Indians, Institutions, and the Woman Question

On today’s episode of Walt Right Perspectives I sit down with

Anuradha Pandey

, who writes here on Substack at

Radically Pragmatic

mostly about gender and institutional critique as well as the Indian diaspora.

Articles of hers to start with:

• The high cost of class-climbing

• The intellectual poverty of women’s society

• Some women are smarter than others

Also check out the following books Anuradha recommends:

• We Have Never Been Woke

• Warriors and Worriers

• The Other One Percent

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Topics:

• Anuradha gives her take on my recent conversation with Rajeev about why the Right dislikes Indians

• Indians as a credentialist / procedural / rule-driven people

• Blacks as a White libtard catspaw against Asians

• How Indian women serve as useful idiots for elite White women

• Elite White women register a disgust response when you state things directly—another factor that lends Indians an advantage in corporate America given their indirect and context-sensitive communication style

• Indian women often act more White than White women

• Patriarchy in Indian families

• The greater salience of material caste and credentials for Indian Americans compared to White Americans

• The importance of credentials in Indian American dating

• The relative shallowness of the Indian diaspora

• Indian elite overproduction

• Why right wing tech bros in particular find Indian Americans annoying

• Are Indians more disposed towards ethnic nepotism?

• How assimilated are Indian Americans?

• Socially exclusionary behavior among H1Bs

• Differences between Indian Americans and first generation Indian immigrants

• The symbiotic relationship between White and Indian women

• How Indian women compare to East Asian / Black / Jewish women in their relationship with White women

• Anuradha recommends The Other One Percent—a comprehensive analysis of the Indian diaspora

• Anuradha’s thoughts on Vivek Ramaswamy

• For Millennial Indian Americans did boys and girls have a different experience?

• Did Apu cause a controversy among Indian Americans because he was Nahasapeemapetilon instead of Patel?

• Why Indian culture feels more opaque to wypipo than other immigrant cultures

• The longtime relationship White elites have with Indian cultures

• The hilarious saga of H1B Pajeet

• Why Buddhism is popular among wypipo

• Why Jews love Brahmin women

• Anuradha’s take on Usha Vance

• Why Walt feels JD Vance failed the Borderer people

• The delusions that accompany and fuel elite overproduction

• Anuradha’s based essay on how female socialization is intellectually shallow

• How Elder Millennial status anxiety fueled Occupy Wall Street

• Feminism and Sisterhood as an adaptive-competitive strategy

• Millennial girls will never admit to being competitive with their friends whereas Zoomer girls are covertly hyper-competitive but aggressively perform sisterhood

• Millennial woman are Straussian compared to Zoomettes e.g. the former flake on dates by saying their grandpa died whereas the latter just say they don’t feel like it

• Walt bemoans the Zoomer Oral Culture

• How getting married ages you

• Millennials more than any generation were lied to about shit like men and women being the same and all differences being socially trained

• Sex and the City feminism fucked up Millennial women because it was written to flatter affluent Gen X women

• The fundamentally different dynamic in age gap relationships between Millennial girls and Gen X guys fifteen years ago versus Zoomettes and Millennial guys today

• Lots of Zoomettes hold nihilistic sex work adjacent feminism and traditionalist sensibilities in parallel without caring about any perceived contradiction

• Walt argues that Mean Girls is a Straussian text about feminine aggression intended by Tina Fey as something girls can show their boyfriends to make female status hierarchies legible because genuine female status competition usually isn’t even perceptible in terms men understand

  • See also my July notes on this (Part 1 - Part 2 - Part 3)

• Anuradha recommends Warriors and Worriers and explains the unique dynamics of female status competition, noting women can’t risk overtly upstaging friends without triggering massive resentment.

• Walt and Anuradha bemoan professional credentialing regimes like the AMA

• To what extend are product manager girlies hired specifically as eye candy? Are they actually sort of necessary to wrangle autistic nerds with zero social skills?

• The drift into post-scarcity makes masculine competencies far less valuable than the ability to navigate feminine status hierarchies by acting like John Mulaney

• Why elite White women think you’re gross if you ackshually like them (see also Walter’s essay The Girl Who Cried Incel)