Classically Abby - Women Are POWERFUL As HELL： Debunking The FEMINIST LIE

00:00:00.000 Hello, Classic Crew, and welcome to today's video where we're going to be talking about

00:00:04.360 what feminists won't tell you. 1.00

00:00:11.140 I've been thinking a lot about feminism lately, and it really started when I watched a Christina 0.99

00:00:16.920 Hoff Summers interview, which led me down a rabbit hole as I started watching a bunch

00:00:21.880 of her videos and then watching videos from other women who know a lot about this topic.

00:00:26.960 And it was fascinating to hear what Christina Hoff Summers had to say.

00:00:32.800 Now, if you don't know who Christina Hoff Summers is, she works with the American Enterprise 1.00

00:00:37.100 Institute, and she actually has a YouTube series called The Factual Feminist. 0.98

00:00:41.840 Now, a lot of people on the internet also call her Based Mom.

00:00:45.140 So Christina Hoff Summers, her thing is speaking out about the problems with modern feminism. 1.00

00:00:51.980 Now, she is not conservative.

00:00:55.120 She is a Democrat, and she and I disagree on some things.

00:00:59.720 But on the topic of feminism, we do not disagree.

00:01:02.900 And it was fascinating to hear her take on things, because all of a sudden I felt like,

00:01:09.020 oh my goodness, everything I've been feeling actually has a reason.

00:01:13.600 Now, one of the things that Summers talks about is the fact that despite feminism saying that 1.00

00:01:18.600 women are so strong, women are stronger than men, they also have women feeling like fragile

00:01:24.900 flowers, and they think that women are victims. 1.00

00:01:28.520 And the example that Summers brings up very often in interviews is that when she went to

00:01:33.460 Oberlin to give a speech, they set up a safe space so that women who felt overwhelmed by 1.00

00:01:39.140 her speaking on this topic could go there and feel like they weren't being attacked.

00:01:45.080 And this is a depressing thing to me, in that women are not weak. 1.00

00:01:52.560 Women are strong. 0.99

00:01:54.400 Women are so powerful, and it makes me crazy to think about how often the left plays into 1.00

00:02:03.660 this victim narrative, feminists play into this victim narrative, that women are victims 1.00

00:02:09.800 of society, of the patriarchy, when we have so much power.

00:02:14.360 This was the reason I made a video about a year ago about Taylor Swift's song, The Man,

00:02:21.840 her music video on The Man, which, again, plays into all of these stereotypes that women are 1.00

00:02:27.360 weak, and that men can do whatever they want, and that women are weak because society has 0.99

00:02:34.160 made them that way.

00:02:35.940 No.

00:02:36.740 Women are very strong. 1.00

00:02:38.860 And I'm really excited to talk about this today because it's a really important idea,

00:02:42.620 and I think it gives women an opportunity to feel more fulfilled and feel happier than

00:02:48.340 constantly feeling like a victim, which will only make you despondent.

00:02:52.400 So I'm really excited to get into today's video.

00:02:55.260 I hope you are, too.

00:02:56.520 Let's get into it.

00:02:57.720 So let's talk about feminism briefly. 0.88

00:03:00.040 Feminism is a very good example of the term semantic overload. 1.00

00:03:04.520 If you don't know, semantic overload means when a term acquires multiple meanings and is used

00:03:10.720 in a purposefully vague way, so you're not sure which meaning is being used at what time.

00:03:16.540 The left is great at using words and phrases like this, and they put people on the spot

00:03:21.260 by using them.

00:03:22.460 But feminism is a great, great example of this. 1.00

00:03:26.420 Feminism had three waves. 1.00

00:03:28.540 Some people think there's a fourth wave now.

00:03:30.800 And each wave was defined by different things.

00:03:33.940 Now, the first wave was a good wave.

00:03:36.580 The first wave of feminism was about getting legal equity for women. 1.00

00:03:39.860 So very famously, we got voting rights in the first wave of feminism. 0.98

00:03:43.760 But the second wave of feminism and the third wave of feminism started changing what feminism 1.00

00:03:49.820 meant.

00:03:50.300 It wasn't about being made equal to men anymore and getting equal rights.

00:03:54.140 It was about a lot of different things.

00:03:57.200 And a lot of them are paradoxical to each other.

00:03:59.600 So we think about the idea that feminism, it means sex positivity, that we shouldn't

00:04:05.620 slut shame people. 1.00

00:04:06.660 But then we also get the idea that it's sex negativity, that engaging in sex with men is 0.99

00:04:11.780 actually a bad thing because we're allowing men to take advantage of us and use their oppressive

00:04:17.340 nature in a sexual manner.

00:04:19.740 It can mean equality in the workplace.

