Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey - Ep 80 ｜ Equality Through Homogeny

00:00:00.000 Hey guys, welcome to Relatable. I hope that you guys had a great weekend. As you know,

00:00:05.400 my husband and I were on our baby moon last week. We were in Colorado. We really enjoyed it.

00:00:11.320 We really did nothing except for sit around, finish an entire season of The Office. We finished

00:00:17.400 actually the series all the way through. I think it's probably the seventh time at least for me.

00:00:22.400 And we ate a lot of food, a lot of room service. It was probably seven degrees outside. And so we

00:00:30.000 just kind of relaxed, which to me is the perfect kind of baby moon. So we really enjoyed ourselves.

00:00:36.320 Last week, we kind of did on the podcast more topical, non-time sensitive subjects because I

00:00:43.940 was gone. I got a lot of great feedback from that, but there was so much that I wanted to talk about

00:00:49.380 in the news. Obviously the Jesse Smollett thing was like, oh my gosh, I was just bursting wanting to

00:00:55.300 talk to you guys about it because it's so ridiculous. At this point though, I feel like

00:00:59.620 I don't want to beat a dead horse. It's been analyzed, talked about so much. I've been on TV

00:01:05.220 talking about it. It's crazy. It's what happens when you make victimhood a virtue. And also when

00:01:12.120 you demonize people who wear red hats and have white skin as racist rednecks, things like this

00:01:18.600 become believable. And you run with the story without knowing the facts because it fits into the

00:01:23.140 left-wing media narrative. I'm glad that justice was served. I hope this serves as an example to other

00:01:28.220 people who would do the same thing as Jesse Smollett did. That's not what we're going to talk about

00:01:32.940 today. Today, we are going to talk about a very controversial topic as if the Jesse Smollett thing

00:01:38.780 wasn't controversial. This is probably even more controversial. We are going to talk about a case

00:01:45.020 that was decided by a federal judge in Texas about the draft, including women. You probably have a lot 1.00

00:01:52.620 of questions about that. Like, do we even have a draft? I had no idea we had a draft. And wait,

00:01:58.000 women, they're not drafted. Should they be drafted? Do women serve in combat? I'm here to answer all of

00:02:03.940 your questions. And then we're going to talk about how this points to a greater trend, especially among

00:02:08.820 the left, but honestly adopted by some people on the right of equality through homogeny. That's what I

00:02:14.720 call it. Equality through sameness, equality through pretending that there are no differences 0.93

00:02:20.440 whatsoever between the genders and what that means for society and why that's something that we need 0.99

00:02:25.460 to push back on, despite that we are going to continually be called bigots and old-fashioned

00:02:31.440 for doing so. So let me catch you up to speed on this particular story. Like I said, a federal judge

00:02:36.780 in Texas ruled that a male-only draft is unconstitutional. He said that in 2019, there is

00:02:44.460 no reason to discriminate between men and women when it comes to the draft. This is a Bush appointee,

00:02:49.560 by the way, Judge Gray Miller. It was a case called National Coalition for Men versus Selective

00:02:55.340 Service System. So the National Coalition for Men is an organization, I think maybe based in San Diego,

00:03:01.640 who fights for the rights of men who believe that there is discrimination against men because men

00:03:08.400 are the only ones who are drafted. And if they don't sign up for the selective service system,

00:03:12.860 we'll get into that in a second. There are consequences to that. And they see this as gender 0.99

00:03:17.720 inequality against men. So this particular case, Judge Gray Miller disagreed with a 1980s case

00:03:24.780 saying that actually that said the opposite of what he said, which is that only men were meant

00:03:31.720 to register for the draft and that it wasn't unconstitutional because only men at that point

00:03:37.720 were eligible to serve in combat. But that's no longer the case. As of 2013, Obama's Department

00:03:44.280 of Defense lifted the ban on women serving in combat. So this judge, Judge Gray Miller,

00:03:50.380 tactically correct on his assessment, perhaps of the unconstitutionality of it, perhaps in light of

00:03:58.100 the fact that women are now able to serve in combat. There's not really a legal reason. I don't see 0.72

00:04:05.140 maybe as some scholar can come along and refute me on this. There might not be a legal reason

00:04:10.440 anymore that they should not be drafted. But the question is, I think, are there other common

00:04:15.820 sense, social, practical, sexual reasons that women should not be drafted, particularly into combat?

