Pearl - January 11, 2026PEARL VS. KASPARIAN - Opening Statements
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Summary
In this episode of Culture War, Anna and Pearl debate whether or not modern feminism is a good or bad thing. They debate the impact of modern feminism on the economy, the role of women in society, and the impact it has had on family life.
Transcript
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welcome. I'm going to ask you the same question. If you're going to change somebody's mind tonight,
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one person, that one person, how are you going to do it? I'm going to let the facts speak for
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themselves. Fair enough. All right. Ladies and gentlemen, this debate, our main card has a little
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bit of a different format than what we did previously. We're going to have the opening
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statements for both of you. Those will be five minutes a piece. Then you'll each get 10 minutes
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And then after that, we'll go into open debate.
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As you saw with some of the other debates earlier,
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I'll try to jump in as I can, but for the most part,
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In a May 2024 appearance on Tim Pool's Culture War podcast,
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my opponent, Pearl Davis, declared that women aren't really doing much.
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We're not really contributing to the economy when you look at output.
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In fact, she uses this ridiculous assertion to argue that women should not have the right to vote.
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While it's true the birth rate has declined, and we'll revisit that in a bit,
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Women account for 47% of the American workforce.
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The Council of Economic Advisors found that women have contributed a substantial portion of the U.S. economic growth since 1970,
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which wouldn't have been made possible without the feminist movement.
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By 2017, women were responsible for nearly 40% of total gross domestic product,
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Of course, that figure doesn't include the trillions of dollars in unpaid labor
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women do every year, tending to the household, raising children, and caring for ailing parents.
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And when it comes to certain sectors of our economy, women are a dominant and indispensable force.
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Like in the healthcare industry, where they make up nearly 80% of workers, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
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When it comes to education, in 1960, women earned less than 35% of all bachelor's degrees.
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Today, they earn roughly 58% of all bachelor's degrees, which Pearl herself benefited from
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after graduating from Elmhurst University. Women also earn over 60% of master's degrees.
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I hope to hear Pearl explain how a more educated and skilled population somehow translates to
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cultural decline, especially as we compete with China in this increasingly multipolar world.
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The modern feminist movement also had a major impact on decreasing domestic violence, and that's according to the U.S. Department of Justice.
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Rates of intimate partner violence decreased by more than 60% from 1994 to 2010, and that's thanks to protective order statutes and funding for shelters beginning in the 1970s and 80s.
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Not only did the two-income household become more financially resilient, especially during economic downturns, women gained the ability to leave abusive relationships, an outcome correlated with improved child health and educational attainment.
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A culture that protects people from violence is not one that's indicative of cultural decline.
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Pearl herself has benefited greatly from the feminist movement,
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thanks to Title IX in 1972, signed by Nixon, of course.
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Sex-based discrimination in any school program or activity that receives federal funding is prohibited.
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Pearl herself had a rather impressive record playing for Elmhurst University's volleyball team,
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having earned all-conference honors as a senior.
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She later pursued professional volleyball in London.
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She could have stayed in the United States and served in her role as a traditional woman,
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And she could have been the traditional chaste woman living out her dream of everything women
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were supposed to do before feminism, but she is neither traditional nor chaste by her own admission.
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While feminists would have no problem with her personal choices, she has made a career bashing women for theirs.
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Critics often argue that modern feminism has weakened families and resulted in a lower birth rate.
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demonstrating the insidious impact of the internet, social media, on modern relationships.
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They also brush economic instability under the rug despite young people
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citing their personal finances as the main reason why they're holding off on marriage in the first
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place. In lieu of discussing those factors, Pearl spends much of her time discouraging men from
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getting married in the first place. During her debate with Trent Horn, she declared that men
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are better off shacking up without ever getting married. Her reasoning? Women are too fat and
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std infected 25 that's a lot you did say that she didn't stop to think about how they contracted the
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stds in the first place data from the national library of medicine show that modern men are
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just as promiscuous as modern women men and women are in bad shape and in the united states
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we can discuss why but feminism is not the reason
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Very good. Thank you. Nice job. Okay. Pearl, we've got five minutes. You're going to be on the clock, and let's go.
