Dr. Naomi Wolf rose in the early 1990s as a third-wave feminist voice with The Beauty Myth, the bestseller that argued commercial beauty standards worked as a quiet counterattack on women’s gains. Yale-educated, a Rhodes Scholar, and later an Oxford doctorate, she advised Bill Clinton’s re-election team and Al Gore’s campaign on how to reach female voters. For a time she was the progressive establishment’s preferred translator of women’s concerns.
That version of Wolf is largely gone. On Miranda Devine’s Pod Force One, the New York Post’s political interview podcast, she sat down for a long conversation under the blunt title “Why Democrat Women Are So Angry.”
Helen Andrews is a freelance writer and author whose 2025 essay "The Great Feminization" (published in Compact Magazine) offers a provocative explanation for the rise of wokeness. In a roughly 35-minute UnHerd interview with Freddie Sayers, uploaded around the same time, Andrews lays out her case clearly and compellingly.
Andrews makes a direct connection with the unrest of summer 2020. When George Floyd’s death in May 2020 sparked a bystander video that went viral, those pre-existing dynamics met a national spark. The result was what Andrews calls “the eruption of insanity in 2020”: rapid nationwide protests (many peaceful but others turning into riots with widespread looting, arson, and roughly $1–2 billion in damage), corporate and institutional capitulations, accelerated DEI pledges, statue removals, speech codes, and a wave of cancellations. Institutions prioritized signaling care, avoiding internal conflict, and enforcing group cohesion—hallmarks of the feminized style—over rigorous debate about trade-offs, data on policing/crime, or long-term consequences.
In short, feminization didn’t cause Floyd’s death or the initial outrage, but it shaped the style and scale of the response: fast-moving empathy-driven solidarity, intolerance for dissent framed as harm, and symbolism over practical outcomes. Andrews sees 2020 not as the root but as a preview—“just a small taste”—of how these norms play out at scale once institutions are sufficiently feminized.
This framing helps explain why the unrest and institutional reactions felt so uniform and emotionally charged across elite sectors, even as core problems in places like Chicago’s South Side (crime, family breakdown, education) saw little real improvement from the performative wave. It’s a demographic and cultural lens rather than purely partisan or ideological.
[VIDEO] This video is well over a year old and it somewhat explains the craziness going on in Minneapolis, MN in 2026.
Just think about Renee Good and other insane videos involving left/liberal women who want to interfere with ICE operations there. I think what happened to Ms. Good was tragic to be sure, however, if she wasn't actively blocking streets to interfere in a federal law enforcement operation or even just cooperated with federal agents - perhaps just get out of the car for example - she'd probably still be with us. And if she wanted to actively protest ICE that's fine, it's her right. Just don't put yourself in a position where the actions could prove fatal.
However, let's be clear this video was published after the election win of Donald Trump as the 47 President of the United States. What's going to happen thoughout the start of his second term and the reaction to it wasn't yet a thought.
He attacks both the manosphere and then of course notes that women considered abotion a major issue - let's not forget my body my choice. Let's not forget the overreactions with regards to me, too. Even the fever dream of the Handmaid's Tale media franchise.
Of course as Trent himself, comments he doesn't let me off the hook either. The aforementioned manosphere has put out some very toxic ideas for men. Perhaps men doesn't realize what it takes to be ready for real relationships with women.
I may also conclude as I had for many years that women like to be taken care of. If it's not by their husbands, it's by Uncle Same, or it could be by the job (with good benefits or pay a good salary). Here gov't assisted is emphasized and also noted that single men support big gov't more than married men.
Finally, Trent concludes by re-asserting how important the family is in society. To put in my own words, leftism or liberalism or feminist or certainly slothful man-children are undermining the importantance of a mother and father in a family.
At a later time I do want to share some videos about the activities of female leftists in Minnesota with regards to these ICE operations.
[VIDEO] Add to this the number of interviews that the Vice President has that's just very underwhelming. Part of this is that we're looking at basically soft interviews. She's going onto very friendly venues and we're still not getting answers about who she is and what she stands for.
Tim Pool and his crew talks about this interview.
Also I don't follow Call Her Daddy, but this is a podcast which caters to women and the basic conversation is sexuality. I suppose doing this podcast makes sense for VP Harris if she wants to primarily talk about the abortion issue.
[VIDEO] Wow I can't believe she's still around now. Probably been seeing her on the TV talk show circuit I'm pretty sure she was on Donahue once or twice. Wait I don't know if I have any kids reading this, but they would know nothing about Phil Donahue, perhaps if they watched MSNBC in the early 2000s where he returned to the genre.
Regardless this was an interesting debate between Ali and Elder. He does refute somethings that she says, especially about if it's easier for Black students to get into the college of their choice, whatever their grades might be.
Of course what's emphasized for this discussion, fatherlessness. Ali has spoken out about over the years about relationships between Black men and women. She states here that Black women - I might point the finger at young Black women doesn't really know how to relate to the Black man. It doesn't help that fatherlessness affects young Black girls as much as it might affect young Black men such as that soundbite from the late great Tupac Shakur.
He states that if his father was around he probably would be a better son and that perhaps his mother - who I understand had some real issues in her life - probably wouldn't go down the road she had when she was raising Tupac.
This is an interesting discussion worth your time.
