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[–]purrvana 10 insightful - 1 fun10 insightful - 0 fun11 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

I'll add Joe Rogan too since he has a significantly higher reach than the other guys you mentioned. All his podcasts about trans issues (like the ones with Debra Soh and Abigail Shrier) were censored off Spotify when he first joined. He had to work hard to get them back up. He was also called a transphobe while Spotify's staff threatened to walk out for giving him a platform.

[–]BEB 10 insightful - 2 fun10 insightful - 1 fun11 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

I was randomly talking to a customer service rep on the phone and he brought up Joe Rogan's interview with Abigail Shrier and how it made him terrified for his little girl. (I'm a chatty person IRL and often have long conversations with complete strangers).

So yeah, Joe Rogan is on average an annoying, sometimes blindingly stupid meathead, but he took on this tough topic when very few others would and took the heat for it without backing down that much.

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Sometimes you need a stupid meathead to take on these issues because they'll stubbornly stand their ground and shrug off people trying to bully them into silence. Being a belligerent asshole has its uses.

[–]BEB 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Totally agree. And most of Rogan's male-meathead audience would probably never listen to a feminist unless Head Meathead endorsed her.

I actually like when Rogan has science types on because he mainly stays out of their way beyond asking the same type of basic, meathead questions I would have asked them.

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That's true, I don't care about or follow him but I did remember he covered MMA TIM athlete fallon fox breaking an opponent's skull. A cursory search indicates comments from him as early as 2014. It also shows in 2021 people are still writing articles going after him for it.