I checked out Ross Douthat’s  new podcast — or rather, The New York Times’ new podcast — because Douthat is fantastic and sensible and the ver

Feminisation - by Misha Saul - Kvetch

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2023-06-03 15:00:02

I checked out Ross Douthat’s new podcast — or rather, The New York Times’ new podcast — because Douthat is fantastic and sensible and the very best columnist writing today (BTW — his conversation on fantasy with the excellent Razib Khan is very fun). Whilst Douthat puts forward an explicit case for a conservative masculinity, that was not the most striking thing about the conversation. One woman said she did not believe in a biological basis for gender differences *and* that men were being failed by traditional masculinity — in the same breath. But that was also not the most striking thing about it. The most striking thing — to me — was the explicit discussion of feminisation as a social force.

Feminisation is now such a thing that the cultural gatekeepers at The New York Times hold it up as a reality to be discussed and understood.

I think I was relatively early to it (although many were years — decades? — ahead). For some (e.g. Yoko Ono) it was the whole point decades ago. Its broad and underrated ramifications have been percolating for a while and culminated in this conversation I had with Richard Hanania 2 years ago. So I’m sharing it again — I now have a much larger subscriber base. There’s more I’d say today, but I’ve left it as is. It sets up a few Kvetches I have coming up well.

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