00:04:23.260 Are there reasons that women should not be in combat at all? I think so. But first, 1.00

00:04:28.240 let us back up just a little bit. The question is, do we have a draft? That's a big question that I've

00:04:32.900 seen on Twitter a lot when this story has been circulating is, do we even have a draft? I thought

00:04:38.580 we didn't have a draft. We do have a selective service system. So right now, all men between 1.00

00:04:44.460 the ages of 18 and 25 have to register for the selective service system within 30 days of their

00:04:50.020 18th birthday. If they fail to do that, they could lose various forms of federal aid, including Pell

00:04:55.740 grants. There are other consequences that could ensue if you do not sign up for the selective service

00:05:01.920 system within 30 days of your 18th birthday. Men can be drafted in times of crisis that requires

00:05:07.640 more troops than have already volunteered. It's authorized by the president and by Congress.

00:05:13.300 It's a lottery system. That was something that was put into place under Richard Nixon.

00:05:18.320 But the draft has not been used since 1973. So it's been a really long time since it's been used.

00:05:23.940 It's very unlikely that it'll be used again. Of course, you never know. We live in crazy times.

00:05:28.820 So of course, the draft could be used again, but it hasn't been. We have had sufficient people

00:05:33.080 serving in the military on a voluntary basis that we have not had to use the draft. So

00:05:37.760 at this point with this court decision, it would be up to Congress to actually to talk about

00:05:43.220 legislation in this regard. Various attempts, bipartisan attempts, by the way. So Republicans

00:05:49.640 and Democrats have attempted to to allow women to be drafted or to make women to sign up for the 0.99

00:05:56.880 selective service system. Proponents of this on both sides of the aisle say, hey, this is equality.

00:06:02.760 This is the gender equality that you women said that you wanted, which, by the way, I resent being 1.00

00:06:07.700 included in that because I'm not a feminist. But they say proponents say this is gender equality.

00:06:13.180 This is this is what we need to do. They say there are lots of ways for men and women to serve

00:06:19.420 in our country. It doesn't have to necessarily be combat. And so they're saying there's no reason

00:06:24.380 that we should not use women's talents to serve. It just doesn't make any sense, they say. But 1.00

00:06:28.900 opponents like myself, but opponents like a Ted Cruz in Congress, for example, say, no, thanks.

00:06:35.980 No, thanks. I don't think that our daughter should be drafted. I'm sorry. It's just different. And

00:06:40.600 the big intention really is that since combat is now open to women, this might require women to serve

00:06:46.140 in combat units. And opponents are saying, well, that should not be forced. Women should not be 1.00

00:06:51.540 forced to serve in combat. But let me give my take. I'll take that a step further and say that

00:06:58.080 women should not be in combat at all. Women should not be in combat at all. Not just forced to serve 0.84

00:07:04.820 in combat, but they should not be in combat at all. Combat is not for women. And I'll I'll get to why 1.00

00:07:09.820 they shouldn't be drafted for other reasons because of what it could mean to the American family when

00:07:17.020 women are demanded to be everywhere except for the home. And I know that seems bigoted and archaic, 0.91

00:07:22.940 but gender roles are existent for a reason. The only way that I would get on board with women being 1.00

00:07:31.940 required to sign up for the selective service system is if a Trump's Department of Defense

00:07:37.780 reinstated the ban on women in combat. So if I were to want to old now, I'm 26, but my daughter,

00:07:44.720 when she turns 18, this is why I don't like this, by the way, I don't want my daughter to be drafted.

00:07:49.280 But if my daughter had to sign up for the selective service committee at 30 days within her 18th

00:07:55.240 birthday, I would want to know that she is at least not being drafted into combat. If there are other

00:08:01.680 areas of service that she can serve in. OK, don't want her to be drafted into combat. So if a Trump's

00:08:08.920 Department of Defense reinstated the ban on women in combat and therefore if a woman is drafted, 1.00

00:08:13.300 she will be drafted into non-combat forms of service. OK, but that would have to be coupled 1.00

00:08:18.900 with me for to ever. Well, I don't ever want to get on board with the draft, period. But in order

00:08:24.140 for me not to think that this is a complete and total moral travesty, the second caveat that I

