The Fundamental Flaws in Feminism (2017-08-29) #

0:00:03 so me also that he would you be
0:00:09 Authority Sweden is the most we're here
0:00:13 in Sweden obviously and it's the most
0:00:15 feministic country in the world
0:00:17 according to statistics let me just do
0:00:18 this as a matter of try to see what's
0:00:22 going on here put your hands up with
0:00:24 your families let's just okay let's get
0:00:35 started but I'm gonna read something out
0:00:37 ladies and gentlemen and we'll read
0:00:40 something now what I want you guys to do
0:00:43 are we to pay attention and I want you
0:00:47 to tell me whether you think what I'm
0:00:49 about to read out is sexist or not yeah
0:00:52 according to feminism are put into your
0:00:53 belief of feminism if you think I'm
0:00:56 about to read out a second story read
0:00:57 out if I say woman is more emotional
0:01:03 woman is more emotional nervous and
0:01:07 irritable and usually can manifest
0:01:10 serious psychological problems woman
0:01:15 have hormones which mean they are more
0:01:17 which way they have more stability and
0:01:20 less control make them more emotional
0:01:23 which is directly linked to vascular
0:01:25 variations palpitations redness and so
0:01:29 on and they are thus subject to
0:01:31 convulsive attacks Tears
0:01:33 nervous laughter hysterics woman is
0:01:36 weaker than man she has less muscular
0:01:40 strength fewer red blood cells a lesser
0:01:43 respiratory capacity she runs less
0:01:46 quickly lift
0:01:48 heavy weights there is practically no
0:01:50 sport in which she can compete with him
0:01:53 she cannot enter a fight with a man
0:01:57 added to that is instability lack of
0:02:00 control and fragility that we discussed
0:02:05 these are facts her grasp of the world
0:02:09 is thus more limited
0:02:13 chassé less firmness and perseverance in
0:02:16 the projects that she is also less able
0:02:19 to carry out my sense of my business
0:02:22 it sounds one as be honest it sounds
0:02:25 from a feministic perspective very
0:02:27 sexist but when you see who wrote this
0:02:30 it becomes quite interesting because the
0:02:33 person who wrote these things is Simone
0:02:37 de Beauvoir who wrote a book called the
0:02:39 second sex which is a French book which
0:02:41 is translated into many different
0:02:43 languages in 1949 sure Isis from page 42
0:02:47 to 46 47 you can look at this yourself
0:02:49 she's a feminist in fact not only any
0:02:50 feminists and not radical feminists for
0:02:53 she is a mainstream feminist which not
0:02:57 only laid the groundwork for other
0:03:02 feminists to come but she led thus the
0:03:06 erotic one philosophical underpinnings
0:03:08 of you could say even all of feminism in
0:03:11 a second way she is very very
0:03:13 influential in the feminist movement so
0:03:15 why would she say these things I mean it
0:03:17 sounds like she's going against women in
0:03:19 if I said this as a man and not promised
0:03:22 or qualified the fact that it was a
0:03:24 woman who said it was actually a main
0:03:26 feminist I could be attacked but the
0:03:29 reason why she says this and her
0:03:31 argument is as follows am how argument
0:03:36 is yes and this is the argument of
0:03:38 feminism okay the argument is yes there
0:03:42 are biological differences between men
0:03:44 and women we agree men are stronger
0:03:46 women are more emotional we understand
0:03:49 that for the most part is a true
0:03:51 statement she says we know that but her
0:03:53 argument is as follows ladies and
0:03:54 gentlemen you must know the
0:03:57 or feminism especially second wave
0:03:59 feminism the argument yes there are
0:04:01 differences however it doesn't matter
0:04:06 this is basically the other and why
0:04:09 doesn't it matter okay
0:04:10 the feminists will argue and this is
0:04:13 exactly her argument there is and this
0:04:15 is going to be a little bit complicated
0:04:17 but try your best to understand okay
0:04:20 try your best understand in philosophy
0:04:23 there's something called existentialism
0:04:25 and there's something called
0:04:27 essentialism okay so complicated
0:04:30 essentialism is the fact that you have
0:04:34 certain characteristics
0:04:35 it could be biological it could be
0:04:37 spiritual it could be whatever
0:04:39 characteristics that are part of you as
