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I'm 11 00:00:35,079 --> 00:00:38,159 gonna lick my fingers first too, because it needs to 12 00:00:38,200 --> 00:00:42,200 be covered, it needs to be said. First. Let me 13 00:00:42,280 --> 00:00:48,280 start with the with the robbery. People keep calling this 14 00:00:48,359 --> 00:00:53,640 a heist at the French museum, the Louverray, I think 15 00:00:53,759 --> 00:00:57,960 is what it's called, And that's not a heist means 16 00:00:58,000 --> 00:01:02,840 there's no weapon involved. And according to the reports, there 17 00:01:03,000 --> 00:01:08,359 was actually a weapon involved, So that makes it a robbery. Okay. 18 00:01:10,120 --> 00:01:14,560 So according to the New York Times, the heist, the 19 00:01:14,760 --> 00:01:20,959 robbery at the Louver took eight minutes, okay, And it 20 00:01:21,120 --> 00:01:29,560 wasn't like some mission impossible kind of operation. Thieves broke 21 00:01:29,599 --> 00:01:34,920 into the Louver Sunday while tourists were there looking at 22 00:01:34,920 --> 00:01:38,040 the artwork, and they made off with jewelry said to 23 00:01:38,079 --> 00:01:43,280 be of incalculable worth. Here's how they did it again, 24 00:01:43,319 --> 00:01:47,000 according to the New York Times, at nine point thirty am, 25 00:01:47,439 --> 00:01:51,159 the thieves parked a truck under the windows of the 26 00:01:51,239 --> 00:01:57,120 Apollo Gallery. Okay, they then climbed up an electric ladder 27 00:01:57,599 --> 00:02:01,319 from the back of the truck. And there's a name 28 00:02:01,359 --> 00:02:04,239 for this thing. It's a French word. And I make 29 00:02:04,280 --> 00:02:07,239 it a point not to say too many French words 30 00:02:07,280 --> 00:02:12,199 in any in any podcast here or on the radio, 31 00:02:12,280 --> 00:02:15,159 because if you speak too much French, you get FCC 32 00:02:15,919 --> 00:02:18,960 finds and stuff. And I mean, I do speak French, 33 00:02:19,520 --> 00:02:21,759 but I don't want to say these things because there 34 00:02:21,800 --> 00:02:23,159 are a lot of these words are banned when you 35 00:02:23,159 --> 00:02:26,840 speak French on the radio. So anyway, it's a these 36 00:02:26,919 --> 00:02:31,199 these ladder, these electric ladders. It's like a lift basically. Okay, 37 00:02:31,240 --> 00:02:33,319 you've seen these things like to people use them for 38 00:02:33,360 --> 00:02:36,199 like window washing, right to put bring stuff up to 39 00:02:36,280 --> 00:02:39,080 a window or up to a building site like three 40 00:02:39,199 --> 00:02:41,840 four floors up, that kind of a deal. So, and 41 00:02:41,840 --> 00:02:44,960 they're pretty common in cities where you can't get like 42 00:02:45,080 --> 00:02:47,919 bulky items up a staircase, you know, especially in these 43 00:02:47,960 --> 00:02:52,759 old Europe types of cities. So they they park the 44 00:02:52,800 --> 00:02:55,960 truck under the window, they go up this electric ladder 45 00:02:56,240 --> 00:02:59,599 on the back of the truck, and they then go 46 00:02:59,680 --> 00:03:03,000 to the window and they they cut a hole in 47 00:03:03,120 --> 00:03:08,639 the glass window with a disc cutter that then sets 48 00:03:08,639 --> 00:03:14,159 off the security alarm. Okay, so you've got an alarm. 49 00:03:14,560 --> 00:03:17,639 You got a broken window up on the floor in 50 00:03:17,719 --> 00:03:24,280 the vicinity of these these family jewels of incalculable worth. 51 00:03:25,960 --> 00:03:28,159 And here from the New York Times. This is why 52 00:03:28,199 --> 00:03:33,039 I say this was a robbery, not a heist, because 53 00:03:33,080 --> 00:03:36,120 they cut through the glass, sets off the security alarm. 54 00:03:36,439 --> 00:03:42,680 They then threatened the guards with the disc cutter, which 55 00:03:44,520 --> 00:03:47,080 like that's a power tool. So they're standing there with 56 00:03:47,120 --> 00:03:50,319 this like a it's like a disk saw and like 57 00:03:50,439 --> 00:03:56,199 stay back, stay back, I guess I'll cut you. So 58 00:03:56,479 --> 00:04:00,240 I guess the guards are not armed at the museum. 