Ep 1 ｜ Intro to Yours Truly & the Uncool (& Unbiblical!) Emasculation of Men by #MeToo Feminists
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Summary
In this episode, Allie Stuckey introduces herself and gives a brief history of who she is and why she started The Conservative Millennial. She also discusses the Me Too movement and why intersectional feminism is terrible and unbiblical.
Transcript
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Hey guys, it's Allie. Thank you so much for joining my first ever podcast. I'm really excited.
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So many of you have been asking for a podcast from me for a long time and I've been wanting to
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do one for a long time and today is the day. First, I am going to introduce myself to those
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of you who have no idea who I am and tell you a little bit about my background. So if you don't
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want to hear that because you already know me or you just don't care at all, then that's totally
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fine. I would just recommend fast forwarding a little bit to when I talk about the new
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horrible direction of the Me Too movement and related why intersectional feminism is terrible
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and unbiblical. So let's get started. First, who I am. Even those of you who have followed me from
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the beginning probably don't know my whole story, so I am going to tell it to you. Well, my name is
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Allie Stuckey and in 2016, I started a blog called The Conservative Millennial where I wrote
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commentary and made videos giving my conservative millennial perspective on what was going on in
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the world of politics and culture. And before I started the blog, I was looking for ways to motivate
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my often apathetic fellow millennials to vote in the 2016 primaries. I remember calling my mom
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in the car randomly in 2015, I think, being like, Mom, this idea just hit me. I need to explain to
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college kids why they need to vote. So I started speaking at colleges to sororities specifically
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about the importance of civic involvement. And it actually wasn't partisan at all. I was coming at it
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from a perspective of really just wanting young people to vote either way. And it was really in that
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experience that I realized just how little very educated young people knew about what was going
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on in the world around them. And so I also noticed in that how rare it was for millennials to operate
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out of a conservative worldview, even in Georgia, where I was living at the time. So cue my blog,
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The Conservative Millennial. And for those of you who have written blogs before even started a blog,
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you know how slow it is in the beginning. I mean, I started with no name recognition whatsoever. I
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didn't have any sponsors. I didn't have anyone who really took me seriously at this point. I certainly
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didn't have anyone asking me or encouraging me to write a blog. It was in a lot of ways, a totally
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random endeavor. I was in PR and social media strategy at the time. I was barely two years out of
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college, not even that. And I didn't have any political experience really whatsoever outside
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of just being interested in politics. So with that, it took a few months of having like maybe
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a hundred total followers that probably were comprised of friends and family for me to gain
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any traction at all. But after a couple months of posting video commentary, because I realized
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millennials liked that better using, by the way, the camera from my iPad, I had no fancy equipment.
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One of my videos about voting for Donald Trump as a female and as a Christian millennial took off.
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And from there, a lot of my videos started getting attention. I was getting suddenly almost out of
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the blue, getting hundreds of thousands and then millions of views on my videos. I started doing these
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satirical, sarcastic videos that were getting millions of views. And really in a matter of a few
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months from the end of 2016 to the beginning of 2017, my audience grew, I mean, exponentially in
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just a matter of a few months. At this point, when my blog was really starting to pick up,
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probably January of 2017, my husband and I were living in Athens, Georgia, and he got a job in Dallas
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that required us to move in a matter of like two weeks. And Dallas is actually where I'm from. So
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it wasn't that scary, but still it was such a quick turnaround that I had no idea what I was going to
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do job-wise when we moved there. I mean, I had the blog, The Conservative Millennial, but I wasn't making
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any money from it. I wasn't even on YouTube. I was making videos on Facebook, which doesn't pay you,
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which was honestly stupid, but that is a whole different discussion for another time.
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I wasn't getting paid for speaking engagements. I was doing them all pro bono in order to get my name
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out there, which is completely fine in the beginning. But again, I wasn't getting a salary
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from these things and we didn't really have an option, my husband and I, at this time for me
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not to be making money. But as a millennial, I did not want to take another nine to five desk job.
