00:00:24.000Okay, so that's a bunch of women shrieking like insane harpies.1.00
00:00:29.000Apparently, that was in response to the Cornell 7 case, which is weird because if Jane Doe in that case had started yelling her resistance at literally any time during the night in question, everything would have stopped because by her own testimony, she consented to.1.00
00:00:43.000Everything, but that's not stopping the ladies.1.00
00:00:46.000Some of the ladies going cray out there.0.99
00:00:49.000Michael Tracy went to one of these Cornell 7 protests and then was promptly hit in the face.
00:01:08.000And of course, you remember all the women who were screaming, going crazy over the Lindsey Clancy trial, claiming that they were basically in the same situation as Lindsey Clancy, and then just chucking ice into the bathtub because they want to murder their toddlers or something.
00:01:42.000Now, there is one unifying philosophical factor behind the causes the feminist movement now supports, from Jane Doe to Lindsey Clancy to ripping on Shane Gillis for noting that women are dressing not well at the gym.1.00
00:01:53.000And that is lack of female responsibility.0.94
00:01:55.000Some people are noticing Bridget Fettesy, who is hilarious.0.99
00:01:59.000Obviously, I'm friendly with Bridget.0.79
00:02:01.000She wrote maybe an all time great piece over at The Spectator describing her supposed reaction to Shane Gillis' comments I was mid hip thrust when I found out Shane Gillis had called me a whore.
00:02:12.000Technically, I found out four hours later when I reviewed the footage of Saturday Night Live.
00:02:25.000The joke was about how women dress at the gym.
00:02:27.000I know it was about me because everything is.
00:02:29.000So I did what any survivor would do I went to my car and filmed myself crying.
00:02:33.000It took 11 takes because the lighting in a Range Rover is unforgiving and grief is no excuse for a bad shot.0.83
00:02:39.000Then I put on the shortest shorts I own, went back inside, and filmed my ass from three angles with the caption Does this outfit work for you, Shane Gillis?0.97
00:02:45.000I wanted to send him a message that my body is not for men.0.98
00:02:48.000To make sure Shane got the message, I tagged him.
00:03:05.000But I posted a 10 minute video about postpartum psychosis anyway, captioned Same Lindsay, because when Bellamy was up, he chewed through my exercise bands and I have never recovered.
00:03:14.000Then I filmed myself throwing ice cubes at the bathtub to get the rage out.0.56
00:03:52.000There is, again, something serious going on here, like the complete mental breakdown of a society.
00:03:58.000There is a philosophy, and that philosophy goes something like this The things I feel are real, and the rest of the world must conform to it.
00:04:08.000The belief that whatever you think and feel about the world is the most important thing in the world, and that all of reality must conform to your demands.
00:04:14.000That's how it's held across the sexes.0.95
00:04:17.000It's promoted, obviously, by the legacy media.
00:04:21.000So, for example, the New York Times had a long piece yesterday about a woman. who was married for something like 27 years and had children and decided it was time to come out as a lesbian and just blow up her life.0.99
00:04:35.000It's good that she did that because she must live her truth.
00:04:38.000You see, personal responsibility, the obligations you owe to others, including your spouse and your children, that means nothing as long as you feel something on the inside of you.
00:04:55.000The rest of society must pretend along with me that I am that thing.
00:04:58.000And if you refuse, then that is a form of erasure.
00:05:02.000But the softer version is I'm going to blow up my life at 50, and then the New York Times will do a big profile about me because I am a lesbian, even though I have many children.
00:05:12.000Quote sitting at her desk on a July evening, Shelly opened her tablet and signed on to a weekly Zoom support group meeting for lesbians coming out later in life.
00:05:19.000She smiled as five other group members popped onto her screen.
00:05:22.000Weeks ago, these women had been strangers.
00:05:24.000Now they were among the only people who truly understood her.
00:05:28.000Like Shelly, who was 50, they knew how frightening it felt to come out after years of hiding.
00:05:32.000Like Shelly, several of the women were still married to the men they had been with for decades.
00:05:36.000And like Shelly, they wondered, how do I do this?
00:06:12.000It was lovely, Shelly said, shaking her head in wonder.
00:06:14.000Afterward, Shelly thought about how different she would have felt if she had been out there with her husband, pretending to be someone she is not.
