguments for something
- 34:04Speaker 1: that nobody wants, Like nobody wants this.
- 34:07Speaker 3: Right in the chat, Robert Johnson says, real feminism has
- 34:11Speaker 3: never been tried.
- 34:12Speaker 1: Yeah, we've already tried democratic feminism, scientific feminism or socialism whatever.
- 34:18Speaker 1: Why not liberal? Yeah, exactly, it's just an attempt to rebrand.
- 34:23Speaker 1: This whole thing is about branding. It's almost always been
- 34:27Speaker 1: so like if you can accept oh yeah, I guess
- 34:30Speaker 1: like next it'll be like, you know, how about moderate feminism,
- 34:34Speaker 1: how about nineties feminism? How about Mary Tyler Moore feminism?
- 34:38Speaker 1: Like whatever, it's all the same. They're just rebranding it
- 34:41Speaker 1: and it doesn't actually change anything. It's just a way
- 34:45Speaker 1: for these people to save their jobs so they can
- 34:48Speaker 1: keep getting paid and they can keep complaining about men
- 34:52Speaker 1: like they need it. And the thing is even if
- 34:54Speaker 1: we got rid of the word, Even if the word
- 34:56Speaker 1: feminism disappear from vocabulary tomorrow, these women would still complain
- 35:00Speaker 1: about men. It wouldn't change anything. They just come up
- 35:02Speaker 1: with a new word to describe it, you know, they
- 35:05Speaker 1: would just they just call themselves something else. Yeah, it's
- 35:08Speaker 1: actually the the attitude that has to die, and that
- 35:14Speaker 1: that begins with making it very very unfortunately. It's what
- 35:18Speaker 1: works on women, making it very unfashionable. And do that
- 35:22Speaker 1: by making it something that is like, you know, no
- 35:24Speaker 1: one wants to be attached to. And I think that's
- 35:27Speaker 1: how you could kill it. But that starts with being
- 35:30Speaker 1: able to blame women, like blaming them for their mistakes
- 35:34Speaker 1: and holding them accountable.
- 35:36Speaker 3: Yeah, that's it, that's all that has to happen. I
- 35:38Speaker 3: like again, I'm just like, what do you think, what
- 35:41Speaker 3: do these women think? Honestly, will happen if tomorrow Wait,
- 35:45Speaker 3: I'll run this by you, Brian, this thought experiment. What
- 35:49Speaker 3: if tomorrow every woman woke up.
- 35:51Speaker 1: And was.
- 35:54Speaker 3: Realized that that they were capable of doing things wrong
- 35:58Speaker 3: and that men should probably be included in their analysis,
- 36:02Speaker 3: like men's actual opinions, not just I'm going to I
- 36:07Speaker 3: want you to feel this way opinions. If they actually
- 36:10Speaker 3: included men in their analysis and men's vulnerabilities in their analysis,
- 36:13Speaker 3: and they started to take responsibility for potential negative effects
- 36:17Speaker 3: on other people, what do you think men would do?
- 36:24Speaker 3: Probably drop dead and shocked.
- 36:25Speaker 1: Absolutely, we would throw them in chains and uh you know,
- 36:29Speaker 1: force them to make babies and uh clean and make
- 36:32Speaker 1: a sandwiches. That's obviously what would happen. Yeah, but if
- 36:36Speaker 1: they keep the word feminism, then that's not happening. Guys
- 36:39Speaker 1: can't we can't act against it. That's like kryptonite.
- 36:42Speaker 3: And they keep being unbelievable, unbelievable woke's golds and nags
- 36:48Speaker 3: and having absolutely no charitability to men and constantly abusing
- 36:54Speaker 3: and outright like being cruel to men. Somehow that's gonna
- 36:59Speaker 3: stop men from subjugating them. That's that's what's gonna do it.
- 37:04Speaker 3: This is so absurd, Okay, so being having a sense
- 37:10Speaker 3: of responsibility, right, that's not that you know if women
- 37:16Speaker 3: did that and actually cared about men in a genuine sense,
- 37:19Speaker 3: because you don't, like, let's face it, I don't think
- 37:22Speaker 3: ninety five percent of women really understand what men go
- 37:25Speaker 3: through or even accept it. Right, I could be wrong.
- 37:29Speaker 3: Maybe that's high because I deal with a lot of
- 37:33Speaker 3: nonsense people on Twitter, But I don't think if women
- 37:38Speaker 3: woke up tomorrow and started recognizing men's issues and started
- 37:42Speaker 3: recognizing the potential pitfalls that they bring to and human endeavor,
- 37:48Speaker 3: started recognizing their flaws right, and started recognizing the feminine
- 37:52Speaker 3: shadow that suddenly men would be like, oh, oh, you've
- 37:55Speaker 3: done it. No to the no to the sandwich minds
- 37:58Speaker 3: with all of you, Like why wouldn't men be doing
- 38:01Speaker 3: it now when they have to deal with all this crap? Right?
- 38:05Speaker 3: Why would why would suddenly being like oh, okay, let's
- 38:09Speaker 3: stop this, let's take responsibility. Why would that be the
- 38:11Speaker 3: thing that made men snap and say oh to the
- 38:14Speaker 3: sandwich minds with you and not the unbelievably high volume
- 38:22Speaker 3: skull like a vitriol and bitterness and contempt and lack
- 38:27Speaker 3: of any kind of gratitude, Like why why would it be?
- 38:31Speaker 3: Why would be the positive emotions that would send that
- 38:34Speaker 3: would get men to send women to the sandwich minds?
- 38:38Speaker 3: Like if that eves even on the table, why would
- 38:40Speaker 3: that be it? Why would that be the trigger point? Okay, anyways,
- 38:45Speaker 3: but that's that's that's that's the implication here, Okay, all right, some.
- 38:51Speaker 6: To exist, you must have the cognitively deficient understanding of
- 38:55Speaker 6: feminism to simply mean letting women have thoughts and speak
- 38:58Speaker 6: them out loud in all seriousness, as a communications and
- 39:02Speaker 6: political science scholar with nearly.
- 39:04Speaker 3: Is that really what feminism is? Is it?
- 39:06Speaker 1: No?
- 39:06Speaker 5: No?
- 39:06Speaker 1: No, okay, no no, she's saying it's more than that that.
- 39:10Speaker 1: She's saying that if you believe that there is such
- 39:14Speaker 1: a thing as conservative feminism, that you then that means
- 39:17Speaker 1: you think that the extent of feminism is let me,
- 39:22Speaker 1: let me find it here. I can just read it.
- 39:27Speaker 1: The extent of it is simply allowing women to think.
- 39:30Speaker 1: So I don't think, I don't know, let me see here.
- 39:34Speaker 1: Why don't you name another imaginary concept that only exists
- 39:37Speaker 1: in the minds of famous forward thinkers like Sarah Palin.
- 39:41Speaker 1: Kudos to digging the hole deeper than any of us
- 39:43Speaker 1: thought possible in New York Times, because who needs to
- 39:45Speaker 1: be burdened by critical thinking anyway? For conservative feminism to exist,
- 39:49Speaker 1: you must have the cognitively deficient understanding of feminism is
- 39:53Speaker 1: simply means letting women have thoughts and speak them out loud.
- 39:58Speaker 1: So what she is saying, is that to say that
- 40:03Speaker 1: there is such a thing as conservative feminism would would
- 40:05Speaker 1: be to say that feminism itself is just letting women
- 40:10Speaker 1: have thoughts and speak. When she's saying, it's a lot
- 40:14Speaker 1: more than that.
- 40:15Speaker 3: Yeah, the implication is that feminism is also constraining what
- 40:19Speaker 3: women think and speak.
- 40:21Speaker 1: Well, that's also true, but I don't think that's what
- 40:23Speaker 1: she would argue.
- 40:24Speaker 3: But no, but that's what she's been arguing it in verse,
- 40:27Speaker 3: and I'm going to tell you why. I'm going to
- 40:29Speaker 3: tell you why because when she says that it's just
- 40:32Speaker 3: saying conservative feminism is just allowing women to have thoughts
- 40:36Speaker 3: and speech, what she means is that there's some additional
- 40:40Speaker 3: aspect to feminism that would restrict women from actually having
- 40:45Speaker 3: the thoughts and speech that she thinks is wrong. Right,
- 40:50Speaker 3: It's like, it's like, yeah, feminism allows women to have
- 40:54Speaker 3: thoughts and speech, but it's not just that. It's also
- 40:58Speaker 3: that women would know, oh, that certain types of thought
- 41:01Speaker 3: and speech are wrong. That's what she's saying. Mm hm,
- 41:06Speaker 3: well maybe it's not coming cross, but.
- 41:09Speaker 1: Well let's let's let's see what she would say.
- 41:11Speaker 6: Okay, Navigating the complexities of workplaces of vastly differing sizes.
- 41:15Speaker 3: So she doesn't know what critical thought is.
- 41:19Speaker 1: No, of course not.
- 41:21Speaker 6: I can tell you with certainty based on something we
- 41:24Speaker 6: used to call facts that corruption, nepotism, wage theft, abuse
- 41:28Speaker 6: of power, political oppression, and unsafe working conditions all existed
- 41:33Speaker 6: long before women showed up to be part of the fun.
- 41:35Speaker 3: Who Okay, then you guys didn't well first of all,
- 41:39Speaker 3: then you're you're over selling yourselves because you said you
- 41:42Speaker 3: were going to improve all that. But we're regardless, Yeah,
- 41:45Speaker 3: all this stuff did exist, But did it exist to
- 41:47Speaker 3: this level? Or actually did did the problems of that
- 41:55Speaker 3: women bring because women bring their own problems. They bring
- 41:59Speaker 3: chilling out atmosphere, they bring censorship, they bring social bombs,
- 42:05Speaker 3: and they bring false accusations that are more likely to
- 42:08Speaker 3: be believed than actually investigated, right, and they bring all
- 42:12Speaker 3: kinds of tensions. So it's it no longer becomes about
- 42:17Speaker 3: a workplace doing the work that's intended, and it starts
- 42:20Speaker 3: to be becoming about the workplace making them feel good. Right,
- 42:25Speaker 3: And not all women do this. The problem is that
- 42:28Speaker 3: the ones with social power are really inclined to right.
- 42:32Speaker 3: So the one the women who have whatever knack it
- 42:35Speaker 3: is to create social power. They seem to be very
- 42:39Speaker 3: much inclined to create this kind of chaos to soothe themselves, right,
- 42:47Speaker 3: and the women who just want to get things done
- 42:50Speaker 3: end up being mired too. And unfortunately, how we structure
- 42:57Speaker 3: things now empowers the chaos agents, empowers the heiresses in
- 43:02Speaker 3: our in our myth, in our midst heiress is the
- 43:05Speaker 3: god of goddess of strife. And it doesn't it doesn't
- 43:08Speaker 3: actually help anybody. It doesn't help anyone man or woman
- 43:12Speaker 3: who just wants to get things done. And we and
- 43:14Speaker 3: again there's no accountability, right, there's no overarching structure of
- 43:18Speaker 3: accountability for women. And women have this ability to restructure
- 43:23Speaker 3: social social situations towards them. I mean, obviously that's a
- 43:29Speaker 3: that's an evolutionary advantage because that's that's what they do
- 43:34Speaker 3: because they need to be able to acquire resources from
- 43:37Speaker 3: large social groups. So they structure social groups towards their benefit.
- 43:42Speaker 3: It's like a survival strategy. Not going to say that
- 43:44Speaker 3: that's like, I'm not going to pass judgment on that,
- 43:47Speaker 3: but there does need to be some way of controlling
- 43:49Speaker 3: it when it's not beneficial to the workplace. And what
- 43:55Speaker 3: we've done instead is just try to put out a
- 43:57Speaker 3: fire with gasoline by giving all of these even more
- 44:02Speaker 3: cover and plausible deniability with from feminist narratives that this
- 44:09Speaker 3: woman is now spouting to avoid any kind of blame
- 44:12Speaker 3: or responsibility. Okay, I got it, I got it back.
- 44:18Speaker 6: It's a crony capitalism who is at the helm during
- 44:21Speaker 6: the two thousand and eight financial crisis, what brave leaders
- 44:24Speaker 6: paved the way for pandemic.
- 44:27Speaker 1: So she's basically saying that men men ran things, therefore
- 44:31Speaker 1: it's their fault. Although that's not that's not true anyway.
- 44:36Speaker 1: And women have been in the workforce since what and
- 44:40Speaker 1: that things have I mean, according to you, you would
- 44:43Speaker 1: say that things are are worse than ever, so women
- 44:47Speaker 1: entering the workforce did not improve it. But now you're saying, oh,
- 44:49Speaker 1: it's because women weren't in charge of everything.
- 44:53Speaker 3: No, okay, yeah, but that is true. She is acknowledging
- 44:57Speaker 3: that things are worse than ever. The problem is is
- 45:00Speaker 3: that we don't. It could be that the increase in
- 45:06Speaker 3: female leadership without accountability. I would honestly lay my chips
- 45:11Speaker 3: on that if I were betting, is the problem. Okay,
- 45:15Speaker 3: And the narratives that allow women to evade accountability. Are
- 45:20Speaker 3: the problems? They that those narratives make women nightmares to
- 45:24Speaker 3: work with women like this, right, because they will not
- 45:30Speaker 3: take responsibility. But all right, let me think. But so
- 45:36Speaker 3: I would lay my my chips on that being the problem.
- 45:39Speaker 3: But she's she's just like she doesn't understand that the
- 45:44Speaker 3: system was working fine. Yeah, like, uh, in the sixties,
- 45:50Speaker 3: we put somebody on the moon, lady, right, and that
- 45:54Speaker 3: was with sixties technology, and now we are no longer
- 46:01Speaker 3: looking outward. We're getting more and more insular and setting
- 46:06Speaker 3: all that aside, there are industries that have become female dominated.
- 46:12Speaker 3: I've been investigating one over the last few days, actually
- 46:16Speaker 3: a few days before that. This was before my latest
- 46:19Speaker 3: Twitter adventure, and the industry that I'm investigating was the
- 46:24Speaker 3: print industry. And it's Shenanigan's and what's okay, So what's
- 46:30Speaker 3: relevant about the print industry? It is it is basically
- 46:33Speaker 3: overwhelmingly female. Now, right, I think that the editorial and
- 46:40Speaker 3: acquisition staff is now less than thirty percent male, and
- 46:46Speaker 3: so they've they've locked that all.
- 46:47Speaker 1: Hell Andrews goes into some of that stuff like that,
- 46:50Speaker 1: the professions where women have become a majority and how
- 46:54Speaker 1: they have like negatively affected it. But this woman, I
- 46:57Speaker 1: don't think she addresses that. She's just gonna say to blame.
- 47:02Speaker 3: But anyway, So I've been doing this deep dive into
- 47:04Speaker 3: the printed dive into the printing industry, and the printing
- 47:07Speaker 3: industry is utterly fucked. In fact, there is no real
- 47:11Speaker 3: printing industry right now. It's living off of the perennial stales.
- 47:17Speaker 3: I think perennial is the right word. The the long
- 47:20Speaker 3: tail of the print industry that existed like twenty years ago.
- 47:25Speaker 3: So it's living off of its back catalog. What that
- 47:27Speaker 3: means is it's living off of all of the books
- 47:30Speaker 3: that were published when men were the dominant editors and
- 47:35Speaker 3: acquisition staff. That's their main revenue.
- 47:38Speaker 1: Now.
- 47:39Speaker 3: I mean it was always very substantial, like in like
- 47:42Speaker 3: two thousand and five it was fifty percent. Now it's
- 47:44Speaker 3: over seventy because they aren't actually building that backlist. Nothing
- 47:51Speaker 3: that they're producing is really building the backlist, and or
- 47:58Speaker 3: it's it's like these aren't these books are not successful
- 48:01Speaker 3: in the way that they used to be, So that
- 48:03Speaker 3: whole industry is living off of the echoes of valor
- 48:08Speaker 3: and glory of when it was male dominated and eventually
- 48:13Speaker 3: it's going to implode from a series a comedic series
- 48:16Speaker 3: of errors and lack of vision because of extreme risk
- 48:21Speaker 3: aversion and I could get I'll go into it more
- 48:25Speaker 3: deeply if you guys are interested. But I sense that
- 48:27Speaker 3: Brian wants to finish this today, So uh yeah today.
- 48:31Speaker 6: Sure, banking culture and massive fraud the likes of Enron.
- 48:35Speaker 6: Women didn't inherit some pristine corporate Eden, but they're certainly
- 48:38Speaker 6: getting blamed for eating that damn apple again despite inheriting.
- 48:42Speaker 3: You're getting blamed for the problems that are resulting from
- 48:46Speaker 3: you dominating certain sections of the business world.
- 48:49Speaker 1: No one's saying business like all business everywhere is bad
- 48:53Speaker 1: and women are to blame. They're saying is women are
- 48:57Speaker 1: uniquely causing a unique set of problems and this could
- 49:00Speaker 1: be addressed like we're ignoring it because it's women that's
- 49:04Speaker 1: the that's the problem.
- 49:07Speaker 3: No, but but but run by that women are to
- 49:11Speaker 3: blame for everything in the business world. Agains say it again.
- 49:14Speaker 1: I'm going to go back.
- 49:15Speaker 3: No, no, you said it. You say it again.
- 49:17Speaker 1: Oh, I'm saying like they're.
- 49:19Speaker 3: Not saying, We're not saying that.
- 49:21Speaker 1: We're not saying no one is saying that, you know,
- 49:25Speaker 1: I don't know, like corruption exists, and some of it
- 49:30Speaker 1: is in the workplace, and women have always been the
- 49:34Speaker 1: cause of it. All Okay, no one is like this
- 49:36Speaker 1: is like straw man. What what they are saying. What
- 49:40Speaker 1: Helen Andrews was saying in her video and the people
- 49:44Speaker 1: who are trying to talk about this is that there
- 49:46Speaker 1: is a certain kind of feminine let's say, vice that
- 49:53Speaker 1: has negatively impacted the company's ability to function the way
- 49:59Speaker 1: it did before, and that it should be addressed. And
- 50:03Speaker 1: these issues are uniquely coming from the women, and the
- 50:07Speaker 1: reason for it, at least one of the reasons for
- 50:09Speaker 1: it is that no one wants to talk about it
- 50:12Speaker 1: as women. That's like the main reason for that. Like
- 50:18Speaker 1: if it was just men like Enron, for example, there's
- 50:22Speaker 1: like documentaries about it. We know they're corrupt. We saw
- 50:25Speaker 1: the whole thing unfold. Nobody got offended. Nobody said, oh
- 50:28Speaker 1: my god, you're you know, attacking men everywhere for this.
- 50:31Speaker 1: No one said that because it's retarded to say. We
- 50:34Speaker 1: were just like, yeah, that's fucked up, that's corrupt, right,
- 50:37Speaker 1: And when when men do wrong, nobody has a problem
- 50:39Speaker 1: pointing it out. Nobody capes for them. Nobody acts like
- 50:42Speaker 1: they're in a center misunderstood or oppressed or damaged, or
- 50:46Speaker 1: you know, they think about their childhood or whatever. None
- 50:49Speaker 1: of that works. They can't cry in court and get
- 50:51Speaker 1: let off easy. None of that works. But when women
- 50:54Speaker 1: are doing stuff, everyone changes, Like, oh my god, remember
- 50:57Speaker 1: the chick that started her own company it was supposed
- 51:01Speaker 1: to it was a scam yeah, Faaraenose right, the Faraenose chick, right.
