The Houston Equal Rights Ordinance was voted down by a two-to-one margin, which means that if I were living in Houston and I walked into the ladies' room wearing a dress, and I were no longer Benjamina, I'd be a woman. And if I wanted to use the ladies room, I would have to change my name and identify as a member of the opposite sex. And the Daily Wire would be powerless to do anything about it. This is why I don't buy into the transgender delusion that gender identity is a social construct. Gender is a biological and social construct, not a "social construct." And if you are an individual and you reject all of this, then you are now supposed to engage in your delusion. And I'm not going to buy into that. I'm going to argue that the entire basis of feminism is that men and women are not different, and that women should not be discriminated against being women. They can switch between them. So if you don't think that's a bad thing, then what are you really a feminist? And why does it matter that gender is a social construct ? And what does that even matter? And what would it matter if it were a biological construct? And if it's a social construct, then why does that matter? Why does it make it so important that women can be different than men? and why is that a woman can be both a woman and a man? And why is it important that a man and a woman are different than a woman? And how important that they can be the same? And a woman is a woman, but not a man ? And why not a woman ? why not? and a girl what matters? And is it even a woman? ? And does it even matter if they are different? if it matters? What does it really matter if a woman s a woman or a man s body ? and a woman ? And is that even a difference? a difference between a woman & a man or a girl ? And if a man's body a girl ? And what are we all better than a girl s body? or a man or a woman . if we are all the same in a biological thing? in fact, we all are the same, right? And we're all different, right and male right and female?
00:00:25.000Alrighty, so yesterday Houston voted down this, this, what they call the Houston Equal Rights Ordinance.
00:00:31.000The Houston Equal Rights Ordinance is basically a provision in Houston law that would force quote-unquote non-discrimination on the basis of sex, sexual orientation, and what they call sexual identity.
00:00:43.000Meaning that if I walked, if I were living in Houston and I walked in tomorrow and I were no longer Ben, I were Benjamina,
00:00:50.000And I was wearing a dress, and I'd gotten a boob job.
00:00:53.000And I know this is a horrifying image for anybody who's picturing this, but if this all happened, that the Daily Wire would basically have to just deal with it.
00:01:03.000And if I decided that I wished to follow Lindsay into the ladies' room, then also Lindsay couldn't do anything about it, and she would in fact be a bigot and a sexist if she denied my womanhood.
00:01:13.000This is what the Houston Equal Rights Ordinance did.
00:01:15.000It was voted down by a two-to-one margin.
00:01:17.000This was actually endorsed by Hillary Clinton, this piece of legislation.
00:01:21.000It was endorsed by the White House as well.
00:01:23.000The White House actually released a statement from Jeff Tiller.
00:01:33.000The President and Vice President have been strong supporters of state and local efforts to protect Americans from being discriminated against based on who they are and who they love.
00:01:43.000We're confident that the citizens of Houston will vote in favor of fairness and equality.
00:01:47.000The citizens of Houston voted in favor of sanity because it turns out that fairness and equality have nothing to do with me engaging in your delusion.
00:01:54.000The idea here is that gender identity, gender itself, is a social construct.
00:02:00.000All this stuff about how girls are girls and men are men, all this is just made up.
00:02:03.000If we'd all been brought up as genderless, androgynous, weird creatures in some nether region of South America, then we'd all be better off because gender is a social construct.
00:02:14.000The truth is that your failure to understand that gender is not a social construct is an individual construct.
00:02:20.000Gender is a real biological thing which is why my daughter is a girl and acts like a girl and we all know what that means.
00:02:27.000It's why I am a man and I act like a man and we all know what that means.
00:02:31.000And we'll get deeper into these variations between men and women as the show goes on.
00:02:36.000But if you are an individual and you reject all of this, then we're now all supposed to engage in your delusion.
