Speaker 1: Good morning, peeps, and welcome to okay f Daily with
Speaker 1: Meet Your Girl Danielle Moody, recording live from our pod
Speaker 1: stream studios in Times Square. You know, folks, it has
Speaker 1: been a couple of weeks now since the United States
Speaker 1: has withdrew from Afghanistan in their role of trying to
Speaker 1: secure democracy in an area that they really had no
Speaker 1: business in for the last twenty semite years. They have
Speaker 1: left in many ways Afghanistan more unstable than it was
Speaker 1: when they arrived in two thousand and one. There's an
Speaker 1: interesting article though, that I want to draw our attention to,
Speaker 1: which is really just using Afghanistan as a hook so
Speaker 1: much as understanding the politics of nations that have anti
Speaker 1: women agendas. And it's really interesting because I have to
Speaker 1: say this. I tweeted yesterday that some days I think
Speaker 1: about Hillary Clinton probably more than you know, most people
Speaker 1: where it's I think about her walking around, you know,
Speaker 1: her home or wherever, listening to the news and being
Speaker 1: absolutely and thoroughly disgusted by the things that are unfolding.
Speaker 1: That she warned the country of a decade ago, right
Speaker 1: or more. Hillary Clinton had been talking about women and
Speaker 1: girls issues when it wasn't popular when there was no hashtag,
Speaker 1: when you know, she was being lambasted for being a
Speaker 1: first lady who said, yeah, I don't want to fucking
Speaker 1: bake your pies. Right, we can applaud that now, But
Speaker 1: then an entire group of women came for her, and
Speaker 1: it would be that same group of women that would
Speaker 1: upset her ability to clench the highest office in the
Speaker 1: land in twenty sixteen, when fifty three percent of white
Speaker 1: women decided to vote against their own and instead vote
Speaker 1: for a traitorous, treasonous, misogynist, islamophobic, homophobic, transphobic, racist piece
Speaker 1: of shit Donald Trump. So what is really interesting to
Speaker 1: me is that the Economist put out an article and
Speaker 1: this was the tweet that they sent out. And if
Speaker 1: I were Hillary Clinton, I think that I would have
Speaker 1: gone out in my backyard on my balcony where whatever
Speaker 1: state she is at, and scream so loud that like
Speaker 1: it would alarm everyone in the towns nearby. This is
Speaker 1: what it read. There is growing evidence that Hillary Clinton
Speaker 1: was on to something a decade ago when she said
Speaker 1: the subjugation of women is a threat to the common
Speaker 1: security of our world. Now you read this article and
Speaker 1: Hillary Clinton, because she is better than me said in
Speaker 1: a tweet responding to the Economists, thanks for noticing, because
Speaker 1: all you can do right now if you are Hillary Clinton,
Speaker 1: is throw an incredible amount of shade at the fuckery
Speaker 1: that has maybe possibly and I guess we will see
Speaker 1: with the midterm elections, wholly and completely gutted our democracy.
Speaker 1: But the title of the article is this in the Economists,
Speaker 1: Sex and Geopolitics, Why nations that fail Women Fail. I
Speaker 1: think that it's incredibly important, and I said this last week.
Speaker 1: You know, it is not lost on me that the
Speaker 1: United States has the audacity to go around the world
Speaker 1: to lambast and to shame other countries for their treatment
Speaker 1: of women. Now, while we may not have outwardly facing
Speaker 1: violent or brutal punishments for women, the policies that this
Speaker 1: country supports and upholds are just as devastating as I
Speaker 1: would say, probably potentially being stoned to death or beaten right,
Speaker 1: Because here's the thing. When we live in a country
Speaker 1: where we know that one and four women are going
Speaker 1: to be raped, right when you go on to a
Speaker 1: college campus looking to your left, your right, your front,
Speaker 1: and your back, and knowing that several of you in
Speaker 1: that orientation assembly will be raped and we do nothing
Speaker 1: about that. It is just a matter of fact. Don't
Speaker 1: put your cup down, don't wear this outfit, don't go
Speaker 1: to this party. The onus always being on the woman.
Speaker 1: When you live in a country that goes on the
Speaker 1: world proclaiming how important education is for girls and how
Speaker 1: we need to educate girls and how dare you be
Speaker 1: this barbaric an archaic type of government. Well, I think
Speaker 1: about how women in this country are doubly triply educated
Speaker 1: in comparisons to men. I lifted up last week many
Speaker 1: analytics and reports on the fact that the pandemic, but
Speaker 1: even before the pandemic, that men were not looking for
Speaker 1: higher education or attending post secondary in the way that
Speaker 1: women are and have been, And that what happens when
Speaker 1: men leave university when they dare not go into college, right,
Speaker 1: when we have a class of men that will be
Speaker 1: under educated, right and young, and possibly a lot more
Speaker 1: aggressive right towards their women counterparts that are overly educated
Speaker 1: gainfully Floyd, And what does that create in a society.
