WEBVTT - It's Like Eating Potato Chips 0:00:01.880 --> 0:00:06.160 Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George 0:00:06.240 --> 0:00:11.560 Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong, Joe Getty, Armstrong and Getty 0:00:11.680 --> 0:00:23.520 and he Armstrong and Getty. We'll get this. 0:00:23.560 --> 0:00:26.599 Wikipedia said that traffic to their site is falling because 0:00:26.640 --> 0:00:31.400 people are using AI instead. That AI said the same 0:00:31.400 --> 0:00:34.120 thing slightly reworded it inside of them as the sourse. 0:00:35.400 --> 0:00:39.159 It's pretty clever. Actually, that's pretty clever. Yeah. 0:00:39.200 --> 0:00:42.600 So the way we see our jobs around here, speak 0:00:42.640 --> 0:00:46.360 for myself is yeah, we bring you news of the 0:00:46.479 --> 0:00:51.720 day and our thoughts, but we're also curators of, you know, ideas. 0:00:52.560 --> 0:00:54.480 That's the most fun part of the job for me 0:00:54.560 --> 0:00:56.160 is reading all day long and trying to find the 0:00:56.160 --> 0:00:58.240 best ideas and bring them to you. Sometimes there are 0:00:58.360 --> 0:01:03.400 sometimes they're not. And I came across you describe our jobs. 0:01:03.400 --> 0:01:06.640 I'm more of a lavishly paid to blather on barely 0:01:06.680 --> 0:01:07.800 knowing what I'm talking about. 0:01:09.000 --> 0:01:12.240 Oh, that's your special charm. I came across this great 0:01:12.280 --> 0:01:16.360 piece by author Helen Andrews, and a number of our 0:01:16.680 --> 0:01:20.880 Morris student listeners have centered along saying in SNMG, have 0:01:20.920 --> 0:01:24.959 you guys seen this? And it's a little longer than 0:01:25.040 --> 0:01:27.399 something we would generally read to you. But it is 0:01:27.440 --> 0:01:30.040 so good and I think so important, it's worth it. 0:01:30.040 --> 0:01:36.080 It's entitled The Great Feminization. And here's a disclaimer real quickly, because, 0:01:36.440 --> 0:01:40.759 as you know, a happily married guy who I love 0:01:40.800 --> 0:01:43.040 and respect, my wife, I have two daughters, my mom 0:01:43.200 --> 0:01:43.679 is a saint. 0:01:43.720 --> 0:01:44.800 Blah blah blah. 0:01:45.120 --> 0:01:49.640 Women and women womanhood are essential to the functioning of mankind. 0:01:49.920 --> 0:01:53.320 I am a great believer in balance. People who ask 0:01:53.400 --> 0:01:55.800 me about politics, I always tell them, Look, I'm a 0:01:55.960 --> 0:01:59.400 really conservative conservative, but I believe we need navy seals 0:01:59.440 --> 0:02:02.440 and poets for society to work, for the world to work, 0:02:02.480 --> 0:02:05.400 we need men and women, the masculine, the effeminate. That's 0:02:05.400 --> 0:02:08.640 the way we're made by God or creation or whatever. 0:02:09.280 --> 0:02:09.640 Anyway. 0:02:09.720 --> 0:02:13.160 Having said that, The Great Feminization, Helen Andrews and Jack 0:02:13.200 --> 0:02:17.320 obviously dive in whenever you want. In twenty nineteen, she writes, 0:02:17.360 --> 0:02:19.960 I read an article about Larry Summers and Harvard that 0:02:20.080 --> 0:02:20.799 changed the way I. 0:02:20.760 --> 0:02:21.880 Look at the world. 0:02:22.120 --> 0:02:24.880 The author argued that the day Larry Summers resigned as 0:02:24.919 --> 0:02:27.880 president of Harvard University marked a turning point in our culture. 0:02:27.960 --> 0:02:30.800 We talked a lot at the time. Oh yeah, the 0:02:30.960 --> 0:02:33.520 entire and she explains exactly what happened. If you're trying 0:02:33.520 --> 0:02:36.160 to remember what happened, the entire woke era could be 0:02:36.240 --> 0:02:39.079 extrapolated from that moment. From the details of how Summers 0:02:39.120 --> 0:02:42.799 was canceled and most of all, who did the canceling women, 0:02:43.360 --> 0:02:46.560 The basic facts of the Summer's case are familiar. January fourteenth, 0:02:46.639 --> 0:02:49.160 twenty oh five, at a conference on diversifying the science 0:02:49.160 --> 0:02:52.079 and engineering workforce, Larry Summers gave a talk that was 0:02:52.080 --> 0:02:54.280 supposed to be off the record. In it, he said 0:02:54.320 --> 0:02:57.560 that female under representation and hard sciences was partly due 0:02:57.639 --> 0:03:01.519 to quote different availability of aptitude at the high end, 0:03:02.120 --> 0:03:05.400 as well as taste difference as preferences between men and 0:03:05.440 --> 0:03:11.679 women not attributable to socialization, meaning dudes just tend to xxct. 0:03:12.080 --> 0:03:14.880 Some female professors and attendants were offended and sent his 0:03:14.919 --> 0:03:17.280 remarks to a reporter in defiance of the off the 0:03:17.360 --> 0:03:20.799 record rule. The ensuing scandal led to a no confidence 0:03:20.880 --> 0:03:25.040 vote by the Harvard faculty and eventually Summer's resignation. The 0:03:25.200 --> 0:03:27.520 essay argued that it wasn't just that women had canceled 0:03:27.560 --> 0:03:30.000 the president of Harvard, it was that they'd canceled him 0:03:30.000 --> 0:03:33.400 in a very feminine way. They made emotional appeals rather 0:03:33.440 --> 0:03:34.680 than logical arguments. 0:03:34.920 --> 0:03:35.360 Quote. 0:03:35.400 --> 0:03:38.400 When he started talking about innate differences and aptitudes between 0:03:38.480 --> 0:03:40.920 men and women, I just couldn't breathe because this kind 0:03:40.920 --> 0:03:43.920 of bias makes me physically ill. Oh my God, said 0:03:44.000 --> 0:03:46.120 Nancy Hopkins, a biologist at MIT. 0:03:46.480 --> 0:03:46.720 Wow. 0:03:46.760 --> 0:03:49.800 Summers made a public statement clarifying his remarks, and then another, 0:03:49.880 --> 0:03:53.240 and then a third, with the apology more insistent each time. 0:03:53.760 --> 0:03:57.040 Experts chimed in to declare that everything Somers had said 0:03:57.080 --> 0:04:02.200 about sex differences was within the scientific mainstream. These rational 0:04:02.200 --> 0:04:06.080 appeals had no effect on the mob hysteria. This cancelation 0:04:06.240 --> 0:04:09.840 was feminine, the essay argued, because all cancelations are feminine. 0:04:09.960 --> 0:04:12.480 Cancel culture is simply what women do when there are 0:04:12.600 --> 0:04:16.000 enough of them in a given organization or field. That 0:04:16.160 --> 0:04:19.479 is the great feminization thesis, which the same author later 0:04:19.560 --> 0:04:22.920 elaborated on at book length. Everything you think of as 0:04:23.080 --> 0:04:28.280 wokeness is simply an epiphenomenon of demographic feminization. 0:04:28.760 --> 0:04:30.719 Like where this is I? Like where this is going? 0:04:31.960 --> 0:04:35.240 The explanatory power of this simple thesis was incredible. It 0:04:35.320 --> 0:04:37.480 really did unlock the secrets of the era we were 0:04:37.520 --> 0:04:40.680 living in now. Here's the point I disagree with. Wokeness 0:04:40.720 --> 0:04:43.919 is not a new ideology, an outgrowth of Marxism, or 0:04:43.960 --> 0:04:47.599 a result of post Obama disillusionment. It is simply feminine 0:04:47.600 --> 0:04:50.599 patterns of behavior applied to institutions where women were few 0:04:50.680 --> 0:04:52.000 in number until recently. 0:04:52.400 --> 0:04:53.840 How did I not see it before? 0:04:54.200 --> 0:04:58.159 My disagreement with the Marxism point is that Michelle Foucaut, 0:04:58.200 --> 0:05:01.920 who's really the godfather of critical theory and neo Marxism, 0:05:02.080 --> 0:05:06.720 he understood human nature and he understood how making an 0:05:06.760 --> 0:05:12.039 emotional moral argument could get people to ignore facts. That's 0:05:12.080 --> 0:05:15.000 why they're so intent on getting you to say a 0:05:15.200 --> 0:05:18.680 man can give birth to a baby, because if you 0:05:18.920 --> 0:05:24.000 can be pried away from logic and rely on pure 0:05:24.560 --> 0:05:28.279 emotion and what the crowd says you should say, then 0:05:28.480 --> 0:05:32.280 they've gotcha. So this is not divorced from Marxism. It's 0:05:32.320 --> 0:05:35.320 just another layer of it. But anyway, on with the essay. 