- 51:06Speaker 1: I mean that they're like obviously like a scammer. I
- 51:10Speaker 1: think she used her boyfriend or something, and like all
- 51:13Speaker 1: of this, and there was just like one simp story
- 51:16Speaker 1: after another that was how oh she's a victim of
- 51:19Speaker 1: the system. Oh, they were taking advantage of her. Oh whatever, right,
- 51:22Speaker 1: they made a show about her or a movie or
- 51:25Speaker 1: something with I forget her name. But the chick from
- 51:28Speaker 1: Clueless or Not Clueless Mean Girls was in Anni Seafreed,
- 51:33Speaker 1: a Manda Syfreed, a Manda sy Freed. So and it's
- 51:35Speaker 1: all sympathetic. It's all like, oh, you know, she's just
- 51:38Speaker 1: a woman whatever. So Helen Andrews trying to like talk
- 51:42Speaker 1: about something very specific and it's not like no corruption
- 51:47Speaker 1: existed before women came along. That's that's a ridiculous case.
- 51:50Speaker 1: No one is making nobody's making that claim.
- 51:52Speaker 3: So okay, Jim says, women never did more than dip
- 51:56Speaker 3: their toe into printing. I said publishing, Did I say printing? Print?
- 51:59Speaker 3: How it's publishing, not not literal printing, it's publishing.
- 52:07Speaker 1: Yeah, you're not talking about the actual work.
- 52:10Speaker 3: Yeah, we're not talking about the actual like printing of paper.
- 52:14Speaker 1: The hard work stuff. Right. But anyway, so yeah, she's
- 52:19Speaker 1: already like misrepresenting. But I mean, this is what they do.
- 52:21Speaker 1: They this is what they do. And of course the
- 52:24Speaker 1: whole thing is, by the way, the whole thing I've
- 52:25Speaker 1: don't even noticed. The tone of the writing of this
- 52:28Speaker 1: is like, you know, women are are, Like she's trying
- 52:31Speaker 1: to like attack the New York Times, which by the way,
- 52:34Speaker 1: is very like it's pretty far left, like regardless of everything,
- 52:38Speaker 1: they still are. They just entertained this so that they
- 52:41Speaker 1: could reframe it in some way. That's why they entertained it.
- 52:45Speaker 1: But this woman didn't think that was good enough, because
- 52:47Speaker 1: it's never good enough. But she's still framing it like
- 52:51Speaker 1: like they're wrong. Essentially, she's presenting her case as though
- 52:56Speaker 1: the New York Times is bullying women, and they're the
- 52:59Speaker 1: big evil New York Times that doesn't understand systems, and
- 53:03Speaker 1: so they're they're also dumb and ignorant, and they're and
- 53:06Speaker 1: they're taking it out of the poor women that are
- 53:08Speaker 1: just trying to like make ends meet with their job
- 53:12Speaker 1: in this corrupt system that's got it out for them
- 53:15Speaker 1: and like you know, the Orange Man and like capitalism
- 53:19Speaker 1: and all these bad, bad systems, and these poor women
- 53:23Speaker 1: are just getting abused by, you know, the by not
- 53:26Speaker 1: only all those sympstoms, but now the New York Times
- 53:28Speaker 1: on top of it. And that's basically the way she's
- 53:30Speaker 1: framing it. So they're victims of the fact that she
- 53:33Speaker 1: has to write this article. So there you go. It's
- 53:37Speaker 1: emotional labor by.
- 53:39Speaker 6: And for men, many of which were already failing all
- 53:42Speaker 6: on their own terms. The NYT wants you to conflate
- 53:45Speaker 6: the revelation of the problem with the problem itself, and
- 53:48Speaker 6: there's so much that the podcast fails to acknowledge. Here,
- 53:51Speaker 6: the conversation completely ignores race, literally anything having to do
- 53:57Speaker 6: with it. The fact that DEI training, anti harassment, laws,
- 54:02Speaker 6: safety protocols, et cetera. Were responses to existing problems and
- 54:05Speaker 6: again are not the problem.
- 54:07Speaker 3: They were mostly problems that apparently happened when you guys
- 54:10Speaker 3: entered the workplace, and they problematized the existing male workforce.
- 54:17Speaker 3: And also those protections weren't don't extend to men. Don't
- 54:20Speaker 3: give me this crap. They men do not feel served
- 54:24Speaker 3: by workplace harassment protections. That's why they don't. They like
- 54:31Speaker 3: reveal that they have been harassed at something like I
- 54:36Speaker 3: think maybe one third the rate of women so and
- 54:41Speaker 3: pretty much for equivalent crimes. So this is like and
- 54:44Speaker 3: they also the workplace harassment stuff took away from the
- 54:48Speaker 3: workplace safety stuff, which is unfortunate because that one really
- 54:52Speaker 3: affects men.
- 54:54Speaker 6: Okay, it's the reality that women are still disproportionately absent
- 55:00Speaker 6: from positions of power. How can it be that women
- 55:03Speaker 6: who hold just ten percent of fortune five hundred CEO roles,
- 55:07Speaker 6: earn less on average, and are underrepresented at every leadership level,
- 55:12Speaker 6: but are still somehow the mean cause of a broken
- 55:15Speaker 6: corporate America.
- 55:17Speaker 3: This is this is what they do right, Yeah, at
- 55:22Speaker 3: a time, companies, Well that just that positions of power.
- 55:28Speaker 3: She is saying, like Helen Andrews is saying, women are
- 55:31Speaker 3: responsible for these specific things that are in fact women
- 55:37Speaker 3: are responsible for them, right, Yeah, and she's saying.
- 55:42Speaker 1: So, you're saying it's all women all.
- 55:44Speaker 3: The time, since the beginning of time. This is what
- 55:48Speaker 3: the perpetual blame shifter does, right, This is what I see,
- 55:53Speaker 3: and this is particularly something I see women fall prey to. Yeah,
- 55:57Speaker 3: instead of taking responsibility for something that was within their power,
- 56:03Speaker 3: they take responsibility for something outside of their power. Right,
- 56:08Speaker 3: and then they get everybody to say, oh, it's not
- 56:11Speaker 3: your fault, so that they can ignore responsibility for the
- 56:15Speaker 3: thing that's within their power. I remember a particular anecdote
- 56:20Speaker 3: of about a group therapy session where this this this
- 56:26Speaker 3: therapist was leading the session. He was a man. He
- 56:29Speaker 3: was leading the session for a bunch of women, and
- 56:33Speaker 3: these women were you know, they had alcoholism, they had
- 56:37Speaker 3: family abuse, they had all kinds of other stuff. And
- 56:39Speaker 3: one woman talked about how her alcoholic the partner wasn't
- 56:46Speaker 3: the father of the child, would beat her child and
- 56:50Speaker 3: she would say things like, I'm so responsible for his abuse.
- 56:54Speaker 3: And then the women would be like, oh, no, you're not.
- 56:56Speaker 3: You're not responsible for his abuse. You're not responsible at all.
- 57:00Speaker 3: And then the male therapist would say, yeah, you're not
- 57:03Speaker 3: responsible for his abuse, but why didn't you take Why
- 57:08Speaker 3: didn't you protect your child that that is something that
- 57:12Speaker 3: you were responsible for. Why did you stay and allow
- 57:16Speaker 3: your child to experience that? And I know feminists will say,
- 57:19Speaker 3: but but but you know, the death that is such
- 57:22Speaker 3: a tiny percentage. You might as well say, don't walk
- 57:26Speaker 3: outside because you'll get hit by lightning. Right, Yeah, this
- 57:30Speaker 3: is this is like she decided to take responsibility for
- 57:35Speaker 3: his abuse because she knew everybody would be like, oh,
- 57:38Speaker 3: they're they're there. You can't possibly be responsible for that.
- 57:41Speaker 3: So she didn't have to take responsibility for what she
- 57:43Speaker 3: was responsible for, which was protecting her son. And that's
- 57:48Speaker 3: what I see women do, and in particular, it's a
- 57:51Speaker 3: female failing. Oh are you saying I'm responsible for the
- 57:56Speaker 3: heat death of the universe. No, gladys, I'm saying you're
- 58:02Speaker 3: responsible for leaving the wreck or the break room in
- 58:07Speaker 3: the shambles. Oh, I can't believe you say I'm responsible
- 58:12Speaker 3: for the two thousand or the nineteen twenty nine stock. No,
- 58:16Speaker 3: I'm saying you're responsible for the thing you're doing right now.
- 58:20Speaker 3: She is evading responsibility. Oh, you think I'm responsible for
- 58:24Speaker 3: the for the so the eruption of Mount Vesuvius that
- 58:30Speaker 3: took out Pompeii. No, I'm not saying that. And this
- 58:35Speaker 3: is the same thing. She is exaggerating what these people
- 58:40Speaker 3: are saying women are responsible for in order to not
- 58:42Speaker 3: take responsibility for a damn thing. And the fact that
- 58:45Speaker 3: she gets away with this and people don't laugh at
- 58:47Speaker 3: this is a problem. Okay, yep, I'm done. I'm done.
- 58:54Speaker 1: All right? Uh did we do that super child from
- 58:57Speaker 1: that Papiga put through already?
- 58:58Speaker 3: I don't know.
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- 59:16Speaker 3: just the tip, send those super chows in. Tell us
- 59:18Speaker 3: we're not screaming into the void. Be very greatly appreciated.
- 59:22Speaker 3: And okay, he just said honey for the Badgers.
- 59:26Speaker 1: So yeah he sent us. Uh yeah, but I thought
- 59:29Speaker 1: I would acknowledge it's twenty five and then I think
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- 59:34Speaker 3: A subscription, Yeah it was he Oh, thank you really
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- 59:41Speaker 6: And women have feminized the workplace. You'd think that would
- 59:45Speaker 6: translate into putting themselves in charge. No, the notion that
- 59:49Speaker 6: capitalism itself may be the true source of burnout.
- 59:52Speaker 3: But they put themselves in charge of some very critical departments.
- 59:56Speaker 1: Like what is working then if you're not trying to
- 59:58Speaker 1: make money so you can buy stuff, like what are
- 1:00:00Speaker 1: you talking about? And yeah, women don't have to necessarily
- 1:00:03Speaker 1: have like a name plate and a corner office to
- 1:00:07Speaker 1: have power. They could just be in HR departments. And
- 1:00:10Speaker 1: that's like the thing too, is that a lot of
- 1:00:12Speaker 1: what Helen Andrews is talking about is the HR departments
- 1:00:16Speaker 1: and how they're weaponized to destroy men who are like
- 1:00:21Speaker 1: you know, in the lower rungs. It's not like this
- 1:00:24Speaker 1: is a none of one of these cases of apex
- 1:00:27Speaker 1: fallacy where women like this are like, but CEOs aren't like,
- 1:00:30Speaker 1: you know, losing their job. I mean, yeah, CEOs can
- 1:00:32Speaker 1: lose their jobs too, but like, you know, she's looking
- 1:00:34Speaker 1: at the CEOs and it's like, no, it's the working
- 1:00:37Speaker 1: it's the guys like you know, in the lower levels
- 1:00:40Speaker 1: that are dealing with this. Because these women in middle
- 1:00:44Speaker 1: management that get in the positions of power, or they
- 1:00:48Speaker 1: work in HR, or they just use HR as a
- 1:00:50Speaker 1: weapon against men in the workplace or of the women
- 1:00:53Speaker 1: in fact, because that's another thing that she talks about.
- 1:00:56Speaker 1: That's the problem. But like, obviously this person doesn't care
- 1:01:01Speaker 1: about those men. I mean, she doesn't care about any men,
- 1:01:04Speaker 1: but she especially doesn't care about working classmen like men
- 1:01:07Speaker 1: care about.
- 1:01:07Speaker 3: Women who don't agree with her, yeah.
- 1:01:09Speaker 1: Or women that disagree with her exactly, Okay, I mean
- 1:01:14Speaker 1: HR could destroy a company too, Like, it can it
- 1:01:18Speaker 1: even if it doesn't like they're not at the top,
- 1:01:20Speaker 1: but they can like destroy their reputation. You know, it
- 1:01:23Speaker 1: can be bad for that company.
- 1:01:25Speaker 6: Family, institutional dysfunction, billionaire supremacy, and the like.
- 1:01:31Speaker 7: The research on the material benefits billionaire supremacy.
- 1:01:38Speaker 1: Get together with a bunch of other billionaires burning crosses
- 1:01:41Speaker 1: on your lawn. You know, it's something that they do.
- 1:01:46Speaker 6: That women in leadership provide, from increased innovation to less corruption,
- 1:01:52Speaker 6: more transparency, better crisis management, beyond the faintest possibility.
- 1:01:56Speaker 1: Oh brother, here's a whole bunch of positive things. No, again,
- 1:02:01Speaker 1: all of this science is not it's she never claimed.
- 1:02:05Speaker 1: She never claimed that Helen Andrews never claimed that women
- 1:02:08Speaker 1: don't do anything good, but that that's the Even the
- 1:02:11Speaker 1: woman that Helen Andrews debates on this in the video
- 1:02:14Speaker 1: that this was transcripted from, did not like was trying
- 1:02:17Speaker 1: to protect some kind of like you know, Golden Calf
- 1:02:22Speaker 1: that was feminism. And Helen Andrews was like, I'm trying
- 1:02:26Speaker 1: to be like as objective as possible in talking about this,
- 1:02:29Speaker 1: and she's like, are you trying to take women's I
- 1:02:32Speaker 1: mean not literally, but you know, like can we find
- 1:02:34Speaker 1: something positive to say about women?
- 1:02:36Speaker 2: Though?
- 1:02:36Speaker 1: And she's like, why why are we doing that?
- 1:02:40Speaker 3: So I don't know, why do we have to do that?
- 1:02:43Speaker 1: Why do we always we shouldn't it's a land acknowledgement. Yeah,
- 1:02:46Speaker 1: it's bullshit. Okay before I start, guys, I don't hate women.
- 1:02:50Speaker 1: Like that's so dumb.
- 1:02:53Speaker 3: You see every time people say things like that, I
- 1:02:55Speaker 3: just want to say, yeah, I hate women, and I
- 1:02:57Speaker 3: blame them. I don't know what. I think. It's my
- 1:02:59Speaker 3: contrarian or something. It's like, you you want to stop
- 1:03:03Speaker 3: me from saying this, Well I got to say it.
- 1:03:05Speaker 3: Of course, there's some things that you can't say on YouTube. Yeah, well,
- 1:03:11Speaker 3: you know the nuke being hit. But anyway, let's let's
- 1:03:14Speaker 3: finish this.
- 1:03:14Speaker 6: Off, right, That general Z is right about the structural
- 1:03:18Speaker 6: injustices they observe in the workplace. Like most other injustices,
- 1:03:22Speaker 6: those who don't wish to acknowledge their existence are conveniently
- 1:03:26Speaker 6: the ones that benefit from them the most. And society's found.
- 1:03:30Speaker 3: Okay, none of none of these are accurate. Like all
- 1:03:34Speaker 3: of the things that she's saying that she's a victim of, No,
- 1:03:37Speaker 3: none of them, none of them are accurate. Like, it's
- 1:03:40Speaker 3: just a bunch of bullshit. Yeah, she's just threat narrative.
- 1:03:44Speaker 3: And guy, she's just she's just spinning a narrative a threat. Okay,
- 1:03:50Speaker 3: you know it's it's workplaces. Workplaces are the threat, not women.
- 1:03:55Speaker 3: You know, workplaces exist women most affected, but also workplaces
- 1:03:59Speaker 3: in women most effect. It's like she's in competition with
- 1:04:03Speaker 3: the workplace. You know. Now people have said, wow, what
- 1:04:06Speaker 3: if women have a negative effect on the workplace, you know,
- 1:04:08Speaker 3: in some constrained instances, Right, and she's like, oh my god,
- 1:04:12Speaker 3: something might be getting victimhood points more than me. Not allowed.
- 1:04:18Speaker 6: Okay, all right, Lusians is at an all time high.
- 1:04:22Speaker 6: We should consider that our modern problems cannot be solved
- 1:04:26Speaker 6: by continuing to operate in accordance with and perpetuate the
- 1:04:29Speaker 6: traditional masculine norms we've been conned into believing are the
- 1:04:33Speaker 6: only roadmap for success.
- 1:04:35Speaker 3: What traditional masculine norms we can conned You mean white things,
- 1:04:41Speaker 3: because that's the other thing. They're just white people things, apparently.
- 1:04:46Speaker 1: Well, like just the thing is is like I don't
- 1:04:49Speaker 1: know if you noticed, but these people never actually have
- 1:04:55Speaker 1: a proposed solution. They only have criticism. Yep, that's all
- 1:04:59Speaker 1: they are. All they talk about is tearing down, tearing down,
- 1:05:02Speaker 1: tearing down, because that is all they want. They don't
- 1:05:05Speaker 1: actually want to fix anything. Like women want to work. Like,
- 1:05:09Speaker 1: even if I'm like really objective about like why women work,
- 1:05:14Speaker 1: I think it's because, like at the base baseline, it's
- 1:05:17Speaker 1: because they need money and they need resources to live,
- 1:05:21Speaker 1: and so they work to live. They work because things
- 1:05:24Speaker 1: aren't free and there's no such thing as a free lunch.
- 1:05:28Speaker 1: She's and she's like celebrating all of the accomplishments that
- 1:05:33Speaker 1: women who work have, like all of the good that
- 1:05:36Speaker 1: women bring to the workplace, but she also hates the
- 1:05:39Speaker 1: idea of work itself because she calls it oppressive and
- 1:05:43Speaker 1: masculine and capitalists and stuff, which she also doesn't like.
