Women Are POWERFUL As HELL： Debunking The FEMINIST LIE
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Summary
In this episode, we're talking about what feminists won't tell you about feminism and why it's important to know what they don't tell us about it. Feminism is a great example of "semantic overload" which is when a term acquires multiple meanings and is used in a purposefully vague way so you're not sure which meaning is being used at what time.
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Hello, Classic Crew, and welcome to today's video where we're going to be talking about
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I've been thinking a lot about feminism lately, and it really started when I watched a Christina
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Hoff Summers interview, which led me down a rabbit hole as I started watching a bunch
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of her videos and then watching videos from other women who know a lot about this topic.
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And it was fascinating to hear what Christina Hoff Summers had to say.
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Now, if you don't know who Christina Hoff Summers is, she works with the American Enterprise
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Institute, and she actually has a YouTube series called The Factual Feminist.
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Now, a lot of people on the internet also call her Based Mom.
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So Christina Hoff Summers, her thing is speaking out about the problems with modern feminism.
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She is a Democrat, and she and I disagree on some things.
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But on the topic of feminism, we do not disagree.
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And it was fascinating to hear her take on things, because all of a sudden I felt like,
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oh my goodness, everything I've been feeling actually has a reason.
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Now, one of the things that Summers talks about is the fact that despite feminism saying that
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women are so strong, women are stronger than men, they also have women feeling like fragile
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flowers, and they think that women are victims.
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And the example that Summers brings up very often in interviews is that when she went to
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Oberlin to give a speech, they set up a safe space so that women who felt overwhelmed by
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her speaking on this topic could go there and feel like they weren't being attacked.
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And this is a depressing thing to me, in that women are not weak.
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Women are so powerful, and it makes me crazy to think about how often the left plays into
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this victim narrative, feminists play into this victim narrative, that women are victims
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of society, of the patriarchy, when we have so much power.
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This was the reason I made a video about a year ago about Taylor Swift's song, The Man,
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her music video on The Man, which, again, plays into all of these stereotypes that women are
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weak, and that men can do whatever they want, and that women are weak because society has
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And I'm really excited to talk about this today because it's a really important idea,
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and I think it gives women an opportunity to feel more fulfilled and feel happier than
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constantly feeling like a victim, which will only make you despondent.
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So I'm really excited to get into today's video.
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Feminism is a very good example of the term semantic overload.
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If you don't know, semantic overload means when a term acquires multiple meanings and is used
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in a purposefully vague way, so you're not sure which meaning is being used at what time.
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The left is great at using words and phrases like this, and they put people on the spot
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But feminism is a great, great example of this.
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The first wave of feminism was about getting legal equity for women.
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So very famously, we got voting rights in the first wave of feminism.
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But the second wave of feminism and the third wave of feminism started changing what feminism
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It wasn't about being made equal to men anymore and getting equal rights.
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And a lot of them are paradoxical to each other.
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So we think about the idea that feminism, it means sex positivity, that we shouldn't
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But then we also get the idea that it's sex negativity, that engaging in sex with men is
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actually a bad thing because we're allowing men to take advantage of us and use their oppressive
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It can also mean that women must have equality in the workplace despite the fact that many
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women do not want to get to the heights of their careers and actually choose to leave
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high-powered jobs in order to stay at home and have families.
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And feminism doesn't care that that is the case.
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They'll still say that women are not making the same amount of men, that they're making
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78 cents on the dollar or whatever figure is in play today.
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Being feminist can mean being pro-choice and that if you're pro-life, you have internalized
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It can mean that you believe that there's an inherent victimization of women by society
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When someone asks me, are you a feminist, what am I going to say?
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I say, of course, I believe in equality for men and women, but I don't believe in all the
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This is why feminism is a dangerous concept because it is not just about equal legal rights.
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It's about a bunch of other things hidden under the guise of the title feminism.
