Aug. 17, 2019 - Freedomain Radio - Stefan Molyneux
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| I think it's really important to continue to talk about what's going on on the great Twitter, Gynocentric Wars. | |
| So for the past couple of weeks, for those of you who don't know, I have been bringing some basic facts, reason, and evidence to bear on the question of female attractiveness. | |
| So the first thing that I talked about was lipstick, in that lipstick... | |
| Lipstick simulates, not simulates, lipstick simulates sexual arousal. | |
| And so in a business context, having a woman in war paint arousal lipstick is somewhat equivalent to a man having a giant artificial boner straining at his pants as he walks around the office. | |
| And of course, it would be considered pretty uncouth and untoward for a man to be doing that visual signs of erotic arousal. | |
| And for a woman to be doing that, you know, it's just an interesting question to ask about This double standard. | |
| And that, of course, garnered me quite some responses, which was quite interesting. | |
| And women and, you know, the white knighting men ferociously defending the right of women to wear lipstick, which, of course, was never in question. | |
| Women can do whatever they want. I'm just going to point out the reality of why it is that women are doing that. | |
| And then I talked about nail polish. | |
| Nail polish being... An adornment that women put on in order to show that they don't have to do manual labor. | |
| In other words, that their sexual market value is high enough that they've bagged a rich boyfriend or husband, a husband I guess in particular, to show that they don't have to do any manual labor. | |
| So there's that aspect. | |
| Actually, did you know lipstick is actually classified as a hazardous waste? | |
| It's that dangerous? Talk about your toxic femininity, right? | |
| And then I talked about wedding rings that, of course, a wedding ring or an engagement ring has a dual purpose. | |
| The first, of course, is to show men that the woman is probably taken or definitely taken, hopefully, if she's married. | |
| And the second, of course, is that it shows the woman's sexual market value because men trade resources for fertility, youth, beauty, and so on. | |
| And so if a woman can... | |
| Can wear an expensive ring. | |
| It means two things. One, that her husband or potential husband is high value, high status, high resources, which shows how high her sexual market value is. | |
| And secondly, because engagement rings are basically just a massive PR campaign put on by the diamond industry starting in the 1940s, this two to three month salary thing is complete nonsense. | |
| They just wanted to be able to sell More diamonds. | |
| And so they created this... | |
| I thought it was actually some sort of ancient ritual. | |
| Nah, it turns out it's just some PR thing from the 1940s. | |
| And since men don't want to spend a whole bunch of money which could go for a down payment on a house or could invest in Bitcoin or something actually useful, they don't want to spend a whole bunch of money on that. | |
| So having a big expensive rock shows other women how much control the particular woman, the fiancé, has over her fiancé or I guess her husband. | |
| That she's got him pretty whipped and she can get him to do... | |
| Whatever she wants, including buying a useless piece of dangerously mined rock. | |
| So, what came out of this was really fascinating. | |
| And I knew what was going to happen, and I knew why I was doing it, but here's the reality. | |
| So, women got really, really angry at men poking their nose in female business. | |
| Right? Really angry. | |
| They were ferocious. | |
| They were aggressive. | |
| I got called all kinds of names that would make your average 19th century sailor faint over his crate of oranges. | |
| And I was called an incel. | |
| Some guy said, you sound dangerously unstable. | |
| I hope you don't have any weapons. | |
| It's like, yes, just just wit and intelligence kind of all I need. | |
| And there's this hysteria and it went on and on and on. | |
| Some of the biggest engagement I've ever got because a man was daring to bring some evolutionary facts to bear on the question of why women do what they do. | |
| and again, there's nothing wrong with it I love women. They're delightfully incomprehensible. | |
| But, you know, I think it's important to know from time to time why you do what you do. | |
| So this ferocity was actually very, very interesting. | |
| And I knew it was coming. It's not the first time I've talked about this stuff. | |
| Boy, a novel I wrote 20 years ago started out with this kind of stuff. | |
| And this is age-old stuff for me. | |
| I read The Naked Ape when I was like 10 or 11 years old. | |
| So I knew it was all coming. | |
| And then the estrogen tsunami of venom and hatred came. | |
| And, you know, to be fair, some women were like, yeah, well, of course, this is why we do what we're doing. | |
| Why is this confusing? But here's the thing. | |
| This is what I want people to get out of this hole. | |
| Not exactly an experiment. | |
| It ain't trawling if you're truthful. | |
| But here's what I want people to get out of this. | |
| Two things. Ladies, you see how you don't like it when men are in there rooting around in the essence of femininity? | |
| You really get how it's kind of like an attack and an assault and it feels like very destabilizing and it makes you very aggressive and it really feels like some kind of foundational violation. | |
| To have some man... | |
| Some testosterone-based life form telling you all the ins and outs of femininity, so to speak. | |
| See how it really bothers you when men go in there rooting around in what it is to be a woman? | |
| Yeah. Yeah, well, you see, men have been staring down this tsunami of femsplaining masculinity for at least the last 50 years and arguably a lot longer than that. | |
| So you see how a couple of tweets explaining femininity to you, even though they're fact-based, really make you angry and feel like a violation? | |
| Well, now you know how men feel. | |
| When women go around explaining masculinity to men and talking about mansplaining and toxic masculinity and patriarchy and rape culture and you name it, you see how you don't like it? | |
| When men explain femininity to you accurately, how about when women explain masculinity to men falsely? | |
| You want to see how men feel? | |
| Just, you know, it's a possibility to reach out beyond the fiery mode of self-regard and to have a bit of sympathy for the males of the species. | |
| Now, that's for the ladies. Now, for the men, something even more powerful. | |
| Gentlemen, my friends, my brothers in arms. | |
| I actually really admire the tenacity and ferocity that the women displayed in an attempt to scare a man away from understanding any foundational aspects of femininity. | |
| It's like a magician's trick. | |
| Once you see how it works, it doesn't really have that much power now, does it? | |
| So I actually quite admire this estrogen wave of acidic incel hostility because, men, do you see how women... | |
| Are very, very ferocious when it comes to defending femininity against masculine incursions? |
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