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The Ben Shapiro Show

Christina Hoff Sommers | The Ben Shapiro Show Sunday Special Ep. 18

The Ben Shapiro Show

The Daily Wire

News Commentary, News

4.4152.4K Ratings

🗓️ 9 September 2018

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Christina Hoff Sommers, aka the Factual Feminist, shatters feminists' most cherished beliefs, addressing the fiction of "toxic masculinity", the mythical "gender wage gap", and the rapid decline of the #MeToo movement on this episode of Ben Shapiro's Sunday Special. Date: 09-09-2018 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

I just can't view American women as a subordinate. I think it's a complicated mix for men and women of benefits and burdens. I don't think women are oppressed as women.

0:17.5

Well, here we are on this week's Sunday special with Christina Hoff Summers. You know her from the Femisplainers,

0:22.4

and also she is the factual feminist. She's over at American Enterprise Institute. We're going to get into all manners, various and sundry. But first, let's talk about the end of your life. You're going to die, and that means that you need life insurance. Life insurance is really important. It's also really confusing, no wonder if four out of ten people don't have it. Maybe you're one of those people,

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1:28.4

Well, Christina Hoffsummer, thanks so much for stopping by.

1:30.5

I really appreciate it.

1:31.3

Oh, I genius.com. Well, Christina Hoffsummer, thanks so much for stopping by. I really appreciate it. Oh, I'm so happy to be here. It infuses me with happiness because you're a happy person. So let's talk a little bit about your background. So for folks who don't know, Christina Hoffsummer, she's the feminist that feminists love to hate because you actually say factual things about males and females and sex differences and the hot topics today.

1:48.0

We'll get to all those hot topics.

1:49.0

But first, let's talk about how you got where you are politically because you weren't always conservative.

1:53.2

In fact, in some areas, you still don't consider yourself a conservative.

1:55.8

So how did you go from being kind of just an academic professor to being one of the most well-known foes of the modern

2:04.0

feminist movement? Well, I, first of all, I was brought up in L.A. not far from here. I went to

2:09.3

university high school in Brentwood. And I was very left-wing, and especially in high school,

2:21.3

I read the Communist Manifesto, and it all made sense.

2:22.3

It seems so right.

2:23.3

Of course, to each according to his need, from each according to his ability.

2:27.3

It was just kindness.

2:29.3

And so I was quite carried away with that for a while.

2:33.3

And then, I don't know, in college, I remain not a Marxist, but just my default mode was always liberal.

2:41.0

My parents, very, very liberal, bordering on communist.

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