00:02:51.000What is fascistic is if I decide that I don't want to hire you if you come in tomorrow dressed as a member of the opposite sex and tell me you've changed your name and your gender and now I have to treat you as a member of the opposite sex because I'm not a fully insane person.
00:04:15.000But at the same time that transgenderism is full-on destroying feminism, full-on destroying it, because it destroys the very basis of feminism, namely the distinction between the sexes and that women are worthwhile and positive.
00:04:27.000At the same time that it does this, the modern feminist movement is trying to claw its way to relevance.
00:04:32.000And one of the things they're using to claw their way to relevance is the movies.
00:04:37.000If you've watched any of the debates on CNBC or MSNBC, if you watched the Democrat debate on CNN, there's this new movie that's coming out this week.
00:04:55.000I want to show you a little bit of the preview for Suffragette, because they were showing this during the debate, and it is not coincidentally timed, folks.
00:05:01.000This is coming out right in the middle of Hillary Clinton's run, because the idea is that Hillary Clinton represents the next stage in the evolution of feminism, and here is where feminism began.
00:05:11.000It began with a bunch of ladies doing particularly unfeminine things.
00:05:15.000Here is Suffragette, the preview, and then we'll discuss how everything you're about to see
00:05:20.000Every jot and tittle that you're about to see is basically a lie.
00:08:20.000Okay, first of all, I think it's very important to note that the United States and Britain were some of the first countries in the world to actually allow women to vote.
00:08:29.000And in Britain, zero women voted to allow women to vote.
00:09:00.000One group was something called the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies.
00:09:05.000These were people who pursued women's suffrage through the policies of constitutional change.
00:09:10.000They went to their politicians, and they lobbied, and they protested, and they didn't break things, and they didn't burn things, and they didn't assault police officers.
00:09:17.000And then, there's the group that's being glorified in this movie.
00:09:20.000And that group was called the Women's Social and Political Union, led by a woman named Emma Pankhurst, who you see played by Meryl Streep there.
00:09:26.000And the Women's Social and Political Union delayed, delayed,
00:09:30.000Women's suffrage in Britain by a full 20 years.
00:09:35.000Because it turned out that men got pissed off when all of these women decided to break things.
00:09:40.000I mean, the women who are being glorified here, you know, the WSPU, they literally went into museums and took knives and carved the art.
00:09:48.000Like, took pieces of art and carved holes in them in favor of women's suffrage.
00:09:52.000And this was so bad that the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies, which started off in alliance with the Women's Social and Political Union, they eventually broke with the WSPU because they said, you guys are doing so much damage to our cause, we can't even be associated with you.
00:10:06.000The reason that this is important, folks, the reason I'm talking about this, this propagandistic movie, is for two reasons.
00:10:11.000One is, the goal of the movie is to paint all men as horrible, and you can't paint all men as horrible if it turns out that men were a large part of the reason that women got to vote.
00:10:21.000You can't paint all men as universally terrible if it turns out that... The theme of this movie is that women had to force men to be decent.
00:11:40.000There's not a single decent man in that trailer.
00:11:42.000By the way, there were men as early as the 1860s in Britain, like John Stuart Mill, a famous utilitarian, who suggested that women should have the full right to vote.
00:11:50.000So this is all historical nonsense, and again, it's something that the left likes to do because they want to rip on Western civilization.
00:11:56.000It's the same thing that the left does with, for example, the Black Panthers.
00:12:00.000The Black Panthers did tremendous damage to the civil rights cause, because by bombing things and by killing people, they didn't convince anyone to their side.
00:12:08.000Instead, what they did is they convinced people that their agenda was bad.
00:12:11.000It's what the Black Lives Matter movement is doing today.
00:12:13.000This whole militant, we have to take it, they're not going to give it to us.
00:12:17.000The truth is, one of the beautiful things about Western civilization is that it's not always right, but it tends to correct itself.
00:12:23.000Because it has a capacity for looking inward and trying to fix its problems.
00:12:27.000That's the beauty of Western civilization.
