Hello and welcome to serious inquiries only. This is episode 511. I'm Thomas. And that over there is Lydia storming the gates again. Again. You can't get rid of me. Mm-hmm. I know. I'm here once in a while. Female privilege, am I right? Come over, take over a podcast. God, you've been talking so much, too. Yeah. She won't stop. I won't shut up. You can't make me. Boy, we're going to lose the audience here.

This episode is about sexism.

Yes.

As demonstrated, bye.

A little demonstration like it's a video for like fifth graders or something.

Yeah, or like a work harassment video.

Yeah, yeah, exactly.

Yeah, we do a lot of those in our spare time. I'm very good at them. So I saw this story initially, you know, it's been like a month now-ish. And then I, the follow-up, don't worry, we'll tell everyone we're talking about in a sec, but the follow-up came just a few, yeah, we're going to do the whole thing without any of the proper nouns, and you've got to figure it out.

The final kind of, well, final.

The follow-up came a couple days ago, I think, the final statement that matters.

And it just was another example of like, I just want every, if I could do anything with my platform, especially with all we've seen with the Blake

lively stuff and like just how unquenchable the thirst for hating women is in the world online.

Burn them at the stake. Witches. Always witches. There's different degrees, obviously. I don't think

that means every single person in their daily life hates women. It's not about that. It's just like a couple of thoughts in my head. For one, it's just, this is so clear and it's just so, it's something that I just want people to see. I just want you to notice it. Like I always imagine in my head, like the person I'm trying to convince, I guess, of stuff. And I feel like probably most of the audience is likely going to be already on our side. But I'm always thinking of like the person I want to convince, you know, that person who just like doesn't see kind of the more systemic issues. Name them. I'm just kidding. Yeah. I don't know their name. That's the issue. We don't. we sort so much that we don't, you know, that's why I still hang out in that anti-Blake subreddit

to try to like talk to people sometimes. I can't believe you have the stomach for that. The point is the fact that we lost the election in 24 continues to be one of the worst things that's ever happened to the entire world. You know, like it's up there.

I mean, not yet, but in terms of like the downstream effects, you know, it's getting there. It's getting worse and worse. And who knows how bad it'll be. And so much of it just seems like, you know, the stuff we've talked about. They've won on these culture war issues in a lot of ways. I think we're, I think we're pulling some of that back, but I worry that

if it's just about the guy at the top doing stuff that no one likes, once he goes away,

the problem will still be there. You know what I mean? I don't mean to say that Trump isn't

uniquely terrible. He is, but I do think the underlying information environment and biases that

we're trying to deal deal, like so much of

our work is trying to deal with, we're still losing. We still need to fight that fight.

And I think that's also demonstrated by like when you look at voting blocks that were

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