RadixJournal - The Feminist Syndrome

00:00:00.000 Okay, but let's just hear her out here. 1.00

00:00:02.120 She's talking about the dangers of feminism. 1.00

00:00:05.420 Prior to the 1970s, we had 5% of mothers with school-age kids working outside the home.

00:00:12.680 And for all of human history, even during the Industrial Revolution, you know, 17, 18, 1900s, like you said, in the 40s and 50s,

00:00:20.440 you could be a janitor and support a family and have four kids on one income.

00:00:25.960 And something shifted in the 1970s, and it's now.

00:00:28.880 All right.

00:00:29.400 Don't you think that people like this have a wildly naive conception of the past?

00:00:38.620 And by wildly, I mean this bourgeois, egalitarian, utopian view of history.

00:00:47.380 I don't even know where to begin.

00:00:49.420 But the mistreatment of the poor during the Victorian age and so much of the 19th century was appalling.

00:01:02.160 Living in the Dust Bowl, the sort of social and familial breakdown that was occurring on a daily basis during the Great Depression was tremendous.

00:01:14.120 You know, it's like we think that the past was the 1950s.

00:01:18.160 In many ways, the 1950s and the boomers who were getting married all the time was a reaction to the past.

00:01:25.640 It was a reaction to familial breakdown.

00:01:29.260 Unwanted pregnancies, abortions, dad leaves us.

00:01:34.160 The last thing he said is that I'm just going to the store to get some milk and we never saw him again.

00:01:38.900 This kind of thing was occurring all over the place.

00:01:43.600 And the idea that life in the Industrial Revolution was this sort of egalitarian, middle class society where janitors had four kids or whatever is just wrong.

00:01:57.020 And in terms of human history, we know this through empirical research, but elites were outbreeding the underclass at a rapid clip throughout human history.

00:02:10.840 And you can actually research this and see this mostly through names and marriage records, etc.

00:02:18.080 So that 1950s utopia where the janitor had a stay-at-home wife and four kids and a garage and a vacation or whatever, is that like where we want to go back to?

00:02:34.020 Or is that an aberration, an exception that sort of proves the rule?

00:02:38.900 And if you're starting from this point, I don't quite know what to say.

00:02:44.020 Yeah, I mean, we just can't get beyond the fact mentally as a society that we've had a slow living standards improvement when you're looking back a thousand years.

00:02:57.220 And we had this recent bump where it shot up so fast.

00:03:03.280 And now we're kind of coming down from a high.

00:03:07.700 But all we can think of is the fact that we don't feel as good as we did when we had that high.

00:03:12.660 And now people are kind of righteously pissed that like they're not living better than their parents, despite they might be more educated and telling them like, oh, hey, at least you're not living in the year 1700.

00:03:28.220 Only rich people could afford sober.

00:03:30.900 Just be grateful you have running water is the coldest of cold comforts.

00:03:34.960 And people are reacting figuratively violently when told that when society is telling them no to their idealized versions, idealized living standards.

00:03:45.920 And you can't blame the person that's mad because no one wants their life to be a kind of sacrificial lamb to history.

00:03:54.240 And they want to grasp at straws whatever ways they can.

00:03:57.740 And you can't blame them.

00:03:58.640 Well, first of all, pre-industrial revolution, there was no single income.

00:04:02.860 Everybody was working.

00:04:03.980 And like, yeah, the janitor's children were in the mines.

00:04:07.060 I'm sorry.

00:04:07.920 And I think that much of the kind of cost concern is driven primarily by the fact that lower classes now have bourgeois expectations.

00:04:16.720 If you don't give your kid away to school, to university, if he works, if he could work at a McDonald's at age seven, you could actually afford a life and it would be manageable.

00:04:28.500 Or you could go the African-American route and just live off of SNAP benefits and get six babies and do it that way. 0.99

00:04:35.700 You know, like there's still a very much attainable high fertility path, but nobody wants to take it.

00:04:42.340 Yeah.

00:04:42.760 I'll keep going.

