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Philosophy professor and attorney Sterling Harwood supports feminism, minus its "five follies." Literature and Arab-Islamic Studies scholar Kevin Barrett doesn't. An epic clash of worldviews...complete with cheesy pictures!

PS: Check out Sterling Harwood’s book Five Follies of Feminism.

Kevin Barrett: So I think anthropologically, basically, clearly, males and females are very different. I knew University of Wisconsin biologists who would sort of whisper to you in the locker room after pick up basketball games that,

“Hey, we all know this and you're not allowed to talk about it, but physiologically, the brain structure is massively influenced by the hormonal output in utero. And that basically the male brain is formed by the massive explosion of testosterone that happens at however many months, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. So male and female brains and bodies are overall radically different.”

And likewise, the social expression of that difference is radical. And that's been the case in virtually all societies that we've ever known.

And if you want to come up with a really succinct description of this: Men, on the average, have 30 times as much testosterone as women do. And testosterone, among other things, drives aggression, sexual aggression. It's called the success hormone because it makes you want to be the top of the power pyramid. So that means that men are driven by this extreme tendency to want to aggress and compete and be number one. And they form pack hierarchies based on that, often in a hunting and warrior situation. That's the natural state for human (males).

Women’s totally different hormonal structure creates a totally different cognitive and social structure that is totally dominated by their need to raise children, who are so helpless for such a long time. Each woman can only have a few, so she invests massive resources in the few children she has. Each man can theoretically have thousands, like various mongol conquerors did leaving us half the planet's population as their descendants.

So given these huge, huge differences, basically women have had to conspire to create civilization, defined as a very strict family structure that deprives men of the right to sex unless they promise to support their woman and all of her progeny. That's called marriage...

And so given this situation, feminism has really screwed women up. Now women are... in a world where they're expected to to go out and fight people with 30 times as much testosterone as them, to “bring home the bacon” and climb to the top of the power pyramid. But they don't have the hormones to make them even really have the gumption to want to do that.

Men are happy being patriarchs because a patriarch is a civilized male. Patriarchy means rule by the fathers. Fathers are people who've been civilized by women and now care about their women and children and protect them. Break that down and you end up with a kind of a war of all against all in which the most ruthless psychopathic males are going to grab what they like and run roughshod over the majority of people, especially the women and children.

So that's the world we have today. It's heading back towards barbarism. And feminism has contributed to dismantling civilization.

Sterling Harwood: Yeah, well, I have a more optimistic viewpoint. I don't think it's going to get worse and worse, even on your own terms, because the levels of testosterone in men has been dropping rather seriously. It was in the new