Wifejak Deconstructed
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Summary
Wife Jack is a play on a popular meme used to poke fun at a woman who has no idea what to do with her phone. It's been around for a while, and it's become a bit of a meme in and of itself.
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So I want to talk a little bit about Wife Jack.
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I saw this meme appear last week or something like that, and it was, yeah, you can see it
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It's this woman with a, how would you describe her expression?
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It's a bit inscrutable, a little bit of concern, an absence of emotion.
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A hint of a frown, resting bitch face might be an accurate description while holding
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And in a redhead, you know, this seems to be part of the, her, her costume.
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It was poking fun at Wife Jack as a sort of annoying, vapid, reasonably attractive, maybe
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somewhat forgivable or even endearing, okay, sort of presence.
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But it's a, it's a play on Wife Jack, which correct me if I'm wrong, because I might not
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know all the definition of memes, but Wife Jack is a sort of diluted, conservative Ameriburger
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So the Wife Jack art style, if I recall, it started on one of these image boards back in
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It was largely used to express like melancholy and sorrow.
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The whole meme it was used for was that feel when no girlfriend.
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It was kind of used to, it was called feels guy originally.
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And then it morphed into these cringy self inserts later on.
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So you had like these characters, like the Doomer and the Boomer, and people would make
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It basically turned into playing dolls with cartoons.
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I did find Wife Jack amusing, if not really all that important.
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And I saw that there are a lot of postings about it.
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And I do find it very funny and maybe sort of revealing that all of these, all light type
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people, like I've seen some people from, you know, like info war retards and things like
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that of like, you know what, at some point we might've hated all women, but now we're
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responsible family men or something like Harrison, some, I can't remember.
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So it is a Rorschach test, but also it's a, it, the, how you view it, it demonstrates something
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about your own perspective and really your own level of idealism.
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Might Wife Jack be a sort of annoying Karen when you are throwing a party at your apartment
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and it goes past 10 PM, she calls the property manager to come knock on your door to turn down
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Might she become that type of annoying school mom, scold?
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Might she be sort of funny and whatever, perhaps.
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She can be annoying if maybe on occasion adorable or something, but mostly annoying, in fact.
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So the Gripers who have gone sort of, sort of over the top attacking Wife Jack and they're
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like, let's shoot Wife Jack in the head or let's, you know, bore out her eyes with her
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I understand, you know, why normal people would find that offensive and, you know, talk about
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I mean, you know, it's a meme, but it's sort of even worse than a Palestinian protest, which
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you could at least partially defend on free speech grounds.
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But it shows something about what perspective you're coming from.
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So I think a lot of Gripers resent the Wife Jack because it's something that is very difficult
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to acquire at this point in time, and it was easier.
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Now, it was always sort of hard, but it but it but it was simply easier to live in the 1950s
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and just roll in to some 30 year employment and, you know, a wife, two and a half kids,
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Now, we sort of have a misty, nostalgic, inaccurate, in many ways, view of the 1950s, but I get it.
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Housing was certainly more affordable in comparison to your income than it is now.
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Even if it's not laudable, and it certainly isn't, it's I do get it.
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And maybe they do need to go and clean their room and touch grass and get out of the house
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and stop staring at 4chan or their Discord server all day.
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But that doesn't change the fact that their resentment is coming from somewhere.
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So I don't endorse their violent memes, but I do understand their resentment.
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But at least with the Groypers, there's at least a potential for something higher and bigger.
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Because I hate to break it to these conservatives and infotards and alt-light influencers, et cetera.
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I saw one meme as I glanced at Twitter today at the water.
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I mean, I was doing Wife Jack-like activities just today, the water park of the, you know,
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some Chad who was like, Chad and Wife Jack, like, we're trying to save the white race by having children.
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The 1950s was followed by another decade called the 1960s.
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So apparently, Wife Jack offered zero resistance, meaningful resistance, to the flow of the sexual revolution, integration, the Heart Seller Act, free and easy drug use.
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Wife Jack and company went to church more often.
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Wife Jack and company had higher birth rates during the post-war period, immediate post-war period.
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And we still had all of these problems that the entire right agrees are problems that they endlessly complain about.
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You are, in fact, breeding for more conservatards.