00:04:43.520 Never shifted back.

00:04:44.220 So it can't be like how the stock market's doing.

00:04:47.880 It can't really be like all these other independent economic factors that have shifted and changed and been so different over the course of the last 50 years.

00:04:54.680 The one big thing that we changed is we pushed women into college and into the workforce. 1.00

00:05:01.160 And by the 1980s, they were on par with men in workforce participation.

00:05:06.960 So in the span of about 20 years, we almost doubled the labor force by pushing all the women in. 1.00

00:05:13.060 And men's wages have never recovered.

00:05:16.220 So now you are stuck in a two income trap where even women who want to stay home and even dads who would love to have their wife home with their kids. 0.66

00:05:23.760 It's really tough.

00:05:24.880 So why did women entering the workforce keep men's wages stable or keep them from going up along with the inflation? 1.00

00:05:33.140 It really fundamentally changed the economy.

00:05:36.300 I have a friend named Aaron Clary who wrote a book about the about this.

00:05:39.800 It's an analysis of what he calls a female based economy where it's more consumer driven.

00:05:45.700 Women are like responsible for 80 percent of consumer spending. 1.00

00:05:48.800 And now that they're all educated and in the job market, we have a lot more of things like HR departments, psychology, sociology, like the economy.

00:05:57.700 Okay, there's a lot to go into there.

00:06:00.720 Okay, so I agree with the basic notion that if you double the size of labor, that labor costs are going to go down.

00:06:11.060 I mean, it's a just brute reality of supply and demand.

00:06:14.960 I get that, but at the same time, I do think that her analysis is quite blind because women entering the workforce is going to create a bigger economy overall.

00:06:30.700 It's similar to like Richard Hanani appraising immigration where I do feel like he's missing something where it's like, yeah, you bring in millions of people and you're going to have to have millions, millions of more homes.

00:06:46.560 You're going to have to have millions of more McDonald's selling them food. 0.85

00:06:50.900 You're going to have to have millions of more Walmarts selling them goods, sell millions of more cars, et cetera.

00:06:55.840 The economy grows.

00:06:56.840 It's not growing per capita per person, and it might be getting worse in that way, but it's going to sort of it's going to grow the economy and women entering the workforce. 1.00

00:07:10.820 There's going to be a greater division of labor, et cetera. 1.00

00:07:13.940 She seems to be blaming women for like technological and geopolitical realities of which women entering the workforce was in fact a symptom and not a cause. 0.58

00:07:31.120 So it's not like women came into the workforce and we're like, oh, wow, we all used to be lumberjacks, but now we're going to be HR directors and psychologists or something.

00:07:46.100 That's not how it works.

00:07:49.560 We benefit in the United States from the dollar system.

00:07:54.820 The dollar is in effect the gold standard.

00:07:58.740 We benefit from this post-World War II system where we can outsource a lot of the hard labor and benefit from furthering the division of labor so that you don't have to own a small farm where you're raising your eggs and your cows so you can eat first and your family and then you might sell the surplus or whatever.

00:08:23.340 You don't have to do that.

00:08:25.000 There's going to be a egg place that takes care of that and they're going to sell you eggs at five cents a pop and you can do something else.

00:08:35.620 And again, like we're able to have a country where you can have an HR manager, you can have a college professor, you can have a poet, you can have a beauty consultant.

00:08:50.260 That can be your career, in fact, whereas if we didn't benefit from this geopolitical reality and post-industrialization and offshoring, et cetera, we didn't benefit from the United States and the dollar system being the center of a global economy.

00:09:05.760 So we can outsource all that grunt labor to other people, then that kind of thing couldn't exist. 0.99

00:09:13.500 It is like the Marxist utopia.

00:09:15.560 Like you actually can be a poet in the afternoon if you want to.

00:09:20.000 If you are working for your own survival to feed yourself, you have no time to do something like that.

00:09:26.580 Now we have this luxury and it's almost like she wants to turn the world into a factory.

