This interview pretty much lines up with my aggregate experience with feminists in the real world.
This individual comes off more psychopath than philosopher. And by psychopath, I mean:
“Psychopathy is a mental health condition characterized by persistent antisocial behavior, impaired empathy and remorse, and bold, disinhibited, and egotis…
This interview pretty much lines up with my aggregate experience with feminists in the real world.
This individual comes off more psychopath than philosopher. And by psychopath, I mean:
“Psychopathy is a mental health condition characterized by persistent antisocial behavior, impaired empathy and remorse, and bold, disinhibited, and egotistical traits.”
Her quarter-million dollar education has developed her into a Marxist-feminist utopian seeking anti humanist. The issue I run into when listening to her, is being able to understand where that worldview is both:
a.) Attainable
and
b.) Desirable for all, or rather more desirable than our current model of society
Look I’ve only got a public school and university education so I know I’m missing something here, but it just seems to me like she came off as the epitome of an intellectual snob in this interview. Am I being too judgmental?
Tyler Cowan, bless his heart, does an exceptional job in staying on his line of questioning, defending his ideas, and making insightful inquiries. His guest, on the other hand, seems to wear her ideals on her sleeve and take umbrage with almost every thing he asks. Feels like she’s not acting in good faith because she doesn’t believe he is either (though I would venture that his tone, diction, and general demeanor would suggest that he is not a threat).
But then again, what do I know?
So now I ask you, TFP Comments Section:
In answering Bari’s call to listen to someone I disagree with, and coming out more opposed to her ideals than when I began, have I misunderstood the assignment? Do I lack the empathy I criticized this philosopher of lacking and in fact hold the same narcissism she does? Am I just the mirror of her?
Jesus Christo.....thank you for your comment! I couldn't get through five minutes of her banging heads with the interviewer on basic premises. Just awful.
I think it’s illustrative because it demonstrates her shallowness. This is a highly credentialed, mainstream academic who sounds very intelligent. This is not someone on Tumblr.
But even though this had to me one of the most softball interviews Tyler has ever done, she totally failed. Half of his questions, she literally says something like “I don’t like this question so I’ll just answer a totally different one”. She undermines her own arguments, flails around at strawmen, it’s just a catastrophic intellectual failure on her part.
Which I think is very informative to someone who isn’t involved in academia and thinks that there is a separation between the serious academics and the non-professional online activists. Or someone who thinks that “wokeness” came out of nowhere. Or the subset of people who think that Ibram Kendi and Chase Strangio are insane but that feminism is not like that at all. To any of those people, listening to this interview should lead them to a more cynical, but more accurate worldview.
The other thing you get out of it is that one can be extremely pro-woman (as Tyler is to a fault) but also not toe the line with academic feminism.
This interview pretty much lines up with my aggregate experience with feminists in the real world.
This individual comes off more psychopath than philosopher. And by psychopath, I mean:
“Psychopathy is a mental health condition characterized by persistent antisocial behavior, impaired empathy and remorse, and bold, disinhibited, and egotistical traits.”
Her quarter-million dollar education has developed her into a Marxist-feminist utopian seeking anti humanist. The issue I run into when listening to her, is being able to understand where that worldview is both:
a.) Attainable
and
b.) Desirable for all, or rather more desirable than our current model of society
Look I’ve only got a public school and university education so I know I’m missing something here, but it just seems to me like she came off as the epitome of an intellectual snob in this interview. Am I being too judgmental?
Tyler Cowan, bless his heart, does an exceptional job in staying on his line of questioning, defending his ideas, and making insightful inquiries. His guest, on the other hand, seems to wear her ideals on her sleeve and take umbrage with almost every thing he asks. Feels like she’s not acting in good faith because she doesn’t believe he is either (though I would venture that his tone, diction, and general demeanor would suggest that he is not a threat).
But then again, what do I know?
So now I ask you, TFP Comments Section:
In answering Bari’s call to listen to someone I disagree with, and coming out more opposed to her ideals than when I began, have I misunderstood the assignment? Do I lack the empathy I criticized this philosopher of lacking and in fact hold the same narcissism she does? Am I just the mirror of her?
Bari. Send help. I’ve gone existential.
Jesus Christo.....thank you for your comment! I couldn't get through five minutes of her banging heads with the interviewer on basic premises. Just awful.
I think it’s illustrative because it demonstrates her shallowness. This is a highly credentialed, mainstream academic who sounds very intelligent. This is not someone on Tumblr.
But even though this had to me one of the most softball interviews Tyler has ever done, she totally failed. Half of his questions, she literally says something like “I don’t like this question so I’ll just answer a totally different one”. She undermines her own arguments, flails around at strawmen, it’s just a catastrophic intellectual failure on her part.
Which I think is very informative to someone who isn’t involved in academia and thinks that there is a separation between the serious academics and the non-professional online activists. Or someone who thinks that “wokeness” came out of nowhere. Or the subset of people who think that Ibram Kendi and Chase Strangio are insane but that feminism is not like that at all. To any of those people, listening to this interview should lead them to a more cynical, but more accurate worldview.
The other thing you get out of it is that one can be extremely pro-woman (as Tyler is to a fault) but also not toe the line with academic feminism.