Speaker 1: You look at America in the ways that women will
Speaker 1: enter into the workforce, and we all know because each
Speaker 1: and every year when we do this Women's Equal pay Day,
Speaker 1: and then Black Women's Equal pay Day, and then Latina
Speaker 1: women Equal pay Day. That we know right that women
Speaker 1: do not make equal to the amount as men, and
Speaker 1: we know that this should in fact be illegal, but
Speaker 1: we don't have a Congress and have not had a
Speaker 1: president that does anything more then read us empty mantras
Speaker 1: without backing that up with policy. So while we may
Speaker 1: not have women dressed in a particular way in this
Speaker 1: country or keep them out of school, we are most
Speaker 1: certainly keeping and holding ourselves back as a nation by
Speaker 1: the way in which we hold women back, right, because
Speaker 1: we have this false choice that we have women have
Speaker 1: to make in this country, I have a family or
Speaker 1: should I continue working, because we have not set up
Speaker 1: an infrastructure that allows both of those things to be true.
Speaker 1: And less, of course, you are wealthy two million women,
Speaker 1: and I'm sure that number is much higher. But when
Speaker 1: first reported in the midst of twenty twenty, Stephanie Rule
Speaker 1: said on MSNBC that two million women had left the workforce.
Speaker 1: Why because they were strapped with having to both homeschool
Speaker 1: right as well as hold on to their own jobs.
Speaker 1: And at the end of it, when push came to shove.
Speaker 1: What did they have to give up the ability to
Speaker 1: be able to maintain building an income outside of the household. So,
Speaker 1: whether or not we say explicitly like the Taliban and
Speaker 1: other archaic governments, we do a lot of the same
Speaker 1: similar shit. We just use euphemisms and news. Right. It
Speaker 1: is the appearance of freedom for women, It is the
Speaker 1: appearance of equity for women, but we don't actually practice that.
Speaker 1: It is why we have so many subgroups and if
Speaker 1: you work in corporate America, you have you know, employee
Speaker 1: resource groups that are for women, that are for this.
Speaker 1: Then we talk about mentorship programs and pipelines and all
Speaker 1: of these things. Why because many of the policies that
Speaker 1: we have on the books and that we continue to
Speaker 1: okay in this country are steeped in patriarchy and misogyny.
Speaker 1: So when the economists then has the audacity to say, well,
Speaker 1: you know, maybe that Hillary Clinton, you know, the most
Speaker 1: qualified person ever to run for president of these United States,
Speaker 1: says something that maybe you know, she wasn't off base,
Speaker 1: that maybe you know, this very intelligent, highly educated, strategic
Speaker 1: woman knew what the fuck she was talking about, but
Speaker 1: no one listened to her because she was in fact
Speaker 1: a woman. So here is a bit of this piece.
Speaker 1: After America and its allies toppled the Taliban in two
Speaker 1: thousand and one, primary school enrollment of Afghan girls rose
Speaker 1: from zero percent to above eighty percent. Infant mortality fell
Speaker 1: by half. Forced marriages were made illegal, Many of those
Speaker 1: schools were ropey, and many families ignored the law. But
Speaker 1: no one seriously doubts that Afghan women and girls have
Speaker 1: made great gains in the past twenty years, or that
Speaker 1: those gains are now in jeopardy. The United States is
Speaker 1: quote committed to advancing gender equality through its foreign policy.
Speaker 1: According to the State Department, bequeathing billions of dollars worth
Speaker 1: of arms and a medium sized country to a group
Speaker 1: of violent misogynists is an odd way to show it.
Speaker 1: Of course, foreign policy involves difficult trade offs, but the
Speaker 1: is growing evidence that Hillary Clinton was on to something
Speaker 1: when she said a decade ago that the subjugation of
Speaker 1: women is a threat to the common security for our
Speaker 1: world societies. They write that oppressed women are far more
Speaker 1: likely to be violent and unstable. They go on there
Speaker 1: are several possible reasons for this. In many places, girls
Speaker 1: are selectively aborted or fatally neglected. This has led to
Speaker 1: skewed sex ratios, which mean millions of young men are
Speaker 1: doomed to remain single. Frustrated young men are more likely
Speaker 1: to commit violent crimes or join rebel groups. I want
Speaker 1: to pause here for a minute because this is something
Speaker 1: that again we don't discuss right which is the psychology
Speaker 1: of white male rage. And I'm particularly talking about this
Speaker 1: in the context of the United States and the texts
Speaker 1: of who we look to right as being the quote
Speaker 1: unquote norm and the quote unquote mainstream, and what we
Speaker 1: have seen in this country. And again this is just
Speaker 1: based on my observation, not any report that has come out,
Speaker 1: but I'm assuming that one will, which is this, Over
Speaker 1: the last ten plus years, according to the FBI reporting,
Speaker 1: there's been a rise in white supremacist groups. There has
Speaker 1: also been a rise in hate crimes and violence, oftentimes
Speaker 1: perpetuated at the hands of white men. We know that
Speaker 1: a majority of mass shootings, for instance, have been done
Speaker 1: at the hands of white men. There is also right
Speaker 1: as we have seen a either status quo for women's
Speaker 1: rights or a rollback, which we are seeing right now
Speaker 1: happen in Texas and the domino effect that is going