0:04:41 a human being
0:04:41 and your function is a result of those
0:04:46 things which are endowed to you they're
0:04:48 things that you have yet exist actualism
0:04:52 is the idea that you have to kind of
0:04:54 make your own purpose in life
0:04:56 this objective is your purpose in life
0:04:58 yeah so essentialism is that you act
0:05:01 according to what your your composition
0:05:04 is your essential composition and
0:05:07 existentialism as you make your own
0:05:09 purpose you make your own subjective
0:05:11 purpose and this is especially on Paul
0:05:15 Sartre exists tension is among other
0:05:16 people the feminist movement and the
0:05:20 philosophy the philosophy of feminism is
0:05:23 based really on intersectionality which
0:05:24 means we don't care about the
0:05:26 differences between man and woman for
0:05:28 the most part which are biological or
0:05:31 emotional or psychological despite those
0:05:33 differences there should be equality
0:05:35 gender status understanding yet despite
0:05:39 those differences there should be
0:05:40 equality but the question will come
0:05:42 first question we have a right to ask as
0:05:44 critical thinkers never write to us as
0:05:47 question why why should we follow
0:05:52 something subjective and why should we
0:05:57 disregard the essential properties of
0:05:59 things why should we disregard the
0:06:01 differences between men and women
0:06:03 why what proof do you have of that
0:06:05 what's the reason for that what's the
0:06:07 logic behind it and there are questions
0:06:12 that you could ask wouldn't it mean you
0:06:14 can ask is it the case is it possible
0:06:16 that when you strip men and women from
0:06:19 Delos a paternal / maternal instinct
0:06:21 meaning a man's what psychological of to
0:06:25 be a father or mother's want to be a
0:06:27 mother and you strip them away from
0:06:29 these notions would that have an effect
0:06:31 on them cycling these are saying if
0:06:35 you're saying that children sorry if
0:06:38 you're saying that your essence your
0:06:40 biological essence is not really we
0:06:42 don't care about it so long as equality
0:06:45 is oh so much footage is concerned the
0:06:47 question is why
0:06:48 now here's another point de Beauvoir the
0:06:52 same woman
0:06:52 and this is why personally I cannot
0:06:55 identify with feminism I'll tell you the
0:06:57 reason because of these things she
0:07:00 paints a picture of males men males not
0:07:04 just males in the human species but
0:07:06 males everywhere as actually inheriting
0:07:10 a kind of original sin or finger man let
0:07:12 me say where she writes talking about
0:07:15 mammals she goes the most concrete and
0:07:17 most individual life life is found in
0:07:19 mammals the split of the two vital
0:07:20 moments maintaining and creating takes
0:07:22 place definitively in the separation of
0:07:23 the sexes it is branching out and
0:07:25 considering marching out only in
0:07:28 vertebrates the mothers has the closest
0:07:30 connection to her offspring while the
0:07:31 father is more interested the whole
0:07:34 organism of the female is adapted to and
0:07:36 determined by the servitude of maternity
0:07:38 while sexual promotive is the interest
0:07:39 of the male mimicking Annie she say
0:07:42 males by nature wanted to an email by
0:07:44 nature not just human beings but
0:07:46 generally they want to they're by nature
0:07:49 yeah dominating they put women in
0:07:52 servitude positions we have to change
0:07:54 that you understand so what we have to
0:07:57 accept as men if you want to be
0:07:58 now you have to accept that you are born
0:08:01 as an oppressor by nature you're born as
0:08:05 a bad man just by virtue of being a male
0:08:09 that you have a prerogative
0:08:11 which means you you're going to want to
0:08:12 suppress a woman and in whatever which
0:08:15 way this is the kind of thing that
0:08:17 Simone de Beauvoir is trying to espouse
0:08:19 so the question here really is is this
0:08:23 substantiated psychologically
0:08:26 philosophically emotionally and
0:08:27 economically another thing could be this
0:08:30 and this is something I really want to
0:08:31 work because we talked about number one
0:08:33 the philosophical underpinnings of
0:08:35 feminism and the psychological