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I just didn't want to. Maybe it's the fact that I was raised by entrepreneurial self-starter
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parents. Maybe it's the fact that I have never liked structure or authority, but I have always,
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always, always, always hated the idea of having a nine to five job. I mean, I love working. My family
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will tell you that I work pretty much nonstop, but the idea of sitting at a desk, of being told what to
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do, being constrained by a job description, I just cannot do it. And don't get me wrong. That is
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wonderful for people who can thrive in those kinds of positions. That is just not the way that God made
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me. So as fate would have it, right before we moved to Dallas, a friend of mine, shout out to Mary Ashley,
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connected me to her old boss at a local radio station. I met with him to see if he knew anyone
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in media in Dallas. I knew it was a long shot. Athens, Georgia is a pretty small college town.
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I don't know why he would know anyone in Dallas and he did not, but he did have a friend in radio
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in Nashville. He connected me to him. I talked to the guy in Nashville on the phone who did know a guy
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in Dallas. And that guy in Dallas happened to produce Dana Lash's radio show. Now, Dana, if you
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don't know who she is, she is the spokeswoman for the NRA. She worked for the Blaze at the time. So
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this radio producer promised to give me a tour of the Blaze studios once we moved to Dallas.
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So I thought, okay, that's cool. I have at least one media connection now. That's more than I had
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previously. And maybe somehow somewhere down the line that might lead to a job in media that I
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actually want to do. So we moved to Dallas. I met this radio producer who showed me around the Blaze's
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studios. And while he was showing me around, Dana's TV producer came up to me and he happened to recognize
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me. And he said, hey, you're the conservative millennial, which was really the first time that
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that ever happened. So that was pretty cool. And long story short, right after that, I started
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working for the Blaze about a week or a couple weeks after moving to Dallas, I started making
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videos there that were very successful. And it was soon after that, probably a couple months after I
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started working at the Blaze that I started getting calls from networks like Fox News, Fox Business,
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other random networks to appear as a commentator on their shows. And I still do that
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every week. I spent about seven months or so at the Blaze. And then in November, I moved on to
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CRTV, where I work now also making videos as well as recording this podcast. I also speak at colleges,
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to businesses, at conferences and to Republican organizations multiple times a month. And I really
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focus on how and why or the how and the why behind engaging young people for the conservative cause.
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So as you can tell by now, I am clearly into politics because that's really where I cut my teeth
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in the media world. But I'm really not into politics in a standalone sense. So I'm really only interested
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in politics as they pertain to culture and my faith. Or in other words, I'm really always putting
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politics in the context of culture and Christianity. For me, that is how I make sense of what I believe
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to be sometimes a very confusing and sometimes a very dark realm. And if you've been following me for
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any amount of time, you know that I am very outspoken about my Christian faith. I was raised by Christian
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parents who always took us to church. But I really didn't start taking my faith seriously and making
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it my own until college, where I would say that turned into a true relationship with Jesus rather
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than just this list of rules that I felt like I needed to follow to be a good person. I consider
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myself a Reformed Protestant. Protestant basically meaning that I'm not Catholic and Reformed meaning
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basically that I believe in the five points of Calvinism. I'm not going to get into all of that
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right now. You can look it up, but I will spare you and maybe we'll talk about it in a future
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podcast. But needless to say, I very much care about good theology. I am against any form of the
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prosperity gospel. I talk about that a lot. Prosperity gospel meaning that if you pray hard
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enough, act good enough, or stay faithful enough that God will bless you. I also reject what I call
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social justice warrior Christianity, which I think replaces the truth of the gospel. The gospel being
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that we are all dead in sin and need Jesus to save us. It replaces that with the idea that simply
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being unconditionally tolerant of everyone's lifestyle choices is what Christians are called
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to do. I reject both of those brands of Christianity because I believe in the Bible. And quite frankly,
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neither of those ideologies match up with what the Bible says. Don't worry, never fear. I will have
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much more to say about these things in the next coming weeks. But for now, that leads me to my
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second point. What is this podcast? Well, basically, this will be a weekly 30 minutes to an hour-ish. I
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don't really know, honestly, because I'm new to this. It'll be 30 minutes to an hour-ish long show where
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we'll take one or two, maybe three, who knows, relevant topics to break them down from both my Christian
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and conservative and millennial perspective. So here is what it is not. It is not a show strictly on
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politics. It's also not a Bible study. It is certainly not an unbiased news show. It is me
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navigating what is going on in the world through my Christian conservative lens. Even though I, like
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everyone else in the entire world, have my inherent bias, I will always try, I promise, to tell the
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whole truth and share both sides of the story and explore the different ways we can think through
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a subject. Because here's the thing with Christianity and politics. God is not a Republican or a Democrat,
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for that matter. And I'm not going to pretend that he is. And I'm not going to manipulate or use him as a
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means to my political ends. That is not what this podcast is. This is going to be you and me looking at the
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news and making sense of it as Christians, understanding why it matters, and rejecting the lie that because
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we're Christians, we shouldn't care about what is going on in the world because Jesus is coming back.