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And in fact, you're breeding for liberals, most likely.
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Wife Jack is ultimately not terribly interesting if her appreciation of the finer things in life include Target, Starbucks and Marvel films.
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She's kind of totally cringe if inoffensive on some level.
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You had Wife Jack supremacy at one point in American history, and we still ended up here.
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You're clearly not saving the white race by Wienizing your boring, annoying wife.
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And the fact that you don't really have any ideal other than leave us alone so that we can all Wife Jack in peace in our minivan while we drive the kiddos to Target and I buy my Wife Jack a $7 latte on the road.
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If that is your political ideal, like, I saw some other replies that were getting, like, tons of reach, you know, like, this is literally what I aspire to.
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You're fucking pathetic if that's what you aspire to.
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That's kind of, like, the worst aspect of the bourgeoisie, of being middle class, basically.
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But being a Target shopper and ordering expensive, overly elaborate, sugary lattes is not one of them.
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Like, I don't, I really don't know what to say.
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Like, I can forgive the Wife Jack and I can maybe even find Wife Jack sort of amusing.
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But if that is your goal, then you should take up gardening because you're not, in fact, saving the white race.
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You're breeding more conservatards like yourself or you're, in fact, more likely breeding liberals.
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Oh, another thing, I hate to break the news to you, conservative Wife Jack enjoyers.
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But do you know there's this other class of people who Wife Jack better than you do?
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And do you know the difference between conservatives and white liberals?
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They succeed more in the managerial class, whether in corporations, government, law, et cetera, et cetera.
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The fact that Wife Jack, you know, judged on an average, is more likely to be liberal.
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Like, this notion that liberals are, as a whole, and I'm sure you can find some that are this bad, but liberals as a whole just, like, want to prevent you from purchasing a minivan.
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Or want to destroy, burn down your target, or prevent you from watching Marvel films.
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It's just, like, revealing of just lack of idealism on the right.
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And this is another little thing that I think sort of coincided with the Wife Jack meme and sort of tells you all you need to know about these people, the conservatives, that is.
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So there was an Apple Thanksgiving commercial in which the Apple AirPods now have a sort of hearing aid feature.
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And they had this very homey, hallmark card-like advertisement for these hearing aids, where there was a man, and he, like, couldn't hear his family.
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And then he put in his AirPods, and he could hear his daughter or his granddaughter, perhaps, talking.
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And it was just, you know, they put Vaseline on the lens of the camera, and everything was just sort of timeless.
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And, you know, look, first off, hearing aid function with Apple AirPods.
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I don't know if I need, I don't need that, but great.
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If you don't, if you have hearing problems, right.
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Was this commercial, you know, tugging at the feel strings?
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It's, sure, you know, even someone as cynical as I was, like, well, that's kind of cute, whatever.
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But then all these conservatives are, like, we won.
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You know, like, they're giving us our favorite commercials back.
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I mean, I don't know how you could be more pathetic.
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Advertisers and corporations who want you to buy stuff are going to pander to you.
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And they're now very happy that Apple or whatever corporation is now pandering to them again.
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Giving them this just kind of glowy, holiday, bourgeois experience.
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And maybe it is better than watching an Apple commercial where there's a black transsexual dancing with his iPhone.
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You know, is the new commercial something you wouldn't mind your children watching?
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But the problem is that that seems to be the end of their idealism.
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And they want to be left in peace by the woke, hipster, intellectual class.
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They want to just leave us alone, which is the calling card of every conservative.
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And when you see them just jump towards this type of ideology of being sort of boring and ultimately stupid, you know, not thinking.
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And not affecting culture in any way, but being pandered to.
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You know that all of these conservatives are just utterly useless.
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If you find the wife jack mildly endearing, if annoying, and ultimately vapid, then you're good.
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If you find the wife jack, the ideal that we strive for, you suck.
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Because you have no ideas outside of, leave me alone.
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And I hate people who have taken up the cause of wife jack.
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That is just the stupidest thing I could conceivably imagine, in fact.
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My first is that a lot of the guys posting wife jack, I don't even think they have wives, actually.
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Yeah, I think they're making up a fantasy of a wife in their head and posting about it.