00:08:28.460 would require is that married women and mothers are all exempt from being drafted. They don't have 1.00

00:08:33.200 to sign up for the selective service committee if they're already married by the time they're 18 and

00:08:39.260 they are exempt from being drafted if they are married or mothers. And that includes pregnant 0.98

00:08:45.020 women, obviously, which would require us to define an unborn child as a person, which is another 1.00

00:08:51.780 problem that we seem to have in this country. We have very fundamental moral issues in this country,

00:08:56.380 if you haven't noticed. We also need to think about the biological and social reality that the left

00:09:02.180 and some people on the right just don't want to accept in all of this. They want to talk about

00:09:06.780 equality. They want to talk about this utopia where there's really no difference in the roles

00:09:10.920 between men and women. What they don't want to accept, what no one seems to want to accept anymore 0.98

00:09:15.880 is the basic reality that men and women are different. It's not just a social construct,

00:09:20.960 but we are different. I do not believe in forcing a woman into combat or into any kind of military 0.60

00:09:26.840 service during her educational years and her prime childbearing years. Now, you guys have talked

00:09:33.640 or you have heard me talk about before. I don't think that a woman is reduced to just having kids. 0.99

00:09:38.320 I don't think the biggest and best thing that you can do in your life is necessarily only having kids,

00:09:42.840 not even from a Christian perspective. And I don't mean only like that's a small thing,

00:09:46.740 but I mean, that is not our number one goal. Our number one goal is to do what we're good at for

00:09:51.960 the glory of God. And if God calls you to singleness and ministry, that might not mean having

00:09:56.700 physical children and that's okay. Christ fulfills you outside of that. But from a practical social

00:10:04.820 perspective, if we're talking about taking up the time between 18 and 26 years old or 18 and 25 years

00:10:12.100 old for a woman, her prime, not just childbearing years, but also when she's going to go to college,

00:10:16.780 when she's going to get her first job, when she probably will find the person that she's going to

00:10:22.340 end up with, you're talking about delaying that by a few years. If in the rare occasion, a draft

00:10:26.760 would ever actually happen. And what does that actually mean for society? You also have to think

00:10:31.800 about the sexual implications, which we're going to get to in just a little bit with some data,

00:10:35.960 the sexual implications of men and women serving together in close quarters. If women are allowed 1.00

00:10:41.580 to be in combat units, which like I said, I don't think they should. And the reason why I don't think

00:10:47.560 that they should be in combat units. So we're talking about not just being drafted, which I've already

00:10:51.700 explained why I don't think they should be drafted. The main reason being is because I don't think that

00:10:56.560 they should be drafted into combat, which right now they are allowed to be. And the reason why I

00:11:00.520 don't think that women should be in combat is because they are categorically not as lethal as 1.00

00:11:06.500 men are. They're just not. We do not have the same strength. We don't have the same capabilities as

00:11:11.300 men. There are lots of things that women are better at than men. We just, we are just in general,

00:11:16.940 we are better communicators than men in general. We are better at doing multiple tasks in general.

00:11:21.560 We are better handling crises than men are in general. We are better nurturers in general.

00:11:26.540 We are better at calming people down and assessing the situation and figuring out a plan

00:11:30.860 and moving forward with that. When there are a million different people commanding our attention,

00:11:35.520 there are a lot of things that women are better at than men. Lethality and military is generally 1.00

00:11:41.380 not one of them. This is not just me talking. This is not just an opinion I have. I am going to

00:11:47.960 site a study by the Marine Corps that was conducted in 2015. It was a study to understand gender

00:11:54.440 integration in the military after that 2013 order that required women to be allowed into combat units 0.63

00:12:01.300 that happened under President Obama. This was a comprehensive study and you should go online and

00:12:06.980 read it. You could just Google Marine Corps study 2015. It'll show or gender integration. That'll

00:12:14.980 probably give you a more specific search. And it was very kind towards the women. And I too want to

00:12:21.460 reiterate that I'm very thankful for the women who have served in military. And I'm very thankful for

00:12:26.040 those who have put their lives on the line, no matter what gender they are. But when it comes to

00:12:31.120 military, we should be looking at lethality much higher or much more than we should be looking at

00:12:36.960 equality. So like I said, Marine Corps conducted this study in 2015 after the 2013 order that required

00:12:43.660 women to be integrated into every part of the military, including combat units. It was a large 0.99

00:12:49.220 study and it looked at combat effectiveness. So that was the thing that they were testing for.

