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Ep. 2388 The Weird Founders of Feminism

The Tom Woods Show

Tom Woods

Politics, Economics, Libertarian, Government, News

4.83.3K Ratings

🗓️ 7 September 2023

⏱️ 38 minutes

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We often hear it said that feminism had noble origins that mysteriously degenerated into the more absurd forms it takes today. Is it possible that something was rotten about it from the start? Carrie Gress joins us to discuss several early feminist thinkers and the biographical and intellectual details that the usual story excludes. Book Discussed:

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0:00.0

The Tom Woods Show, Episode 2388.

0:03.4

Prepare to set fire to the index card of allowable opinion.

0:08.0

Your daily dose of liberty education starts here.

0:11.6

The Tom Woods Show.

0:14.5

Hey everybody, Tom Woods here, and I'm delighted to welcome you to yet another episode of

0:18.5

the Tom Woods Show, Episode 2388, with Carrie Grass, who is a fellow at the Ethics and Public

0:24.0

Policy Center. We're going to be talking about her book, The End of Woman. I've got it

0:28.1

right here. See now that I have video, I can actually, let's say, where's the camera? Hold it up.

0:31.8

The End of Woman House, smashing the patriarchy has destroyed us. You have a PhD in, what is it?

0:37.1

In philosophy, actually. Oh wow. And is it from Catholic you?

0:41.3

Yeah, that's where I got it. I bet that was pretty rigorous.

0:44.7

Oh man, you don't know the half of it. Yeah, it was made all the more rigorous too because I was

0:49.1

having children while I was doing it. So it was just crazy things like the elevators don't work,

0:53.7

and I had an infant with me, and you know, you can't get books from the stacks with a baby.

0:58.1

Oh gosh, get out of here.

1:00.0

You need intense. Yeah.

1:01.2

Well, obviously we have a very provocative book here to talk about, but can you just,

1:04.9

I'm always curious when I talk to people with PhDs, what did you do your dissertation on?

1:08.7

Do you mind if I just ask that?

1:10.3

Yeah, well, I actually almost did too. I started one, and then my director moved to universities,

1:16.0

and I wasn't deep enough in. I'd been learning Polish actually because I was initially going to write

1:20.4

on Caravotea. Anyway, my advisor left, and so I had to start over, and I just decided to go with

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