Trump Saves Iranian Women’s Soccer Players & The Truth About Women’s History Month ｜ The Riley Gaines Show
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It's Women's History Month, and we have a lot to talk about. Today, we re talking about women standing up to an oppressive regime on a national stage, and why it s important to remember that there are two sexes.
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If you did not know that March is Women's History Month, then now you do.
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I don't really like the idea of having Women's History Month,
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because I just don't really like identity politics.
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I don't think we should have a month dedicated to any demographic,
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meaning I don't think we should have Black History Month.
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I don't think we should have White History Month.
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I don't think we should have Men's History Month or Women's History Month.
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Of course, I don't think we should have the month of pride to recognize and celebrate
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and honor people for who they like to sleep with or what they identify as.
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I think that's honestly a disgrace, especially when we don't have an entire month to honor veterans.
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I think if we were to engage in this sort of thing where we have months dedicated to people,
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I think veterans would be one that is worthy of that.
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So all that to say, don't really like identity politics.
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Pertaining to Women's History Month, are there women who have done incredible things?
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Absolutely. Women who have changed the world for the better?
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And do I believe they deserve to be celebrated and honored and recognized?
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Yes, but not because they are a woman. I think we should celebrate them based on their achievements.
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I think I just have a very merit-based approach to life.
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But if we are going to have a Women's History Month, which we do,
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then we should celebrate it properly by celebrating the accomplishments of women.
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And the only problem with that is we seemingly have an entire political party who doesn't know
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what a woman is, which is just incredible to me, even still considering that this is the same
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political party who claim to be fierce defenders of women's rights.
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I find myself sitting and marveling in the fact that we have so many people
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people serving in elected roles with mush for brains at every level, by the way, local, state, and federal.
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These people used International Women's Day, which was March 8th, so this past Sunday,
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as like a matter of convenience and opportunity to virtue signal and to reinforce to their followers
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online that they're on the right side of history. I saw some of these tweets that I'm about to show you
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online, so you do too. Here's a post made by Delaware's Democratic Party on Facebook.
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They've got a Happy International Women's Day graphic. And who is that? You notice the center photo,
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the top row, none other than Congressman Tim, who goes by Sarah McBride. A man, they really just can't
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help themselves. They had, I guess in this graphic, nine opportunities to showcase a woman.
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And they use up one of those to highlight a man. And honestly, I don't think it would have mattered
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if the graphic had three spaces or even if it just had one. I truthfully believe that the Democratic Party
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of Delaware, whatever this page was, would have posted Tim McBride as like their sole woman to honor
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for International Women's Day. Here's one I saw posted on Instagram by Planned Parenthood.
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It says, celebrating all, in italics, my sisters today. Not just my sisters. With that sisters being
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spelled C-I-S-T-E-R-S. I hope you're watching on youtube.com, then you'll see. It's a play on words.
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I will say I'm not overly surprised that Planned Parenthood posted this. The organization that
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terminates human life, the billion dollar industry that profits off of women's vulnerability,
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exploits trauma and pain. A business, by the way, that was created as a way to exterminate
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black people. You guys know that. Y'all are ready for that conversation. I encourage you to look up
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Margaret Sanger, if you don't know who she is, and her association with early 20th century
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eugenics, how she wanted to limit reproduction among people considered unfit. Again, not ready
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for that conversation. So yeah, not surprised that Planned Parenthood bothered to mention women
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as like an afterthought on International Women's Day while they're really celebrating the men. But I will
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say the play on words, it was pretty good. Like it was terrible, but it was pretty good. You almost
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have to respect it. Let's check in with the women of New York City on this International Women's Day.
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It's okay to scream! You are allowed to be loud! You are allowed to have a voice and you women need it!
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All I have to say after watching that is reopen the asylums. MAGA. Make asylums great. Again,
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the full video that I saw online was a minute and a half long of screeching and screaming like banshees,
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which is totally unproductive. I am all for a cathartic moment, which I do believe
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this is cathartic, or at least getting your anger and your frustrations and your emotions out
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in a cathartic way. Like I think that's a good release. What I'm not going to do is sit and scream.
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I can maybe understand the intention behind it, but I don't understand it when you're gathered in a
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big circle in the middle of New York City to do such, right? Like it feels very performative.
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And again, just totally unproductive. How about do something constructive and useful and beneficial
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with your time? Beneficial for yourself or maybe for society at large? Even if you're mad about a
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social or cultural issue such as living in the patriarchy, living in the super oppressive
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city of New York City, which is one of the most liberal and diverse cities in the entire United
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States, if you really believe that, then do something useful or meaningful with your time.
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Because screaming into the void as they're doing publicly in cohesion together, it's utterly useless.