- 1:05:47Speaker 1: So she doesn't actually like work. She doesn't actually want that,
- 1:05:52Speaker 1: but she won't make the argument against it because if
- 1:05:54Speaker 1: she does, then it actually like follows that the things
- 1:05:58Speaker 1: that she's trying to which is women working, she can't
- 1:06:02Speaker 1: because she's also against working. So like she's for women working,
- 1:06:06Speaker 1: but she's against working itself. Right, she can't hold those
- 1:06:09Speaker 1: two positions at the same time. So instead she doesn't
- 1:06:12Speaker 1: advocate anything. She'll say, well, this is what we could
- 1:06:15Speaker 1: do to fix this problem. She instead says, this problem
- 1:06:19Speaker 1: doesn't exist, and if it does exist, it's actually not
- 1:06:22Speaker 1: this problem. It's men, and it's capitalism and its property rights,
- 1:06:26Speaker 1: and it's stuff, and it's whiteness, and it's things like
- 1:06:30Speaker 1: you know, keeping track of time and using logic. Those
- 1:06:34Speaker 1: are all the problems. But I'm not going to propose
- 1:06:37Speaker 1: an alternative because there isn't one. I'm just gonna keep
- 1:06:40Speaker 1: criticizing it. And this is just how thing, This is
- 1:06:42Speaker 1: how critical theory works. You just criticize things until they
- 1:06:46Speaker 1: lose all meaning and they just spiral out into the
- 1:06:51Speaker 1: ether and disappear. And so there's no objective. This is why,
- 1:06:55Speaker 1: like it's often Lindsay and I like to say that
- 1:06:58Speaker 1: these people will say, we're where we were. We got
- 1:07:01Speaker 1: to have a conversation about having a conversation, because it
- 1:07:04Speaker 1: never goes anywhere. It's just a conversation about a conversation
- 1:07:07Speaker 1: about a conversation. But no solutions are ever offered, nothing
- 1:07:11Speaker 1: has ever proposed, because they can't. And if you do
- 1:07:15Speaker 1: the near part of the problem. That's why Ellen Andrews
- 1:07:18Speaker 1: or even you know James de Moore, the guy who
- 1:07:22Speaker 1: worked at Google, and he put together that. I think
- 1:07:25Speaker 1: it was like a presentation that explained why affirmative action
- 1:07:30Speaker 1: for women might not work because it wasn't getting the
- 1:07:33Speaker 1: results they wanted because they were looking for parody. And
- 1:07:35Speaker 1: he was like, well, that's not going to happen, and
- 1:07:37Speaker 1: it's because of women's preferences, and it's because of this
- 1:07:40Speaker 1: and this and this, and he was very very fair
- 1:07:42Speaker 1: and himself he was like, I would like to see
- 1:07:44Speaker 1: more women in the workplace. So he was coming at
- 1:07:46Speaker 1: it from the same perspective in terms of goals that
- 1:07:50Speaker 1: Google had. He had the same goal. He's like, well, yeah,
- 1:07:53Speaker 1: let's do that. And then he was like, well, it's
- 1:07:55Speaker 1: here are the challenges we're going to have, so actually
- 1:07:57Speaker 1: proposing a solution to a problem, or at least saying,
- 1:08:01Speaker 1: here are the reasons, here are the challenges we're gonna
- 1:08:03Speaker 1: have if we're gonna try to address this. And he
- 1:08:05Speaker 1: got fired for that because he dared to even say
- 1:08:09Speaker 1: women are different than men. And this guy was about
- 1:08:12Speaker 1: as like moderate as it came when it comes to
- 1:08:16Speaker 1: like trying to even talk about this stuff. But the
- 1:08:18Speaker 1: problem is he tried to talk about the stuff instead
- 1:08:21Speaker 1: of just complaining along with everybody else, and so it
- 1:08:25Speaker 1: this is the only way this could go. And this
- 1:08:28Speaker 1: is where Helen Andrews was trying. She was also proposing
- 1:08:31Speaker 1: things and they were all very reasonable, and of course
- 1:08:36Speaker 1: that made her the enemy because they're like, you're not
- 1:08:39Speaker 1: supposed to be solving problems. You're just supposed to complain.
- 1:08:42Speaker 1: You're just supposed to complain and then get everybody else
- 1:08:45Speaker 1: to get in on it with you, because that's how
- 1:08:47Speaker 1: we make money, that's how we survive. We get paid
- 1:08:51Speaker 1: to talk about these things, to complain about these things,
- 1:08:53Speaker 1: to have conversations about conversations, and nothing is actually supposed
- 1:08:56Speaker 1: to get done until it loses all meaning, and that's
- 1:09:00Speaker 1: what I think the purpose of it is. It's the
- 1:09:02Speaker 1: talk until it doesn't mean anything anymore, and then no
- 1:09:04Speaker 1: one even remembers what it was originally about.
- 1:09:08Speaker 3: I realized another way to look at this. In the fifties,
- 1:09:17Speaker 3: we basically stripped women's productive identity from them and replaced
- 1:09:22Speaker 3: it with a consumptive identity. So the homemaker who consumes
- 1:09:26Speaker 3: instead of like the homesteader who is productive. And with
- 1:09:32Speaker 3: a caveat guys, there is one point that is like,
- 1:09:37Speaker 3: if you were a homemaker might actually be a really,
- 1:09:40Speaker 3: really good use of your time. If you're a very
- 1:09:43Speaker 3: educated woman, spending your time being at home and teaching
- 1:09:49Speaker 3: your children and being highly involved in their education will
- 1:09:54Speaker 3: yield geniuses at a rate five to seven times higher
- 1:09:59Speaker 3: than any other situation, aside from both parents staying home
- 1:10:05Speaker 3: and being highly evolved in the education of their children,
- 1:10:07Speaker 3: which will re yield geniuses at a fifteen to thirty
- 1:10:11Speaker 3: times higher rate than the average rate of geniuses. But
- 1:10:17Speaker 3: aside from that, we took women from being producers to consumers.
- 1:10:23Speaker 3: And that was because of progressive liberal or progressive Hollywood values. Right,
- 1:10:29Speaker 3: they actually destroyed the original traditional relationship or sorry, the
- 1:10:34Speaker 3: original traditional identity of men of women as producers for
- 1:10:38Speaker 3: their families. And you can still see this in traditional societies.
- 1:10:41Speaker 3: Women aren't supposed to be sitting there consuming in traditional societies.
- 1:10:45Speaker 3: It's why they have more stem degrees. They are expected
- 1:10:49Speaker 3: to provide for their families, which means they still have
- 1:10:54Speaker 3: that identity of female provision providership. Now in the fifties,
- 1:10:58Speaker 3: again we have Hollywood, we have Madison Avenue, we probably
- 1:11:02Speaker 3: have the CIA as well somewhere in they're deciding to
- 1:11:05Speaker 3: take women from productive people to consumptive people, people who
- 1:11:10Speaker 3: define themselves by their ability to consume. Now, once you
- 1:11:13Speaker 3: define women by their ability to consume, and then they've
- 1:11:17Speaker 3: consumed all of the gadgets that make their their job
- 1:11:22Speaker 3: in the home basically part time and mostly just entertainment,
- 1:11:27Speaker 3: and what next do they have to consume? Well, you
- 1:11:30Speaker 3: can have them consume rights, which they did. So they
- 1:11:34Speaker 3: look at rights as consumables, not essential to responsibility. So
- 1:11:40Speaker 3: they don't see responsibilities and rights as being something that
- 1:11:44Speaker 3: are paired. They just see rights as consumables. And then
- 1:11:49Speaker 3: after you've consumed all the rights, what's next, well, jobs,
- 1:11:55Speaker 3: And again, these women with this new identity of consumer
- 1:11:58Speaker 3: go into the workplace seeing their jobs as consumables, as
- 1:12:02Speaker 3: things that make them feel happy, as things that allow
- 1:12:05Speaker 3: them to socialize, as things that give them prestige, but
- 1:12:09Speaker 3: not things that actually keep a business alive. Now, does
- 1:12:14Speaker 3: that not explain a lot of the behavior of women
- 1:12:17Speaker 3: when they go into the workplace. And I'm not talking
- 1:12:19Speaker 3: about lower class, middle class women, but women like this,
- 1:12:23Speaker 3: privileged women, when they go into the workplace and they
- 1:12:26Speaker 3: get these avocado toast jobs that apparently Elon could fire
- 1:12:30Speaker 3: ninety percent of and not affect the working of Twitter.
- 1:12:34Speaker 3: So these are jobs that do nothing. They don't shift
- 1:12:37Speaker 3: the bottom line for the businesses that they're part of.
- 1:12:40Speaker 3: They're just prestiges. They're entertaining that you get to socialize,
- 1:12:45Speaker 3: you occasionally write an email, and you eat plenty of
- 1:12:49Speaker 3: avocado toasts and maca lattes, and that's basically your job.
- 1:12:55Speaker 3: It's a consumable, it's not a job. And that attitude
- 1:12:59Speaker 3: in the workplace destroys economies because it takes productive industries
- 1:13:09Speaker 3: and turns them into slop, consumable slop for the people
- 1:13:14Speaker 3: in them, So that it takes a productive industry and
- 1:13:17Speaker 3: it bloats it with jobs that are about the person
- 1:13:23Speaker 3: in the job, enjoying themselves, feeling prestigious, now socializing, doing
- 1:13:30Speaker 3: an occasional little bit of work, but still is you know,
- 1:13:33Speaker 3: it still gives them a sense of a sense that
- 1:13:36Speaker 3: they're what matters, not the job, not the business, but
- 1:13:41Speaker 3: them because they are they are consuming, they're the consumer,
- 1:13:47Speaker 3: They're the one that needs to be pleased. And I
- 1:13:49Speaker 3: think that's actually it actually squares the squares of the
- 1:13:53Speaker 3: circle for her attitude towards jobs. No, she doesn't. She
- 1:13:57Speaker 3: thinks that work is horrible. She thinks that the toxic
- 1:14:02Speaker 3: masculine approach to work is horrible, which is, you go
- 1:14:06Speaker 3: to work, you do a job. You do the job
- 1:14:09Speaker 3: because you get paid, but you also do the job
- 1:14:12Speaker 3: potentially because you don't want your business to go the
- 1:14:15Speaker 3: business that pays you to go under. You know, you
- 1:14:18Speaker 3: do the job because it's there to be done, or
- 1:14:20Speaker 3: if you're a man, you just I don't know, men
- 1:14:23Speaker 3: are like, you know, you could just put something out
- 1:14:28Speaker 3: there that needs to be fixed and guys will just
- 1:14:30Speaker 3: sort of gravitate towards it and be like, Okay, how
- 1:14:32Speaker 3: do we do this right? It's just it seems to
- 1:14:35Speaker 3: be inbuilt to the masculine psyche to find problems to
- 1:14:39Speaker 3: fix so that they bring that. That's the toxic masculinity
- 1:14:42Speaker 3: approach to jobs. She didn't like that. She wants the
- 1:14:45Speaker 3: modern consumer approach to jobs, which is the job exists
- 1:14:49Speaker 3: for her. The job exists to make her feel good
- 1:14:54Speaker 3: and her feel special, and to give her a avocado
- 1:14:58Speaker 3: toast breaks and to give her are the opportunity to
- 1:15:01Speaker 3: do hot yoga with the girls. That's what jobs exist for.
- 1:15:04Speaker 3: They don't exist to keep a business alive, all right,
- 1:15:12Speaker 3: And that's probably why women will do jobs where they
- 1:15:14Speaker 3: don't get paid. If they're prestigious and they feel like
- 1:15:17Speaker 3: they're going to be entertaining and they're they're basically consumable jobs,
- 1:15:23Speaker 3: all right. All right.
- 1:15:24Speaker 1: I got a super chat from Albatross for five and
- 1:15:30Speaker 1: he says odd that the women slash activists, et cetera
- 1:15:34Speaker 1: wants to tear down the structures we take for granted,
- 1:15:36Speaker 1: but at the same time demand safety and comfort. Cognitive dissonance.
- 1:15:41Speaker 1: Uh yeah, women thrive in paradox. I don't. I don't know.
- 1:15:44Speaker 1: I don't. I don't know what to tell you. Yeah,
- 1:15:46Speaker 1: they they do. I don't know. And maybe again, it's
- 1:15:49Speaker 1: not about the nail.
- 1:15:51Speaker 3: It's short sighted.
- 1:15:53Speaker 1: Yeah, and I I yeah, we just have to ignore them.
- 1:15:58Speaker 1: I don't know, I mean, we can't really. But there's
- 1:16:00Speaker 1: thirty seconds left in this Okay.
- 1:16:02Speaker 6: From AI and climate change to the collapse of American
- 1:16:06Speaker 6: democracy and rise of global fascism. Cannot be solved with
- 1:16:09Speaker 6: more conflict and less empathy. Dl docker this article asks,
- 1:16:15Speaker 6: all right, so.
- 1:16:15Speaker 1: And that was the end. Yeah, now we got we
- 1:16:18Speaker 1: got you. Notice how she goes. She pivoted immediately to
- 1:16:21Speaker 1: more like feminist talking points climate change, global fascism, capitalism.
- 1:16:26Speaker 1: Uh uh, And we need empathy. That's it. That's that's
- 1:16:30Speaker 1: the solution. More empathy.
- 1:16:32Speaker 3: It's not empathy if you're just a woman giving it
- 1:16:35Speaker 3: to other women, not even to women, you're just a
- 1:16:38Speaker 3: woman giving it to the narrative that you think gets
- 1:16:40Speaker 3: you the things you want. That's not empathy. Yeah, you
- 1:16:44Speaker 3: say that we need more empathy, show it to the
- 1:16:46Speaker 3: group of people you're not, which is men, then I'll
- 1:16:51Speaker 3: then you know. Then you're right. It's because the thing
- 1:16:53Speaker 3: is they talk about toxic empathy, and the real problem
- 1:16:56Speaker 3: is it's selective empathy. Mm hmm, all right, very okay.
- 1:17:02Speaker 3: Can we get into the other part.
- 1:17:03Speaker 1: Let's get into the other one. So we got it
- 1:17:05Speaker 1: right here.
- 1:17:08Speaker 2: Start.
- 1:17:08Speaker 1: We'll start with the stinger. So Helen Andrews is the
- 1:17:11Speaker 1: woman on the left with the glasses and forget the
- 1:17:15Speaker 1: other woman's name, but not that important. So and we'll
- 1:17:20Speaker 1: play the stinger clip. So this is like, what the
- 1:17:22Speaker 1: other chick got upset about? Was this conversation taking place?
- 1:17:25Speaker 5: Okay, I really couldn't get purchased on from your essays.
- 1:17:29Speaker 5: I never got a sense of whether there were female
- 1:17:31Speaker 5: virtues at all from your piece.
- 1:17:34Speaker 4: If you want to know what I like about women,
- 1:17:36Speaker 4: you know, that's not like going to ask me. In fact,
- 1:17:38Speaker 4: I am from me an entire essay on the subject
- 1:17:42Speaker 4: what I like about women?
- 1:17:44Speaker 7: Rates are very reason what do you like about women?
- 1:17:47Speaker 1: So he wrote this piece specifically about the great feminization,
- 1:17:54Speaker 1: which is the bad things that an overly feminized space
- 1:17:59Speaker 1: can result in. And this woman who was critiquing her
- 1:18:04Speaker 1: not apparently not not like the opposite of Helen, but
- 1:18:09Speaker 1: like was concerned about the tone. Surprise, surprise, A tone
- 1:18:15Speaker 1: policing woman, I know. But she was like, did you
- 1:18:17Speaker 1: have anything nice to say about women? I want to know?
- 1:18:20Speaker 1: And she's like, if you want to know I could.
- 1:18:23Speaker 1: I could tell you, because I'm right here. You're upset
- 1:18:26Speaker 1: that I didn't put it in the piece. But the
- 1:18:28Speaker 1: piece wasn't about what makes women nice? Right? So that's
- 1:18:33Speaker 1: that's the Uh.
- 1:18:36Speaker 3: I would just say, no, there's nothing I like about women.
- 1:18:39Speaker 3: I can't even describe anything that I like about women.
- 1:18:43Speaker 3: The first and primal thing a human being needs to
- 1:18:46Speaker 3: do to be likable is take accountability mm hmm and
- 1:18:50Speaker 3: be able to take criticism. So why don't you demonstrate likability, lady?
- 1:18:59Speaker 3: And then moybe, I'll say it like you?
- 1:19:02Speaker 1: All right?
- 1:19:02Speaker 3: So she does she play the silly buggers game?
- 1:19:06Speaker 1: The silly buggers?
- 1:19:08Speaker 3: Yeah, it's just like, does she does she? Do they
- 1:19:10Speaker 3: rail world her into saying what she likes about women? Uh?
- 1:19:14Speaker 1: No, I don't think so. No, No, I don't think
- 1:19:18Speaker 1: she does. I think she sticks to her guns.
- 1:19:21Speaker 3: Basically, good, good for her, some moral courage. Congratulations, that's likable.
- 1:19:27Speaker 1: Yeah, So he says, do you the the host guys like,
- 1:19:31Speaker 1: do you like women?
- 1:19:33Speaker 5: Are very reason?
- 1:19:34Speaker 7: What do you like about women?
- 1:19:35Speaker 1: Helen?
- 1:19:35Speaker 3: Do you like men?
- 1:19:38Speaker 1: What is this?
- 1:19:39Speaker 3: Okay? So you do you like women? All right? Well,
- 1:19:41Speaker 3: does this guy like men? I think that the criteria
- 1:19:46Speaker 3: for was that the criteria.
- 1:19:48Speaker 1: She has positive things. Look, Helen Andrews has positive things
- 1:19:51Speaker 1: to say about men in her piece because she's talking
- 1:19:53Speaker 1: about what men bring to the table to a professional
- 1:19:58Speaker 1: atmosphere that's good good that women shut down or take
- 1:20:04Speaker 1: for granted or dislike, and that it is the interaction
- 1:20:08Speaker 1: between a feminized workplace and men's way of working operating.
- 1:20:16Speaker 1: That that clash is what's causing problems and Helen's trying
- 1:20:19Speaker 1: to address it. She acknowledges basically with men that they're
- 1:20:23Speaker 1: full human beings. They have, you know, things that they're good,
- 1:20:26Speaker 1: and then there are things that could be You know
- 1:20:29Speaker 1: that they have their own vices, but generally those vices
- 1:20:33Speaker 1: are addressed when they become a problem, but women's vices
- 1:20:36Speaker 1: are not. That's the main thing.
- 1:20:38Speaker 3: Okay, Yeah, that's exactly what I said. And the thing
- 1:20:41Speaker 3: is that I'm much more hard line because I know
- 1:20:43Speaker 3: that once you start playing the silly Buggers game, you
- 1:20:45Speaker 3: never get back on topic, Like once you start playing
- 1:20:48Speaker 3: the do you like women game? Well, do you like men?
- 1:20:52Speaker 1: No?
- 1:20:52Speaker 3: Do I have to like women? Does liking women make
- 1:20:55Speaker 3: what I say more true?
- 1:20:59Speaker 2: Right?
- 1:21:00Speaker 3: Why do we all have to fucking like women. What
- 1:21:03Speaker 3: is that necessary? Why does that be like the precondition
- 1:21:08Speaker 3: to actually speak? All Right, I'm gonna I'm gonna let
- 1:21:13Speaker 3: the cat in.
- 1:21:15Speaker 1: Okay, should I play the video?
- 1:21:17Speaker 3: Ye?
- 1:21:21Speaker 8: Men and women are really different. But what do those
- 1:21:25Speaker 8: differences mean? Should the right be trying to roll back
- 1:21:29Speaker 8: the entire feminist era?
- 1:21:32Speaker 1: Yes, yes, of course they're not gonna say that. But
- 1:21:35Speaker 1: I don't know that they could. I don't. I don't
- 1:21:38Speaker 1: know that you could do that. But but should they? Yes?
- 1:21:40Speaker 1: But I don't think you can.
- 1:21:42Speaker 3: Okay, but no, no, but we could actually roll back.
- 1:21:46Speaker 9: Now.
