The Cultural Sickness That Trained Women to Hate Erika Kirk | Ep. 15

Saturday night's third assassination attempt on Donald Trump produced a thirty-second video of Erika Kirk weeping and asking to go home — and split the country in two. Half saw a young widow retraumatized seven months after Charlie Kirk's public assassination. The other half decided she was performing. Same pixels. Two opposite perceptions. Like 2015's viral "Dress”—except what's implicated isn't visual perception. It's moral perception. Jeremy Boreing makes the case that the cruelty being directed at Erika Kirk is not "trolling." It is the natural, predictable output of a fifty-year cultural project that elevated, organized, monetized, and amplified toxic femininity — the negative feminine of gossip, exclusion, and reputational destruction — while systematically dismantling positive masculinity and every institution that previously held those instincts in check. The result is an emergent matriarchy that Candace Owens once called "hellish" — but Candace is now its main promulgator, running the most flagrant toxic-feminine pile-on in modern conservative media: a gnostic conspiracy ritual dressed up as a true crime docuseries called Bride of Charlie. Jeremy walks the data: women's self-reported happiness in continuous decline since the 1970s; the lowest U.S. fertility rate in recorded history; 70% of divorces initiated by wives, almost none for cause of abuse; female-majority institutions — K–12 education, HR, higher education — becoming dramatically less tolerant of dissent; the FIRE study showing male students are more tolerant of their political enemies than female students are of their own allies. He works through the literary archetypes — Medea, Jezebel, Lady Macbeth, Dolores Umbridge — and the academic research on relational aggression that confirms what those stories already knew. He names the men who've built the manosphere economy on the rubble (Andrew Tate, Dan Bilzerian) and explains why neither feminism's emergent matriarchy nor the trad movement's larped patriarchy is the answer. Not a call to disenfranchise women. Not a defense of toxic masculinity. An argument that the answer to a bad cultural project is the slow, voluntary recovery of complementary masculine and feminine virtues — and that wicked men can only ever be constrained by good men. Chapters 00:00 The Video That Divided the Country 02:40 This Is the World Feminism Has Wrought 06:48 Medea, Jezebel, and the 6th Grade Slut Code 10:27 Fifty Years of Declining Female Happiness 13:07 70% of Divorces and the Christian View of Marriage 17:33 Dolores Umbridge in Power 20:18 No, Erika Did Not Kill Her Husband 24:19 Candace Owens and "Bride of Charlie" 29:22 You're Being a B*tch 32:54 Wicked Men, Good Men, and the Trad Movement LARP 36:03 A New Technology 38:15 Leave the Grieving Widow Alone #ErikaKirk #JeremyBoreing #JBS #CandaceOwens #ToxicFemininity #ToxicMasculinity #Matriarchy #Patriarchy #Feminism #CharlieKirk #BrideOfCharlie #TPUSA #Manosphere #ChristianMarriage #ConservativeMedia Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices