Agency, Adultery, and Anora

On today’s installment of Walt Right Perspectives I speak with the talented

Silver Rose

, a Franco-American Jewess of heterodox but broadly Center Left sympathies who publishes here on Substack and is also active on Twitter.

All of you gents should definitely check out this article she wrote this year:

Gender War Myths

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Topics include:

• Her experience growing up in France

• Cultural differences between France and America

• How does quality of life compare between France and the US?

• American nationalism as a force to compensate for a lack of genuine identity

• Why the French Left is less permissive of migration than America

• Is opposition to immigration in America somewhat astroturfed?

• The religious versus ethnic dimension to European crime stats

• French secularism and prohibition against religion garments

• The French prohibition against collecting ethnic demographic data

• Certain demographic facts contain scary implicit normative content

• Are zip codes a more sound basis for demographic analysis than race?

• The value of predicating policy on proxies vs. underlying factors

• French versus American attitudes on cheating

• Is the American opposition to cheating performative?

• Historic changes in infidelity rates

• Is sociological survey data about participation in taboo behavior reliable?

• Walt and Rose debate the historic prevalence of hypergamous cuckoldry

• The relative importance of income for men versus women in determining perceived social class for assortative mating

• Rose assesses the merit of Walter’s AI art and songs

• Conservatives don’t understand art and very kitschy and didactic tastes

• Why Rose is a big fan of Anora

• Where’s the line between Intersexual Competition and Morality?

• Do women actually understand their own motivations?

• Walt argues that the ubiquity of paleolithic bride capture prevents women from adequately understanding their own interiority

• Walt insists women reward men for doing the opposite of what they ask for

• The subtextual nature of female communication vs. more overt male styles

• Walt argues that female moral intuition is more socially contextual, but that this is a mostly unconscious process women usually can’t perceive

• Do men not have agency insofar as they lack sexual self-control?

• The Mike Pence Rule

• Kryptogal (Kate, if you like)
  ’s theories about the male sex demon

• Every woman has a narc exbf while every man has a BPD exgf

• The genesis of “love bombing”—Walt argues it’s usually genuine at the time

• Where’s the line between manipulation and simply having good social skills?

• People are very rarely nefarious so much as morally lazy and solipsistic

• The impetus for men to perform dark triad traits to seem attractive to women

• Walt explains how dropping n-bombs on a date can be compelling to liberal girls

• Why Richard Spencer was so compelling to liberal journalists in 2016

• When women indicate on sociological surveys that they wouldn’t marry a Trump supporter, is this accurate to how they’d actually behave in practice?

• Low conscientiousness liberal girls are less repelled by racial slurs than your average straight-laced conservative girl.

• How to present yourself to a liberal girl’s friends and family in a dignified way

• Walt argues that people who say the n-word are actually less racist on average than people who don’t say it

• Walt explains how “women don’t have agency” isn’t a definitive statement about female interiority so much as a statement about the game theoretic resting point

• Rose compares Walt’s notion of female agency to the feminist concept of men weaponizing incompetence to get out of housework

• False rape accusations are much less threatening to men than gossip through e.g. are we dating the same guy groups on Facebook

• Why Walt sees Amy from Gone Girl as the idea woman

• Do people want a partner who’s antisocial towards everyone but them?

• Are certain platitudes / cognitive biases socially as necessary as copium?

• The things we find scary about the opposite sex are also what we find hot

• Rose argues that “rape fantasies” don’t actually involve rape

• Walt’s proposed rakishness charge as a replacement for extant social sanctions

• Is consent a sufficient basis for sexual ethics?