Andrew Wilson vs. Pxie (Feminist) HEATED DEBATE! | Whatever Debates #8

Date: 2024-08-03
Duration: 5h 08m

Identified Speakers

SPEAKER_01Pixie(guest)
SPEAKER_02Andrew Wilson(guest)
SPEAKER_05TTS/Donations(audience)
SPEAKER_06TTS/Donations(audience)
SPEAKER_08Brian Atlas(host)

Key Moments

00:01:29
QuoteBrian references the previous night's incident: a woman assaulted/harassed Andrew on the Whatever Discord stream. Andrew describes it as 'some kind of battery or at the very least harassment.' Brian says 'if I did it, I would have gone to jail.'

What did she assault you or was it... I would say some kind of maybe battery or the very least harassment... If I did it I would have gone to jail

00:02:28
QuoteBrian introduces Pixie: co-host of Sugar Spice podcast, triple-major University of Florida graduate (BS Psychology, BA Philosophy, BA Economics). Introduces Andrew Wilson as political commentator, bloodsport debater, host of The Crucible.

His feminist debate opponent is Pixie... She's the co-host of the Sugar Spice podcast. She graduated from University of Florida with a triple major

00:07:39
ControversyAndrew opens with the transcendental argument for God: knowledge requires an unchanging standard; the laws of logic are unchanging; therefore God (as the unchanging ground of truth) is the necessary precondition for knowledge. Any subjective worldview destroys the capacity to know anything.

Without an unerring standard or a standard which is unchanging, your ability to know something is going to be arbitrary... I actually believe that there is truth which you can know

00:28:44
QuotePixie chooses bear over man in the bear/man question — but only a black bear, not grizzly. Argues black bears typically don't realize they're apex predators and avoid humans, while men are more unpredictable. Grizzly bears: she'd take her chances with even a predatory man.

If it's a black bear, I would pick bear. If it's anything but a black bear, I would pick a guy... grizzly bears will kill you on site

01:33:20
ControversyAndrew states force doctrine: the reason women have rights is because men permit it. Men hold a monopoly on physical force. All female rights ultimately derive from male consent to grant those rights. This is the core of his anti-feminist argument.

Men have a monopoly on force... the reason you have rights is because men allow you to have rights

02:14:00
ControversyPixie argues female prison guards armed with guns are as effective as men — accuracy and speed are the key metrics, not strength. Andrew counters that prisoners would disregard gun threats from women more readily. Extended back-and-forth on whether women can realistically enforce order in all-male prisons.

Same exact training with weaponry, same exact training for control... If I have a gun and I shoot you before you can reach me, you're going to go down

03:06:29
QuotePixie describes an implicit force counter-argument: a hypothetical society where an employer opts out of wage garnishment enforcement, suggesting force is not always the mechanism underlying social agreements.

Such a society could exist, right? Where an employer opts to not deal with the state

03:42:02
QuoteTTS donation from 'Congrats you_played_yourself': '100% of what you scam as the patriarchy derives from female sexual selection. Men must climb hierarchies and attain power. If you didn't demand it, it would go away.' Brian calls it a good point.

100% of what you scam as the patriarchy derives from female sexual selection. Men must climb hierarchies plus attain power. If you didn't demand it, it would go away

03:55:00
ControversyAndrew presents the sexual selection argument: women's mate preferences (taller men, higher earners, status holders) are what create and sustain patriarchal hierarchies. If women didn't demand these traits, men would not compete for them. Women select a smaller pool of men (hypergamy) while men have broader preferences.

Women desire a few different traits. They want men who are taller than them... men don't give a f*** if they make as much money... The pool opens much wider for men

04:30:00
QuoteAndrew calculates stay-at-home mom labor: ~45 hours/week across childcare, cooking, cleaning, logistics. Compares to a professional working 60+ hours. Pixie pushes back on whether hours worked is the right metric for valuing childcare.

Going to give you in 7 days 45 hours of labor... What do you think your husband's averaging of labor per day?

04:52:00
ControversyAndrew concedes Pixie's argument that stay-at-home moms are vulnerable in divorce: they give up career advancement and financial independence. He acknowledges this was her strongest point in the debate. However, he argues the husband takes greater overall financial risk (alimony, asset split) in most divorce outcomes.

I thought that that was a much better portion of the verbal sparring and that your points were a lot more solid there

05:02:54
QuotePixie reveals her age (25) and marriage plans: wants to marry closer to 30, wants 3 kids, does not want to get divorced. Cites her family: 14 first cousins, most aunts/uncles married ~30 and had 3+ children. Andrew responds with biological clock warnings.

I'm 25 and I don't want to get married until I am closer through 30 for a couple of reasons... I want three kids

05:05:18
QuoteAndrew gives closing statement: thanks Pixie; declares force doctrine 'completely wrecked' Pixie's arguments; criticizes her prison guard stance; concedes stay-at-home mom divorce vulnerability as valid. Ends with 'God is real and Christ is God.'

Force doctrine does exist... completely wrecked there... I thought you did pretty good on the last round... Also, God is real and Christ is God

Topics Discussed

00:00:13
Show Intro & Announcements

Brian delivers intro monologue: Streamlabs vs. YouTube cut, TTS trigger details, Discord/Patreon links. Mentions previous night's stream where Andrew was assaulted/harassed by a woman ('battery or the very least harassment'). Clip available on Discord.

00:01:54
Debater Introductions

Brian introduces Pixie (Sugar Spice podcast co-host, triple-major UF graduate) and Andrew Wilson (The Crucible host, political commentator, bloodsport debater). Pixie gives opening statement: utilitarian worldview, egalitarian ideals, threshold deontology. Andrew gives opening statement: Eastern Orthodox Christian; knowledge requires an unchanging standard; presents transcendental argument for God.

00:08:20
Epistemology & Foundations Debate

Pre-debate philosophical exchange. Andrew argues knowledge is impossible without an unchanging standard (God). Pixie argues from subjective experience and empirical grounding. Discussion of laws of logic, Gettier problems, the barn hypothetical, objectivity vs. subjectivity, and whether relativism destroys the capacity for knowledge. Andrew presents the transcendental argument; Pixie challenges the 'box' limitation of subjectivism.

00:28:44
Man vs. Bear Question

Brian asks Pixie the 'man vs. bear in the woods' question. Pixie chooses bear — but only a black bear (not grizzly), citing unpredictability of men vs. known bear behavior. Andrew challenges by asking if she'd pat 100 random men vs. 100 bears — she concedes the point. Discussion of whether the bear/man choice reflects anti-male bias or rational risk assessment.

00:35:45
Feminism Definition & Scope

Andrew proposes definition: feminism = movement toward egalitarianism + dismantling of patriarchy. Pixie refines: equality of opportunity without enforcing interchangeability of outcomes. Both agree men and women have different ontological natures and interests. Discussion of whether gender stereotypes punish both sexes. Brief diversion: Brian announces previous guest Desiree is raffling off worn underwear.

00:54:00
Women in Male-Dominated Fields

Debate about why women are underrepresented in physically demanding/dangerous jobs. Pixie argues structural discrimination: women laughed out of oil fields, not given a chance. Andrew counters that women in politics are glorified not suppressed; no female Navy Seals exists. Discussion of epigenetics, interest divergence, and whether barriers are discriminatory or natural. Pixie argues women in male-dominated fields face higher rates of sexism/harassment.

01:28:20
Force Doctrine Debate

Extended debate on Andrew's 'force doctrine': men hold a monopoly on physical force, therefore all female rights ultimately derive from male permission. Pixie challenges: guns as equalizer, guerrilla warfare, implicit vs. explicit force. Andrew argues force doctrine explains societal power structures regardless of guns. Discussion of gun ownership distributions, women's ability to use firearms effectively, and whether force underpins all social contracts including employer/employee relations.

02:14:00
Female Prison Guards Debate

Pixie argues female prison guards with guns are as effective as men — accuracy and speed matter more. Andrew: male prisoners would overpower female guards regardless of gun accuracy. Discussion of reload speed, melee range, physical dominance, and whether women would invest their life savings in female-only prison guard staff. Both agree gun accuracy matters but disagree on real-world effectiveness in prison scenarios.

