Nov. 24, 2015 - Rubin Report - Dave Rubin
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| All right, we're gonna mix it up this week and talk about something a little less controversial than usual, feminism. | ||
| Everyone agrees on that, right? | ||
| Okay, good, that's what I thought. | ||
| My guest this week is Christina Hoff Sommers. | ||
| Christina is a former philosophy professor, author, and a speaker for the American Enterprise Institute, known for her critique of late 20th century feminism. | ||
| Over the past few months, I've become familiar with Christina because her name kept popping up All over my Twitter feed, at first related to GamerGate, and now because of her tongue-in-cheek commentary on campus free speech, trigger warnings, and safe spaces. | ||
| Actually, thanks to Twitter, and to all of you who've helped connect me with like-minded people, the show has really taken off in a way I couldn't have imagined. | ||
| Suddenly, I find myself immersed with people I truly admire and respect. | ||
| We're all talking to each other in various mediums and strengthening the ideals we stand for, even if we don't agree on every specific issue. | ||
| One such issue that I haven't tackled too deeply yet is feminism, and that's exactly why I wanted to have Christina on. | ||
| As an equity feminist, Christina cares about both women's and men's rights. | ||
| You know, that whole two things can be true at once idea that I've been talking about? | ||
| I should say that feminism, in and of itself, isn't one of my bread and butter topics. | ||
| As you guys know, I love discussing politics, foreign policy, religion, secularism, and more, but haven't done a ton on the topic of feminism. | ||
| Of course, the argument could be made that feminism and the fight for women's rights is an absolute through line through all of the topics I just mentioned. | ||
| Generally speaking, where women are treated with equality, we see fairer societies with more secular values and less radicalism. | ||
| This isn't a coincidence, nor is it something that should be overlooked. | ||
| Actually, if anything, it should be embraced. | ||
| If a society treats their women fairly, it is almost always a more successful society on every other front. | ||
| The battle for equality of women has been different all over the world and continues in almost every form today. | ||
| This is one of the main issues that I want to discuss with Christina. | ||
| How has the battle for equality evolved over the years? | ||
| Have there been unintended consequences by coming so far in the battle? | ||
| Has feminism morphed into something that feminists of the 1960s wouldn't even recognize today? | ||
| And what happens when an equality movement actually accomplishes its goals? | ||
| Do we move on to what's next or does the battle never truly end? | ||
| As you can see, I've got a lot of questions and I hope Christina has some of the answers. | ||
| For me, the battle for women's rights is the same battle that has been fought by the other for all time. | ||
| I want women to have 100% of the opportunity that men have. | ||
| I want the doors to be open and the glass ceiling to be shattered. | ||
| Winning these battles doesn't mean it has to come at the expense of men, nor does it mean that men should suddenly become less than women. | ||
| And at the same time, we should acknowledge the sexes are actually different, and that's okay too. | ||
| From our hunter-gatherer days to today, gender roles have existed long before any of us. | ||
| Pretending there aren't some differences in the sexes won't magically make it true. | ||
| Perhaps we can try to embrace these differences rather than tacking labels on everyone and thinking that one group's equality can only come at the expense of another group's opportunity. |
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