00:09:34.780 It's like a kind of weird type of communism where it's like we want to go back in time to this point where we're overpaying men to be lumberjacks so that they can have a family of four.

00:09:48.140 It's just very strange.

00:09:50.660 And again, was it just that like women entered the workforce and just transformed the economy and they're like, ooh, what? 1.00

00:10:00.880 Working at a factory, working with your hands?

00:10:03.220 Yuck.

00:10:04.060 No more of that.

00:10:05.460 I'm going to be a social media manager.

00:10:07.080 That's not what happened.

00:10:09.200 Like women's entrance into the workplace is a symptom of these technological and material changes. 1.00

00:10:17.240 We needed more people working because of the economy growing.

00:10:22.260 And secondly, women are arguably better at a lot of things like being nurses, like being social media managers, like being HR directors, like working in an office. 1.00

00:10:36.680 It just is what it is.

00:10:38.460 I agree that there's some like bad things about it and there are tradeoffs.

00:10:42.100 I agree with all that, but it just is what it is.

00:10:45.000 I don't think we should give women in a way the credit that they like transform things.

00:10:51.480 And I'll just add one more thing on here, which is that running a household used to be a just all day thing.

00:11:00.900 Like women think they have it bad now, you know, or like if you're a home, a homemaker, you're like, oh my God, I don't even have time for the laundry. 1.00

00:11:08.880 It's 3 p.m. I've got a soccer practice already.

00:11:12.020 I get it that it's life is stressful.

00:11:14.680 That is nothing in comparison with doing the laundry by hand, slaughtering animals before you cook them.

00:11:24.080 I could just go on cleaning out the outhouses.

00:11:28.640 I mean, the washing machine, the dishwasher, indoor plumbing, the telephone, the fax machine, the internet door dash on your phone.

00:11:40.500 I think it's great to be a homemaker.

00:11:42.900 My mother was a homemaker and you can do that.

00:11:45.920 But like you, you would need to be part of a team to take care of a home in previous times.

00:11:52.480 So it's sort of understandable that women could go into the workplace while their washing machine is running. 0.99

00:12:01.580 If you understand what I'm saying, like there are, there are just material technological changes that led to this.

00:12:09.440 And feminism, women entering the workplace is just a symptom. 1.00

00:12:15.060 I mean, I think there's this way in which you like demonize intellectuals.

00:12:19.320 And I don't think intellectuals are without power, but there's this like sense of like,

00:12:23.460 if only Gloria Steinem had it written that magazine article that inspired women to go in the workplace. 1.00

00:12:29.600 And if she hadn't done that, then they just all stay at home and we just have a, everyone would be a lumberjack or a manual laborer. 1.00

00:12:39.640 And it would just be just bad-ass.

00:12:42.180 Like we just, you know, every job would be tough.

00:12:46.120 You'd come home dirty and your wife would have dinner ready. 1.00

00:12:49.660 It's just, that's a total fantasy.

00:12:53.620 Gloria Steinem is symptomatic.

00:12:55.520 She's not causal in my opinion.

00:12:57.220 She is basically rationalizing or justifying historical, technological, and material change.

00:13:05.220 She's not causing it.

00:13:06.920 Isn't this Maoism that Rachel basically wants? 0.93

00:13:10.220 Yeah. 0.99

00:13:10.840 Punch all the people wearing glasses. 1.00

00:13:12.920 Yeah. 0.99

00:13:13.460 Put them in the field.

00:13:14.860 I almost want to say it's like a, like on some level, she's like annoyed that her husband's a podcaster.

00:13:20.860 And she like wishes he was breaking his back somewhere.

00:13:25.100 That's true.

00:13:25.920 He's not getting dirty.

00:13:27.220 Yeah.

00:13:27.840 No, he can't open a pickle jar.

00:13:29.700 So maybe she thinks he would be a manlier man if podcasting wasn't a career option.

00:13:37.160 It is like they, I don't have the words for this, but yeah, it's like you women have forced my man to be a podcaster. 1.00

00:13:46.040 Whereas like he could have been a lumberjack.