59 00:04:00,520 --> 00:04:06,879 They have no way of taking down armed intruders. Okay, 60 00:04:07,240 --> 00:04:11,120 so then they just smash two display cases while the 61 00:04:11,159 --> 00:04:19,279 staff of the museum evacuate the museum. But why would 62 00:04:19,360 --> 00:04:25,000 you do that, because now you've created pandemonium. Now you've 63 00:04:25,000 --> 00:04:28,439 got people running for the exits, and now the thieves, 64 00:04:28,519 --> 00:04:31,480 the robbers can sort of blend in with the crowd. 65 00:04:32,439 --> 00:04:37,000 So the robbers grab a royal sapphire necklace, a royal 66 00:04:37,279 --> 00:04:41,839 emerald necklace, and something called a diadem. Don't know what 67 00:04:41,920 --> 00:04:46,040 that is, maybe a crown or something that was worn 68 00:04:46,160 --> 00:04:51,720 by Empress Eugenie again, I don't want to pronounce it 69 00:04:51,800 --> 00:04:57,600 in the French, that is the wife of Napoleon, the 70 00:04:57,639 --> 00:05:04,279 third Empress Eugenie. And then they mount, they rush out 71 00:05:04,319 --> 00:05:06,920 the door. They get onto a couple of high powered 72 00:05:07,000 --> 00:05:10,720 scooters that are waiting for them outside, and they scoot away. 73 00:05:11,759 --> 00:05:16,360 They drive off. That was the That was the whole plant. 74 00:05:18,120 --> 00:05:19,920 Take a ladder up to the second floor, a third 75 00:05:19,959 --> 00:05:23,560 floor window, cut a hole in the glass, threaten some guards, 76 00:05:23,920 --> 00:05:27,680 break some some glass enclosures, which, by the way, I 77 00:05:27,720 --> 00:05:30,720 read a different story yesterday about this where they had 78 00:05:31,079 --> 00:05:34,720 they had recently replaced the glass. Apparently the glass used 79 00:05:34,720 --> 00:05:37,920 to be like bulletproof and all this stuff, and they 80 00:05:38,240 --> 00:05:42,240 they changed out the glass on the displays. That's kind 81 00:05:42,240 --> 00:05:44,360 of a stupid thing to do, but anyway, they did that, 82 00:05:44,519 --> 00:05:48,759 and so that's how it all went down. Now, the 83 00:05:48,920 --> 00:05:55,560 museum security chief has been accused of putting the cultural 84 00:05:55,639 --> 00:06:01,120 heritage of France at risk following the theft of priceless jewelry. 85 00:06:03,040 --> 00:06:05,879 The security chief at the Louver is a person named 86 00:06:06,040 --> 00:06:11,240 Dominique Buffin. She has worked as the director of Public 87 00:06:11,319 --> 00:06:15,439 Reception and Surveillance, which is a European title. I've ever 88 00:06:15,439 --> 00:06:20,920 heard one public reception and surveillance. Welcome, Welcome. Now I'm 89 00:06:20,959 --> 00:06:25,079 going to monitor you. So she's been there since last year, 90 00:06:25,160 --> 00:06:28,160 so she's been on the job about a year. She 91 00:06:28,399 --> 00:06:33,959 previously worked in the police department and at France's Ministry 92 00:06:34,000 --> 00:06:39,000 of Culture. The accusation is that she was hired by 93 00:06:39,000 --> 00:06:44,759 the museum director, Lawrence Dick Cars or Desk Cars, who 94 00:06:44,839 --> 00:06:48,800 is a female. The name is Lawrence, that's a female, 95 00:06:49,000 --> 00:06:52,000 and that she was hired as part of a quote 96 00:06:52,079 --> 00:06:59,639 unquote feminization policy. That's the accusation. So this is sort 97 00:06:59,680 --> 00:07:03,319 of a a dei case, if you will, that this 98 00:07:03,360 --> 00:07:06,439 woman was hired because she's a woman. That was the 99 00:07:06,800 --> 00:07:09,160 I mean, she may have other qualifications, sure, right, she 100 00:07:09,199 --> 00:07:11,199 worked in the police department, she worked at the Ministry 101 00:07:11,199 --> 00:07:14,839 of Culture. But to put you in charge of the 102 00:07:14,959 --> 00:07:21,319 museum's security, they were looking for a woman, and the 103 00:07:21,360 --> 00:07:23,920 person who made that call is also a woman, And 104 00:07:23,959 --> 00:07:27,800 apparently this was something that everybody was celebrating at the time. 105 00:07:28,120 --> 00:07:31,720 Look at us, we have a feminization policy. We're getting 106 00:07:31,759 --> 00:07:35,600 more women to work in the museum. So now these 107 00:07:35,639 --> 00:07:39,279 two women are facing calls to resign after the theft 108 00:07:39,399 --> 00:07:43,319 of the Crown Jewels, the family jewels. Apparently, the hiring 109 00:07:43,360 --> 00:07:45,360 of Buffin was a matter of great pride for the 110 00:07:45,399 --> 00:07:47,920 museum and was hailed as an important moment in the 111 00:07:47,959 --> 00:07:55,399 history of gender equality. Now, however, people are calling this 112 00:07:55,480 --> 00:08:02,680 an intolerable humiliation, and it is a humiliation, David Strom says, 113 00:08:02,680 --> 00:08:05,959 it's not just one for France, but for DEI itself. 