You thought you would throw in the word "Hysterics" at the end, eh? Hmmmm.....

Well that was illuminating. Harris sounds like a slightly more balanced version of J Peterson. Since Peterson’s a rank misogynist that’s not complimentary.

I love me some Sam Harris. And without doubt, the creep, the asshole, the abusive male runs through it all. Lest we forget there is the every day, the nonpolitical, the emasculating, the character destroying, the abusive female. Are they equally bad?

Only idiots don't know what inappropriate behaviour is. Such people don't deserve our time, just punish them.

Any other podcasts/episodes you would recommend on these same topics? Anyone? :)

There is a Male to Female ratio of 7 to 1 in the top 1% of recorded IQs Ive never seen this stat brought up when Feminists misinterpret their lack of representation in CEOs as an injustice.

Sam nailed it, again. Racist, sexist, feminist, masculinist...all just different forms of prejudice. Why not just help all humans that need help?

Most of the people in left right now are quite irrational or deny in some ways science and biology (right does too). But this man always think about a lot of topics very deeply and is extremely reasonable. Thanks Sam.

"All the deatails matter" Sam Harris. Indeed he's right. We should look at both sides.

He's so much clearer, more careful in his language and more honest on the topic of feminism than the likes of Jordan Peterson, who focuses on the more extreme and unreasonable branches of feminism and speaks of all feminists as though we all hold those irrational beliefs.

I am a feminist in the sense "not being a Texasian/Japanese man."

Feminism is so much more than self defense

What a bunch of utter nonsense! The take the blame from the perpetrator to include other people regardless of their role is sexual assault against women, to warn women not speaking up against sexual harassment because if we were to push boundaries of rape and assault there would be a generation of men who might view women as enemy! And to claim that I’m a feminist but..... blah blah! This was a clear attempt to silence women disguised as an intellectual out put!

Sam Harris should talk with Paul Elam, dr Warren Farrell and check out the national coalition for men see what they have to say or even the men’s rights activist in India people only hear feminism they don’t know much about the other side.

There should be an example in every dictionary next to the word intellectual, with Sam Harris' name on it.

I wonder if you hold these same opinions regarding your friend Larry. So far, ive only ever heard you defend him. But its been proven that krauss was AT LEAST creepy and unwarranted. You condemn this im sure right?

"Well, that depends how you define feminism"

The left needs more people like Sam

Sam saying that there's no crisis of women groping, molesting and inflicting varying degrees of assault on men is immensely disingenuous. Male victim rape and male victim domestic violence faces even more serious problems than female victims of the same assaults because men are even more severely stigmatized and disregarded both by society and our justice system for being victims. Male victim violence is trivialized and played for comedic effect in our media in ways that no morally sane person would ever consider for female victims. He mentions the #MeToo movement then conveniently omits the fact that several men have come out as part of the movement and voiced that they've been harassed and assaulted by both men and women in the film industry. He also conveniently omits the fact that women are almost exclusively the perpetrators of false claims of violence and harassment, the fact that married women are given egregiously unfair settlements in their favor in the case of divorce and that men have no functional reproductive rights whatsoever. I'm not going to sit here and say that women don't face very real and very serious threats to their well-being from predatory individuals though, and it really disgusts me that this is always thought of as such a binary topic, where you can either be a radfem or a MGTOW. Decent people, both men and women need to recognize and affirm that we all suffer at the hands of evil people, and that they're the enemy, not each other.