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I might have guests sometimes. I will have different sections in the show. I will try my best to make
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it fun always. I will always be opinionated. You guys know that. I will admit when I'm wrong and I
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will tell you when I don't know everything, which is probably going to be like every week. And we are
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going to have a great time. I promise. Every single week with this podcast, we will have fun. And if
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you're not having fun, then I'm doing it wrong and you need to let me know. So Relatable is
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our weekly conversation about what is happening, about why it matters, and how we should approach
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the most relevant issues from a Christian perspective in a way that is relatable to you.
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My goal is to always discuss things in a way that makes sense and that fits into the context of your
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everyday life. If you watch the news, which many of you probably don't, and honestly, more power to
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you, but if you do watch the news, you know that it changes about every 30 minutes. And we feel like
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we are drinking in all of this information just to stay in the know. And we are so overwhelmed that
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sometimes I think we just decide that, okay, I'm just going to stay out of the loop. So this podcast
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is an opportunity to chew on this information rather than drink it all in at once, to actually think
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about it and talk about it, which I think makes a person much more informed and much more knowledgeable
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than just skimming through headlines every morning. That said, I want to introduce my first topic,
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and that is this atrocious, horrific trend that we are seeing increasingly in Hollywood in the mainstream
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to emasculate men as a solution to the problem of me too. But first, before we get into that,
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I just want to take a quick second to say where you can find me in addition to this weekly podcast.
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Like I said, I am a host at CRTV. I have two videos a week at CRTV.com slash Allie,
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and one longer video every few weeks that tells a side of a story that I just don't see the mainstream
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media covering. The topics of these videos are really wide ranging. Some drop some biblical
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knowledge, some bust up some media myths, some are just straight up commentary, but I would love
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for you to check them out. I also write sometimes for conservative review as well as for my own blog,
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the conservativemillennialblog.com, aka the longest URL in history. You can also follow me if you want
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to. If you don't, it's totally fine. But if you do, you can follow me on Twitter, Instagram,
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and my Facebook page, which is titled The Conservative Millennial on Twitter and Instagram.
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I think you can just type in Allie Stecki and I'll be there. Now, my friends, to the task at hand,
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which is addressing this very troubling trend that we are seeing of emasculating men in trying to make
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it funny and cool, making them, I don't know, weaker, smaller, quieter for the sake of elevating
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and protecting women and supposedly to prevent sexual assault. First, the question is, where is
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this happening? So if you've looked at Twitter or turned on TV, you've heard of the Me Too movement.
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It is a movement that really originated, at least this year, in Hollywood to raise awareness about
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sexual assault and harassment, which is rampant in that industry and, of course, happens everywhere,
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and it happens particularly to women, although sometimes men are victims as well.
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Time's Up is a part of Me Too. It is a legal defense fund for victims of sexual assault.
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Now, when you listen to this, it sounds noble. And in general, I think that it is noble.
