#346: UPenn Law Professor Says Radical Feminism Has Made Women ‘Dumber’

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🗓️ 23 November 2018

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Has “radical feminism” been bad for women? University of Pennsylvania Law School Professor Amy Wax argues a resounding yes. “Radical feminism has had a baleful influence on college campuses, and on women’s education, in all sorts of ways,” she said. “It's really made them dumber.”In this week’s edition of The Daily Signal’s “Problematic Women” podcast, Kelsey Harkness interviews Wax on free speech, gender roles, #MeToo, and “radical feminism.” Wax talks about the dangers of young women taking offense “at remarks that really are not meant to be offensive,” and the left’s constant search to “find sexism under every rock.”In addition to having a bachelor’s degree from Yale College, a medical degree from Harvard University, and a law degree from Columbia Law School, Wax has argued 15 cases before the Supreme Court on behalf of the Justice Department. Listen to today’s podcast to hear her take on free speech, #MeToo, and modern-day feminism.The Daily Signal podcast is available on Ricochet, iTunes, SoundCloud, Google Play, or Stitcher. All of our podcasts can be found at DailySignal.com/podcasts. If you like what you hear, please leave a review. You can also leave us a message at 202-608-6205 or write us at letters@dailysignal.com. Enjoy the show! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is the Daily Signal Podcast for Friday, November 23rd. Hope you're recovering from your Thanksgiving
0:11.2	dinner and aren't too full. Maybe you're up doing a
0:13.3	marathon or something crazy. Who am I kidding? Anyway, for today's episode we're
0:17.6	going to turn it over to Kelsey Harkness. She's going to do an interview for a
0:21.9	special problematic women edition of the podcast.
0:28.8	Hello and welcome to a special edition of problematic women, a podcast where we're sitting down with Professor Amy Wax.
0:36.5	Amy Wax is a law professor at the University of Pennsylvania.
0:40.5	She addresses issues in social welfare, law, and policy as well as the relationship of the family, the workplace, and the labor markets.
0:47.5	She's a BS from Yale, an MD from Harvard Medical School, and a JD from Columbia Law School.
0:54.9	Her most recent book is Race, Rongs, and Remedies, Group Justice in the 21st century.
1:00.2	And fun fact, she has argued 15 cases before the US Supreme Court.
1:04.0	Amy, welcome to the show and I have to admit I'm a little intimidated in talking to you.
1:09.2	Well, don't be.
1:10.6	There are... Take a leave from my children's book. Don't be.
1:13.0	Take a leave from my children's book.
1:15.2	They're not the slightest, been intimidated.
1:18.6	Well, you have quite an impressive resume
1:20.5	and you have covered so many different issues throughout your career.
1:24.0	There's so much we could get into.
1:25.8	But first, I want to start out more in a personal note, getting to know you a little bit.
1:30.0	So the name of our podcast is problematic women.
1:33.6	And I want to ask, is that something you might identify with?
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