00:12:54.120 And they mostly looked at two qualifications for combat effectiveness. It was speed and focus.

00:12:59.260 So the findings were, uh, or the findings were looking at, were comparing all male squads versus gender

00:13:06.460 integrated squads. And so they looked at speed and what they found is this all male squads performed

00:13:12.300 faster on every single task compared to gender integrated squads. As the study says that

00:13:17.740 differences were even more pronounced, um, in the specialties that carried the assault load and the

00:13:22.900 additional weight of the weapons and ammunition. So in tasks where the crew had to carry more weight,

00:13:28.120 the differences in speed were even more stark. The all male crews were that much faster when heavy

00:13:33.540 weight was involved. When it came to lethality, all male squads showed better accuracy on every single

00:13:39.320 task compared to gender, gender integrated squads. Um, the study says there was a notable difference

00:13:45.060 between genders for every individual weapon system. Um, they also looked at males with less training

00:13:51.700 had higher hit percentages. So better hit percentages than females with more training than them. So if you 1.00

00:13:58.120 need evidence for inherent gender differences, this is about it. And I'm going to read, um, another

00:14:02.880 little section from it. All male squads, teams, and crews and gender integrated squads, teams,

00:14:07.280 and crews had a noticeable difference in their performance of the basic combat tasks of negotiating

00:14:12.720 obstacles and evacuating casualties. For example, when negotiating the wall obstacle, uh, male Marines 0.94

00:14:19.160 threw their packs on top of the wall, whereas female Marines required regular assistance in getting 1.00

00:14:23.600 their packs to the top. During casualty evacuation assessments, there were noticeable differences in

00:14:28.840 execution times between all male and gender integrated groups, except in the case where teams

00:14:34.360 conducted a casualty evacuation as a one Marine fireman's carry of another, in which case it was

00:14:40.360 most often a male Marine who evacuated the casualty. And then it also looked at the health and the

00:14:46.040 welfare of Marines. So who actually got injured more, who was okay after they had to perform, uh,

00:14:52.140 these tasks. They said there is a well-documented comparative disadvantage in upper and lower body

00:14:58.020 strength, uh, for females that resulted in higher levels of fatigues, which contributed to greater 1.00

00:15:03.660 incidents of overuse injuries as well, or such as stress fractures. Um, it talked about the body

00:15:10.320 composition where males averaged 178 pounds with 20% body fat females averaged 142 pounds with 24% body 0.68

00:15:17.780 fat anaerobic power of females possess 15% less power than males. Uh, the female top 25th, uh, percent, 1.00

00:15:26.180 uh, this is cut off overlaps with the bottom 25, 25th percentile for males. And so the best females 0.84

00:15:34.740 we're comparing with the worst males consistently anaerobic capacity females possess 15% less capacity. 0.92

00:15:41.860 The female top 10th percentile overlaps with the bottom 50th, 50th percentile of males. Um, so we have 0.83

00:15:48.960 also 10% lower capacity anaerobic capacity or, oh, sorry, aerobic capacity. So in general, women simply 1.00

00:15:58.080 do not have the same capacity or strength or power or endurance or ability to perform difficult tasks

00:16:04.760 in which speed and focus and carrying weight. So strength is needed. Uh, that's not a knock on women. 1.00

00:16:11.740 That's simply how women were made. Like I said, women have many, many strengths that men do not have.

00:16:18.580 And then I quite frankly think are enviable. Um, but being in combat, isn't one of them. Uh, female 1.00

00:16:26.400 Marines also says we're injured at more than six times the rate of men during preliminary training.

00:16:31.840 Um, this is mostly because, uh, men's testosterone levels produce stronger bones, stronger muscles.

00:16:38.780 Um, even the fittest women, this is from the wall street journal, uh, must work at maximal physical 1.00

00:16:44.600 capacity when carrying a hundred pound pack or repeatedly loading heavy shells into a cannon.