Speaker 1: to unfold with red state governors. Does anybody think about
Speaker 1: the parallels between the rise in the white domestic terrorists
Speaker 1: groups and violence in this country, the decrease in enrollment
Speaker 1: in college and university in this country for men, right,
Speaker 1: and how these two things are actually overlapping, and that
Speaker 1: the more educated men are, right that the less likely
Speaker 1: they are to become violent, to be unstable. And the
Speaker 1: idea that the more rights right that we bestow to
Speaker 1: women to make the playing field equal, the better off
Speaker 1: in the long term our country is. And what this
Speaker 1: piece is saying is that very same thing, but looking
Speaker 1: at it on a global scale and not just looking
Speaker 1: at the United States. But you see, the thing is
Speaker 1: is that in this country we are more interested in
Speaker 1: putting band aids on bullet holes than we are on
Speaker 1: anything else. You see, we only ever want to unpack
Speaker 1: the psychology when we're trying to invoke empathy in white
Speaker 1: male rage. We never actually decide, let's unpack the psychology
Speaker 1: to better understand the policies that are driving this type
Speaker 1: of fucking violence and this type of increase in white
Speaker 1: supremacist violent groups, right, because they are oftentimes let us
Speaker 1: be clear is that these white supremaist groups are often
Speaker 1: steeped in misogyny as well, which is why in twenty
Speaker 1: sixteen you would found me with my mouth agape because
Speaker 1: I'm like, how to fuck these white women? Go ahead
Speaker 1: and vote for these men that don't want you to
Speaker 1: have access to an abortion, that want to keep you
Speaker 1: locked in the household. But in your reptilian brain, you're
Speaker 1: thinking about what survival and survival only, which for white
Speaker 1: women is that the proximity to maleness right is where
Speaker 1: their power lies. So we enforce, we reinforce this continual
Speaker 1: sicular fuckery because we don't address anything actually at the route.
Speaker 1: And what they will go on to say in the piece,
Speaker 1: which I thought is really interesting as well, is that
Speaker 1: when women are locked into these violent type of domestic
Speaker 1: situations right, it is also less likely that they are
Speaker 1: going to be educating thoughtful strategic leaders for the future.
Speaker 1: So if you're thinking again about your country's ability to
Speaker 1: reimagine manifest destiny and a Taliban takeover, or if you're
Speaker 1: you know, a dictator or what have you, and you're
Speaker 1: looking to spread your wings, why wouldn't you want as
Speaker 1: many educa CAD people pushing your country forward as possible.
Speaker 1: But it's the same question that I ask about the
Speaker 1: United States, is the same question that I ask about
Speaker 1: the Taliban, which is, why wouldn't you invest in women.
Speaker 1: Why wouldn't you make equal pay the law of the land.
Speaker 1: Why wouldn't you make it so that in a country
Speaker 1: that was founded on Christian fundamentalism, that if you wanted
Speaker 1: people to actually have families, right to increase the population,
Speaker 1: then you would do so in a way that would
Speaker 1: allow there to be a mandate in private corporations to
Speaker 1: have childcare right on the grounds it would be the
Speaker 1: same for the federal government and workers that childcare is
Speaker 1: a part of your package, right, just like a four
Speaker 1: oh one K, just like health insurance, that if you
Speaker 1: have a child that is not of school age, then
Speaker 1: we are providing childcare for you. Because you see, that's
Speaker 1: what a logical country would do that wants to increase
Speaker 1: its GDP, that wants to be in competition with the
Speaker 1: rest of the fucking world. You wouldn't then make it
Speaker 1: so half of the global population is unable to access
Speaker 1: any type of economic individualism or community building that could
Speaker 1: make your country better. But it's the same fucking patriarchal
Speaker 1: logic that the Taliban uses that white Christian fundamentalists use
Speaker 1: in the United States. And so what pisces me off
Speaker 1: to no end is that over the last couple of weeks,
Speaker 1: right the last week or so, that we are now
Speaker 1: dealing with the you know, the blast radius of Texas's
Speaker 1: new abortion band that you're turning around and you're saying, huh.
Speaker 1: People are referring to this as like y'all kata and
Speaker 1: naming it. You know, what they think is funny, pithy
Speaker 1: things that are mocking Islam. When I'm like, no, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: dear friend, this ain't have nothing to do with Islam.
Speaker 1: What is happening in fucking Texas. This is Christian fundamentalism
Speaker 1: and extremism run a fucking mock. But because it's white
Speaker 1: people with their white Jesus, you've decided to turn the
Speaker 1: other cheek or look the other fucking way. And the
Speaker 1: reality is is that they are abusing women in the
Speaker 1: same fucking way. So do not make it seem as
Speaker 1: you have this one pristine, untouchable religion and then you
Speaker 1: have oh Islam over here. It is one in the
Speaker 1: fucking same, which is about men being in power and
Speaker 1: men ruling alone. And what we have seen is that
Speaker 1: that creates war, it creates famine, and it creates instability.
Speaker 1: So when will we learn? Is the question that I
Speaker 1: have and the question that I'm sure was posed by
Speaker 1: Hillary Clinton so many fucking moons ago. But you know,
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