Aly Dee - Social Media, Motherhood, and Mating Structures

On today’s episode of Walt Right Perspectives I speak with

Aly Dee

, who describes herself as a right wing family girl and publishes on Substack at

Femlosophy

.

She’s also active on Youtube and Twitter.

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Topics include:

• How intellectually honest are conservative female influencers?

• Do female influencers lose power if they aren’t publicly single?

• Is there a casting couch in conservative media?

• Are conservative women generally less submissive than liberals?

• The nature of trad women online compared to IRL

• Obedience vs. Submission

• Nested power dynamics and the power of vulnerability

• Do women sometimes wear the pants in trad relationships?

• Is it tenable for a man to perpetually lead the household?

• Traditional gender roles fluctuate with technology and economic conditions—why fixate on the 1950s in particular?

• To what extent was second wave feminism specifically a reaction to suburbanization and social atomization?

• Technology creates an incentive structure that atomizes people

• Walt posits that civilization is inherently doomed

• How often were Boomer women cheating with the milkman?

• Walt and Aly debate polygyny versus monogamy

• The Age of Asymmetry as a revolutionary social development (everyone should read

  Jeff Giesea
  ’s Unicorn Pill)

• Do kids raised by right wing parents maintain those values into adulthood?

• Will technological progress change the definition of an effective patriarch?

• Walt countersignals the Dissident Right’s collapsitarianism

• Walt fantasizes about being homeless like

  Worst Boyfriend Ever

• The 20th century’s industrial economy selected for a high conscientiousness while the incoming Age of Asymmetry selects for high openness

• Aly talks about her childhood in Florida and what motivated her to pursue a more traditional life in the Midwest

• Walt proposes that we store the homeless in Western Nebraska

• Conservative parents often push their kids away from the arts

• Too many on the Right don’t understand how art works

• That horrible calendar of right wing thirst traps

• Lana Del Rey and Taylor Swift have switched political valence

• Walt defends shoplifting

• Ayn Rand’s lame milquetoast husband who she tried to meme as a gigachad

• Why Ross Douthat loves HBO Girls