09-04-26 Part One - The Death of a Feminist Pioneer

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Red Eye Radio discusses the death of feminist icon Gloria Steinem at age 92, reflecting on her legacy and controversial 2021 statement suppo

Key takeaways

• Gloria Steinem's death at 92 marks a pivotal moment in feminist history, with her 2021 statement on transgender inclusion sparking intense debate about the evolution of feminism.

Main topics

• Gloria Steinem's legacy and death
• Feminism and transgender inclusion in sports

Notable quotes

"If she has pivoted, then it's over. Yeah, as we said. Feminism is over. Feminism was over at that point when she said that because she succumbed to the man."

Conclusion

The episode frames Gloria Steinem's passing as a symbolic end to an era of feminism,

Transcript preview

Speaker 1 (0:06) Now, it's Red Eye Radio. Gary McNamara and Eric Hurley talk about everything from politics to social issues and news of the day. Whether you're up late or you're just starting your day, welcome to the show. From the Relief Factor Studios, this is Red Eye Radio. All across America, we are Red Eye Radio. He is Eric Hurley and I'm Gary McNamara. Good morning. Welcome. I got like five drops of rain yesterday. I'm not kidding. Just five drops. That was it. Yeah. I was looking out the back door and I went, are those drops of rain hitting the pool surface? The moat? Excuse me. The moat surface? Mm-hmm. And I was like, wow. And I ran out to the front to see if it was, you know, sticking to the driveway. There was nothing. And I went back and it was gone. That's it. I mean, it didn't rain for more than 10 seconds. Yeah. And it really wasn't rain, so that doesn't count. Speaker 1 (1:00) Because it's not significant rainfall. It doesn't get the pavement wet. There's no measured precipitation. I had the same event about three weeks ago on a Saturday night just north of here on I-35 over the Lake Louisville Bridge southbound. 11.28 p.m. I looked down at my clock just to make sure I could make note of it for about 10 to 12 seconds. Good rain to the point that I had to turn on my windshield wipers. I was like, oh, man, I'm impressed. And then I got to the other side of the bridge. It was over. It was like, I mean, I don't know where it came from, too. I was like looking up at, you know, at the sky and it didn't look like it was just a stray shower that hovered only like half of the bridge, basically. And that's the only rain I've experienced in a long time. It's been a while. And then up in in the western New York. Speaker 1 (1:58) Southern America, I mean, Southern Ontario, I'm getting that mixed up. Southern Ontario region, they got pound, I mean, they got the rain that Western New York got last night. There are streets that I've never seen flooded before that look like it had two, three feet of rain in Buffalo. Yeah. I mean, it was, excuse me, not rain, of a river going down the street. Yeah. Like, whoa. And I actually, yesterday. When I woke up, because I knew they were really getting hit hard. I don't know if you saw it, the one stadium, the concert stadium in Toronto, was just devastated. The stands, I mean, it just, whatever hit that, I mean, they just said it was thunderstorms. I'm like, that's a pretty severe thunderstorm and winds if it did that. But around my, I saw my cousin who lives right around the corner from my dad's house. Speaker 1 (2:51) I saw that they had trees down, and I, you know, called my dad's house, you know, wanting to talk to my sister and brother, and nobody picked up. And I'm like, oh, no, what's going on? It's like everyone I try to contact, you know, three different phone numbers, texted them, nothing. I'm like, oh, no, no. And they were just, my brother was busy outside taking down a limb from a tree that cracked and putting it in the back, but they were all right. But, man, they were getting pounded. I think it was record rainfall for parts of. Speaker 1 (3:19) western new york i know i think it was near batavia new york with that they saw a um a tornado but those kind of yeah really they were getting the kind of storms that we get here yeah you know like in march or april or may sometimes we get them in you know sometimes in the fall occasionally uh we've had a tornado what was it december 26th oh yeah december 26th um uh just east of here that was horrible uh yeah i uh one of my friends His house was the only one standing on the entire street he lives on after that tornado. And I mean virtually untouched except for his fence, which was crazy. It shows you how unpredictable they are even when they touch the ground and you get the warning. I was reading about the Nepal floods and a story about a principal in Nepal. Speaker 1 (4:12) who had 15 minutes to clear the school, and it was hundreds of students in that school, and he got them out of the way just in time. Wow. Yeah, that was caused by an earthquake that had thrown a large rock