Kresta in the Afternoon – January 2, 2023 – Hour 1
It’s the final day of the countdown! Teresa Collett looks at women’s equality before and after Roe, and Abigail Favale examines the roots of the gender paradigm.
#3 Women’s Equality Doesn’t Rest on Abortion Rights
When the Supreme Court ruled in Planned Parenthood v Casey, Justices O’Connor, Souter and Kennedy wrote that abortion was necessary to assure women’s capacity to “participate equally in the economic and social life of the nation.” But a cursory review of history reveals that women’s increased participation in political, social, and economic spheres of American life predated Roe. Teresa Collett explains.
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#2 The Roots of the “Gender Paradigm
You may have heard about Matt Walsh’s film “What is a Woman,” in which he challenges people to define the meaning of female. This question of gender – who we are as men and women – has never been more pressing or more misunderstood. Abigail Favale joins us to trace the roots of the issue and how gender is reshaping our language, our society, and our own self-perceptions.
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Radical feminism and the roots of the godless “gender paradigm”