02:33:20
Firearms & Guerrilla Warfare

Andrew poses hypothetical: all US men's guns disappear, women have all firearms. Could women permanently enslave men? Pixie argues no — guerrilla tactics, subversion. Andrew argues women don't build guns, 3D printing hasn't led to armed female uprising, and force doctrine holds. Discussion of AR-15 / M16 ammunition history (McNamara's errors). Extended discussion of implicit force in contracts and the state's enforcement role.

03:00:00
Military Draft & Women in Combat

Brian asks Pixie if she'd support women being drafted. She says men would probably be picked more due to physical fitness. Discussion of mandatory vs. voluntary service, whether a nation without enough volunteers deserves to survive, former-military recall as an entailment of any draft system.

03:09:00
Patriarchy Definition & Power Structures

Return to core feminism debate. Brian asks if Pixie would ban men. Discussion of working definitions of feminism and patriarchy. Andrew argues women have statuses and power men don't. Pixie argues power wielded through social contracts and indirect force, not just brute force. Discussion of Rome as a republic vs. patriarchy, egalitarian societies. TTS donation: '100% of what you call patriarchy derives from female sexual selection.'

03:45:00
Sexual Selection & Mating Behavior

Andrew argues women's mate selection criteria (height, income, status) drive men to compete for hierarchical positions — if women didn't demand these traits, patriarchal structures would dissolve. Women select from a smaller pool of men (hypergamy). Discussion of millionaire men vs. younger women, class marriage patterns, and whether intelligence is a positive trait in female mates. Twitch poll: 93% say they'd prefer a hot 25-year-old over a wealthy 35-year-old.

04:20:00
Stay-at-Home Mom Economics

Andrew and Pixie calculate stay-at-home mom labor hours: ~45 hours/week across childcare, cooking, cleaning, logistics. Andrew argues this is less than a 60+ hour professional workweek. Pixie argues childcare is more emotionally demanding than quantifiable hours suggest. Discussion of whether stay-at-home parenting is a privilege or burden. Debate on divorce vulnerability of stay-at-home moms — Andrew concedes Pixie's point that stay-at-home moms are financially exposed if marriage ends.

04:50:00
Divorce Risk & Marriage Economics

Discussion of who bears more risk in marriage with a stay-at-home partner. Andrew argues men take greater financial risk (alimony, asset split, custody costs). Pixie argues women who give up careers are economically vulnerable. Discussion of divorce rates by income bracket, whether post-divorce women are better or worse off than pre-marriage. Statistics on women initiating divorces cited. Andrew's closing statement: force doctrine proven; feminism not demonstrated. Pixie's closing: appreciated the debate; still disagrees on power structures.

05:03:18
Closing Statements & Wrap-Up

Andrew's closing: thanks Pixie; critiques her patriarchy definition, force doctrine, and prison guard arguments as weak; acknowledges stay-at-home mom divorce vulnerability as her strongest point. Pixie's closing: tired, hungry, appreciates spirited exchange. Brian reads final TTS messages. Pixie confirms she is 25 and wants to marry ~30 with 3 kids. Twitch raid attempted. Brian announces Sunday 5pm Pacific Dating Talk episode.

