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"Marx says work is the site of oppression, and radical feminists say the person who doesn't work but gains the benefit of the wage earner is the one who's oppressed. So is earning a wage oppression, or is not earning a wage oppression?"
"You're dealing with an economy that has gone from being productive and selling things to selling Xerox copies of things — which doesn't require men."
"Everyone goes to college because it's time to go to college. Don't do that."
Brian and Alison on why men are leaving the workforce, and on a paper that measures it without ever asking the obvious question. The finding they land on: boys opt out by watching men as a class rather than their own fathers, the effect survives moving across state lines, and adult exposure does nothing at all — coefficients indistinguishable from zero. Alison's argument is that nobody studying this will look at the one variable that would explain it, which is men being recast from providers into oppressors.
Sources:
thehill.com/opinion/congress-blog/labor/5972127-crisis-american-men-employment
nber.org/papers/w35327
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Chapters:
0:00 Cold open
2:27 Welcome & tonight's topic
5:25 Patriarchy's academic origins
9:27 Reading the Hill article
19:35 Beliefs versus observed reality
29:03 Super chats & Marxism jabs
32:32 Why college isn't worth it
38:06 Purpose vs money at work
48:49 Comments & the smash patriarchy party
55:13 Reading the NBER paper
1:06:46 Feminist academia's confirmation bias
1:26:22 Dissecting the labor paper's claims
1:39:08 Rape genetics & evolution debate
1:47:38 Alison's internet drops & sign-off
"Marx says work is the site of oppression, and radical feminists say the person who doesn't work but gains the benefit of the wage earner is the one who's oppressed. So is earning a wage oppression, or is not earning a wage oppression?"
"You're dealing with an economy that has gone from being productive and selling things to selling Xerox copies of things — which doesn't require men."
"Everyone goes to college because it's time to go to college. Don't do that."
Brian and Alison on why men are leaving the workforce, and on a paper that measures it without ever asking the obvious question. The finding they land on: boys opt out by watching men as a class rather than their own fathers, the effect survives moving across state lines, and adult exposure does nothing at all — coefficients indistinguishable from zero. Alison's argument is that nobody studying this will look at the one variable that would explain it, which is men being recast from providers into oppressors.
Sources:
thehill.com/opinion/congress-blog/labor/5972127-crisis-american-men-employment
nber.org/papers/w35327
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Brian - youtube.com/channel/UCkcDcML9oLV9oVat54Qp7uw
Hannah - youtube.com/channel/UC_7Bt0vnvdJqAwF8Ow8iT0g
Prim Reaper - youtube.com/user/Aceticacidplease
Karen - youtube.com/user/girlwriteswhat
Alison - youtube.com/user/Genderratic
Anna - youtube.com/user/AnnaCherryOnTop
Mike - youtube.com/user/DoctorRandomercam
Aydin - youtube.com/channel/UCUowFWIWGw6Pv2JqfEj8njQ
Deborah Powney - youtube.com/channel/UC3DOT_N7Ib0Pwi4m4XbX04A
Chapters:
0:00 Cold open
2:27 Welcome & tonight's topic
5:25 Patriarchy's academic origins
9:27 Reading the Hill article
19:35 Beliefs versus observed reality
29:03 Super chats & Marxism jabs
32:32 Why college isn't worth it
38:06 Purpose vs money at work
48:49 Comments & the smash patriarchy party
55:13 Reading the NBER paper
1:06:46 Feminist academia's confirmation bias
1:26:22 Dissecting the labor paper's claims
1:39:08 Rape genetics & evolution debate
1:47:38 Alison's internet drops & sign-off