Although he made some valid - albeit generic - criticisms about the lack of presumed innocence/trial by media culture of leftist media, I'm afraid I must conclude this: even a thinker of Sam's caliber can be brought to his knees by the common chivalry that feeds the feminist movement. He mentioned nothing about the sizable surplus of quality of life indicators women have. He mentioned nothing of the great pay gap hoax, and how feminists have left out all of the important stats explaining that gap. He mentioned nothing of the hundreds and thousands of men who have been falsely accused by women all over the Western World, men who are sitting in jail cells right now, concentrating only on some famous people and their petty scandals. He talked about how some things are distinctly harder for women. My question is this: like what? We literally overcorrected everything... everything but the chivalry response. At least 60% of this recording was just the standard male to female chivalry that defines who we are as a culture. How do women feel walking around with all of these strong, 'heavy' men around them? Seriously? If they possess any sanity, they feel completely safe. They are statistically much safer than men due to our chivalrous culture. I'm 42 years old and I have not seen one single case of male to female violence yet in my entire life. Not one. I'm not denying that it happens of course, but what I am saying is it's very rare. Men are agitated, receive less compassion from other men and women, are under nurtured, constantly blamed for the ills of earth, often undersexed to the point of psychological torture, have a Full Slate of shittier quality of life stats compared to women... yet they still prefer to vent their anger by using violence on other men rather than harm an actual woman. Feminism is simply nowhere close to an equality movement... and it doesn't matter what type of feminist, or how passionate he or she is. All feminism manipulates common chivalry by spreading the same brutal lie. You could call it a 'selective equality movement', as they show no interest in the multitude of ways in which men are hindered compared to their female counterparts. Even a man like Sam who clearly has the ability to call this out finds the entire weight of his intellect crushed under the brutal, unforgiving arm of chivalry. Chivalry defines the Western World in terms of gender. Every disparity that exists is merely a side effect of what I call human the chivalry reflex. Sam was likely to afraid do breech the chivalry membrane, and I wouldn't even be surprised if he doesn't even know it exists. It's like a trance. Men are bred from birth to be worker bees who hoist women upon their shoulders, so they can live peaceful, tranquil lives as they give birth to our children and propagate our species. That is still where our subconscious is at, and 99% of us are deeply chivalrous, and would risk serious harm to protect a woman from danger. Feminism is just a disease that grows like a weed in the soil of that chivalry. The chivalry driven, one voice nature of feminism has led it to become a sadomasochistic cult, and essentially a template to inject women's minds with severe narcissism. We've overcorrected subjugation oh, yes. But the entire force of our collective intellect on gender theory should begin revolve around this: we have under corrected psychological chivalry and all of its ramifications, and given birth to angry supercitizens.

Sam Harris is being intellectually dishonest here and abdicating his logic for his political leanings. “Then I’d consider myself a feminist”. It’s like Sam saying “what kind of Christianity are you referring to a) crazy Street preacher b) sharing morals of Christianity? If the latter then I’d consider myself a Christian

Why haven't he addressed important issues such as abolition of marriage institution, promulgation of free sex, encouragement to prostitution etc.

The more I listen to Sam Harris the more I realize how hard he tries to be middle of the road......

Being groped is not the same as being raped of course. But women have also the right not to be groped.

Stop with the Ben Stiller thing. We get it. It’s played out.

Sam raises a lot of great points. BUT I will say that when he speaks of "self defense" it is a VERY one-dimensional perspective from which he speaks. In this day and age, men need to be extremely conscious of the power of legality in every potential misstep they make along the way; that makes "self defense" about FAR more than just a physical threat---and let's not forget that many women get away with abusing men physically because they know they can get away with it and men generally know better than to strike back. Men face not only the wrath of the law, but the repercussions of their male peers as well if even the perception of them laying a hand on a woman takes hold. That is NOT the case for women in ANY way. If a woman abuses a man, it is the MAN who is shamed as a result. Sam's right fundamentally I think, but wrong as the issue is far more extremely nuanced than he's making it out to be. I suspect it has mostly to do with his lack of experience with any crazy bitchez in his life tho'---so I won't hold it against him.

I agree with Sam on a lot, but not really at his points at 4:30. There are a lot of reasons why you don't hear about woman harassing men, including that sexual violence, like regular violence, against men by women is entirely ignored. If a woman gets a guy drunk and has sex with him, it's considered fine. That's why you don't hear about it. Period.

Let me please forward this to every human nurturing a twisted understanding of feminism.

I couldn’t agree more. Thank you.

Weird that Sam has never done a podcast with Christina Hoff Sommers..

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Good video, but I contest the allegation that men are not groped. It may not happen as often, but it does... on the train, at college campus, in the office, though I must admit that it was never by a woman in a position of power. It is however just as unsettling, and traumatizing.

