The views of Nietzsche on women are a challenge to any reader. But it is not as clear cut as it initially seems. Despite the fact that in Beyond Good and Evil women are portrayed in a shocking light, Nietzsche was surrounded in his final years by women. And not just any women but pioneering feminists, some of the first women in Europe to get PhDs. These were his closest friends and readers in his final years at the same time that Nietzsche was misogynistic to the extreme. What is also surprising is his journey from feminist to misogynist and how his sexism developed in the early 1880s after being a supporter of the women's movement in the 1870s. The story of this transformation of course involves Nietzsche and Lou Salomé. The fallout of Nietzsche and love or rather unrequited love bled into his worldview. But while it seems to be in his philosophy it seems to be lacking in his actions. We will also be exploring how this connects with incel psychology and Nietzsche's commonalities as a prototype of the MGTOW movement. So was Nietzsche a misogynist? Let's dive in and look at the views of Nietzsche on women.

Further reading:
Nietzsche and Women by Julian Young https://www.oxfordhandbooks.com/view/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199534647.001.0001/oxfordhb-9780199534647-e-014 [to access plug the DOI ( 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199534647.013.0003) into sci-hub]
Basic Writings of Friedrich Nietzsche [translated by Walter Kaufmann and including Birth of Tragedy, Beyond Good and Evil, Genealogy of Morals and Ecce Homo] https://amzn.to/3puBIy4 [affiliate link]


Timestamps:
00:00 Introduction
01:27 The Feminist 1870s Nietzsche
05:22 Nietzsche and Lou Salomé
09:40 The Feminist Circle Around Nietzsche
15:23 Beyond Good and Evil §231
19:09 Misogyny as a Lever
22:19 Mapover with Incel Psychology
26:54 Conclusion

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