and a huge chunk of mud into a river. A landslide. And basically that landslide caused that river to swell. And they'd just come through that village, and it was just devastating. And that's why when you hear the left around the world saying this was climate change, it's a landslide. Yeah, which was triggered by earthquakes, which are not rare in that region. And there is no connecting the dots between an earthquake and climate change. Well, you know, it's funny because— Unless the molten rock has gone from— Speaker 1 (5:04) I don't even know how hot molten rock is, from 2,000 degrees to 2,010 degrees. You know, I mean, you think about how mountains are formed and, you know, the mountainous region around Nepal, including the highest mountain. And remember the earthquakes that have happened in recent years. There have been a few, in fact, and have caused deaths on Mount Everest. And there was comments. The same thing. The response was, well, this is climate change. It was like, actually, earthquakes are a regular occurrence in that part of the world. And what's unfortunate is obviously the building standards because there is, you know, in Nepal especially, just not much of an economy. A lot of the economy, in fact, surrounds tourism and people that want to attempt to climb Everest. So there's just not the economy to build buildings that will withstand that kind of, those kind of earthquakes. Okay, I found it. Speaker 1 (6:13) Magma. Magma. Lava goes from 1,300 degrees up to 2,280 degrees Fahrenheit. Yeah. All right. That's what. Okay. And there's different types of lava out there that is different type of. Yeah. There's different types of. Magma. Magma. So there you go. But hopefully still a chance of getting some rain early this morning. I'm still hoping just for – just give me a 15-minute big shower. That's all I want. And then I don't have to worry about the grass for another two weeks. Off and on over the next couple of weeks, you see a few spots in the forecast where there's – Speaker 1 (6:59) opportunity, but we'll see if it plays out. Yeah. I think, I think today may be 50 or 51 days for me without any, really any significant rain. I don't count the five drops yesterday. Yeah. That doesn't, that doesn't count, but not that I, not that we really want to get into a long discussion on Gloria Steinem because we've covered, I've covered it for the last, golly, half century. But what I found really interesting, the first thing I thought of, when I saw that Gloria Steinem had died, was you can look at her and say she was a focal point in... I won't say maybe the modern birth of liberal feminism. And then back in 2021, to me, she was the official death of liberal feminism when she came out. And it's interesting because I was reading AI today and it said, well, she never specifically came out and said that biological men should not play sports against biological women. Speaker 1 (8:07) But she wanted the inclusion of transgender women in women's sports. Well, then she came out. That's what she's saying. I know. And so, as we know, that was the biggest feminist issue, which was completely the opposite of what Gloria Steinem was about. Gloria Steinem, as we said, completely and totally capitulated to what the man dictated. And we found it amazing. We said it at that time. If she has pivoted, then it's over. Yeah, as we said. Feminism is over. Feminism was over at that point when she said that because she succumbed to the man because the man says so. And we're not referring to the quote, the man, as like a boss. That could be a man or a woman. We're not using it that way. She succumbed to what biological men told her. Think about that. Liberal feminism crumbled. Gloria Steinem actually signed the letter that said men dictate what a woman is. Speaker 1 (9:25) And I'm telling you, a few people, since we said that the day that letter came out, I've never received one email. Speaker 1 (9:36) I'm not going to get a text, but, you know, email, fax, telegram. Never received one bit of correspondence of anyone ever disagreeing with it. A few people said it on social media yesterday, and boy, did that ever set off. That set off whatever's remaining of, I guess, what a feminist is in 2026. And it's like, you know, and then it was all over the place, you know, the sarcasm. Well, isn't, well, feminism in 2026 is a woman being able to kill her kids. You know, because of the trial going on and all that. I mean, it was just, it was brutal yesterday on social media. But when that was brought up, it's like, wait a minute. Didn't she sign that letter in 2021 saying that by law, so basically she succumbed to the man. Oh, people went nuts. No, no, she didn't because transgender women are women. Speaker 1 (10:33) It's like, here we go, the same circle again. It's just like, wow. Again, if you're talking about legacy, and that's what we're talking about. Look, at 92, I remember telling a friend of mine that your dad is 