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Most debaters and commentators are elitists who tell average Americans from their ivory towers what to think and how to feel.
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My answer to this question not only comes from covering current events and researching the facts, data, and statistics,
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but also in my professional experience interviewing over 1,000 people in America and Western nations.
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Feminism has given women power, and power corrupts.
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Feminism is robbing men of their disposable income and their prime earning years.
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It has empowered women to be sexually promiscuous.
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Feminists say that they fought for women to not subject themselves to the approval of men.
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Why, then, are 5 to 10 percent of women between the ages of 18 to 25 on OnlyFans or other prostitution websites?
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There are more online prostitutes in America than female Walmart employees.
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One of three women will catch an STD at some point in their lifetime.
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Feminism has empowered women to abort an eighth of the world population and a third of Gen Z.
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Feminists have been so empowered to commit paternity fraud.
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Paternity fraud is unpunished in any state in the USA or any country in the West.
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If done correctly, a man will have to pay for a child he was fooled into believing was his until that child reaches maturity.
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In some states, that man will also have to pay for that kid's college.
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that is slavery and is forbidden under the 13th amendment one-third of paternity tests are negative
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by the american association of blood banks feminism has empowered women to rob men
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rob men of their time their resources their reputation their children and in the most
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extreme cases their lives they do this through child support alimony false allegations and
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paternity fraud. How many people in this arena have a brother, a father, an uncle, or a friend
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who has gone through this meat grinder? Anna has been on the air for 15 years and is completely
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oblivious to these issues. It's a silent genocide of the lives of millions of men. Standing on the
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sidelines of the arena, I have 33-year combat veteran Terrence Popp. He served through three
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three wars and was almost killed in two. He got married, had two children, and served
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in the United States Army. Terrence Popp was deployed to Iraq in 2004, and as a member
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of the Airborne Infantry, he was wounded by a roadside bomb and suffered a TBI and a stroke
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from the blast. He was evacuated out of the country, and it took over two years until
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he had recovered. While he was recovering, his wife was plotting to divorce him. His
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wife murdered his six-year-old chocolate lab out of spite because he filed for divorce first.
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When he confronted her, the response he got was, I told you, I did not want you living here.
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At this point, he was forced to leave the marital home and live out of his car. The divorce took
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away his home, his children, and left him penniless and saddled with a child support payment he could
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not afford. Terrence had to pay $144,000 over a 12-year period for a divorce that his wife was
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empowered by feminists to plan and execute. Terrence went into court to fight for 50-50
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custody. Terrence was called a murderer and an assassin in open court and was given 96 hours a
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month with his children. 96 hours a month is not a father. While homeless, he spoke to many other
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men who would never get off the streets due to child support arrearages and penalties and the
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men constantly getting arrested for unpaid child support. The disparage of losing his children and
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his home and his PTSD and constant pain from his wounds, he became suicidal. Well, at his post in
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2008, a former commander of his came to see him to secretly say his last goodbyes. The next day,
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Mr. Pop's former commander put on his dress blues and went to the Holy National Veteran Cemetery
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and blew his brains out. Terrence Pop was notified of the death and was shocked because he was
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planning to commit suicide in the exact same manner. So in effect, his former commander
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took the bullet that was meant for him. Terrence Pop decided he would not kill himself and has
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spent the last 20 years saving 576 men from suicide with comedy. If you look to the left
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of the stage, Terrence is holding the dog tags for every live that he has saved. Now, why am I
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telling you this. Shout out to Terrence. Yeah. Now, why am I telling you this? Because men and
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American veterans are put in this position because of the empowerment that feminists like Anna have
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pushed for. There are millions of men that have died in this country from the political power
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that feminism pushes since 1970. An estimated 1.6 million men have committed suicide. If feminists
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cared about equality. Why aren't they fighting for equality and divorce in
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family court as hard as they are fighting for abortion, working, or becoming sex