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The Michael Knowles Show

Ep. 256 - The End Of Feminism

The Michael Knowles Show

The Michael Knowles Show

News Commentary, News

4.828.7K Ratings

🗓️ 21 November 2018

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Twitter bans a feminist writer for hate speech after she wrote, "Men aren't women." We will explain why the Left can have transgenderism or feminism, but not both. Then, the real story of Thanksgiving. Finally, the Mailbag! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:28.8

Blasther's day, feminist writer and podcaster Megan Murphy tweeted her observation that men aren't women.

0:35.8

Twitter promptly suspended Murphy for hate speech. As somebody who's been banned from Twitter for

0:41.1

making completely innocuous statements before I feel for Murphy, she is now experiencing as a leftist,

0:47.6

the same targeting and censorship that big tech companies inflict on conservatives on a daily basis.

0:53.1

But I cannot help but feel just a teeny tiny supremely satisfying tinge of Shadon Freude

1:00.7

as the left's ideological chickens come home to roost. The problem is clear. The left can have

1:07.0

transgenderism or feminism, but it can't have both. Murphy correctly observes that transgender

1:13.1

ideology, which believes that gender is fluid and socially constructed, undermines feminism,

1:18.7

which advocates the advancement of women, a real and essential gender category. What Murphy

1:24.0

doesn't seem to understand, however, is that the root of this new, sensorious, anti-woman ideology

1:30.0

of transgenderism lies in feminism itself. First wave feminists of the 18th and 19th century,

1:37.3

women like Mary Wollstonecraft and Elizabeth Cady Stanton acknowledged and celebrated the differences

1:43.3

between the sexes. Both of them were married. Elizabeth Cady Stanton actually was married to the

1:48.0

co-founder of the Republican Party, just a little aside. They didn't hate men, they didn't hate

1:53.1

the natural differences between men and women. By the 1960s, however, radical feminists of the

1:58.4

second wave, women like Shulameth Firestone, rejected the complementarity of the sexes.

2:03.9

Shulameth Firestone called the love between men and women, the single greatest impediment to women's

2:08.9

liberation. And she sought to deconstruct gender categories altogether. In this very extreme view,

2:15.2

sexual difference necessarily impedes equality. Therefore, no distinction between men and women

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