Rachel Wilson: Author of 'The Occult Feminism: The Secret History of Women's Liberation,' a homeschooling mother of five, firearms instructor and powerlifter who spent two and a half years researching the history of the feminist movement.
What this episode covers
Rachel Wilson lays out the thesis of her book: that the history of women's suffrage and feminism has been deliberately rewritten, and that most 19th-century women actively opposed the vote. She argues feminism was pushed by Marxists, financiers, eugenicists and the CIA to double the workforce, suppress wages and politicize women, and that many of its founders were occultists, spiritualists and con artists. Wilson ties the movement to falling birth rates, the two-income trap, the breakdown of the family and rising female unhappiness. She and Joe also range over gender ideology, dating apps, fitness, motherhood and the occult careers of figures like Margaret Sanger, Gloria Steinem and Jack Parsons.
The guest's own work
The Occult Feminism: The Secret History of Women's Liberation
Rachel Wilson
“it is the occult feminism, the secret history of women's liberation”— Joe Rogan
Also referenced (named, not recommended)
Satanic Feminism
Per Faxneld
“I cite a book that's a PhD thesis by a professor from Norway his name's per faxeld it's called satanic feminism”— Rachel Wilson
Witches, Feminism, and the Fall of the West
Edward Dutton
“there's a book about this Edward Dutton wrote a book about witches feminism in the fall of the west”— Rachel Wilson
The Woman's Bible
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
“Elizabeth Katie Stanton and a bunch of her friends wrote something called the Woman's Bible in 1895”— Rachel Wilson
The Stepford Wives
Bryan Forbes
“Remember the Steepford Wives movie where it was revealed in the movie plot that like all the evil men”— Rachel Wilson
Sex and the City
Darren Star
“Do you know who's upset about it, too? the lady who created Sex in the City... She said that she regrets having ever made that”— Rachel Wilson
Good Will Hunting
Gus Van Sant
“that's the whole premise of Goodwill Hunting. Like you can get very smart from a public library”— Joe Rogan
The War of the Worlds
H.G. Wells
“I don't want to know. I love the War of the Worlds. He wrote some great fiction, but he was a diehard Malthusian”— Joe Rogan
Big reveals from this episode
- Claims women's access to higher education is the number one global correlate of falling birth rates.
- Says a Massachusetts referendum found only 4% of women who voted wanted suffrage, after which leaders banned women from voting on it.
- Asserts the CIA helped fund early feminism (including Ms. Magazine and Gloria Steinem) as Cold War propaganda.
- Calls Margaret Sanger 'so evil' she had nightmares, and says Sanger fabricated the letters justifying birth control.
- Describes Gloria Steinem going undercover as a Playboy Bunny while working for the CIA.
- Reveals the 'shocking' occult core of her research: most feminist founders were into spiritualism, theosophy or Satanism.
- Recounts NASA rocketeer and Satanist Jack Parsons doing weeks of 'sex magic' with Marjorie Cameron.
- States 26% of American women are on at least one psychiatric prescription drug.
Worth remembering
- Before the 1970s only about 5% of mothers with school-age kids worked outside the home; the shift never reversed.
- Pushing women into the workforce nearly doubled the labor supply in ~20 years, and Wilson argues men's wages never recovered.
- In 1800s New York a married man couldn't sell post-marriage property without his wife's written consent.
- Women in Utah were granted suffrage and then had it removed for ~50 years over the polygamy fight.
- Claims more babies have been aborted in the last century than all men killed in all 20th-century wars.
- Explains 'standpoint theory' as the framework used to deny objective historical facts.
- Cites data that children with married biological parents are 12 times safer across abuse metrics.
- Notes genetic studies show humans have roughly twice as many female ancestors as male ancestors.
- References 'the paradox of female happiness' study finding women less happy than before liberation.
- Wilson says a doctor told her she'd never walk after her fourth birth separated her pelvic bone; she rehabbed via lifting.