Our thanks to Nigel for this (video, 19:24). He writes:
“In a way the content isn’t new but I think it is significant that it’s a young man’s analysis. I think Grace is in fact describing his own journey to realise the fraud of feminism. The journey of someone young enough to have only known the ascendency of feminism and therefore been steeped in the ideology of equality. In doing so I believe he is reflecting the experience of young men today and this gives us oldies a better perspective of how to approach younger men.
Being a tail end “boomer” I can recall a world before feminism’s triumph and a period where it was “contested”. It is perhaps hard to get into the heads of young men who have never known anything different and who are indoctrinated almost from infancy. Yet as Grace points out there is panic about young men “tuning out” etc. Which suggests that his process is increasingly widely reflected in other younger men.
I grew up in a world with mining, steelworks, heavy engineering, even an inland port. One with divorce a rarity and daily life as yet without all the gadgets of today. When I think of it a world so unlike the modern UK that it’s as if it was a foreign country. So trying to get messages to the young that fit with their experiences is hard without understanding how they see and experience the world. A short video but with thoughtful content.”
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