00:13:49.320 He could have been a sexy lumberjack.

00:13:51.760 Sexy lumberjack.

00:13:52.600 You women have made me go on Joe Rogan. 1.00

00:13:55.620 I just wanted to be at home knitting.

00:13:58.020 But you made me do it.

00:14:00.360 So I'm going to do it.

00:14:01.580 I'm going to go have a career as a talking head.

00:14:04.240 Anyway, let's listen to a little more.

00:14:06.640 We shifted away from being like manufacturing and production and more male dominated things to we have all these women coming out of university. 1.00

00:14:13.920 And, you know, what do they get degrees in?

00:14:17.040 I think 80 percent of psychology degrees are earned by women. 1.00

00:14:20.820 And then despite all our efforts to push women into STEM, they're still like maybe 20 percent of STEM degrees. 0.88

00:14:27.660 So we have all these very educated women and we have a lot of kind of fluffy jobs like office. 1.00

00:14:34.240 But doesn't that demonstrate that sex differences haven't been overcome in a way?

00:14:39.900 Well, she'll make I'm sure she makes a point that women are more people focused and men are more things focused. 0.97

00:14:46.400 And yet somehow it's scandalous that women are getting psych degrees over engineering. 0.94

00:14:52.380 Does she want them to go get engineering degrees? 1.00

00:14:54.600 I mean, is it I don't I don't get her criticism.

00:14:57.340 I don't I don't know what she's arguing there.

00:14:59.740 Exactly.

00:15:00.940 China is also a manufacturing economy.

00:15:03.000 Their fertility rate is in the dumpster. 1.00

00:15:05.740 So that is true.

00:15:06.900 Yes, that is true.

00:15:08.520 The janitor doesn't have four kids over in Beijing.

00:15:12.480 I think that she's buying into like the STEM propaganda that like any degree is STEM is useless, even though that a psychology degree actually can be very useful.

00:15:21.660 My my grandfather had a master's in psychology and he was like managing human resources.

00:15:27.840 We men invented psychology.

00:15:29.480 Why are why are we like, oh, psychology? 0.78

00:15:32.160 These people like psychoanalyze whores all day and then they want to pretend that like psychology is something beneath them. 1.00

00:15:42.060 I don't understand. 0.97

00:15:42.780 It's obviously a real study.

00:15:45.160 I sort of love the fact that this stems the STEM race are getting like genocided like I I'm overstating my case here.

00:15:56.640 But, you know, this whole like 10 years ago is like learn to code.

00:16:00.800 Yeah.

00:16:01.280 You vote for Trump because you want your coal mining job to stay. 0.65

00:16:05.820 But like you don't have the creativity or gumption to like create an app or what it like all that just like I granted that kind of talk was totally annoying.

00:16:14.700 But the ironic outcome is that I can just build your app for you like you don't need these STEM people anymore.

00:16:23.680 You know, I always disliked that kind of notion anyway, like they'll say like, oh, you have a degree in underwater basket weaving or like you have a degree in feminism.

00:16:35.600 But they would say the same thing about like a degree in the classics or like like, oh, you read Shakespeare.

00:16:43.340 How's that going for you?

00:16:45.560 You know, working at a coffee shop or like, I don't know you an art history.

00:16:49.660 Oh, wow.

00:16:50.720 It's like, oh, yeah.

00:16:51.720 Heaven forbid someone like study like sculpture and painting or whatever and not like how to be an engineer.

00:17:00.460 I just always hated that attitude, but it's sort of interesting that at least in terms of coding now we'll see about other things law coding and to a lesser degree medicine, I think are going to be the first victims of the AI revolution, but coding 100%.

00:17:19.840 Why would you conceivably hire a low level coder at this point?

00:17:24.780 I mean, it's literally just computer language.

00:17:27.760 So obviously the AI is going to do that better than a person.

00:17:32.180 I think medicine will be fine, though, just due to the heavy regulatory nature of it.

00:17:37.580 Yes.