- 1:21:46Speaker 3: The thing is, the feminist era is what men women
- 1:21:49Speaker 3: working while they always did. Right. The feminist area is
- 1:21:52Speaker 3: women having saying in politics, well they always did. Feminist
- 1:21:55Speaker 3: era is women being on boarded do the things men
- 1:21:58Speaker 3: construct as soon as it's bureaucratically reasonable for them to
- 1:22:02Speaker 3: do so, and it's stable and it provides more benefit
- 1:22:05Speaker 3: than it takes in terms of risk. That's always been
- 1:22:08Speaker 3: the case. Like this is like you go look through
- 1:22:11Speaker 3: human history, there's no situation, no part of human history
- 1:22:14Speaker 3: resembles anything to do with feminism. So what we're really
- 1:22:18Speaker 3: asking is should we dismantle a ideology that co opted
- 1:22:28Speaker 3: academia to create legitimacy for itself based on around unsubstantiated
- 1:22:37Speaker 3: and very hateful allegations against men. And the answer is, yes,
- 1:22:44Speaker 3: there is no way that not dismantling that there's no
- 1:22:49Speaker 3: way that dismantling that is not going to result in
- 1:22:53Speaker 3: a net gain for the entirety of the human race.
- 1:22:59Speaker 3: So the answers, yes, we should one hundred percent dismantle
- 1:23:03Speaker 3: feminism and don't let the thing that's being dismantled protect
- 1:23:08Speaker 3: itself by Do you have you ever watched I think
- 1:23:14Speaker 3: it was Freer in like this. Uh, it's this anime
- 1:23:16Speaker 3: with this very aged, this very aged kind of elf
- 1:23:22Speaker 3: who who is not like she doesn't look aged, but
- 1:23:25Speaker 3: she is really old, and she's reminiscing about her former
- 1:23:29Speaker 3: human traveling companions who have all died or most of
- 1:23:32Speaker 3: them have died while the humans have died, but there
- 1:23:34Speaker 3: was one dwarf who's still alive. And so at one
- 1:23:38Speaker 3: point they have this this race of demons that manages
- 1:23:43Speaker 3: to infiltrate human society by manipulating our sense of compassion
- 1:23:49Speaker 3: and empathy. And they managed to overcome one of these
- 1:23:54Speaker 3: demons in like a little village and as that like
- 1:24:00Speaker 3: they're just about to kill that demon. The demon says,
- 1:24:06Speaker 3: cries out for its mother, and freer in the main
- 1:24:10Speaker 3: female elf is like telling the humans, don't don't buy
- 1:24:13Speaker 3: into it, because it's just doing that in order to
- 1:24:16Speaker 3: manipulate you into sparing it. And but the humans don't listen,
- 1:24:21Speaker 3: so they spare the demon, and the diamon ends up
- 1:24:23Speaker 3: killing a bunch of kids and whatever else you know
- 1:24:26Speaker 3: demons do. And then when they corner it and finally
- 1:24:28Speaker 3: kill it as it's dying, they ask, why did you
- 1:24:31Speaker 3: call out for your mother? And the demon said, because
- 1:24:35Speaker 3: when I say those words, you don't kill us. That's feminism.
- 1:24:43Speaker 3: When I say, when feminism says things but without us, men,
- 1:24:48Speaker 3: men would subjugate women without us, that's that is the
- 1:24:52Speaker 3: demon crying out for its mother, so it won't kill you.
- 1:24:58Speaker 3: So don't listen because it's absolute, unsupported nonsense, nonsense, pernicious lying.
- 1:25:07Speaker 3: That's better.
- 1:25:08Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, all right, I'll play a little bit more
- 1:25:12Speaker 1: at this opening.
- 1:25:13Speaker 8: Or is there a conservative feminism that can correct liberalism's mistakes?
- 1:25:18Speaker 8: My guests this week are both conservative writers, both critics
- 1:25:22Speaker 8: of feminism, both women who have very different views of
- 1:25:26Speaker 8: what a right wing politics of gender should look like.
- 1:25:31Speaker 7: So Helen Andrews lelie.
- 1:25:33Speaker 1: All right, I'm pausing it there. That's just them setting
- 1:25:36Speaker 1: the stage. I despise this framing, but whatever. So they
- 1:25:42Speaker 1: get into an argument about three minutes and I could
- 1:25:45Speaker 1: get to that. Helen Andrews critiques wokeness as a feminized pathology,
- 1:25:55Speaker 1: So let's go to that bit right there.
- 1:25:59Speaker 4: So I think that there are some generalizations that can
- 1:26:04Speaker 4: be made about tendencies that are male or female, masculine
- 1:26:08Speaker 4: virtues and vices and feminine virtues and vices. But those
- 1:26:13Speaker 4: things are always a spectrum and it's hard to get
- 1:26:16Speaker 4: a grip on them. And if I sat here and
- 1:26:19Speaker 4: said women tend to be more emotional, more men tend
- 1:26:22Speaker 4: to be more intellectual, you could have five perfectly valid
- 1:26:25Speaker 4: objections to that right off the bat. So I think
- 1:26:28Speaker 4: I will restrict myself to the judgment on which I
- 1:26:33Speaker 4: am confident, which is that the pathology in our institutions
- 1:26:39Speaker 4: known as wokeness is distinctively feminine and feminized.
- 1:26:48Speaker 3: Okay, we can't do too long, And yes, I know,
- 1:26:50Speaker 3: I just she talks a little bit slow.
- 1:26:53Speaker 1: I could speed it up in terms of the playback.
- 1:26:55Speaker 3: Yeah, maybe yeah, I'll.
- 1:26:58Speaker 1: Speed up the playback speed to like one point twenty five.
- 1:27:01Speaker 3: Great, that's great. All right, So, yes, pathology is woke.
- 1:27:06Speaker 3: That's where it came from. There, there is consistently this
- 1:27:10Speaker 3: desire to censor based on tone or social comfort consistently
- 1:27:16Speaker 3: comes from women. It's very difficult to argue otherwise since
- 1:27:21Speaker 3: the statistical evidence is there. Yeah, okay, so she's one
- 1:27:26Speaker 3: hundred percent right. She's very very careful, very well.
- 1:27:31Speaker 1: I think she knows like she's got experience with this, right,
- 1:27:35Speaker 1: so she's trying to be But I also think that
- 1:27:38Speaker 1: like people like this, I can tell because I'm I'm
- 1:27:42Speaker 1: like this too. They hate being misrepresented and so you know,
- 1:27:47Speaker 1: it's like, this is what I said, and I'm very
- 1:27:50Speaker 1: particular and I'm very specific with my words. So if
- 1:27:53Speaker 1: you if you imply I didn't that I said something
- 1:27:56Speaker 1: I didn't say, if you do like a you know,
- 1:27:58Speaker 1: Kathy Newman on me and say so saying, then I'm
- 1:28:01Speaker 1: going to call you on it because I'm being very careful.
- 1:28:04Speaker 1: And this is like the this is where we are
- 1:28:06Speaker 1: now where we can't just speak and then people in
- 1:28:09Speaker 1: good faith are like, okay, let's dig at dig a
- 1:28:11Speaker 1: little deeper and figure out where you're coming from. Oh,
- 1:28:13Speaker 1: I understand where you are. Now, okay, so here's where
- 1:28:16Speaker 1: I am. Let's move forward from here. No, it's like, no,
- 1:28:18Speaker 1: actually I think you said this. You know, it's like
- 1:28:21Speaker 1: the least charitable interpretation possible, and so you you you
- 1:28:26Speaker 1: just can't with you just can't deal with that.
- 1:28:30Speaker 3: No, it's trying to establish tribal lines instead of recognizing
- 1:28:35Speaker 3: that people with different opinions can be beneficial. They can
- 1:28:40Speaker 3: challenge and sharpen your beliefs. They may also have a point,
- 1:28:45Speaker 3: you know. And Okay, she she's a little bit she's
- 1:28:50Speaker 3: a little bit clingy right now because she really wants
- 1:28:52Speaker 3: her kibble and we're not feeding her kibble out of
- 1:28:56Speaker 3: fear that the kibble is causing an allergic reaction, which
- 1:28:59Speaker 3: is causing you know, the uh, the scratching, which she
- 1:29:04Speaker 3: is scratching a lot, and it's leaving like like injuries.
- 1:29:09Speaker 3: So that's that's what's going on with her. She's not
- 1:29:13Speaker 3: she's not. I don't think she's suffering. We took her
- 1:29:15Speaker 3: to the vet. We we found out that it might
- 1:29:18Speaker 3: be an allergic reaction, it might be mites, it might
- 1:29:22Speaker 3: be some other thing. That will probably require like three
- 1:29:25Speaker 3: thousand dollars to fix. I'm exaggerating. I'm really hoping it's
- 1:29:30Speaker 3: that it's just you know, the allergies or the mites.
- 1:29:35Speaker 3: But yeah, it's it's that's where she's at. She's a
- 1:29:37Speaker 3: little bit pesty. I put her in the other room
- 1:29:39Speaker 3: for a bit so we could actually talk and we
- 1:29:41Speaker 3: could start the show. She might come back and pest
- 1:29:44Speaker 3: some more. Yeah, so guys are wondering about my behavior
- 1:29:50Speaker 3: towards her.
- 1:29:51Speaker 1: All right, I think fort some things to read out
- 1:29:54Speaker 1: from the audience. Nova twenty one gave us a dollar
- 1:29:58Speaker 1: and on Rumble, thanks you know a fan and says
- 1:30:01Speaker 1: the only time women hold each other accountable is feminists
- 1:30:03Speaker 1: punishing female resistance to the sisterhood. Yes, and that's the
- 1:30:08Speaker 1: only thing, Like, that's the only thing that they're guilty of.
- 1:30:12Speaker 1: So and then Senior Stix says for two dollars, feminism
- 1:30:18Speaker 1: didn't ruin the workplaces, but it didn't help. Again, Helen
- 1:30:21Speaker 1: Andrews isn't claiming that it ruined the workplace. She's saying
- 1:30:25Speaker 1: that it is a problem, and I think it's right.
- 1:30:30Speaker 1: I think that she specifically points to HR departments as
- 1:30:35Speaker 1: one of the primary problems, and that if there was
- 1:30:39Speaker 1: a way to tamp that back, at least in terms
- 1:30:43Speaker 1: of like their influence. Like if you went to HR
- 1:30:46Speaker 1: and the only thing you were going to them for
- 1:30:48Speaker 1: were things like you know, like holiday hours over time
- 1:30:55Speaker 1: four to oh one k, you know, retirement like this
- 1:30:58Speaker 1: sort of like you or your health insurance like whatever,
- 1:31:02Speaker 1: then that's one thing. And they do all those things
- 1:31:04Speaker 1: and those are fine, but they're also involved with things
- 1:31:07Speaker 1: like lawsuits and discrimination and like these other things that
- 1:31:12Speaker 1: are a lot more you know, I don't know, hard
- 1:31:16Speaker 1: to pin down. They're not as objective, they're not as straightforward,
- 1:31:19Speaker 1: and a lot of people exploit that stuff, and HR
- 1:31:22Speaker 1: itself gets involved in ways that it probably shouldn't. So
- 1:31:26Speaker 1: that's just one thing, right, So yeah, anyway, so let's keep.
- 1:31:32Speaker 4: Going and that in a very literal sense, our institutions
- 1:31:36Speaker 4: have gone woke because there are more women in them
- 1:31:39Speaker 4: than there used to be.
- 1:31:41Speaker 8: What is the nature the essential nature of wokeness that
- 1:31:44Speaker 8: you associate with a certain kind of feminized politics or
- 1:31:49Speaker 8: feminized ways of relating to other.
- 1:31:50Speaker 3: People you associate.
- 1:31:54Speaker 1: Yeah?
- 1:31:54Speaker 3: What yeah? That that that look is one that would
- 1:31:57Speaker 3: be the look I would be giving do you mean
- 1:32:02Speaker 3: what is suggested by the science, sir.
- 1:32:06Speaker 1: Yeah, you're not getting kibble.
- 1:32:11Speaker 3: You're not gonna die if you don't get kibble. Like
- 1:32:15Speaker 3: I might locate a can of food for her, But
- 1:32:20Speaker 3: do you mind if you just keep playing and responding
- 1:32:22Speaker 3: and I will locate the can of anything else.
- 1:32:27Speaker 4: Let's pick one flavor of wokeness, and that is the
- 1:32:30Speaker 4: Me Too movement. It was not just an increase in
- 1:32:34Speaker 4: the volume of sex scandals. There have been sex scandals
- 1:32:37Speaker 4: since the dawn of politics, and it was not just
- 1:32:39Speaker 4: that there were more of them than there used to be.
- 1:32:41Speaker 4: If it were simply a matter of more women having
- 1:32:44Speaker 4: the self confidence to speak up and challenge their accusers,
- 1:32:46Speaker 4: I don't think anyone could possibly object to that. But
- 1:32:48Speaker 4: that's not what the Me too movement was. The Me
- 1:32:51Speaker 4: Too movement was a change in the rules of how
- 1:32:54Speaker 4: sex scandals work. There was a change in what kinds
- 1:32:57Speaker 4: of behavior were held up for censure, and you had
- 1:32:59Speaker 4: people like comedian as He's Ansari being canceled for what was,
- 1:33:02Speaker 4: at the end of the day, just a bad date
- 1:33:04Speaker 4: and he was guilty of not much more than severe awkwardness.
- 1:33:08Speaker 1: All right, so's this me too is like an example
- 1:33:12Speaker 1: that she's using. So this isn't about that, she's just
- 1:33:14Speaker 1: using and it's a good example to give because well
- 1:33:17Speaker 1: she's making it pretty clear. It's basically like it didn't
- 1:33:20Speaker 1: challenge sexual impropriety in the workplace or in politics or whatever.
- 1:33:26Speaker 1: It changed the rules of engagement between men and women.
- 1:33:30Speaker 1: It permanently damaged the way that men and women relate
- 1:33:35Speaker 1: to each other, like at least like it seems permanent, right,
- 1:33:39Speaker 1: And she uses the disease as these and I'm sorry
- 1:33:42Speaker 1: thing as an example where you know, he had a
- 1:33:44Speaker 1: bad date with a woman and he got canceled for
- 1:33:48Speaker 1: it and he was basically he's disappeared from public life
- 1:33:51Speaker 1: as far as I can tell.
- 1:33:53Speaker 3: So okay, can I just get in there all right?
- 1:34:01Speaker 3: Me too? And this is something I said a while back.
- 1:34:04Speaker 3: And I think you remember, you know, feminism stabs you,
- 1:34:07Speaker 3: and you know that the last time feminism stabs you
- 1:34:10Speaker 3: is you know, that's that's okay, But feminism gets no
- 1:34:14Speaker 3: more stabs. And then feminism stabs again, stabs someone again,
- 1:34:18Speaker 3: and you're like, oh, no, okay, well just that's no
- 1:34:21Speaker 3: more stabs. Well we'll accept that, but no more. That's
- 1:34:24Speaker 3: how that's how they keep operating. No, me Too do
- 1:34:27Speaker 3: nothing good nothing. If it was ever going to do
- 1:34:32Speaker 3: anything good, it would have done something for the multitude
- 1:34:36Speaker 3: of men who are suffering in silence due to the
- 1:34:40Speaker 3: sexual harassment and sexual violence of women because they're out
- 1:34:46Speaker 3: there not reporting, and they continue not to report. So
- 1:34:51Speaker 3: all this did was empower women to do something they
- 1:34:55Speaker 3: were already empowered to do, but now do it ten
- 1:34:58Speaker 3: times harder with no oversight. At some point you gotta
- 1:35:04Speaker 3: say no. When feminisms stabbed someone that is wrong, they
- 1:35:12Speaker 3: don't just get another stab and then and then you're like, oh, well, okay,
- 1:35:16Speaker 3: but but stop there, you know, stop at me too,
- 1:35:20Speaker 3: you know, stop at uh, stop at the slut walks,
- 1:35:23Speaker 3: you know, stop at Susan Brown Miller saying that Emmett
- 1:35:27Speaker 3: Till was complicit with the with the the sexual violence
- 1:35:30Speaker 3: of all women. Right, maybe stop. No, all of it
- 1:35:35Speaker 3: is bad. None of it is a solution to anything.
- 1:35:40Speaker 1: Mm hmm.
- 1:35:41Speaker 3: And if it was a solution, then it would be
- 1:35:45Speaker 3: solving the problem for male victims. To think about that,
- 1:35:50Speaker 3: If me Too had been a solution, it would have
- 1:35:53Speaker 3: been solving the problems for male victims too. Did it No, Okay?
- 1:36:02Speaker 4: Continue all right, It suddenly became mandatory for us to
- 1:36:05Speaker 4: believe all women, no matter how credible or not credible
- 1:36:08Speaker 4: their testimony might be. It got to the point where
- 1:36:11Speaker 4: to even probe a woman's story with various questions about
- 1:36:14Speaker 4: the facts of the of the case became an affront
- 1:36:18Speaker 4: and disrespectful to women. So that, to me is the
- 1:36:22Speaker 4: essence of wokeness that you see in all of its
- 1:36:24Speaker 4: other variations on campuses or in the workplace, yep, yep,
- 1:36:30Speaker 4: cutting down conversations, intruding politics to spheres that had previously
- 1:36:35Speaker 4: been neutral, sort of importantly neutral, pillars of civilization, neutrality,
- 1:36:41Speaker 4: things like the rule of law were suddenly subject.
- 1:36:44Speaker 3: Okay, that wasn't me too. Feminism absolutely raped academic neutrality.
- 1:36:54Speaker 10: M hmm.
- 1:36:55Speaker 3: Like feminism raped it, you know, and then did a
- 1:37:00Speaker 3: victory lap, did it, raped it again, did another victory lap,
- 1:37:06Speaker 3: told everybody that the fact they had to rape academia
- 1:37:09Speaker 3: in the first place was actually oppression of women. Did
- 1:37:13Speaker 3: another victory lap, raped it again, you know. Basically, feminism
- 1:37:17Speaker 3: utterly destroyed academic ethics, academia's claim to consistently applied ethics
- 1:37:25Speaker 3: and principles, right and yes, like that that that what
- 1:37:33Speaker 3: you were saying, you know, new new sectors. They're all
- 1:37:36Speaker 3: no that it started in academia and then it built
- 1:37:39Speaker 3: up a fortress of bullshit around itself. HM.
- 1:37:44Speaker 1: Okay, all right, So here's it's not really her response,
- 1:37:49Speaker 1: but her take on this sort of opening discussion about feminization.
- 1:37:53Speaker 1: So her name is Leah. I don't remember her their name,
- 1:37:57Speaker 1: but her name is Leah something.
- 1:37:58Speaker 5: You can see this in a variety of way, something
- 1:38:00Speaker 5: pretty small skill. There's a lot of going back and
- 1:38:02Speaker 5: forth on the college level about where the three point
- 1:38:05Speaker 5: line should be for men and women's basketball. Should it
- 1:38:07Speaker 5: be equivalently hard for a man and women to hit
- 1:38:09Speaker 5: the shot, or should it be at exactly the same
- 1:38:11Speaker 5: spot so no one can say the women aren't playing
- 1:38:13Speaker 5: as hard. I don't actually care that much about basketball,
- 1:38:16Speaker 5: I'll level with you, but I think that anxiety that
- 1:38:18Speaker 5: to draw two lines on the court would in some
- 1:38:20Speaker 5: way imperil women's dignity is wrongheaded, and you see it
- 1:38:23Speaker 5: to have a real cost in other domains where that
- 1:38:25Speaker 5: attempt to treat women like defective men. Why nearly identical,
- 1:38:28Speaker 5: nearly swappable? And when we can close, what why are.
- 1:38:32Speaker 3: We Okay, what's the payoff.
