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.
The gist
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.
Big reveals
- 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.
Things 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.
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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 00:00:01Find it on Amazon