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And what this made me realize is that feminists don't understand what the real strength of
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They don't understand the strengths that are unique to us as a sex and what is so exciting
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And the reason I was thinking about this was because I watched the movie Seven Brides for
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This is a musical that came out in 1954 and it's about a man named Adam Pontipi who in
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the 1850s is a backwoodsman and he lives in Oregon and he comes to town and he's looking
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to trade some wares as well as to find a wife and he happens to find one and her name is
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And Millie is actually the main character of the movie.
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She's been working in a boarding house serving all of these frontiersmen and when a man comes
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in and offers to sweep her away to his beautiful cabin in the mountains and to his farm, she
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She'll be part of a sovereign household with her husband.
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And when he brings her up to the mountains, that is not what she gets.
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She walks into the cabin and finds that he had not told her about these six brothers that
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None of whom have been raised with a woman's touch.
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She could run away from what she's been faced with.
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And instead, she pushes up her sleeves, grabs her Bible and says, I am going to build up the
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She makes all of the men in the movie better for having been there.
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She forces them to be the best version of themselves.
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She makes them eligible bachelors so that they can meet wives.
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She uses her strengths as a woman to make everyone around her better.
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Instead, she encourages them to find the best parts of their masculinity.
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This is all indicative of what women's strengths are.
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Watching the movie, you wouldn't blame Millie for returning to her life in the town.
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But the way that Millie's character decides to proceed forward is indicative of something
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And it gives us purpose and it gives us fulfillment.
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Feminism doesn't give women credit for all of the power they already hold.
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So what are these unique strengths that women have?
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Well, number one is that women make men better.
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Modern feminism says that anything men can do, women can do better.
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But the fact of the matter is women and men are not the same.
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It's not about trying to compete for women to be better than men at what men are good at.
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It's about women embracing the things that make us strong already.
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We don't have to fight the urge to play video games for hours on end or to be ridiculously
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But men do have those struggles and it's our responsibility to help them not sink to
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When feminists convince us that it's not our responsibility to take care of men and to
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make civilizations great, they're taking away a fundamental role.
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We make families stronger and this happens individually as well as societally.
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So on an individual level, if a woman raises her son to be good and upstanding and have
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If a woman tells a man that is interested in her, I won't date you unless you get your
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On a societal level, the quality of our men is responsive to the quality of our women
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So think about the women's liberation movement.
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It encouraged women to have sex as thoughtlessly and mindlessly as men did.
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And so if you have an urge, just go ahead and follow it.
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Before that started, men were forced to wait until marriage to have sex.
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If they wanted to have sex before marriage, they would have to go to less reputable places.
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It could have physical ramifications or social ramifications.
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They couldn't just go to a bar or swipe right on an app and have a one-night stand.
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Women weren't left in the situations they are today, where they have a one-night stand with
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Once feminism decided that sexual fulfillment was the most important thing, regardless of
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family, regardless of relationships, regardless of commitment, and decided that it was the
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most important thing for your happiness, the rules changed.
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Men could have sex with women and there was no commitment, no strings attached.
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A woman could get pregnant and not have a man to help her.
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And women were left to either blame themselves for not kind of fitting in with this new narrative
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that sex and love weren't related, or they were blaming society for making them feel bad.
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When in fact, the biggest issue is that sex and love do work together and in tandem, and
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that commitment is important when you're having sex.
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Women found they didn't get the happiness and fulfillment that feminists had promised to
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Women are the backbone of good civilizations, and we have so much power to influence the
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We make things run smoothly in our communities and our homes.
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And we make other women better, because men can't call out toxic behavior among women.
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This isn't to say that women's only role is in the home.
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But what it is to say is that we are uniquely capable of making civilizations grow and be
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And it is useful to recognize the power we have in that.
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We have a unique role in building and maintaining society.
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The fact that men need women doesn't need to make us aggrieved.
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The fact that children grow and thrive and become their best selves shouldn't make us tired.
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The fact that societies need women should not make us resentful.
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These are the kinds of things that bring women power and purpose.
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It is inspiring to me to think about how much power we as women have and how we can affect
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To me, it honestly blows my mind to think that women think that they are powerless when we
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have so much power, when we can control the outcomes of societies, when we can control
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the outcomes of literal civilizations, and we just need to stand up and choose to do so.
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