Gynocracy and Gynophobia; a discussion with Dr. Rudolf J. Siebert

On October 26th, 2024, I had the pleasure of discussing a very contentious subject: “Women in Power: Gynocracy and Gynophobia,” with the critical theorist, Dr. Rudolf J. Siebert. November 2024 could see the election of the U.S.’s first woman president. Or, it could see the re-election of Donald J. Trump, who has not only a long record of misogyny and adultery, has also been adjudicated to have engaged in “sexual assault” against E. Jean Carroll, and has been accused of much more by many other women. The rise of women to powerful positions has caused a backlash in the “manosphere,” wherein many men, born of deep-seated insecurities and fears, are not prepared to see a women in the most powerful position in the world. Feeling emasculated, they have retreated into a juvenile form of masculinity, one that politicizes the historical gender antagonisms. Dr. Siebert and I believe it is important to work for a democratic relationship between genders, steered on the principle of equality, as opposed to one that privileges one gender over the other in the family, civil society, and the state. This discourse was sponsored by Ekpyrosis Press and the Institute for Critical Social Theory.