On this week's Where Are All the Women stream, I speak with Sall Grover, who was sued for discrimination after refusing to allow a man to use her women-only app
Meghan, what I'd like to see you tackle more is why so many women are so easily manipulated and gaslit by these misogynist fetishists. I even know a retired lawyer who believes Will Thomas should compete on a female swim team. I've been researching and listening and reading and I still don't completely understand it. It's a far left thing; how do they get good liberals (my lawyer friend used to be one) and take over their goddamn brains?
I think sometimes we overcomplicate things because they don't make a lot of sense... My response to this is, 1) Plainly, a lot of women are stupid. Sounds mean but it's true. A lot of people in this world just don't think things through all that much. A lot people in this world also don't recognize narcissists when they see em, likely because they haven't had the displeasure of having to deal with one in their personal lives. 2) Women like to be liked — they are socialized to value being seen as nice and likeable, and end up being very phony and passive aggressive as a result. Men tend to be more straight up, i.e. 'meaner' or 'more offensive', which I like, and is why I have always tended to have a lot of male friends.
I don't know about the narcissism theory. Maybe I'm drawing an incorrect extrapolation here, but when I wrote for Medium the young, 'woke' progressive women wrote endlessly about 'narcissists' and I'm pretty sure every many in America got fingered as a narcissist by the time I got kicked off. The very same ones who vehemently insisted transwomen are women. Most people DON'T know what *hardcore* narcissists are because many of the labeled are simply exhibiting typical selfish, self-interested human behaviour. Narc is, after all, a spectrum and there are healthy places to fall on it and not so much (psychopathy and every other pathology too). For me it's not even knowing what a narcissist is; these dizzy broads are freaking experts on patriarchy and misogyny, yet ignore the ugliest and most obvious misogyny and patriarchy in the trans movement. You know what it reminds me of? Remember that scene in Gone With The Wind when Scarlett, wearing her momma's curtains, is trying to get Rhett to give her money for Tara and she resists his physical advances and expressions of love and then when he pulls her close she goes limp in his arms and raises her face for a kiss? That, to me, is woke feminism and the trans movement - Rhett is Patriarchy and Scarlett is Feminism and the moment he pulls her close is when Patriarchy is wearing a wig and a dress and calls himself Loretta.
I think your thoughts are good thumbnails (they're mine too) but I think there's something deeper going on in female brains we're all missing. You nailed one of the primary weaknesses--wanting to be liked--and I would say another is the socialization to be 'nice'. But how can they miss the glaring patriarchal misogyny here? It's like LGBTQ for Palestine. You look at these people and ask How can you be so fucking retarded???
Meghan, what I'd like to see you tackle more is why so many women are so easily manipulated and gaslit by these misogynist fetishists. I even know a retired lawyer who believes Will Thomas should compete on a female swim team. I've been researching and listening and reading and I still don't completely understand it. It's a far left thing; how do they get good liberals (my lawyer friend used to be one) and take over their goddamn brains?
I think sometimes we overcomplicate things because they don't make a lot of sense... My response to this is, 1) Plainly, a lot of women are stupid. Sounds mean but it's true. A lot of people in this world just don't think things through all that much. A lot people in this world also don't recognize narcissists when they see em, likely because they haven't had the displeasure of having to deal with one in their personal lives. 2) Women like to be liked — they are socialized to value being seen as nice and likeable, and end up being very phony and passive aggressive as a result. Men tend to be more straight up, i.e. 'meaner' or 'more offensive', which I like, and is why I have always tended to have a lot of male friends.
I don't know about the narcissism theory. Maybe I'm drawing an incorrect extrapolation here, but when I wrote for Medium the young, 'woke' progressive women wrote endlessly about 'narcissists' and I'm pretty sure every many in America got fingered as a narcissist by the time I got kicked off. The very same ones who vehemently insisted transwomen are women. Most people DON'T know what *hardcore* narcissists are because many of the labeled are simply exhibiting typical selfish, self-interested human behaviour. Narc is, after all, a spectrum and there are healthy places to fall on it and not so much (psychopathy and every other pathology too). For me it's not even knowing what a narcissist is; these dizzy broads are freaking experts on patriarchy and misogyny, yet ignore the ugliest and most obvious misogyny and patriarchy in the trans movement. You know what it reminds me of? Remember that scene in Gone With The Wind when Scarlett, wearing her momma's curtains, is trying to get Rhett to give her money for Tara and she resists his physical advances and expressions of love and then when he pulls her close she goes limp in his arms and raises her face for a kiss? That, to me, is woke feminism and the trans movement - Rhett is Patriarchy and Scarlett is Feminism and the moment he pulls her close is when Patriarchy is wearing a wig and a dress and calls himself Loretta.
I think your thoughts are good thumbnails (they're mine too) but I think there's something deeper going on in female brains we're all missing. You nailed one of the primary weaknesses--wanting to be liked--and I would say another is the socialization to be 'nice'. But how can they miss the glaring patriarchal misogyny here? It's like LGBTQ for Palestine. You look at these people and ask How can you be so fucking retarded???