100 and my dad is 93. And I was like, wow, really? And, you know, if you've lived past 90, that's a good long life. I wish that for anybody and everybody, as long as you can remain relatively healthy and happy. you know, that I want a good life and long life for anyone. But then you have to separate it for someone like, especially like Gloria Steinem, as to what the legacy is. Her legacy was one thing up until she basically threw it out. Yeah. And that was feminism. And you cannot go against the mob when it comes to the liberal transgender movement. Speaker 1 (11:38) So she just decided to write it off. And thank you to the people that when it happened and continuing through them, the correspondence we do get is, my God, you guys said that over a decade ago, that if the radical transgender movement continues, feminism is dead. Yes. Boom, it happened. And she was the face of feminism. Yeah. Liberal feminism. Liberal feminism, yes. If there was, again, if that had not happened still today, that would be her legacy. I can't. I think there has to be a huge asterisk there on her legacy because at that moment, then you're doing the opposite. Yeah. You're giving in to biological males who decide they want to invade the spaces that belong to women as probably the world's most, at least this country's most famous advocate for liberal feminism. Speaker 1 (12:38) And if you do that, it's gone. It doesn't belong to you anymore. And I can't explain it. Never heard her explain it. She tried a few times, but it sounded like the same thing we hear from the liberal transgender movement. And that doesn't fly. And we said for years until women speak up. Speaker 1 (13:13) Honestly, the loudest, one of the loudest voices, Riley Gaines. Yeah. But then Martina Navratilova. Yeah. You, I mean. I think she, Martina Navratilova spoke first and then so did the, oh, who was it? The other woman that spoke. Oh, what's her name? The author of JK Rowling. No, no, no. There was another woman. Remember she spoke, she got fired from her job. Speaker 1 (13:42) She got fired from her job because she didn't think that male inmates should be with female inmates. She was on a council for prisons, basically. And she was fired from that council for saying that men shouldn't be able to just say, I'm transgender and be in the population with women in prison. Because it was proven. And she, there was absolute proof, undisputable proof. That women were being sexually assaulted. That women were being raped in prison by biological males. And still she was fired. Yep. Speaker 1 (14:32) Yeah, and I'm glad you mentioned J.K. Rowling because she's just eviscerated by the left. But she has, you know, she took an extremely strong stand. Martina Navratilova took a very strong stand. Raleigh Gaines took an extremely strong stand on it. And now it's, you know, Sophie Cunningham. Yeah. You know, and what we said is there are constantly needs because we felt like for the longest time we were on an island and we said it. We went. Jeez, the only people speaking up defending women are men. Well, and if you think about it, you know, with Sophie and Riley, you know, these are two that are experienced, you know, Sophie experiencing it, Riley already experienced it, but shared her experience of what happened to her. She was a victim of that movement. Speaker 1 (15:19) And we knew it was going to happen, but until some of those athletes spoke up, there really wouldn't be a large conversation. And it didn't happen on a large scale, even as Martina Navratilova was speaking up. Even as the woman who was speaking up against putting males, biological males, in female prisons was speaking up and then got fired for it. Remember, she testified in front of Congress, too. Yep. said you can't be doing this, and it was like 99.9% of Democrats voted against it and said no, biological males. I mean, this is what we talk about. Because when you had Gloria Steinem sign that, we just went, she just signed on to absolute misogyny. I mean, it was just mind-boggling when you think about it. There's a group of female prisoners who are speaking out right now, too, saying we're being held captive. I just saw the story just days ago. Speaker 1 (16:17) We're basically being held captive and victimized daily as a result of this policy. To think about it. I mean, they're held captive for a reason. But they are in a situation that they shouldn't be in with biological males in that population. But when you think that the liberal feminist movement was defeated by self-misogyny. Yeah. Of the absolute focal point of the liberal women's movement from the 60s until now, it was defeated because she accepted misogyny. Yep. Unbelievable. Speaker 1 (17:05) We are Red Eye Radio, brought to you by Hotshot Secrets. Hi, I'm Jen Loomis, a transport safety expert at J.J. Keller. Once a roadside inspection is completed, the officer will close it out. 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