Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I tried listening to him a few times but found his podcast quite boring.
I enjoyed the expose, it's fascinating to get a peak into the unbelievable lives of some people. And while he's an amazingly huge jerk, and a hypocrite whose body at his age was created by more than supplements, working out, and healthy eating, I felt like the story was missing the agency of the women. The one woman that it focused on primarily only had about a gazillion red flags flying right in front of her face, yet she continued to shape her life around this a-hole and take his nonsense. The women are glowingly described as "beautiful, successful, educated" yet they all freely decided as adults to be with this egotistical, controlling man.
To me it highlighted less about Huberman, and more that there's no shortage of women who are desperate to stay with these men after they show who they truly are.
Yes, I agree with you. I'm a feminist but I think it's an untold side of the whole metoo movement. That women seem so primally driven to pursue men with power and status that they will put up with (or even enjoy) a lot – cheating, humiliation, debasement. In this case, these women probably had a lot of clues about him, but were willing to deal with it. After the fact, they gripe and complain, but something doesn't ring true.
Look at the hundreds of women who put up with Harvey Weinstein (case in point his extraordinarily beautiful wife), willingly put up with whatever they had to do and exchange for their own status and power, and then jumped on the bandwagon and complained only after everyone else talked about it. I don't buy the narrative that they were all forced into it
Andrew Huberman is the same type of guy.
But there are shades of it all around – probably lots of DC law firm partners or high earning cardiologists who have the same types of relationships behind closed doors.