Overthinking the Modern World

#11: Men's Rights ft. Iain

The men’s rights movement is concerned with social issues affecting men and policies that specifically target men. This may be surprising to some, but many men in modern society are struggling across a wide range of metrics.Iain and I go over men’s issues, feminism, polarizing male figures and then buzzword topics such as redpill, incels, mgtow (men going their own way) privilege and more.

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#10: Modern Feminism ft. Professor Martha Rampton

Martha Rampton, a professor of social history and director for gender equity at Pacific University and I discuss the topic of modern feminism. In the modern day, feminism has become a polarizing topic, the goals are more fractured and more complex. Women would not be where they are today without feminism. The ability to vote, own property, have bodily autonomy and more were gained from the unified social movement towards progress in the form of gender equity. We talk about the waves of feminism, the core issues affecting women today, concepts such as patriarchy and privilege, global feminism and touch on how men come into play in all this.

#9: Political Polarization

Political polarization is tearing at the seams of democracies around the world, from Brazil and India to Poland and Turkey. It isn’t just an American illness; it’s a global one. It is very natural for humans to tie their associate their identity with their convictions, and thus, political polarization is a reflection of the division of humans. In this episode I go through three main factors contributing to political polarization, popular figures, past and present such as Donald Trump and Andrew Tate. Lastly, I discuss how division is a natural human tendency.

#8: The State of American Policing ft. Dr David Thomas

Dr David Thomas is a Black American who was a police officer for more than 20 years, was the author of an award winning book: The State of American policing, is also a professor of forensic studies at Florida Gulf University and even runs his own Police Counseling services. In this episode we talk about his theory of the cyclical nature of police brutality, his time as a police officer in different agencies, the Black Lives Matter movement, the effectiveness of community policing and the relationship between policing in America to broader Black American issues and much much more.