About this episode
Greetings and salutations, podcast listeners! I am excited to bring you this latest episode featuring Aly Dee, Substacker at Femlosophy (ladydrummond.substack.com) and YouTuber at RealFemSapien. We discuss the always-controversial but vitally important issues surrounding gender roles, marriage, and parenthood in a post-feminist world. Though Aly is too humble to declare this about herself, I will say that she and her husband are examples of people who are absolutely crushing it. Though they’ve surely had to overcome intense challenges and have doubtless made their share of painful mistakes along the way, they are presently making it work and creating the life they want for themselves and their children. It is always wonderful to talk to people like this. First, they are living proof that, in spite of how much of an uphill battle it is to live well in an evil and inverted culture, you can still live well. It is possible. Difficult, yes. Diabolically and unnaturally difficult. But it is possible. And believing it is possible is a very real and crucial first step in achieving that kind of life. Second, they have learned valuable lessons about what works and what doesn’t and have insights to share that could help you see your own situation in a new way. Although, as Aly repeatedly cautions, there aren’t any one-size-fits-all platitudes that you can just mindlessly slap onto your problems like duct tape and, voilà!, solve them once and for all, you can nevertheless find something of value in other people’s experiences and insights and adapt those lessons to the circumstances of your own life.There are two separate and distinct conversations to be had on these kinds of topics. First, there are the big-picture culture war issues: there are very real and historically unique cultural pathologies that prevent people from marrying and forming healthy, happy, stable, and flourishing families together. Billionaire Psycho articulates the young male perspective on this with posts like Crocodile Tears and the Conservative Movement, and Elise Unleashed voices the young female perspective with posts like The Epidemic of Mediocre Men with Sky- High Standards. Their complaints are valid and legitimate. This unnatural state of affairs isn’t working well for anyone, male or female.Second, there is the personal and practical question of how to get on in life and make the most of it, give