Sam is a true definition of intellectual for me. Not tainted by ideology or political beliefs, he assesses each issue on its merits. This is a great analysis.

There is a huge difference between criminal acts and gender xwz. Call it for what it is, criminal acts and don´t make it to something else or confuse it with something else.

I have always wanted the Hollywood sex scandal to debate how personal responsibility, class and power influenced the actions of Weinstein rather than simply focussing purely on the sex of the perpetrator or victim. The media's insistence on reducing the issue down to biological sex is to oversimplify the problem and to basically assert that all men should bear responsibility for Harvey Weinstein's actions - which is what feminists and the Elite seem to want. As far feminists and their media allies are concerned, a homeless man in Moscow is bears the same level of responsibility as multi-millionaire in Los Angeles for the crimes Weinstein or Bill Cosby, etc... which is absurd. I never hear them asserting that all gay men should take responsibility for Kevin Spacey's behaviour. We would never say all black men are criminals so why is it acceptable to say all men are either sex offenders... or potential sex offenders? What about the thousands of men in Hollywood who haven't assaulted women and would never dream of doing so? How about the billions of men worldwide who haven't groped or abused women and would never dream of doing so? How about the fathers, sons and brothers who want the best for the women in the lives? How about financially poor men who cannot get away with abusing women because they have no money or power to protect them? You will find that financially rich women can get away with a hell of a lot more than a poor man ever could. But money and class never come into the issue because, if they ever did, the "woe is me" cries of super-rich Hollywood actresses would be laughed at by the public at large. Also, why didn't any of the women who claim they were raped or abused by men like Weinstein report him to the police? They could have certainly done something AFTER becoming very wealthy actresses... but many, possibly most of them, did nothing until it became fashionable to jump on a bandwagon

yes, there is a lot of disfunctionality on the internet. sigh.

not as bad as zionism

Yes let sam tell you all about Feminism. How do you know he is an expert? He wrote a book about it.

Great points. We need to protect and heal our women. Nothing gets me angrier than hearing a sexual assault took place. I grew up with a single mom and 2 older sister and they made life easier for me and took care of me. So for me, women are a true gift from god! I know you don’t necessarily agree with the god thing lol but you get what I am saying. We as men need to stand up for women. Enough is enough!

i think some the women who weren't abused probably feared repercussions. it is not okay but we need to change this culture. i'm guessing some men were afraid of Weinstein. there is so much to do , so much to change. hollywood, Bill O'reilly. Trump ...a systematic problem. sadly but grateful this is on the forefront now. and we cannot erase it. It will never be erased. a revolution an evolution.

Omg... It's Ben Stiller

Amazing, from Meet the Parents to this.

My favorite part with Sam is how always measured and zen like he is when he talks. Especially when he talks to ignorant people & I envy him. I don’t think I ever heard him raise his voice.

It is a shame that such a clever man cannot really speak his mind. He is obviously treading very carefully so as not to offend these PC feminists, who have he quite rightly states, gone too far.

Sam Harris, you're barely saying anything in this video, only supporting the status quo with carefully weighted arguments which only point to the fact you're not immoral in your views towards women, without daring to advance any positions which will truly help women's condition. You're using the worst possible strands of "feminists" arguments as straw-men to "debunk" many worthwile claims of respectable feminists. Respectable feminists do not see all men as crazy sex monsters (even though many are) but remark systemic problems in our society which lead to nearly all men as seing women as people with less agency and less importance, deserving less respect in nearly all areas of their lives. Also, I find you failed to point to the fact that actions such as groping a woman's body parts is, without any nuance, a morally despicable thing to do. Sure, not to the same degree as raping someone at knife-point, but nothing could possibly attenuate the fact that no one who does not wish to be touched should be groped with sexual intent.

Well ok. It is difficult to disagree with him on the basis that women suffer sexual predation more than men. That is simply a fact. But, my problem with feminism is its dishonesty. Feminists have way too much influence on the laws and are destroying our society with their gender quotas, disregard of meritocray and abuse the welfare system.

There you have your typical deceitful lukewarm jew.

Why does Sam sound so... sleepy on his podcast?

This guy's eyes are so unsymmetrical

a great balanced argument on feminism, love it