0:08:37 ramifications of it but a secondary
0:08:39 question are you guys with me yeah a
0:08:42 secondary question is has feminism
0:08:45 misinterpreted history come tell me so
0:08:49 yourself ma'am I want you to I'm gonna
0:08:50 give you a story let's make this total
0:08:53 more the story before we make the story
0:08:56 I want to say something one of the
0:08:57 things that feminism says and if you
0:08:59 look at almost any book of the second
0:09:01 wave one thing is common which is that
0:09:04 mothers wives their servants or slaves
0:09:07 Simone Simone de Beauvoir actually pulls
0:09:10 them slaves if you're a mother or if
0:09:12 you're a wife you are safe yes why
0:09:15 because you're in the house yeah you're
0:09:18 doing all the work of that man all right
0:09:20 good you're cooking for him you're
0:09:22 cleaning for him you know getting paid
0:09:23 for it okay you're a slave you're
0:09:26 looking after his children
0:09:28 you are a slave this is the feminist
0:09:31 narrative okay let me give you a story
0:09:36 imagine we have a woman what's the
0:09:38 popular Swedish name for almond given
0:09:46 that let's go with the chef's preference
0:09:48 is this actually alright come on Maya
0:09:51 and I share too much time with this
0:10:03 guy's so I'm is a popular feminist name
0:10:12 woman's name let's say you guys okay
0:10:15 listen to this I know she's at home now
0:10:19 yeah she has a husband and feels obliged
0:10:24 and in this context is a story should to
0:10:27 go out and work for her husband she has
0:10:30 to make the money in the house yeah the
0:10:32 husband stays home his name is Oliver
0:10:35 okay Oliver stays at home and Isaac is
0:10:43 the one who's making the money yes she
0:10:46 spends the money on her husband and the
0:10:48 children okay now a big siren is there
0:10:56 yeah and it is a big servant and it says
0:10:58 that there is a war going on and a lot
0:11:02 has to go out and all of the women and
0:11:05 society have to go out by force and
0:11:07 fight for the lives of the men okay they
0:11:12 have to go out she has to go and fight
0:11:14 for the lives of the men by force not
0:11:16 just as not an option she has to fight
0:11:18 for them Anna works in a coal mining
0:11:21 place you know the coal mining when you
0:11:23 go underneath and you train and every
0:11:25 time man is in that place rocks day for
0:11:29 me Anna they fought you know big rocks
0:11:33 so Anna's everyday she's at risk of
0:11:35 death anna has a friend called Lizzie
0:11:39 and she works in a garbage you know
0:11:42 cleaning garbage and she has lots of
0:11:45 problems hernia this
0:11:48 Anna goes back to her husband Oliver and
0:11:52 Oliver says to Haman you know I believe
0:11:55 I'm a slave in this relationship you
0:11:59 know you have all the power you're going
0:12:04 out there making all the money and you
0:12:10 have all the power
0:12:11 I'm a slave but then Anna says listen
0:12:18 actually I don't think that's right I
0:12:20 risk my life for this family how many
0:12:23 wars have we gone through I nearly died
0:12:26 in war Anna says and it goes on to say
0:12:30 the reason why I haven't got the finger
0:12:32 is because it was blown up by the enemy
0:12:34 in war Anna continues and Anna says in
0:12:42 fact all the money I make almost of at
0:12:46 least goes to you and the kids so how
0:12:49 can you be calling me a slave Oliver
0:12:52 when it's more likely that I am the
0:12:54 slave Anna says I'm giving you all my
0:13:00 money most of my money and I come home
0:13:05 try it because I've lifted lots of heavy
0:13:07 stuff and you're telling me that you're
0:13:09 my slave if you're a slave to me
0:13:11 how does that even make sense I'm the
0:13:13 one doing all the work in this
0:13:14 relationship Solomon says no y'all doing
0:13:19 all the work and he has got point look
0:13:20 I'm not looking after the kids I'm doing
0:13:23 a bill cleaning and cooking yeah for
0:13:25 some didn't work so I'm Suzy I
0:13:26 appreciate actually you're right what I
0:13:30 just described him I've described the
0:13:33 reality of the feminist movement whereby
0:13:36 the feminist movement has forced us to
0:13:39 reevaluate the roles of women in society
0:13:44 but has not forced us to reevaluate the
0:13:47 roles of men in society
0:13:52 the feminist movement is a movement
