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s04e48 | What Feminism Gets Wrong About Men, with Janice Fiamengo

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Why Do Some Arguments Work for Women but They Don't Work for Men?

Suffering of ordinary men is not of interest to our society at all. It is ignored. The only time that men's sex is identified is when they're doing something bad and then it is identified. So empathy is always leached away from men in cases where they suffer or harmed. But condemnation and blame is targeted at men when they do something wrong. And it's the opposite for women. When women do something wrong, they're either excused or in some way, you know, what they've done wrong is minimized. We don't want to look at the fact of female evil. That's why the anti-feminist position is the radical notion that women are adults.

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