How "Reactionary Feminism" Infiltrated the Mainstream
Diabolical Lies
Katie Gatti Tassin & Caro Claire Burke
4.8 • 607 Ratings
🗓️ 29 December 2024
⏱️ 142 minutes
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Summary
Feminism is in the midst of an identity crisis: What is feminism? What does it mean to “be a feminist”? The gap has created an opening for a few media-savvy writers and thinkers to refashion the movement in their own image: a “women’s rights” movement that uses anti-capitalist language to make things like unprotected sex and unpaid labor look like liberation.
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| 0:00.0 | Today's episode of Diabolical Lies is brought to you by you, the listeners. |
| 0:05.7 | Thank you to all of our listeners for being here, for sharing the show, for commenting on the episodes on Substack, and to our paid supporters, our dirty pack of liars. |
| 0:15.1 | Thank you for making it possible, if unpleasant, to spend so much time on right-wing internet. |
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| 0:28.4 | This review is simply labeled Decay. |
| 0:31.8 | Caro, I am going to share my screen with you, and I would like you to read the review that inspired this episode. |
| 0:39.6 | I genuinely tune into this podcast to observe just how brainwashed and out of touch these two |
| 0:45.2 | women are. It gives me plenty of material to discuss with my friends read Pet Ferrets about their |
| 0:51.4 | delusion while also inspiring me to explore ways to counter their narratives |
| 0:55.7 | and find ways to dismantle feminism. And that's on creating shareholder value band. That's on |
| 1:03.4 | value proposition. It's why we're out here. So you can impress your friends with your knowledge, |
| 1:09.2 | own the woke libs. No, but it actually got me |
| 1:13.0 | thinking. I was like, I wonder what it is about feminism that this person is so eager to dismantle. |
| 1:19.0 | Like, what is feminism? Or maybe what isn't feminism? And I thought, fuck it. Let's give her a |
| 1:24.8 | roadmap. Let's do it. Let's do a roadmap episode for is it feminism. What do you think? Today, I want to take you into the mirror world of reactionary feminism. Okay. What do you know, do you know anything about reactionary feminism? Does that phrase mean anything to you? |
| 1:40.5 | No, it means absolutely nothing to me, but I was going to try to sound smart and say, |
| 1:44.9 | ah, yes, reactionary feminism. Okay, so we talk all the time about these sort of obviously |
| 1:52.7 | dumb arguments about feminism that have infiltrated popular media, popular sentiment. But today, |
| 2:00.0 | what I want to do is explore where those ideas actually |
| 2:03.7 | originated. Like, let's go back to the academic roots of those ideas to figure out where they |
| 2:10.1 | are coming from so that we can deconstruct them at that level in something, I don't know, |
| 2:16.2 | akin to good faith. I'm not going to say it's |
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