We're back for part two of Joel explaining why this book is one of the worst dating/pickup artist/misogynist pamphlets he's ever read. Not sure that he should have spent multiple weekends of his life reading anthropology papers to discount the assertions of a guy who thinks human civilization is 200k years old, but we all have to get our kicks somewhere. Also, since reading rightwing literature is now most of our show, we updated our logo accordingly.
In part two we discuss Chapter 3 of the text where Myron/Aaron attempts to explain what the "Old Contract" of human relationships looked like and how Myron thinks modern women have ruined everything. As you might expect there's a laughable amount of "appeal to nature" fallacies, lots of references to women being no better than prostitutes, and assertions about human history and biology that most people with a highschool education would be able to disprove. But since the audience for this is probably middle school boys, maybe that's sufficient?
WE DO DISCUSS SOME HEAVY STUFF like Domestic Violence and Assault and Racism. We're pretty good about giving a heads up in the episode itself, just wanted you to know if that's a dealbreaker.
We're not linking to places you can buy this book. Go support your local library.
This month we made a donation to activist Erin Reed's substack, which is doing an amazing job tracking and drawing attention to trans legislation. Not to be bleak or anything, but we're in a genocide right now, y'all. Send her some money here.