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The intentions are to raise awareness about a very serious issue. And this is something that
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as Christians and just as human beings, we should take seriously. But of course, like any trend,
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especially a trend that started in Hollywood, it has serious flaws. It has swung too far in the
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other direction, meaning that instead of raising awareness about true assault and harassment,
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it is now making the case that toxic masculinity, as feminists and the left call it, is the key
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culprit to or of sexual assault. This has really manifested itself in a few or really a couple
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unhealthy ways. And that first way is that number one, men are getting called sexual assaulters who
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actually aren't. So a prime example of this happened a few weeks ago where Aziz Ansari,
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and you know him probably from Tom on Parks and Rec, he is the he's really the foremost example of
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this. So a young woman chronicled a really bad date with him where, yes, I read it and I was like,
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OK, this guy is sorry, excuse my language, but he's a douchebag. Like it sounded like a horrible
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date. He acted like a pig, but he did not assault or harass her. He did not force her to do anything.
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She just had a really bad date and she smeared his name. And of course, his reputation was
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thrown into the mud because of these allegations that really did not amount to actual assault or
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harassment. So now because of Me Too, we are seeing men's careers ruined by unsubstantiated or
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hyperbolic allegations, which really unfortunately makes Me Too look more like a witch hunt than a
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legitimate movement. Men who are actually sexual assaulters and harassers deserve to have their
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careers ruined. I hope that you hear me on that. I mean, you reap what you sow and I am completely
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fine with Harvey Weinstein, for example, going away forever and never, ever seeing the light of day
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again. I want to hear the voices of women who have been silenced through fear, but I do not believe
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in taking every single allegation to heart as the gospel truth and consequently demonizing every
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accused man as evil. That is immoral. That is wrong and it is counterproductive. We need to weigh
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allegations on a case by case basis. I think any wise and discerning person would do that. The second
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consequence of saying basically that all men are to blame for this Me Too movement is that we have
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decided or society has decided that the remedy to sexual assault is to emasculate or feminize or
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minimize men. So toxic masculinity, I mentioned that phrase earlier. It's the idea on the left that
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maleness inherently has a toxicity to it that is infecting society. Feminists might call this the
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patriarchy. I recently just wrote a piece on this on my blog that tried to kind of bust up this myth that
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masculinity in itself isn't toxic because masculinity is actually the kingpin of the family. And if
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masculinity was truly toxic, then you would think that families would be better off without a dad.
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But that's actually not true at all. Families fall apart really without a strong male figure. So I said
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that in their response was that, okay, not all masculinity is toxic. Just some masculinity is
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toxic. And my answer or my response to that is, okay, but where do you draw the line? Which masculinity
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is toxic and which masculinity isn't? Like if he likes dirt bikes and like lifting weights, is that toxic
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masculinity? Does he have to be a feminine male not to be toxic? And they typically don't have the
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answer to that because fundamentally they really believe that true masculinity is toxic. They would
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probably say that this idea of toxic masculinity really only applies to alpha males. They blame toxic
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masculinity and these alpha males for a lot. The Me Too problem, mass shootings, all kinds of evils and
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injustices that apparently point back to this pervasive disease that our society has allowed to
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flourish called toxic masculinity. We saw this really explicitly two times recently. Once at the Oscars a
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couple weeks ago now, Jimmy Kimmel was hosting. He made a joke that everyone wants an Oscar because he is
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the perfect man because he has no penis. Yes. And the Hollywood reporter just a few days later, they had
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a cover come out. They had a cast of Silicon Valley on it and it said the triumph of the beta male. So what
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we're seeing from the entertainment industry, which is really such a large purveyor of all of our
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information and unfortunately our values is the glorification of the weakness of men because that's
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what our country needs, right? The country of eunuchs. Great. Both of these consequences of the
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Me Too movement that I just listed, kind of the witch hunting all men and the emasculation of men
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aim to weaken men. And one could argue that this has been the goal of the feminist movement for a really
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long time. And of course, the irony is, is that you have, if you have to weaken men in order to prove the
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strength of women, then you're actually doing the opposite. I mean, if women are really so strong and so
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independent, as I think they are, then we shouldn't have to weaken men to prove it, right? Camille
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Paglia, I think that's how you say her name. She is a feminist and she writes about feminist issues a lot.
