Male Privilege vs. Male Disposability | Paul Elam | Outtakes from "The Red Pill" — Transcript

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1. 0:02I want to start going into the issue of
2. 0:19not sure if it's the issue or this term
3. 0:22of male disposability I've been hearing
4. 0:25that a lot from MRA websites and I
5. 0:28haven't ever heard of that before I
6. 0:30started researching the men's rights
7. 0:32movement
8. 0:32what is male disposability it is the the
9. 0:37mindset that men are seen in utilitarian
10. 0:42Trump's that what I noted earlier was
11. 0:47that 93% of workplace deaths or male men
12. 0:53are socialized to put their necks on the
13. 0:55chopping block to expose themselves to
14. 0:57elements to take on dangerous jobs to
15. 1:00work on crab boats to drive trucks to do
16. 1:03any number of really really dangerous
17. 1:05things in order to provide for people
18. 1:08that they care about and that is just an
19. 1:13extension of where we've always been as
20. 1:16a human species I think if you take it
21. 1:19back 3 million years to the African
22. 1:22savannah you'll find that if men didn't
23. 1:25protect women through gestation in early
24. 1:28childhood that we wouldn't made it very
25. 1:30far as a species so men to that degree
26. 1:34had to be disposable it was a survival
27. 1:37tool they had to be willing to die in
28. 1:40order to have women live and to have
29. 1:43children with the thing is we're still
30. 1:47we're not still on the African savannah
31. 1:49anymore we live in comparatively an
32. 1:52extremely safe society that does not
33. 1:55require men to assume this huge line
34. 2:00share of the risk but we still expect
35. 2:02them to it's why still over 97% of our
36. 2:05combat deaths are male we have the same
37. 2:10rules set up for men that they've always
38. 2:14by that you need to protect and provide
39. 2:17at any cost
40. 2:18it's the old standard of women and
41. 2:22children first the first spots in the
42. 2:25lifeboats are for women there were the
43. 2:28Concordia when it sank just a couple of
44. 2:31years ago the first call they put out on
45. 2:34the intercom was women and children
46. 2:36first we're still living by rules that
47. 2:39have governed our society for thousands
48. 2:43of years where it concerns men but we've
49. 2:46changed everything where it concerns
50. 2:49women and they are living by an entirely
51. 2:52different set of rules they now have
52. 2:54access to everything men have always had
53. 2:57access to to education to work to
54. 3:00whatever they want to do but there's
55. 3:04unfortunately no sharing real sharing of
56. 3:08the actual burdens for what it takes to
57. 3:12operate and maintain this society it is
58. 3:16still men carrying the lone share and it
59. 3:19is still the expectation that if
60. 3:21somebody's going to go down with the
61. 3:22ship it's going to be men there is a lot
62. 3:26of people that look at that and
63. 3:28interpret it is morning I'm pretty sure
64. 3:32none of them are the one standing on the
65. 3:33back of the ship when it's happening and
66. 3:36they're not the ones in the cold lines
67. 3:38they're not the ones driving the semis
68. 3:41all across this country a very very
69. 3:44dangerous job these things are real
70. 3:48life-and-death situations for a very
71. 3:50very large number of people we tend to
72. 3:54look at men in the upper one percentile
73. 3:57in a couple of different ways when we
74. 4:00talk about what men are in this society
75. 4:03we look at CEOs of different companies
76. 4:07we look at people in government we look
77. 4:10at people who have authority who have
78. 4:12money and who
79. 4:14power that is not 99.5% of men that is a
80. 4:18very very small group of people we call
81. 4:22it the glass ceiling feminists have
82. 4:25talked for years about the difficulties
83. 4:27in breaking through the glass ceiling
84. 4:29they're not talking about the
85. 4:31difficulties in breaking into the glass
86. 4:33cellar they're not pushing for entry
87. 4:37into the death jobs you don't hear the
88. 4:40National Organization for Women
89. 4:41complaining that there is just not
90. 4:44enough female ditch-diggers in this
91. 4:46world when we view men with that very
92. 4:52very fractional population as though it
93. 4:55applies to all of them as though all men
94. 4:57have our senators and congressmen and
95. 5:00CEOs we're doing a huge disservice to
96. 5:04everybody one it's not honest and number
97. 5:07two it paints a false portrayal of the
98. 5:10lives of actual men in this society
99. 5:13everyday they don't live lives of power
100. 5:16they live lives of sacrifice often they
101. 5:20live lives of pain and we see that
102. 5:23reflected in their suicide rate we see
103. 5:25that reflected in their rates of
104. 5:27depression and alcohol abuse their rates
105. 5:29of imprisonment looking at men and
106. 5:34looking at the male role as though it is
107. 5:37somehow in the embodiment of personal
108. 5:40power is one of the grossest deceptions
109. 5:43ever ever peddled on this society we
110. 5:47don't have a society of powerful men we
111. 5:50have a society of men that are bound to
112. 5:53duty and obligation and we have
113. 5:56increasingly a society of women that
114. 5:58have come to expect that slot in the 1%
115. 6:02as though they have been robbed of all