00:17:38.640 Jobs, HR jobs, social media managers, and mostly women do a lot of the same thing. 1.00

00:17:44.380 Again, what are the Wilsons, if not products of social media?

00:17:49.280 Yeah.

00:17:49.560 Two podcasters telling you your psych degree is a fake job.

00:17:55.540 I get it.

00:17:56.800 So they're nurses, they're early childhood educators, they're retail workers, they're cooks, they're housekeepers.

00:18:03.960 They're doing a lot of the stuff they used to do, which the Marxist feminists called unpaid labor, right? 1.00

00:18:10.320 This is the myth of women's unpaid labor. 1.00

00:18:12.440 So instead of cleaning your own house, educating your own children, cooking meals for your family, maybe for your parents or grandparents who can't cook for themselves, all the things we used to do for our own family, clerical work, bookkeeping for your husband's business, things like that.

00:18:27.060 We're doing those things for corporations so that and this was kind of by design.

00:18:32.560 A lot of the book is about the fact that there were people who pushed feminism and it wasn't because women were oppressed and they cared about the position of women necessarily.

00:18:42.220 It's because the same people who pushed the 19th Amendment and pushed progressivism and feminism were the same people who drafted the Federal Reserve legislation, came up with the income tax, came up with the compulsory education system.

00:18:57.200 And especially on the Marxist side, they pushed feminism because they said, if we can push mothers and women into the workforce and we double the workforce, workers of the world unite.

00:19:07.820 You know what I'm saying?

00:19:08.500 So it's like we have this huge workforce and through the university systems, we can propagandize the young women to be socialists and to be Marxists because they kind of tend that way anyway.

00:19:18.760 The way that women's brains work is very like communitarian. 1.00

00:19:22.540 Oh, yeah.

00:19:23.600 Great contributions by women to Marxism.

00:19:27.280 It's just obviously men did this, Rachel.

00:19:31.000 I'd rather be a full-on Marxist.

00:19:32.700 There actually have been female contributions to Marxism, but what I'm saying is like we did it. 0.99

00:19:38.560 We were the fucking Marxist. 0.96

00:19:41.040 We men, we did the French Revolution. 0.99

00:19:44.660 What are you talking about?

00:19:45.760 Even if your theory is true, it didn't work.

00:19:49.360 We don't live in a socialist society.

00:19:51.540 That's why everyone's complaining.

00:19:53.400 You guys want a socialist society.

00:19:55.160 You just want a socialist society for the middle class in this really weird way where we're going to like have a planned economy based around lumberjacks and janitors.

00:20:07.820 This is like Steve Bannon's wet dream as well.

00:20:12.420 Horrifying.

00:20:13.580 I just can't get over her like utter lack of just imagination even.

00:20:19.200 It's like everything's monochastic.

00:20:21.620 Yeah.

00:20:21.860 Everything's downstream of feminism. 1.00

00:20:23.440 And they just created feminism because I don't even know why. 1.00

00:20:27.820 Because they're witches. 1.00

00:20:29.320 I guess that's her explanation.

00:20:31.240 It's literally made.

00:20:33.100 That was like the earlier book was like the cult and feminism.

00:20:37.060 But then now she sounds like a dimmer version of Phyllis Schlafly or something now.

00:20:45.440 Like the Marxist wants you out of the home where you'll be reading manifestos of all sorts.

00:20:52.880 Not to mention spreading your legs for every Tom, Dick, and Harry. 1.00

00:20:57.180 It's just so stupid. 1.00

00:20:58.960 I don't know. 1.00

00:21:00.980 Why does she get to go on show ropes about this nonsense? 1.00

00:21:05.940 Like I don't know. 0.98

00:21:07.400 It's just really goofy.

00:21:08.760 I think it does appeal to his audience.

00:21:10.960 It does.

00:21:11.880 But I think it's just very obvious that rather than feminism just happening for some reason and causing all this change. 0.97

00:21:20.480 I mean, Rachel, feminism becomes a thing at a time where our whole relationship to labor and each other is like completely being upended by like huge technological changes. 0.91

00:21:34.700 Like I just, how do you not see that?