0:05:36.960 --> 0:05:40.920 Let's see then she mentions a couple of firsts people 0:05:41.000 --> 0:05:45.640 think about the feminization of like the first woman to 0:05:45.680 --> 0:05:47.960 attend law school in eighteen sixty nine, first woman to 0:05:48.040 --> 0:05:50.239 argue before the Supreme Court in eighteen eighty, first female 0:05:50.279 --> 0:05:53.240 Supreme Court Justice nineteen eighty one. But she says a 0:05:53.320 --> 0:05:56.280 much more important tipping point is when law schools became 0:05:56.400 --> 0:05:59.880 majority female, which occurred in twenty sixteen, or when law 0:06:00.040 --> 0:06:03.320 firms associated became majority female, which occurred in twenty twenty three. 0:06:03.720 --> 0:06:06.400 When Sandrade O'Connor was appointed to the High Court, only 0:06:06.480 --> 0:06:10.520 five percent of judges were female. Today, women are thirty 0:06:10.600 --> 0:06:14.080 three percent of the judges in America and sixty three 0:06:14.120 --> 0:06:18.719 percent of the judges appointed by President Biden sixty three percent. 0:06:19.400 --> 0:06:22.400 The same trajectory can be seen in many professions, pioneering 0:06:22.440 --> 0:06:25.560 generations of women in the sixties and seventies, increasing female 0:06:25.600 --> 0:06:29.240 representative representation through the eighties and nineties, and gender par 0:06:29.600 --> 0:06:33.440 parody finally arriving in twenty tens or twenty twenties. For instance, 0:06:33.480 --> 0:06:35.760 in nineteen seventy four, only ten percent of New York 0:06:35.760 --> 0:06:38.480 Times reporters were female. The New York Times staff became 0:06:38.520 --> 0:06:41.600 majority female in twenty eighteen, and today the female share 0:06:41.640 --> 0:06:46.479 is fifty five percent. Medical schools became majority female in 0:06:46.520 --> 0:06:50.040 twenty nineteen. Women became a majority of the college educated 0:06:50.080 --> 0:06:53.320 workforce nationwide. In twenty nineteen, women became a majority of 0:06:53.360 --> 0:06:56.240 college instructors. In twenty twenty three. Women are not yet 0:06:56.240 --> 0:06:58.359 a majority of the managers in America, but they might 0:06:58.440 --> 0:07:01.440 be soon. They're now forty six percent. So the timing fits. 0:07:01.720 --> 0:07:04.719 Wokeness arose around the same time that many important institutions 0:07:04.720 --> 0:07:09.120 tip tip demographically from majority male to majority female. All right, 0:07:09.160 --> 0:07:12.640 so what you're saying, here's here's what she means. The 0:07:12.680 --> 0:07:17.239 substance fits too. Everything you think of wokeness involves prioritizing 0:07:17.280 --> 0:07:23.600 the feminine over the masculine, empathy over rationality, safety over risk, 0:07:24.880 --> 0:07:30.280 cohesion over competition. Give you a second to absorb that. 0:07:30.640 --> 0:07:32.720 One hundred percent right, one hundred percent right, and one 0:07:32.800 --> 0:07:33.480 hundred percent right. 0:07:33.520 --> 0:07:34.720 Those are all real interesting. 0:07:35.520 --> 0:07:37.680 Other writers who proposed their own versions of the great 0:07:37.720 --> 0:07:41.040 feminization thesis she drops a few names, who looked at 0:07:41.080 --> 0:07:45.000 feminization's effect on academia, offer survey data showing sex differences 0:07:45.000 --> 0:07:48.520 in political values. One survey, for instance, found that seventy 0:07:48.600 --> 0:07:51.760 one percent of men said protecting free speech was more 0:07:51.800 --> 0:07:55.080 important than preserving a cohesive society. 0:07:55.200 --> 0:07:56.000 Whatever that means. 0:07:56.200 --> 0:07:59.240 Seventy one percent of men, sixty percent of women said 0:07:59.240 --> 0:07:59.960 the opposite. 0:08:00.440 --> 0:08:03.080 That doesn't surprise me, and as a for some reason 0:08:03.120 --> 0:08:04.920 it popped into my head. You was talking about how 0:08:04.960 --> 0:08:08.200 when women got involved in youth sports, how it changed. 0:08:08.240 --> 0:08:10.880 Then we got uniforms at every age, and lots of 0:08:10.880 --> 0:08:15.800 team pictures, and lots of ceremonies, ceremonies and not yah 0:08:16.480 --> 0:08:19.040 yeah anyway. 0:08:19.480 --> 0:08:23.240 And then she issues a disclaimer which probably isn't necessary. 