00:12:28.000The same time we're watching movies about how Western civilization is so bad because in 1912 they wouldn't let women vote, a hundred years later, women are being genitally mutilated in large swaths of the world, and these feminists like Carey Mulligan, they wouldn't make a movie about that.
00:12:42.000They wouldn't make a movie about that.
00:12:43.000Because it doesn't target Western civilization as bad.
00:12:46.000Because feminism is all about tearing down Western civilization and tearing down traditional notions of male and female.
00:12:52.000The problem is that at a certain point, at a certain point, once you start tearing down notions of male and female, instead of upholding notions of male and female and saying that women should have equal rights, which of course is a beautiful idea and is true, I mean, the idea that women shouldn't work or shouldn't vote is idiotic in every sense.
00:13:11.000But the idea of tearing down gender, the feminist movement went so far that they've actually destroyed themselves on the rocks of feminism, on the rocks of transgenderism.
00:13:19.000All that the men had to do in order, all these men had to do in this movie in order to destroy the women's suffrage movement is declare themselves women and say that women were already voting.
00:13:33.000These particular women wouldn't have had to vote, they wouldn't have had to represent themselves.
00:13:36.000Real women, superior women, like Caitlyn Jenner, would have been voting for them.
00:13:40.000Okay, so part of the feminist movement is tearing down men, and it's completely erroneous and problematic, because if you tear down men, there's no contrast between men and women, and so there's no purpose for feminism in the first place.
00:13:58.000The latest step in this evolution comes from the world of Star Wars.
00:14:02.000This is an amazing story that we covered today over at Daily Wire.
00:14:06.000Apparently Disney now wants to pull the slave Princess Leia costumes and toys from the stores because the feminists are all hot and bothered about all of this.
00:14:18.000They think it's just awful and terrible that these toys are out there.
00:14:21.000So this is from James Barrett, one of our reporters and writers over at Daily Wire.
00:14:25.000According to the site Making Star Wars, which leaks insider information on the latest Star Wars developments, editor-in-chief Jason Ward said he'd heard rumors a while back that Disney would be pulling the feminist-infuriating slave Leia figure.
00:14:37.000He didn't think the story had legs, but then there was a Facebook post from Star Wars comic artist J. Scott Campbell, who said that Marvel artists are now forbidden not just to feature Princess Leia in the costume, but to even depict her in a sexy pose.
00:14:50.000If you make Princess Leia sexy, then you have sold out young girls everywhere.
00:14:54.000Remember from yesterday's broadcast, ladies and gentlemen, and non-cisgender people, remember from yesterday's broadcast that the left's goal now, okay, the left is saying it is bad for young girls, and they're thinking, for them to have to see a sexy Princess Leia doll, but it is good for young girls to have to see an actual male penis in their locker rooms.
00:15:20.000It's bad for young girls to have to see a doll of Princess Leia, but it is good for young girls to have to pretend that a boy, a fully biological boy, in their locker room revealing himself to them is a girl.
00:15:31.000This is the left's perverse notion of justice.
00:15:35.000So I want to delve into this for a second and ask whether, indeed, the Princess Leia, Slave Leia costume is super anti-feminist, and it's really sexist, and it's really horrible.
00:15:44.000And let's start with what actually happens with Princess Leia.
00:15:48.000Now, as you remember, Princess Leia voluntarily sort of goes in as prisoner.
00:15:52.000She goes in as prisoner with the folks in Jabba's palace, and he dresses her up in this kind of sexy bikini.
00:17:04.000And the sort of, the fact that many young men, many young boys grew up fantasizing about slave Leia, not because she was a slave, but because she was wearing a bikini.
00:18:14.000So Princess Leia wearing things that actually cover her nipples is not feminism, but Beyoncé Knowles wearing something that totally doesn't cover her nipples and is just body paint and her being naked on stage, this is true feminism.
00:18:25.000Also true feminism is the music video in which she goes down on her husband.
