The Tom Woods Show, episode 669.

Prepare to set fire to the index card of allowable opinion.

Your daily dose of liberty education starts here, the Tom Woods Show.

Hey, everybody, Tom Woods here.

We're talking today about this whole rape culture thing, and we're talking about it with Wendy McElroy, who's the author of a brand new book on this very subject, called Rape Culture Hysteria, fixing the damage done to men and women.

Wendy McElroy has written many books over the years.

She's a well-known libertarian.

She describes herself as an individualist feminist. She's a well-known libertarian. She describes herself as an individualist

feminist. She has a weekly column at foxnews.com, and she joins us today to talk about this

increasingly important topic. Wendy, welcome to the show. Thank you so much for having me.

What a provocative book this is, but yet so sadly necessary. So I just told

people about it, gave them the whole title. Now, I guess this has been going on for some time.

Was there a breaking point where you said, all right, that's it. I've got to write a book about

this. What made you just say, enough is enough? I think it was cumulative. There was no one breaking point, but if I were to identify a point that I made that decision,

it was at a university debate I had at Brown with Jessica Valenti,

who was being key in developing the whole rape culture, psychology, and politics.

That was just, the empress had no clothes.

I sat there and I looked at it the audience of what should be Ivy League students.

And I realized that they could not process beyond the dogma of what they

had been taught, very simple concepts.

And it wasn't that I got upset because of the protests, because as many debates are, it was on on this subject it was surrounded by a great deal of

controversy including the university president coming out and denouncing me beforehand and the

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