137 - Conspiracy Theories, Hoaxes, and the Detransition Time Bomb with Wilfred Reilly
Gender: A Wider Lens
Sasha Ayad and Stella O'Malley
4.6 • 961 Ratings
🗓️ 20 October 2023
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
Stella & Sasha welcome Wilfred Reilly to the program for an intriguing conversation touching on gender and medicalization, political affiliations and extremism, violence and discrimination, societal myths and data analysis, and the impact of the internet on niche interests and mental health.
Wilfred Reilly is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Kentucky State University, a historically Black institution. His research interests include International Relations, contemporary American race and gender relations, and the use of modern quantitative/empirical methods to test ‘sacred cow’ theories.
In this episode, they delve into the issues surrounding gender, addressing concerns about youth and gender transition for children. They explore the challenges of obtaining reliable statistics on detransitioning and the difficulties in conducting research in the field of gender due to ideological biases. The conversation underscores the role of media bias and the evolving landscape of identity, alluding to the potential consequences of the medicalization of gender-related issues and the need for more open discussion and data collection considering that even academic studies are sometimes targeted and obstructed by activists.
The discussion also touches on the broader issues of ideological extremism and its implications for society. Wilfred shares his insights into debunking misconceptions related to topics like police violence and discrimination. He also shares about instances of fake hate crimes on college campuses, shedding light on how seemingly innocuous events were misconstrued and magnified, highlighting the prevalence of victimization and the consequences of seeking attention through such incidents. Sasha raises concerns about the impact of such ideological paranoia on people's mental health and interpersonal relationships while Wilfred draws parallels between this ideological extremism and traditional religious beliefs, suggesting that both can lead to a level of paranoia and fear. This conversation offers no shortage of intriguing stories that challenge common narratives and assumptions.
Links:
Attend Genspect’s: The Bigger Picture
https://genspect.org/the-bigger-picture-continues-denver-colorado/
Wilfred Reilly on Twitter
https://twitter.com/wil_da_beast630
Buy Wilfred Reilly’s Books
Lies My Liberal Teacher Told Me
https://www.amazon.com/Lies-My-Liberal-Teacher-Told-ebook/dp/B0BDZMZJ4C
Taboo: 10 Facts You Can't Talk About
https://www.amazon.com/Taboo-Facts-Cant-Talk-About/dp/162157928X
Hate Crime Hoax: How the Left is Selling a Fake Race War
https://www.amazon.com/Hate-Crime-Hoax-Lefts-Campaign/dp/1621577783
The $50,000,000 Question: An Engagingly Empirical Examination of the Relationship between "Privilege" and Pride
https://www.amazon.com/000-Question-Engagingly-Examination-Relationship/dp/3659846031
Why the Mental Health of Liberal Girls Sank First and Fastest
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| 0:13.8 | Hi, Sesha. Today's episode was very interesting. Yeah, we had Wilfred Riley on and he's actually going to be speaking at the Gen Specked conference in a couple of weeks in November, and his talk is called the D-transition time bomb. Yeah and the thing about Wilfred Riley is that he has |
| 0:21.0 | a really wide view of things. He's coming at gender with a very much |
| 0:25.9 | the social scientist and political scientist looking at the bigger picture around |
| 0:31.8 | left wing, right wing group politics he's coming from it from such a |
| 0:37.7 | different perspective than we're used to you know psychology and things like that |
| 0:41.2 | it's a completely different diet and it's very refreshing to look at gender in that way. |
| 0:46.0 | Yeah, and it's interesting because we often talk about how there's so little |
| 0:50.1 | detailed information about detransition in the stats. |
| 0:53.4 | But Wilfred kind of starts, I guess it's a teaser for the Gen Inspect. |
| 0:57.2 | He starts explaining the way we can actually use the numbers that we do have |
| 1:01.4 | from online surveys and Reddit communities to kind of predict and |
| 1:04.4 | estimate what these numbers will look like and it is going to be a time bomb. |
| 1:08.9 | And another thing that we end up talking about today is the way that a kind of religious mindset of believing that |
| 1:17.0 | there's only one true way to do things leads to extremism on both the right and the left and we kind of give some examples of how this shows up and it's very very interesting so we hope everyone will enjoy it. |
| 1:31.0 | If you enjoy our content, don't forget to bang the what's the word hit |
| 1:35.1 | smash the subscribe button isn't that what they say on YouTube and yeah anybody who is going tora, I can't wait to see you there. I think it's going to be very exciting. |
| 1:46.1 | This is an amazing lineup. And Wilfred's bio is kind of funny because he wrote it himself to test whether or not Amazon actually does check it and indeed |
| 1:55.2 | it seems they don't so I'll just read you straight from Wilfred's mouth. |
| 1:59.5 | Wilfred Raleigh is an associate professor of political Science at Kentucky State University and the author of the books, |
| 2:05.7 | Taboo, Ten Facts You Can't Talk About, Hate Crime Hokes, and The 50 Million Dollar Question. |
| 2:12.0 | He's currently finishing up the project lies my woke teacher told me as well |
| 2:17.5 | as sketching out a book looking at transgender gender fluid and other kin communities, and the idea of flexible identities. |
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