00:06:20.000It wouldn't have been as lovely, Shelly said.
00:06:43.000One of the things I thought about a lot is if I don't come out, if I keep living the way I have been, I'm just not going to have happiness, she said.
00:06:49.000Okay, well, she doesn't sound like she's particularly happy now, so there's that.
00:06:53.000It turns out that long, long based happiness, happiness over the course of a life, is not about you feeling fulfilled in any one given moment.
00:07:03.000It is about building a life of meaning and value.
00:07:07.000But again, we have an entire society that is built around the opposite now that your level of personal fulfillment is the only thing that matters.0.95
00:07:14.000And by the way, if this story read, if the title of this story were divorcing at 50 from a much younger woman, Bob found a coach, no one would be sympathetic.0.97
00:07:26.000If this were just some 50 year old dude who decided, hey, I'm not sexually fulfilled because, you know, my wife is also 50, she's not as hot as she used to be, she kind of fell out of shape.0.51
00:07:34.000And now, you know, I really want to bang the hot young thing down the hall.0.62
00:07:37.000And so that's really what my heart tells me.0.99
00:07:39.000My heart tells me that that is the priority.
00:08:54.000One of the reasons for that, there are many, but the biggest reason is that my wife and I have an awesome relationship that we work on all the time.
00:09:24.000But when you see yourself as just a couple of people who are drifting through life and then you sort of drift apart, you're just a couple of boats and then you just drift apart.
00:09:30.000And what really matters is that you're drifting in your own waters, and that's what matters.
00:10:12.000We'll get to more on this in a moment.
00:10:13.000First, you know, you have one asset that's probably worth more than all your other assets, maybe combined, and that would be your home title.
00:10:19.000Now, you're not thinking about how somebody can take the value from that because, hey, I mean, you own your home.
00:10:22.000Nobody's going to like jack it up on wheels and take it somewhere.
00:10:25.000But the way that criminals gain access to the asset value of your home is they forge your name on a signature sheet and then they basically steal your home title and they start borrowing against it.
00:10:34.000Well, you can stop them from doing this by checking out.
00:11:02.000Today again, protect your biggest asset, which of course is probably the value in your home title.
00:11:06.000Go to Home title lock.com, use promo code BEN30 and get your peace of mind today.1.00
00:11:12.000So, again, the sort of bleeding edge of the narcissistic philosophy is the trans movement.0.99
00:11:16.000So, the free press and CBS held a debate between Alibeth Stuckey, our friend over at Blaze TV, and a feminist and democratic strategist named Deja Fox.0.85
00:11:29.000Here was Alibeth asking the most basic question of all when it came to trans politics Can you even define what a woman is?1.00
00:11:35.000That terminology, first of all, there's no such thing as a trans woman because it's not possible to transition your sex.
00:11:42.000There's male and there is female and there are people who identify as the opposite sex, but we are not who we are by declaration.
00:11:49.000We don't just get to say, I am the opposite sex and put on different clothes and then you are.
00:11:54.000And if that is the only definition of what it means to be a woman, then there really is no definition.0.51
00:12:00.000I mean, trans women are women is the most nonsensical motto because you can't even define what a woman is.0.76
00:12:07.000And so, yes, of course, it sets women back to say, sure, in these spaces, you can have men, you can have boys.0.98
00:12:21.000And I think it's really important if we're going to define our terms and you're going to say that you are for the empowerment of women and you are to say that you are a feminist, that you are able to actually define what a woman is.
00:12:50.000But again, I want to bring the audience in.
00:12:52.000You know, trans sports, trans folks playing sports is something we see all the time in the headlines.
00:12:58.000But has anybody here been personally impacted by a trans athlete?
00:13:03.000Can you, not a single hand here about that?
00:13:05.000I want to finish this just with one point, which is that that's because trans athletes make up 0.002% of college athletes.
00:13:15.000And to your point about what does it mean then to be a danger to women's spaces, the way that we are giving oxygen to this non-issue, this manufactured culture war comes at the cost Of being able to talk about real women's issues, like how the rising cost of gas and groceries probably made it harder for you to get here today.
00:13:37.000Oh, you know, because the real woman's issue is, you know, like the same as everybody else's issue, which means it's not a woman's issue, it's an everybody issue.