- 1:38:34Speaker 5: Here, let's see, is that gap no one will be
- 1:38:37Speaker 5: able to tell us for less then ultimately does a
- 1:38:39Speaker 5: fundamental injustice to women, and it results in violence towards babies,
- 1:38:42Speaker 5: because of course, pregnancy is the most obvious way women
- 1:38:45Speaker 5: differ from men. It won't ever be fully closed.
- 1:38:48Speaker 7: And a big part of your argument is that the
- 1:38:50Speaker 7: institution of American life or Western life since the feminist revolution,
- 1:38:54Speaker 7: have basically said to women, yes, you can join up,
- 1:38:58Speaker 7: you can you know, you can have the jobs you want,
- 1:39:00Speaker 7: you can have the equality you want, but we will
- 1:39:02Speaker 7: not accommodate ourselves to what you just defined us the
- 1:39:05Speaker 7: greatest female distinctive right to you.
- 1:39:07Speaker 3: Okay, yeah, yes, jobs will not accommodate what is accommodated
- 1:39:16Speaker 3: by a house. Okay. When you go to your house,
- 1:39:23Speaker 3: you do things that you do in a house, like
- 1:39:27Speaker 3: raising your children. When you go to the workplace, you
- 1:39:32Speaker 3: do things that you do in a workplace, like working. Okay, Like,
- 1:39:40Speaker 3: what the hell this is? So what this discussion is
- 1:39:44Speaker 3: now about how to balance workplace? For well, I can
- 1:39:49Speaker 3: tell you right now, based on what I've researched, if
- 1:39:54Speaker 3: we want to actually stride confidently into the future as
- 1:39:58Speaker 3: a species that's self aware and as an actual chance
- 1:40:02Speaker 3: of getting off of its globe planet of birth, then
- 1:40:09Speaker 3: probably what we're going to do have to do is
- 1:40:12Speaker 3: encourage women to stay at home, and specifically very educated women,
- 1:40:18Speaker 3: and educate their children and spend that their time doing that,
- 1:40:23Speaker 3: because that will overall increase the intelligence quotion of the
- 1:40:27Speaker 3: human race. We can also do that with men. In fact,
- 1:40:29Speaker 3: the very best situation would be to encourage both men
- 1:40:32Speaker 3: and women to stay at home, highly educated or verious
- 1:40:36Speaker 3: intelligent men and women to stay at home and raise
- 1:40:38Speaker 3: their kids to raise the collective IQ. No eugenics required.
- 1:40:44Speaker 3: But here's the problem, and he softens it too. Feminism
- 1:40:49Speaker 3: didn't just say, oh, you're going to have the choice.
- 1:40:53Speaker 3: Feminism was pretty clear that it didn't want women to
- 1:40:56Speaker 3: have the choice not to go into the workplace. Yeah,
- 1:41:01Speaker 3: and that's what they aimed for. Well, okay, let's I.
- 1:41:03Speaker 1: Mean this, Well, let me let me give you a
- 1:41:06Speaker 1: little bit. I'm not gonna play it. But this guy
- 1:41:08Speaker 1: the set up the context of that comment she made.
- 1:41:11Speaker 1: What the So remember, guys, this is the New York Times.
- 1:41:15Speaker 1: They are already a feminist organization. The host is feminist.
- 1:41:19Speaker 1: The guy the woman on the right is feminist too,
- 1:41:21Speaker 1: even though she calls herself like a conservative feminist whatever
- 1:41:24Speaker 1: that means, that doesn't matter. She's a feminist. There's no like,
- 1:41:28Speaker 1: it's basically like feminists from twenty years ago, or maybe
- 1:41:30Speaker 1: thirty years ago, if I'm really charitable. And Helen Andrews
- 1:41:35Speaker 1: doesn't really state a position on that, Like no one's
- 1:41:38Speaker 1: asked her, are you a feminist? But she doesn't sound
- 1:41:40Speaker 1: like it's of interest to her, so like she's not
- 1:41:44Speaker 1: worried about losing her rights or her job or anything
- 1:41:47Speaker 1: like that. She's she's definitely on the spectrum. And I
- 1:41:50Speaker 1: kind of like her for that. But that's just me.
- 1:41:54Speaker 1: But that's the woman on the left is Helen the
- 1:41:56Speaker 1: woman the spurg I was talking tobout.
- 1:42:00Speaker 3: Okay, so uh, I was promised, I was promised female flaws.
- 1:42:06Speaker 3: Where are they?
- 1:42:07Speaker 1: Well, we'll get into that, so the guy says to
- 1:42:09Speaker 1: her before she answers, he says, I want to start
- 1:42:12Speaker 1: Leah with a fairly direct question about because you are
- 1:42:15Speaker 1: identifying yourself in your book as a particular kind of feminist,
- 1:42:19Speaker 1: and I want to ask you what is wrong with
- 1:42:21Speaker 1: existing feminism, liberal feminism and how it has failed women.
- 1:42:25Speaker 1: So I think the essential problem is that there is
- 1:42:27Speaker 1: a train, a strain of feminism that sees any difference
- 1:42:31Speaker 1: between men and women as a threat to our equality.
- 1:42:34Speaker 1: So this is like the I'm mentioning this context because
- 1:42:39Speaker 1: it's the foundation under which these ideas are coming from
- 1:42:44Speaker 1: for these two people, for the man in the center
- 1:42:46Speaker 1: and the woman on the right, which is that there
- 1:42:49Speaker 1: has to be a feminism that and there has to
- 1:42:53Speaker 1: be equality like whatever. And of course you know what
- 1:42:57Speaker 1: equality means is their version of equality with which is
- 1:43:00Speaker 1: just like are women taken care of?
- 1:43:02Speaker 3: Like?
- 1:43:02Speaker 1: That's basically what it means. It doesn't matter what men
- 1:43:04Speaker 1: doesn't matter, it's what are women taking care of? Okay, Right,
- 1:43:07Speaker 1: it's assumed that men's position is fine, and that's why
- 1:43:11Speaker 1: she goes into the thing about the basketball courts. So
- 1:43:14Speaker 1: I'm going to jump ahead to where it gets a
- 1:43:18Speaker 1: little bit more I guess contentious. Uh thirteen oh two.
- 1:43:23Speaker 1: This is a disagreement about whether, like if, if this
- 1:43:28Speaker 1: is this feminization is is explicit wokeness is explicitly feminine
- 1:43:32Speaker 1: or not.
- 1:43:33Speaker 7: A problem with wokeness?
- 1:43:35Speaker 5: No, I don't think so. I think America is a
- 1:43:37Speaker 5: country of repeated religious revival, and this was one of them.
- 1:43:40Speaker 5: It swept up both men and women and came out
- 1:43:42Speaker 5: of a fundamental sense of you know, what's wrong with us? Right,
- 1:43:46Speaker 5: the fundamental question. People are always asking what's wrong with us?
- 1:43:48Speaker 5: And what can we do about it? I think wocus
- 1:43:50Speaker 5: was deeply interested in questions about guilt, but had kind
- 1:43:54Speaker 5: of thin answers for how guilt.
- 1:43:56Speaker 3: I want to tell you where BOCS actually came from.
- 1:43:59Speaker 3: Right and right In the first Medium article that we
- 1:44:03Speaker 3: looked at, did you notice how she used advocacy for
- 1:44:08Speaker 3: all of the pet the monolithic raised capitalism to justify,
- 1:44:18Speaker 3: justify how women weren't to blame. Right, Yes, she used.
- 1:44:22Speaker 10: Them to to render women blameless, so women can't possibly
- 1:44:28Speaker 10: be as bad as men, or have problems or bring
- 1:44:31Speaker 10: flaws to the workplace because women protected the minorities.
- 1:44:37Speaker 3: That's where woke came from. It's just more of this.
- 1:44:43Speaker 1: Woke is just it's just it's just feminism. It's just
- 1:44:46Speaker 1: like another brand of it. Though like it, I think
- 1:44:49Speaker 1: that this kind of intersectional, progressive UH set of beliefs
- 1:44:53Speaker 1: are very old. They just have a new name. They're
- 1:44:56Speaker 1: not new though. Like you can look at the six
- 1:45:00Speaker 1: these when you had like weather Underground and the womanism
- 1:45:06Speaker 1: which was like I think it was womanism which was
- 1:45:08Speaker 1: like black feminism, but that was just intersectional feminism for
- 1:45:11Speaker 1: and then queer feminism was a thing back then, and
- 1:45:14Speaker 1: like you had all the queer theorists, like the Judith
- 1:45:16Speaker 1: Butler's and stuff. So this isn't new. It's just like
- 1:45:20Speaker 1: resurged in the mainstream because of things like me Too
- 1:45:26Speaker 1: and BLM and such. But it's not a new idea.
- 1:45:30Speaker 1: And of course you know it's headed up by women.
- 1:45:33Speaker 1: So I mean that's I'm sorry, Ilica, I'm mean to
- 1:45:37Speaker 1: cut you off.
- 1:45:38Speaker 3: No, it's okay, We're not a gaggle of Canucks. Brian
- 1:45:41Speaker 3: is American special chat popped in. Okay, let's let's keep going.
- 1:45:47Speaker 1: All right, all right, let's go.
- 1:45:49Speaker 5: But I see this is less of a significant deviation
- 1:45:51Speaker 5: from other parts of American history.
- 1:45:53Speaker 7: Let me ask you though, about wokeness in particular.
- 1:45:55Speaker 3: So that's I don't have to take responsibility for that
- 1:45:58Speaker 3: because I've identified it. Yeah, but even if it is
- 1:46:02Speaker 3: a religious resurgence, it's deeply tied to women and feminism.
- 1:46:08Speaker 3: So she basically saying, oh that, so this one woman
- 1:46:10Speaker 3: is saying that's a flaw. Well, women bring rocism into
- 1:46:13Speaker 3: the and she's saying, no, it's it's a flaw of
- 1:46:15Speaker 3: religion and also religious men, religious men and women, but
- 1:46:19Speaker 3: mostly religious men. So it's a flaw of Christianity. And
- 1:46:23Speaker 3: by Christianity, I mean white men who are conservative. So
- 1:46:27Speaker 3: it's a flaw of conserv You see, wokeness is actually
- 1:46:29Speaker 3: by transitive property, is actually a flaw of Republican white
- 1:46:36Speaker 3: men or any kind of conservative men. Do you see
- 1:46:40Speaker 3: this now? Do you see how that works? My DearS?
- 1:46:43Speaker 1: Do you see yeah?
- 1:46:46Speaker 3: Conservatives need to take responsibility for pushing wokeness on the world.
- 1:46:52Speaker 3: That's the most Does anybody just stop women like this
- 1:46:55Speaker 3: and say, okay, no.
- 1:46:59Speaker 11: You're right, woman, a quiet woman to your own argument,
- 1:47:04Speaker 11: do you write a society that cannot imagine placing the
- 1:47:07Speaker 11: week at its center, that forgets that society exists for
- 1:47:10Speaker 11: the week will be drawn toward the mannecout modes of
- 1:47:13Speaker 11: cancel culture, right, m hmm, it will be.
- 1:47:17Speaker 3: Drawn to cancel culture. Oh oh, So she's basically saying, okay,
- 1:47:23Speaker 3: so if you don't put the week at the center, okay,
- 1:47:26Speaker 3: but that's not what a business is for. You aren't
- 1:47:33Speaker 3: given stuff because you're weak. You're expected to do stuff
- 1:47:38Speaker 3: using your strengths. No, and and the thing is that
- 1:47:42Speaker 3: the problem with this rhetoric is when women say, oh,
- 1:47:44Speaker 3: we need to put weight women or weakness at the center,
- 1:47:47Speaker 3: they mean they need to put it everywhere. The mean
- 1:47:51Speaker 3: it's like we need to put nuke spent nuclear fuel
- 1:47:54Speaker 3: rods in the set. No. No, we're just gonna put
- 1:47:56Speaker 3: them in everybody's pocket and their luggage. We're gonna throw
- 1:48:00Speaker 3: We're gonna hand them out at like cafeterias and schools.
- 1:48:03Speaker 3: It's just gonna get everywhere. They don't we did. She
- 1:48:06Speaker 3: doesn't mean that weakness needs to be safely contained where
- 1:48:10Speaker 3: it can be tended to without interrupting all of the
- 1:48:13Speaker 3: other functions of society. She means it should be everywhere.
- 1:48:16Speaker 3: Just throw those nuclear fruel rods and parades to kids,
- 1:48:19Speaker 3: you just everywhere, just just everywhere. Just let them roll
- 1:48:23Speaker 3: down the streets, in the sewers, in people's lunch pails,
- 1:48:28Speaker 3: like everywhere. Yeah, okay, all right.
- 1:48:34Speaker 8: So you're looking at the same phenomenon that Helen is
- 1:48:36Speaker 8: looking at, and you're saying, well, there's not enough respect
- 1:48:39Speaker 8: for dependence and weakness don't you think that wokeness, whether
- 1:48:43Speaker 8: it is a sort of feminized phenomena, there.
- 1:48:45Speaker 3: Is not enough respect for dependence and weakness.
- 1:48:52Speaker 1: Yeah, let let's let her get to.
- 1:48:54Speaker 8: Her argument, certainly in its own self conception a mode
- 1:48:59Speaker 8: of trying to get people to care about the week.
- 1:49:01Speaker 5: I think this is where we couple that first an
- 1:49:04Speaker 5: orientation towards the weak, a preferential option towards the poor,
- 1:49:06Speaker 5: with true seeking right. They do go together. The weakness
- 1:49:09Speaker 5: of a baby is pretty incontrovertible. The moral status of
- 1:49:12Speaker 5: a baby is where people start to have a philosophical fight.
- 1:49:14Speaker 5: I see a lot of the kind of frenzy of
- 1:49:17Speaker 5: wokeness around people, of a sense of could it be
- 1:49:19Speaker 5: true that, in a meaningful sense, I'm complicit in systems
- 1:49:22Speaker 5: of evil? This zeal for moral concern, that's good.
- 1:49:25Speaker 3: Okay, this is funny coming from a avatar of possibly
- 1:49:31Speaker 3: the most evil act, one of the most evil freakin acts. Like, No,
- 1:49:36Speaker 3: you don't get to lecture or even conceptualize on this issue, lady,
- 1:49:40Speaker 3: until you purge yourself of sins, and you purge your
- 1:49:44Speaker 3: freaking ideological position of the unbelievable level of deceit that
- 1:49:54Speaker 3: you engaged in like I can't emphasize this enough, guys.
- 1:49:59Speaker 3: Feminism colonized academia submit forced it to submit to, denying
- 1:50:07Speaker 3: its own stated principles transparency, empiricism and all of the
- 1:50:15Speaker 3: empirical rigor all of its stated principles. Feminism made academia
- 1:50:22Speaker 3: it's bitch and then turned it into like a like
- 1:50:26Speaker 3: a virus and sec effecting a cell, turned it into
- 1:50:29Speaker 3: a factory for its own lies, for justifying and presenting
- 1:50:36Speaker 3: or creating evidence for its own lives, for its own premises,
- 1:50:39Speaker 3: which were never subject to any kind of neutral scrutiny
- 1:50:43Speaker 3: to truve if they were true or not. She is
- 1:50:46Speaker 3: sitting on the biggest ethical scandal in academia, and she's
- 1:50:52Speaker 3: beaking off about being everybody else has to think about.
- 1:50:56Speaker 3: Am I part of a system of evil? Well you
- 1:50:59Speaker 3: start with you, You start with addressing that. Of course,
- 1:51:02Speaker 3: she's never gonna hear me, nobody like nobody's ever going
- 1:51:05Speaker 3: to tell her. If you want to call yourself feminist,
- 1:51:08Speaker 3: why don't you address that absolute violation of humanity like
- 1:51:17Speaker 3: this is this is this is This behavior by feminists
- 1:51:22Speaker 3: is in the same category as Soviet control, like a
- 1:51:27Speaker 3: Stalinis Soviet control over academia, not seek control over academic
- 1:51:34Speaker 3: ideological capture of academia, absolute violation of academia. And she
- 1:51:39Speaker 3: has the audacity to sit there and pontificate about being
- 1:51:43Speaker 3: complicit in.
- 1:51:44Speaker 9: Systems of evil, which incidentally she bases.
- 1:51:48Speaker 3: On that ideological capture of academia manufacturing evidence, and I
- 1:51:54Speaker 3: mean manufacturing because it's not actually creating evidence that you
- 1:51:59Speaker 3: that is proven. It's just manufactured evidence for an already
- 1:52:03Speaker 3: chosen premise. And then she uses all of that to
- 1:52:07Speaker 3: cast shade on everyone else. Oh are you in No,
- 1:52:12Speaker 3: Absolutely nobody is complicit in a system of evil except
- 1:52:17Speaker 3: you and all of the corporate bullshit and government bullshit
- 1:52:22Speaker 3: that you are enabling. Everybody else is just trying to
- 1:52:26Speaker 3: do their fucking job and pay for their fake fucking
- 1:52:30Speaker 3: family and make sure their cat doesn't die of some
- 1:52:32Speaker 3: weird fucking disease.
- 1:52:34Speaker 9: You're the one who's sitting there and opining on.
- 1:52:38Speaker 3: The back of an absolutely ravaged academic integrity. You just
- 1:52:45Speaker 3: sitting there like she's freaking krawl on her freaking mound
- 1:52:48Speaker 3: of skulls, saying everybody else's will think about We've gotta
- 1:52:53Speaker 3: think about what you did. You complicit with systems of
- 1:52:57Speaker 3: death on her fucking mound of skulls, drinking from a skull.
- 1:53:02Speaker 3: You guys, you need to realize, all of you people,
- 1:53:05Speaker 3: you need to be realized you're part of an evil system.
- 1:53:08Speaker 3: Glug glug glug as she drinks from her skull. Fucking
- 1:53:11Speaker 3: mug like this is infuriating. Yeah, sorry, I'm slightly infuriated
- 1:53:22Speaker 3: by this.
- 1:53:23Speaker 1: It's all right, Okay, So okay, let's keep going.
- 1:53:30Speaker 5: I think put things right in a situation where I'm
- 1:53:32Speaker 5: constantly entangled with at least a partial cooperation with evil.
- 1:53:36Speaker 5: That's a good question. How do you put it right?
- 1:53:38Speaker 5: Is not primarily through self flagellation. It's through active doing good.
- 1:53:42Speaker 7: What about it?
- 1:53:44Speaker 3: It's through telling women like this to go go away
- 1:53:51Speaker 3: and shut up. I can't, I can't emphasize this enough. Yeah,
- 1:53:58Speaker 3: she is lying about society. Feminism has been lying about
- 1:54:02Speaker 3: society since the sixties, and in order to buttress those lies,
- 1:54:07Speaker 3: they have been discriminating against men in some of the
- 1:54:10Speaker 3: most vulnerable situations homelessness, sexual assault, domestic violence, right, false accusation,
- 1:54:18Speaker 3: father's losing custody. They have been discriminating against these men.
- 1:54:23Speaker 3: She talks about Oh, we should protect the vulnerable. How
- 1:54:26Speaker 3: should How about we spend a moment to think about
- 1:54:30Speaker 3: the situation of those people who we never regard as vulnerable. No,
- 1:54:34Speaker 3: she's not gonna do that, And these are her victims
- 1:54:38Speaker 3: as she opines about how everyone else.
