Plato said something about a person's legacy being either their children or their accomplishments. We don't want kids so unfortunately this might be the only mark of the Guy siblings that survives the ages. Totally worth it, not a doubt in our minds.
In part two of chapter 6 we continue to debunk the assertion that women are not pulling their weight in society through the arbitrary standards he's created to support his argument. We start by chatting a little bit about Myron bringing white nationalist and misogynist Nick Fuentes onto his podcast in early July then get into why using the gender breakdown of college majors is a horrible way to track the actual jobs people end up with, why majoring in "useful" fields of study might not be the best way to make money or help society, why both sexes are directed into different major paths even if they have identical interests, why the top-10 jobs for women are actually pretty important for society and there are serious barriers for women trying to get into the career paths he thinks are integral to human civilization, and why using FMLA and vacation leave rates as a litmus test for women's interest in careers is one of the stupider things he's said.
Joel also noticed Aaron/Myron's weird obsession with the interests of business over those of workers and took some time to talk about the political aspects of the text. He compares it the 14 basic tenets of fascism through Umberto Eco's essay Ur-Faciscm and argues that though this is pretty sloppily written it serves as a great way to indoctrinate people (mostly men) into explicitly fascist thinking patterns. Cool stuff.
If you want to know more about the argumentation methods of the far right, check out Innuendo Studios' series on far right rhetoric, The Alt-Right Playbook.
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This month we made a donation to a trans rights org supporting trans individuals fleeing states where their existence is being outlawed. There are a lot of groups doing good work like this: take a look at your community.