114 00:08:06,399 --> 00:08:10,319 The business argument for Dei has always been that diversity 115 00:08:10,360 --> 00:08:16,480 brings new perspectives and an increase in your value. Right, 116 00:08:17,399 --> 00:08:20,800 if it's a business, if it's a museum, whatever, that 117 00:08:21,279 --> 00:08:27,120 having a more diverse staff is going to be beneficial 118 00:08:27,160 --> 00:08:32,360 to the bottom line, Right, you will have more value. 119 00:08:32,440 --> 00:08:34,799 That claim has never been shown by the evidence, he says, 120 00:08:34,799 --> 00:08:37,679 and is completely destroyed by the number of woke disasters, 121 00:08:37,679 --> 00:08:41,120 of which this is just the most recent and spectacular. Okay, 122 00:08:41,600 --> 00:08:45,240 so what I keyed on here is the use of 123 00:08:45,279 --> 00:08:54,480 this term feminization policy a feminization policy, because just a 124 00:08:54,519 --> 00:08:59,960 couple of days ago, over at Compact Magazine compactmag dot com, 125 00:09:01,080 --> 00:09:05,960 a woman named Helen Andrews wrote a very lengthy essay 126 00:09:07,799 --> 00:09:09,559 that's not that lengthy, I mean you can get through 127 00:09:09,600 --> 00:09:14,200 it in about twenty minutes. And the title of this 128 00:09:14,360 --> 00:09:19,320 is called the Great Feminization. And for longtime listeners of 129 00:09:19,320 --> 00:09:24,559 the Rush Limbaugh program, you've already heard this term. Rush 130 00:09:24,679 --> 00:09:30,200 used to call it the chickifocation of news, remember, And 131 00:09:30,320 --> 00:09:34,360 that's what Helen Andrews is talking about, although she never 132 00:09:34,480 --> 00:09:40,000 uses that term. 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I married her. It's 163 00:11:31,960 --> 00:11:37,559 my only wife actually. So in twenty nineteen, Helen Andrews 164 00:11:37,559 --> 00:11:40,519 says I read an article about Larry Summers, remember that 165 00:11:40,519 --> 00:11:44,240 guy at Harvard, And she says it changed the way 166 00:11:44,240 --> 00:11:46,840 I look at the world. The author was writing under 167 00:11:46,840 --> 00:11:51,080 the pseudonym of J. Stone, and he argued that the 168 00:11:51,200 --> 00:11:54,559 day Larry Summers resigned as president of Harvard University marked 169 00:11:54,600 --> 00:11:58,039 a turning point in the culture. The entire woke era 170 00:11:58,480 --> 00:12:02,279 could be extrapolated from that moment from the details of 171 00:12:02,320 --> 00:12:06,120 how Somers was canceled. And here's the key. Most of 172 00:12:06,159 --> 00:12:11,200 all who did the canceling. It was women at Harvard. 173 00:12:11,799 --> 00:12:14,720 Now you remember Larry Summers had made a comment in 174 00:12:14,759 --> 00:12:18,120 what he thought was like a closed door meeting or whatever, 175 00:12:18,159 --> 00:12:21,759 and he was talking about how, you know under the 176 00:12:21,799 --> 00:12:25,360 underrepresentation of women in the hard sciences was partly due 177 00:12:25,399 --> 00:12:29,559 to different availability of aptitude at the high end, as 178 00:12:29,600 --> 00:12:34,279 well as taste differences between men and women. Right like men, 179 00:12:35,159 --> 00:12:40,200 men are intrigued by things and women are intrigued by people, essentially, 180 00:12:40,840 --> 00:12:45,440 and that this is sort of in eight in our biology, okay, 181 00:12:46,080 --> 00:12:49,440 and he got canceled for that. The essay argued that 182 00:12:49,519 --> 00:12:52,679 it wasn't just that women had canceled the president of Harvard. 