Jan. 24, 2020 - Dennis Prager Show
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| A Democrat has to be really altruistic to want America's women to all get married and have children, because they'll lose a lot of votes. | |
| That's right. | |
| In the same way that a Republican has to be altruistic to favor high immigration. | |
| It's from a strictly electoral viewpoint. | |
| But so, I think you get an idea of some of the things that I'm doing in the book. | |
| I mean, you notice this... | |
| I mean, women used to be unified around a certain idea of what womanhood is and what life is. | |
| And sometime in the 60s, they diverged as if they were living in two different countries, as if they were living under two different constitutions. | |
| And the idea that we have two constitutions is really the central one in this book. | |
| So talk to me. | |
| I don't know if you cover this. | |
| I will be reading your book, incidentally. | |
| That's how important I think it is. | |
| And I love analyses of the 60s to the present. | |
| But let's talk about men. | |
| Again, I don't know if you do. | |
| Masculine when I grew up, and masculine today, today it's toxic masculinity. | |
| When I grew up, it was the best thing a man could be, is masculine. | |
| Yeah. | |
| Now, that is something I look at quite a lot. | |
| And one of the things that I think formed the backdrop to the 1960s was this idea of masculinity that you're talking about. | |
| And it was basically the idea of masculinity that came out of the military in World War II. And you need to think about where the country was at the time. | |
| We've come out of a Great Depression. | |
| You know, the leadership class of the United States had not exactly been on a winning streak when we went into World War II, okay? | |
| Then we go into World War II. We defeat totalitarianism on two continents. | |
| We invent the most powerful weapon the world has ever seen. | |
| We come out of World War II, and for a while we're making 50% of the world's manufactured goods. | |
| And it seems like the military really knows how to get things done. | |
| Now, there are good things and bad things about that. | |
| Among the bad things are there's a certain kind of uniformity in the way people build high schools and that sort of thing. | |
| I think that along with the good of the GI Bill, I think it wound up probably pushing a number of women out of universities. | |
| And I think that's a lot of what Betty Friedan was complaining about. | |
| Okay, we'll be back in a moment. | |
| The Age of Entitlement by Christopher Caldwell. |
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