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Episode 9 : Elder millennial feminism with Lirpa Strike
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Episode 9 : Elder millennial feminism with Lirpa Strike

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In this episode of Walt Right Perspectives I speak with Lirpa Strike (AKA April), an elder millennial woman originally from Minnesota and currently living in Northern Virginia.

April has a background in anarchism and contrarian feminism, and was originally activated by the Occupy movement during the early Obama years. She has since drifted toward more moderate positions and no longer identifies as a feminist.

Topics include:

  • April’s political initiation with the Bob Dole campaign

  • Her political trajectory through art school liberalism and the Occupy movement into anarchism and cynicism

  • Differences in racial attitude in Minnesota vs. Washington

  • Minnesota Somalians

  • Presidential elections of 1996, 2000, 2004, 2008, 2012, and 2016

  • The Iraq War

  • The Elder Millennial love for Obama

  • Occupy Wall Street

  • April’s efforts to join Occupy with Tea Party libertarians

  • Our shared appreciation for people who go to war with their own side

  • April’s embrace of anarchism after the failure of Occupy

  • Sex-positive Millennial feminism vs sex-negative Zoomer feminism

  • How April learned to embrace her femininity later in life

  • Why April no longer calls herself a feminist.

  • How satisfaction in your love life makes you stop caring about gender politics.

  • How thirty-something women complain about men.

  • Women reward you for being a fuckboy

  • OkCupid vs. Tinder

  • Traumatic effects of early female puberty

  • Negative effects of endocrine disruptors

  • How men become addicted to transgressive/novel porn as prepubescent boys

  • How birth control went from coded as feminist among Millennials (Sandra Fluke) to coded as antifeminist among Zoomer women

  • Were Millennial women exploited by sex positivity?

  • Gen Z guys love the ahaego face

  • The Elder Millennial beauty standard (Feist, Zooey Deschanel)

  • Millennial hipster culture—IPAs, escape rooms, ax throwing

  • Early Millennials vs Late Millennials

  • How the particular year of your birth massively determines life outcomes

  • Remembering the fall of the USSR vs. 9/11

  • How America polarized on abortion

  • The short-sightedness and narcissism of prolife maximalists

  • April’s take on Trump

  • Hillary Clinton’s Faustian will to power

  • Why a right wing female President would be more viable than a liberal woman

  • How Millennial women turned on RBG

  • Abortion benefits the Republican Party

  • April’s thoughts on the 2024 election

  • How comedy is the ultimate form of propaganda

  • How April recently got into Lana Del Ray—”the Taylor Swift for grownups”

  • Turning 30 vs. Turning 40

  • Ways in which your thirties are better than your twenties

  • Lifestyle polarization of Zoomers (trads vs incels)

  • Sex at Dawn and polyamory

  • The male preference for polygamy

  • Anarchism as an impetus for polyamory

  • How safetyist culture makes polyamory groace

  • Inherent transactionality of heterosexual relationships

  • How marrying a more conservative man caused April to fight with liberal friends

  • How April lost friends playing devil’s advocate re: “Punch a Nazi” and Cville

  • Decline of MRA and Greek Alphabet Males into incel/chad binary

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