Talking Feminism in Poland
A great interview with a future star
This June, Instytut Wiedzy o Rodzinie i Społeczeństwie (“Institute of Family and Society Knowledge”), Poland’s main natalist organization, interviewed me for their girls’ channel*. Katarzynę Lachman talks to me about feminism, finding a good man, AI, the end of the world, “women’s tears,” and much more.
If she doesn’t become a major media figure in Poland and beyond I’ll be surprised. Katarzynę’s got the whole package of brains, knowledge, personality, curiosity, and star power. Plus she’s already an international fencing champion. If she asks to interview you, say Yes.
* The channel is called Piekna Dziewczyna, which translates to “Beautiful Girl,” with the subtitle “A place where girls pull themselves up.”
You said that you agree with Hanania that women's tears have too much power, because progress has to be doen by saying offensive things, and mentioned the theory of evolution as example. I'm stunned by this. Do you think women's tears would have stopped the theory of evolution?
Ultimately, what Hanania referred to was that you can't say blacks are more violent, trans are insane and women are illogical, that's what supposedly "in danger." But I don't see how this would hinder progress? Will AI progress not be made because you can't call trans insane on colleges? This is just absurd. And I don't see how it's even true that women are more emotional on average, I mean the very emotional reactions of many men to the term "toxic masculinity" (Gillette lost billions) shows that many men get offended easily, too (disclaimer: I don't think the term is good, still was never offended by it). If anything, there is more academic freedom today, as we literally had segregation until the 60s.
I really don't think that blaming women's tears for, well, I don't even know, somehow "lack of progress" (?), is anything based on reality. It looks more like another anti-woman rant from someone who confessed that he wanted to enslave women when he was young because of his sexual frustration (Hanania) and then just accepted as truth from someone who still thinks of women as "neurotic" and "hypersensitive" (Caplan).