The Case Against the Sexual Revolution | Louise Perry 165

The video is about Louise Perry discussing her book "The Case Against the Sexual Revolution" and her views on the negative effects of the sexual revolution on women and society. She argues that the feminist project has been about encouraging women to be more like men in every possible way, which is not making women happy. She believes that most women want to prioritize family life or balance it against career, rather than having sex like a man. She also discusses the gap between what most feminist lobbying organizations and the media represent as what women want and what women actually want.

This video by Mikhaila Peterson was published on Oct 18, 2022.
Video length: 01:02:49.

In this video, Louise Perry discusses her views on the sexual revolution and its impact on women's roles and relationships.

She argues that the sexual revolution has led to a shift in societal expectations for women, encouraging them to act more like men in order to gain access to male spheres and opportunities. However, she believes that this approach is not making women happy and that most women prioritize family and relationships over sexual liberation.

Perry also discusses the gap between what most women want and what is represented in the media and political corridors, and the project of her organization, The Other Half, to represent majority female opinion in these spaces.

• Louise Perry is a British journalist and campaigner based in London.
• She is the director of a think tank called The Other Half, which promotes "Common Sense Feminism".
• She is also the author of the new book "The Case Against the Sexual Revolution".
• Perry has a soft voice and an English accent, which makes people sound smarter.
• The book is about the negative effects of the sexual revolution on women and society.
• Perry argues that the feminist project has been about encouraging women to be more like men in every possible way.
• She believes that most women want to prioritize family life or balance it against career, rather than having sex like a man.
• The sexual revolution pushed women towards acting more like men.
• The women who wrote the most important text of the second wave and went on to found organizations like now tended to reject the traditional feminine role.

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Background

• Louise Perry is a British journalist and campaigner based in London.
• She is the director of a think tank called The Other Half, which promotes "Common Sense Feminism".
• She is also the author of the new book "The Case Against the Sexual Revolution".
• Perry has a soft voice and an English accent, which makes people sound smarter.

Book Overview

• The book is about the negative effects of the sexual revolution on women and society.
• Perry argues that the feminist project has been about encouraging women to be more like men in every possible way.
• She believes that most women want to prioritize family life or balance it against career, rather than having sex like a man.
• Perry discusses the gap between what most feminist lobbying organizations and the media represent as what women want and what women actually want.

The Sexual Revolution and Women's Role

• The sexual revolution pushed women towards acting more like men.
• The feminist culture of the 1970s, which was focused in places like Greenwich Village in New York, tended to be super educated, super intelligent, and disagreeable, particularly disinclined towards things like family life.
• The women who wrote the most important text of the second wave and went on to found organizations like now tended to reject the traditional feminine role in spectacular ways.
• The second wave feminists were really spurred on by a desire to reject the traditional feminine role.

The Case Against the Sexual Revolution | Louise Perry 165 - YouTube

The Gap between Feminist Lobbying Organizations and the Media

• There is a gap between what most feminist lobbying organizations and the media represent as what women want and what women actually want.
• The majority of women want to prioritize family life or balance it against career, rather than having sex like a man.
• This is not what is represented in Westminster or Washington because the organizations of all kinds and the media tend to represent as what women want and what women do actually want.

Section 1: Women's Preferences

• Women have preferences that are different from average female preferences.
• These preferences are not necessarily aligned with what is good for most women.
• Institutions formed from the second wave, such as domestic violence shelters and crisis centers, were generally geared towards aspiring to a more masculine way of living.
• These priorities tended in that direction due to the influence of disagreeable, extremely smart women.
• The feminist thinking has been important and has shaped our recent history in many ways.

Section 2: Material Changes

• The washing machine did more to liberate women than the feminist campaigning.
• Our lives have dramatically changed within the last hundred years due to material changes such as the washing machine, pill, and a shift towards a knowledge and service-based economy.
• These changes have pushed women out of the domestic sphere and into a more masculine role.
• It is economically productive for women to participate in the workforce and delay childbearing.
• There are costs down the line from these changes, including economic costs.

Section 3: Economic Trade-offs

• Having women in the workplace and less around children creates economic trade-offs.
• The first artifact of measuring GDP is that if a mother goes to work and hires a nanny to do her role, it appears to be economic growth.
• This is a misleading way of calculating economic growth because the nanny's role is not considered in the calculation.
• The feminist project has been about encouraging women to be more like men in every possible way, which is not making women happy.
• Most women want to prioritize family life or balance it against career, rather than having sex like a man.

Section 4: Conclusion

• The feminist thinking has been important and has shaped our recent history in many ways.
• However, it is important to recognize the costs down the line from these changes.
• The priorities tended in a direction that doesn't represent the average woman.
• The feminist project has been about encouraging women to be more like men in every possible way, which is not making women happy.
• Most women want to prioritize family life or balance it against career, rather than having sex like a man.

