"Recently, New York Times opinion columnist Ross Douthat moderated a debate on the Interesting Times podcast between Helen Andrews and Leah Libresco Sargeant, two conservative critics of modern feminism. The podcast received major blowback, starting with (but not ending with) the fact that the original headline of the conversation was "Did Women Ruin the Workplace?" Quickly, after the predictable backlash hit, the headline was changed to "Did Liberal Feminism Ruin the Workplace?""
"Mainly, the debate revolved around wokeness. It started with Andrews, who recently wrote an article called "The Great Feminization" that criticizes women as being emotional and lacking logic, started talking about "wokeness" at work, and suggested that women are to blame for its presence in the office, noting that "the pathology in our institutions known as wokeness is distinctively feminine and feminized.""
A podcast debate moderated by Ross Douthat between Helen Andrews and Leah Libresco Sargeant provoked significant backlash after an initial headline asked whether women had ruined the workplace, later changed to blame liberal feminism. The conversation centered on "wokeness," with Andrews arguing that institutions became "woke" because of more women in them and characterizing that pathology as feminine. Andrews also cited increased reporting of sex scandals and criticized expectations to "believe all women." The framing of the debate was widely seen as intellectualized sexism that improperly placed women's rights and behavior up for argument.
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