0:08:23.280 --> 0:08:26.360 But the most relevant differences are not about individuals but 0:08:26.440 --> 0:08:29.680 about groups. Yes, an individual woman might be taller than 0:08:29.720 --> 0:08:32.880 an individual man, but a group of ten random women 0:08:33.000 --> 0:08:35.559 is very unlikely to have an average height greater than 0:08:35.559 --> 0:08:38.319 that of ten men. The larger the group of people, 0:08:38.360 --> 0:08:41.240 the more likely it is to conform to statistical averages. 0:08:41.480 --> 0:08:46.600 So again, you independent thinking, free speech loving women out there, 0:08:47.200 --> 0:08:50.040 it's not about you. It's not about individuals, it's about 0:08:50.080 --> 0:08:55.480 in large groups, tendencies become more and more true anyway. 0:08:55.840 --> 0:09:00.040 The female group dynamics favor consensus and cooperation. Men and 0:09:00.240 --> 0:09:03.520 order each other around, But women can only suggest and persuade. 0:09:03.840 --> 0:09:07.320 Any criticism or negative sentiment, if it is absolutely to 0:09:07.360 --> 0:09:10.880 be expressed, needs to be buried in layers of compliments. 0:09:11.360 --> 0:09:13.680 The outcome of a discussion is less important than the 0:09:13.679 --> 0:09:16.880 fact that a discussion was held and everyone participated in it. 0:09:17.160 --> 0:09:21.400 The most important sex difference. The most important sex difference 0:09:21.400 --> 0:09:25.200 in group dynamics is attitude to conflict. In short, men 0:09:25.280 --> 0:09:31.000 wage conflict openly, while women covertly undermine or ostracize their enemies. 0:09:31.760 --> 0:09:34.080 Any ladies like to disagree with that, Katie, feel free 0:09:34.080 --> 0:09:38.680 to jump in if you like. Okay, do women that 0:09:38.760 --> 0:09:43.920 ostracize their enemies as opposed to confronting them openly and saying, hey, 0:09:44.000 --> 0:09:45.600 we have a problem. We need to settle this. 0:09:46.000 --> 0:09:46.960 Yeah, without a doubt. 0:09:48.280 --> 0:09:50.400 Barry Weiss, in her letter of resignation from The New 0:09:50.440 --> 0:09:53.600 York Times, described how colleagues referred to her in internal 0:09:53.640 --> 0:09:56.960 slack messages as a racist, a Nazi, and a bigot. 0:09:57.120 --> 0:10:00.600 And this is the most feminine part quote. Colleague perceived 0:10:00.600 --> 0:10:03.359 to be friendly with me were badgered by coworkers. 0:10:03.800 --> 0:10:05.079 Oh, she said her resignation. 0:10:05.160 --> 0:10:08.520 Wow, Weiss wants asked to colleague at the Times opinion 0:10:08.559 --> 0:10:11.600 desk to get coffee with her. This journalist, a biracial 0:10:11.640 --> 0:10:14.840 woman who wrote frequently about race, refused to meet. This 0:10:15.000 --> 0:10:18.440 was a failure to meet the basic standards of professionalism. 0:10:18.559 --> 0:10:21.679 Obviously, it was also very feminine. 0:10:21.720 --> 0:10:24.600 Men tend to be better at compartmentalizing than women and 0:10:24.720 --> 0:10:29.640 wokeness was in many ways a society wide failure to compartmentalize. 0:10:29.840 --> 0:10:32.440 Listen to this. This is another blockbuster point. 0:10:33.000 --> 0:10:38.120 Traditionally, an individual doctor might have opinions on the political 0:10:38.120 --> 0:10:39.960 issues of the day, but he would regard it as 0:10:39.960 --> 0:10:42.960 his professional duty to keep those opinions out of the 0:10:43.040 --> 0:10:47.199 examination room. Now that medicine has become more feminized, doctors 0:10:47.240 --> 0:10:51.520 wear pins and lanyards expressing views on controversial issues. 0:10:51.240 --> 0:10:52.640 From gay rights to gaza. 0:10:52.960 --> 0:10:55.400 They even bring the credibility of their profession to bear 0:10:55.440 --> 0:10:58.600 on political fads, as when doctors said Black Lives Matter 0:10:58.640 --> 0:11:02.600 protests could continue in violation to COVID lockdowns because racism 0:11:02.679 --> 0:11:04.280 was a public health emergency. 0:11:04.360 --> 0:11:05.440 You're nodding your head, Kati. 0:11:05.480 --> 0:11:07.960 You've been in a hospital situations a lot more than 0:11:08.040 --> 0:11:08.640 us lately. 