00:16:49.180 That wasn't true for a man. So whereas I might be operating at a hundred percent doing something,

00:16:54.620 my husband might only be operating at 20 to 50%. And so you have to think about that when it comes to

00:17:00.600 accuracy and your ability to carry out subsequent tasks. If I'm using all of my energy to do the tasks

00:17:05.780 that I was doing before, uh, that's probably going to take away from my effectiveness. Um, Heather

00:17:10.960 McDonald in the wall street journal said that ignoring this large Marine study, then defense

00:17:16.140 secretary. So back in 2013, 2015, um, Ash Carter opened all combat rules to women rather than 1.00

00:17:23.320 requiring new female combat recruits to meet the same physical standards as men. The military began

00:17:29.660 crafting gender neutral standards in the hope that more women would qualify. So we're not even talking

00:17:36.680 about women trying to reach the same standards as men. We're talking about lowering the standard. So more 0.93

00:17:42.260 women would qualify. So what we've seen, particularly, um, in the Obama DOD, that the military really became

00:17:49.620 a social experiment, that it became more important to be equal than to be lethal. And when you're talking

00:17:55.380 about not only winning wars and, uh, protecting whatever cause we are fighting for, but also, um, reducing

00:18:02.580 the number of casualties, saving American lives, we are prioritizing a social experiment, not hurting

00:18:10.460 women and transgender people's feelings, uh, over the safety of our own citizens, over the combat

00:18:16.820 effectiveness of our own troops. Uh, I really don't care about equality. I really don't care about

00:18:23.640 feelings. I really don't care about social studies. I really don't care about social experiments when it

00:18:28.480 comes to the military. I really don't, I really could not care any less about equality when it comes

00:18:33.500 to the military, because it's not about equality. It is about lethality. It is about how effective we

00:18:38.820 can be, how quickly, how efficiently, how effectively we can reach our goals. Uh, unfortunately you have a

00:18:45.860 lot of people on the left and some people on the right who simply don't see that they see equality.

00:18:50.740 Yeah. Let women be drafted and okay. Women can, uh, be in combat. They might be drafted into combat. 1.00

00:18:57.100 That's fine. Equality. Well, let's just take the progressive blinders off for a second and think

00:19:03.400 about things. Practically. The question is not whether or not, I'm going to say this for the

00:19:08.200 millionth time is not whether or not the military is equal. It's whether or not the military is lethal,

00:19:14.020 but the moral revolution that has been carried on by the left that says there's no difference between

00:19:20.700 men or women whatsoever. It is all a social construct, ignoring the fact that a group like the Marine

00:19:26.900 Corps has brought to our attention that scientists have literally been saying since we've known

00:19:30.680 anything about biology and they have simply just said, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. It's, it's fine.

00:19:38.540 We're all the same. Men and women should do the same thing. And this is what I mean by they are

00:19:42.760 trying to carry out an agenda of equality through homogeny. And this is what, or homogeny it's,

00:19:49.860 I always say that wrong. And then it means something else. Homogeny. So equality through sameness.

00:19:54.620 They believe that in order for men and women to be truly equal and to have equal rights,

00:20:00.600 they must have equal responsibilities. But the reason why men and women should not be expected to

00:20:06.680 have equal responsibilities is because they do not have equal capabilities. And a lot of people on the

00:20:12.040 left know that. And that's why they just obscure the difference of capabilities and say, oh, no, no,

00:20:17.780 women can do anything that a man can do. But as science tells us, as the Marine Corps study tells 0.99

00:20:22.720 us, as basic logic tells us, as any biology teacher can tell you, there's a difference between

00:20:27.620 men and women. And there's also a point that we really don't want to talk about in the difference

00:20:32.840 between men and women is the sexual component to allowing women to allowing women in combat and

00:20:39.460 drafting women into combat as a consequence of that. So Heather McDonald with Wall Street Journal 0.99

00:20:44.600 also said, a Marine commander who served in Afghanistan described to me how the arrival of an

00:20:50.220 all-female team tasked with reaching out to local women affected discipline on his forward operating

00:20:54.680 base. Until that point, he said, rigorous discipline had been the norm. But when four women, three 0.96

00:20:59.800 service members and a translator arrived, the post atmosphere changed overnight from a stern business

00:21:04.220 like place to that of an eighth grade dance. The officer walked into a common room one day to find

00:21:09.060 the women clustered in the center. They were surrounded by eager male Marines. One of them

00:21:14.340 was doing a handstand. And then she gives some other examples about the same thing happening,

00:21:19.920 how the dynamic between men and women, that's a lot of progressives want to pretend, isn't a very

