How Gender Politics Have Changed In The Last 40 Years | Outtakes from "The Red Pill" — Transcript
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- 0:05[Music]
- 0:13you've done so much in this field how do
- 0:19you 70 years old right yes if you can't
- 0:25handle your age you need to do some work
- 0:27in yourselves right yeah so looking back
- 0:31on all your years do you feel like I did
- 0:34all that I could and are you happy with
- 0:36I mean look at this you've done how many
- 0:39books have you published this is working
- 0:42on my eighth book did it seven discs off
- 0:46easy I mean you've done so much work in
- 0:47this field is there ever a point when
- 0:49you can say I've done enough and now I'm
- 0:51just gonna live or do you feel like the
- 0:53fight music you have to keep going well
- 0:56that's a good question and I feel like I
- 0:58have two more things that I need I first
- 1:01tried to say everything that I could
- 1:04about adult men and women that was
- 1:07secular in its orientation that so I did
- 1:10a book on the gender pay gap and what
- 1:12that really is about I did a book on you
- 1:15know on different parts of the domestic
- 1:18violence and male female issues
- 1:22historically biologically and so on and
- 1:24so but now I sort of ask myself how can
- 1:28this best be communicated I've now got
- 1:31all the facts out there and the way can
- 1:33best be communicated is but I believe by
- 1:36talking about boys because women have a
- 1:38protector instinct toward boys that they
- 1:40don't have toward adult men so what I
- 1:43would have cut where I'm at now is
- 1:45working on a book on boys and
- 1:47co-authoring that with John Gray and a
- 1:50joined Gray has obviously a much bigger
- 1:53following than I have and
- 1:56and a book of books on a book on boys
- 1:59communicates through the medium that a
- 2:01woman a mother can have that that taps
- 2:05into her protect your instinct in there
- 2:07and I want to know more desire and so
- 2:11that book is sort of saying okay I'm
- 2:13going to take all the things that I'm
- 2:15trying to communicate about adult men
- 2:17but I'm gonna funnel them through what's
- 2:20happening with your son and as a result
- 2:22of that I think the teachers and and and
- 2:25moms and dads will be able to have a lot
- 2:27more compassion for it in that through
- 2:30that funnel I'm also seeing that we need
- 2:33to know how crucial fathers are and I am
- 2:39shocked at how important fathers are
- 2:42when I did my original book called
- 2:44father and child reunion I was a stepdad
- 2:46and I wanted to prove that I wanted my
- 2:49research the research to prove to me
- 2:51that a stepdad was every bit as valuable
- 2:53as a biological dad and so it's hard to
- 2:57go against your biases and but the
- 2:59research showed that I was that you know
- 3:01I could be a good stepfather and be a
- 3:03good influence but that there was
- 3:05nothing as important as the biological
- 3:07father and the biological mother that
- 3:09children really seemed to have a need
- 3:10for their biological mom and dad I've
- 3:13seen this in a hundred different ways
- 3:15you know my one of my stepdaughters is
- 3:19Melissa's daughter who was adopted and
- 3:22she we had a rancher from New Zealand
- 3:24tell us a story about a bunch of ducks
- 3:27baby ducks that had their parents killed
- 3:29and the chicken raised the ducks and it
- 3:33was just really beautiful he said the
- 3:34way that chickens took over and raised a
- 3:36different you know it's a different
- 3:37species and he said one day the the
- 3:39Ducks were old enough to sort of wobble
- 3:41down the the side of his farm and they
- 3:45wobbled into a lake and suddenly the
- 3:48chicken went berserk screeching and
- 3:50squawking and it's just absolutely like
- 3:53you know you don't go it on a lake you
- 3:54can't swim you know because the chicken
- 3:56can't swim and you so like you know my
- 3:58children are going
- 3:59two legs and our adopted daughter said
- 4:05that's my life you're talking about I
- 4:08feel like a duck raised by a chicken and
- 4:13so I began to see how important we look
- 4:17to the biology within us they we look in
- 4:20the mirror and we see we see people who
- 4:24are who have noses like ours that is
- 4:28have hair like ours and that has body
- 4:30language like ours and if our mother or
- 4:31father are being put down or diminished
- 4:34we fear that no if my mother or is a
- 4:37liar and my father's irresponsible well
- 4:39I didn't I didn't I wasn't responsible
- 4:42about my homework I I lied about this or
- 4:44I cheated on a test maybe I am