- 1:54:41Speaker 9: And she has the sacred knowledge, you see, she has
- 1:54:44Speaker 9: the sacred knowledge of who is moral and who is
- 1:54:48Speaker 9: complicit in the system of evil. And her sacred knowledge
- 1:54:52Speaker 9: is really really true, except it isn't.
- 1:54:56Speaker 3: It's all lies. And she looks like she's really nice, right,
- 1:55:01Speaker 3: she seems like friendly, and she's the perfect avatar for
- 1:55:06Speaker 3: this evil fucking and I and when I say evil,
- 1:55:10Speaker 3: I got the receipts. This isn't just some vague Oh
- 1:55:13Speaker 3: you have patriarchal privilege or your ability to be on time?
- 1:55:17Speaker 3: Is is whitism? This is verifiable receipts of how feminism
- 1:55:24Speaker 3: co opted academia to push a narrative that destroys societies,
- 1:55:30Speaker 3: that destroys men, that destroys women, that destroys families, and
- 1:55:36Speaker 3: why for its own benefit. Of course, that is true evil.
- 1:55:43Speaker 3: That's true evil is to believe that your benefit is
- 1:55:48Speaker 3: something that is more important than anything else in society,
- 1:55:53Speaker 3: and that is what she is a mouthpiece for everything
- 1:56:00Speaker 3: should be sacrificed for the altar of feminism, whatever you
- 1:56:03Speaker 3: call it, conservative feminism, liberal feminism. Everything needs to be
- 1:56:08Speaker 3: sacrificed for that.
- 1:56:10Speaker 8: Okay, yeah, look, we are going to give special attention
- 1:56:16Speaker 8: to people who are disadvantaged, who you know, who are
- 1:56:20Speaker 8: sort of represent a tradition of suffering or disadvantage, who
- 1:56:24Speaker 8: come from disadvantaged minorities or the disadvantage sex or gender,
- 1:56:27Speaker 8: as the case may be, right and essentially give them
- 1:56:30Speaker 8: a special leg up, special deference in debate. And that's
- 1:56:33Speaker 8: the place where Helen immediately says, this is you've lost
- 1:56:35Speaker 8: you've lost truth seeking and you know, maybe you've become
- 1:56:39Speaker 8: too feminized.
- 1:56:39Speaker 7: But what I.
- 1:56:40Speaker 5: Wouldn't say difference in debate. I would say, so, okay,
- 1:56:44Speaker 5: she's lost.
- 1:56:45Speaker 1: By the way, the guy the moderator is I don't
- 1:56:47Speaker 1: know if this is a debate per se, but they
- 1:56:49Speaker 1: definitely have disagreements. The guy in the middle is definitely
- 1:56:52Speaker 1: like on the woman on the right side, and he's
- 1:56:58Speaker 1: trying to, you know, basically like give her like I
- 1:57:02Speaker 1: don't nudging or whatever.
- 1:57:04Speaker 3: So I see that, I see that Helen Andrews is
- 1:57:08Speaker 3: lost interest a little. She's looking at the she's looking
- 1:57:13Speaker 3: at the wall stuff.
- 1:57:16Speaker 1: Well, the frames, the frames are whatever, they're they're a
- 1:57:19Speaker 1: little they're a little awkward because they're not quite the same.
- 1:57:23Speaker 3: Yes, I didn't Oh, yeah, you're right, I didn't even
- 1:57:25Speaker 3: notice that. She's probably noticing it. It's probably more interesting
- 1:57:33Speaker 3: than what these two POGs are doing over there justifying.
- 1:57:36Speaker 3: And you know why, you know why they do this?
- 1:57:39Speaker 3: Money money, money, it's so funny. In a feminist world,
- 1:57:45Speaker 3: money money.
- 1:57:46Speaker 1: They couldn't do this. They have to get real jobs.
- 1:57:49Speaker 3: Yeah, because somehow advocating for the vulnerable always means giving
- 1:57:54Speaker 3: a really really big salary to some wealthy socialite from
- 1:57:59Speaker 3: New York. But that, somehow, it's just you know, it's
- 1:58:05Speaker 3: just it's just the way it works. It's just natural law.
- 1:58:08Speaker 5: I guess, okay, all right, kind ofness to what kind
- 1:58:13Speaker 5: of policies are appropram Here's where draw a big distinction,
- 1:58:15Speaker 5: being two attempts to do a special justice to the
- 1:58:18Speaker 5: most disadvantage students, one of which you know, went very
- 1:58:20Speaker 5: badly and one of which is going very well. The
- 1:58:22Speaker 5: idea of we don't have enough students of color in
- 1:58:24Speaker 5: our algebra classes at middle.
- 1:58:25Speaker 3: Kate, all right, all right, I'm calling it now. Let's
- 1:58:29Speaker 3: get the actual actual discussion of the topic, not caping
- 1:58:35Speaker 3: for feminism, because I'm pretty sure that what her presentation
- 1:58:40Speaker 3: is is that women should be in the workplace because.
- 1:58:44Speaker 1: They jump ahead to a juicy bit.
- 1:58:47Speaker 3: So okay, but can I just is am I characterizing
- 1:58:51Speaker 3: this correctly? Is her conclusion is that women should be
- 1:58:55Speaker 3: in the workplace because they make sure that they marginalize
- 1:59:01Speaker 3: have a voice or something.
- 1:59:03Speaker 1: I think that she's saying that Helen Andrews's essay has
- 1:59:08Speaker 1: some merits, but that she is too mean to women
- 1:59:13Speaker 1: in it. I think that's what it is, like we
- 1:59:15Speaker 1: should be we should be focused on helping the disadvantage.
- 1:59:19Speaker 1: And of course the assumption is women are disadvantage, because
- 1:59:23Speaker 1: that's what the New York Times guy in the middle
- 1:59:25Speaker 1: was saying, Well, women I have it worse right all
- 1:59:27Speaker 1: the time forever, And she's like, yeah, I guess they do,
- 1:59:30Speaker 1: so we should maybe we should be a little bit, like,
- 1:59:33Speaker 1: you know, more charitable to them. And Helen is like,
- 1:59:37Speaker 1: that doesn't fit. I know, that's not right. This is
- 1:59:42Speaker 1: the problem. They're not that weak. They do cause problems,
- 1:59:46Speaker 1: they do have toxicity so I'm gonna go to the bit.
- 1:59:50Speaker 3: Where what I was gonna say is this. Yeah, you
- 1:59:52Speaker 3: notice how this rhetoric of weakness always seems to land
- 1:59:55Speaker 3: on either caping for white liberal women like this or
- 2:00:00Speaker 3: feminist women, or making sure that they are the primary
- 2:00:03Speaker 3: recipients of DEI and other beanies like this. This is
- 2:00:11Speaker 3: what they do. Okay, let's keep going.
- 2:00:14Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, I'm gonna jump ahead to let's see
- 2:00:20Speaker 1: tension around female virtues and vices. So forty nine oh two.
- 2:00:25Speaker 1: It's kind of far ahead, but we've been going for
- 2:00:27Speaker 1: like two hours, and I think you got the gist
- 2:00:30Speaker 1: of the other things.
- 2:00:31Speaker 5: So in some sense, though, and female advices are about gossiping, backbiting, irrationality, ostracism.
- 2:00:39Speaker 5: I never got a sense of whether there were female
- 2:00:41Speaker 5: vice virtues at all from your piece, genuinely, and that's
- 2:00:44Speaker 5: why he's not even comprehensive with it.
- 2:00:48Speaker 1: Should I go back a bit more? Do you want to.
- 2:00:50Speaker 3: Usership is a female vice?
- 2:00:53Speaker 1: Yeah, Censorship, canceling people losing the like Helen Andrews goes
- 2:00:58Speaker 1: into it in Her in Her Peace.
- 2:01:00Speaker 3: Maybe we should read it.
- 2:01:02Speaker 1: I sent it to you like a while ago.
- 2:01:05Speaker 3: Yes, Oh, I didn't read.
- 2:01:08Speaker 1: It probably great feminization. I send it to you like
- 2:01:13Speaker 1: a week or two weeks ago so by Helen Andrews
- 2:01:18Speaker 1: on Substack, and everyone's talking about it.
- 2:01:23Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 2:01:25Speaker 1: Is the piece wasn't about. It wasn't supposed to be like,
- 2:01:29Speaker 1: here's what men do well and that are good about them,
- 2:01:31Speaker 1: here's what's not good about them, and here's what's good
- 2:01:34Speaker 1: about women, and here's not what's not so good about
- 2:01:36Speaker 1: That wasn't what it was about. It was saying our
- 2:01:39Speaker 1: entire workplace political and like every institution is becoming feminized,
- 2:01:45Speaker 1: and there are problems with it that no one seems
- 2:01:49Speaker 1: to want to address. So I'm going to try to
- 2:01:52Speaker 1: bring them up.
- 2:01:53Speaker 3: And talk and risk aversion. Are the two big problems
- 2:01:57Speaker 3: that I see women have? Yeah, and that those are
- 2:02:01Speaker 3: the two problems that are that is going to kill
- 2:02:03Speaker 3: the print the publishing industry. Sorry I've said printing, I
- 2:02:06Speaker 3: meant publishing.
- 2:02:07Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 2:02:08Speaker 3: There there, those are the two problems that are going
- 2:02:10Speaker 3: to massively kill the publishing and we can I can
- 2:02:12Speaker 3: actually discuss that because I think it's relevant to the
- 2:02:14Speaker 3: issue of of virtues and vices. Just going through Coral,
- 2:02:19Speaker 3: it doesn't look like there's an extensive argument oh so,
- 2:02:24Speaker 3: uh it looks like Lee Libresco pushes back somewhat on
- 2:02:28Speaker 3: characterizing these behaviors as exclusively feminine, noting such issues occur
- 2:02:32Speaker 3: in both men and women and are related to Yeah, okay,
- 2:02:36Speaker 3: so basically, she's this woman is saying there are there
- 2:02:39Speaker 3: are vices that women bring to the workplace that they
- 2:02:42Speaker 3: are unaccounted for, and this other woman is saying, no,
- 2:02:45Speaker 3: those are just those are just human ills. There's no liney.
- 2:02:48Speaker 1: Yeah, she's like, couldn't these just be human problems? And
- 2:02:53Speaker 1: but uh, I mean sure, but like again, the problem
- 2:02:57Speaker 1: is not that they exist or even that people pointed out.
- 2:03:01Speaker 1: The problem is the response to them is not the
- 2:03:05Speaker 1: same if men have like, uh, I think that at
- 2:03:09Speaker 1: one point they get into a thing where Helen Andrews
- 2:03:12Speaker 1: says that, you know, there might be like a like
- 2:03:14Speaker 1: a centerfold image in like a men's workspace, like in
- 2:03:17Speaker 1: the back somewhere, and no one else but the men
- 2:03:19Speaker 1: can see it. And she's like, yeah, it's a big
- 2:03:22Speaker 1: ghost or whatever. But it's not like a big deal,
- 2:03:25Speaker 1: you know, And this woman is like, well that's not appropriate,
- 2:03:29Speaker 1: Like that shouldn't be there, right, So, like there's a
- 2:03:31Speaker 1: different and so what she's saying is whether she knows
- 2:03:33Speaker 1: it or not, that should be canceled. And that is like,
- 2:03:37Speaker 1: you know, unacceptable, but that like if men are like
- 2:03:41Speaker 1: you know, like Lindsay where she works, she's the only
- 2:03:45Speaker 1: woman in the department, and she's like a meat cutter.
- 2:03:48Speaker 1: She works with a bunch of meat cutters and these
- 2:03:49Speaker 1: are all like, you know, big like hairy southern guys.
- 2:03:54Speaker 1: They all curse, well, they're not that big. One guy's big.
- 2:03:57Speaker 1: The rest are all little guys, but like you know,
- 2:03:59Speaker 1: they're foul mouth and they say, like they make racists
- 2:04:03Speaker 1: and sexist jokes all the time, and Lindsay finds it refreshing.
- 2:04:06Speaker 1: She's like, wow, this is like so much fun to
- 2:04:08Speaker 1: be around. But they know they can't do that anywhere
- 2:04:11Speaker 1: else because like it's a specifically the meat department is
- 2:04:15Speaker 1: male dominated. The other sections like produce and the deli
- 2:04:19Speaker 1: and like the wellness area and that's all women, right,
- 2:04:22Speaker 1: So that's a completely different vibe, and Lindsay doesn't want
- 2:04:25Speaker 1: anything to do with it, but like there's nothing like
- 2:04:28Speaker 1: that's but that's like so that people who go to
- 2:04:30Speaker 1: work like they can like take a little bit of
- 2:04:33Speaker 1: their I don't know, home with them, and men in particular,
- 2:04:36Speaker 1: they like that. They want to be They don't want
- 2:04:38Speaker 1: to go to work and be worried about what they say.
- 2:04:41Speaker 1: You know. They just want to focus on their job,
- 2:04:44Speaker 1: so you know, and these guys do and they just
- 2:04:47Speaker 1: have little fun while they're at it, you know.
- 2:04:50Speaker 3: Yeah, so yeah, I mean, and yeah, that's not that's
- 2:04:54Speaker 3: and yet they're policed and that's not seen as innocuous
- 2:04:58Speaker 3: because in this this is the big thing that is
- 2:05:01Speaker 3: the big problem with women in the workplace. It's women's
- 2:05:05Speaker 3: feelings and subjectivity that become the standard that everybody else
- 2:05:10Speaker 3: has to live by.
- 2:05:12Speaker 5: Is that fair? No? No, A.
- 2:05:17Speaker 3: Men are too used to just abiding by it. I'm
- 2:05:21Speaker 3: glad that this woman is calling that out. I don't
- 2:05:23Speaker 3: know if she does call that out specifically. I just
- 2:05:25Speaker 3: find it hilarious that these two POGs are talking to
- 2:05:28Speaker 3: each other and she's looking up at the wall, like, Wow,
- 2:05:31Speaker 3: this isn't relevant to my interests. Your entire conversation is
- 2:05:35Speaker 3: pointless and stupid.
- 2:05:38Speaker 1: But anyway, so I think her name is Leah. She's
- 2:05:42Speaker 1: trying to get hell in to answer the question, why
- 2:05:45Speaker 1: didn't I see any female virtues in your piece? Why
- 2:05:49Speaker 1: were none of my virtues on your list. As the
- 2:05:51Speaker 1: quote from Gladiator goes, I got a.
- 2:05:53Speaker 5: Sense of balance for the men, but not for the women.
- 2:05:55Speaker 4: I saw that you made that criticism elsewhere.
- 2:05:58Speaker 5: If it's a question, it's only a criticism depending on.
- 2:06:00Speaker 4: Your If you want to know what I like about women,
- 2:06:03Speaker 4: you know that's not going to ask me in.
- 2:06:09Speaker 3: Like, seriously, it's a bitch, what are you talking about?
- 2:06:14Speaker 1: Alson, she's saying, with a smile on her face.
- 2:06:16Speaker 3: No, look at look at the actual body line.
- 2:06:19Speaker 1: I know, I know, I know.
- 2:06:21Speaker 3: This means you know what this means. It means contempt.
- 2:06:25Speaker 3: It means contempt. What, Yeah, it means fucking contempt. She
- 2:06:32Speaker 3: is expressing overt contempt. This woman, it's like, and her
- 2:06:38Speaker 3: body language is extremely aggressive. Right, that is like she
- 2:06:49Speaker 3: is being a bully contempt and ironically the woman on
- 2:06:55Speaker 3: like Helen is still demonstrating the posture of equality. Right,
- 2:07:05Speaker 3: she's looking at her square on. She doesn't have her.
- 2:07:08Speaker 12: Jaw tilted up like she's the moral authority, she's the
- 2:07:14Speaker 12: one on top and that you have to kiss the ring, right,
- 2:07:20Speaker 12: She's not doing that.
- 2:07:21Speaker 3: She's looking straight ahead. I probably part of it is autism.
- 2:07:24Speaker 3: She doesn't have that kind of shoulders forward. She's just
- 2:07:28Speaker 3: sitting neutrally right. This woman is projecting a lot of
- 2:07:34Speaker 3: energy at her and she's probably used to getting people
- 2:07:36Speaker 3: to submit to her in other contexts. But Helen is
- 2:07:39Speaker 3: probably too autistic to pick it up. And I know
- 2:07:43Speaker 3: this makes people uncomfortable because it's an analysis of body
- 2:07:46Speaker 3: language and facial expression. But that's what she's projecting. She's
- 2:07:53Speaker 3: projecting attempted moral dominance and contempt. Yeah, okay, that would
- 2:08:01Speaker 3: be a very uncomfortable to be in.
- 2:08:03Speaker 5: It's a question. It's only a criticism depending on your answer.
- 2:08:06Speaker 4: I know what I like about women.
- 2:08:08Speaker 5: You know, that's not what you can ask me.
- 2:08:10Speaker 4: In fact, I am from me an entire essay on
- 2:08:13Speaker 4: the subject what I like about what my rates are?
- 2:08:15Speaker 7: Very reason What do you like about women? Helen?
- 2:08:18Speaker 4: Well, just to finish that particular thought before I answer
- 2:08:21Speaker 4: that question, Uh, it's it's a little bit feminine, honestly,
- 2:08:25Speaker 4: to focus on my likes and dislikes I don't like
- 2:08:28Speaker 4: about myself world.
- 2:08:32Speaker 1: You see. That was good though, she says, you know
- 2:08:34Speaker 1: what you're doing right now is pretty feminine.
- 2:08:40Speaker 3: God damn, that's really expressing some disgust towards Keller.
- 2:08:45Speaker 6: Do you know what.
- 2:08:48Speaker 1: Yeah, I thought that was a good. That was a good,
- 2:08:51Speaker 1: like it was a counter Yeah. Before I answer that question.
- 2:08:58Speaker 3: Derek Workman, look at the chin. It's up. That's not
- 2:09:03Speaker 3: bad posture. She is moving forward. She's not slouched. That
- 2:09:08Speaker 3: would be a completely different kind of posture. There's this
- 2:09:12Speaker 3: is slouching right, leaning forward, shoulders curled, chin up, very
- 2:09:23Speaker 3: different kind of posture. No, that's that's discussed.
- 2:09:28Speaker 10: Not confusion.
- 2:09:29Speaker 3: I know I'm talking to a bunch of autists you
- 2:09:31Speaker 3: probably can't identify for now I'm talking about I'm not
- 2:09:34Speaker 3: saying that. No, that looks like Nope, it looks like disgusted.
- 2:09:39Speaker 3: I mean to be slightly confusion, because they're fairly similar
- 2:09:41Speaker 3: emotions sometimes, or they look similar sometimes. But to me,
- 2:09:45Speaker 3: that looks like disgusted. And you know, I mean, you
- 2:09:49Speaker 3: take it for what it is. But I do draw
- 2:09:53Speaker 3: people's expressions in a storytelling context. So can let's let's continue.
- 2:09:59Speaker 1: All right.
- 2:10:02Speaker 4: I am telling you that when I look at the world,
- 2:10:04Speaker 4: I do not see any institutions that are currently suffering
- 2:10:08Speaker 4: from an excess or an insufficient feminization.