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Now, one of the things that these people with their bullshit pontificating say about this is,
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it's a cultural victory because boomers used to make jokes about hating your wife.
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Well, the difference is, the boomers making jokes about hating your wife,
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that's them blowing off steam and venting from the stress that comes with being in a long-term marriage.
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You are making up a fantasy of a wife in your head and posting gay memes about it on Twitter.
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If you don't, at some level, sorry just to jump in,
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but if you don't, at some level, hate your wife and hate women, you're not a man.
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And I'm not saying that, I'm not a misogynist in the way that, like, crazy incels are or whatever,
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that they, you know, they might, in fact, genuinely hate women and think they're evil or whatever.
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And you can find the mirror image of that on the left, genuinely, you know, all men are evil.
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But if you're not at least, like, have a healthy level of misogyny,
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then you're not a real man because that's sort of the tension that makes it work.
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You know, the can't live with them, can't live without them.
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That is a timeless cliche because it's getting at something.
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And if you don't vent a little bit or if you're not just sort of, like,
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at the very least, rolling your eyes and maybe sometimes just, you know,
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frustrated or appalled with women, then you're not a man, actually.
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The other thing I wanted to add here is that it is funny.
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You're seeing a lot of the Grypers post these memes where they're, like,
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sticking their thumb in Wife Jack's eyes and it's a Pepe.
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And it's funny watching a lot of these accounts from, like, the BAPSphere
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who constantly post stuff like, TND, we're going to nuke Africa,
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And then you make a meme of, like, a Pepe sticking its thumb in Wife Jack's eyes.
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And also, these memes, like, I – these are Pepe's, like, drawings that you would see
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on 4chan's b-board in 2014 where they were just drawing this frog doing all these
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But when it happens to these, like, to this wholesome Reddit Wife Jack, it – I guess
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it's just too far now and people need to get help and be decent human beings and stop
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Like, you're not contributing anything if that's the case.
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So all you do is contribute things that are negative, and yet you have no real end goal
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So what you contribute are bullshit conspiracy theories on InfoTard channel.
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And, I mean, another guy who was big into this was – I think he's been on the show
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He was very vocal about this, saying that it's anti-white to attack Wife Jack, and it's
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I think the point is that don't become a wife guy, and I think everybody knows what that
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Somebody who is completely detached from higher meaning but just wants, like, cuddle time
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with their wife and wants to go shopping and views that as, like, the pinnacle of their
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I don't think Nick is saying, don't have a family.
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I forgot who spoke before me, but somebody hit the nail on the head.
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They said that a lot of the people attacking – the people attacking Wife Jack aren't married
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So you have a lot of people like these John Doyle types who are single guys who are hoping
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that if they run cover for women, then their sweet wife is going to DM them and be like,
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that was so cool how you stood up for the women.
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Like, there's something in there, I promise you, that is deep in the lizard brain of the
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They think that the girl that they're – the hypothetical girl that they're standing up
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for on Twitter is going to DM them and say, that was awesome.
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Do you want to watch Netflix with me later tonight?
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And it's like, dude, you are not married, and the fact that that's your fantasy will
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Well, women want the alpha, that's true, but sometimes they'll just grasp onto the beta
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And then fast forward 10 years, and that guy who's getting walked on will be posting
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So, like, it's going to be that guy who gets walked over who's saying, I love my wife.
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And Harrison Smith, he had a tweet – I'll let the next person go.
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But Harrison Smith had a tweet that Nick screenshotted from a few months ago.
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Harrison Smith said, I love the way my wife drinks water.
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She stays so hydrated, and I love soda, but the way she is addicted to her water is something
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It's like, dude, everybody knows what that guy is, that guy who won't stop talking about
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That's like saying you appreciate breathing or something.
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I'll let the next person go, but I'll post a link in a sec.
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It's just, again, these just, like, just really contemptible people who, for them, it's
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You know, it's like not dying of thirst is now an accomplishment.
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That's sort of, like, my point, kind of what I've been thinking with this wife check thing.
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It seems like everybody who's posting this is a very insecure person that, like, wants
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to lionize a sort of brainless woman who's incapable of really doing anything herself,
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or the things that she's concerned with are totally mediocre and mundane.