00:21:26.220 natural thing that mostly, mostly even in this country where we're told that gender doesn't matter 1.00

00:21:31.980 and that sexuality is fluid, it's mostly the opposite sexes are attracted to each other. 1.00

00:21:37.920 Hormonally charged close quarters is going to cause sexual tension to happen. And you have to ask

00:21:43.020 yourself when it comes to the military, how that affects our effectiveness. That should be the

00:21:48.060 only question that we're asking. But we're not even allowed to talk about the natural sexual dynamics

00:21:53.460 between men and women because we're supposed to pretend like that's not natural. Like a man should 1.00

00:21:57.980 just look at a woman like he looks at any other dude and a woman should just think of a man as she 0.99

00:22:01.980 thinks about any other girl. And we should just be able to direct our sexual energy to whoever we want 1.00

00:22:06.980 to direct it to. I'm sorry, God didn't make us that way. That's how humankind has perpetuated from all of

00:22:12.420 history because boys like girls and men like women. Um, so in, uh, the New York times said,

00:22:21.520 despite all of this, despite all of these studies that show, um, that show contrary to what the

00:22:28.520 left wants to believe that men and women are different, that when they're in combat, it doesn't

00:22:32.840 really work very well. Ash Carter, who was, um, the department or the defense secretary under Barack

00:22:39.060 Obama said, there will be no exceptions. Um, Mr. Carter said at the news conference, he added,

00:22:43.600 there'll be allowed to drive tanks, fire mortars, and lead infantry soldiers into combat. They'll be

00:22:47.840 able to serve as army Rangers and green berets, Navy SEALs, Marine Corps infantry, air force,

00:22:52.160 para jumpers, and everything else that was previously open to men. I mean, this is just an illogical

00:22:58.020 utopia, um, that doesn't make any sense. And it certainly does not better our country.

00:23:03.640 The same goes for transgender people serving in the military, you know, that, um, Trump tried to

00:23:09.700 institute a ban on transgender people, but he really made it, uh, he made it more about that.

00:23:15.260 We should not, the American people, the American taxpayer should not be a pain for their gender

00:23:20.280 reassignment surgery, but it's really not about that. It shouldn't be about that. It should be about

00:23:25.480 lethality. It should be about their effectiveness. So if you are a biological man who identifies as a 0.98

00:23:31.000 woman, but your hormone therapy has weakened you to the point of not being as lethal as your 0.98

00:23:35.760 biologically male and identifying male counterparts, then I'm sorry. I'm sorry. It's not a right to serve 1.00

00:23:41.600 in the military. If you're a biological woman who identifies as a man, uh, you will never have the 1.00

00:23:46.120 strength or, uh, the biological abilities that, uh, or the, the strength abilities that a biological man

00:23:52.660 has. So I'm sorry. Like I've said over and over again, lethality trumps equality. The military is not

00:23:59.180 a social experiment. You do not have the right to serve in the military. I say, let us end the draft

00:24:05.700 altogether. That's, that's what I would want. Um, I don't want to draft woman. I don't want women to 1.00

00:24:10.720 be in combat. I think that we should end the draft altogether, but you know, that's getting to be a

00:24:16.740 harder and harder case to make when we have such warped views on men and women have such warped views

00:24:24.240 on gender roles that we aren't even allowed to say anymore. That only women can have children where 0.99

00:24:30.160 we can't even say anymore. The anatomical parts that correspond to men and women India more, I guess

00:24:37.100 she's some transgender. He, she is a transgender activist. I don't actually know her gender, her,

00:24:44.760 his gender identity, what they go by, what their pronouns are. I don't even know. So that's the

00:24:51.620 confusion. She, he tweeted, if a woman has a penis, it's a biologically female penis. 1.00

00:24:59.760 I, I don't, I don't know. I don't know. What do you do with that? What do you, what do you do with

00:25:06.600 that? At least before back in the good old days when transgender people would just say, okay, 1.00

00:25:12.500 you're biologically male, but you identify as a woman. I was just now starting to be like, okay, 0.97

00:25:19.260 I'm kind of understanding to break down or I'm being able to break down that a logic in my mind

00:25:25.000 is, is insane as it is. I'm, I'm able to kind of wrap my head around that. But now we're told that