- 2:10:12Speaker 5: Helen, I don't care about your likes and dislikes, because
- 2:10:14Speaker 5: that's not what I found compelling about your poo.
- 2:10:16Speaker 3: Okay, well, okay, then why were you kept asking her?
- 2:10:20Speaker 3: Let's go back for a second. What were you asking her?
- 2:10:26Speaker 2: Uh?
- 2:10:26Speaker 1: Yeah, so yes, are like, what are some virtues femine virtues?
- 2:10:34Speaker 4: I am telling you that when I look at the world,
- 2:10:36Speaker 4: I know.
- 2:10:37Speaker 3: You got to go back further. I'm pretty sure that
- 2:10:39Speaker 3: she said, what do you like about? Okay, just a second,
- 2:10:44Speaker 3: And that's why I'm asking yo dead lead on discension
- 2:10:49Speaker 3: towards women in some sense though. The one thing I
- 2:10:54Speaker 3: really couldn't get purchased on from your essay is I
- 2:10:56Speaker 3: got a very clear sense of masculine vice and masculine virtue.
- 2:10:59Speaker 3: That masculine virtue about risk taking, about you know, embracing chances,
- 2:11:02Speaker 3: brotherhood fighting, making up a comfort with turbulence, right, and
- 2:11:08Speaker 3: master advices are about vulgarity, you know, uh, condescension towards
- 2:11:12Speaker 3: women in some sense though, and feminal advices are about gossiping, backbiting, irrationality, ostracism.
- 2:11:19Speaker 3: I never got a sense of whether there were female
- 2:11:21Speaker 3: vice virtues at all from your piece, genuinely, and that's
- 2:11:24Speaker 3: why I'm asking I got a sense of balance for
- 2:11:26Speaker 3: the men, but not for the women.
- 2:11:28Speaker 4: I saw that you made that criticism elsewhere. If it's
- 2:11:31Speaker 4: a question, it's only a criticism depending on your answer.
- 2:11:33Speaker 4: If you want to know what I like about women,
- 2:11:35Speaker 4: you know that's not like going to ask me from
- 2:11:38Speaker 4: an entire essay on the subject, what I like about
- 2:11:41Speaker 4: what fe rates are?
- 2:11:42Speaker 7: Very reason what do you like about women? Helen?
- 2:11:44Speaker 1: So the guys the one that says what do you
- 2:11:46Speaker 1: like about women?
- 2:11:47Speaker 3: Well, but it's after she says what I like about women?
- 2:11:50Speaker 3: I think she means what I recognize is positive about women? Yeah,
- 2:11:57Speaker 3: and I like And honestly, the like and dislike argument
- 2:12:02Speaker 3: is is feminine. So she wanted her to identify virtues,
- 2:12:10Speaker 3: and I would say that why do you need to
- 2:12:13Speaker 3: be flattered constantly?
- 2:12:16Speaker 1: Like? For me, I think that she's trying to be like.
- 2:12:19Speaker 1: It sounds to me like you can't find any virtues
- 2:12:22Speaker 1: in women in your peace like her piece should have
- 2:12:25Speaker 1: had balance in it, but Helen's piece, the objective was
- 2:12:29Speaker 1: not balanced. The objective was to identify a problem with
- 2:12:35Speaker 1: the feminization of workplaces as well as the political sphere,
- 2:12:41Speaker 1: and most importantly, when she talks about in her piece
- 2:12:44Speaker 1: the political and legal space, because she's saying that rule
- 2:12:49Speaker 1: of law and due process and all these things that
- 2:12:53Speaker 1: we need like actual objective and dare I say, masculine
- 2:12:59Speaker 1: approach to are being feminized and they're being made subjective
- 2:13:03Speaker 1: in postmodern and that's a problem. And so like, it
- 2:13:08Speaker 1: wasn't the appropriate context to be like, here are all
- 2:13:13Speaker 1: the good things that women do? Like that wasn't what
- 2:13:15Speaker 1: the piece was about. That would be like me saying
- 2:13:18Speaker 1: I'm going to write an essay about grilled cheese sandwiches,
- 2:13:21Speaker 1: and then you're like, you didn't say anything about tomato
- 2:13:23Speaker 1: soup because that goes really well with the grilled cheese.
- 2:13:27Speaker 1: But I didn't hear it once in your in your entire.
- 2:13:29Speaker 3: Piece about making her emotions dictate what can be written
- 2:13:33Speaker 3: about basically, which is as Helen says, it's very feminine. Okay,
- 2:13:38Speaker 3: let's let's conclude this. You know it's.
- 2:13:41Speaker 4: Yeah, well, just to finish that particular thought before I
- 2:13:45Speaker 4: answer that question, Uh, it's it's a little bit feminine, honestly,
- 2:13:49Speaker 4: to focus on my likes and dislikes.
- 2:13:51Speaker 1: I'm not asking, don't And she's telling this guy that
- 2:13:53Speaker 1: about that. Yeah, I got a discussed expression. That's that's
- 2:13:57Speaker 1: probably why, because she's telling him, you're being feminine.
- 2:14:01Speaker 3: So it's also feminine to focus on flattery when we're
- 2:14:06Speaker 3: talking brass tacks here. Yeah, learn to live without being
- 2:14:11Speaker 3: flattered lady. Here's the thing. What worth is it to
- 2:14:19Speaker 3: say that women have all these benefits?
- 2:14:21Speaker 1: Like?
- 2:14:21Speaker 3: Are women are all good in all of these ways?
- 2:14:23Speaker 3: Who cares?
- 2:14:25Speaker 1: Yes? I guess like they think that if a person
- 2:14:27Speaker 1: does a bunch of like flattery before they start they
- 2:14:31Speaker 1: make their land acknowledgments, then maybe their criticisms will be
- 2:14:36Speaker 1: worth it, like they're worth listening to and make them more.
- 2:14:40Speaker 3: They won't listen to them, to them anyway, They just
- 2:14:42Speaker 3: want the land acknowledgement. But here's the thing, Like, when
- 2:14:45Speaker 3: you are told drawbacks or vices that women have, you
- 2:14:53Speaker 3: can endeavor as an individual to overcome them. Right. That
- 2:14:57Speaker 3: means that it frames your more moral agency as an individual. Okay,
- 2:15:04Speaker 3: isn't that more important than being told that you have
- 2:15:09Speaker 3: these these these things just by virtue of existing? Like
- 2:15:14Speaker 3: I mean, I know I say that men have virtues,
- 2:15:16Speaker 3: but they never get told that ever. Right, And in
- 2:15:19Speaker 3: a lot of cases, what happens in society will insist
- 2:15:23Speaker 3: that men don't have those virtues that it relies on
- 2:15:27Speaker 3: in order to make men give up those virtues for nothing.
- 2:15:32Speaker 3: And I'm calling that kind of thing out. But here
- 2:15:34Speaker 3: it's like, why wouldn't you prefer the vices? Why wouldn't
- 2:15:38Speaker 3: you prefer the discussion about the vices, because that puts
- 2:15:40Speaker 3: the emphasis back on you and your individual choices. I
- 2:15:46Speaker 3: don't give a crap about all of the beanies, like
- 2:15:49Speaker 3: the goodie bag that apparently I get as a woman.
- 2:15:52Speaker 3: And it's not not like privilege. It's just all the
- 2:15:54Speaker 3: cool all of the things that I make the world better,
- 2:15:57Speaker 3: even though I do nothing to earn it like this,
- 2:16:02Speaker 3: this is the big problem, was one of them. I mean,
- 2:16:05Speaker 3: I've had a lot of big problems. Why are women
- 2:16:08Speaker 3: so obsessed with flattery when that flatterly is meaningless. Like
- 2:16:16Speaker 3: if somebody says, oh, women are beautiful, that's meaningless. Right
- 2:16:22Speaker 3: if she says, oh, all women are compassionate, it's also meaningless,
- 2:16:28Speaker 3: because often it becomes an excuse not to be Okay,
- 2:16:34Speaker 3: let's I'm almost done here. Yes, I'll be quiet, all right.
- 2:16:40Speaker 4: And I am telling you that when I look at
- 2:16:43Speaker 4: the world, I do not see any institutions that are
- 2:16:47Speaker 4: currently suffering from an UH excess or an insufficient feminization.
- 2:16:52Speaker 5: Helen, I don't care about your likes and dislikes because
- 2:16:54Speaker 5: that's not what I found compelling about your portrait of risk,
- 2:16:56Speaker 5: which we both value as a genuine virtue, not a
- 2:17:00Speaker 5: matter of preference, like chocolate or vanillas. So I think
- 2:17:02Speaker 5: there are objective virtues for women in the same way
- 2:17:03Speaker 5: you think they're objective primatology based vices for women.
- 2:17:06Speaker 7: Why is of the essay?
- 2:17:08Speaker 8: I felt like I was actually clear on what Helen
- 2:17:11Speaker 8: thought female virtues were. I was less sure how those
- 2:17:14Speaker 8: virtues manifest themselves.
- 2:17:17Speaker 3: Yeah, actually stood up for her. They don't really like
- 2:17:21Speaker 3: that's the honest to god truth.
- 2:17:24Speaker 1: Yeah, maybe, like, well, I don't know that. I don't
- 2:17:28Speaker 1: know that her essay specifically talks about that, but it's
- 2:17:32Speaker 1: irrelevant to fons.
- 2:17:33Speaker 8: So it seemed to me that Helen, this is the
- 2:17:35Speaker 8: point of agreement between the two of you, that women,
- 2:17:40Speaker 8: for biological reasons, are oriented towards forms of care and
- 2:17:44Speaker 8: love and sort of communitarian spirit that men are maybe
- 2:17:47Speaker 8: not as good at. I was interested in, well, what
- 2:17:50Speaker 8: do those female virtues bring to a newspaper or a corporation,
- 2:17:55Speaker 8: right or are they virtues that you know? And again,
- 2:17:56Speaker 8: this would be the trad right, A trad view would be, yeah,
- 2:18:00Speaker 8: women had virtues in their best exercise in the home.
- 2:18:03Speaker 4: To say a word to Leah, First, you've written several books,
- 2:18:06Speaker 4: and I'm sure you've read reviews of those books. Hopefully
- 2:18:10Speaker 4: as fellow authors, we can agree that it is unfair
- 2:18:13Speaker 4: when book reviewers criticize you for not writing the book
- 2:18:16Speaker 4: they would have written. So it's possible that I didn't
- 2:18:18Speaker 4: write the essay you would have written. I just wanted
- 2:18:20Speaker 4: to know that information that was curious to you.
- 2:18:22Speaker 3: But that's really fucking fair. And the thing is that
- 2:18:29Speaker 3: there was some passive aggressive ray from this woman too
- 2:18:32Speaker 3: when she said I don't care about your likes and dislikes.
- 2:18:34Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I know, I know. She was just giving
- 2:18:35Speaker 1: it back to her. It's fine, just giving it.
- 2:18:38Speaker 3: Back to her. We should do like we should do.
- 2:18:42Speaker 3: You remember when in maintaining frame, we used to judge
- 2:18:45Speaker 3: people's performance based on like threat narrativing. Remember that we
- 2:18:52Speaker 3: give people like scores. That's that. Uh yeah, well, she's
- 2:18:58Speaker 3: like Lee is framing Helen as being a threat to
- 2:19:03Speaker 3: women this way because she doesn't like women, and that
- 2:19:06Speaker 3: makes her a threat to women. Right, she's not willing
- 2:19:09Speaker 3: to flatter women. That makes her a threat to women.
- 2:19:12Speaker 3: And I guess Lee is trying to undermine that threat
- 2:19:16Speaker 3: narrative by simply saying, you are trying to force me
- 2:19:21Speaker 3: to write what you want. So she's emphasizing Lee's agency
- 2:19:27Speaker 3: and also her bad intent, or at least her her
- 2:19:29Speaker 3: desire for dominance. So you're right, this is a cat fight,
- 2:19:33Speaker 3: and it's interesting who will win in the end, who
- 2:19:36Speaker 3: will reign Kattie Supreme?
- 2:19:40Speaker 1: Yeah, I think this is almost over, but let's go.
- 2:19:43Speaker 5: I'm asking you as a thinker. As a thinker, I
- 2:19:45Speaker 5: respect about what virtues you see in women.
- 2:19:48Speaker 3: Oh now she's trying to manipulate through flattery. Yes, that
- 2:19:53Speaker 3: was an interesting Let's see if let's see if Helen. Yeah,
- 2:19:58Speaker 3: see if Helen gets sucked in.
- 2:20:01Speaker 4: To ross because I think the answer he just gave
- 2:20:03Speaker 4: about care was pretty close to the mark.
- 2:20:05Speaker 8: Well, then let me let me take the moderator's prerogative
- 2:20:07Speaker 8: and say, again, repeat my question how because and I
- 2:20:11Speaker 8: will elaborate it on it further and then you can
- 2:20:13Speaker 8: answer it. Seems to me we can take for granted
- 2:20:17Speaker 8: that many many workplaces in the future will be mixed
- 2:20:22Speaker 8: between men and women. That this is sort of a
- 2:20:25Speaker 8: fundamental feature of that's all very.
- 2:20:28Speaker 3: That's that's a bold claim many workplaces in the future.
- 2:20:35Speaker 3: That's optimistic. Mm hmmm, considering what's happening in AI and
- 2:20:41Speaker 3: everything else. Like, that's really optimistic. You know, if you
- 2:20:45Speaker 3: were to say something like the workplace like the pre
- 2:20:48Speaker 3: the publishing industry, yeah, that that might not exist in
- 2:20:51Speaker 3: the future, and hopefully the publishing industry implodes and dies
- 2:20:56Speaker 3: before it takes an entire medium with it. So when
- 2:20:59Speaker 3: you're saying that, oh, yeah, well you know there's going
- 2:21:03Speaker 3: to be mixed workplaces in the future, there might be
- 2:21:08Speaker 3: a very hard correction to that. Yeah, and there certainly
- 2:21:13Speaker 3: will be if we can't hold women too account and
- 2:21:15Speaker 3: we have to constantly flatter them. Okay, let's keep.
- 2:21:18Speaker 8: Going, all right, If you don't want those workplaces and
- 2:21:23Speaker 8: those institutions dominated by female vices, what is the positive
- 2:21:27Speaker 8: su interaction between male virtues and female virtues that you
- 2:21:31Speaker 8: would like to see at you know, at the Supreme
- 2:21:34Speaker 8: Court or the New York Times or anywhere else.
- 2:21:37Speaker 4: I think that if you had asked me ten years
- 2:21:40Speaker 4: ago to guess what the effects of the feminization of
- 2:21:44Speaker 4: the legal field would be I probably would have given
- 2:21:47Speaker 4: the same answer that a feminist would have given, the
- 2:21:49Speaker 4: same answer you can find in Daliolithwick's book about the
- 2:21:52Speaker 4: feminization of the law, that it's going to be more
- 2:21:55Speaker 4: accommodating of great areas, it's going to be less doctrinaire,
- 2:21:58Speaker 4: less hewing to the letter on the page, and more
- 2:22:00Speaker 4: looking at more attentive to context. And I think if
- 2:22:04Speaker 4: you had asked for a second, yeah.
- 2:22:06Speaker 3: I fucking love this word context. M they love like
- 2:22:11Speaker 3: feminist science loves this word context like feminists. There will
- 2:22:17Speaker 3: be a Okay, so I have been having this discussion
- 2:22:22Speaker 3: with with Grock, which bear with me. It's good for
- 2:22:27Speaker 3: data analysis, and feminism will there will be a particular
- 2:22:34Speaker 3: type of projection based on feminist hypothesis, and when you
- 2:22:41Speaker 3: test that projection rate relative to what actually happens, it
- 2:22:45Speaker 3: will of course fail. And in fact many cases, feminist
- 2:22:50Speaker 3: theory or feminist hypothesis predicts the exact opposite of reality.
- 2:22:55Speaker 3: But when it fails, feminists will say contextual factor, make
- 2:23:01Speaker 3: it fit. I just wanted to say, get that out, Okay.
- 2:23:08Speaker 4: It was like, you know what, that's maybe not necessarily
- 2:23:11Speaker 4: such a terrible thing. Maybe we should be more oriented
- 2:23:14Speaker 4: towards rehabilitation rather than punishment. Maybe the feminization of the
- 2:23:17Speaker 4: law is not entirely without benefits. Uh, And I think
- 2:23:21Speaker 4: it's possible that that is accurate, that that is a
- 2:23:25Speaker 4: reflection of how the feminization of law has played out
- 2:23:27Speaker 4: in practice. The reason why I am turning on a
- 2:23:31Speaker 4: big red siren when it comes to the feminization of
- 2:23:33Speaker 4: the law is that all of those things that sounded
- 2:23:36Speaker 4: so nice in theory or in the abstract in practice
- 2:23:40Speaker 4: look like the Title nine kangaroo courts for sexual assault
- 2:23:43Speaker 4: on college canvasses. If that is what the feminization of
- 2:23:46Speaker 4: the law looks like in practice, I think that's horrible.
- 2:23:49Speaker 4: And if an increasingly feminized legal profession is going to
- 2:23:52Speaker 4: take the problems of those Title nine courts and bring
- 2:23:54Speaker 4: them into grown up law, I think that is that
- 2:23:57Speaker 4: is an emergency level danger that we all need to
- 2:23:58Speaker 4: be really really were worried about.
- 2:24:02Speaker 3: Wow, that's actually pretty devastating.
- 2:24:07Speaker 1: What do you mean, like in terms of this this
- 2:24:10Speaker 1: conversation that was like an altr eyes glowed and then
- 2:24:18Speaker 1: oh yeah.
- 2:24:22Speaker 3: Okay, let's see what the let's see what the POGs
- 2:24:24Speaker 3: say okay, call them pos is that offense.
- 2:24:27Speaker 8: The positive side here is that you could imagine a
- 2:24:30Speaker 8: dynamic interaction between a doctrinaire male sensibility and a female
- 2:24:37Speaker 8: sensibility attuned to nuance and gray area of Yin and
- 2:24:41Speaker 8: yang model.
- 2:24:42Speaker 1: He's trying to do this complimentary and thing. She literally,
- 2:24:45Speaker 1: Helen said, literally, if you asked me this question ten
- 2:24:49Speaker 1: years ago, I would have agreed. But now that I
- 2:24:52Speaker 1: see where we are, No, absolutely not. This is an
- 2:24:56Speaker 1: emergency that we have to like address. And he's like,
- 2:25:00Speaker 1: so you're saying there is room for so so you're
- 2:25:02Speaker 1: saying there's a chance. Quality, So he's like.
- 2:25:10Speaker 3: Misinterpreting, but yeah, women are nuking the legal system, so
- 2:25:15Speaker 3: you're saying there's still possibility.
- 2:25:18Speaker 1: Yeah, there's a chance.
- 2:25:23Speaker 8: Okay, So anyway, interacted successfully to correct the weaknesses of
- 2:25:29Speaker 8: a purely doctrinaire vision of the law without sliding all
- 2:25:33Speaker 8: the way into a motive driven kangaroo. I'm looking for
- 2:25:39Speaker 8: the positive dynamic because just as liberals and conservatives are
- 2:25:43Speaker 8: stuck with each other in America, so two are men
- 2:25:44Speaker 8: and women, right, So that's what we're looking for.