00:13:43.000So you shouldn't call it a woman's issue.
00:13:44.000But as Allie Beth points out, well, then why are you guys making this one of your priorities?0.99
00:13:48.000Again, you play this idiotic Mott and Bailey game where trans rights are human rights.0.99
00:13:53.000And then the minute you're questioned on that, you say, no, no, no, we just need to talk about grocery prices.0.99
00:13:59.000I think it's worth noting that three.1.00
00:14:02.000High powered feminist organizations list so called trans rights in their list of priorities.1.00
00:14:08.000When it comes to Emily's List, it's a powerful feminist organization that exists to support Democratic women who are running for office.0.99
00:14:15.000They place abortion and trans rights at the forefront of its cause.
00:14:19.000The National Organization for Women, a big organization of feminists, abortion and transgenderism are two of the six core priorities for their entity.
00:14:28.000The 2007 Women's March declared both abortion access and so called trans access.
00:14:35.000So, is it really conservatives who are making this a part of the culture war, or is it not feminists who have brought the issue to the forefront?1.00
00:14:41.000If it's not important, just say what a woman is.0.97
00:14:45.000Of course, Alibeth is totally correct about this, and her opponent could not answer that basic question.
00:14:50.000Of course, you couldn't answer that question because, again, the core of modern leftism is the idea that reality exists within you.
00:14:56.000Not that reality is external to you, not that you're defined by nature, not that you are defined by your actual biology.
00:15:04.000You are defined by what you feel inside.
00:15:06.000Carl Truman. is the author of a book called The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self.
00:15:10.000He writes, In the world of political, religious, and economic man, commitment was outwardly directed to those communal beliefs, practices, and institutions that were bigger than the individual, and in which the individual, to the degree that he or she conformed or cooperated with them, found meaning.
00:15:23.000In the world of psychological man, which he says is sort of modernity, that commitment is first and foremost to the self and is inwardly directed.
00:15:30.000The philosopher Robert Bella says, quote, is to be realized.
00:15:38.000And again, what this means is that the more you feel things, the more authentic you are.
00:15:42.000And so if you want to show people you're really, really authentic, what you do is you go to Las Vegas and you scream like a banshee.
00:15:48.000Because what you're showing people is that you are the most version of you that it is possible to be.
00:15:53.000And any abiding by societal rules is actually an imposition from the outside.
00:15:58.000Biological sex is an imposition by God or nature on you.
00:16:02.000The real you, the free floating you who believes that you should have no responsibility for your actions, but total autonomy to do whatever it is that you want to do.0.99
00:16:11.000Well, joining me on the line to discuss all of this is Alibeth Stuckey.
00:16:43.000Yeah, I was super grateful that the free press asked me to debate something like feminism.1.00
00:16:47.000Obviously, under the umbrella of feminism, you could talk about all kinds of things.
00:16:51.000And two things I'm super passionate about debating is the gender issue and abortion, which came up multiple times.
00:16:58.000And the person I was debating, a Gen Z Democrat who was friends with Gloria Steinem and who had run for Congress at one point, obviously very progressive.
00:17:07.000And she really fancied herself Kamala Harris or Barack Obama, relied on anecdotes as much as possible.
00:17:16.000And yeah, I just went in there and did what I like to do, which is tell the truth.
00:17:20.000And as you know, when you're on the side of telling the truth, debates are really, really easy.
00:17:26.000So, Alibeth, obviously, the section of the debate that went the most viral is where you used the sort of Matt Walsh question on her with regard to trans politics to ask her to define what a woman is.
00:17:34.000And as with pretty much all members of the left these days, she had no idea how to answer that question.
00:17:39.000But that goes to something deeper that you've talked about on your show and we've talked about here, which is the sort of leftist perception that all of reality exists in your tiny brain, that basically your self definition is now the thing that matters and the rest of reality doesn't exist.
00:17:54.000And you see this manifesting in some pretty Dire ways across our society, people abandoning their families because they have to find, quote unquote, their fulfillment, or people defining themselves by what they think their gender ought to be rather than what their sex actually is.
00:18:06.000How do you think that's impacting an entire generation of people?