00:21:37.380 It doesn't take like a high IQ to understand the relationship there.

00:21:41.440 Maybe she, rather than keep talking about communists, she should actually like read some Marx.

00:21:45.260 It would actually help her a bit.

00:21:47.880 No, I think that's true.

00:21:48.620 Also, feminism, the civil rights, and et cetera, sort of emerged out of the peak of the American empire in many ways. 1.00

00:21:59.940 Now, the Cold War was still going, so there was still an opposition, but I think that opposition was almost sort of good.

00:22:05.740 Like you want to go back to this period of the 1950s that birthed everything that you're talking about.

00:22:14.280 Like when were most people like proudest to be an American?

00:22:18.160 It's like mid-century.

00:22:20.200 Interesting.

00:22:21.200 That's coincidal and not necessarily causal, but it's still interesting.

00:22:26.320 Yeah.

00:22:27.120 I mean, it's funny.

00:22:29.540 It is just, everything she says is just the reverse.

00:22:32.900 Because it's not that women came, we invented feminism and women came into the workplace. 1.00

00:22:39.580 Feminism comes out of women being in the workplace, and women were in the workplace because, again, we had an industrial revolution. 1.00

00:22:48.600 Then we actually had a shortage of labor.

00:22:50.460 And so that's, they were like begging women to come back and be nurses and teachers.

00:22:55.620 There just wasn't enough people to do this during the baby boom.

00:22:59.620 Because there were so many more people all of a sudden, you have a growing population.

00:23:03.560 They don't have enough workers, actually, for the demand.

00:23:06.440 So they needed women to come back into the workforce, actually. 1.00

00:23:11.520 And they did.

00:23:12.980 And every time they've come into the workforce, what's happened, and this is because feminism is ultimately a labor movement. 1.00

00:23:19.880 Like, it happened in the early 20th century, is that women come into the workplace, and they're having, the working conditions are terrible in these factories. 0.91

00:23:32.140 You know, all these women, like, burned alive in a factory. 1.00

00:23:34.520 They're horrible working conditions.

00:23:36.160 They have kids working in there.

00:23:37.300 The women are concerned for the children. 1.00

00:23:39.460 Feminism comes out of that. 1.00

00:23:40.860 And then, again, women start entering the workforce in the 70s, as she's pointing out. 0.99

00:23:46.000 And the workplace is, well, aggressive and mean towards women. 1.00

00:23:51.540 It's not very welcoming.

00:23:52.680 And the men are sexually harassing them. 0.95

00:23:55.780 So, yeah, feminism comes out of women actually just being in these places of employment, actually being out in the world. 1.00

00:24:04.220 It's not that women just came into the workplace after we had feminism. 0.99

00:24:08.820 It's the reverse.

00:24:10.880 But I don't know. 0.98

00:24:11.920 Rachel is, obviously has an agenda to push, and it's that women made my husband gay. 1.00

00:24:18.460 Chris?

00:24:18.840 When you talk about the appeal of this sort of narrative to the Joe Rogan audience, it reminds me of something Mark said a while back.

00:24:28.260 Because, like, if you engage to some degree with, like, just 100, like, normie core guys, you'll find that very often they've absorbed significant elements of this sort of mere narrative that, man, these college-educated liberal women are just out of control. 0.98

00:24:46.560 They're nuts. 0.98

00:24:47.460 Like, something's gone terribly wrong here. 0.99

00:24:50.040 And you can see how the Rachel Wilson narrative kind of fits into that.

00:24:54.280 Yeah, definitely.

00:24:54.860 For some reason, we're moms.

00:24:56.840 So it's very easy to radicalize.

00:24:58.500 And this isn't my opinion.

00:24:59.920 Again, I don't understand her argument because her argument is that women go into the workplace and then they do womanly things. 1.00

00:25:08.340 Like, isn't that good?

00:25:10.880 It's only good when you're doing it at home and you're not being paid.

00:25:15.340 The minute you do it in public and you get money for it, then it's suddenly bad.

