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The New Feminist Buzzwords You Need to Know

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Overall Frame: “Pattern Investigation” into “New Feminist Buzzwords”

The video is presented as a “pattern investigation” into “new feminist buzzwords.” It argues that these terms—while framed as objective descriptions of women’s lived reality—are portrayed by the speakers as ideological tools that expand women’s/activists’ institutional power, often at men’s expense. The video further claims these buzzwords frequently operate in ways that are difficult to falsify in debate or law.

1) “Empathy” as Misapplied Sympathy Toward Accused Men

The speakers argue that “empathy” is used to mean excess sympathy for men accused of sexual assault/harassment, including excuses such as:

  • “He’s a nice guy”
  • “He made a mistake”
  • “He was going through a lot”

They claim this framing undermines accountability and can pressure institutions and audiences to treat accusations as effectively proven.

Additional arguments raised in the segment

  • Jim argues that the academic framing cited here often treats “powerful/privileged men” narrowly (e.g., white heterosexual men), and that definitions sometimes fail to apply broadly across groups.
  • The group suggests a chain of related buzzwords (e.g., empathy → “her(er)asure”/silencing the woman’s voice → something like “herpathy,” described as a reversal) reflects selective concern rather than fairness.
  • Janice argues the terminology muddies legitimate skepticism by equating it with bad faith.

Case examples mentioned

High-profile cases are used as examples where men were not found guilty but allegedly received less sympathy than accusers, and/or where alleged “victims” were still treated as such without due process. Examples include:

  • Duke lacrosse
  • Jian Ghomeshi
  • Mustafa Y
  • Hockey Canada members

2) “Leg Hair Harassment” as Petty Grievance and a Broader Harassment Taxonomy

The video discusses a Japanese social-media term: “leg hair harassment.” It is linked to claims that women are uncomfortable seeing men’s leg hair in offices that allow shorts.

Claims made by the speakers

  • The term is mocked as petty, and framed as part of a tendency to repackage ordinary discomfort as victimization.
    • Core idea: “discomfort does not equal harassment.”
  • One contributor argues Japan has an organizational culture that tracks many types of harassment, citing examples such as:
    • “smell harassment”
    • “logic harassment”
  • The speakers argue an asymmetry in policy—men may show leg hair while women must wear tights—illustrates how grievances get converted into rights/harassment claims.

3) “Medical Misogyny” as Allegedly Political Framing and Selective Evidence

A section addresses “medical misogyny,” including claims (citing an online account) that male doctors are worse at treating women’s pain conditions (e.g., endometriosis, PCOS).

Jim’s response (as summarized)

Jim emphasizes several points:

  • Media/mainstream discussion allegedly relies mostly on patient perceptions, with rare direct input from doctors.
  • He claims Australia’s health-care system is predominantly female, including government health agencies, so the “misogyny” narrative should be examined carefully.
  • He disputes the framing of some research/think-tank reports, alleging data manipulation—for example, comparing young women to older men in a way that produces a desired conclusion.
  • He argues complaints are often unfalsifiable: regardless of outcomes (no diagnosis, wrong diagnosis, shifting trends), the narrative can be reframed as discrimination.

Other objections mentioned

  • Another speaker argues that focusing on women’s disadvantages can obscure men’s health disadvantages, including:
    • lower life expectancy
    • under-discussed male health funding gaps
  • The group criticizes mental-health diagnostic culture, claiming it lacks strict gatekeeping and can turn diagnoses into identities with “secondary gains,” making diagnoses harder to contest or reverse.

4) Buzzwords and Language Policing, Including Debates Over What Counts as “Feminism”

The video includes a dispute involving trans-inclusive feminism and women’s sports, using labels such as:

  • “transhating BS”
  • “turf”
  • and conditional claims like “not a feminist if…”

The speakers argue this shows feminism fractured into internal ideological enforcement.

Claims made in this part

  • Language and membership policing (“if you don’t accept X you’re not a feminist”) are presented as control mechanisms.
  • The fragmentation is argued to shift public attention to real-time contradictions, especially around sex classification in sports, while sidelining concerns about men’s well-being.

5) “Vicarious Violence” and Legislation That—According to the Speakers—Limits Who Can Be a Victim

The video introduces “vicarious violence,” said to be gaining traction via legislation in:

  • Spain
  • Mexico
  • Brazil

Claims attributed to the presenters

They argue the law is asymmetrical and, in their reading, cannot treat men as victims—so women are presumed the victim in cases involving partner violence or the use of children.

  • Jim and others argue this institutionalizes skepticism about women’s potential violence.
  • They claim it denies women’s potential to weaponize children in ways that legislators/advocates typically assume fathers do.

6) “Substantive Equality / Equity” and Policy Designs Aimed at Equalizing Outcomes

The video criticizes substantive equality (also called equity) as the idea that equality is achieved through equal outcomes, not equal opportunity.

Claims made about “equity”

  • Equity is said to justify preferential policies such as:
    • affirmative action
    • women-only hiring
  • These policies are framed as efforts to “engineer” outcomes.
  • The speakers also argue hypocrisy: equity is not applied consistently to other domains of male disadvantage, such as:
    • suicide
    • deaths in custody
    • dangerous labor/injury rates

7) “Gender Washing” and “Buzzwords as Control Drones”

“Gender washing” is described as a process where organizations adopt gender-equality measures only superficially, while activists believe more should be done.

Claims made by the speakers

  • The compliance standard is described as an always-escalating threshold: institutions must do more than improve—they must meet increasingly harder feminist requirements.
  • One contributor offers a metaphor: buzzwords as “attack drones”—vehicles embedding an empowerment narrative that legitimizes expanding control and institutional power.

Overall Thesis

Across multiple examples—sexual misconduct discourse, office dress norms, medical-treatment narratives, trans/sports debates, family-law legislation, and workplace/education equality policy—the speakers argue that “feminist buzzwords” operate as:

  • ideological tools for institutional authority
  • mechanisms that shift blame onto opponents or male institutions
  • concepts that can become politically or legally difficult to falsify, especially when grounded in perceptions and protected narratives

Presenters / Contributors

  • Tom Golden
  • Jim Nuso
  • Janice Viamango (also referred to as “Janice Famingo” in places)
  • “Hannah” (mentioned as contributing, but not clearly identified beyond that name)

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