Transcript

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00:00:13
Brian AtlasWelcome to a special debate edition of the Whatever podcast coming to you live from Santa Barbara, California. I'm your host and moderator, Brian Atlas. Few quick announcements before the show begins. This podcast is viewer supported
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Brian Atlassort of debate, I don't know if we would call that a debate. Uh, yesterday on our Discord, discord.gg GG/W whatever. We posted the uh Could you X out at the top there? Yeah, it's all good. It's all
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Brian Atlasgood. Uh we posted the clip on our Discord. It's discord.gg/w whatever. You can sign up via patreon.com/w whatever if you want to check it out. This this
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Brian Atlaswoman uh she uh is it was an assault, Andrew? What did she assault you or was it I mean I don't know exactly what to call it. I would say some kind of maybe battery or the very least harassment. I
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Brian Atlashave no idea. Something. In any case, that is available. If I did it, I would have gone to jail. Let's put it that way. Indeed. So, uh, it is available on our Discord, discord.gg/ whatever. That was just from
00:01:54
Brian Atlasyesterday's show. And without further ado, I'm joined today by Andrew Wilson, host of The Crucible. He is a political commentator, political satist, and blood
00:02:04
Brian Atlassport debater. His feminist debate opponent is Pixie. as she goes online. She's the co-host of the Sugar Spice podcast. She graduated from University of Florida with a triple major, getting
00:02:17
Brian Atlasher BS in psychology and BA in philosophy and economics. Now, you can each have an opening statement and the rest of the show will just be an open debate conversation. Pixie will go first
00:02:28
Pixieand then Andrew. So, go ahead, Pixie. Hi, I'm Pixie. Um, I was asked to basically begin with a general worldview. Obviously, that's really complicated and really hard because the
00:02:39
Pixieworld's complicated and hard. But if I had to say what I generally believe in, um, most of my principles are utilitarian like the greatest amount of good for the greatest amount of people with the least amount of harm possible.
00:02:51
PixieUm, other than that, I'm a big fan of roles like veil of ignorance, right? If we didn't know what race, gender, whatever component you want to say, and
00:03:01
Pixiewe're going to be thrust into society, how would that society ideally be? Um, I just want to live in a world that is as equal as possible in terms of opportunity and, you know, with a basic
00:03:14
Pixiestandard of living. That is my ideal. Obviously, life be a little bit more complicated than that. Um, and even in terms of utilitarianism, oh god, party foul. Party foul. It's okay. Utilitarianism. Um,
00:03:27
Pixiekeep going. You're fine. Yeah. I still believe that. How many utils did you just lose? So many. I going to a bad place. Negative 10 utils. Um I still think that we have certain
00:03:37
Pixieduties towards you know our loved ones or you know our friends, family members etc etc. Um but yeah overall I have more
00:03:48
Brian Atlasof a utilitarian perspective on things. That's my my general world view. Peace out. Peace out you too homie. Sorry did uh did not mean to press that. I had to move. I was cleaning up the popcorn. and I was cleaning up the
00:04:02
Andrew Wilsonpopcorn and then um then I guess we can get into your views on feminism. Yeah. Um do you want me to do that right now or Yeah, for just your opening. So I was just requesting that you gave
00:04:12
Pixieme your worldview so that I knew what what prism you're looking through as you kind of tell me what your takes are on feminism. Yeah. So basically my general view on feminism is that we've made a a lot of
00:04:25
Pixielong strides when it comes to equality. Um, I still think that there's certain like gender stereotypes or behaviors that we like punish um for both men and women. I do think men are sometimes at a
00:04:37
Pixieslight advantage when it comes to certain power structures in place um because of old notions of what it means to be masculine or feminine. But yeah, I
00:04:48
Pixiejust want to strive to be in a world where, you know, a guy can act sad or emotional and they're not punished for it and where a woman can act like, you know, straightforward or confident or
00:05:00
Pixiedirect and not be punished for that either. Um, that's just where I'm at. So, just to reiterate very quickly, uh,
00:05:12
Andrew Wilsonyour general worldview is utilitarianism. The only thing I I just wanted to quickly follow up on is you said that you have duties. Does this fall under threshold deontology where you feel that there's duties up until a point and then you switch over to
00:05:23
Pixieutilitarianism? Yeah, basically I mean if there was one moral system that solved it all, we wouldn't be constantly debating about this in philosophy, right? Like this wouldn't be a thing that's still talked
00:05:34
Pixielike in academia for forever. Um but basically even though I ascribe a lot to like util utilitarianism in the sense of the greatest amount good for greatest
00:05:44
Pixieamount to people um there is still a level of duty that you have towards your friends or family. Um,
00:05:56
Pixieso for example, let's say you get slightly more utility by in a hypothetical reality, right? This might not make whatever. In a hypothetical reality,
00:06:07
Pixieum, lying to everybody about your friend in a negative manner for whatever reason, let's say that just produces more utility in the world. Um, well, then there's two things there. I think you can probably still create a better world where you don't have to
00:06:19
Pixiestoop to such a level to lie in a malicious manner. U most likely. And then second of all, you also shouldn't do that because that's your friend. And I guess what I'm trying to say here,
00:06:29
Pixiewhat I'm trying to get at is that um there's a way to be good to each other on a personal level that I think a framework of duty explains better than a
00:06:40
Pixieframework of utility. So you could have a framework of utility when it comes to like general policies like on a large scale, whatever. Um but when it comes to personally like how should I treat you? Should I treat you with kindness? That's
00:06:54
Pixiewhere you get a little bit more individualistic. Obviously, sometimes these things can like contradict. Again, moral philosophy, as you know, is pretty complicated in terms of like academia.
00:07:05
PixieThere's so many different arguments. I'm open to learning to talking more about it. It's just obviously something that people still wrestle with a lot because there are a lot of moral conundrums out there. Yeah. I don't I don't think that you
00:07:17
Andrew Wilsoncould explain the entirety of your worldview in a single opening statement, right? I'm just kind of looking for the the key point principles. So utilitarianism, the basic harm principle, and then a threshold where it
00:07:28
Andrew Wilsonmeets duty. So duty has to be in play there in some points because you don't think that utilitarianism itself can accommodate everything. Okay. So there's like a bit of threshold deontology. All
00:07:39
Andrew Wilsonright. So I'll dive into um to my opener here. So I came to Christianity first logically rather than uh spiritually. the
00:07:51
Andrew Wilsonspiritual part of it came after the logical part. That actually is very common with people, more common than people know. Um, so to give you kind of my framework and understanding, I'm an Eastern Orthodox Christian. So that's
00:08:04
TTS/Donationsthe viewpoint that I go, you know, look at the world from. But my Intel Wild donated $100. Andrew, for all of us on the Crucible/
00:08:16
TTS/Donationswhatever side, please wreck this woke leftist blue head, feminist, Nazi, treehugging, carbon footprint, gender pronoun, Kuma. Bluehaired.
00:08:27
PixieThat's where I draw the line. Like, everything else is fine, but I clearly do not have blue hair. She only has green hair sometimes. Yeah, sometimes in edited thumbnails. Yeah. So, um, so
00:08:39
Andrew WilsonI'm an Eastern Orthodox Christian, but to give you an overview of what that means, I'm going to kind of accommodate Catholics and then what I would consider most Protestants would consider to be a
00:08:51
Andrew WilsonChristian. So, from my worldview, knowledge is not possible without there being a God. It's not even possible. And here's what I mean by that. Without an an unairring
00:09:03
Andrew Wilsonstandard or a standard which is unchanging, your ability to know something is going to be arbitrary. Any st any appeal that you make, any standard appeal that you make to anything ever is going to reduce to
00:09:15
Andrew Wilsonrelativism and it's going to reduce to being arbitrary no matter what. So because that standard doesn't exist, I actually believe that there is truth which you can know and knowledge which
00:09:27
Andrew Wilsonyou can know because I appeal to the standard which is unchanging. The reason we're trinitarians, meaning we believe in the triune nature of God is because
00:09:37
Andrew Wilsonfirst in John 1:1, the word was with God and God was the word. Okay. What this is saying is um if
00:09:48
Andrew Wilsonyou if you move forward to 114 in John, it says, "And the word became flesh." So that would be Jesus Christ. So in the beginning, there's the word.
00:09:59
Andrew WilsonThe word was God. The word was with God. And then in 114, the word becomes flesh. So that means Jesus Christ is God. Right? Part of the nature of God. John
00:10:10
Andrew Wilson14:6, Jesus Christ says, "I am the way, the truth, and the light." Okay. So the key word there for us is truth, right? The way, the truth and the light. So in philosophy, a justified true belief is
00:10:23
Andrew Wilsonknowledge, right? I mean according Aristotle is the one or not I can't remember who exactly but then knowledge is a justified true belief. So
00:10:35
Andrew Wilsonyou can have a justified belief but that doesn't mean it's true. So since we don't have a justified true belief and we believe that the truth is God and must be God because that's the only inherent unchanging standard that there
00:10:47
Andrew Wilsoncould ever be for truth. Essentially I feel like most everything that anybody tells me who's not a Christian is a lie because it has no foundational grounding
00:10:58