0:11:08.640 --> 0:11:09.200 You've seen that. 0:11:09.559 --> 0:11:12.160 Oh yeah, I've seen it. You know the little lanyards 0:11:12.160 --> 0:11:14.400 where they it's like their key to the doors. They 0:11:14.440 --> 0:11:17.400 all have the different little trinkets with you know, rainbows, 0:11:17.480 --> 0:11:19.600 and I saw Palestinian flag recently. 0:11:19.880 --> 0:11:23.080 Yeah, dudes wouldn't have done that. Now, one more note 0:11:23.080 --> 0:11:25.480 and then we will take a break. One book that 0:11:25.520 --> 0:11:28.319 helped me put together. The pieces was Warriors and Warriors 0:11:28.360 --> 0:11:31.840 the Survival of the Sexes by psychology professor Joyce Beninson. 0:11:32.120 --> 0:11:34.560 Practically all of the scientists cited in this article or women. 0:11:34.600 --> 0:11:36.320 By the way, it's worth pointing out. I think she 0:11:36.520 --> 0:11:40.839 theorizes that men developed group dynamics optimized for war, while 0:11:40.960 --> 0:11:45.439 women developed group dynamics optimized for protecting their offspring. These habits, 0:11:45.480 --> 0:11:48.400 formed in the mists of prehistory, explain why experimenters in 0:11:48.440 --> 0:11:52.160 modern psychology labs in a study that Barrison sites, observe 0:11:52.240 --> 0:11:54.840 that a group of men given a task will quote, 0:11:55.080 --> 0:11:59.720 jockey for talking time, disagree loudly, and then cheerfully relate 0:11:59.760 --> 0:12:03.600 a solution to the experimenter. A group of women given 0:12:03.640 --> 0:12:07.319 the same task will quote politely inquire about one another's 0:12:07.400 --> 0:12:11.680 personal background and relationships, accompanied by much eye contact, smiling, 0:12:11.760 --> 0:12:15.000 and turn taking, and pay quote little attention to the 0:12:15.040 --> 0:12:19.040 task that the experimenter presented. The point of war is 0:12:19.080 --> 0:12:22.520 to settle disputes between two tribes, but it only works 0:12:22.559 --> 0:12:26.200 if peace is restored after the dispute is settled. Men 0:12:26.240 --> 0:12:29.640 therefore develop methods for reconciling with the proment opponents and 0:12:29.720 --> 0:12:33.920 learning to live in peace with people they were fighting yesterday. Females, 0:12:33.960 --> 0:12:37.680 even in primate species, are slower to reconcile than males. 0:12:38.000 --> 0:12:41.079 That is because women's conflicts were traditionally within the tribe 0:12:41.160 --> 0:12:44.599 or scarce resources, to be resolved not by open conflict, 0:12:44.800 --> 0:12:48.760 but by covert competition with rivals with no clear end. 0:12:50.720 --> 0:12:53.840 All of these observations match my observations of wokeness, but 0:12:53.960 --> 0:12:56.439 soon the happy thrill of discovering a new theory eventually 0:12:56.440 --> 0:12:59.320 gave way to a sinking feeling. If wokeness really is 0:12:59.360 --> 0:13:01.720 the result of the greate feminization, then the eruption of 0:13:01.720 --> 0:13:04.640 insanity in twenty twenty was just a small taste of 0:13:04.640 --> 0:13:07.160 what the future holds. Imagine what will happen is the 0:13:07.200 --> 0:13:10.360 remaining men age out of these society shaping professions and 0:13:10.400 --> 0:13:13.160 the younger, more feminized generations take full control. 0:13:13.280 --> 0:13:15.520 That's what I'm always saying that when we're all dead 0:13:15.559 --> 0:13:18.440 who remember the before times, there won't be anybody around 0:13:18.440 --> 0:13:19.880 to say, hey, it didn't used to be like this. 0:13:20.760 --> 0:13:23.400 Let's take a quick break, then plunge on with this 0:13:23.480 --> 0:13:26.360 because it trusts me, just keeps getting more interesting. 