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She actually agrees with me on this and I think she makes a really good point. She said, treating women as
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more vulnerable, virtuous or credible than men is reactionary, regressive and ultimately
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counterproductive. For all its idealistic good intentions, today's hashtag Me Too movement with
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its indiscriminate catalog of victims is taking us back to the Victorian archetypes of early silent film
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where mustache twirling villains tie damsels in distress to railroad tracks. Camille gets it. We
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probably don't agree on a lot, but Camille, that was some really, really good insight. But of course,
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this is not, this whole thing of blaming men and the contradictions that it brings is not exclusive
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to the Me Too movement. This is just one of the many problems that we see across the board with
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intersectionality and third wave feminism. So intersectionality, and God bless you to those
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of you who don't know what that is, is the idea that every identity, so black identity, queer,
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transgender, women, et cetera, they're all meeting at an intersection and they're all coming together to
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validate the unique oppression of the other. And intersectional feminism is the acknowledgement
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and the fighting against oppression of all different kinds of women, blah, blah, blah. Sounds great,
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right? It's like all women are just coming together at a crossroads singing kumbaya. But the thing is,
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as recent events will tell you, that is not what happens with intersectional feminism. What happens
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is something called the oppression Olympics, where people are competing to see who is really more
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oppressed than the other. It is constantly tripping over itself. It is constantly contradicting
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itself. It is constantly a walking paradox. So they hate men, but they want to be like men.
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They deny that gender matters, but at the same time, it is the only thing that matters. And they
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say that women are strong and capable while also saying that every woman is a victim of the patriarchy
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and they need men like Jimmy Kimmel to save them by telling virtue signaling unfunny jokes at the Oscars.
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It is just this constant, constant race to the bottom to see which group is really more oppressed
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and who can be the most woke. And the sad thing is about this, the real tragedy is that the Me Too
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movement could be at its foundation, a good thing, but intersectionality and third wave feminism,
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as they always do, have ruined it. If Me Too were only about giving women and men who have been sexually
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assaulted a voice, or it was just about raising awareness about abuse and corrupt power structures,
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then fine. I think that's great. Now, I still don't think running to the media with every accusation
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is the right thing to do, but I'm okay with the Me Too movement giving a platform to victims to tell
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their stories and to raise money for victims who are taking their cases to court. But it's not just
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about that anymore. It is now about demonizing all men and emasculating them. And I am not going to
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get on board with it. So let's talk about this from a biblical perspective. As Christians, first of
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all, we should care about the voiceless and the vulnerable. That's kind of like our job. I mean,
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that's part of why Jesus came. If we look at Jesus's life, He pretty much exclusively hung out with the
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sick, with the outcasts, with the sinners, with the silence and the oppressed. His heart broke for them,
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and ours should too. And Christians have been fighting on the front lines for victims for
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centuries. Christians have been giving a voice to victims of abuse, of sex trafficking, of
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discrimination forever. It's not like we've been silent on these issues, and we should rejoice in
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the fact that the rest of the world is also paying attention to victims as well in this way.
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But, and there's a huge but here, we as Christians should reject intersectional feminism that
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seeks to victimize women and demonize men, which is what is now happening with the Me Too movement.
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That is not a biblical worldview. And that is not a biblically accurate view of men and women.
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Women in the Bible are not generally or fundamentally victims. They are made from Adam,
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were made in the image of God, and have unique roles that are not the same as men's. And men in the
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Bible are not categorically bad. They have their unique roles. And I will do a whole podcast talking
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about this one day, but we don't have time. The point I want to make here on this right now
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is that in the Bible, men and women are complementary. They are not the same. They are not meant to have
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the same roles. They are equal in worth and in value, but very different in purpose. This was true
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before the fall. The separation between masculinity and femininity are not a result of sin. They are
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part of God's perfect order. Now, after the fall, the symbiotic relationship between men and women
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was broken by sin, which is why for all of history, there has been tension and pain in our relationships
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with the opposite sex. But the remedy to this brokenness is not to do what intersectional feminism
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and this Me Too movement are now seeking to do, which is to completely diminish the differences of
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men and women by demonizing men as toxic and cuddling women as victims. The problem isn't that
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men have been too powerful and women have been too weak. The problem is sin. The problem goes back to
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what happened in the garden. And that problem is not going to be fixed by going even further away from
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God's intended order by emasculating men and victimizing or even at times masculining women.
