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Mar 8, 2026, 6:07:27 PM (4 days ago) Mar 8
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the attitude with arnie arnesen
opening thoughts: on attitudes toward women and role models
producers: Dave Scott and Stephanie Collins
Chloé LaCasse (the best of the attitude)
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opening thoughts 

a hero and I decided to read this as my opening after reading this piece at The Guardian
Gen Z males twice as likely as baby boomers to believe wives should obey husbands Global survey shows young men and boys hold more traditional views about gender roles than older generations  https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/05/gen-z-men-baby-boomers-wives-should-obey-husbands

She found a severed penis in her lab coat pocket—her male classmates’ idea of a joke. She waited until class ended, held it up, and asked calmly: “Did one of you lose this?”
1908. University of the Republic.
Paulina Luisi was the only woman in the medical school. Uruguay had hundreds of male doctors—and only a handful of women. She was about to become one of them.
Her classmates didn’t want her there. They mocked her in lectures. Questioned her intelligence. “Explained things again for the lady.” They sabotaged her equipment. They spread rumors about her character. The severed organ planted in her pocket was meant to humiliate her—to prove women were too fragile for medicine.
She refused to give them that victory.
Paulina had been fighting her entire life. Born in 1875 to immigrant parents, she grew up in a family of educators and activists. At 15, she earned her teaching degree. Years later, she became the first woman in Uruguay to complete a bachelor’s-level education. Then she did the unthinkable—she enrolled in medical school.
Professors debated whether women even belonged there. Some believed female brains weren’t suited for science. Others feared she would “distract” male students. They admitted her reluctantly, expecting her to quit.
She didn’t.
In 1908, she graduated as Uruguay’s first female physician and surgeon.
But earning the degree was only the beginning.
Working in gynecology, Paulina saw women suffering—untreated diseases, unsafe abortions, preventable infections. Ignorance was costing lives. She realized medicine alone wasn’t enough. Women needed education.
In 1916, she publicly called for comprehensive sex education in schools. The backlash was immediate. Newspapers labeled her immoral. Religious leaders condemned her. Critics claimed she would corrupt children.
She kept speaking.
For nearly three decades, she pushed for curriculum reform. In 1944, Uruguay adopted her sex education program into public schools—making it one of the first countries in the world to do so.
Meanwhile, Paulina was building movements. She founded Uruguay’s National Women’s Council and connected activists across the Americas. She fought for suffrage, labor rights, reproductive rights, and protections against trafficking. She represented her country internationally, becoming one of the first Latin American women to serve as a government delegate at global conferences.
In 1932, Uruguay granted women the right to vote. Paulina had spent sixteen years fighting for that victory.
She never stopped organizing. She hosted radio programs urging women to stay politically active. She opposed fascism. She ran for office. She mentored younger generations.
By the time she died in 1950, she had transformed her country.
They tried to shame her into silence.
Instead, Paulina Luisi changed the rules of education, politics, and medicine in Uruguay—and helped ignite feminism across Latin America.
Calm. Unshaken. Unmovable.
They wanted her to quit.
She built a revolution instead.
rethink the week
talkers:
Dave Levinthal is a senior editor at NOTUS focused on money and politics, investigations and special projects. He is the former editor-in-chief of Raw Story and deputy editor of Business Insider and has also worked at the Center for Public Integrity, Politico, OpenSecrets and Dallas Morning News. His writing has appeared in The Atlantic, Rolling Stone, TIME, Columbia Journalism Review, Washingtonian and the Washington Post.
Stephen Pimpare is Professor of Public Policy and Director of the Master in Public Policy program at Vermont Law and Graduate School. He is the author of four books, numerous articles, and the Host of the New Books Network's public policy channel
Lincoln Mitchell teaches political science and public policy at Columbia University. He is the author of nine books and his writings have appeared at CNN, Reuters, the New York Times, NBC, the San Francisco Examiner and numerous other media platforms. For more of Lincoln’s work you can subscribe to his Substack “Kibitzing with Lincoln” at /lincolnmitchell.substack.com/.
Chris Lehmann is the DC Bureau chief for The Nation and a contributing editor at The Baffler. He was formerly editor of The Baffler and The New Republic, and is the author, most recently, of The Money Cult: Capitalism, Christianity, and the Unmaking of the American Dream (Melville House, 2016).
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