0:13:26.480 --> 0:13:28.280 That is really interesting. Cool. 0:13:28.320 --> 0:13:30.120 I will stay right here, and he thoughts text line 0:13:30.160 --> 0:13:37.600 four one five two nine five kftcarrong. Hey, let's Trump 0:13:37.679 --> 0:13:40.120 doing with that toll ballroom thing he's building there at 0:13:40.160 --> 0:13:41.840 the White House? Is he knocking down parts of the 0:13:41.840 --> 0:13:44.440 White House that are historic? That's a question that's out there, 0:13:44.480 --> 0:13:46.000 and I don't actually know the answer to it. We'll 0:13:46.000 --> 0:13:48.240 dig into that later, we'll talk about it. 0:13:48.320 --> 0:13:51.800 Yep, we're working our way through an unbelievably interesting and 0:13:51.840 --> 0:13:55.240 persuasive thought piece by Helen Andrews, the Great Feminization. If 0:13:55.280 --> 0:13:57.439 you didn't hear the first chunk, circle back, grab the 0:13:57.480 --> 0:14:01.280 podcast Armstrong and Giddy on demand. Our two of today's show, 0:14:01.760 --> 0:14:08.560 plunging on the point being when institutions become unbalanced and 0:14:08.600 --> 0:14:14.480 too heavily feminized, they function in a very woke way. 0:14:14.600 --> 0:14:17.440 And again, if you didn't hear it, circle back. The 0:14:17.480 --> 0:14:19.840 threat posed by wokeness can be large or small, depending 0:14:19.920 --> 0:14:23.320 on the industry. She mentions, if your English department is feminized, 0:14:23.320 --> 0:14:27.040 who cares? But the New York Times, for instance, often 0:14:27.080 --> 0:14:30.920 determines what's publicly accepted as the truth, and that affects 0:14:30.960 --> 0:14:32.880 every citizens agree. 0:14:32.640 --> 0:14:34.920 With that completely Based on things I've read from Harold 0:14:34.920 --> 0:14:38.320 Bloom of Yale about how English departments got so woke 0:14:38.400 --> 0:14:41.040 they no longer teach Shakespeare other than how you know, 0:14:41.160 --> 0:14:42.840 sexist he was and everything like that. 0:14:43.160 --> 0:14:45.440 Yeah, I would agree. I think she understates that problem. 0:14:45.480 --> 0:14:47.880 But anyway, she says, the field that frightens me most 0:14:47.920 --> 0:14:50.120 is the law. All of us depend on a functioning 0:14:50.200 --> 0:14:52.240 legal system, and it'd be blunt. The rule of law 0:14:52.280 --> 0:14:56.040 will not survive the legal profession becoming majority female. The 0:14:56.120 --> 0:14:58.360 rule of laws not just about writing rules down. It 0:14:58.400 --> 0:15:01.480 means following them even they yield an outcome that tugs 0:15:01.480 --> 0:15:03.920 at your heart strings or runs contrary to your gut 0:15:04.000 --> 0:15:07.400 sense of which party is more sympathetic. Then she describes 0:15:07.440 --> 0:15:10.840 the infamous Title nine courts for sexual assault under Obama, 0:15:11.280 --> 0:15:15.040 how you didn't get to confront your accuser. The standard 0:15:15.080 --> 0:15:17.480 rules of evidence were thrown out. It was just if 0:15:17.520 --> 0:15:19.280 the gut feeling was that you were guilty. You were 0:15:19.360 --> 0:15:23.480 thrown out of college as a guy. And she says 0:15:23.520 --> 0:15:25.720 these two approaches to the law clashed vividly in the 0:15:25.720 --> 0:15:29.160 Brett Kavanaugh confirmation hearings. The masculine position was that if 0:15:29.240 --> 0:15:32.400 Christine Blasi Ford can't provide any concrete evidence that she 0:15:32.440 --> 0:15:34.880 and Kavanaugh were ever in the same room together, her 0:15:34.880 --> 0:15:37.520 accusations of rape cannot be allowed to ruin his life. 0:15:37.640 --> 0:15:40.960 The feminine position was that her self evident emotional response 0:15:41.240 --> 0:15:44.160 was itself a kind of credibility that the Senate Committee 0:15:44.240 --> 0:15:44.960 must respect. 0:15:45.880 --> 0:15:47.200 That's the way it was portrayed. 0:15:47.680 --> 0:15:51.080 Yeah, if the legal profession becomes majority female, I expect 0:15:51.080 --> 0:15:54.119 to see the ethos of the Title nine tribunals. Tribunals 0:15:54.120 --> 0:15:57.000 and the Kavanaugh hearing spread. Judges will bend the rules 0:15:57.000 --> 0:16:00.440 for favored groups, and we're already seeing that forced them 0:16:00.520 --> 0:16:03.880 rigorously on disfavored groups, as already occurs to a worrying extent. 