My Escaped Sapiens Podcast
Here’s my new podcast with Shane Farnsworth for Escaped Sapiens. Focused on Don’t Be a Feminist, but wide-ranging and full of novel questions. Enjoy!
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Points that I found interesting or thought provoking that I've not heard from Bryan before in the interview:
1:50: Shane points out that issues that uniquely affect women are framed as women's issues (e.g. forced hijabs in Iran) but that issues that uniquely affect men are not framed as men's issues (e.g. men being conscripted into armies).
8:50-11:57: Bryan suggests that the aforementioned issue of overlooking men / prioritizing women has existed independently of feminism (e.g. women and children first), but that feminism has amplified it.
36:20: Bryan points out that if men lived several years longer than women on average, that that would most probably be listed as a problem to be rectified, with strident questions about whether the cause was truly just biological, but given the opposite reality, such concerns are not raised.
57:10-58:10: Bryan says that the reason why the norm shifted from households with a single earner in the mid 20th century to households with 2 earners in the 21st century, is that modern people don't want to live with mid-century standards of living, as far as housing, frequency eating out, etc.
59:00 Bryan quotes Cowen as stating that for many low-income workers, their job may be the best part of their lives; an island of productive order in what is sometimes a sea of chaos.
1:24:00: Bryan begrudgingly agreed to allow his wife to have his daughter's ears pierced. Nevertheless had misgivings about it, although the procedure is not as problematic as circumcision.