Helen Lewis — Podcast Appearances & AI Summaries

“The thing I would say to him is, you know, he says well it's fine because actually you know the husbands voted on behalf of their wives. That's sort of what landowners used to say that they used to vote on behalf of their serfs. And you know what that didn't work out particularly well for their serfs.”

— Helen Lewis

“The thing I find interesting about that is it doesn't surprise me that he's also an anti-Semite because in both cases the analysis of what's wrong with the outgroup is the same, right? So both Jews and women are simultaneously weak and useless, but also an evil cabal that is controlling the world.”

— Helen Lewis on Nick Fuentes

“I see masculineism as quite an anxious ideology in a way because it's about control. You know, it's about needing to kind of keep a grip on your emotions. You never cry. You know, you don't eat soup because that's gay. You don't cross your legs because you know that's... All these things that you kind of can't do because they would somehow impugn your masculinity does add up to quite a kind of anxious way to live in my view.”

— Helen Lewis