0:16:04.200 --> 0:16:06.760 It was possible to believe back in the nineteen seventy 0:16:06.880 --> 0:16:09.560 that introducing women in the legal profession in large numbers 0:16:09.560 --> 0:16:11.840 would have only a minor effect. That belief is no 0:16:11.920 --> 0:16:16.920 longer sustainable. The changes will be massive. Who Oddly enough, 0:16:17.480 --> 0:16:20.360 both sides of the political spectrum agree on what those 0:16:20.480 --> 0:16:23.360 changes will be. The only disagreement is to whether they'll 0:16:23.400 --> 0:16:26.840 be good or bad. And she cites a left wing 0:16:26.960 --> 0:16:30.040 book about Lady Justice, The Battle to Save America, with 0:16:30.080 --> 0:16:32.200 a scene from the Supreme Court in twenty sixteen during 0:16:32.280 --> 0:16:36.640 oral arguments over Texas abortion law. The three female justices, Ginsburg, Sodoma, 0:16:36.760 --> 0:16:40.320 arnkeg and Quote ignored the formal time limits, talking exuberantly 0:16:40.360 --> 0:16:44.480 over their male colleagues. Lithwick, the author, celebrated this as 0:16:44.520 --> 0:16:48.080 an explosion of bottled up judicial girl power that afforded 0:16:48.120 --> 0:16:51.440 America a glimpse of what genuine gender parody might have 0:16:51.520 --> 0:16:54.960 meant for future women in powerful American legal institutions. She 0:16:55.160 --> 0:16:59.120 lauds the women for their reverend attitude to the laws formalities. 0:17:00.040 --> 0:17:00.480 Wow. 0:17:01.440 --> 0:17:03.600 So the next. 0:17:03.320 --> 0:17:06.919 Part when we come back contains my favorite line. You 0:17:06.960 --> 0:17:10.840 will remember it for the rest of your life, no kidding. 0:17:11.080 --> 0:17:13.280 The feminization of America and what's wrong with it? 0:17:13.359 --> 0:17:15.959 Stay with us Armstrong and Getty. 0:17:17.600 --> 0:17:20.440 Mass shooting avoided at the busiest import in America. 0:17:20.520 --> 0:17:21.320 Thank god. 0:17:21.760 --> 0:17:25.040 We've got the footage of when police encountered the guy 0:17:25.280 --> 0:17:27.320 before he was able to shoot a bunch of people. 0:17:27.680 --> 0:17:30.360 It's pretty danged interesting. We'll get to that a little later. 0:17:31.119 --> 0:17:34.400 So we've been working our way through an absolutely brilliant 0:17:34.640 --> 0:17:37.800 and eye opening essay by the author Helen Andrews, called 0:17:37.800 --> 0:17:41.040 The Great Feminization. If you are just tuning in, just 0:17:41.119 --> 0:17:44.080 jumping in, I encourage you to grab the podcast Armstrong 0:17:44.080 --> 0:17:47.120 and Getty on demand and circle back to the beginning. 0:17:47.800 --> 0:17:50.159 And again, this is not about what's wrong with women. 0:17:50.359 --> 0:17:55.960 It's about what's so important about balance between men and women, 0:17:56.000 --> 0:17:59.480 because men and women are very different, just speaking in 0:17:59.520 --> 0:18:03.679 general generalities, in ways that she has described. Continuing on 0:18:03.720 --> 0:18:07.080 with the essay, the great feminization is truly unprecedented. Other 0:18:07.119 --> 0:18:10.000 civilizations have given women the vote, granted them property rights, 0:18:10.040 --> 0:18:12.840 let them inherit the thrones of empires, But no civilization 0:18:12.880 --> 0:18:15.600 in human history has ever experimented with letting women control 0:18:15.760 --> 0:18:19.199 so many vital institutions of our society, from political parties 0:18:19.240 --> 0:18:20.800 to universities to our largest business. 0:18:21.000 --> 0:18:22.240 That's an excellent point. 0:18:23.160 --> 0:18:25.560 Even where women do not hold the top spots, women 0:18:25.640 --> 0:18:28.720 set the tone in these organizations such that a male 0:18:28.840 --> 0:18:31.440 CEO must operate within the limits set by a human 0:18:31.560 --> 0:18:35.159 resources VP. We assume that these institutions will continue to 0:18:35.200 --> 0:18:37.560 function under these completely novel circumstances. 0:18:37.640 --> 0:18:38.439 But what are our. 0:18:38.280 --> 0:18:40.960 Grounds for that assumption. The problem is not that women 0:18:40.960 --> 0:18:43.320 are less talented than men, or even that female modes 0:18:43.320 --> 0:18:44.960 of interaction are inferior in. 0:18:44.960 --> 0:18:46.119 Any objective sense. 0:18:46.560 --> 0:18:49.000 The problem is that female modes of interaction are not 0:18:49.040 --> 0:18:52.240 well suited to accomplishing the goals of many major institutions. 