Militant feminist Jody Allard is back at it. After writing a piece essentially calling her sons complicit in rape culture, after I offered one of her sons an internship. By the way, he sent a resume. He withdrew her late last week for an internship for unspecified reasons. Allard has now written a follow-up attempting to explain herself. She wants to explain why writing nasty things about her children is not, quote-unquote, abusive. First, she explains, people are misinterpreting

the terms rape culture and toxic masculinity. She doesn't mean that all men are potential rapists.

She only means that society promulgates the belief that women are to blame for sexual violence

and misogyny while normalizing sexual violence and aggression. She also says toxic masculinity,

it only means that society has visions of masculinity that are toxic.

Yes, that is much better, Jody. I am sure your sons will be very, very grateful for your clarification.

Then she moves on to her explanation about why she would invoke her own sons in attacking these pernicious

structures. Here's what she writes. Quote, with those definitions out of the way, it should be clear that discussing how particular men, even my children, absorb these cultural ideas, is in no way abusing them. Well, she did a little bit more than that. Her original piece said this about her own sons, quote, I don't feel emotionally safe with them and perhaps never have with a man, but it needs to be said because far too often we are afraid to say it. Those little boys grow into men who know the value of women, the value that's been ascribed to us by a broken system, and it seeps out from them in a million, tiny, toxic ways. According to Allard, though, she's just educating her kids in the pages of the nation's largest newspapers, said, I encourage my sons to reflect on their own cultural indoctrination into racism, sexism, ableism, et cetera, without shame. Without shame? In the pages

of the Washington Post, she wrote, direct quote, my sons are part of the problem. That is not

education. That is public shaming. She then reiterates her central contention that men always make

women feel emotionally unsafe, which is kind of weird, given the functioning relationships between billions of men and women in the history of the planet. But Allard contends, quote, the heartbreaking part is that even good men can't be fully or completely safe for women, even when there are our own flesh and blood. She concludes, quote, there's no doubt that writing about this journey opens my family up to examination and criticism.

However, it's a bit absurd to suggest that my sons are the ones bearing the burden,

except that they are, which is presumably why one of her son sent me a resume,

even if you later withdrew from consideration.

I'm Ben Shapiro. This is the Ben Shapiro show.

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