The Hookup Culture Hurts Women

CALLER: My question is, with all this sexual harassment that’s been going on, why do you think Jimmy Kimmel is getting a pass from doing The Man Show back in 1999?

RUSH: I get your thinking. “If we’re gonna go back and re-hammer Slick Willie over Lewinsky, which is 1997, how come the guys on The Man Show are getting a pass?” Ah, it was a TV show. Speaking of which… You know, everybody today is reminding me of something. There’s a story this week in Variety. Thank you for the call out there, Don. I appreciate it. There’s a story in Variety about a former production assistant at the Today show, and her name … But the point is that she thought she was the only one until all of this surfaced about Matt Lauer, and now she realizes she wasn’t by any means the only one, and the story is all about how this ruined her life.

She thought there was a relationship. He, of course, thought she was just a skirt. (interruption) Now, wait a minute! Wait a minute, now! This is what she’s writing about. There’s a lesson to be learned here if you just be patient and let me finish with this. She was so shaken up by this, she went to West Virginia, because she finally figured out that if she was gonna be Katie Couric, she couldn’t get there being an intern or an assistant. She was gonna have to get on the air.

she’s not alleging she was harassed. It was consensual. But she had the toughest time dealing with the fact that he was not emotionally invested/attached at all. And you know what the lesson is? Well, there are many, I grant you. But what have we been told for decades now by the feminists, and what have young women been told for decades now by the feminists? (interruption) All of that, but we’ve been told now that women are like men and the discrimination against women all these years is the fact that they’ve been treated like women.

“It’s time now to treat women like men. They’re the same and should be treated as such. Women should and could be like men in the workforce. They can have it all. They can have the career, they can climb the corporate ladder, and they can be Susie Homemaker and Betty Crocker at home at the same time and have a totally fulfilled life. They can have it all!” And, furthermore, sex for women could be just like it was for men: A series of random quickies in the bathroom or with a guy in the office. Satisfying! Fun! But no commitment. No big deal.

Feminism said, “Do not tie yourself to a man.” Feminism said, “Do not make your happiness dependent on a relationship,” right? Here is a prime target, Addie Collins — a prime target for the modern teachings of feminism — and it all turns out to be lies. Women are not like men. And what this story makes clear to me, in her case: She is devastated by the random sex. She is devastated. She was thinking… The way to put this is, in her case, how devastating random sex without any kind of a relationship or trust or commitment was to her.

So this hookup business? Fine for men — and you women, you can do it too! Don’t worry about it. But it just doesn’t work that way. That’s what the lessons are to me in this.

RUSH: Snerdley, I think you’re going nuts here. It’s unnecessary. Snerdley still can’t believe this woman that wrote the story about Matt Lauer. I’m telling you, if you’re looking for the answer for this, you’ll find it in feminism.

Women were told they could be just like men. Women were told they would not be making commodities of themselves if they do hookups like men do. And it turns out that’s not true. That’s all this story means. All the story means, Snerdley, when you get right down to it, is that feminism’s been a pack of lies. That human nature is what it is. And she’s disappointed because she thought something other than what happened would happen.

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