The Decline of Female Happiness | Karen Straughan | Outtakes from "The Red Pill" — Transcript

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1. 0:05[Music]
2. 0:13you know one of the things one of the
3. 0:16most interesting things about things the
4. 0:19research that we're doing is I think the
5. 0:23book was called paradox of the decline
6. 0:28of human happiness and they started it
7. 0:33did sort of they started doing surveys
8. 0:35on people's sense of well-being and
9. 0:37happiness and consistently women scored
10. 0:42higher across the board right in the US
11. 0:46and Canada consistently higher than that
12. 0:49all the way across until the seventies
13. 0:51right and the male happiness started to
14. 0:55taper off female happiness I just went
15. 1:00in a crossed they were always more happy
16. 1:03than men and then it crossed that line
17. 1:06and now they are less happy than men
18. 1:08everybody's less happy overall but women
19. 1:12are now less happy for the first time
20. 1:14since we started since we started asking
21. 1:18the question and I you know I honestly
22. 1:30think that woman's biggest problem in
23. 1:36the 60s and 70s it was not oppression it
24. 1:39was boredom and a feeling of
25. 1:41purposelessness because prior to that
26. 1:44keeping power still happy family taking
27. 1:4714 hours a day and it was 14 hours a day
28. 1:50of heavy work not you know like dust is
29. 1:54heavy work and your husband wasn't there
30. 1:57to help you because he was working 60
31. 2:00hours a week you know paving roads or
32. 2:03working in a factory
33. 2:05and that's if you were lucky unlucky you
34. 2:09know your husband was working paving
35. 2:11roads you were working at a factory and
36. 2:13your children or in your mother's care
37. 2:16for that eight hours a day and so the
38. 2:22unlucky on this where ours had no choice
39. 2:26the courthouse wife had no experience we
40. 2:33had no experience of having no choice
41. 2:36right because women have always had the
42. 2:39choice to find an interest to to invest
43. 2:45like I never went to Emerson I found
44. 2:49something to chase you in my passion I I
45. 2:54have always went to get a job but I have
46. 2:56always found things that I enjoy doing
47. 2:58often very gender subversive things like
48. 3:02installing Corrie and you know rewiring
49. 3:04my light fixtures you know I have I've
50. 3:09always been able to pursue interests
51. 3:13whatever interests and women in
52. 3:16assistants Evans really different they
53. 3:17were always able to pursue that they
54. 3:20weren't necessarily able to have a
55. 3:23career that paid them to do that but if
56. 3:25having a career if the problem with no
57. 3:28name was that you were not fulfilled
58. 3:31right then what's money was money have
59. 3:36to do with that
60. 3:38it was plenty of ways the you just
61. 3:41volunteer just go do you fix up you
62. 3:44don't
63. 3:45uninstall your old toilet no one right
64. 3:49if you want to if you really want to
65. 3:51challenge the stereotypes right learn
66. 3:56how to install a toilet and then install
67. 3:58one it's you know you don't have to be a
68. 4:00plumber to do that you just just do it
69. 4:02right women have always been able to do
70. 4:06that they wanted something more
71. 4:09something more than they wanted they
72. 4:12wanted recognition and respect and kudos
73. 4:16and applause and flattery and all kinds
74. 4:19of other things too right and part of
75. 4:22the reason why they had that
76. 4:24hole-in-ones was because men have
77. 4:26amazing lives he's given them
78. 4:30dishwashers vacuum cleaners right
79. 4:41they've given them all these washing
80. 4:45machines and dryers and and all even
81. 4:48have to do your laundry and a cauldron
82. 4:50in the yard and bring it with other
83. 4:52laundry people you know you had a
84. 4:53washing machine that you just stuck it
85. 4:55in there and turn it on and went away
86. 4:57right right so men had worked so hard to
87. 5:07provide a life of ease or their wives
88. 5:10and their keep them by saying I'm Gordon
89. 5:15it's your fault you're oppressing me
90. 5:17right I don't feel fulfilled I don't
91. 5:20have anything to do and because of that
92. 5:23you're an so I mean it's it's i
93. 5:28just died
94. 5:29we find it difficult to consider the
95. 5:34women of the solution is to have been
96. 5:36oppressed to think were they limited in
97. 5:39their choices yes men have always been
98. 5:41late and men are still way more than
99. 5:43their choice but they were depressed and
100. 5:47I don't think men are oppressed
101. 5:49not unless somebody is going to
102. 5:51prisoners right for an unjust reason
103. 5:57you're not being oppressed oppression is
104. 6:00shave your legs
105. 6:01socially shave your legs are crushing
106. 6:03the fact that they make ladies pants
107. 6:06with pockets too small for their cell
108. 6:07phone it's not a crash this is a kind of
109. 6:09oppression if I see a lot of feminists
110. 6:12bitching about online right they
111. 6:14consider that oppression is you consider
112. 6:16going to jail with low due process
113. 6:18because your wife charged to the
114. 6:20domestic assault they don't consider
115. 6:22that oppression that they can select
116. 6:23male privilege of hiring
117. 6:29you
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