0:13:54 which calls human male sacrifice power
0:14:01 there's an interesting book written by
0:14:04 his name is Warren Ferran and he wrote
0:14:08 the myth of male power a lot of the
0:14:09 statistics indicate why I'm saying him
0:14:12 whorl
0:14:13 farad he says in the book that according
0:14:17 to his research she wrote this book in
0:14:18 93 and then in 2001 he kind of done a
0:14:20 second copy whatever so he's constantly
0:14:22 looking at the statistics he says first
0:14:25 and foremost men if you look at okay
0:14:29 because feminists will say but looked as
0:14:30 a gender gap it men make more than women
0:14:32 in work and this has lots of problems he
0:14:35 says this is not true and you know why
0:14:36 he says it's not true he says you're
0:14:38 comparing the wrong things why are you
0:14:39 comparing the fact that a man is making
0:14:43 more than a woman as a gross income and
0:14:45 not comparing the fact that women have
0:14:49 more as net profit and spending money
0:14:51 and he said using statistics and his
0:14:54 books and he confides in his and knows
0:14:55 of his books that actually the United
0:14:57 States context a woman have more net
0:15:00 spending power than men factor have
0:15:02 fourteen thousand pounds per year
0:15:03 fourteen thousand dollars between and
0:15:05 men have ten thousand so he shows that
0:15:08 even if you go now to anymore that the
0:15:12 majority of the world is tailoring
0:15:14 woman's preferences why because women
0:15:17 have more spending power so that repeat
0:15:19 the people the advertisers and the
0:15:20 companies they have to facilitate for
0:15:23 women in otherwise he says women are too
0:15:25 big businesses like bosses because they
0:15:29 are shaping spending habits and shaping
0:15:33 the products are being sold because
0:15:37 obviously demand equals supply did the
0:15:39 supply of this is economics it's basic
0:15:41 economics and he says also that the
0:15:45 draft distorted him up into drugs or the
0:15:48 obligatory military service if it had
0:15:51 been imposed upon women every feminist
0:15:53 would say this is something
0:15:54 cannot be tolerated because why happen
0:15:57 you force women to fight like me just in
0:15:59 the same way I would argue that you can
0:16:01 force men to do that for all of
0:16:04 civilization and all of the countries of
0:16:06 humanity I don't know one country in the
0:16:09 whole of human history which has forced
0:16:12 women to fight and die for men I don't
0:16:15 know our country no one and you can
0:16:19 compare this with slavery well lie if
0:16:22 anything is going to be slavery is this
0:16:24 slaves black slaves that worked in
0:16:27 American cotton picking farms picking
0:16:30 cotton and risking their lives are more
0:16:32 closely correlated to those men in war
0:16:35 who are dying for the future of their
0:16:37 countries which means that their women
0:16:39 and children will be protected there is
0:16:41 more of a parallel with men's and men's
0:16:44 jobs and occupations in slavery than
0:16:46 there is with women's in slavery because
0:16:47 there's more hazardous occupations 99%
0:16:50 of hazardous occupations according to
0:16:52 him 99% of 99% of hazardous occupations
0:17:02 are occupied by men I want you to think
0:17:04 about one thing in this way says in the
0:17:05 book he says think about the fact that
0:17:07 women occupy about 99 percent of safe
0:17:10 occupations likes being a secretary yeah
0:17:13 most as put into him in American context
0:17:16 most equities are moving yeah if you go
0:17:17 to a place the receptionist a second
0:17:19 tradition a woman now I imagine now in
0:17:22 her workplace this woman the ceilings
0:17:25 are falling down the ceilings they're
0:17:27 falling down once the feminist movement
0:17:30 gonna do say listen how dare you put a
0:17:33 woman in this position of hazardous
0:17:35 situation then you know that women are
0:17:39 part of this they make the largest
0:17:41 constituents because the truancy agenda
0:17:43 of this particular occupation how they
0:17:45 put them in this position well no one
0:17:48 ever says that when the rock falls from
0:17:49 the mining from the place where that
0:17:51 meant does mining
0:17:51 why it was men expected to die for women
0:17:55 . men are expected to die for women .
