Social Media Is FEMINISING Your Children | Heather Mac Donald

Added: 2026-05-30

[00:00:00]Social media has been the weapon by which the society has been feminized. It has been the tool to do it. It's how it's been these ideologies have been propagated. Not just institutions that you've you've mentioned. So given that it's a bit like the the fast food, you know, in abundance without restrictions or maybe that's a good thing. Maybe actually seeing as I use the term weapon, maybe that's a more useful thing. you wouldn't allow under 18s or I don't know what the law is here on gun ownership. It's different right state to state I imagine but that there's something going on with social media. I think it's it's part of that is that we're giving loaded guns to young children. Look at the increase in suicide rates. Young women having uh uh gender uh or not just young women but I think it's predominantly young women but gender dysphoria or body dysmorphia.

[00:00:52]>> Gender dysphoria. I'm just going to interject. Excuse me. That's a real disease. What's going on with the vast majority of the trans claimments in high school is is completely a fad. This is a social >> contagion.

[00:01:08]>> Contagion. It is not real. And what's the means of contagion?

[00:01:11]>> Yeah. Okay. So, I said I'm I'm the social media I would say is a different issue.

[00:01:16]>> Okay. Um, >> this is >> But again, you're giving people what they want and and it is no surprise to me that females are particularly uh >> Oh, you mean the corporations are giving them what they want.

[00:01:28]>> Yeah. And but but the females that they're that obsessed with their appearance and their fitting into the peer group, that is not surprising. fem that is the female uh on average instinct to be very concerned about their own status within a peer group uh and their their appearance keeping up with fashion.

[00:01:57]the entire sex object industry. We're supposed to feel like, oh, these females are being forced to go around in, you know, have their breast implants and butt implants and whatnot and wear low cut dresses and wear stiletto heels. It's all being forced upon them. Corporations, no, it's their demand. The corporations are meeting a demand. So uh these are female instincts that social media makes more accessible >> but I don't think it social media created >> but so going back to your earlier point is you don't want to kind of poo on the the corporations >> I I actually think it's important that the corporations are poo dot and my argument for that is that the they have played a role in this and if we don't deal with those problems your M darnies and your Palanskis in my country are kind of running away with it because we're not prepared to deal with those same issues. Just because it's a traditionally a leftwing issue to call out corporations doesn't mean corporations shouldn't be called out, >> I think.

[00:03:03]>> Well, and if they're not called out, they run away with that narrative. But maybe I'm uh >> well, everything flips, you know, every power that we want to exercise, and I use we in brackets. I'm not assuming your politics. I'm not assuming listeners politics. But whatever group you are, if you're in if you're in power at the moment and you believe that you have access to the truth and you want to exercise it to the max, you have to be prepared for the fact that it's going to flip.

[00:03:32]>> The other side is going to hold it. You know, this is my just I'm just astounded by the ignorance of academia to realize, okay, they want to declare uh challenges to racial preferences, hate speech, and you know, causing harm to vulnerable populations.

[00:03:52]Uh well, how would they think if a conservative got up there and said, "We think that uh you know, postc colonial discourse creates harm and we want to restrict that." Same here. Um you know, we've already seen you got the left in power and instead of saying to corporations, no more social media, they'll say you have to promote green energy. We already saw this with the ES so-called ESG investment environmental social I forget what the G was governance right. So if if if we are going to dictate to corporations what they can and cannot do, just be aware that that that tool which has already been taken up, you know, it's already been taken up will be used to make sure that corporations don't use fossil fuels, you know, or or do not put out advertising that is insufficiently sensitive to trans identity or to female empowerment. So I I don't have an answer to that but >> well we've gone through a cycle of that I think which is that >> sort of DEI and like say world capitalism had run away with it in the corporations in America which by the way another argument against corporations uh but they they had done a tremendous damage with that and Trump 2.0 undid that immediately and made some some of that DEI stuff illegal rightly in my opinion. Um but then to come to your second point is is which I think is about principles right how do we >> how do we politically work by principles that we hope will be maintained when the other people have power and what's super strange to me both in this country and in my in back in Britain is that neither side are playing principles anymore so much >> and I think from my perspective is was that the Democrats cheated for so long and we really saw this with censorship and they really owned things like what was then Twitter, >> right?

[00:05:59]>> The the response to that was, well, you haven't been playing fair. Why should we play fair? And then there's there's been a response in different domains, I think, on the right and left and and now we're seeing the younger generation going all the way back to the beginning of our conversation that let's say the group is they're like, why should we play by the rules? No one's playing by the rules. We just want to win.

