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🗓️ 1 November 2025

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For the past half decade or more, conservative intellectuals have tried to answer the question: Where did woke come from? Some believe it is rebranded cultural Marxism. Others say it came from academia with the postmodern rejection of objective truth ultimately leading to the weaponization of culture. Maybe it came from the global corporations because woke is the ideology of the new managerial elite in late-stage neo-liberalism. But perhaps “woke” and its offspring like “cancel culture” came from something called “The Great Feminization.” Helen Andrews, author of “Boomers: The Men and Women Who Promised Freedom and Delivered Disaster,” recently wrote an essay called “The Great Feminization,” a term borrowed from the pseudonymous online writer J Stone, that explains how “woke” is “an epiphenomenon of demographic feminization.” She joins “The Signal Sitdown” this week to discuss. “We had a big fight called feminism in the 1970s over whether or not we thought women could be lawyers. And we decided that they could, and that's great,” Andrews explained. “But it took a long time to go from token representation of the kind that was achieved in the heyday of second wave feminism to what we have now.” Keep Up With The Daily Signal Sign up for our email newsletters:⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ https://www.dailysignal.com/email⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Subscribe to our other shows: The Tony Kinnett Cast: ⁠https://megaphone.link/THEDAILYSIGNAL2284199939⁠ The Signal Sitdown: ⁠https://megaphone.link/THEDAILYSIGNAL2026390376⁠ Problematic Women:⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠https://megaphone.link/THEDAILYSIGNAL7765680741⁠ Victor Davis Hanson: ⁠https://megaphone.link/THEDAILYSIGNAL9809784327⁠ Follow The Daily Signal: X:⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠https://x.com/intent/user?screen_name=DailySignal⁠ Instagram:⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ https://www.instagram.com/thedailysignal/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Facebook:⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ https://www.facebook.com/TheDailySignalNews/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Truth Social:⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ https://truthsocial.com/@DailySignal⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ YouTube:⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠https://www.youtube.com/dailysignal?sub_confirmation=1⁠ Subscribe on your favorite podcast platform and never miss an episode. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi, Bradley Devlin here, politics editor of The Daily Signal, and I'm excited to share this episode of my show with The Daily Signal Sitdown with you.
0:09.4	The Signal Sitdown is one of the Daily Signal's other podcasts, and each show I bring you inside the biggest battles in Washington, D.C., with some of the biggest names in politics.
0:20.7	So if you like what you hear today,
0:22.3	make sure you subscribe to the Signal Sitdown for weekly episodes. We'll see you there.
0:27.1	Wokeness tended to show up in the most unexpected places. I think the moment that I knew
0:32.1	wokeness was different than PC or any of the old previous iterations was when people started getting fired from NFL
0:40.0	teams or from NASCAR. Why is NASCAR displaying wokeness? You would think that would be the last
0:46.8	place you would want to look to find it. And it didn't seem really to be ideological at all.
0:53.2	The common pattern was feminization.
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1:20.7	Remember, it's your government, and together we'll expose how it really works and how to
1:24.4	affect real change.
1:26.2	Without further ado, here's the interview.
1:28.3	Helen Andrews, welcome to the Signal Sitdown.
1:30.5	Bradley Devlin, so happy to be here.
1:32.7	So you've been talking about a new theory of where woke and cancel culture comes from.
1:40.0	But for some reason, it has something to do with Larry Summers resigning as president of Harvard University in 2006.
1:48.8	Long before anybody ever heard the word woke. That's right. Larry Summers, well, the president of Harvard is always a very powerful person. But I think even by those standards, Larry Summers was an exceptionally powerful president of
2:03.0	Harvard. He had been in the Clinton cabinet. He had been at the World Bank. He was one of the most
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