The Impact of Paid Work on Women and Society

• The introduction of paid work for women has led to a more complex and liable system, with three rotating parts that need to lock together.
• Women's labor participation becomes a variable that can change over time, depending on economic circumstances.
• If families are dependent on two full-time incomes, there is no room for slack and competition with other income sources increases.
• The lump of labor fallacy applies, as wages are halved when women enter the workforce, but this also leads to growth in the economy.
• Housing prices increase due to competition for a fixed supply of housing in good school districts.

The Role of Women in the Workforce

• Women going back to work or entering the workforce for the first time is not a direct result of housing prices or lack of building.
• Women's presence in the workforce has advantages, such as increased intelligence, skills, and agreeableness in a service economy.
• Office culture and corporate culture are increasingly feminine, and women can flourish in these environments.
• Trade-offs exist with any complex historical change, and there are personal side effects of the birth control pill that can affect society.

The Pill and Its Social Consequences

• The pill has had a significant impact on society, particularly in terms of separating sex and reproduction.
• The introduction of the pill in Britain and America led to a rise in single motherhood, despite its initial purpose to regulate fertility.
• The pill has also led to a decrease in marriage rates and an increase in shotgun marriages.
• The pill's effectiveness is not 100%, leading to a high rate of failure and an increase in premarital sex.
• The social institutions that used to regulate fertility, such as marriage, have fallen away as a result of the pill's introduction.

The Sexual Revolution and Its Effects

• The sexual revolution has led to a shift in societal norms and expectations around sex and reproduction.
• The idea of growing babies outside of the human body is seen as narcissistic and unrealistic.
• The phrase "motherhood became a biological choice for women, fatherhood became a social choice for men" highlights the shift in societal norms.
• The deadbeat dad is now socially acceptable, with high rates of non-payment of child support among single mothers.
• Marriage is seen as an oppressive tool by some feminist readers, but the author argues that it is in the interests of mothers and children.

The Gap Between What Women Want and What Feminist Lobbying Organizations Represent

• Feminist lobbying organizations and the media often represent what women want as sex like a man.
• However, most women want to prioritize family life or balance it against career, rather than having sex like a man.
• The author believes that most women want to have children and prioritize their family life.
• Feminist lobbying organizations and the media often do not accurately represent the desires of most women.
• The author argues that the feminist project has been about encouraging women to be more like men in every possible way, which is not making women happy.

The Complexity of Reproduction

• Reproduction is a complex system that is not fully understood by humans.
• Growing babies outside of the human body is a narcissistic idea that is not feasible.
• The idea of growing babies outside of the human body is seen as a radical transformation that is not desirable.
• Human beings are very complex in society, and the effects of technology shocks on them are difficult to predict.
• The author argues that the complexity of human reproduction makes it difficult to meddle with it without causing unintended consequences.

The Psychological Differences Between Men and Women

• There are psychological differences between men and women that affect their behavior and preferences.
• Women are more agreeable than men on average.
• Women are more neurotic than men on average.
• Sexuality differences between men and women are very obvious at the population level.
• Exceptions exist, but in general, men have more unrestricted socio-sexuality.

The Impact of the Sexual Revolution

• The sexual revolution has led to a change in sexual culture that places demands on women.
• Women's Bell curve is trying to be dragged upwards towards the male ends.
• Women are encouraged to behave more like men in every possible way.
• The only group that has profited from this change in sexual culture are very high status men.
• Disagreeable, intelligent women may suffer from the risks associated with casual sex.

The Flexibility of Male Sexuality

• Male sexuality is quite flexible, not in terms of sexual orientation.
• There is an interesting difference between the sexes that women are much more bisexual.
• In theory, men can conceive a child every time they orgasm, which is not true for women.
• Women have evolved to be much more careful about having sex than men.
• There are two modes for men: CAD mode and Dad mode.

The CAD and Dad Modes for Men

• CAD mode for men is being driven towards having as much promiscuous sex as possible.
• Dad mode for men is orientated towards finding a wife, having children, and investing in those.

Section 1: Personal Preference and Incentives

• The stability of a family is influenced by personal preference and cultural factors.
• Some men are more likely to be drawn towards one mode or the other.
• There is an incentive factor that encourages men to choose one mode over the other.
• Culture can drag men in one or the other direction.
• The incentives are all towards the pad mode in our current sexual culture.

Section 2: The Impact of the Sexual Revolution

• The incentives are all towards the pad mode in our current sexual culture.
• The stigma around getting married, settling down, and dating for a long period of time has decreased.
• The failure rate of IVF is high, especially for age-related infertility.
• The age of the eggs used in IVF matters a lot.
• Employers are increasingly offering perks to young female employees, but it is a risky route to go down in terms of having a live child at the end of the process.

Section 3: The Fertility Window and Social Systems

• Maps aren't exactly to your fertility window.
• Life expectancy has increased, but fertility window hasn't.
• Social systems are completely against having children in the early 20s.
• The healthiest time to have children is in your early 20s, but social and biological factors make it inappropriate.
• Things that we cut and struggle to keep people healthy for a long time make it difficult to have children.

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