Andrew Wilsonfor it to be true. It's moving towards some kind of standard which is completely arbitrary. So I think that your worldview in and of itself destroys
00:11:08
Andrew Wilsonthe ability the very ability for you to even have knowledge. So that is the my worldview and how I see things. Now I'm not here to have a preup debate with you about Christianity, right? But I did
00:11:20
Andrew Wilsonwant you to understand my viewpoint and how it is that I think about Christianity. And I think most Christians think of it this way. Yeah. Okay. I feel bad because I know we're supposed to talk about feminism, but I want to ask you if you've ever heard of Getty
00:11:32
Andrew WilsonProblems. Yes. Yeah, the thing is is that those can be reconciled through the orthodox worldview as well. Okay. So, you're talking in the getter problems of the laws of logic having problems like um you could be half in a
00:11:45
Pixieroom, half in a different room, stuff like this. But these are semantic issues, right? No, no. I or here let me give you an example of um a get your problem. Um so, for example, let's say you are driving by in your car.
00:11:59
PixieYeah. And then you pass what is it? You pass a barn. Yeah. And you say there's a barn. Yeah. Um it's justified. You saw it.
00:12:09
PixieUm it's a belief that you're holding and it's true. Except in this case, in this scenario, that was actually a fake barn and right behind it was a real barn. I know that sounds weird, but obviously it's just a theoretical.
00:12:23
PixieSure. Um technically your belief is still true. You said there's a barn over there. Um but can you really say that's knowledge? Did you truly know there was a barn there when what you were pointing to was in fact a fake barn?
00:12:36
Andrew WilsonBut I mean that would just move into precept. So whatever whatever standard implied knowledge that you would have be relative anyway. So who cares if there's a barn behind it or not because it's going to be whatever you're going to appeal to to know that there's a barn behind it, it's going to be an arbitrary standard which can be reduced to
00:12:50
Andrew Wilsonrelativism. I mean does it have to be arbitrary? I guess yeah you could never I don't see how if you didn't have a standard which was unchanging meaning could not be changed how you it wouldn't reduce to a relative standard.
00:13:02
PixieUm okay I'm going to put it this way. Mhm. Let's say that there is a
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Pixiecertain period in time where you had this village and in this village they decided that like when the water falls down, when you're getting water, whatever, um you should give it to the
00:13:24
Pixieold people first because they need it more. You know, it's more important that they get water first, whatever, whatever, whatever, whatever. Sorry. Um and let's say over time everything gets better like their water systems get
00:13:37
Pixiebetter blah blah blah things become more involved more advanced um and now that rule is arbitrary things changed the circumstances changed but it doesn't mean that rule is always arbitrary what
00:13:49
Andrew WilsonI'm trying to convey here is that no no okay that rule would not have been arbitrary so the meaning of arbitrary meaning without system or something like this but it would have been relative and that's the point it would have been
00:14:02
Andrew Wilsona relative rule. So, it wouldn't have been anything that you were basing it on other than some metric you made up. But even though it was a metric you made up, it was a metric that was tied down towards like our physical reality of how
00:14:15
Pixiewe interact with each other, how the environment is. But could somebody have come in and said, "Eh, don't give the water to the old people first." And they could have agreed to that, right? Um, they could have agreed to that, but that doesn't mean that they did what was in the best interest of
00:14:28
Andrew WilsonSure. But that means that the standard can be changed. So if the standard can be changed, standard is relative. For instance, the laws of logic can't be changed. Okay. So, so for instance, can you tell me how you would change the laws of logic without appealing to the laws of logic
00:14:42
Pixiefirst? No, no. I I'll agree with you that the laws of logic can't be changed. But I think what I'm trying to disagree with you here on is just because something can be changed doesn't necessarily make it arbitrary.
00:14:53
Andrew WilsonNo, no, no. arbitrary in this case. If you're talking about the definition of has no system to it, I believe that you can come up with all sorts of systems and then it's no longer arbitrary, but
00:15:05
Andrew Wilsonit's still relative. It's still made up. And so what I'm saying is that the laws of logic are not relative. They're not made up. They exist as a metaphysical reality and they must exist as a metaphysical
00:15:16
Pixiereality because they can't be changed. And if you can change them, I would love to know how you could. Um, can I ask you a question on like how do you define and this sounds funny or weird but how do
00:15:28
Andrew Wilsonyou define like objectivity? Uh, well it depends on what you mean by objectivity. So like an easy way might be correspondence theory of truth that that which corresponds with reality you could say is objective. There's many
00:15:41
Andrew Wilsondifferent theories of truth which are encompassed in Christianity. But I think correspondence theory would be fine for us to use as some definition for objective truth. Yes. Okay. And just to clar you believe in objective truth. You would have to
00:15:54
Andrew Wilsonbecause you believe in that objective standard. So if you believe in a subjective truth and everything is relative then like for your moral standard what do I even care about your moral standard for? Yeah. Okay. So cuz in my head what are you writing? She's crazy.
00:16:08
PixieNothing. Okay. Go ahead. Um where was I? We're talking about subjective.
00:16:17
PixieYes. Subjective. Objective. um what that which relates to an outside reality. So I think um and we agree with this definition just making it crystal clear. Well, I'm not sure if we agree on it or
00:16:30
Andrew Wilsonnot. I don't think we need to for the purpose of the debate. I'm just trying to express to you what my viewpoint is as we go into the the debate on feminism and showing that I I'm probably not going to agree with
00:16:42
Andrew Wilsonyour principles of utilitarianism, nor you with my principles of Christianity. But that doesn't mean that if we both can look at like correspondence theory or something like that that which corresponds with reality that maybe we couldn't find some common
00:16:55
Pixieground here on feminism itself. Yeah, I agree. I think just my main issue that I take is that when you are cuz I I also believe in objective
00:17:05
Pixiemorality but I believe in it I think for a different reason that you do. Um and there there's so many thoughts but here I'll start here. So basically, I think my problem with your worldview or with
00:17:18
Pixiehow you're starting it out is that you're saying, "Oh, no, like there has to be an unchanging God because then anything else is relative and therefore like subjective." Correct me if I'm wrong. No, then no, no, no. What I'm saying to you is that knowledge itself is not
00:17:31
Andrew Wilsonpossible. If knowledge itself, the thing that you appeal to, has an arbitrary metric, knowledge becomes impossible. You can't know anything if you say there's no standard which is unchanging for which we can know a thing by.
00:17:43
Andrew WilsonTherefore, no belief you have can be true because knowledge itself is a justified true belief. Yeah. Okay. So you So by having a subjective
00:17:53
Andrew Wilsonworldview from my worldview, you have destroyed the very capacity to even have knowledge. Yeah. And I think where the major disagreement comes from is that things
00:18:05
Andrew Wilsoncan be changing but you can still know of something despite the changes. How do you know if you if you can't appeal to a standard from which if you always appeal to it is unchanging? How could you ever
00:18:15
Andrew Wilsonknow that? Yeah. How do you know? Okay. Maybe you can help me answer this. So like Yeah. This beer Mhm. Right. Can that be water? No.
00:18:26
PixieHow do you know? because I see that it is beer and I know that you unless if you decide to do some a bunch of like chemical processes essentially it's not going to so you're appealing to some unerrant
00:18:38
Andrew Wilsonstandard some unchanging standard which would say that this always must be itself like the laws of logic would say this beer can only be what it is which is beer right yeah I'm I'm basically appealing to
00:18:52
Pixiethis is where we're going to we're going to start disagreeing probably my experiences essentially and some laws of logic within like those experiences that I've had, right? So, yeah, but your experiences are going to have to still be limited to the confines of knowledge, which is still going to be
00:19:05
Andrew Wilsonconfined to the loss of logic. Yeah. But those confines are within my reality, if that makes sense. So, okay, I'm going to Yeah, that Well, hang on. That's true. Yes. Yeah, I'm you you yourself, I
00:19:16
Andrew Wilsonthink, can have subjective experiences. Sure. I think that you can have many subjective experiences, but that really doesn't have anything to do with whether or not they're true or whether or not
00:19:27
Andrew Wilsonyou have the capacity to know things if you think that knowledge itself has no standard for objectivity. How the hell can you say I know anything? If that is the case,
00:19:37
Pixiewell, yeah, that's what I was going to get to. Um, basically for you to state that there is an outside like external like unchanging force, you would have to essentially
00:19:51
Andrew Wilsonprove that to me. Why? Cuz otherwise proof to Okay, so here's the thing. I will give you philosophical proof that there is an unchanging source from which
00:20:03
Andrew Wilsonwe can always appeal to for knowledge called the laws of logic. Now, if that is not true, can you explain to me how these can be changed? If they are subjective, they should be changeable. Can you change the laws of logic or can
00:20:16
Pixiecan you not? No, I'm saying those laws of logic can 100% not be changed in your no in your reality. The problem is in any reality.
00:20:26
PixieYou would have to prove to me a reality exists outside of your perspective which you inherently cannot do because you are quite literally processing everything through your perspective. Like it would