- 4:46inherently irresponsible a liar those
- 4:48are the things that come through to
- 4:50children when they feet when they don't
- 4:52know their own parents they beat their
- 4:54parents become like straw men are strong
- 4:56women and the children become like
- 4:57strong boys and girls and so we have to
- 5:00understand how important and crucial the
- 5:03family is and among Marxist feminists
- 5:07the family is considered an oppressive
- 5:09institution and so that's that's a
- 5:13mistake
- 5:13family is the backbone of our society
- 5:18but I didn't appreciate that when I was
- 5:19younger I didn't see how I didn't see
- 5:22child after child after child he'll grow
- 5:25up without a father or without a mother
- 5:28have much more of a struggle
- 5:30academically socially psychologically
- 5:33then children who have
- 5:36an intact family as imperfect as most
- 5:38intact families are so my next job is to
- 5:42integrate that into the book on boys and
- 5:46then the job after that is I feel I have
- 5:49something very crucial to say about
- 5:51helping people be able to handle
- 5:54personal criticism without becoming
- 5:55defensive and I've created a system that
- 5:59allows people to do that
- 6:00and it's a really a very important
- 6:03system because it's a workaround to our
- 6:06biologically natural propensity to
- 6:09become defensive when we hear ourselves
- 6:11criticized and the reason that that's
- 6:13biologically natural is because
- 6:15historically if you got criticism they
- 6:17could potentially be an enemy and it's
- 6:19your best thing that you could do if you
- 6:21was an enemy that was going to attack
- 6:22you is to get up your defenses or even
- 6:25kill the enemy before the enemy killed
- 6:26you
- 6:27so we've survived based on the ability
- 6:29to kill people who criticized us but
- 6:32love is about being able to hear people
- 6:34who have problems with us at any given
- 6:36point in time and so I really feel like
- 6:39if I can make that contribution in my
- 6:41lifetime and begin to train people to do
- 6:44that in kindergartens and begin to train
- 6:47kids to be more effective in hearing
- 6:50each other that we will have families
- 6:52that won't have to choose between
- 6:53divorce and not divorce we'll have the
- 6:56real foundation of love which is to me
- 6:58more important than any other single
- 6:59thing so you have a lot of work ahead of
- 7:02you yeah a few years we're again amazing
- 7:05so thanks for telling me I look young
- 7:07because I'll be exhausted by the time I
- 7:10finish all that so you've been doing
- 7:14this since like gender studies in
- 7:17general census this is 1969 is when I
- 7:21started yes 69 68 is when the women's
- 7:23movement
- 7:24surfaced got its attention in Newsweek
- 7:26and things like that
- 7:27I got immediately involved and and then
- 7:30changed my doctoral dissertation about
- 7:321970-71
- 7:33and so
- 7:34and they gotta the Board of Directors I
- 7:36think it was 71 to 74 something like
- 7:38that so and so in in 40 years about 40
- 7:43years get your work
- 7:45have you seen changes I mean as far as
- 7:50men in society and had had have you seen
- 7:54the men's movement progress and it get
- 7:57better or it has it just been kind of
- 7:59stagnant I've seen good the good news is
- 8:03that could that women have become so
- 8:06much more integrated balanced the
- 8:09opportunities among women for women
- 8:11the pride of women in themselves their
- 8:14confidence of being a full person that
- 8:17has expanded way beyond anyone's
- 8:22imagination even I who tend to be an
- 8:25optimist feel like the other I was you
- 8:28know I was seeing how of being a
- 8:30political scientist and seeing how slow
- 8:32politics develops you know I would I
- 8:34would be able to get at the beginning of
- 8:37my involvement in a woman's movement in
- 8:381969-70 appointments with the head of
- 8:41the New York Times and talk with him
- 8:43about women's issues and the importance
- 8:45of it and and I not see the New York
- 8:48Times change and its coverage and to
- 8:51treat women seriously as opposed to just
- 8:53mop them within six months to a year the
- 8:56changes have been so rapidly at so many
- 8:59levels and that's been the the great
- 9:01blessing of both the women's movement
- 9:03and our response to it men have adopt
- 9:06adapted to a large degree so two things
- 9:09have happened to men men have either it
- 9:13used to be we talk about a battle of the
- 9:15sexes from a man's point of view
- 9:17it seems like it's not a battle of the
- 9:19sexes anymore it's sort of a war in
- 9:21which only one side has shown up and