00:25:21.020 I see.

00:25:21.940 Okay.

00:25:22.380 I go over in the book how you can just read the writings of these people and they tell you.

00:25:27.640 August Babel, Alexandra Kolontai, Margaret Fuller, like, all these early 1800s writers were saying we need to get women away from the home and away from being mothers and push them into the workplace. 0.97

00:25:39.520 Because then we can politicize them.

00:25:41.360 We can motivate them into becoming revolutionaries.

00:25:45.240 And that's how we'll get the numbers to make this work.

00:25:48.080 Wow.

00:25:49.080 Yeah.

00:25:49.700 So now, instead of staying home with your kids and doing all these things for your-

00:25:54.660 You're doing revolutions.

00:25:56.080 But you're not, though.

00:25:57.720 I think they just wanted money to support their families.

00:26:00.060 Do you think, like, these millennial, like, HR managers are, like, doing revolution or something?

00:26:08.220 Like, what is she talking about?

00:26:09.760 None of these things happened.

00:26:11.040 Even if you can find some writer who theorized about that, that writer was wrong.

00:26:16.160 Like, she's also correct that, like, women in the workplace are kind of girly, you know? 0.83

00:26:23.800 Like, I don't know what to say.

00:26:25.180 Where is this communist revolution or something?

00:26:28.680 It's just-

00:26:29.780 Family, for your community, you're doing them for a corporation and you're paying income tax.

00:26:35.200 You're paying all the other taxes associated with having to work outside the home.

00:26:39.180 Gas tax because you're driving back and forth to work.

00:26:41.720 Payroll taxes, all that kind of stuff.

00:26:43.220 Yeah, but you're getting me.

00:26:43.700 And you can have a credit card and a bank account of your own for the first time.

00:26:49.060 Also, the two most-

00:26:50.220 What is the highest income tax?

00:26:51.280 Like, 35?

00:26:52.660 Like, 37.

00:26:54.000 37?

00:26:54.740 Okay.

00:26:55.080 That's the highest rate.

00:26:56.080 All right.

00:26:56.920 But, yeah.

00:26:57.960 Like, you're also making, like, $10 million if you're paying 40% of your income in taxes.

00:27:03.860 I mean, yeah.

00:27:05.120 Yeah.

00:27:06.100 What is she talking about?

00:27:07.520 Women aren't doing this for their community anymore, either. 1.00

00:27:10.740 The two most common professions for women are nurse and teacher.

00:27:15.420 They're actually-

00:27:16.100 Right.

00:27:16.700 Who are they teaching?

00:27:17.680 Who are they healing at the hospital?

00:27:19.380 That is their community, Rachel.

00:27:21.240 Like, I don't know what you're talking about.

00:27:23.540 You make a point that women are doing all these jobs that they would have otherwise been doing at home, but then suddenly your picture of a woman with a job is like a VP at a Fortune 500?

00:27:35.120 Like, I don't know.

00:27:36.740 That's not the average woman, obviously. 1.00

00:27:39.240 Average woman is, like, a nurse, a teacher, just doing a job probably better suited for her because she's a woman in jobs that men don't tend to pick because they don't tend to have an interest in it or tend to excel at it. 1.00

00:27:51.520 Most men don't want to teach, like, a room full of five-year-olds. 0.98

00:27:56.000 Yeah.

00:27:56.800 But someone has to.

00:27:58.420 Yeah.

00:27:58.720 You are away from your kids all day.

00:28:01.480 Where do they go?

00:28:02.480 They go to public schools where the public school system then can dictate to them what the values should be, how, you know, what the worldview should be instead of the parents.

00:28:13.620 Holy.

00:28:14.320 Yeah.

00:28:14.580 It just makes you wonder.

00:28:16.240 Like, there's all these giant shifts in culture, and it makes you wonder, what would we look like if that had never taken place? 1.00

00:28:24.400 We would look like a bunch of rural idiots is what we would look like. 0.99

00:28:30.080 Is the implication that, like, feminists invented public school as well? 1.00

00:28:34.840 No.