0:17:59 don't tell us that men are we
0:18:03 the oppressor here and that we have some
0:18:06 original sin of being a man this is not
0:18:08 what we're gonna accept well lights are
0:18:10 unfair analysis all of a male history at
0:18:13 all of history men have been protecting
0:18:14 women that's what's happened if you want
0:18:17 to call that protection oppression
0:18:20 that's I believe impression that's the
0:18:23 oppression
0:18:25 now the argument listen are you denying
0:18:29 the fact that a woman is unpaid yes I'm
0:18:31 denying to actually because she gets
0:18:33 paid more than the man if you look at
0:18:34 the economic indicators she gets given
0:18:36 more by the man he works gives it to the
0:18:38 woman now not all the time was a bad man
0:18:41 maybe maybe here in Sweden now don't do
0:18:43 this kind of things but this is the way
0:18:45 the civilization has been working for
0:18:47 the last eight thousand nine thousand
0:18:50 years for the most part this is the
0:18:52 reality okay having said this it's
0:18:56 really important to ask a question what
0:18:58 a man is in a position this in today's I
0:19:00 want to give another snart if a man is
0:19:02 in a position and this is something
0:19:03 pharaoh says those bells in his book if
0:19:05 a man is evolution is working in a small
0:19:07 business yeah man working small business
0:19:09 I don't know what the disappearance we
0:19:11 do IP products okay
0:19:14 Sony Ericsson or something like that
0:19:15 he's working and now he's in Sony
0:19:18 Ericsson office and now there are a
0:19:20 certain amount of women and a lot of
0:19:22 people are underneath you say he's a
0:19:24 supervisor he's supervising two people
0:19:26 in his office his boss comes to it says
0:19:28 listen tomorrow you're gonna supervise
0:19:30 cool people yeah so now we've expanded
0:19:33 your your wallet responsibilities you're
0:19:35 not gonna just supervise two people
0:19:36 you're gonna supervise
0:19:37 four people yeah what we put your hands
0:19:41 up if you would see that this is more
0:19:42 power to given to the man be honest has
0:19:44 the man now got more power it's got more
0:19:46 power yeah because now he's supervising
0:19:47 no people okay if a woman has more
0:19:51 children
0:19:53 is she supervising more according to the
0:19:56 traditional roles if she was the
0:19:58 traditional mother in the house
0:19:59 housewife she'd be supervising more
0:20:01 people and using the same logic you
0:20:03 should say she has no power she has no
0:20:07 power because now she's supervising more
0:20:09 people but that's not recognized by
0:20:11 feminism basically the role and
0:20:14 influence
0:20:14 power of mothers is disregarded by the
0:20:17 feminist movement mothers are powerful
0:20:19 agents in society which shape society in
0:20:22 ways which cannot be measured that is
0:20:26 the reason why when a man his power is
0:20:31 referred to in economic terms and the
0:20:34 invisible economy of the lava in the
0:20:35 home is never mentioned a woman has more
0:20:39 power in most cases in most even Western
0:20:41 countries she can change the kids views
0:20:43 so she can aid the Canadian father she
0:20:45 had the power to do that and there are
0:20:48 cases upon cases upon cases upon cases
0:20:50 of women doing that in many of the
0:20:53 Western civilized countries which by the
0:20:55 way famous women in custodian cosmogonic
0:21:00 custody and things like that now saying
0:21:01 it shouldn't bother I'm just making the
0:21:03 point that if it was equality wouldn't
0:21:05 be like that if it was actually equality
0:21:07 feminists who be against this because
0:21:08 the Equality should be everything is the
0:21:09 same
0:21:10 the man is actually fathers the same as
0:21:12 the mother according to feminism and
0:21:14 it's not obviously we know that's not
0:21:15 true because we believe in a kind of
0:21:18 essentialism we accept the kind of
0:21:20 biological determinism we accept our a
0:21:22 she she's the one who had them in there
0:21:24 in the room for nine months or her loom
0:21:26 and then she gave birth and she's
0:21:27 breastfeeding she deserves more rights
0:21:28 in this regard but if you're a feminist
0:21:30 you can't say that because actually as a
0:21:32 feminist you can only say that they
0:21:34 should be equal no matter what as
0:21:36 negotiated in her book she goes to 15
0:21:39 stages of feminism she's number one is
0:21:40 that what you could no matter what and
0:21:42 so yeah even as a mother you equal if
0:21:45 you've demoted yourself you've made
0:21:48 yourself lower why have you done this