- 9:23they put their heads in the sand and
- 9:25hope the bullets would miss so that it
- 9:28feels that way for example with a man in
- 9:30the military who's hearing about sexual
- 9:32harassment charges or you know false
- 9:35accusations of this and doesn't feel
- 9:37like the system can allow him a full
- 9:39real to process
- 9:42or you know of men and the man who wants
- 9:44involvement with his children and sees
- 9:45that the system is stacked against him
- 9:47so those and and an other group other
- 9:50men have just adapted sweetie tell me
- 9:53what you want
- 9:54don't complain please tell me what you
- 9:56want I want you to be happy what can I
- 9:59do to make you happy and then he tries
- 10:02to do usually doesn't imperfectly
- 10:04because were that imperfect as human
- 10:06beings but it is in perfect way he makes
- 10:09it real attempt to make that happy and
- 10:10they gets another complaint
- 10:12okay so sweetie what can I do what make
- 10:14you happy now and you know it accuse and
- 10:17submit the good news about men is that
- 10:19they but they've listened a fair amount
- 10:21they've half listen because nobody
- 10:23listens well and they've missed a lot
- 10:26and and they've you know retreated into
- 10:29football games and drinking and you know
- 10:31race cars and other things like that and
- 10:34they've also listened because men need
- 10:36women more than women need men men need
- 10:39women more than women need men because
- 10:40men the degree to which were successful
- 10:43is the more we repress our feelings and
- 10:45the more we repress our feelings the
- 10:47more we need someone to express our
- 10:49feelings do women have women friends to
- 10:52express their feelings to if there's a
- 10:53divorce they talked to their mothers and
- 10:56fathers to a much greater degree than
- 10:58men talked to their mothers and fathers
- 10:59about the Nitty Gritty pen they're more
- 11:01likely to get the children and they know
- 11:03that the children need them so they're
- 11:05more likely to survive I think commit
- 11:06suicide because you don't commit suicide
- 11:09when you feel needed and loved and
- 11:10wanted and so for all sorts of reasons
- 11:13men feel like my goodness if she leaves
- 11:15me I'll just all fall apart I don't know
- 11:18how to mow tional II support myself I
- 11:19won't have the children and I won't have
- 11:21my home I can't don't know how to talk
- 11:23to men friends about it I don't have to
- 11:24talk know how to talk to my parents
- 11:26about it and so you know suicide is
- 11:28right on the horizon for the man and and
- 11:31men are ten times as likely after after
- 11:33a divorce to commit suicide or ten times
- 11:36more likely than a woman should commit
- 11:38suicide after the death of a spouse
- 11:41either way 10 to 1 ratio and so that
- 11:44just as an example of the enormous
- 11:46vulnerability of men
- 11:48toward toward women to women's love and
- 11:51so anyone thinks that men have the power
- 11:53and doesn't know enough to incorporate
- 11:55though into the word power control over
- 11:58your life feelings about you who you are
- 12:00your emotional health
- 12:01it doesn't really understand what power
- 12:03is about and so or what genuine power is
- 12:06about so this so in this way men men
- 12:10have made progress in the sense that
- 12:12they've gone from arrogant to listening
- 12:15imperfectly women have made progress and
- 12:20that they've gone from feeling very
- 12:24fearful of being fully developed as
- 12:28people in a hundred different ways
- 12:30confidence wise and emotionally to being
- 12:34able to be much more full human beings
- 12:37what hasn't happened what's left out of
- 12:40the process is we have a big hole in the
- 12:44area of compassion for boys and men and
- 12:46and as a result of that our boys
- 12:49millions of them all over the
- 12:52industrialized world are in failure to
- 12:55launch mode and that's going to be
- 12:58harmful to the economy it's going to be
- 13:01harmful to those boys it's going to be
- 13:02said for their parents and it's going to
- 13:05be very disappointing for women who are
- 13:07looking for real equals to marry and be
- 13:08partners with yeah I mean absolutely as
- 13:12a woman you think you want men just have
- 13:15happy fulfilling lives because that's
- 13:18your life I mean and being in a
- 13:20partnership thing with my man like he's
- 13:22my life he needs to be happy um anytime
- 13:25you early in male-female relationships
- 13:28when either gender wins unilaterally
- 13:32than both sexes lose
- 13:35[Music]
- 13:38you
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