[00:06:17]>> And it's almost like an inverse of what was maybe happening in 17th century England. Yeah. where there you you chiseling away at libert sort of principles to share. Now we're chiseling away at those principles towards winning. That's the the unspiraling I'm seeing. But maybe uh >> No, it's absolutely true. And we see this with Trump and Lawfair. Uh you you know using the power of his office again directing the Justice Department to do certain prosecutions, going after law firms that have are politically left-wing. Uh, and I I'm enough of a girl in this that I don't have the stomach for that endless tit for tat. I think that >> that conservatives should take a high road. But it's it's it's absolutely the case that you get completely symmetrical flips. So one is in favor of a filibuster when it's in your favor and when it's not. uh redistricting, you know, conservatives are now up in arms about California redistricting itself to create voting uh uh >> Jerry. Yeah. Areas that are sympathetic to Democrats. Virginia has done the same thing, but Trump started in Texas. So, it all depends who has power. It's a very difficult thing >> to exercise neutral principles. But I want to go back to the beginning of your question. Um, when you said that you frankly are going to embrace a certain amount of anti-corporate rhetoric or politics, I wonder this all the time when I hear that from the left when you use the phrase corporations that, you know, they they're doing some bad things. Do you specifically mean the legal structure of a corporation which is it's owned by shareholders and it has a board of directors which oversees the direct management and so you have a liability that is distributed. Is it the is it the corporate form that you agree with or is corporations just shorthand for business? In which case, what's your alternative? If you think that corporations are a problem, do you want to get rid of for-profit capitalism or or do you just think that you want it in terms of and and this is kind of not fair because I'm not even sure that you know legal distinctions this would you have limited partnerships instead of corporations? What is it? And and again, it's unfair because I'm using you to a certain extent as just a standin for much broader left-wing discourse, but what is it that you think is wrong here?

[00:09:01]The profit motive or >> No, I I'll tell you >> business.

[00:09:06]>> So, I'm not anti-corporation.

[00:09:08]>> I'm certainly not anti- business. I'm extremely pro- free market, >> but in basic terms, I believe that all markets have failures at some point.

[00:09:20]A clear a really simple example of that would be monopoly and monopoly power.

[00:09:25]>> This is explained by the par distribution but essentially eventually everything accumulates to one. When you play the game monopoly eventually someone wins the whole board >> for a society to function you can't have that. You have to have everyone at least being under the illusion that they can participate in the game because you want them playing the game. And so in in that sense even if it's they need to well yeah so there's that one aspect I'm not against corporations but I think corporations like markets have susceptibility to for corruption and so it might be like we saw with DEI and wokeism coming into the corporations they were driving so much the feminization that you've been writing about for years that's a problem and the reason they even have that power is because they're so huge huge and so large that they're able to dictate things in a way that people don't have a power really to oppose because there aren't other options. Let's say it might not be a monopoly we're in. It might be a duopoly and it might be that okay, we could choose that corporation or that corporation for my healthcare or whatever it is, >> but you don't have a third option that's not corrupted by whatever ideologies.

[00:10:35]And so for me, I'm not against the structure. I'm not I'm certainly not against free markets, trust me. But I do think that if the right if the free market people do not identify the problems with capitalism where it's gone wrong that is an your open goal as we say in in Britain for political oppositions to come in with Marxism to come in with socialism to come with things that are just going to destroy the society. So I think it's really important to identify those problems. Is that a fair answer to your question or not?

[00:11:05]>> Yeah. Yeah. That's absolutely a fair answer and I guess again I am not speaking as somebody who grew up as a free marketer. I was ignorant. I I just was not that politically uh oriented for for much of my childhood young adulthood. And so I'm kind of coming late late to these debates.

[00:11:33]I would say first of all corruption is a very loaded term. I mean the I I don't think corporations are corrupt.

[00:11:42]>> Not necessarily.

[00:11:43]>> To compared to real corruption that we're massively importing from the third world into the west. Um >> sure. And I would also say that this sounds naive perhaps, but in fact, and and this is kind of part of the free market dogma that I'm just going to pair it back, but I I've sort of started to agree with it that their power comes from their ability to satisfy consumer demands. So, we can go back and forth.

[00:12:16]You know, who creates the consumer demands? Is it just an artifact of corporate designs on unwitting helpless cons, you know, citizens? Or is it something that that is meeting something maybe people didn't know they wanted, but were given the option? Yeah, I'll take the damn smartphone. You know, this is great. It improves my life.

[00:12:40]>> Um, and as far as bigness, this again, I'm just going to channel an argument that's out there. And I don't think neither you or I are particularly expert in the issues of antirust and how best to to regulate corporations. But there is an argument that say the Wall Street Journal will make or Steve Moore which is that the effort to uh just say bigness is bad and we're going to maybe artificially limit the size of Amazon or other massively successful companies. uh that unless you can really show that they have exercised illegitimate power to create a monopoly, why are we punishing them? You know, Amazon gets bigger and bigger and wealthier and wealthier because it continues to come up with extraordinarily ingenious ways to lower costs for consumers. It isn't the case, you know, that the traditional argument against monopolies is that it results in price increase because there's no competition. That's not the way our big corporations seem to work.

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