183 00:12:53,320 --> 00:12:56,080 It was that they had canceled him in a very 184 00:12:56,200 --> 00:13:04,360 feminine way. They made emotional appeal rather than logical arguments. 185 00:13:05,639 --> 00:13:11,600 I know what you're gonna think. I can said that, 186 00:13:16,919 --> 00:13:19,759 but that's what this all is because what Summer said 187 00:13:19,960 --> 00:13:24,360 was actually supported by the science. And I don't mean fauci, 188 00:13:26,159 --> 00:13:30,600 this is what the science shows. And he said the 189 00:13:30,639 --> 00:13:33,279 thing that was true, and then he got canceled by 190 00:13:33,399 --> 00:13:39,080 women in a feminine way, using emotional appeals rather than 191 00:13:39,120 --> 00:13:43,840 logical arguments. So Helen Andrews goes on to say that 192 00:13:44,200 --> 00:13:48,120 because all cancelation or she says that this cancelation was feminine, 193 00:13:48,120 --> 00:13:54,440 because all cancelations are feminine. Cancel culture is simply what 194 00:13:54,559 --> 00:13:58,559 women do whenever there are enough of them in a 195 00:13:58,679 --> 00:14:05,600 given organization or field. See what I mean third rail stuff. 196 00:14:06,840 --> 00:14:11,399 That is the great feminization thesis, which the author of 197 00:14:11,440 --> 00:14:15,759 that piece later elaborated upon in a book, saying everything 198 00:14:15,799 --> 00:14:20,159 you think of as wokeness is simply an epiphenomenon. Which 199 00:14:20,159 --> 00:14:23,240 means a secondary phenomena sort of downstream of something else, 200 00:14:23,559 --> 00:14:31,279 which is demographic feminization. She says, the explanatory power of 201 00:14:31,279 --> 00:14:35,039 this simple thesis was incredible. It really did unlock the 202 00:14:35,120 --> 00:14:38,679 secrets of the era we are living in. Wokeness is 203 00:14:38,759 --> 00:14:43,159 not a new ideology, an outgrowth of Marxism, or a 204 00:14:43,320 --> 00:14:48,679 result of post Obama disillusionment. It is simply feminine patterns 205 00:14:48,720 --> 00:14:53,559 of behavior applied to institutions where women were few in 206 00:14:53,679 --> 00:14:58,360 number until recently. How did I not see it before? 207 00:14:58,480 --> 00:15:02,279 She says, Jordan Peterson has talked about this. He got 208 00:15:02,279 --> 00:15:06,639 into trouble also when he said it, which was you know, 209 00:15:06,799 --> 00:15:08,919 why and why do we allow women to wear makeup 210 00:15:08,919 --> 00:15:14,039 in the workplace? What? And he asks the question. He's 211 00:15:14,080 --> 00:15:17,159 not asserting anything, He's simply asking the question. And then 212 00:15:17,159 --> 00:15:20,360 of course he got all of this emotional reaction to 213 00:15:20,399 --> 00:15:23,879 it and the premise he was laying out from an 214 00:15:23,879 --> 00:15:29,440 evolutionary biological standpoint, You know why are you prettying yourself 215 00:15:29,559 --> 00:15:33,399 up to go to work? That is that has historically 216 00:15:33,440 --> 00:15:37,559 been in order to attract a mate, particularly in some 217 00:15:37,600 --> 00:15:40,480 of the some of the ways women wear makeup. Some 218 00:15:40,519 --> 00:15:46,639 of the makeup itself is designed to attract. Let me 219 00:15:46,679 --> 00:15:49,960 just say it that way, okay, And he said, like, 220 00:15:50,120 --> 00:15:54,759 we don't know what the long term ramifications are when 221 00:15:54,799 --> 00:15:58,919 you have co ed workspaces for an extended period of time, 222 00:15:59,120 --> 00:16:03,720 we don't know what those ramifications tend to be. 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We started the hour talking about the the 244 00:17:18,000 --> 00:17:23,039 heist at the Louver Museum where they stole the family jewels, 245 00:17:23,559 --> 00:17:29,160 and eight oh three number says this he doesn't believe 246 00:17:29,200 --> 00:17:32,079 this story because I guess France hasn't had family jewels 247 00:17:32,079 --> 00:17:35,119 for many decades now, So that kind of that does 248 00:17:36,319 --> 00:17:44,400 that does track. Grumpy Major says, when you said the 249 00:17:44,400 --> 00:17:47,799 security immediately evacuated the museum, I figured that the security 250 00:17:47,839 --> 00:17:51,519 chief must have actually been ex military because it's always 251 00:17:51,559 --> 00:17:58,559 their first reaction to retreat. Oh, I get because it's France. Okay, 252 00:18:00,200 --> 00:18:02,119 So this was part of their hiring of this female 253 00:18:02,119 --> 00:18:05,359 security chief. It was celebrated at the time as part 254 00:18:05,359 --> 00:18:10,720 of a feminization policy, right to elevate, prioritize the hiring 255 00:18:10,799 --> 00:18:15,359 of women into key roles. Okay, And again, the idea 256 00:18:15,400 --> 00:18:17,960 behind this has always been, you know, diversity is our strength. 