Helen Lewis
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1,139 appearances
8 recordings
6 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 24 Jun
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How are you supposed to navigate that?
You just keep consuming more of their content and kind of wallowing in your own stew.
Helen Andrews writes for Compact magazine.
And the argument with that, it starts with Larry Summers being outed from president of Harvard in the 2000s.
And this is the kind of first moment really when there were so many women in academia that they had a hysterical overreaction.
his public comments that maybe there weren't so many women in STEM because, you know, just innate lack of aptitude or interest, essentially.
And this is portrayed as this kind of warning sign of like the feminist freakouts that are about going to dominate the next two decades.
And then Andrews goes on to make this case that you have far more female lawyers, far more female doctors, far more female academics, and they are not interested in the pursuit of truth and justice and rigour.
They are driven by feelings.
And so in the law, that will translate to the fact that they will just feel quite bad for criminals and kind of not want to discipline them and punish them appropriately.
In academia, it means that you stop asking hard questions with uncomfortable answers and you instead end up having a kind of hippie kumbaya drum circle where everybody talks about their positionality.
And there is obviously something there that spoke to a lot of people.
I mean, the reason that I wrote about it is that, again, I had this sense of smoke and sand.
And then I tried to go through the specific evidential claims that were being made and see whether or not they stack up.
One of which being that wokeness is an epiphenomenon of demographic feminization.
There's something to practice as a tongue twister.
But the idea essentially that if you get too many women in an organization, it will collapse into kind of bitching and backbiting and all the things that characterized that period of whatever you want to call that peak woke of 2020.
And it was incredibly...
viral essay.
I wrote a lot of articles taking issue with some of the things that happened in that period.
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