The Infallible Female Phenomenon, Feminism and Patriarchy – Dr. Carrie Gress, 4/20/26 (1103)
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🗓️ 20 April 2026
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
Dr. Carrie Gress, author, “Something Wicked”
How Feminism Created An Insufferable Class Of Supposedly ‘Infallible Females’
Hamnet and the Quiet Triumph of the Christian Patriarchy
Something Wicked: Why Feminism Can’t Be Fused with Christianity
The End of Woman
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| 0:00.0 | This is Molly Hemingway, encouraging you to listen to my favorite podcast, issues, etc. |
| 0:07.3 | Every day you get in-depth interviews with host Todd Wilkin asking expert guests, substantive, thought-provoking questions on all of the important news and issues of our day. |
| 0:18.7 | The expert guests are in culture, law, ethics, philosophy, theology, |
| 0:23.1 | and apologetics. Expert guests? Expansive topics. Always extolling Christ. Issues, etc. We have all seen the social media clips from programs like The View, where a number of women sit around. |
| 0:50.3 | They opine on, well, everything, mostly politics nowadays. |
| 0:55.5 | And to question them is considered to be rude. |
| 0:59.6 | Now, if it were a panel of men, to question them would be considered, well, normal. |
| 1:04.8 | So what's going on here? |
| 1:06.7 | Welcome back to Issues Cedar. I'm Todd Wilkin, joining us to talk about two issues, |
| 1:11.3 | The Infallible Female Phenomenon and Feminism in the Patriarchy, Dr. Carey Gress, |
| 1:16.1 | a married mother of five children, a scholar at the Institute on Human Ecology at the Catholic |
| 1:20.2 | University of America, author of the new book, Something Wicked, Why Feminism Can't Be Fused |
| 1:24.6 | with Christianity, and recent columns, how feminism created an |
| 1:27.8 | insufferable class of supposedly infallible females and Hamnet and the quiet triumph of the |
| 1:34.3 | Christian patriarchy. |
| 1:36.4 | Dr. Gras, welcome back. |
| 1:38.4 | Thanks for having me. |
| 1:39.6 | How do you define infallible females? |
| 1:43.3 | I think they are women, particularly elite women in the |
| 1:47.0 | culture, but not exclusively, but largely women who have been left unchecked, |
| 1:52.0 | un fact-checked, and who have never received any kind of moral correction. So I think that |
| 1:58.0 | it started with elite women and it certainly trickled down to everyday women and large part because of feminism. |
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