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And I think that comes from a place not of, like, oh, it's super attractive that she wants
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But it's more like the type of person that they envision as trying to save $5 on Costco
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is the type of woman who's not going to, like, cheat on them because they're fundamentally
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And I think that that's, like, where the root of all of the wife jack stuff comes from.
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It's this, again, it's just, they're exalting a woman who's incapable of betraying them because
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Like, the lamb is not moral because it doesn't swoop down and tear apart a defenseless creature.
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You're not moral because you're weak or boring or helpless.
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You're, in fact, only moral if you are able to be violent and destroy.
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Those are the only people who should be praised for morality.
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But, yeah, if you're just some fat schlub and you're boring or whatever, your moral, like,
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It just reveals how just unbelievably pathetic the right is.
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Like, the type of people who are attracted to conservative ideas don't want to think about
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anything, they want the world to be sort of, like, less dangerous and safe.
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Have you seen, like, the daughter Jack that goes along with it?
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He literally has, like, a soy Jack beard and he's, like, wearing a flannel.
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It looks like the worst, most ugly kind of self-insert.
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I actually wanted to talk about this character.
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This is just the expression of being fucking mediocre.
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Hey, Richard, I found the Harrison Smith tweets that Nick screenshotted.
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And if you think that, you haven't thought seriously about this issue.
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More white people means you're breeding more liberals or more conservatives.
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Now, maybe that's a necessary, if totally insufficient, means of, quote, saving the white race.
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Well, they're, like, autistic, and they're, like, incapable of thinking in things other than some, like, numeric game of winning and losing.
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I think it was in that manifesto from the Buffalo shooting guy and also from the El Paso Walmart shooter.
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It's, like, well, we're going to shoot some immigrants and a few black people in Buffalo, New York.
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And, like, that's going to change the metrics in terms of the number.
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But even beyond that, that's even, like, a military question.
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The wheels on the bus go round and round, round and round.
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This should be the pinnacle of your meaning and happiness is driving in the front seat and hearing kids screaming.
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And I think what people took Nick to mean is, like, you shouldn't, again, you shouldn't get married.
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They're just saying that you should strive for more than just driving to Target with your kids.
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Something that's not as subtle as they want it to be is the Wife Jack's feet are, like, laid across his lap, which is supposed to kind of symbolize, like, oh, it's cute.
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But I think the whole, like, wanting to get comfy with Wife Jack thing among single young guys is, like, very prominent.
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Like, they want to be cozy with their theoretical wife.
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But you should check out the Harrison Smith tweets.
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There's a reason Nick screenshotted these four.
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They're posting this meme, like, literally saving the white race.
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As if this fringe right-wing Twitter meme, you know, people are going to see it.
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And then all the Zoomers are going to have sex finally.
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It's just, it's kind of ridiculous on its face.
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But my wife is the only person to beat me at basically every board card game we play.
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I mean, this is so fucking disgusting that I think white genocide should happen because of this fucking loser.
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You keep stealing the words from my mouth, Richard.
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I was about to say that this is like a minstrel show for like white middle class people.
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And it makes me feel embarrassed to be a white person.
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She has an honestly weird appreciation of water.
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She talks about how amazing water is all the time.
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I could not parody this mediocre fucking peasant.
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Men, find yourself a woman who knows how to hydrate.
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Well, some of us get our girlfriends extremely wet and they have to rehydrate.
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So he did this like a month ago or so or two months ago.
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Watching your wife give birth is the most amazing thing you will ever witness.
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Especially without an epidural or any pain relief.
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He's signaling that she didn't use any medication or anything.
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It's like they go into a trance and revert to a more savage primordial phase.
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Like her spirit is subsumed by a raw animal focus.
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You can practically feel the waves of power emanating from her.
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This is definitely, it could have been expressed differently and he would have gotten a pass.
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Like, you know, there's something primitive, but also beautiful about giving birth.
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But this almost seems like they were desiring more pain.
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And then he's impressed with his wife because she's actually alive as opposed to this boring nerd.
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I think there might be another element to this as well.
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The fact that he's enjoying her pain or at least fixating on it.
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It expresses some repressed resentment or aggression towards his wife, Jack, that he can finally watch her experience suffering, the suffering that he's been experiencing for all these years.