257 00:18:18,000 --> 00:18:24,079 We want a more diverse workforce or leadership, and so 258 00:18:25,160 --> 00:18:28,359 we're going to focus on you know, these these types 259 00:18:28,400 --> 00:18:35,759 of immutable characteristics, Well, what what would be the downside? 260 00:18:35,799 --> 00:18:38,880 And again this is not to say that you know, 261 00:18:38,960 --> 00:18:43,640 a workplace filled with only dudes is better or only 262 00:18:43,680 --> 00:18:47,240 women is better. It's just different. There are there are 263 00:18:47,240 --> 00:18:50,839 pros and cons to both of those types of scenarios. Okay, 264 00:18:51,000 --> 00:18:54,200 there are downsides you've got like, uh, you know, frat 265 00:18:54,200 --> 00:18:58,880 broke culture, locker room talk like you get. There are 266 00:18:59,000 --> 00:19:02,880 there are you know, toxic masculinity, actual toxic masculinity like 267 00:19:02,880 --> 00:19:06,880 you have. There are things that are downsides to having, 268 00:19:08,079 --> 00:19:11,680 you know, a workforce that is only one gender, right, 269 00:19:11,720 --> 00:19:14,839 there are downsides. There are upsides, but there are downsides, 270 00:19:14,880 --> 00:19:18,599 but we are never allowed, I guess, to examine whether 271 00:19:18,799 --> 00:19:23,680 or not there are downsides when the workforce is predominantly female. 272 00:19:23,759 --> 00:19:26,920 Are there any downsides? There are upsides, no doubt about it, 273 00:19:26,960 --> 00:19:31,119 But there are there are some downsides, and they manifest 274 00:19:31,160 --> 00:19:34,039 in the way that men and women behave when they 275 00:19:34,079 --> 00:19:39,200 hold sort of a majority block in an organization. For example, 276 00:19:40,400 --> 00:19:46,119 law schools became majority female in twenty sixteen. Law firm 277 00:19:46,279 --> 00:19:52,279 associates became majority female in twenty twenty three. Today, women 278 00:19:52,319 --> 00:19:57,720 are thirty three percent of the judges, and sixty three 279 00:19:57,759 --> 00:20:01,839 percent of the judges appointed by Biden women. The New 280 00:20:01,920 --> 00:20:05,759 York Times staff became majority female back in twenty eighteen, 281 00:20:05,920 --> 00:20:10,839 and today the female share is fifty five percent. Medical 282 00:20:10,839 --> 00:20:14,480 schools became majority female in twenty nineteen. Women became a 283 00:20:14,480 --> 00:20:19,119 majority of the college educated workforce nationwide about six years ago. 284 00:20:19,519 --> 00:20:23,839 Women became a majority of college instructors in twenty twenty three. 285 00:20:23,880 --> 00:20:27,160 Women are not yet the majority of the managers in America, 286 00:20:27,279 --> 00:20:30,240 but they might soon be. They're now forty six percent. 287 00:20:32,039 --> 00:20:35,680 What does all of this mean, Like, this is like 288 00:20:35,759 --> 00:20:40,240 this window going back to like within the last decade. 289 00:20:41,079 --> 00:20:45,279 This has also coincided with the rise of quote unquote 290 00:20:45,319 --> 00:20:51,480 woke and the cancel cancelation campaigns and such. And what 291 00:20:51,680 --> 00:20:57,599 her argument here is that woke and cancelation, which is 292 00:20:57,640 --> 00:21:00,640 part of that that you know, woke world, that that 293 00:21:01,000 --> 00:21:06,599 is a feminization issue, Like that is that's part and parcel. 