What are DU opinions on Scott Galloway?

[Hekate]

14. I used to take notes of lectures etc that were a virtual transcript. Thanks to arthritis in my hands...

...l am no longer able to do that at all. (I type on an iPad keyboard, mostly two-finger because of the size, tappy tappy, no letter formation with pen or pencil)

For those who would like a more complete précis of this interview, I suggest checking to see if MSNBC provides a transcript, or if there is a YouTube extract of the interview.

Galloway brought up some things I had heard before, such as the slower brain development of boys vs girls, including all levels of IQ. Classrooms, I read many years ago, always had to be tailored to bring little boys along, and middle school boys, and high school boys — while girls were assumed to be on track regardless. He didn’t reference that specifically, but I read it in a feminist publication some decades ago, and it clicked with what he did say.

He brought up something that has bothered me for years, and that is the hyper-emphasis on a college education. “Where are the high school shop classes, the woodworking classes?” (Where, in other words, are the hands-on skills that cannot be shipped overseas? Apprenticeship programs? sez I)

What he had to say about women’s votes really struck me. He said that women often vote for what they think their husbands need — and their sons. If their sons are living in the basement playing video games (or as my grandson put it more pungently about his peers: vaping and masturbating, looking for the next dopamine-hit online) while their daughters have progressed successfully in the world, they worry about their sons. They worry about their sons — and many voted accordingly.

As I said, coming on the heels of the convo with my grandson (where frankly my political ideology conflicted with my ability to be receptive part of the time) I found myself really thinking about what Galloway was saying.

And that’s it: a brain-dump and not comprehensive notes taken in the moment.