00:04:21.700 It can also mean that women must have equality in the workplace despite the fact that many

00:04:28.240 women do not want to get to the heights of their careers and actually choose to leave 1.00

00:04:33.820 high-powered jobs in order to stay at home and have families.

00:04:37.120 That is a choice many women make. 1.00

00:04:39.420 And feminism doesn't care that that is the case. 1.00

00:04:42.680 They'll still say that women are not making the same amount of men, that they're making 0.99

00:04:47.380 78 cents on the dollar or whatever figure is in play today.

00:04:53.480 Being feminist can mean being pro-choice and that if you're pro-life, you have internalized 1.00

00:04:58.060 misogyny.

00:04:58.780 It can mean that you believe that there's an inherent victimization of women by society

00:05:03.060 and the patriarchy.

00:05:04.280 Now, the issue is this.

00:05:05.640 When someone asks me, are you a feminist, what am I going to say? 1.00

00:05:09.360 I say, of course, I believe in equality for men and women, but I don't believe in all the 1.00

00:05:13.700 rest of this stuff, whatever else it means.

00:05:16.660 What does a woman even mean to you? 1.00

00:05:19.140 What do rights mean to you?

00:05:21.360 This is why feminism is a dangerous concept because it is not just about equal legal rights. 1.00

00:05:28.760 It is not just about being equal in society.

00:05:32.200 It's about a bunch of other things hidden under the guise of the title feminism. 1.00

00:05:38.220 And what this made me realize is that feminists don't understand what the real strength of 1.00

00:05:44.000 women is. 1.00

00:05:44.740 They don't understand the strengths that are unique to us as a sex and what is so exciting

00:05:51.020 and powerful about being a woman.

00:05:54.480 And the reason I was thinking about this was because I watched the movie Seven Brides for

00:05:57.900 Seven Brothers.

00:05:58.480 This is a musical that came out in 1954 and it's about a man named Adam Pontipi who in

00:06:04.940 the 1850s is a backwoodsman and he lives in Oregon and he comes to town and he's looking

00:06:10.540 to trade some wares as well as to find a wife and he happens to find one and her name is

00:06:16.000 Millie.

00:06:16.760 And Millie is actually the main character of the movie.

00:06:19.920 She's been working in a boarding house serving all of these frontiersmen and when a man comes

00:06:24.340 in and offers to sweep her away to his beautiful cabin in the mountains and to his farm, she

00:06:29.360 takes him up on the offer.

00:06:30.340 She thinks it's beautiful.

00:06:31.260 She'll be part of a sovereign household with her husband.

00:06:34.600 And when he brings her up to the mountains, that is not what she gets.

00:06:38.860 She walks into the cabin and finds that he had not told her about these six brothers that

00:06:44.440 he has that live in the cabin with him.

00:06:46.200 None of whom have been raised with a woman's touch.

00:06:51.020 I mean, honestly, that's what it is.

00:06:52.400 They are not civilized.

00:06:54.000 They're all messy.

00:06:55.520 And Millie has to make a choice. 0.99

00:06:57.620 She has to make a choice.

00:06:58.700 She could return back to town.

00:07:01.000 She could run away from what she's been faced with.

00:07:03.740 And instead, she pushes up her sleeves, grabs her Bible and says, I am going to build up the

00:07:09.060 men around me and make this house a home. 1.00

00:07:11.920 And she does.

00:07:13.160 She makes all of the men in the movie better for having been there. 0.97

00:07:17.560 She forces them to be the best version of themselves.

00:07:22.120 She makes them eligible bachelors so that they can meet wives. 0.76

00:07:26.460 She uses her strengths as a woman to make everyone around her better. 1.00

00:07:32.560 And it's a beautiful film for that reason.

00:07:36.660 Now, she doesn't ask the men to be weak.

00:07:38.860 Instead, she encourages them to find the best parts of their masculinity.

00:07:43.160 This is all indicative of what women's strengths are. 1.00

00:07:47.800 Watching the movie, you wouldn't blame Millie for returning to her life in the town. 1.00

00:07:51.600 That would make sense.

00:07:52.700 She was kind of blindsided by this scenario.

00:07:56.140 But the way that Millie's character decides to proceed forward is indicative of something

00:08:01.020 greater.

00:08:01.880 Women have a unique strength. 1.00

00:08:04.000 And it gives us purpose and it gives us fulfillment.

00:08:06.780 We set the standards for civilizations.

00:08:09.540 Feminism doesn't give women credit for all of the power they already hold. 1.00

00:08:14.380 So what are these unique strengths that women have? 1.00

00:08:17.780 Well, number one is that women make men better. 1.00

00:08:20.580 Modern feminism says that anything men can do, women can do better. 1.00

00:08:24.740 But the fact of the matter is women and men are not the same. 1.00

00:08:27.600 It's not about trying to compete for women to be better than men at what men are good at.