0:18:52.640 --> 0:18:55.359 You can have an academia that is majority female, but 0:18:55.480 --> 0:18:59.040 it will be as majority female departments in today's universities 0:18:59.080 --> 0:19:02.520 already are oriented toward other goals than open debate and 0:19:02.560 --> 0:19:06.000 the unfettered pursuit of truth. And if your academia doesn't 0:19:06.000 --> 0:19:08.639 pursue truth, what good is it? And if your journalists 0:19:08.680 --> 0:19:13.280 aren't prickly individualists who don't mind alienating people, what good 0:19:13.320 --> 0:19:13.720 are they? 0:19:13.920 --> 0:19:14.520 Okay, if a. 0:19:14.480 --> 0:19:17.840 Business one more, If a business loses its swashbuckling spirit 0:19:17.880 --> 0:19:21.480 and becomes a feminized, inward focused bureaucracy, will it not stagnate? 0:19:21.880 --> 0:19:24.800 She doesn't want to say it, You're not gonna say it. 0:19:24.880 --> 0:19:25.320 I'll say it. 0:19:25.320 --> 0:19:27.560 I'm already single, but I can't do myself any harm. 0:19:27.760 --> 0:19:28.600 It's possible. 0:19:28.800 --> 0:19:31.840 You can't run a world where women are in charge 0:19:32.080 --> 0:19:35.960 of any organizations, not any organizations, lots of organizations. 0:19:36.480 --> 0:19:39.000 It's just possible that it will not work. 0:19:39.359 --> 0:19:42.040 Right right, And we're working up to my favorite line 0:19:42.080 --> 0:19:43.600 of all that I will remember for the rest of 0:19:43.600 --> 0:19:47.879 my life. If the great feminization poses a threat to civilization, 0:19:47.920 --> 0:19:50.439 the question becomes whether it's anything we can do about it? 0:19:50.520 --> 0:19:52.440 The answer depends on why you think it occurred in 0:19:52.520 --> 0:19:54.440 the first place. There are many people who think that 0:19:54.480 --> 0:19:57.680 the Great feminization is naturally occurring. Women were finally given 0:19:57.680 --> 0:19:59.320 a chance to compete with men, and it turned out 0:19:59.359 --> 0:20:01.600 they were just That is why there are so many 0:20:01.640 --> 0:20:04.280 women in our newsrooms, running our political parties, et cetera. 0:20:04.800 --> 0:20:07.960 And Ross doth that too. I generally like describe that 0:20:08.080 --> 0:20:10.879 length that sort of thinking. He said, this is just 0:20:10.960 --> 0:20:14.240 a long male wine about a failure to adequately compete. 0:20:14.640 --> 0:20:16.800 Maybe you should suck it up and actually compete on 0:20:16.840 --> 0:20:18.919 the ground that we have in twenty first century America. 0:20:18.960 --> 0:20:20.560 Now the ground is shifted, dude. 0:20:21.119 --> 0:20:24.040 Well, yeah, I appreciate the counter argument, because it's always 0:20:24.040 --> 0:20:26.920 handy when you're trying to assess an idea. But that 0:20:27.040 --> 0:20:29.760 is what feminists think is happening, she writes. But they 0:20:29.800 --> 0:20:32.840 are wrong. Feminization is not an organic result of women 0:20:32.840 --> 0:20:36.720 out competing men. It is an artificial result of social engineering. 0:20:36.880 --> 0:20:38.560 And if we take our thumb off the scale, it 0:20:38.600 --> 0:20:42.040 will collapse within a generation. The most obvious thumb on 0:20:42.080 --> 0:20:45.439 the scale, excuse me, is anti discrimination law. It is 0:20:45.480 --> 0:20:49.200 illegal to employ too few women at your company. If 0:20:49.200 --> 0:20:51.920 women are underrepresented especially in your higher management. That is 0:20:51.960 --> 0:20:54.920 a lawsuit waiting to happen. As a result, employers give 0:20:54.960 --> 0:20:57.639 women jobs and promotions they would not otherwise have gotten, 0:20:57.840 --> 0:20:59.560 simply in order to keep their numbers up. 0:20:59.800 --> 0:21:01.280 It's rational for them to. 0:21:01.280 --> 0:21:03.760 Do this because the consequences for failing to do so 0:21:04.080 --> 0:21:07.040 can be dire. And she mentions a bunch of nine 0:21:07.200 --> 0:21:10.520 figure settlements. That's hundreds of millions of dollars, and how 0:21:10.560 --> 0:21:13.639 no manager wants that to happen on their watch. Anti 0:21:13.680 --> 0:21:17.400