116. 6:05these years when really almost
117. 6:08everybody's very few people ever get
118. 6:11into that position it's blown quite a
119. 6:16bit out of
120. 6:17context the other side of it that we
121. 6:19tend to view men as in in terms of a
122. 6:21very very small fraction of them is the
123. 6:24other end of the bell curve the the tiny
124. 6:27minority of men that are rapists the
125. 6:30minority of men that are violent against
126. 6:33their spouses and it is a minority it is
127. 6:36not the majority of men so what we do is
128. 6:39review men on one hand as though they're
129. 6:42only in the upper 1% I'll a powerful man
130. 6:45and on the other hand as though they're
131. 6:47all in the lower one percentile of
132. 6:50intelligence and violence and everybody
133. 6:55in between is ignored and their
134. 6:58struggles are ignored a voice for men
135. 7:01wants the society to wake up to that and
136. 7:05to start doing something more than just
137. 7:08acknowledging it a little bit so you say
138. 7:13that those upper 1% of men are in the
139. 7:20government and are the CEOs of these big
140. 7:23corporations and and so the majority of
141. 7:27the 1% are men and those are positions
142. 7:29of power so wouldn't a feminist be
143. 7:32correct in saying that men do have the
144. 7:35power in this country because they are
145. 7:36the 1% I think that looking at men in
146. 7:40government and saying that they have all
147. 7:41the power is like looking at women in
148. 7:44grocery stores and saying they have all
149. 7:46the food it is not the same thing to be
150. 7:50in a position of power and actually
151. 7:53having it who are these men brokering
152. 7:56power for their constituency I mean it
153. 8:00their families aren't these congressmen
154. 8:03married to women that benefit from those
155. 8:06positions don't their children benefit
156. 8:08from those positions we have an
157. 8:11electorate that is that the majority
158. 8:13female if women are being held back from
159. 8:18these positions why isn't the female
160. 8:22electric elect
161. 8:23electing more women because they're not
162. 8:27running for those positions it is
163. 8:30available to them there is nobody
164. 8:32stopping women from running for these
165. 8:34positions what we see in our culture is
166. 8:37that there are more men willing imagine
167. 8:40what it takes to be a successful
168. 8:42politician imagine how much of your
169. 8:45personal life that you give up how much
170. 8:47you work how much privacy that you
171. 8:49sacrifice how much freedom in your
172. 8:51day-to-day life that goes out the window
173. 8:54there are more men willing to do those
174. 8:56things then there are women and that
175. 8:59doesn't mean that women aren't civically
176. 9:00minded it doesn't mean that they don't
177. 9:02care about the culture that they live in
178. 9:04but women are socialized to think more
179. 9:07about what is I would call lifestyle
180. 9:12choices what's comfortable for them what
181. 9:15do they want to pursue we socialize
182. 9:17women in this way and being a corporate
183. 9:20CEO isn't something that fits in with a
184. 9:24lot of comfortable lifestyle choices
185. 9:27it is about sacrifice it's about work
186. 9:30and often it's work that leads people to
187. 9:32early graves they have a phenomena and
188. 9:35half happen in Japan four years of men
189. 9:39that work themselves to death in their
190. 9:4130s and 40s I forget what the name of it
191. 9:44as they actually have a name for it of
192. 9:46these guys working 12 14 16 hour days
193. 9:49six and seven days a week in
194. 9:52corporations and they come in many times
195. 9:54and find them dead at their desks left
196. 9:57over their paperwork that isn't power
197. 10:01the idea that that is power is pretty
198. 10:05insane when you start looking at what
199. 10:08are the real day-to-day lives of these
200. 10:11people that we consider to be so
201. 10:12powerful are they running around
202. 10:15twirling their moustaches and thinking
203. 10:17of ways to oppress people are they
204. 10:19calling the shots for everybody in the
205. 10:22world or are they working like slaves in
206. 10:26order to get ahead and then turning
207. 10:28around and taking the resources that
208. 10:31they have earned and generated and
209. 10:33taking care of others with it
210. 10:35if anybody thinks that's really a
211. 10:38position of power and I would argue that
212. 10:40they really don't understand power power
213. 10:44is about being able to make choices
214. 10:46power in one way in the truest sense the
215. 10:51ability to stay alive alive is power if
216. 10:54you can keep breathing air and making
217. 10:58choices and pursuing things that you
218. 11:00want to do in life how can you be any
219. 11:02more powerful than that the fact that
220. 11:05you're successful in some model that we
221. 11:08have culturally that says that if you
222. 11:11make it to one of the top runs in the
223. 11:13corporation then you're a powerful
224. 11:14person
225. 11:15well yeah you probably are powerful with
226. 11:17the 15 or 20 people around you where you
227. 11:20work but are you really powerful in that
228. 11:23position I think the society needs a
229. 11:26reexamination of what power means to
230. 11:28begin with
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