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Daily Wire host goes on strange sexist rant: "Women cannot take care of themselves"
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Maybe, but even ten years ago, people would have hesitated to say this kind of thing publicly. Or am I wrong in thinking that? It's not that I think it didn't happen, but it seems to me that it happens with much greater frequency now.
is "women just have a way of shutting all that down" 10yrs old yet?
I mean I feel like that was massive news because of how insane it was compared to how relatively little these other things get
Guys like Jerry Falwell and James Dobson have been saying this shit since the early 1980s. And before that you had your Charles Murrays and George Wallaces and your Father Coughlains and your Henry Fords. Hell, Ford's "Protocols of the Elders of Zion" came included with every vehicle sold straight through the 1930s.
People thought crazier shit than this, even. And believed it. Myths about Atlantis and Hybernia, complete with occluded races of super-sentient psychics and lizard people were published and commented on at face value. Pick up a copy of "Area 51: An Uncensored History of America's Top Secret Military Base". The first few chapters take a deep dive into how Orwell's "War of the Worlds" inadvertently set a standard for weaponizing urban mythology to shape public opinion and invoke mass panic.
More dumb-asses have bigger megaphones. But I think the sheer breath and depth of this kind of pseudo-science has exposed it as threadbare. This isn't the first time either of us have heard these dated and debunked theories of gender hierarchy, I bet. But we also get to see what kind of company the ideas keep. And we get to see the people who profess them behave like the kind of senseless beasts they accuse everyone else of being.