Helen Lewis
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1,139 appearances
8 recordings
6 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 24 Jun
Helen Lewis’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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In the service of social media companies making a profit, girls are being shown huge amounts of very filtered images of what faces can look like.
And I think we just probably need to find a slightly new way of talking.
I try and discourage, you know, feminists from sort of framing everything in kind of men are doing this to us kind of way.
And I think that the real downfall of a lot of this discussion is it's almost impossible to have a conversation about men on its own terms in lots of these parts of the right without it having to be in some point women's fault.
And if we could just break that chain, those conversations would be a lot healthier.
And I think liberals would be a lot happier in participating in them, right?
If it can be, actually, maybe we got some bits of the COVID response wrong, schools should have opened earlier in California.
That's a conversation people are going to be much happier to have if it's not done, some childless cow did this to you, right?
Because at that point, I'm like, I'm out.
I'm not interested in what else you have to say at that point.
Sorry, if you can't keep a civil tug in your head, then we won't have this argument.
There's a
That's the interesting thing about it, is that it's all done for other men.
And you used to find people on the men's rights internet would talk about women's intrasocial, intersexual competition, and the fact that they were all kind of doing all these sort of things for each other.
And I think, you know, I just think about that a lot, is that a lot of it is done to impress other men, at the same time as having this intense anxiety about homosexuality.
But it also has this deeper, and that quote you bring out has this deeper eugenic
quality to it, right?
If you go back and read Buck versus Bell, the famous eugenic judgment by the Supreme Court, you know, this idea of the unfit, you know, the morons, the imbeciles, and then the physically handicapped and the degenerate, you know, that kind of Nazi language.
There is the idea that there are life's winners who are physically perfect and mentally acute.
And then there are life's losers who are, you can even read in their features that they are subhuman.
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