294 00:21:08,319 --> 00:21:13,319 She says, everything you think of as wokeness involves prioritizing 295 00:21:13,519 --> 00:21:20,039 the feminine over the masculine. Empathy over rationality, safety over risk, 296 00:21:20,720 --> 00:21:31,279 cohesion over competition. Again, wokeness prioritizes the feminine over the masculine, 297 00:21:32,039 --> 00:21:41,400 and her examples empathy overrationality, safety over risk, cohesion over competition. 298 00:21:42,839 --> 00:21:46,680 The most relevant differences are not about individuals. So again 299 00:21:46,720 --> 00:21:49,880 I want to emphasize this, this is not about you personally. 300 00:21:49,880 --> 00:21:52,279 If you're a woman, I'm not talking about you personally. 301 00:21:52,880 --> 00:21:57,880 This is about group dynamics. It's about groups. Female group 302 00:21:58,000 --> 00:22:07,160 dynamics favor consensus and cooperation. That is not the same 303 00:22:07,279 --> 00:22:10,519 as a dude dynamic. Okay, and I'm speaking to you 304 00:22:10,559 --> 00:22:17,440 as a dude. It's not the same. The outcome in 305 00:22:17,480 --> 00:22:24,319 the in the female group dynamic consensus versus consensus and cooperation. 306 00:22:24,960 --> 00:22:29,160 The outcome of a discussion is less important than the 307 00:22:29,200 --> 00:22:32,359 fact that a discussion was held and everybody participated in it. 308 00:22:34,839 --> 00:22:38,400 I remember reading about this group dynamic in a little 309 00:22:38,400 --> 00:22:40,880 book from years ago called men are from Mars and 310 00:22:41,000 --> 00:22:44,640 Women are from Venus. And this is why, Like when 311 00:22:44,720 --> 00:22:47,279 Christy and I have conversations and we start getting frustrated 312 00:22:47,279 --> 00:22:50,160 because we're like talking past each other. If she's talking 313 00:22:50,200 --> 00:22:52,960 about like problem that she had in her day, sometimes 314 00:22:52,960 --> 00:22:54,839 I will ask her, are you looking for a solution 315 00:22:55,119 --> 00:23:00,920 or support? Because women derive more benefit from the discussion, 316 00:23:01,720 --> 00:23:07,039 feeling heard, having somebody take their side right, dudes want 317 00:23:07,039 --> 00:23:10,720 to fix. Dudes are like, oh, this is your problem, 318 00:23:10,759 --> 00:23:13,119 here's the fix. Oh, thank god I asked you about that. 319 00:23:13,119 --> 00:23:16,160 That's like the highest form of flattery you can give 320 00:23:16,200 --> 00:23:18,640 another dude is to ask him for his advice on 321 00:23:19,279 --> 00:23:21,599 a solution for something, and the guy's like, let me 322 00:23:21,599 --> 00:23:23,880 put my solution hat on and I will go about 323 00:23:23,880 --> 00:23:31,039 giving you a solution. The most important sex difference in 324 00:23:31,119 --> 00:23:38,720 group dynamics is attitude towards conflict. Okay, In short, this 325 00:23:38,759 --> 00:23:41,279 is not the case for every individual, but in a 326 00:23:41,319 --> 00:23:50,319 group dynamics setting, men wage conflict openly, women covertly undermine 327 00:23:50,519 --> 00:23:56,960 or ostracize their enemies. Those are group dynamics and there 328 00:23:57,039 --> 00:24:01,519 is an evolutionary biological re for it. All Right, if 329 00:24:01,519 --> 00:24:03,279 you're listening to this show, you know I try to 330 00:24:03,359 --> 00:24:05,160 keep up with all sorts of current events, and I 331 00:24:05,160 --> 00:24:07,359 know you do too, And you've probably heard me say 332 00:24:07,519 --> 00:24:11,559 get your news from multiple sources. Why. Well, because it's 333 00:24:11,559 --> 00:24:14,279 how you detect media bias, which is why I've been 334 00:24:14,279 --> 00:24:17,880 so impressed with ground News. 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Subscribe 345 00:24:51,599 --> 00:24:54,480 through that link and you'll get fifteen percent off any subscription. 346 00:24:54,799 --> 00:24:57,559 I use the Vantage plan to get unlimited access to 347 00:24:57,640 --> 00:25:01,079 every feature. Your subscription then not only helps my podcast, 348 00:25:01,119 --> 00:25:03,440 but it also supports ground News as they make the 349 00:25:03,519 --> 00:25:07,440 media landscape more transparent. Going over this piece at a 350 00:25:07,720 --> 00:25:17,160 Compact magazine by Helen Andrews about group dynamics, the group 351 00:25:17,240 --> 00:25:22,720 dynamics that occur in an organization or an industry when 352 00:25:23,079 --> 00:25:27,240 men predominate or women predominate. And this may come as 353 00:25:27,319 --> 00:25:29,440 a shock to people who don't even know what a 354 00:25:29,480 --> 00:25:35,039 woman is, but men and women are different. We are different. 