00:20:39
Pixiebe an impossible task for me to prove that in any reality. Do you think that a thing cannot be what a thing is? Essentially, even if those rules are true, they're still confined to my
00:20:52
Andrew Wilsonreality. Does that make sense? Even if they're confined to your reality, all I need you to do is envision a reality in which a thing isn't what it is, which I can't, but that doesn't mean it
00:21:03
Andrew Wilsondoesn't exist outside all possible realities that you can possibly come up with. It's not good enough philosophical proof for you that you can't think of a single one in which the laws of logic
00:21:15
Pixiewould not apply. Andrew, what I'm trying to convey here Mhm. You see this box? Yep. Okay. Let's for the audience you are in this box.
00:21:27
PixieOkay. And you're basically saying, "Oh, nothing outside this box can exist because I cannot perceive of anything outside this box." But just because you cannot perceive of anything outside this
00:21:38
Andrew Wilsonbox doesn't mean that there is nothing outside the box. You are confined to the box through your experiences. This is just an argument from incredility. Ultimately what you're saying is it's possible that there are things which exist outside of anything
00:21:50
Andrew Wilsonyou could ever envision. And so therefore this thing may not be true. That's just incredility. Yeah. No, that's just incredility. It's a facious argument. What I need you to do is tell me based on any experience, subjective
00:22:03
Pixieor otherwise. Explain to me why I just did. I gave you No, you didn't. You said it's fellacious, but you did not explain to me why it's fious. The argument from incredility is a facious argument. You have to explain to me why you believe it's facious. You have to say
00:22:15
Andrew Wilsonit's felacious. Okay? Because I could say I could be incredulous about any argument you make, right? You could say, for instance, I'm not here right now. Right? And I go,
00:22:25
Andrew Wilsonwell, well, I don't believe that. Well, that's not an argument. That's not an actual argument. That's not my argument is essentially Yeah. Hang on. Hang on. Do you agree with me that that would be facious
00:22:36
Andrew Wilsonargumentation? Um, I would agree with you, but that's not what I'm saying. It is what you're saying. You're saying because I can't envision something
00:22:46
Andrew Wilsonoutside of anything which can even be envisioned where the laws of logic may not be true. You're just saying conceptually there could be. But when I ask you to demonstrate a reality in which it could even be true, you still
00:22:59
Pixiecan't even do that. No. Because what I'm trying to say is that inherently every law of logic, every experience you have, everything you ever do must go
00:23:11
Andrew Wilsonthrough your own perception first. Okay. But you would agree with me even if that's true. Okay. You think that other people have perceptions, right? Yes. But I never prove it fully
00:23:23
Andrew Wilsonfrom your from your perception. You think But you do think that I can think that. Yeah. But I'll never be able to prove it fully. But you don't really need to. You don't really need to prove it fully. You we can just go off of your perceptions. Then if you can't prove anybody else has
00:23:36
Andrew Wilsonthem and only you have them inside of anything in which you can envision you from your subjective metric, the only one which exists or is necessary. Can a world exist where the laws of logic do not apply?
00:23:48
Andrew WilsonNo. But that's here here's the deal, right? If we that's powerful philosophical proof by the way but okay of an unchanging standard which can be adhered to for knowledge here here's the deal right
00:24:00
Pixieif we can agree that even though I do not know or I cannot prove something outside of my own perception that's an impossible task to
00:24:10
Pixiedo um it is still still real to me right it is still something that is you know actively affecting my life I cannot just like pretend it doesn't um it doesn't make any less real. Does that make
00:24:23
Andrew Wilsonsense? Does that make sense? You could say you can say that, but I'm just going to grant it. I'm just going to grant that it's all real to you. Okay. Okay. So, even granting that it's all real to
00:24:32
Andrew Wilsonyou, right? Do from what is real from your perspective, can you change the laws of logic? No. No. I don't I we just answer the question. No, I did. I did. I answered.
00:24:43
Andrew WilsonSo, if the answer is yes, then that's the only only standard you can appeal to for objective knowledge, right? What the laws of logic? Yeah. What other objective standard can you think of which is unchanging?
00:24:55
PixieWell, that's the point that I'm trying to get across is that even if there is a reality outside of my current experience which I do not know. I do not know if that's the case. Whatever whatever
00:25:08
Pixieum there are still these basic components of our experiences and yeah like the laws of logic in a sense are an experience right? thinking like 1 + 1 equals 2 is something that you are
00:25:20
Andrew Wilsonactively experiencing, going through, thinking about, putting together. No, I disagree. I believe that these are discovered. They're not subjective metrics of the human mind, but rather discoveries which you find because they're true.
00:25:32
Andrew WilsonYou're Yeah, pre you're presupposing an external world, which brings us back to problem. No, hang on. It I'm not presupposing an external world. What I'm saying to you is from your subjective metric right now, which is what you consider to be
00:25:45
Andrew Wilsoneverything in reality which exists and that you could ever perceive of from that metric, do you agree that when you pass away the laws of logic will still
00:25:55
Andrew Wilsonbe here even if you can't perceive them? Yeah. No, that's presupposing that there is a existence outside or after myself. Everything is a presupposition which reduces itself to an unairring standard
00:26:08
Andrew Wilsonwhich has always been there and always will be there and always must have been there to assume creation or any justification for knowledge. I don't think what is it? I'm trying to think how to phrase this.
00:26:21
PixieYou are basing your worldview off a presupposition that there is an external world which I don't even 100% disagree with. What I'm trying to convey here is that it is our
00:26:32
Andrew WilsonNo, no, no. You're presupposing that you can have this conversation right now. You're presupposing that you have knowledge right now. You presuppose everything leading to this conversation.
00:26:43
Andrew WilsonAnd everything you presuppose leading up to it has a requirement for knowledge which you presuppose baked into the laws of logic but won't grant that there has to be that has to be an unairring standard. What else would you call that but God?
00:26:56
PixieOh, okay. Is it um I mean we could get into like a theological debate about God if you want to. Um well I I would like to move it to
00:27:08
Andrew Wilsonfeminism, right? If I've if I have substantially answered your questions so that you understand where I'm coming from for my worldview.
00:27:17
Andrew WilsonYes. Okay. I just I guess I'm just like a little bit uncertain when it comes to Well, I mean, if that's the case, then I would have to cross-examine what you gave us for utilitarianism, which wasn't
00:27:30
Andrew Wilsonmuch. Yeah. No, absolutely. We could dive into that, but I would like to dive into the purpose of the debate now that you know my worldview. The worldview itself wasn't to be the debate, though I'm happy to do one in the future with you on this. Okay.
00:27:43
PixieYeah. Um, yeah. Yeah. The only reason, but if anything, we'll just circle back if Yeah, we can. Yeah. Okay. Cuz what my concern is that once we start talking about like
00:27:53
Pixiefeminism or worldview, um I'm concerned that you're going to bring it back to God, which is I make secular arguments. Okay, cool. Awesome. Yeah, great. We're good then. Mhm.
00:28:06
TTS/DonationsBefore we do that, I'll just allow TTS to come. Ulus is the pagan donated $100. I give Pixie prompts coming prepared and taking notes like Andrew. I don't agree with
00:28:18
Andrew Wilsonher worldview, but I appreciate her taking the debate seriously and wanting to engage. Well, Pixie, I ran into her on quite a few panels in the Twitch poll universe, so I was happy that she was coming in to
00:28:31
Pixiedebate. A thank you. I'm happy I'm debating you right now talking. Let's get into the debate. So let's perhaps actually one question before we do that and I I think it is perhaps related to feminism.
00:28:44
Brian AtlasI don't know if we've had you on the panel since Pixie, but this is something that we've brought on on on our dating talk panels very frequently. The uh are you familiar with the man versus bear question?
00:28:56
Brian AtlasYeah. And so what the um Okay, our stream deck tripped out there.
00:29:06
Brian AtlasSo, I mean, perhaps right before we get into the meat of the feminism conversation, I wanted to just hear your your take on that. So, the scenario is
00:29:17
Brian Atlasif you ask if you ask a woman, would she rather be stuck in the woods with a random man or a random bear? Uh quite a lot of women respond to uh respond by
00:29:28
Pixiesaying bear. What's your take on this? What's your answer to the question? And am I allowed to ask what type of bear? Well, it's a random bear. and random man. Yeah. Okay. Um I might be wrong on this
00:29:41
Pixienumber from last time I actually researched this question or whatever. I do think that the majority or the most likely bear that you're likely to run into is a black bear. Um if it's a black bear, I would pick bear. If it's anything but a black bear, I would pick
00:29:56
Pixiea guy. Is the most likely guy you're going to run into predatory? No. But then that's weird. No, let me let me think. Um, so the reason why I say this is
00:30:06
Pixiebecause even if the most likely guy I run into is not predatory or whatever, there's still like an unstable factor there, right? Um, where it's like in most in the vast majority of cases with
00:30:18
Pixiebears, it see or black bears, let's be specific, they don't know they're really apex predators, they will like they're basically they have basically no freaking clue. Um, they'll usually like run away or stay out of your way. Um,
00:30:31
