Talk show host and feminism commentator Jake Pentland takes on the political implications of the recent midterm elections, and also discusses his views on feminism and Obamacare.
Pentland – who grew up in the shadow of her famous mother Roseanne Barr – discusses the current state of feminism in the United States, compared to other nations around the world.
“My gripe is not about actual feminism, the real feminism – I’m pro-feminism, I’m pro-equality,” Pentland said. My gripe is about the modern state of feminism, specifically here in America,” he said. “Here in America, it is completely insane. Modern feminism to this point is really turning off a lot of people, a lot of women as well.”
When asked what it is about feminism that so many people have issues with, he pointed to the trivialization of some feminist topics, compared to much more important abuses of women around the world. “I’m not talking about the suffrage movement, Susan B. Anthony, I’m not talking about equal pay – all those things that have happened were necessary and beautiful,” he said. “I’m talking about modern feminism – today, 2014.”
He said when discussing equal rights with women in 2014 in America, he brings up two things. He asks them what specific right do they currently do not have, and he brings up the plight of women around the world who have no rights at all and can in fact be punished just for being a women in public.
“What I see in modern feminists and in the women against the movement, were kind of all sick of hearing about how horrible it is for you to get cat-called on the street, like that’s some horrible thing, like that’s equivalent to rape. When there are people literally bricked in the head for reading a book.
“That to me is where we should be focusing – our feminist whatever you want to call it – should be around the world.”
Watch the full episode to also hear Pentland’s views on the recent Republican gains in the midterm elections.
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