00:25:31.620 your anatomy is not even allowed to be male or female anatomy that biologically. And so now instead of

00:25:41.160 biology dictating society, we're saying that society should dictate biology. And that just

00:25:48.120 makes my brain explode. Like I'm not, I'm not even a really a science person. I didn't even do well in

00:25:54.460 science in, in high school or in college. I hated science classes, but I think I remember enough from

00:26:00.040 biology one-on-one in my anatomy class to know that there's a difference between male and female,

00:26:05.480 at least on a biological level, right? No, but now we have social studies and post-modernism taking over

00:26:12.300 even science. And so we're not even allowed to say things that are scientifically biologically true

00:26:18.900 anymore, which is why you are going to see, you're going to see male domination of everything,

00:26:25.340 even in women's sports and women's categories. So thank you feminists for being so great at your 1.00

00:26:31.340 jobs that you've actually secured male domination for the rest of history. And we see that. We see

00:26:36.840 that a lot in sporting events, but the latest headline that I saw transgender sprinters finished 1.00

00:26:40.900 first, second, first and second at Connecticut girls indoor track championships. Well, duh,

00:26:47.060 the headline should be men beat women in a sport that they are much better at than women. Duh, 0.79

00:26:55.160 duh. Men are always faster than women. They're always faster than women. And so now we've seen this in 1.00

00:27:01.220 wrestling. We've seen this in lots of other sports where transgender women, I'm still very confused

00:27:07.300 on how to say that transgender women. So biological males that identify as women where they are

00:27:13.540 dominating biological women, which you can't even say that anymore. It's so confusing. Biological women

00:27:19.920 in sports. Well, yes, because they still have testosterone. Yes, because their bones are different.

00:27:25.380 Yes, because their muscles are different. Yes, because their anaerobic and aerobic capacities are

00:27:29.600 different. As we saw in the Marine Corps study, there will always be an inherent difference because

00:27:34.460 of hormones, because of chromosomes, because of how your brain works, because of how your body works.

00:27:38.620 There will always be a difference between men and women. And feminists have laid the groundwork for 1.00

00:27:42.440 this by saying there's no real difference between men and women. There should be no difference in

00:27:46.360 responsibilities, no difference in roles. Women can do everything that a man can. By obscuring the 1.00

00:27:51.660 differences in gender, you have made it possible for a man to identify as a woman and a woman to identify

00:27:55.920 as a man. And therefore, for a man who identifies as a woman to dominate biological women in every 0.66

00:28:01.920 realm in which women were allowed to compete against one another. So congratulations. You've outplayed 0.99

00:28:07.860 yourself. There was this article in the Wall Street Journal called About Gender Neutral Clothes, and it was

00:28:15.480 talking about how fashion is even moving in the direction of being gender neutral, how men are going to

00:28:21.920 start wearing, quote, lacy shirts and pink suits and dresses and skirts. And women are going to start 1.00

00:28:29.920 wearing things that are typically cut for men. I'm sorry, I just don't think that that's going to

00:28:34.060 happen. I just don't. I just don't think that's going to happen. Because again, you're erasing that

00:28:39.760 there might be some kind of inherent preference in men and women for certain kinds of clothes.

00:28:46.300 You are denying that there might actually be a natural inherent difference in men and women

00:28:52.740 that makes them prefer to dress and look and act a certain way. And so I'm just not buying that. I'm

00:29:00.760 okay with like gender neutral clothes in some ways, mostly like for women. I don't have I don't have a

00:29:07.800 problem with that. And I think that's pretty a pretty non-consequential issue because I don't think

00:29:13.740 it's actually going to matter. I thought there was an interesting post of Christian 0.98

00:29:17.320 blogger, influencer, author that you guys know posted an Instagram post about her child where

00:29:23.980 her son wearing makeup and how it was actually for theater. But she goes on to say that, you know,

00:29:29.620 boys can wear makeup and we need to stop putting boys in boxes and girls in boxes. They can be

00:29:34.260 however they want to be. And we should all celebrate that. And it's pretty expected at this point from

00:29:40.500 this particular person. She leans to the left, it seems like on, um, a lot of social issues, 0.96

00:29:45.040 but I do want to use that to have, I know I've been pretty like harsh and black and white in this

00:29:49.820 conversation about men and women. I do think there is a room for nuance when it comes to the gender