Pixieunless if you're like threatening a cub or something and it's a mama bear, though, that's a whole different scenario. Um, men I think are a lot more spontaneous. They're obviously more intelligent in my opinion. It could be
00:30:43
Pixiethe case where you have like a normal guy or something and then something happens to a normal guy. You know, maybe isolation in the wilderness for a couple of years can drive anybody crazy. Um, and then it results into them acting
00:30:55
Pixieout, for example. Um, it could be a predator or it could be somebody who, you know, doesn't really care. Like, let's say it's a gay guy, whatever. Um,
00:31:06
Pixieeither way, the factor is more of an unknown versus if it's just like a black bear, which just seems like they'll they'll stay out of your way most of the time. Now, if it's a grizzly bear, [ __ ] that. I'll take my chances of even like a predator guy, cuz grizzly bears will
00:31:20
Pixiekill you on site. Black bears will kill you on site, too. The vast majority of black bears are pretty like they don't know. They don't they don't they don't realize they're apex predators. It's kind of insane. I'm not joking. I did my research on this question. I'm not li I'm not going
00:31:33
Andrew Wilsoncrazy. Do you think Let me ask you this. Mhm. If you ran walked up to I don't know 100 random men on the street and just walked over and patted them on the head. Mhm. Versus you walked over to a hund random bears in the forest and walked over and
00:31:46
Pixiepatted them on the head. Which one do you think would be more likely to attack you? Yeah. The point is I wouldn't be patting the blackberries in the head. I'll make sure like I'm staying my proper distance from them. With a guy, um, again, as
00:31:58
Pixiewe've established, like if black bears don't know that they're apex predator, which the vast majority don't, they're going to stay out of your way, whatever, whatever. With a guy, even if it's like a friendly guy, like maybe he'll want to talk to me or like, you know, get towards me or whatever, and I can't
00:32:10
Andrew Wilsonreally ascribe his intentions. With the black, we can just like we can stay out of each other's ways. So, from a utilitarian standpoint though, wouldn't you be far more likely to be helped by a
00:32:21
Andrew Wilsonman than a black bear? Um, I guess it depends if I need help in that scenario. Well, based on your current level of forest survival skills, do you think you would be up to the task on your own? I don't think the average man knows how to survive a forest either.
00:32:34
Andrew WilsonYou think that the average man can survive in the forest a lot better than than the average woman? Um, they're just stronger, right? They're built stronger. They can just do tasks that most average women can't do. Yeah. just don't have the required
00:32:46
Pixieprerequisite strength, right? Well, I think women do have the strength to live in a forest just like how men have the strength to live in the forest. But I understand your point. You're saying, let's say there's like a heavy log or something, you have to move out
00:32:59
Pixieof the way. A man is going to be a lot better at that task than a woman. Well, no, it's not just that. It's just even tool making requires physical strength. Yeah, but I mean like I can still make a tool. Maybe it'll take me a little bit
00:33:10
Pixielonger, but it's not going to be the end all beall. Um, but the point that I'm trying to get across or what I'm trying to say is that there is a chance that I might get helped, but then I'm also, you
00:33:21
Andrew Wilsonknow, rolling the dice on whether there's a chance that the guy is like [ __ ] insane and wants to like kill me or do bad things to me. If you're such a savage you can live in a forest, if you're just dropped in a
00:33:33
Andrew Wilsonforest with no equipment and you can just survive in there, then why aren't you savage enough to take care of yourself from a man? What is it? There's a very big difference between being in a forest
00:33:43
Pixielike trying to scavenage for your own like hunt for fish, whatever. Um, start a fire versus having somebody fish if you were in a forest. Um, if there's like a what is it like a freshwater stream or lake or something?
00:33:56
PixieYeah. How how would you do it? Um, ideally I would find some sort of like small insect or bait or something like that. Um, try to do something maybe
00:34:07
Pixiewith like the lining of like leaves or something. basically like a little rod maybe and use that to try to lure in the fish. That's how you would try to catch fish in a forest.
00:34:19
Andrew WilsonI'm not an expert at catching fish, but if our ancestors did it for thousands of years, I'm sure that I couldn't figure out a way through trial and error. Okay. So, I guess that really doesn't have I don't know where we were going
00:34:32
TTS/Donationswith that. That was it. Uh, let me just let this TTS come. Lol. Paladins donated $100. Weird to see Pixie arguing W/Andrew for
00:34:44
TTS/Donationsthe existence of God. Somehow I agree with her. We are flawed humans and cannot know real objective truth and his plan for us. Is that objectively true? Is that objectively true, low paladins?
00:34:56
Brian AtlasBecause if it's not objectively true, then why should I believe it? But anyway, one one quick thing. This is breaking
00:35:02
Brian Atlasnews. I've received word that Desiree from uh from the show yesterday who she
00:35:11
Brian Atlasin a Instagram story states she is raffling off the underwear that she wore uh fresh out and I quote fresh out of the ass I used to put Andrew in his place
00:35:24
Brian Atlaswhat the [ __ ] yesterday on whatever. So make sure you subscribe and enter before I pick a winner Sunday night.
00:35:36
Andrew WilsonThat's wild. That's wild. She didn't learn a thing. Anyways, um sorry. Continue on. Continue on.
00:35:45
Andrew WilsonSo, anyway, um over to feminism. So, can we agree to a definition of feminism? Let's do something really boilerplate basic.
00:35:57
Andrew WilsonSo, I give you my definition. You can tell me if you like it or don't like it. I would say it's the move towards egalitarianism with the rejection of patriarchal systems. Um, when you're saying egalitarianism,
00:36:09
Pixieequality and equity. Okay. I'm not sure if I 100% agree with that, but we'll see. So then So then what's your your definition? Well, no, no, I'm going to agree with it in general, but um I know some people
00:36:22
Pixietake that and then they bring it to an extreme. They're like, "Oh, so you mean like um I'm trying to think of example.
00:36:30
TTS/DonationsAre you full by the way? Because people kill donated $100. Presuming prepositions is preposterous. I propose a pedantic posturing
00:36:42
TTS/Donationsproliferated by poor practice. Must go back to school. If only there were a university I could sign up to based around debating. Right. That's actually a really good
00:36:53
Andrew Wilsonpoint. He's saying that you're you're actually presupposing even the idea of the subjective being in the box has the requirement of knowledge. So I mean that's the point. But anyway, it doesn't matter. Um over to feminism.
00:37:05
Andrew WilsonUm the idea on feminism. Yeah. The rejection of patriarchy. Yeah. And the movement towards egalitarianism. Do you agree? Yeah. I I was going to say I'm going to assume that we're being
00:37:17
Pixielike good faith right now because some people will be like, "Oh, you know, you want like equality and like equity. do meet and then maybe that means I don't want equity. I'm not sure. Um but oh like you believe in that that means that
00:37:28
Pixieum you know you think like a both a guy and girl despite of their qualifications should be in the same like you know military bracket or whatever. I'm using a random example and it's like well no
00:37:40
Pixieonly if they meet the requirements to be in that bracket. Does that make sense? M like people will take it and think that I mean on the on the basis of gender it means that they should be exactly 100%
00:37:53
Andrew Wilsonthe same even if they're not as equally qualified. Yeah. I don't think men and women are interchangeable widgets or that feminists even say that they are. Okay. Okay. Just clarifying. Okay. We're good then. Yep. So I mean I think I think that that's fine.
00:38:04
Andrew WilsonOkay. Right. Um so if if your your idea there is that their ontology is different men and women their being is different. I don't what do you mean by being like well they're not interchange well
00:38:16
Andrew Wilsonthey're not interchangeable widgets so whatever what we would call tilos or purpose or the things that they're interested in maybe from your perspective are going to be different than the things women are interested in
00:38:26
Andrew Wilsonand that's going to be innate somewhat. Yeah. I'm because otherwise then we do have a problem of you thinking they're interchangeable widgets. So if you think their ontology is exactly the same that men and women are exactly the same then
00:38:40
Pixiewe do have a problem. Yeah. I So I think if I had to draw it out again, I would say that you do a lot of drawing. Yeah, I like drawings. Go ahead.
00:38:50
PixieThere's probably like a scale of behaviors. Let's I don't even like doing it this way, but I'm going to put man even though I think this is dumb because I think there's just human behaviors in general that both men and women per like have.
00:39:03
PixieBut I think there's like you're talking about a gender scale. Yeah. Essentially, um X amount of these qualities make you a woman. X amount of these qualities make a you a man. Well, no, that's why I'm saying that's why I would disagree. I would say that
00:39:15
Andrew Wilsonthere's certain behaviors that are just human behaviors that both men and women have. Yeah, I agree. So, I I would say anything that you would consider like a gendered emotions nonsense. Anything you'd consider specifically a gendered behavior would be nonsense, right? Like
00:39:27
Andrew Wilsonif you you can have Tom girls, for instance, they're still females. You can have men that do little [ __ ] tea parties or whatever. They're still men, right? They're still males. So, I would agree with all of that, right? So I I don't think that there's a specific emot
00:39:39
Andrew WilsonI just think that the men and women perceive them differently and that men and women are built differently. Yeah. From conception they're built differently. Their brains work differently and their bodies are
00:39:52
