Capitalism Hits Home

The Women’s Movement is Re-emerging. Unlike the 1960s and 1970s, the need for basic economic change applies to both men and women together rather than women versus men, one gender versus the other. The American economic boat is sinking: men and women are drowning together. Only a movement unified around class differences and addressing all issues together will have a chance to win the lasting change we need.

In this episode, Dr. Fraad answers what patriarchy is and what it means for American men and women.

Dr. Fraad explores the abuses of Brett Kavanaugh, and the economic and emotional cultures from which this son of the elite emerged.  What does his Supreme Court position means in its larger political and economic context?  

Part 2 of 2. Dr. Fraad continues her discussion of the 2000 year history of Catholic Church sex abuse: Why did it happen? Why is  it still happening? Why is it finally exposed?

In this 2 part show, Dr. Fraad explores the 2000 year history of Catholic Church sex abuse: Why did it happen? Why is  it still happening? Why is it finally exposed?

Dr. Fraad talks about how public policies, past and present, serve corporate profits but undermine families, households and personal relationships.

American men are in trouble. The male sex role crushes tenderness and sensitivity in little boys. The only emotion they are freely allowed is anger. US males are disparaged for any emotional vulnerability and tenderness. 

The fertility rate in the US is at record lows. What difference does it make? Why should we care? A child is a hope for the future. Having a child shows the confidence in a future in which one can support, nurture and raise a child. A full two-thirds of young Americans expect that they will never have that future.

Americans are far too often miserable. If we want to discover why people are upset, anxious, panicked and depressed, we have to see what is happening in their lives that agonizes them.

Our empire is dying.The American Dream of a stable family wage has disappeared. Prosperity gives way to precarity. Some of the symptoms of our empire’s dying are mass shootings, suicide, and addiction.

The US white family was based on a kind of household feudalism where women produced useful unpaid work in cooking cleaning, social outreach, emotional labor and child rearing. White males earned “family wages” that could support dependent women and children. Those wages are no longer given. Capitalists have replaced them with cheap outsourced labor and machines. Women must work outside of the home to earn enough for family survival.

American men are in trouble. The male sex role crushes tenderness and sensitivity in little boys. The only emotion they are freely allowed is anger.