00:18:29.000Which actually, there's a music video in which she does this.
00:18:31.000She's in the backseat of a car and they participate in some Lewinsky activity.
00:18:47.000If you are beautiful like Beyonce Knowles and you dress scantily and then you just shout feminism randomly at the top of your lungs in the middle of public areas so we all think you're a homeless person, you're a feminist.
00:18:57.000And if you are Lena Dunham and you look like a warmed over manatee and you get naked eating cake in a toilet stall while sitting on a toilet, this right here is feminism and that's the picture of
00:19:10.000The very androgynous-looking... Is that Jabba?
00:19:12.000No, that's Lena Dunham, not Jabba the Hutt.
00:19:18.000So feminism has destroyed all sense of femininity, and even all sense of females defending themselves, right?
00:19:24.000True femininity is being a whiny person like Lena Dunham, or being a woman... By the way, Beyonce is similarly whiny.
00:19:31.000Whining about how women are put down in our society?
00:19:33.000Lady, let's get real for one single solitary second.
00:19:37.000Okay, you are extraordinarily rich because you're good-looking and you can sing.
00:19:42.000Okay, for a woman who's been put down in our society, no, the only person who's degraded you is you by marrying Jay-Z.
00:19:48.000I mean, seriously, that is the only person, that's the only man who has degraded Beyonce.
00:19:52.000And I'm sorry, but dressing like you do in public is not a service to young women.
00:19:58.000It's not a service to young women, but that can be, but according to the left, that's a service to young women, but Princess Leia is not a service to young women anywhere.
00:20:04.000Also, true feminism is recognizing that true femininity is not Princess Leia defending herself from a crazed lizard.
00:20:37.000We're better at sports, we are better at building technologies, we're better at inventing things, and we're better at being women, apparently, according to the left.
00:20:44.000We're even better at being—we don't even have to cut off our dinghies in order for us to be better at being women, because Bruce Jenner still has all of his parts, okay?
00:20:52.000This is how wild—we have now departed from reality, and the goal of departing from reality for the left.
00:20:57.000So the question is, why do they do all of this?
00:21:28.000They create fake rights, but they're not rights.
00:21:29.000The goal of the left is the most happiness for the widest number, and the most happiness for the widest number means us imposing our standard of what should be on you.
00:21:38.000And if it makes Caitlyn Jenner unhappy to be called a male, then we must all abide by these new rules.
00:22:12.000Rocks, trees... There's a reason that a male-only society would devolve into conflicting war and sexual activity until it died within three days.
00:22:38.000And because they're not equal in all ways, and the left believes that this false notion of equality is essential to human happiness, which is not true, which is not true.
00:22:45.000They believe that happiness is derived from you not feeling inferior to anyone in any way.
00:22:51.000People on the right believe that happiness is derived from you fulfilling your duty.
00:22:55.000This is actually a pretty significant distinction.
00:22:58.000For those of us on the right, this is true for religious believers especially, we believe that happiness is derived from fulfillment, from fulfilling your purpose on the planet, why you're here.
00:23:08.000The left doesn't believe there's a purpose for why you're here.
00:23:10.000So true happiness is really just avoiding unhappiness.
00:23:13.000True happiness is everybody pussyfooting around you to avoid your unhappiness.
00:23:18.000True happiness is you just sort of existing and people not stepping on you and being forced not to step on you.
00:23:25.000And if you believe in that, then all distinctions have to be obliterated, because distinctions immediately mean someone feels better and somebody feels worse.
00:23:31.000Linguistic distinctions have to be destroyed.
00:23:34.000There can't be such a thing as male and female.
00:23:35.000We have to obliterate it completely, because if there are distinctions, some people are going to feel better at things, and some people are going to feel worse.
00:23:42.000We have to get rid of basic notions of science.
00:23:52.000There is nothing at all sci- It is completely ascientific in every way.
