Savage Minds

Graham Linehan, a comedy writer and director behind such shows as Father Ted, The IT Crowd and Black Books, discusses his foray into gender critical activism and why this subject punishes women particularly through a movement which is populated with men who proselytise for the sex industry. Noting the links between the economy of pornography and the transgender movement, Linehan takes aim at what he calls “capitalism’s greatest joke” criticising the leftists who drive the transgender identity narrative while they do the bidding for corporations and neoliberalism. Using the metaphor of “Jenny’s boyfriend” from Forest Gump to analyse men on the left, Linehan contends that Jenny’s boyfriends populate the left today—especially in the online word—where they communicate and coordinate with each other to silence and punish. Get full access to Savage Minds at savageminds.substack.com/subscribe

In this episode, Linda Blade, President of the Board for Athletics Alberta, discusses the proposals to insert gender ideology into Canadian sport policy detailing the misogynist encroachment of women’s and girls’ sports by trans rights activists who are decimating a field which has taken decades to establish and fund. Describing how male athletes are forcing themselves into women’s and girls’ sports as a form of “social therapy” which is forcing a societal affirmation of their “gender identity,” Blade compares the current western obsession over atomising identity politics to previous eras where men had long told women to step aside to make way for their needs. Get full access to Savage Minds at savageminds.substack.com/subscribe

In this episode Chris Elston, a Canadian insurance broker-turned-activist, discusses his political struggle against what he calls the “medical scandal affecting the health of thousands of children.” Elston speaks with Julian Vigo about the ways in which parents in Canada are being blindsided by gender ideology which is being placed into school curriculum for students as young as five-years of age, the recent attack against him in Montreal by trans activists, and how transgender activism has taken over Canadian society with a cult-like ferocity leaving children vulnerable to the harms of lifetime medical procedures, double mastectomies, and sterilisation. Get full access to Savage Minds at savageminds.substack.com/subscribe

Beth Stelzer is a wife, mother, amateur powerlifter, accidental activist, and the founder of the grassroots, nonpartisan coalition Save Women’s Sports. In this episode, Stelzer speaks with Julian Vigo about her entry into grassroots activism and her drive to save women’s sports in the USA, elaborating how sports bodies have almost entirely sidelined the voices of female athletes while centring the feelings of males who, she maintains, have no business competing against women and girls. Get full access to Savage Minds at savageminds.substack.com/subscribe

Selina Todd, a writer and Professor of Modern History at Oxford University, discusses her latest book, Snakes and Ladders: The Great British Social Mobility Myth which analyses the myth and reality of social mobility in Britain from the 19th century to the present. In this episode, Todd discusses previous measurements for understanding social mobility and how women’s consideration in this field had typically been elided because of the types of labour women perform, their interrupted career trajectories due to childbirth, and the fact that women’s and girls’ stories were never considered despite their having been integral to men’s and boys’ social mobility. Elaborating how migrants and women fulfilled certain social roles within national institutions like the NHS which furthered the social mobility of white Britons, Todd discusses how women and migrants invariably end up at the bottom of the social ladder in jobs that are not properly remunerated while these two groups paradoxically devise creative strategies for challenging these hierarchies. Get full access to Savage Minds at savageminds.substack.com/subscribe

Jason D. Hill, professor of philosophy and Honors Distinguished Faculty at DePaul University in Chicago, is the author of five books, including We Have Overcome: An Immigrant’s Letter to the American People (2018) and his forthcoming book to be released later this year, What Do White Americans Owe Black People: Racial Justice in the Age of Post Oppression. In this episode, Hill discusses with Julian Vigo the problems of victim culture and the managerial class of liberal elites which denies people the ability to navigate their way through the world assuming that certain groups of people are necessarily handicapped, unable to speak for themselves. Focussing on the problems of cultural relativism, the decolonisation of university courses, cancel culture, and identity politics, Hill locates the ways in which the liberal left puts reason and logic under attack by positing the primacy of the individual’s feelings. In this phase of late stage capitalism, he notes how subjectivities need to be maintained and persistently curated, echoed and validated in the name of one’s victimhood, a posture claimed most often by those who are the most privileged individuals latching onto signifiers of oppression so as not to have to address actual oppression. Get full access to Savage Minds at savageminds.substack.com/subscribe

James Caspian, a British registered psychotherapist who was refused permission by Bath Spa University to conduct research on gender detransition, has now taken his case against the university to the European Court of Human Rights. In this episode, Caspian discusses with Julian Vigo his interest in the field of gender identity, the need for research on both gender transition and detransition and how a Jungian analysis which advocates for the “rule of reason” might be useful in understanding the current collective chaos at the core of the gender debate. Get full access to Savage Minds at savageminds.substack.com/subscribe

Robert Jensen is an Emeritus Professor in the School of Journalism and Media at the University of Texas in Austin and collaborates with the Ecosphere Studies program at The Land Institute. He is the author of The Restless and Relentless Mind of Wes Jackson: Searching for Sustainability (University Press of Kansas, 2021). In this episode, Jensen discusses his introduction to radical feminism and the paradox of how this particular feminist perspective, despite offering the most compelling and accurate critique of pornography, has been entirely sidelined from academic and popular discourse. Analysing the social hierarchy of patriarchy and how it serves as a cultural backdrop to the debate on gender and our approach to ecological issues, Jensen suggests that men who still view radical feminism as a “threat” ought to view it as a gift. Get full access to Savage Minds at savageminds.substack.com/subscribe

Heather Heying is an evolutionary biologist, educator, and author who co-hosts a popular weekly livestream with husband Bret Weinstein on the DarkHorse podcast. In this episode, Heying discusses with Julian Vigo the political political malaise of identity politics, sequential hermaphroditism, current denial science denialism, and our physical disconnection with other humans as she offers solutions to the current era of political intolerance. Get full access to Savage Minds at savageminds.substack.com/subscribe

Libby Emmons is senior editor at The Post Millennial and a senior contributor for The Federalist. In this episode, Emmons discusses the the ideological drive behind journalism today and how identity politics is sidelining critical thinking. Lucidly analysing the current media and political panorama, Emmons homes in on how identity has not only replaced discussions of class politics on the left, but paradoxically she notes how identity politics is being driven primarily by those within the upper class who benefit economically by paying it lip service all the while reaping the economic benefits of book deals, editorships, or professorships that belie any the reality of oppression. Get full access to Savage Minds at savageminds.substack.com/subscribe