meta_pixel
Tapesearch Logo
Log in
The Art of Manliness

#153: Microaggressions and The Rise of Victimhood Culture

The Art of Manliness

The Art of Manliness

Society & Culture, Education, Philosophy

4.714.5K Ratings

🗓️ 6 November 2015

⏱️ 57 minutes

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

In the last few years we've seen an interesting phenomenon, especially on college campuses, where students will take slights or even just awkwardness incredibly sensitively and emotionally. Two sociologists have gotten together -- Bradley Campbell and Jason Manning -- and published a paper and theory about why this "victimhood" culture has arisen on campuses. We talk about this paper, as well as honor, dignity, masculinity, and more.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0

I'm going to play a little bit more.

0:15.1

Brett McKay here and welcome to another edition of the Art of Manliness Podcast.

0:18.3

So if you spend some time on the internet, you've probably come across phrases like microaggressions

0:23.4

or trigger warnings or safe spaces and the like.

0:27.0

And it's really interesting.

0:28.0

You're seeing a lot on college campuses where basically you're seeing some segment of

0:33.2

the college population who are very sensitive emotionally to slights or even just awkward

0:39.2

social encounters and it triggers them psychologically or emotionally.

0:44.9

Two sociologists have gotten together, Bradley Campbell and Jason Manning and they recently

0:49.9

published a paper, a theory as to why this what they call victimhood culture has arisen

0:56.6

on college campuses.

0:58.2

It was really interesting.

0:59.4

So I had to have them on the show today on the podcast.

1:01.4

We discussed these various moral cultures.

1:04.4

We talk about honor and masculinity.

1:07.0

We talk about what makes up a dignity culture and we talk about why or why they think this

1:13.3

culture of victimhood is arising in our country and how it's a combination, a weird combination

1:19.0

of honor culture and dignity culture.

1:22.2

And we discussed some of the implications of this victimhood culture and what it means

1:26.1

for how we handle conflict within our society.

1:30.0

Really fascinating discussion, think you're going to enjoy it.

1:31.9

So without further ado, Bradley Campbell and Jason Manning and victimhood culture.

...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from The Art of Manliness, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of The Art of Manliness and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.

Copyright © Tapesearch 2025.