Premium: The Weaponization of Female Empathy with Dr. Leor Sapir
Gender: A Wider Lens
Sasha Ayad and Stella O'Malley
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🗓️ 17 February 2024
⏱️ 2 minutes
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Summary
Exploring the parallels between the fervor surrounding gender medicine and the hysteria of recovered memory syndrome from the 1990s, both phenomena share a common anchor in the likely resistance of influential figures, like clinicians, therapists and even stake-holders like parents, to change their stance due to personal, reputational, or legal consequences.
Read more from Leor about this in his City Journal article linked here:
A notable distinction between the two phenomena is the extensive institutional capture entwined with gender medicine, a dynamic that didn't quite manifest during the recovered memory craze.
But interestingly, as you will hear in this bonus episode for premium subscribers, Leor describes a shared thread that fuels momentum and peaks cultural interests behind both movements - the ongoing internal tensions within feminism and the diverse voices within the feminist spectrum emerging on all sides of each movement.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Gender A Wider Lens exclusive content. If you're a free listener, what you're about to hear is a preview of a bonus episode for our paid sub-stack subscribers. |
| 0:11.0 | If you'd like to hear the rest, go to widerlands pod.com and sign up for any of our paid membership |
| 0:16.8 | options. |
| 0:17.8 | And to all of our premium and founding member subscribers, thank you for the support. And here's the bonus conversation. |
| 0:26.0 | So we're back with Leor Sapir and right before we |
| 0:30.0 | closed off our full episode, we were talking about the parallels with the |
| 0:33.8 | repressed memory syndrome and the Stella mentioned the founding at the time of |
| 0:38.9 | the false memory syndrome foundation, which I think has a lot of parallels to the parent groups that we see popping up now. |
| 0:46.4 | So I think you had something to say about that or some other topic. |
| 0:50.7 | Well, just that I don't, I don't know, I mean, look, there are some people who still believe in recovered memory. |
| 0:58.0 | And there are. Who believe, yeah. I mean, we're not beyond the scandal the scandal yet right I think that's the same |
| 1:05.0 | or I think there's going to be the same in 30 years there'll be people who believe |
| 1:08.8 | 100% yeah we're never going to get past it but it, but it's definitely going to reach a peak and then right. |
| 1:15.8 | It's going to reach a peak and then it's going to decline significantly, probably under the weight of |
| 1:21.6 | good investigative journalism and lawsuits and all that kind of stuff. |
| 1:26.4 | But there's going to be holdouts. |
| 1:27.6 | There's going to be people who, I mean in the case of gender medicine, the holdouts, I mean I've written about this for City Journal, the |
| 1:35.5 | holdouts are going to be of course parents are medicalized their kids, there's no way |
| 1:38.8 | they're ever going to admit that they harm their kids and I don't blame them. |
| 1:41.4 | I would never be able to admit that to myself either I'm a human being and it's well known that there's a |
| 1:46.9 | parents in the UK who are pivotal pivotal in bringing in all sorts of gender laws and policies who were parents of children. |
| 1:57.0 | Of course, of course because they have to. |
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