355 00:25:35,640 --> 00:25:39,559 We think about things in different ways. That's not to 356 00:25:39,599 --> 00:25:42,079 say that one is better or worse. It's just different, 357 00:25:42,119 --> 00:25:45,799 and that's a good thing. Dare I say it's diversity. 358 00:25:48,599 --> 00:25:51,559 She talks about when men are in a group dynamic, 359 00:25:52,759 --> 00:25:56,799 their attitude towards conflict is to do it out in 360 00:25:56,839 --> 00:26:02,720 the open, to wage conflict openly, while women tend to 361 00:26:02,759 --> 00:26:06,039 not all women hashtag not hashtag, not all men, but 362 00:26:06,519 --> 00:26:12,480 women tend to in a group dynamic setting will covertly 363 00:26:13,319 --> 00:26:17,720 undermine or ostracize. Right. We saw this in the documentary 364 00:26:18,880 --> 00:26:22,200 from I don't know what fifteen years ago called mean Girls. 365 00:26:23,440 --> 00:26:25,559 She goes on to say later that men tend to 366 00:26:25,599 --> 00:26:30,279 be better at compartmentalizing, and Wokeness was in many ways 367 00:26:30,400 --> 00:26:37,400 a society wide failure to compartmentalize. She gives an example, 368 00:26:37,480 --> 00:26:40,480 you know, your doctor may have political opinions that are 369 00:26:40,480 --> 00:26:46,640 different than yours, but like it's a professional duty to 370 00:26:46,720 --> 00:26:49,359 keep those opinions out of the examination room. There's no 371 00:26:49,440 --> 00:26:51,960 reason to talk about this stuff with you in the 372 00:26:52,039 --> 00:26:59,240 exam room. Right. But what happened as woke rose there 373 00:26:59,319 --> 00:27:03,599 was this you know, breaking down of every single affinity 374 00:27:03,720 --> 00:27:08,319 group and every barrier. Everything then had to be politicized. 375 00:27:08,680 --> 00:27:11,720 People just wanted to be able to go to their 376 00:27:11,839 --> 00:27:16,079 sewing circle, go to their hobby club or whatever. They 377 00:27:16,119 --> 00:27:18,400 don't want to talk about politics. But no, no, no, 378 00:27:18,839 --> 00:27:22,559 you will be made to care, right. She goes on 379 00:27:22,640 --> 00:27:25,359 to say one book that helped me put the pieces 380 00:27:25,400 --> 00:27:29,880 together was a book called Warriors and Warriors the Survival 381 00:27:29,920 --> 00:27:33,640 of the Sexes. It was written by a psychology professor 382 00:27:33,720 --> 00:27:38,480 named Joyce Beninson. I believe that's a female and she 383 00:27:38,680 --> 00:27:45,240 theorizes that men developed group dynamics that were optimized for war, 384 00:27:46,400 --> 00:27:51,160 while women developed group dynamics that were optimized for protecting 385 00:27:51,240 --> 00:28:00,240 their offspring. That sounds crazy. That actually, it sounds sounds 386 00:28:00,240 --> 00:28:04,240 pretty legit, Like that does make sense. These habits formed 387 00:28:04,319 --> 00:28:09,200 in the mists of prehistory explain why experimenters in a 388 00:28:09,319 --> 00:28:12,920 modern psychology lab. In a study that Beninson cited in 389 00:28:12,960 --> 00:28:16,000 her book, they observed that a group of men given 390 00:28:16,039 --> 00:28:21,880 a task will jockey for talking time. They will disagree loudly, 391 00:28:22,519 --> 00:28:29,559 and then cheerfully relay a solution to the experimenter. And 392 00:28:29,599 --> 00:28:33,799 by the way, I was at an HOA meeting last night, 393 00:28:34,839 --> 00:28:38,519 the landscape committee, and I got into an argument with 394 00:28:38,759 --> 00:28:42,799 a guy who was new to the committee, and we 395 00:28:43,400 --> 00:28:45,880 argued back and forth. But after we were done, it 396 00:28:45,960 --> 00:28:48,839 was just like, yeah, we're cool. That was it. But 397 00:28:48,880 --> 00:28:52,079 that was open conflict, and I could tell the two 398 00:28:52,079 --> 00:28:56,000 women at the table grew very, very uncomfortable, very uncomfortable 399 00:28:56,000 --> 00:29:01,720 with it. These habits again go back thousands of years. 