Rachel Wilson
π€ SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
grooming underage kids and seducing them and all kinds of crazy stuff.
But she's respected as the greatest feminist intellectual of the 20th century.
And she was super influential.
And in a 1970s interview with Betty Friedan, she said, I don't believe that society should give women the opportunity or the choice to stay home and be mothers, because if we do, they're all going to pick that.
And I don't think it should be an option.
So it was the view of the feminists that, yeah, and Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton said that.
They said we would have never passed suffrage had it not been for men.
If it was ever left up to women alone, we would have never passed suffrage.
They would have never gone for it.
They don't want liberation.
Now, of course, from their view, they're like, well, it's because they're oppressed and they don't know that they hate their β
solid their slavery yet they just haven't realized how oppressed they are and if they could see it you know for what it is they wouldn't like it but we couldn't convince them for a hundred years we had to convince the men that it would don't you want your daughters to like have their own money and this and that so the feminists themselves say women didn't want it if we ever left it up to women they wouldn't have ever chosen it like at least not as a whole sure there would always have been a minority but
But I would argue that the minority of women who fought for that were the ones that the status quo historically of get yourself a good man, have a family, stay home.
It doesn't work for them.
So like a lot of them, there's a book about this.
Edward Dutton wrote a book about witches, feminism and the fall of the West, where he says traditionally, like women, the archetype of the witch being ugly and haggard and living on the outside of town is,
It's kind of historically accurate.
Most of the feminists, like, have you ever seen a picture of Susan B. Anthony, for example?
She is aesthetically challenged.