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We cannot expect, I know everyone to understand this or agree with this or to essentially become
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a Christian. I get that. So if not everyone is going to accept Jesus, who is the only real remedy to sin,
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is there anything in a worldly sense that needs to happen? I say yes. We need to encourage men to be men.
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Now, I'm not talking about men having to be some macho patriarch. I'm talking about encouraging men
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and boys to be humble, to be strong, to be servant leaders whose role is to protect, to fight for,
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and to provide. Now, that does not mean that women cannot also protect, fight, and provide in our own
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way. You guys who know me know how outspoken, how independent, how pro-woman I am. I believe in
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powerful, loud, badass women like the ones we see in the Bible, like Esther, like Ruth, like Deborah.
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But what this means is that I acknowledge the differences between me and a man. And while I
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never stop fighting against true oppression and abuse, I refuse to accept a victim mentality or
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ascribe a victim mentality to every woman. I acknowledge the inherent and unique strengths
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of women and use them to nurture, to nourish, and to cultivate rather than to break down and destroy.
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As a Christian woman, it means that I adhere to God's word for women and I use my inherent
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womanly strengths for his glory. It means husbands are supposed to be the leaders of the family and men
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are supposed to be the leaders of the church. I know. I know some of you just cringed when I said that.
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But what I have to say to that is you can take that one up with God, not me. The Christian perspective
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on this whole Me Too movement in light of what we just talked about should be one of compassion and
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empathy. But it should also be one of discernment. Discernment of what is true, what is false,
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what is biblical, what is not. Christians should be skeptical of any worldly trend,
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no matter how good it looks on the outside. We should never jump in completely to a movement
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that was started by a catchy hashtag. Because here's the bottom line, not just of this whole
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Me Too movement, but just in general. If we find ourselves bending God's word, which contains God's
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perfect will, to our own human movements and our own human desires, then we are wrong. Let me repeat
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that. If we find ourselves bending God's word, which contains God's perfect will to our human
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movements, human trends, human political parties, human desires, we are wrong. Because that's not how
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it works. We don't get to change and manipulate scripture depending on how we feel or what we think.
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What we do as Christians is bend everything we want and believe to scripture. If we find ourselves ever
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at odds with scripture or in an argument with God, we are wrong, we lose, period. Now we all have this
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tendency, whether we are Christians or not, to read scripture and say, but did God really know this
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situation would be happening? Did he really understand that society would be like this? Like when he wrote
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this, did he really see this coming? And the answer is yes, yes, he did. And he said it anyway. And what
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we know and what we have to trust as Christians is that if God says something, then it is for our good
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and his glory, no matter how it feels. Because for the Christian, that is what we put our trust and hope
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in, not worldly movements, hashtags, or trends. That is our motivation. That is our inspiration.
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That is the cornerstone of our life. So all of this to say, as Christians, we need to be defending
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the defenseless, fighting for justice, fighting to have men, women, children, people of all backgrounds
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to be seen with equal inherent worth. And yes, we even should maybe validate parts of the Me Too
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movement. But intersectional feminism and all of the unbiblical hypocrisy that comes with it, all of the
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man-shaming and the victimization that comes with it. They're unnecessary vehicles to get us there.
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So that is the podcast for today. I think it's about 30 minutes, a little bit shorter than what
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I thought. I hope that you guys enjoyed it. I would love to hear your feedback. So if you email me,
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Allie at the conservativemillennialblog.com, really long email. Please email me, ask me your questions.
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I would love to have a section at the end of the show where I answer people's questions and we talk
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through them. And you can just give me feedback or whatever you want. Follow me on social media if
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a ton of good content on CRTV that's not just me. So if you listen to this podcast and you're like,
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oh my gosh, I don't like Allie. That's okay. You can still go to CRTV. And there are lots of other
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voices that are awesome and have a very unique take. So I really enjoyed this. This was really
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fun. I'm excited about this podcast endeavor and I will see you guys next week.