00:18:10.000Yeah, well, I think Deja, my opponent, is actually very emblematic of the problem that you're talking about and the confusion that you're speaking on because she really couldn't even define her terms.0.97
00:18:20.000She fancies herself a women's rights activist.0.68
00:18:23.000She is a feminist, was friends with one of the most famous feminists in all of history.1.00
00:18:28.000And she couldn't even say what a woman is.1.00
00:18:30.000Actually, at the end, she just said, you know, feminism is about everyone.1.00
00:18:34.000It's about everything and every kind of right.
00:18:36.000And so that's what happens when you live in this world of moral relativism, when you don't have any structures, don't have any order, don't have any definitions, don't have any transcendent power that you appeal to for a set of moral rules that you're trying to abide by.
00:18:49.000Everything just gets really confusing.
00:18:52.000And when your life is confusing and chaotic, you don't even know how to differentiate between black and white and light and darkness and male and female and right and wrong and all of these things.
00:19:02.000I imagine that that is a very depressing, isolating, dejecting feeling.
00:19:07.000And so I can't speak for all of Gen Z, all of that generation, but we can start to guess and psychologize, I guess, a little bit about why so many of them are despairing.
00:19:19.000It's a pretty bleak place to be when you are your highest source of truth.
00:19:27.000So obviously, you debated the trans issue.
00:19:30.000And the abortion issue, again, always comes down to basic definitions.
00:19:33.000What does it mean to be a human being with potential versus sort of The left wing perspective, which is that you actually get to define away the life of another human being.
00:19:42.000You get to basically, it is what you think it is.
00:19:44.000If you think it's a baby, then it's the most precious thing to you, and we should all respect that.
00:19:47.000And if you think it's not a baby, then it's a cluster of cells that you should be able to terminate at whim.
00:19:51.000And that definitional problem reared its head in the debate.
00:19:56.000And you've been debating this topic so well for so long, and you know that really all you have to do is to bring up the reality of the baby because most won't even in a debate like this say things like clump of cells.
00:20:07.000They will just obfuscate entirely, they will ignore that there is.
00:20:11.000Actually, a person on the other side of this moral equation.
00:20:14.000They'll say things like bodily autonomy or women's right to choose or my body, my choice, not even talking about what we are actually choosing, what is happening and an abortion.
00:20:24.000And so she just sidestepped that entirely.
00:20:27.000And I see it as my job to bring it back to the humanity and value of all life.
00:20:32.000No matter the circumstances surrounding someone's conception, no matter their size, no matter their age, all people are valuable and they have a right to not be murdered.
00:20:42.000And when you get down to brass tacks, It's really, really difficult to cogently defend abortion.
00:20:48.000She tried her darndest, but she didn't do well.
00:20:52.000Yeah, Allie, I want to tie this into sort of the broader conversation that's happening in our culture right now.1.00
00:20:55.000It does seem like feminism now boils down to the proposition that women bear no responsibility for anything they actually do.1.00
00:21:02.000And you can see this in a couple of different ways.
00:21:04.000The Cornell 7 case is a really great example of this, mainly because whatever you think the behavior of the people involved is egregious.
00:21:11.000And because you're a religious person, I'm a religious person, we have the moral language to condemn that sort of behavior, whether it's consensual or not, because you can sully your body, sully your soul, and destroy your life by doing many consensual things.
00:21:23.000There's a left wing argument that has cropped up now that basically says that even if a woman consents and then she regrets it later, she has no responsibility for any of the actions she took.0.92
00:21:32.000And that seems to be kind of the only common thread in modern feminism no matter what a woman does, she is not responsible for any of the effects of the thing that she does.
00:21:40.000The entire world has to sort of adapt to whatever her perception of self is at that point in time.1.00
00:21:46.000While at the same time, she has full agency, she has full autonomy, that she has all of this power that everyone should bow down to.
00:21:55.000On one hand, we infantilize women like we would a child.
00:21:59.000Oh, yeah, they got angry and they threw that down, but that's just developmentally where that two year old is right now.1.00
00:22:05.000That's basically how we treat grown women.1.00
00:22:07.000Lindsay Clancy, she was dealing with a lot of hormones.
00:22:10.000And so she took the actions that she did, but it's not her fault.