400 00:29:03,640 --> 00:29:07,720 A group of women given the exact same task, they 401 00:29:07,759 --> 00:29:13,720 will quote politely inquire about one another's personal backgrounds, their relationships, 402 00:29:14,599 --> 00:29:19,599 a lot more eye contact, smiling, taking turns, and they 403 00:29:19,599 --> 00:29:22,559 will pay quote little attention to the task that the 404 00:29:22,680 --> 00:29:28,160 experimenter presented. So what did I just say about MENA 405 00:29:28,200 --> 00:29:32,160 from Mars? Women are from Venus. Right. Men define themselves 406 00:29:32,160 --> 00:29:35,039 by the hats they wear. I'm Pete, I'm a talk 407 00:29:35,079 --> 00:29:39,279 show host, right, I'm Joe, I'm a cop, I'm a firefighter, 408 00:29:39,319 --> 00:29:44,559 whatever like. That's like who we are. And when we 409 00:29:45,319 --> 00:29:47,599 are presented with a problem, we will go off to 410 00:29:47,640 --> 00:29:49,640 our caves. We will think about it, we'll try to 411 00:29:49,640 --> 00:29:53,119 figure out a solution. But it's a very solution focused 412 00:29:53,160 --> 00:29:55,119 kind of approach. It's like, Okay, here's the problem, I 413 00:29:55,160 --> 00:30:00,279 fix it. I'm done. Whereas when the women are trying 414 00:30:00,279 --> 00:30:02,519 to figure something out, usually they look, y'all know what 415 00:30:02,559 --> 00:30:04,400 the solution is too. It's not that you don't know 416 00:30:04,440 --> 00:30:06,519 the solution, it's just that that's not how you derive 417 00:30:06,599 --> 00:30:10,400 the satisfaction from the process. The process is like the 418 00:30:10,480 --> 00:30:15,119 talking through the things, and women tend to define themselves 419 00:30:15,119 --> 00:30:17,559 not by the hats they wear, but by their relationships. 420 00:30:18,640 --> 00:30:21,799 I'm a mom, I'm a grandma, right, like these are 421 00:30:21,799 --> 00:30:25,400 the things. These are just different and again not saying 422 00:30:25,519 --> 00:30:29,240 one is better or worse, just pointing out that they're different. 423 00:30:29,319 --> 00:30:30,839 And so when you get a lot of people of 424 00:30:30,880 --> 00:30:35,519 the same gender together, those group dynamics get amplified, right, 425 00:30:37,000 --> 00:30:39,759 She says. The point of war is to settle disputes 426 00:30:39,799 --> 00:30:43,519 between two tribes, but it works only if peace is 427 00:30:43,599 --> 00:30:48,839 restored after the dispute is settled. Men therefore developed methods 428 00:30:48,880 --> 00:30:51,680 for reconciling with opponents and learning to live in peace 429 00:30:51,759 --> 00:30:57,799 with people they were fighting yesterday. Females, even in primates, 430 00:30:58,680 --> 00:31:02,480 are slower to reckon stile than men are. That's because 431 00:31:02,480 --> 00:31:06,519 women's conflicts were traditionally within the tribe over scarce resources, 432 00:31:06,839 --> 00:31:10,480 to be resolved not by open conflict, but by covert 433 00:31:10,519 --> 00:31:15,880 competition with rivals with no clear terminus, no clear ending, 434 00:31:16,880 --> 00:31:22,359 because you're in the tribe. Again. This is from female 435 00:31:22,640 --> 00:31:26,759 psychology professor Joyce Benison in the book Warriors or Sorry 436 00:31:26,799 --> 00:31:30,759 Warriors and warriors. This is not some dude saying it 437 00:31:32,000 --> 00:31:34,319 all right. That'll do it for this episode. Thank you 438 00:31:34,400 --> 00:31:36,359 so much for listening. I could not do the show 439 00:31:36,400 --> 00:31:38,920 without your support and the support of the businesses that 440 00:31:39,000 --> 00:31:42,079 advertise on the podcast, so if you'd like, please support 441 00:31:42,079 --> 00:31:43,759 them too and tell them you heard it here. You 442 00:31:43,799 --> 00:31:46,440 can also become a patron at my Patreon page or 443 00:31:46,519 --> 00:31:50,160 go to thepetecleanershow dot com. Again, thank you so much 444 00:31:50,160 --> 00:31:57,559 for listening, and don't break anything while I'm gone.