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It's kind of fun and easy, truthfully, to like poke fun at these raging, screaming liberals. But
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really, it's actually heartbreaking. It's pretty sad because I think it's very clear to see that these
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people, the women in the circle, the they, thems, or the men in these circles even, like,
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they just seem to be miserable. And I think in trying to deduce as to why they are miserable,
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especially the women, I think it's because our society, Western culture, at least since the
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60s, I would say, have sold women this lie. This lie that in order to be happy, they have to be more
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like men, right? Like ditch the traditional feminine roles, like being a stay-at-home mom,
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or having children and raising those children, things that women are really genetically encoded
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to desire. I think ultimately, that's a large part of what has left these women feeling lonely and
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bitter and very clearly angry. And that poor dog that's with the girl. If you're watching on youtube.com,
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which I hope you are, then you saw the woman that was screaming into the microphone, she's like
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screaming into her dog's ears. It's gotta be like some form of animal abuse. Watching that is like
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watching a load of toddlers have a tantrum, which I bet these women wouldn't go to an Islamic country
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and throw a tantrum like that. Countries like Afghanistan, or Iran, or Somalia, or Yemen, or
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Sudan, or Saudi Arabia, or Pakistan. And if they did, maybe they would then have a greater understanding
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of how fortunate we are as women to live in the United States of America, which let's talk about
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that. Let's talk about the threats that exist for women, especially if you stand up to an oppressive
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regime, like most Islamic regimes. Last week, the Iranian women's national football team, so think
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American soccer, refused to sing the national anthem of the Islamic regime at the opening match of the
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Asian Cup. So in front of the entire world, they chose to participate in a form of protest.
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It was such a powerful act of defiance amid these escalating tensions in the Middle East. I've got
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it playing on the screen here again, if you're watching at youtube.com. You see the women, the soccer
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players, or football players, they're standing there silently. They're wearing their compulsory hijabs,
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they have to wear them. These players, for not participating or singing their form of national
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anthem, they were immediately labeled as traitors and enemies of the state by Iranian state television.
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Actually, commentator Muhammad Reza Shabazi declared that anyone who takes a step against the country under
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war conditions must be dealt with more severely, even going as far to say that their silence was the
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height of shamelessness and betrayal. And you just have to imagine that these women, they knew that they
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weren't just putting themselves in harm's way, but also their family members were being put in grave
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danger by their acts of defiance. They know that if they go back home, they face almost certain, well,
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actually certain persecution, almost certain execution.
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Because the tournament was in Australia, the Iranian women's soccer players made it very clear that they
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were attempting to seek asylum in Australia. The Australian government inexplicably dragged their
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feet on saving these girls really right up until the last possible second, where five girls ended up
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escaping and claiming asylum. Once again, I think important to mention here, we have President Trump
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making impact on a global stage. I really don't believe that the Australian government would have
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operated like this had President Trump not put this out on Truth Social saying, Australia is making
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a terrible humanitarian mistake by allowing the Iran national women's soccer team to be forced back
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to Iran, where they will most likely be killed. Don't do it, Mr. Prime Minister, give asylum. The US will
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take them if you want. Thank you for your attention to this matter, President Donald J. Trump.
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Here's a photo on screen of the five players from Iran's women's national team. These women,
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by the way, for a little context, they had to flee their hotel, escape their hotel in Australia,
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immediately seek police protection to be granted asylum and a visa. And what do you notice about this
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Which I will say the first thing that I noticed was that these women are no longer wearing their hijab.
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And look at their faces, the smiles on their face. They look like they've been returned to life.
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They have a natural smile, joy that is radiating from their innocent faces. And like I said,
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I really don't think this would have happened without President Trump. I wish the whole women's soccer
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team could have been saved. And there's no telling, truthfully. I hate to be morbid or dark, but there's
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no telling what happens to the rest of that Iranian women's national team once they get back to Iran.
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They've been labeled by their entire state media as unforgivable wartime traitors.
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They're not going to be welcomed back with open arms. And so my thoughts on this is number one,
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we live in the freest nation in the entire world. And I am so incredibly grateful and proud to be an
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American where because of our brave service members, you can go to New York City if you want to and stand
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in a circle and scream about the patriarchy or scream about our president that you call a dictator or our
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government. And guess what? You're never going to face political persecution for it. I might call you
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stupid for it, but that's the beauty of living in America is I got to call you stupid for your stupid
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actions. But guess what? You get to carry out your stupid actions freely. Secondly, President Trump is
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very clearly an advocate for women's rights. He is labeled as a misogynist all the time.
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He's the worst misogynist ever. Think of all the women he has in his cabinet. First and foremost,
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he has, well, he had Kristi Noem. He's got Tulsi Gabbard. He's got Brooke Rollins, the Secretary of Ag.
