Sargon of Akkad - Carl Benjamin - Armoured Skeptic - EXPOSED!!1!
Aired: 2015-10-05
Duration: 01:15


=== Roots Of Sexism (01:09) ===

[00:00:06]  We had new insight into YouTuber's Sargon of Akkad.
[00:00:09]  Apparently, he is such a misogynist anti-feminist that he named himself intentionally after the man who single-handedly destroyed women's rights.
[00:00:18]  That's right back in 4000 BC.
[00:00:20]  Women in Sumer had every right that men had.
[00:00:23]  They could own property, they could represent themselves in court, and then the Akkadian Sargon came along and decided that women should be subservant.
[00:00:32]  So clearly, this is why Sargon named himself after this emperor.
[00:00:35]  Now, I'm not going to show you the clip, even though it's fair use, BBC, they're kind of sticklers, and I don't want to get into a fight with them.
[00:00:40]  So I'll just show you a review of the series where BBC actually talks about this.
[00:00:45]  In the current debate about the new feminism and daily assaults on equality, I do not recall anyone stepping very far back from the contemporary world of pay gaps and thigh gaps to ask the most basic question.
[00:00:56]  Why is this a thing?
[00:00:57]  Okay, what?
[00:00:59]  Where do the roots of sexism lead?
[00:01:01]  Okay, this isn't proving what I wanted to prove.
[00:01:03]  Anyways, point is, I gotcha, you son of a bitch.
[00:01:06]  I gotcha.
[00:01:06]  You're the reason the wage gap exists.
[00:01:09]  Son of a bitch!
[00:01:11]  That's it, time to trawl through everything he's ever recorded to find-