Pixiedifferent. Yeah. I think um there's definitely differences in body especially in strength. The brain argument is a lot more complicated cuz then it becomes a
00:40:03
Pixiequestion of like nature versus nurture. Like the whole idea of like female and male brain is like pretty contentious. Um a lot of it like Yeah. But if you have one sex that's
00:40:14
Andrew Wilsonstronger, right? Physically stronger on average and the male sex is much stronger on average than women. It's significantly stronger. The tailoring of society necessarily around that would
00:40:26
Pixiecreate different interests. Right. Um yes, at certain points. I think the problem is that as we have a society has
00:40:36
Pixieevolved and as we've had like more like let's say machinery or even like other things have just come and spawned essentially
00:40:45
Pixieum are DNA and like biological predispositions also somewhat slightly changed even if it's like ever so slightly. So do you know like epigenetics? Yeah, but I mean epigenetics wouldn't
00:40:56
Andrew Wilsoneven explain this in 60 years. That's that's that's insane. Even from even from an ep epigenetic standpoint? Well, from an epigenetic standpoint, like our genes are
00:41:08
Pixielike, you know, they're constantly changing to our environment basically. Um, and it doesn't happen in one generation. It doesn't happen in one generation or two or three. No. Well, it h it can happen pretty
00:41:20
Pixiequickly. I mean, there's like what is it? Epigenetic studies on like for example women who have had um children or were pregnant. You got you got to do me one favor though. Yeah. You got to say women and not woman.
00:41:32
PixieI am English is my second language. You got to say women and not women. Okay, call me out. All right. Um, women. Women. Women. Woman. W O M E N. Woman.
00:41:44
PixieNo. No. That's That's I could say muer if that's easier in Spanish. Just say women. Woman. I swear to God. I'm not being crazy right now. All right. All right. Fine. It's not me trying to be an [ __ ]
00:41:56
PixieIt's just it's my second language. Um there's epigenetic studies of women who um [Laughter]
00:42:08
Pixieum you know who are let's say like pregnant or whatever during like a time of strife, starvation, resources are low and like how that like literally genetically affects their offspring to
00:42:20
Pixiebe able to like retain like fat better for example. um or like basically things that could happen within like one generation essentially. Um or even that wouldn't apply to the societal social characteristics of the entirety
00:42:34
Pixieof a nation when it came to the interests of men and women. Well, what I'm trying to say is that if we can already see things like that within like one pregnancy and see like DNA changes, then it's not a giant leap
00:42:45
Pixieof faith to assume that like over time, especially as society has like more and more changes, you'd start seeing Yeah. you'd start seeing what kind of changes what kind of
00:42:54
Pixiechanges would you expect to see? Let's see. In a society where physical labor and force becomes less important essentially like right now.
00:43:07
PixieYeah. Or like how it has been. What would you expect to see? Yeah. you would expect to see um basically societies that start centering intelligence as a more important
00:43:18
Pixiecomponent um or start selecting based more on you know expected intelligence whatever than just pure brute strength. Yeah, but societyy's not becoming smarter.
00:43:30
Andrew WilsonI don't know about that. Yeah, I know about that. IQ is slated to continue to reduce on average where I'll give you the numbers. Yeah. But not only that, let me bring this up as well. Don't give me just the numbers. Give me
00:43:44
Andrew Wilsonthe study. Yeah. Yeah. But let me give you the the numbers on this as well. This is all CDC information, by the way. If I were to take what you're saying at face value
00:43:54
Andrew Wilsonthat necessarily through epigenetic leaps that um men and women, women by the way, would suddenly begin to have different interests.
00:44:05
Andrew WilsonNot suddenly, it would it would be gradual. Oh, but how and you said what do you mean gradual? Like how long? Because you said it could happen very very quickly. Well, how quickly it could it could it could theoretically
00:44:18
Andrew Wilsonor certain certain changes could happen within a generation. Yeah. So this is CDC info. Most female jobs this according to the I'm sorry the BLS these jobs have the highest percent.
00:44:28
PixieAs a society as a whole if labor is less important because we have machinery to do it instead. you would find both men and women more in service sector jobs which we have seen not you're seeing mostly women in those jobs and that's what I'm going to show
00:44:42
Pixieyou. Yeah. No, you the amount of men who are now like in STEM in general like the United States as a whole is a certain men have always been in STEM. Men have always been dominated. Not just not always. We have seen men
00:44:54
Pixiehave always been dominated. I'm not I'm I'm saying that doesn't matter because I'm saying that when we compare manual labor jobs to service jobs, we have seen
00:45:04
Pixiea vast increase in service-based jobs versus manual labor jobs in the United States. That is just objectively true. Yeah. That that women that women do, which is the exact same jobs they were always
00:45:16
Andrew Wilsonhave also done more service-based jobs. More people are lawyers, software, even just wait. Men have always been in those fields. Always been in those fields. But maybe I'm not explaining my point
00:45:29
Pixieclearly enough. The point that I'm trying to get across is that as manual labor has become less important in the United States, there is an increase of men doing more of those jobs. So before
00:45:41
Pixieit might have been like, hey, maybe I'm going to go to the factory. Wait, let me finish. This makes the argument let me finish. I'll I'll I'll steal me the argument. That way you know I understand it. Okay. The argument that you're making is
00:45:54
Andrew Wilsonas these other service sectors have opened up, men are gravitating into those service sectors instead of just manual labor, right? Yes. Then how come women aren't gravitating towards the manual labor sections?
00:46:06
PixieBecause the manual labor sections have been either taken over by technology. No, they haven't. Or roofing. Has roofing been taken over by technology? No. But what is it? It doesn't necessarily I'm trying the opposite. Has
00:46:19
Andrew Wilsonconstruction been taken over by technology? Roofing? Has has even gardening, basic gardening? What about lawnmowing, lawn care? Uh, in fact, almost all labor I can think of, which
00:46:30
Pixienow is heavily inundated with machines, still totally dominated by men. Almost no, less men in average doing those jobs compared to before because you have had machinery replaced. If it took three
00:46:42
Pixiemen, this argument still makes no sense. If it took five men to redo a roof or whatever, now it takes two, right? Yeah. Why isn't one of them a woman? No, because the point is as a society as
00:46:54
Pixiea whole, we have just moved away from manual labor. So, obviously, this argument makes no sense. Yes, it does make sense. It's very simple. Okay, give it to me again. Yeah, here. Okay. Manual labor jobs have become less
00:47:05
Pixieimportant. We have found technology to basically help replace a lot of the brute force or strength that we needed before. Agree. So the vast majority of people um men and women are now more
00:47:16
Andrew Wilsoninclined towards service sector jobs. Okay. So I I don't understand though. Are you implying that women were doing manual labor jobs before? I'm not implying women were doing manual jobs.
00:47:27
Andrew WilsonIf that is true and women were not doing manual labor jobs before and now you have machinery which are assisting in these manual labor jobs. Why aren't women gravitating towards those jobs?
00:47:38
Andrew WilsonWell, all you're saying to me is as manual labor jobs have decreased, all right, because the market demand, men who ordinarily would take those jobs move into things which aren't manual
00:47:47
Andrew Wilsonlabor. That is not a [ __ ] argument at all for any epigenetic stride at all. That's just I'm going to take this thing away. So now you have no access to it cuz it's not available. So you have to
00:47:59
Andrew Wilsondo something else. That doesn't mean that their interests still aren't here. It just means it's not available. Why aren't women taking those jobs still, especially if they're less physically demanding?
00:48:10
PixieThe argument that I'm trying to make is as a whole, our society has decided to put more value on the service labor jobs. That's why you're not going to see women Well, first of all,
00:48:21
Pixiewhat would that have to do with anything? I'm I'm serious. If the argument is Andrew, you can either become a doctor or you can do roofs. The doctor will pay better. Are those
00:48:34
Andrew Wilsonchoices available to men and women? What? To do the doctor? To do doctoring or the roof? Yes. Okay. So, I understand. So, I understand if there's less jobs available to do roofs, which there there aren't, right? But I mean, there's still plenty of jobs do
00:48:47
Andrew Wilsonroofs. But even if there was less of them, so now the men who wouldn't ordinarily be doing roofs go, "Ah, [ __ ] I got to go be a doctor now." So, they go and they be a doctor now. You have eliminated this
00:49:00
Andrew Wilsonoption for them. So, this is what they can do. Why are women who can do both only doing the doctor and not doing the construction part? Because our society elevates the
00:49:12
Pixiefreaking doctors. That's why our society, and I'm not saying this is right. I'm not saying this is necessarily how it should be, but yeah, our society tends to value things that are more service-based than manual labor based.
00:49:25
PixieSo, this argument is we value our CEOs more than we manage. Wait, wait, let me finish. We value our CEOs more than we value our janitors, for example. So, let me get this right. Even if it
00:49:36
Andrew Wilsonwere true that we put the value, and we do, right? We put a value on doctors and lawyers more than we do like garbage men and [ __ ] like that. I is there's no way in hell you're assuming that every woman is so smart
00:49:49
Pixiethat they're going to be able to be the doctors and lawyers, right? No, I never. So, how come none of them? It's not statistics right now. That's not zero. I've got them right now.
00:50:01