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He's got Kelly Loeffler. Of course, Caroline Levitt is his press secretary, his chief of staff.
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Susie Wiles is a woman. He cares deeply about women and our rights, our rights to safety,
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our rights to privacy, our rights to equal opportunity. Do not let the other side convince
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you of otherwise. President Trump is the one standing up for those women, not the self-proclaimed
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feminist. No, not Jane Fonda or Angelina Jolie or Greta Thunberg or Natalie Portman or Sue Bird or
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Megan Rapinoe or the United Nations. It's been crickets from all of those people, which this would
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have been a perfect opportunity for someone like Megan Rapinoe to weigh in. She's a female. She is an
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athlete and she claims to be a feminist. We could have actually agreed on something for once,
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but she's either too much of a coward or too just ideologically captured to care about these Iranian
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women, which I have a feeling it's both. Someone like JK Rowling, on the other hand,
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uh, that's a real feminist. And she has been consistently over the years, not necessarily.
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Actually, I don't think she's conservative at all. She doesn't label herself as a Republican.
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Granted, she doesn't live in the United States, but, but I digress. I think she's pretty progressive
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on a lot of issues, but she has consistently and persistently used her platform, which on X,
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by the way, I was looking earlier today, she has almost 14 million followers that she has consistently
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used her platform to advocate for women and our rights, not just the rights to abort or terminate
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life, uh, abort a developing child in the womb, but our rights, uh, across the board. She posted this
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on X, uh, about this situation saying, please protect these young women and tagged, you know,
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the necessary FIFA, FIFA and football or soccer associations, uh, that could ultimately help.
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And so I guess I encourage you guys to say a prayer, say a prayer for these women, uh, who were forced
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to go back to Iran and their families, actually, uh, even the girls who got to seek asylum in Australia,
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pray for their families because, uh, the Islamic regime, maybe they can't get to them any longer,
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but it's a high probability that they will go for the people closest to them as retaliation.
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So, uh, pray for these young girls, pray for their loved ones, pray for protection.
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Uh, I pray for safety, uh, and I pray for freedom. And of course I pray that they seek
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Jesus Christ. Uh, before we wrap up to today's episode, there's one ad I wanted to show you guys that
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went viral for international women's day. And it is an ad done by none other than XXXY athletics,
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uh, which is the only athletic wear brand that unapologetically states that women's sports are
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only for women. I know novel concept. They have had so many viral ads over the past few years. Like
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I'm talking millions and millions and millions of views and impressions and people viewing their clips,
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but it's a small business. They don't have a lot of money to spend in commercials on TV.
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And so I wanted to show this ad that they did on an international women's day here. Let's watch it.
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It's a masterpiece. That ad is so well done. Now, obviously the editing and the clipping and
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the visual of it, but I think more importantly, the subtle message behind it. If you watch it,
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you see the frustration and the pain and the betrayal. That was the feeling that was conveyed
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to me, the look of betrayal on these women's faces after being beaten or injured or having
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lost opportunities to a man in their sport. If you look at their faces, even look at the women's
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body language in these clips, it kind of forces, even those who are willingly blind, it forces you
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to ask the question of, you know, what about her? Because all the time in this conversation,
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we're told to be compassionate and be kind and be empathetic and be inclusive. And those are all
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wonderful things in their true nature. But the amazing thing about this ad is that you realize
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that what has been allowed for the past, I mean, few years, really, it's been going on much longer
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than most people realize. It's none of those things. It's not compassionate to ask young
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girls to undress in front of men. That's not what compassion is. And it's not inclusive to ask women
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to step aside and allow these men on top of our podiums. No, really, that's exclusive. And you're
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excluding women, which is who the women's sporting category was created to protect and to celebrate and
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to honor as the intention behind international women's day and women's history month. And so
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you guys should treat yourself to an XXXY athletics shirt or, or maybe gift one to your husband or
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someone, you know, in your life who wants to wear the truth loudly and proudly. You can check them out
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in their mission. And they give back a part of their proceeds and profits go to initiatives created
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to protect women's sports. So highly recommend checking them out. And I'll just thank them one
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more time for forcing people to look at her. That was the message behind the ad. Look at her,
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uh, the girl who trained and the girl who sacrificed and the girl who ultimately lost her place because
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those are the girls that we are fighting for. Uh, last thing in signing off on today's episode,
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uh, international women's day, actually, like I said, it was March 8th. So this past Sunday,
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uh, which was also daylight savings. So I had this revelation, uh, that the only day of the entire
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year that is like technically 23 hours is the day that they dedicate to women. It's gotta be the