November 6, 2024 - Personal blog of Rick Giles

Leave Her Ovaries Alone, Stefan Molyneux!

December 15, 2019

By NZB3

New Zealand was paid a visit by controversial internet author Stefan Molyneux in late 2018. Hundreds protested, his event was shut down, he had to fly back to Canada. The major accusation levelled at Stef is that he takes aggregate data about the population and dumps it onto the shoulders of particular individuals. Thus, an individual would not be judged by the content of their character but by the colour or their skin, their race, their likely IQ bracket. It’s the error of someone uneducated in statistics and one Molyneux would deny ever making.

I can’t believe Taylor Swift is about to turn 30 – she still looks so young!

It’s strange to think that 90% of her eggs are already gone – 97% by the time she turns 40 – so I hope she thinks about having kids before

it’s too late! She’d be a fun mom. 🙂

This Molyneux Tweet compounds the case against him but it’s not an attack on someone’s race or gender or IQ but squared upon pop celebrity Taylor Swift. The singer’s fertility, her ovaries and how much ammo therein, have been moved out of her personal and private space into the public forum. Why should Molyneux, like some paparazzi predator, be justified in socialising the private and sacred?

Plenty of celebrities do choose to make their medical situations public but it’s up to them, not Stefan Molyneux, to table. The pages of Women’s Health are full of celebrities (or their managers) capitalising on self-disclosure…

Beyoncé Shares How Her Miscarriage Helped Redefine What She Views As Success

Jennifer Garner’s Secret To Never Missing A Workout Is Smart AF

Hilary Duff Lost 5kgs Just By Counting Macros

Penny McNamee Opens Up About Dealing With Endometriosis And Infertility

HOME SEX & LOVE Ashley Graham Just Got Real About The Struggles Of Having Sex While Pregnant; ibid

Jennifer Lopez Says Her Body Is The Result Of Cutting Out Caffeine

Selena Gomez Just Revealed She Had A Kidney Transplant Due To Lupus

Ref. Australian Women’s Health

So the back-lash against Molyneux isn’t that information is being moved from the sacred/personal space into the public forum. There is already a concerted (and worrying) campaign to break that boundary down (since 1991 and earlier.) The objection is that the decision to shift that conversation from a private space of Taylor Swift with her friends and family into a public one has been made by this Canadian internet outsider.

Molyneux’s Prostate Now In Play

Taylor Swift’s fertility is her own private business but, by this action, Stefan Molyneux has put his own health statistics in the public forum.

Now in his mid-50s, Molyneux has a 50% chance of am enlarged prostate (+the related urination challenges.) 33% Of erectile dysfunction & about 20% chance of being below the normal range of testosterone levels. He’s getting old.

Usually it would be unjust to take generalised statistics about the population at large and put them on the shoulders of just one person. It personalises trends and statistics instead of treating the person as an individual. In that way it’s just like racism.

In this case it’s OK. He’s opened himself right up to us speculating about the size of his prostate. Taylor Swift has not!

A Strange Role-Reversal

“There is no set age at which a person is considered a senior in Canada. Generally, for specific purposes the age at which senior discounts start is usually 55.”¹ Stef, 54 in 2020, has recently commented on his podcast to being within a whisp of being a senior citizen. This elaborates on the sorts of compromising aggregate data descriptions that Molyneux’s life could be crucified as the effigy of. Now he’s opened up that can of worms why shouldn’t anyone repay him for doing that to Taylor Swift?

Oddly, Molyneux usually postures as being on the side of a K-selected and Traditionalist, Conservative, even Christian, culture. These sorts of people defend boundaries, both national and personal. Their natural inclination is for things that are personal to remain private and sacred not public and common. Eg. Breast-feeding, sexual acts, miscarriages, fertility, sickness and injury, confession, giving birth, dying etc. are to take place in secure and private territory not out in the open in view of the public.

“This Vanity Fair cover from August 1991 featuring a nude and pregnant Demi Moore is a rough marker ..At the time it was a risque poster; Pregnancy was a private and reserved institution. Boomer Moore’s shoot publicly sexualised what had been sacred..”- AHNZ

“There is a problem to the DC with sexualising the public space. The problem is the squandering of human sexuality every which way rather than moderating it, modestly and privately, as a sacred energy reserved for binding families together.”- AHNZ

Molyneux has put the boundary-breakers, the ones who want to tear down walls and privacy, the “diversity” lovers in the unusual position of defending a boundary. Stef is the Progressive in this contest and majority reacting to his incitement are defending one of the few remaining boundaries still standing.

—

1 Ref FindLaw Canada

Image ref. Molyneux visits New Zealand with L.Southern; Newshub

Image ref. Swift; Anthony Harvey/Getty Images; Stylecaster

Like    Comment     Share