PixieYeah, let's do it. Do you think that 98 fucking% of dental I never said that. I never said that gave a specific number. I'm getting used to specific numbers. Preschool. The number is obviously not kindergarten teachers. None of them. You are
00:50:15
Andrew Wilsonexaggerating. Preschool kindergarten teachers. 98% women. 98% women. Can you send us that so we can pull it up for the audience? Yeah. Okay. But none of what you're
00:50:25
Andrew Wilsonsaying is contradicting what I'm saying. Yeah. Literally. So, how many rough necks? Let's find out how many rough necks are. Wait, let me finish before I forget. Here's the other thing. Is it Rachel who's sending it or what's that? The
00:50:38
PixieNo, I'm sending it to you. What do you mean? You just told me to. Yeah. Yeah. Nine. But yeah. So, here's a couple Send it to our Instagram if you can. Here's a couple things to break down also. Um, what is it? Women are also a
00:50:51
Pixielot less likely to apply towards jobs that are male-dominated fields for a v variety of reasons. You could say some of them are just not interested in it. Sure. Even for women who aren't interested in it, which is more of a
00:51:02
Pixieminority. Um, yes, you are more likely to experience sexual harassment or just sexism in general, the more male-dominated a field is. So, you're less likely to get hired. And even if you are hired, you're more likely to be
00:51:14
Pixielooked down upon. So, there are a combination of factors which I've never denied that even I said it multiple times. I never denied that women are less into these fields. Oh, you gave a descriptor that because of epigenetics,
00:51:27
Andrew Wilsonwhat's going on is that No, what I said, I'll let you finish and then I'll go. Okay. You gave me a descriptor. I asked you this question specifically. The question was, why is it that you think
00:51:38
Andrew Wilsonthat this is happening? And this is in regards to why women are taking these fields, men are taking these fields. Your descriptor for this was because through epigenetics, through genes, their interests can suddenly
00:51:51
Andrew Wilsonchange. suddenly change and that that's what's going on because now societyy's valuing different things. I'm granting the argument as being true for the purpose of internally critiquing it. So
00:52:01
Andrew Wilsonhere's what I see. I see you saying this. We have five construction workers and then we have a robot. The robot comes in, takes the job away from two of
00:52:11
Andrew Wilsonthose. Now we have a doctor's slot over here. Okay. The women who are on this side who are in, I don't know, they're [ __ ] coffee baristas or something. There's five of them. Okay. Robot comes
00:52:23
Andrew Wilsonin, takes two of those jobs away. Now there's three of them. Now you're saying they're both competing to be doctors. Okay. I agree. But how come the women who are the baristas, if what you're saying is true about epigenetics, aren't coming in to take those three jobs of
00:52:37
Andrew Wilsonthe construction workers or the construction workers going in to take the three jobs of the baristas? That's the [ __ ] question that I that you are not actually answering. Yeah. No, the argument that I was trying to make is that the reason why people
00:52:50
Pixieare not trying to suddenly jump into another um labor job or whatever is because as a whole both the men and the women are trying to get into the nice ser I'm not saying it's actually nice
00:53:02
Andrew Wilsonbut whatever the nice service based jobs instead because that is where the fame notoriety whatever you want to call it so societal respect let's put it that way is yeah but I've already granted that this is the case so let's just I'm just going to assume that men and women both want
00:53:16
Andrew Wilsonto be doctors. Yeah. But you can then grant to me that almost nobody's ever going to be a doctor. Um. Yes. So that would be men and women. But there's what? So So if it is the case that almost no men and no women are going to be doctors
00:53:29
Andrew Wilsonand they're not going to be in high status jobs, lawyers, doctors, professionals like this. Most of them are going to be in the service industry or they're going to be working in factories and construction and [ __ ] like that. be more specific.
00:53:41
Andrew WilsonHow come we don't see from these ends any crossover into these other fields? In fact, they seem to be more inundated along gender lines for construction than ever before.
00:53:52
PixieYeah. And like I how I stated before, there's two reasons for this. Because if a person can escape or if there's opportunity for them to escape the manual labor, they're going to most likely take it. They're not. They don't. Men aren't taking it. You
00:54:05
Pixiethink they have to do it? What do you mean by they have to? Like couldn't they go? They could go be a [ __ ] waitress. Yeah. No, what I'm also saying is that there's also other combinations or other
00:54:16
Pixiefactors that like how I was saying before. For example, women um even the ones that are interested because the number isn't zero. It is low. However, I will grant that. Um
00:54:26
Andrew Wilsonso so low as to be abysmal like almost none in many of these cases like rough necks for instance. There's basically none. Line line workers for instance on power lines basically no females at all.
00:54:37
PixieYeah. The point that I'm trying to get across is that there's other barriers also in place. What are they? Okay. Well, let's get into those barriers. Let me finish. Let me finish, please. Um, so, what is it? When it comes to a lot
00:54:49
Pixieof these women or when it comes to breaking into male-dominated fields, um, the more men there are, the higher rates of sexism a woman's more likely to experience or just straight up sexual harassment, there is usually a direct correlation with those. Some of it could
00:55:02
Pixiejust be straight up interest. maybe not as many women are interested in doing um those jobs essentially. Um there but I thought epigenetics was going to take care of that interest problem. Well, what I was trying to describe
00:55:14
Pixiebefore when it comes to first of all that's not how I was using epigenetics originally, but even if I was um my here my original argument for epigenetics was that we might see a slight difference in
00:55:25
Pixieinterest over time, but regardless regardless what I just said. Wait, let me finish. Okay. Regardless of that, um, even if I did 100% grant, whatever you're saying,
00:55:37
Pixieyou would see the biggest leap not in between, oh, other manual manual jobs, you would see the biggest leap into, as what we were describing before, service- based jobs because service-based jobs are the ones again with the more
00:55:50
Pixieprestige, the more value, the more societal respect. So that's why you wouldn't see intercrossing, you would just see people trying to move up instead. Yeah, that makes no sense. If you have a barrier for entry inside of those
00:56:03
Andrew Wilsonservice level jobs that you're talking about, meaning you and I both know that not everybody can be a doctor or a lawyer in one of these high status fields, you should actually see the interconnecting. Why wouldn't you? Why? Because
00:56:15
Pixiewouldn't you? You say because there's a a barrier to entry to be a construction worker, female, what barrier? No, no, no. What I'm trying to describe here, if we're saying, okay, epigenetics, your genes or yeah, whatever your offspring's genes, even
00:56:27
Pixieyour genes can change depending on the environment. um even ever so slightly um over time our society starts valuing X quality just let's say they value X
00:56:38
Pixiequality people are going to start selecting for that quality more right or your genes are going to respond to that quality more essentially men and women got it right so if X quality is essentially intelligence
00:56:50
Pixieum that's what more of society is going to start leaning and focusing more towards they're not going to be focusing on the other manual labor job they're going to be focusing more towards the intelligence based job.
00:57:03
Andrew WilsonSo both both men and women want at they're selected fority. They want to move towards being doctors and lawyers. Got it. Yes. However, this still does not answer my question which is this.
00:57:14
Andrew WilsonWhy is it that women still even if they're competing for these uh neutral jobs that they can do because they require zero [ __ ] physical strength? They sit in in an office building all day being a lawyer, doctor, whatever it
00:57:26
Andrew Wilsonis. Why is it that you don't see them competing to be line workers? Why don't you see them working on power lines? Why don't you see them working on oil rigs? Those are extremely high-paying jobs,
00:57:37
Andrew Wilsoneven for dumb women. Way higher paying jobs than being a [ __ ] coffee barista or somebody who works at a weight as a waitress. There's no more barrier for entry. Why aren't they crossing over? That would make no sense. Why wouldn't they do that?
00:57:50
PixieThere's a couple reasons. Like I listed before, some based off of interest. Maybe not as many women are interested in doing those things. Why not? Um, what is it? There a million reasons.
00:58:03
Andrew WilsonMaybe some of them do have a biological predisposition to not be interested in that. A biological predisposition, right? So, something to do with their ontology. Some some some other ones um might be
00:58:15
Pixieraised in a household where they're taught, hey, that's not a very ladylike thing to do. You should focus instead on like, you know, taking care of children. like that's more, you know, that's the more ladylike thing to do. So, their
00:58:27
Pixieinterests might develop more into that field basically um rather than having it being a biological innate thing. So, for some people might be biologically innate. For some other people it might be just a result of society. That's really weird. Is pornography a
00:58:39
Pixieladylike thing to do? Um what is it? It's not necessarily ladylike, but it is highly rewarded. Yeah, it's highly reward. So is being a
00:58:50
Andrew Wilsonperson who works on an oil rig. Highly reward or hang on, hang on, let me finish now. I just let you go through. Let me finish. I'll let you finish. Go for it. Just like working on a fishing boat. Just like working at at, you know, in
00:59:02
Andrew Wilsonthe world's deadliest catch. You don't see any women doing any of these or working as an ice trucker. Here's why. Here's what's so interesting to your argument. Pornography is not ladylike in