Ep 70: The Male Gaze and Feminism with Anuradha

Описание: I found this wonderful article and was super impressed with her writing, authority and originality of thoughts that I reached out to Anuradha for this podcast. I had to, as rarely do I come across such wonderful cerebral prowess.
https://www.radicallypragmatic.press/...

I was blown away with her articulation, flow, knowledge and choice of words that I felt insignificant for the most part and was just happy to listen to her, as she insouciantly dished out hypothesis, analysis of human behavior (female primarily) based on evolutionary psychology, beauty and status hierarchy and inrasexual competition between women, Gita, Plato (we didn't get time to expand on this), discipline and feminism. She suggests this "anti-discipline" stance actually leads to poor life outcomes and a lack of internal self-concept.

She also talks a bit about her brought up, patriarchy, the insecure and care free twenties, mate selection years and the big fat lies (and hypocrisy) feminist women tell themselves and profess others with regards to male attention, how they crave it from high value men whilst tearing down low value invisible men.

She posits that while women may publicly decry the male gaze, it remains a "currency" for social standing. Women often evaluate their own worth based on the status of the men who pay them attention.

This is one session you don't ever want to miss. I will definitely be talking more to her.

00:00 - Introduction: Who is Anuradha?
02:18 - Defining the "Male Gaze": From Cinema to Feminism
04:07 - The Hierarchy of Attention: How Women Rank Themselves
07:32 - Evolutionary Psychology: Covert vs. Overt Competition
09:05 - The "Equality Myth" and Social Abandonment
11:40 - Women as the Enforcers of Patriarchy in India
14:15 - High Status Men and Desirable vs. Undesirable Attention
16:44 - Status Attributes: What Women Actually Look for in Men
19:08 - Neutralizing Rivals: The "Pick Me Girl" Label
22:13 - Attention as Currency and Social Media Addiction
23:46 - Case Study: The Male Gaze at the Gym
26:07 - Safety vs. Freedom: Growing Up Indian-American
27:03 - Feeling Unsafe in India and Seeing Feminism as Escape
29:12 - The "Illusion of Choice" and the Loss of Discipline
31:11 - Has Modern Feminism Failed Women?
32:43 - Closing Thoughts and Future Discussion Topics

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