05-20-2017, 05:03 PM
Hey. So I watched his latest when it came out today and after that saw Trix left a comment. Incidentally I'm familiar with his channel & the first time I recall a Trix comment on one of his videos.
I don't listen to many of his "advice" callers because I soon notice these calls by and large often get guided into one of a handful of templates by Molyneux where he thumps on his pet issues like psychoanalyzing what went wrong in how you were parented if you have relationship woes or coaxing young female callers into learning why it's great to become a housewife if being one is remotely palatable.
Which is why at the 5 minute mark I skipped ahead beyond the halfway mark. I started to fear Molyneux would incessantly tell the caller why it would be preferable to leave her studies behind to become a housewife. I then heard him talking to a man who at first, because of the dialogue, I thought was the caller's father. It was really her husband who's 28 years older than her. As I listened to the end it was like theater of the absurd. I had trouble believing both callers were authentic and Molyneux seemed irascibly upset based on information I missed.
I backtracked a ways, then backtracked further, then backtracked to the 5 minute mark onward. Molyneux had made the claim the caller was mocking her husband's daughter and even told her to listen back to hear herself. With respect, I never heard this happen? Why is he forcefully suggesting she is being disrespectful to their German culture? What does culture really have to do with it when there are surely aberrant German women who marry men much older than them. Isn't Molyneux making himself look bad based on such tenuous information? He literally said the only thing that changed in the father/daughter relationship was his young wife entering the fray..he barely knows anything about these people yet assumed that.
Anyway, a very entertaining call. One of the reasons I think this might have been a troll is listen to the closing question at the beginning: "What advice do you give them in a philosophical level to ignore the haters and live happily ever after?" Seems like a subtly trollish way to phrase something in the context of FDR while pretending to be intellectually gifted.
I don't listen to many of his "advice" callers because I soon notice these calls by and large often get guided into one of a handful of templates by Molyneux where he thumps on his pet issues like psychoanalyzing what went wrong in how you were parented if you have relationship woes or coaxing young female callers into learning why it's great to become a housewife if being one is remotely palatable.
Which is why at the 5 minute mark I skipped ahead beyond the halfway mark. I started to fear Molyneux would incessantly tell the caller why it would be preferable to leave her studies behind to become a housewife. I then heard him talking to a man who at first, because of the dialogue, I thought was the caller's father. It was really her husband who's 28 years older than her. As I listened to the end it was like theater of the absurd. I had trouble believing both callers were authentic and Molyneux seemed irascibly upset based on information I missed.
I backtracked a ways, then backtracked further, then backtracked to the 5 minute mark onward. Molyneux had made the claim the caller was mocking her husband's daughter and even told her to listen back to hear herself. With respect, I never heard this happen? Why is he forcefully suggesting she is being disrespectful to their German culture? What does culture really have to do with it when there are surely aberrant German women who marry men much older than them. Isn't Molyneux making himself look bad based on such tenuous information? He literally said the only thing that changed in the father/daughter relationship was his young wife entering the fray..he barely knows anything about these people yet assumed that.
Anyway, a very entertaining call. One of the reasons I think this might have been a troll is listen to the closing question at the beginning: "What advice do you give them in a philosophical level to ignore the haters and live happily ever after?" Seems like a subtly trollish way to phrase something in the context of FDR while pretending to be intellectually gifted.