00:22:13.000Jane Doe consented to the behavior that she engaged in, but it's still ultimately not her fault.0.95
00:22:20.000And then at the same time, saying, well, these women need to be running the world.1.00
00:22:23.000We should be living in a matriarchy.1.00
00:22:25.000We should be living in a place where women are running things because then maybe there would be less conflicts.1.00
00:22:30.000But I think that we can see just from the stories that we've looked at recently that that would not be the case.0.99
00:22:35.000And so I just ask them to pick a lane.0.60
00:22:37.000Like either we can infantilize women and say, because of our hormonal makeup, we just can't be responsible for anything, or we are full humans capable of making good decisions despite what our hormones tell us.0.88
00:22:50.000And, you know, we can take responsibility, but it's kind of hard to make the case for both simultaneously.
00:22:57.000Okay, so, Allie, while I have you on the line, I do have to ask you about the hottest controversy of the day, which involves how women are dressing at the gym.
00:23:03.000You're a woman, so that means that you have higher authority on this.
00:23:14.000However, I'm pretty sure that what Shane Gillis is now in trouble for saying, which is that there are women who are dressing like whores at the gym, using colorful language in his joke, that I quizzed my own female producers on this yesterday on the show.0.99
00:23:28.000We actually showed some pictures of what some women are wearing to the gym.0.73
00:23:31.000Is it fair to say that many women are wearing deeply inappropriate things to the gym?
00:23:36.000Okay, can I just go on the record and say that that debate that you and I had, I think back in 2019, you were correct, okay?0.99
00:23:42.000Can I just say that you were right, as you always are?
00:23:46.000You were right on that, and I was wrong.
00:23:48.000However, even then, when I was saying, yeah, leggings are fine, what I was picturing in my head of like maybe an oversized t shirt and leggings is very different than what Shane Gillis is talking about.
00:24:07.000That is what women are wearing to the gym.
00:24:09.000And I also think it's interesting, Ben, that in this consent only culture, that's how we, the only way that we can define sexual morality.0.99
00:24:16.000I did not consent to seeing her butt.0.99
00:24:18.000I didn't consent to seeing her boobs at the gym.0.99
00:24:40.000And it ends up degrading the very people who hold those rules.
00:24:44.000Yeah, Alibeth, I've talked for a long time about what I call face tattoo syndrome.
00:24:48.000This thing that happens where you go into Starbucks and somebody who's deeply seeking attention has a face tattoo, and then you find yourself staring at the face tattoo because you know it's a tattoo on somebody's face.
00:24:56.000And then the person looks at you like you're crazy.
00:24:59.000And now we have at the gym essentially butt hugging syndrome, where it's like I'm going to wear something that is completely designed to be provocative.
00:25:06.000I saw a meme yesterday that I thought was very funny where it was like, you know, women when they're comfortable at home, and it's women in sweatpants and like a sweatshirt, and then women when they're comfortable at the gym.
00:25:15.000And then it's what women are wearing at the gym now.
00:25:17.000And those two definitions, as opposed to men, when I'm comfortable at home, it's shorts and a t shirt.
00:25:22.000And then when I'm comfortable at the gym, it is also shorts and a t shirt.0.89
00:25:25.000And, you know, I, like all men, I'm puzzled by the workings of the female brain with regard to these sorts of matters.0.97
00:25:32.000Perhaps you can, in brief fashion, explain what is driving so many women to actually do this thing?0.96
00:25:37.000Why are so many women actually doing this?1.00
00:25:38.000I can't imagine it's highly comfortable to wear these sorts of clothes.1.00
00:25:42.000No, it's not comfortable at all because even a woman who is like, you know, I feel empowered by showing most of my body.0.68
00:25:48.000I promise you, even that woman is scared that something is about to be revealed.
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00:26:57.000A couple of years ago, I was sitting at a conference where I was speaking, and I guess because my husband and I were thinking about adding the fourth to our family, and I was like, gosh, all of these pregnancy tracking apps or these period tracking apps, so many of them are just openly progressive.
00:27:12.000They'll say, they won't say husband, they won't say father, they won't say woman, they won't say mother.
00:27:18.000And I shouldn't have to navigate this in a very important and sensitive and intimate time of my life.
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00:27:46.000So it'll be out very soon, but people can check it out at anacate.com.
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