00:08:32.320 It's about women embracing the things that make us strong already.

00:08:36.020 We don't have to fight the urge to play video games for hours on end or to be ridiculously

00:08:41.340 promiscuous.

00:08:42.580 But men do have those struggles and it's our responsibility to help them not sink to

00:08:46.920 their level.

00:08:47.700 When feminists convince us that it's not our responsibility to take care of men and to 1.00

00:08:52.400 make civilizations great, they're taking away a fundamental role.

00:08:57.200 Loving.

00:08:58.380 Through our love, we make things better.

00:09:00.220 As women, we take care of what we love. 1.00

00:09:02.700 We build beauty around ourselves.

00:09:04.520 We make houses into homes.

00:09:06.280 We make communities better.

00:09:07.800 We make men better.

00:09:08.820 We make families stronger and this happens individually as well as societally.

00:09:14.360 So on an individual level, if a woman raises her son to be good and upstanding and have

00:09:19.240 good values and morals, guess what?

00:09:21.420 He will be a good upstanding man.

00:09:23.860 If a woman tells a man that is interested in her, I won't date you unless you get your 1.00

00:09:28.480 act together, guess what?

00:09:29.980 He might get his act together.

00:09:31.580 On a societal level, the quality of our men is responsive to the quality of our women

00:09:36.040 and what we demand of men.

00:09:38.020 So think about the women's liberation movement. 0.92

00:09:41.140 It encouraged women to have sex as thoughtlessly and mindlessly as men did. 1.00

00:09:45.640 That we shouldn't tie love and sex together. 0.91

00:09:49.380 That they are separate.

00:09:50.580 And so if you have an urge, just go ahead and follow it.

00:09:54.200 Before that started, men were forced to wait until marriage to have sex.

00:09:58.140 If they wanted to have sex before marriage, they would have to go to less reputable places.

00:10:01.500 And that's the point.

00:10:02.300 They had to go out of their way to seek it.

00:10:04.660 It could have physical ramifications or social ramifications.

00:10:08.440 They couldn't just go to a bar or swipe right on an app and have a one-night stand.

00:10:13.620 Women weren't left in the situations they are today, where they have a one-night stand with 1.00

00:10:18.180 someone and maybe emotionally get attached.

00:10:20.760 Or where they date someone for a long time.

00:10:23.640 Once feminism decided that sexual fulfillment was the most important thing, regardless of 1.00

00:10:28.540 family, regardless of relationships, regardless of commitment, and decided that it was the

00:10:33.980 most important thing for your happiness, the rules changed.

00:10:37.200 Men could now sleep with women and leave. 0.96

00:10:40.200 Men could have sex with women and there was no commitment, no strings attached. 0.92

00:10:44.580 A woman could get pregnant and not have a man to help her. 1.00

00:10:47.640 And women were left to either blame themselves for not kind of fitting in with this new narrative 0.95

00:10:54.580 that sex and love weren't related, or they were blaming society for making them feel bad.

00:11:00.140 When in fact, the biggest issue is that sex and love do work together and in tandem, and

00:11:05.740 that commitment is important when you're having sex.

00:11:09.600 Women found they didn't get the happiness and fulfillment that feminists had promised to 1.00

00:11:13.560 them.

00:11:13.740 Women are the backbone of good civilizations, and we have so much power to influence the 1.00

00:11:20.800 future.

00:11:21.960 We raise children.

00:11:24.340 We make men better.

00:11:26.680 We make things run smoothly in our communities and our homes.

00:11:30.260 And we make other women better, because men can't call out toxic behavior among women.

00:11:35.480 Only women can do that. 1.00

00:11:36.900 This isn't to say that women's only role is in the home. 1.00

00:11:40.180 But what it is to say is that we are uniquely capable of making civilizations grow and be

00:11:48.680 strong.

00:11:49.540 And it is useful to recognize the power we have in that.

00:11:53.340 We have a unique role in building and maintaining society.

00:11:56.700 The fact that men need women doesn't need to make us aggrieved.

00:12:00.100 The fact that children grow and thrive and become their best selves shouldn't make us tired.

00:12:06.880 The fact that societies need women should not make us resentful.

00:12:10.800 These are the kinds of things that bring women power and purpose. 1.00

00:12:15.040 It is inspiring to me to think about how much power we as women have and how we can affect

00:12:21.960 change.

00:12:23.420 To me, it honestly blows my mind to think that women think that they are powerless when we 0.98

00:12:28.280 have so much power, when we can control the outcomes of societies, when we can control

00:12:35.520 the outcomes of literal civilizations, and we just need to stand up and choose to do so.

00:12:42.560 So, I hope you guys enjoyed today's video.

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Classically Abby - May 10, 2021

Women Are POWERFUL As HELL： Debunking The FEMINIST LIE

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