0:21:49 yourself because you believe in
0:21:52 existentialism you believe in your own
0:21:53 subjective morality which you have
0:21:55 invented you've disregarded the science
0:21:57 in this regard the psychology is
0:21:58 regarded as the sociology economics and
0:22:01 you now want to superimpose an
0:22:03 idealistic understanding of society and
0:22:06 asper and egalitarian view and by the
0:22:09 way is a lot of big words I'm sorry for
0:22:10 you to understand but the point really
0:22:13 is this the point is has feminism
0:22:18 therefore
0:22:19 failed to consider men's roles and my
0:22:24 answer is yes now the point is the point
0:22:28 I want to make to you guys is these are
0:22:30 the questions were gonna ask
0:22:31 we're gonna be asks lots of questions
0:22:33 regarding women's rights because we
0:22:35 would go around and they don't we go
0:22:37 around and I would tell me about 70 to
0:22:39 80 percent of the questions that people
0:22:41 ask about Islam why is a woman not
0:22:44 allowed to young you have four husbands
0:22:46 or why is it the case that you know a
0:22:47 man can divorce easier than Norman why
0:22:49 why why why because we don't believe in
0:22:53 any we don't believe in absolute
0:22:55 equality we believe in a general
0:22:57 equality and that is more tenable if you
0:23:02 say because the purpose having them
0:23:03 under Section 5 for Jackie
0:23:05 he said solid that certainly men are
0:23:07 people to women he said this however is
0:23:10 generally the case we have exceptions in
0:23:12 inheritance we have exceptions in
0:23:14 marriage in isn't it if you don't want
0:23:16 there to be exceptions
0:23:17 you will fall you will have problems in
0:23:20 society you can't say anything about
0:23:23 maternity we should abolish it this is
0:23:25 the reality
0:23:26 so what I'm saying here is this
0:23:28 narrative of men are the oppressors and
0:23:29 the slave owners where women are the
0:23:31 oppressed and the under and the slaves
0:23:34 this has to be broken before we can
0:23:36 discuss anything else we can't talk
0:23:38 about equality listen no I'm not going
0:23:40 to accept this well life is completely
0:23:42 unfair what you've done to men what
0:23:45 families have done to men is unfair no
0:23:48 man from the men nowadays they don't
0:23:50 really want to talk about this because
0:23:52 it will have questions for their life
0:23:54 game but we have to have our own
0:23:56 seriously we have to have our own
0:23:58 intellectual courage to come out and say
0:24:00 you know what I don't believe in the
0:24:02 history that you've given me I don't
0:24:04 believe in the psychology that you give
0:24:05 me your your own on these issues and
0:24:08 therefore I don't accept your premise so
0:24:10 when you asked me about divorce why is
0:24:12 it in a slam yeah that a man can divorce
0:24:15 more easily than the woman you're
0:24:17 assuming they shouldn't why should you
0:24:19 assume that a woman can turn the kids
0:24:21 against the man she can do things too
0:24:23 when she can't do to her this power she
0:24:25 has that he does not have how are you
0:24:28 going to rectify that how are you go to
0:24:29 equalize that how am I going to equalize
0:24:33 the fact that a woman which just by
0:24:35 virtue by a biological virtue of the
0:24:38 fact that she gives birth to a child
0:24:40 that that child will inherently
0:24:43 psychologically have an affinity to the
0:24:46 mother more so than the father how can
0:24:47 you if that is the case if there is a
0:24:50 psychological scientific reality that we
0:24:52 can assert then we must equalize that we
0:24:56 have to equalize the relationship men a
0:24:57 woman don't expect there to be the same
0:25:00 kind of rules for them definitely there
0:25:02 has to be checks and balances in place
0:25:04 and that's why men can do certain things
0:25:08 in this land that women can't do and
0:25:10 that's why women can do certain things
0:25:12 in Islam that men can't do and that's
0:25:16 why I lost paradises will let a man know
0:25:17 my father loved me but about Leslie
0:25:20 jelly no simoom accessible in this egg
0:25:22 wasn't worth itself that do not want
0:25:24 what the other one has don't wish to
0:25:26 have what black from Zaire a man don't
0:25:28 wish that what the woman has for the man
0:25:30 is a portion of what he has earned and
0:25:32 for the woman is a portion of what she
0:25:34 has been some things are unequaled by
0:25:38 virtue of reality and as the slab has
0:25:41 the answers to that so when you'll ask
0:25:43 questions about women's rights just
0:25:45 remember what I've said