00:29:55.520 conversation. Uh, because I do think that there exists harmful stereotypes when it comes to men and

00:30:02.820 women. I do think that at one point, probably not anymore that boys who maybe did like theater or boys

00:30:09.060 who did like to dance or boys who, uh, maybe didn't like to like play in the mud and play football and

00:30:15.280 go hunting and ride four wheelers that maybe they were seen as more feminine. They were compared to 0.99

00:30:20.440 a girl that when a boy cried, it was because he was girly or when a girl didn't like the things that 0.77

00:30:25.680 traditional girls like that they were maybe seen as a tomboy. I do think that having too strict 1.00

00:30:31.940 of categories for boys and girls can be harmful to their psyche and actually saying that, Oh,

00:30:38.240 you're girly. If you like theater, you're girly. If you like ballet and you're boyish,

00:30:43.640 if you like baseball, that I think is harmful. I think there could be more openness to, Hey,

00:30:51.100 if you're a guy who likes theater, you're a guy who likes theater. You're not a girly guy,

00:30:55.520 you know? And the same thing for a girl. If you're a girl who likes sports,

00:30:59.460 you're a girl who likes sports. You're not a tomboy. Um, I do think that those names

00:31:03.860 can't be harmful, but as long as, as long as we keep sure, and we keep distinct, uh,

00:31:12.660 the responsibilities and the social societal familial roles, um, of boys versus girls that

00:31:20.260 at the end of the day, the boy goes down, the girl goes free in, in the sense that men should be

00:31:26.740 protecting women. Boys should be protecting girls. It should be boys that are looking out for girls.

00:31:31.720 It should be, there should be a difference. The boys are supposed to be, uh, when it comes down

00:31:37.100 to it, especially in a familial role, the hunter gathers, the warriors, the fighters, the protectors,

00:31:42.000 uh, women are supposed to be the nurturers and the nourishers and the builders and the beautifiers. 1.00

00:31:46.820 That doesn't mean that men are better than women. It means that they're different than women. 1.00

00:31:50.100 It means that they're meant to compliment one of one another. So I do think it can be a nuanced

00:31:54.900 conversation and that some gender stereotypes can be harmful. They are too strict. They are too

00:32:01.280 archaic and they don't allow for boys to have interests outside of just liking blue and football.

00:32:06.780 I think that's stupid, but as long as we make sure that our boys know that one also being an

00:32:13.880 aggressive, super, uber masculine boy, or if you even want to call it masculine, liking traditional

00:32:18.960 masculine things is completely fine. But also no matter what their interests are, what their social,

00:32:24.100 familial and moral responsibilities are as a boy versus that of a girl, they are different 0.87

00:32:30.280 and they should be different. And we should be promoting that. And if you want to call it

00:32:34.260 traditional or bigoted, whatever, that's completely fine. It's how human history has perpetuated and

00:32:39.660 how it's how men and women have been able to work together to make societies thrive and, uh, function.

00:32:45.500 And as I've said before, raising passive boys does not create strong men. Raising passive boys creates

00:32:51.540 weak men and, uh, where men are weak, where men are afraid, where men are passive, where men step back

00:32:58.800 and don't step into their role of responsibility and provision and protection. Not only families fail,

00:33:03.860 but societies fail because women have not been proven to be able to take that role and lead that alone. 0.96

00:33:09.580 Well, they just have it in, in, uh, a larger sense. I'm not talking about the single mother that can't 0.95

00:33:16.080 lead her family. She absolutely can, but I'm talking about on a community, on a society, on a national

00:33:21.680 level. Um, you have to have men step up or else society falters. So that's it for today.

00:33:29.500 Differences between men and women, women shouldn't be drafted, shouldn't be in, um, shouldn't be in 1.00

00:33:36.700 combat. And we should be celebrating the differences between men and women and how we complement one

00:33:41.480 another. And we shouldn't be obscuring them because biology is never going to change no matter how much

00:33:49.560 society wants to make it. So thank God for that. I'm very thankful that he made us, that he made us

00:33:54.780 different and he made us, uh, with different roles and different strengths and different responsibilities

00:33:58.940 that make this world not only function, but also really fun. Okay. I will see you guys on Thursday

00:34:06.360 for Theological Thursdays.

Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey - February 26, 2019

Ep 80 ｜ Equality Through Homogeny

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