- 2:25:47Speaker 4: Yeah, and I think you can see imagine the same
- 2:25:49Speaker 4: kind of thing to jump to another institution in academia, right,
- 2:25:52Speaker 4: Academia is extremely feminized today, and it's not a coincidence
- 2:25:56Speaker 4: that college campuses are capitals of wolkness. Uh So, I
- 2:26:00Speaker 4: think probably it's unlikely that college faculty are going to
- 2:26:04Speaker 4: be defeminized anytime soon. But I think we can achieve
- 2:26:08Speaker 4: helpful compromise in the inian yang dynamic that you described
- 2:26:11Speaker 4: by reinstaduting certain guardrails to guard against female vice's strong
- 2:26:16Speaker 4: statements of academic freedom.
- 2:26:17Speaker 1: That's so, this is her. So he's like, so we
- 2:26:22Speaker 1: could imagine a time where in the legal profession we
- 2:26:24Speaker 1: could integrate men and women together and get a little
- 2:26:27Speaker 1: bit of a Yin yang thing. So he's bringing he's
- 2:26:29Speaker 1: trying to, like, essentially stop Helen Andrews from saying women
- 2:26:35Speaker 1: should not be involved in the courts if it's going
- 2:26:38Speaker 1: to result in Title nine kangaroo courts on college campuses,
- 2:26:41Speaker 1: which I'm glad she brought up. Yeah, and then her
- 2:26:44Speaker 1: counter of that is, oh, yeah, I guess we could
- 2:26:46Speaker 1: do that, But then we also want to do this
- 2:26:48Speaker 1: in academia. It's like, it's full of women, so why
- 2:26:51Speaker 1: don't we put some men in there? Too, and why
- 2:26:54Speaker 1: don't we tempt down on that? So like she wins
- 2:26:56Speaker 1: no matter what. This is like a check checkmate move,
- 2:27:00Speaker 1: you know. Yeah.
- 2:27:03Speaker 3: Anyway, although I honestly the female battling is more fun.
- 2:27:09Speaker 3: Like when she talks to the man, it's it's all
- 2:27:11Speaker 3: logic and reason to a degree, I mean, because he's
- 2:27:14Speaker 3: still a man, right yeah. But then when she's talking
- 2:27:17Speaker 3: to the woman, there's all this kind of like like
- 2:27:21Speaker 3: low key suits like psychic battling going on, you know,
- 2:27:28Speaker 3: not low key. It was just like there's a lot
- 2:27:31Speaker 3: more there's a lot more conflict. Shall we say? All right,
- 2:27:35Speaker 3: let's go all right.
- 2:27:38Speaker 4: We can start there if we're if we're thinking of
- 2:27:40Speaker 4: concrete steps we can take tomorrow to make sure that
- 2:27:43Speaker 4: men and women on university faculty are able to work
- 2:27:45Speaker 4: together more productively.
- 2:27:46Speaker 5: I still haven't heard a full account of female virtue.
- 2:27:48Speaker 5: I heard you voice it.
- 2:27:50Speaker 3: Uh, okay, why are you bringing that up again? She
- 2:27:53Speaker 3: already told you she's not doing it. She needs flattery,
- 2:27:57Speaker 3: she's not gonna be your bitch.
- 2:28:00Speaker 1: Well let's see.
- 2:28:00Speaker 5: I'll be honest, I don't think in terms of primarily
- 2:28:03Speaker 5: feminine masculine virtues as a kind of fractional complementarity. Yes,
- 2:28:06Speaker 5: you called to faith, hope, and charity. They're all called
- 2:28:09Speaker 5: to fortitude. The particular kind of fortitude. Asked if a
- 2:28:12Speaker 5: man or a woman may change based on their state
- 2:28:13Speaker 5: in life. But I would have trouble raising my two
- 2:28:16Speaker 5: daughters and my son to know how to be good
- 2:28:20Speaker 5: versus how to reduce their harm, working solely from this
- 2:28:22Speaker 5: definition of what it means to be a man or
- 2:28:24Speaker 5: a woman.
- 2:28:25Speaker 7: One of the larger stories of.
- 2:28:28Speaker 3: What this is, this definition which she blames on her. Okay,
- 2:28:34Speaker 3: this how to be good and not to be well. Generally,
- 2:28:38Speaker 3: being good is avoiding being pad doing bad like or
- 2:28:43Speaker 3: or to embrace good like. And you need to know
- 2:28:46Speaker 3: bad in order to know what is good like it
- 2:28:52Speaker 3: it's it's it's really weird, because she's essentially well. In
- 2:29:01Speaker 3: order to be able to teach your children how to
- 2:29:04Speaker 3: be good, you have to teach them what is bad,
- 2:29:09Speaker 3: and from that you can infer what is good. So
- 2:29:12Speaker 3: I don't even know why she would say that, except
- 2:29:15Speaker 3: to again cast shade mm hmm.
- 2:29:21Speaker 8: Okay, all right, our world is we've referenced in a
- 2:29:25Speaker 8: couple of diamonds, but we're in a society where men
- 2:29:27Speaker 8: and women are not interacting successfully. I think, uh oh,
- 2:29:32Speaker 8: you likely polarized at any point in modern history. Possibly
- 2:29:36Speaker 8: related to that is the declining marriage and birth rates
- 2:29:39Speaker 8: all across the development.
- 2:29:40Speaker 3: Possibly related to that far, but.
- 2:29:42Speaker 8: There is some failure for the sexist to come together.
- 2:29:47Speaker 1: Like this is how you know we're winning because the
- 2:29:50Speaker 1: people who are the least infested in talking about this
- 2:29:53Speaker 1: are talking about this like they like, they don't there's
- 2:29:56Speaker 1: nothing else they can do. We'll have to We're really
- 2:30:00Speaker 1: dance around it, like, well, you know, I guess things
- 2:30:03Speaker 1: are really bad right now between men and women, and
- 2:30:05Speaker 1: like maybe there's some others downstream related you know, it's
- 2:30:10Speaker 1: speculative at this point, but like the fact that nobody's
- 2:30:12Speaker 1: having kids, are getting married, and everyone's lonely as fuck,
- 2:30:16Speaker 1: that might be related to it. I don't know. I
- 2:30:18Speaker 1: want to blame the GDP and the economy personally, you know,
- 2:30:22Speaker 1: that's what I think it is. But like some people
- 2:30:24Speaker 1: think that men and women come together has something to
- 2:30:27Speaker 1: do with it. I don't know. So that's how you know,
- 2:30:30Speaker 1: Like it's getting to the point where it's aggressive. Outlets
- 2:30:34Speaker 1: like The New York Times can't ignore it. Yeah, at
- 2:30:40Speaker 1: least say, well, give it lip service, you know.
- 2:30:43Speaker 3: Yeah, although I think it's I think it's not us,
- 2:30:46Speaker 3: it's the chasm, it's the it's the the pain that's
- 2:30:51Speaker 3: doing it. Yeah, yeah, cause I think and what's really
- 2:30:54Speaker 3: going to be interesting is when the elites finally put
- 2:30:59Speaker 3: two and two together there and realize they're not gonna
- 2:31:01Speaker 3: be ruling over much if if there's no no healthy society. Mm, yeah,
- 2:31:08Speaker 3: you're you're gonna be top dog. You're gonna be top
- 2:31:11Speaker 3: dog of a of a radioactive mud pit, guys, you know,
- 2:31:17Speaker 3: like a smoking crater where once a prosperous civilization that
- 2:31:21Speaker 3: could actually build you gold toilets once stood. Congratulations, you're
- 2:31:28Speaker 3: gonna be the only man with the goat and and
- 2:31:31Speaker 3: two acres of mud to to They're billionaires, so yeah,
- 2:31:37Speaker 3: I think that that'll be when it probably really turns.
- 2:31:40Speaker 3: But yes, they're facing the pain and then they're they're
- 2:31:44Speaker 3: searching for solutions and explanations. And she's got a fairly
- 2:31:49Speaker 3: good one, you know, feminine vices. She needs to take
- 2:31:53Speaker 3: a step back and see where those vices started and
- 2:31:58Speaker 3: started to penetrate every thing.
- 2:32:01Speaker 8: Okay, all right, so two two questions that are maybe
- 2:32:07Speaker 8: nested together in each of your visions of sort of
- 2:32:12Speaker 8: workplaces and cultures transformed? Do you think that the modern
- 2:32:19Speaker 8: workplace can help men and women interact more successfully?
- 2:32:26Speaker 1: Right? Or well? This is it sped up? I'm sorry,
- 2:32:29Speaker 1: this guy's really working hard to like not piss these
- 2:32:33Speaker 1: women off. I guess I don't know like.
- 2:32:34Speaker 3: What he cares about. I don't think he cares about Helen.
- 2:32:39Speaker 3: And Lee is trying really hard. Like she's definitely suppressing something,
- 2:32:44Speaker 3: probably the desire to go and punch Helen or scratch
- 2:32:47Speaker 3: her face or something.
- 2:32:50Speaker 1: Yeah, but look at the look at the blinking Yeah,
- 2:32:54Speaker 1: I see it.
- 2:32:55Speaker 3: She doesn't even want to look at Helen directly.
- 2:32:58Speaker 8: Is there a way in which jen differences require maybe
- 2:33:01Speaker 8: a little bit more separation in some sphere like which
- 2:33:05Speaker 8: you can't.
- 2:33:05Speaker 1: Even maintain anything?
- 2:33:06Speaker 3: Can eye content bring.
- 2:33:07Speaker 8: Out the best way for men and women to work
- 2:33:09Speaker 8: together at work? Or just called you distinctively male and
- 2:33:12Speaker 8: female workplaces and then men and women sort of rejoin
- 2:33:16Speaker 8: in the romantic or domestic sphere.
- 2:33:19Speaker 3: Okay, I think she just told you, did she not
- 2:33:23Speaker 3: just say you need to have guardrails? You need to
- 2:33:26Speaker 3: specifically call out the bullshit that women bring, which is
- 2:33:30Speaker 3: sense censorship, which is excessive myopia. They think that their
- 2:33:35Speaker 3: social circle is the entirety of the audience first fiction
- 2:33:39Speaker 3: in the US and Canada. Okay, sorry, that the the myopia,
- 2:33:45Speaker 3: the riskd version, okay, the approaching workplace as someplace where
- 2:33:53Speaker 3: it makes you feel good rather than you do a
- 2:33:56Speaker 3: job people feel is critical to get done, so they
- 2:33:59Speaker 3: pay you for it, right, that kind of stuff. And
- 2:34:03Speaker 3: she said, call it out, you know, put the guardrails
- 2:34:06Speaker 3: back on. You don't behave like that in a workplace.
- 2:34:10Speaker 3: And he's like, well, what do you really do? What
- 2:34:15Speaker 3: do he really I'm guessing, Okay, this is a little
- 2:34:17Speaker 3: bit of inference, all right, that I could be completely wrong.
- 2:34:20Speaker 3: I'm guessing what he wants is how do you kiss
- 2:34:24Speaker 3: women's asses? Like? How does making the situation better for
- 2:34:28Speaker 3: men and women? How do we do it by kissing
- 2:34:30Speaker 3: women's asses?
- 2:34:32Speaker 1: Like?
- 2:34:32Speaker 3: What what? What sequence of kisses unlocks the better workplace
- 2:34:36Speaker 3: for men and women? You know, you got you got
- 2:34:39Speaker 3: the ass right there? Where where do you plant the kisses?
- 2:34:42Speaker 3: That's what he's probably. How did what buttons?
- 2:34:49Speaker 1: Okay, all right, let's play some more.
- 2:34:51Speaker 4: I don't really have an answer to that one. I
- 2:34:53Speaker 4: think it is probably likely, just as a matter of prediction,
- 2:34:57Speaker 4: that you will get more workplaces that are predominantly made
- 2:35:00Speaker 4: or predominantly female in the future iron vision, where there's
- 2:35:03Speaker 4: no longer thumbs on the scale. Whether that will be
- 2:35:06Speaker 4: good for men and women interaction interacting, I don't really know.
- 2:35:09Speaker 4: I don't think I have an opinion.
- 2:35:10Speaker 5: I have opinions. I don't think the workforce is the
- 2:35:14Speaker 5: main way I see men and women coming apart, And
- 2:35:15Speaker 5: it's not, even with some movements in Helen or my directions,
- 2:35:17Speaker 5: the main place I see them coming together. I want
- 2:35:19Speaker 5: to make a pitch, especially if we've talked a lot
- 2:35:21Speaker 5: about women good bad, medium, I want to make a
- 2:35:24Speaker 5: pitch what's good about men here in particular?
- 2:35:26Speaker 3: And we're okay, interesting, it's an interesting pivot, all right,
- 2:35:31Speaker 3: I'll give her that. I wonder if she's wondered, if
- 2:35:34Speaker 3: she's thinking that the fundamental substrate of the threat narrative
- 2:35:37Speaker 3: has has shifted. Oh, maybe this is another this is
- 2:35:43Speaker 3: another attempt to get flattery, Like, yeah, okay, if I
- 2:35:47Speaker 3: tell what's good about men, then maybe I'll emotionally extort
- 2:35:54Speaker 3: excore some points and extort flattery. Does that make sense?
- 2:35:59Speaker 3: Like okay, well, obviously, obviously if I say that, then
- 2:36:04Speaker 3: she will be compelled to match it. Maybe I don't know.
- 2:36:10Speaker 1: Oh, I see what you mean. I said something nice
- 2:36:12Speaker 1: about men. Now it's your turn women. Yeah, exactly, Okay, Okay,
- 2:36:16Speaker 1: let's see.
- 2:36:17Speaker 5: Some men is particularly neglected, and how that could help
- 2:36:20Speaker 5: men women come back together. I think part of the
- 2:36:22Speaker 5: appeal of the warrior band or of a marriage is
- 2:36:24Speaker 5: either a group or pair of people taking on something
- 2:36:26Speaker 5: too large for either to sustain by themselves, and developing
- 2:36:29Speaker 5: trust because they bear a responsibility. They know their own
- 2:36:32Speaker 5: strength cannot serve. As a married woman, I've loved my
- 2:36:35Speaker 5: husband the whole time, but being pregnant meant depending on
- 2:36:38Speaker 5: him in a way that was different than any other
- 2:36:39Speaker 5: part of our marriage. And I think the later marriages
- 2:36:42Speaker 5: and the rarer it is, the less often men who
- 2:36:44Speaker 5: are on average stronger kind of reason their strength is required.
- 2:36:48Speaker 5: And I think the more that both in a community,
- 2:36:51Speaker 5: you know, starting with young men, there's a real sense
- 2:36:53Speaker 5: of because you are larger and stronger, like we need
- 2:36:56Speaker 5: something from you to make this whole community run, and
- 2:36:58Speaker 5: that will continue through your marriage. Either, that's a virtue
- 2:37:02Speaker 5: women to come together. How on earth could we have
- 2:37:03Speaker 5: three kids, except that we trust each other and ebb inflow,
- 2:37:06Speaker 5: in strength, and can do more than we can by ourselves.
- 2:37:08Speaker 3: How is this virtue of men? Like that? Literally is
- 2:37:13Speaker 3: a gender neutral virtue? Skits slanting towards women, because what
- 2:37:17Speaker 3: she said is that our relationship requires trust in another's abilities.
- 2:37:24Speaker 3: And she says, as a woman, that's asked of me
- 2:37:28Speaker 3: more than it is of a man. Did you know that?
- 2:37:32Speaker 1: Yeah?
- 2:37:32Speaker 3: Where was the virtue for men?
- 2:37:36Speaker 1: Yeah? There wasn't really anything, was there?
- 2:37:39Speaker 3: No, it was just men serve women and women trust
- 2:37:43Speaker 3: them in that service.
- 2:37:45Speaker 1: I guess the fact that women can trust them is
- 2:37:48Speaker 1: a compliment in her eyes.
- 2:37:52Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't see anything really related to men being
- 2:37:58Speaker 3: I'd throw it to the comments. Do you see that?
- 2:38:01Speaker 3: I mean, I guess the implication that women should trust
- 2:38:04Speaker 3: men is nice, But that's a women's virtue. That is
- 2:38:09Speaker 3: basically saying, women, you're called upon to do this, and
- 2:38:12Speaker 3: if you do it, you're virtuous. I guess maybe the
- 2:38:17Speaker 3: implication is that men are trustworthy. Therefore that's a virtue.
- 2:38:22Speaker 3: But is she saying that men are uniquely trustworthy relative
- 2:38:25Speaker 3: to women? That's not really clear out that. Okay, she
- 2:38:30Speaker 3: tried but I'm I don't uh am I being uncharitable
- 2:38:34Speaker 3: men men go in the comments, I feel like this
- 2:38:37Speaker 3: is this was over sold as men's virtues and also
- 2:38:42Speaker 3: again this is irrelevant to the topic.
- 2:38:46Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, anyway, that's the end of the video. So
- 2:38:49Speaker 1: this is the video that the previous video of the
- 2:38:53Speaker 1: that was like the medium blog was responding to.
- 2:38:57Speaker 2: That.
- 2:38:57Speaker 1: The obviously the medium blog didn't address anything that was
- 2:39:00Speaker 1: brought up the full video. I put a link in
- 2:39:04Speaker 1: the description pretty sure, and I do recommend it if
- 2:39:08Speaker 1: you haven't seen it, but like, just look up any
- 2:39:10Speaker 1: Helen Andrews thing on the Great Feminization. She's written on
- 2:39:13Speaker 1: a bunch of other stuff too, but look look it
- 2:39:16Speaker 1: up and see I think that I like what she's doing.
- 2:39:20Speaker 1: I think that this is good and I'm glad that
- 2:39:22Speaker 1: she's doing it. And she even said in part she's
- 2:39:25Speaker 1: only doing it because she like like other like she
- 2:39:29Speaker 1: knows many male colleagues that have tried to address this
- 2:39:31Speaker 1: and they couldn't do it because they're men. So she's like, well,
- 2:39:33Speaker 1: I'm a woman, so I'm going to like use that
- 2:39:36Speaker 1: to get my message out there. So basically she's a
- 2:39:39Speaker 1: honeypatcher she's such.
- 2:39:40Speaker 3: Like prime gray autism too.
- 2:39:43Speaker 1: Yeah, she looks like her boyfriend or husband if she
- 2:39:50Speaker 1: has one, looks just like her, but a male version
- 2:39:53Speaker 1: like a bow tie and a pocket protector.
- 2:39:54Speaker 3: That's what I'm It's a little bit of a head
- 2:39:57Speaker 3: scratch or how they reproduce, but you know it works. Yeah,
- 2:40:02Speaker 3: does that mean it's science. It's science. They've reproduced through science.
- 2:40:07Speaker 1: Science science.
- 2:40:12Speaker 3: Okay, all right, I am good, So I will tell
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- 2:41:07Speaker 3: crystal balling. Ship that did that did not come? Yeah, okay, yeah, okay.
- 2:41:13Speaker 1: Was like you know, tea leaves.
- 2:41:16Speaker 3: Tea leaves, okay, our.
- 2:41:17Speaker 1: Tea leaves or Tarot cards or.
- 2:41:19Speaker 3: Something, Tarot cards, Tarot.
- 2:41:21Speaker 1: Bones, the bones.
- 2:41:24Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, rattling okay, with.
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