00:28:35.480 It's obviously, like, a Prussian model.

00:28:37.840 I mean, it's just, I don't know what to also say.

00:28:41.220 Yes, we, you should go to school.

00:28:44.120 If I were in charge of an Apollonian government, we would have public education.

00:28:50.600 Sorry.

00:28:50.960 In fact, like, I'm sorry, but homeschooling would just be banned.

00:28:56.320 Oh, I think it absolutely should be banned.

00:28:58.160 I mean, you just should not do that.

00:28:59.400 You need to instill a value system in the population through these institutions.

00:29:07.460 And, yeah, you could probably find some of these examples of, like, crazy blue-haired people talking about, like, gender or whatever.

00:29:14.280 But most of public schools, like, saying the Pledge of Allegiance at 830 and, like, learning some kind of balderized, like, happy version of American history for you to love your country.

00:29:28.800 I don't know what people are talking about.

00:29:30.440 It's not like that, at least out here in Montana.

00:29:32.620 They just learn the basic stuff, and they do learn a narrative history of why America is good.

00:29:40.700 Now, I'm sure there's some exception to that that you can find, but you need that to have a cohesive community and a cohesive nation.

00:29:49.360 Homeschoolers, I don't, I just inherently dislike it. 1.00

00:29:53.260 But don't you think it's more an issue of culture?

00:29:55.580 Because, I mean, European aristocracy was homeschooled, and you could replace the social activities that you have in public education with young clubs, churches.

00:30:04.420 We're talking about the age of Barry Lyndon or something.

00:30:06.820 Sorry, that just came to mind.

00:30:08.040 But we're talking about, like, hiring a tutor to educate your children.

00:30:13.440 The alternative was very little education at all and illiteracy.

00:30:18.900 Yeah, certainly.

00:30:19.860 We're in a different world now.

00:30:21.520 It's very different.

00:30:22.380 That's the way I meant it.

00:30:24.500 Homeschooling now is like some woman telling her children that dinosaurs don't exist. 0.99

00:30:30.280 What I'm saying is if your parents are incompetent, you're screwed regardless of whether you go to public school or are homeschooled.

00:30:38.020 Whereas if your parents are competent, they can still set up a way better program education-wise. 0.99

00:30:44.200 I think if your parents are totally incompetent, you're kind of screwed. 0.86

00:30:48.780 But you're actually, you have a chance if there is public education. 0.99

00:30:52.180 You're better off going to a public school, and at least just for the social aspect alone, being isolated with your weird, incompetent parents is not a good thing.

00:31:04.380 It's good to actually have an experience outside of the home in that case that actually is better.

00:31:09.240 If your parents are awesome, highly functional, then they might very well be good homeschoolers.

00:31:16.920 And I've even heard of examples just anecdotally of like, my kid had this really bad year.

00:31:23.620 He was bullying.

00:31:24.580 He was lost.

00:31:25.880 So we like did a homeschool year to sort of like take a breath.

00:31:30.480 And then he went back.

00:31:31.740 I think that is acceptable.

00:31:33.640 But again, I hear those anecdotes from highly functional parents, you know, like, I don't know what to say.

00:31:42.120 Even in South Chicago, like that little black girl whose dad is gone and mom is drugged out of her mind has a chance by going to a public school.

00:31:55.540 I mean, homeschooling, like a lot of stuff people did were to avoid diversity then.

00:32:01.880 Yeah, yeah, I get that.

00:32:03.300 It's just another American activity of avoiding diversity. 0.91

00:32:09.460 And if you're, I guess, poor and have a stay at home white. 1.00

00:32:12.020 I just think you're giving them too much credit. 0.97

00:32:14.800 Because I think it's actually another American tradition of being retarded. 0.99

00:32:20.600 Yeah. 0.87

00:32:21.240 That's a good way of putting it.

00:32:22.740 That's a good way of putting it.

RadixJournal - February 27, 2026

The Feminist Syndrome

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