Freedomain Radio - Stefan Molyneux - Status Only Works If Nobody Talks About Status
Aired: 2025-01-15
Duration: 05:33


=== Status Symbols (05:33) ===

[00:00:00]  Says this woman.
[00:00:00]  I know one girl who goes as far as posting GoFundMes to help her pay rent slash bills.
[00:00:05]  She got an eviction warning and at the same time buys the newest designs from certain brands which range from $200 to $400 each.
[00:00:12]  Yeah.
[00:00:13]  Yeah, I mean, those malls are just sad little status cathedrals for vainglorious women.
[00:00:20]  Which is, of course, not to call all women vainglorious, but malls are not about...
[00:00:28]  There's not a lot of books on virtue and child raising in malls, but there is a lot of stupid shit, you know, glitter stuff and phone cases.
[00:00:38]  The phone case has to tell people who I am.
[00:00:41]  It's like, if you need a phone case to tell people who you are, you aren't anything.
[00:00:46]  All right.
[00:00:46]  Women are starting to flood the free domain.
[00:00:47]  Good sign.
[00:00:48]  Yes.
[00:00:51]  I still feel bad for them.
[00:00:53]  It really sucks to be female sometimes.
[00:00:54]  You just don't get that.
[00:00:55]  You deserve everything you get feeling.
[00:00:57]  I don't know what that means.
[00:00:59]  Steve, welcome, welcome.
[00:01:04]  The new high status may soon be one's own ability to provide those hard material goods for themselves.
[00:01:10]  Self-sustaining is the new rich.
[00:01:11]  Well, yeah, I mean, or crypto, Bitcoin in particular.
[00:01:15]  But, see, there's a funny thing that all of this status stuff, it only works if you don't name it.
[00:01:24]  Status only works if it's not clearly identified.
[00:01:27]  It's a funny thing, right?
[00:01:28]  Because status is only considered high status if it's not revealed as pathetic, insecure vanity.
[00:01:35]  Right?
[00:01:35]  Pathetic, insecure vanity.
[00:01:37]  And I remember learning this lesson the hard way back in the day on social media.
[00:01:43]  You start talking about, you know, just something as simple as makeup, right?
[00:01:47]  That makeup is...
[00:01:49]  It's false advertising.
[00:01:51]  Makeup is a form of sexual harassment in the workplace because makeup makes a woman look like she's just had an orgasm or she's sexually aroused.
[00:01:59]  Makeup would be the equivalent of a male strapping a giant Freddie Mercury wrapped cucumber penis and having it tenting his legs as he walked around in a meeting.
[00:02:09]  A giant raging throbbing oil derrick boner.
[00:02:13]  Right?
[00:02:13]  That would be considered sexual harassment.
[00:02:15]  That would be completely weird.
[00:02:16]  And for women, I'm not talking of a tiny bit of makeup or whatever, right?
[00:02:19]  But for women, makeup is reproducing sexual arousal and or orgasm, right?
[00:02:24]  Because a woman's lips get more red, her eyes pop, her cheeks get more flushed when she's sexually aroused, and so makeup is there to mimic sexual arousal.
[00:02:32]  And when you point this out, like, women went mental.
[00:02:35]  Like, sorry, like, I mean, there's some things I know are going to be upsetting for people.
[00:02:40]  That one was kind of a...
[00:02:42]  A real surprise for me.
[00:02:44]  Because makeup only works if men don't realize that they're being manipulated by sex and orgasm signals.
[00:02:52]  Right?
[00:02:53]  Makeup only works that way.
[00:02:55]  Makeup only works if men realize that they're being programmed to divert blood from their brain to their phallus so that they can be more easily manipulated by women.
[00:03:10]  So...
[00:03:13]  Tools of the trade, right?
[00:03:14]  That was a makeup store I saw in a mall.
[00:03:16]  It's tools of the trade, right?
[00:03:17]  And so status only works if it's not identified.
[00:03:21]  It only works if you buy into the status myth.
[00:03:24]  But once a status myth is identified and shown to be obvious, right?
[00:03:31]  That a woman with this sort of ridiculous get-ups is just signaling that she's far away from manual labor in a desperate attempt to appear aristocratic and raise her worth, right?
[00:03:40]  Then it all falls apart.
[00:03:41]  It all crumbles.
[00:03:42]  And, of course, it's not just psychological, though it is psychological.
[00:03:45]  You're taking away people's power by destroying people's illusions about their power.
[00:03:50]  I take the people who say that the same people who think that politicians care for them think that the strippers love them.
[00:03:57]  So when you take all of this away, then you're interfering with people's status.
[00:04:03]  You're taking away their status.
[00:04:07]  And you're also shifting.
[00:04:09]  Potentially the movement of trillions of dollars around the world.
[00:04:13]  Makeup is multi-hundred billion dollar a year industry around the world.
[00:04:17]  So if the makeup myth is punctured and you say, I don't want some painted hyper-sexed kabuki clown, I want a fresh-faced, honest, virtuous woman, it's also signaling leisure time, right?
[00:04:34]  So women who are very busy don't have enough time for makeup.
[00:04:37]  I mean, if they're busy raising, you know, five kids, they don't really have time to do an hour of makeup every day.
[00:04:41]  So women who are...
[00:04:43]  It's also signaling that you don't have kids.
[00:04:45]  It's signaling you have a lot of leisure time, right?
[00:04:48]  Like muscles, right?
[00:04:50]  Hyper muscles, right?
[00:04:51]  It's a way of saying, I can spend two or three hours a day in the gym.
[00:04:55]  I have a lot of leisure time, which is signaling that you're single, signaling that you're dedicated, that you're hardworking, and it's just another...
[00:05:03]  So if you puncture the...
[00:05:05]  The status bubble, and in particular in this case, it was the makeup bubble.
[00:05:08]  If you puncture the makeup bubble and you have men see that makeup is a form of manipulating them through sexual display, right?
[00:05:16]  All the women who are like, hashtag me too, right?
[00:05:19]  Well, maybe stop spraying your female boner in male faces in a work environment, right?
[00:05:25]  I mean, don't turn your work environment into a semi-porn shoot, right?
[00:05:31]  I mean, it's just a possibility.
[00:05:32]  And again, I'm not talking about a little bit of makeup.