17: Anna Khachiyan - Reconstructing The Mystical Feminine From The Ashes Of “The Feminine Mystique”

The Portal

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Science, Society & Culture, Education

4.7 • 7.1K Ratings

🗓️ 21 December 2019

⏱️ 140 minutes

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Somewhere on the road between Stalingrad and Forever21, something essential got misplaced amidst the bathos. Eric works through a bottle of Red wine on air with social, literary and artistic theorist Anna Khachiyan (co-host of the explosive and popular Red Scare podcast) to find out what is brewing on the anti-woke Left among the intellectual daughters of Camille Paglia. Anna takes us through her project of the reconstructed feminine combining irreverent intellectual dominance with a return to valuing motherhood informed by her claims on Soviet & American heritage. The intellectual foundation of the intersectional “oppression Olympics” and reparations discussion is further dissected amidst the twin specters of the Armenian & Jewish genocides which mysteriously appear not to register at all with today’s progressives.

No puppies were eaten during this podcast, but an ambient trigger warning is otherwise in order for those with exquisite sensitivities. Caveat emptor and welcome to the Grand Finale of the inaugural year of “The Portal.”

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0:00.0	Hello, you found the portal. I'm your host, Eric Weinstein, and I'm lucky to be here
0:13.9	tonight with Anna, and here it comes Hachin. Thanks for having me. Oh, did I screw that
0:20.2	up? No, no, no, no, that's right. And Anna is half of the up-and-coming podcast Red
0:27.2	Scare, which has everyone talking. Everyone. Not everyone. I'm exaggerating slightly. Yeah. Yeah. But
0:34.9	it's a I just got introduced to you by a colleague of mine, Blake Masters, Peter Tears co-author. And
0:42.9	I've been addicted to your podcast, not quite understanding why it's one of the strangest things
0:48.0	I've ever found. Can you say more about what induced you to do it and why you think it might be
0:53.0	working? I have no clue why it's working. I know that it's probably due to some sort of
1:00.2	alchemical, inarticulable thing that's totally out of my control. That has something to do with
1:07.4	my chemistry with my co-host. He's an actress called Dawson Acrosiva. But I think maybe it's
1:15.6	struck a chord. I know that it consistently infuriates all the wrong people, which was never my
1:22.2	intention. So innocent. Yeah. And that's so beautiful. But it's also not entirely believable,
1:28.8	because it does seem like what you're doing is you're crowding out a certain kind of piousness.
1:36.7	And we had an epic lunch the other day. Yeah. We did. We had what they call it power lunch.
1:41.7	Is that a power lunch? Yeah. Yeah. Okay. I just learned at the last minute that this podcast is
1:47.8	being filmed, because I was telling Eric here that the way that we run ours is like a bunch of
1:53.7	wires and craps strewn on the floor, like chain smoking. Dawson literally sits on the ground,
2:00.0	objectifying herself at every turn. And I sit on my disgusting, stained, and cigarette burned
2:07.4	couch. But this is my bad side. And I wish I was more of a diva like Mariah Carey and could
2:14.1	demand that we switched seats. Really? Yeah. No, I'm kidding. I'm being hyperbolic.
2:20.0	Well, and we always pick up the syringes before the guest. Anyway, what was the question?
2:26.8	Well, the question surrounds what I was going to get at is that we had this bit of a riff where I've
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