00:23:56.000But science has to be done away with, because science makes distinctions.
00:24:00.000And eventually everything has to be done away with.
00:24:01.000The human nature has to be done away with.
00:24:03.000We have to just create these pod people, these androgynous pod people, who are arbitrarily defined by their own subjective beliefs in what makes them happy.
00:24:11.000Which of course will end with tremendous human suffering and tremendous human unhappiness.
00:24:17.000The transgender community has been told now for several years that your self-definition as a member of the opposite gender is up to you and everybody will just abide by it.
00:24:28.000The suicide rate has not dropped one iota.
00:24:30.000The suicide rate is still 4 in 10 people who identify as transgender will attempt to commit suicide at some point in their life.
00:24:36.000The only comparable rate of suicide in all of human history was Jews living under Nazi German rule.
00:24:42.000That is the only comparable rate of suicide.
00:24:47.000Humoring mental illness in the name of equality does no one any favors, particularly transgendered people, and also the people who are forced to buy into false notions of reality in order to avoid unhappiness in the name of the collective happiness of the left.
00:25:02.000Now, meanwhile, Hollywood, which is destroying itself in so many ways with movies like Suffragette.
00:25:08.000Suffragette isn't going to make a dime.
00:25:16.000It's not going to make any money, though.
00:25:18.000Another movie that's not going to make any money is, of course,
00:25:20.000The new Quentin Tarantino hateful eight.
00:25:22.000It's not gonna make any money because Quentin Tarantino can't keep his mouth shut.
00:25:25.000Quentin Tarantino, who by the way is the most overrated director next to Darren Aronofsky working in Hollywood today.
00:25:31.000The great thing about a boycott Quentin Tarantino film is I was going to anyway because you can just watch the three scenes on YouTube that are four minutes long and save two hours of your life.
00:25:41.000There's always three good scenes in his movies.
00:25:42.000In Pulp Fiction, there are, like, three good scenes.
00:25:44.000The last scene with Bruce Willis is a great scene.
00:25:47.000In Inglourious Basterds, there was, like, one good scene, the very opening scene.
00:25:53.000And the rest of the movie's garbage, so that's the nice thing about boycotting Tarantino, is you don't really miss much.
00:25:58.000But Tarantino's being boycotted because he got up in a Black Lives Matter movement, and he said this about cops.
00:26:08.000And when I see murder, I cannot stand by, and I have to call the murdered the murdered, and I have to call the murderers the murderers.
00:26:18.000And so people in the police forces were rightly saying that this was a slander on all cops, because who exactly is he calling a murderer?
00:26:26.000He's talking in front of the Black Lives Matter movement, which has suggested less policing for everybody.
00:26:30.000Hollywood has created this insular culture for itself, in which all distinctions have to be obliterated, language has to be twisted, all in pursuit of some common
00:27:41.000And we will deconstruct it for you because, again, as we say every Wednesday here on The Ben Shapiro Show, culture matters more than politics.
00:27:48.000More people will see this music video than will see this podcast, obviously.
00:27:52.000And therefore, it is important for you to know what your kids are watching, what your friends are watching, and what you're watching when you're telling all your friends that you're actually not watching it.
00:27:59.000So here is the music video for Player by Tinashe, Tinashe, Tinashe and Chris Brown.
00:28:28.000And now we've got Chris Brown, who looks like he's about to murder someone, which is his go-to look.
00:28:36.000OK, writhing around on a bed some more from this lady.
00:28:39.000And now suddenly she's dressed, which I guess is an upgrade.
00:28:47.000Okay, so... Okay, so she's a very pretty girl, and she's dancing around with this guy, and she's still dancing around with this guy, but then things are about to turn for the dark.
00:29:16.000So she got rid of one guy who's a dancer, and now she's brought another guy who's a dancer, another clean-cut guy who's a dancer, and now they're gonna dance around for a while.
00:29:29.000And I'll go through the lyrics in just a minute, because it gets wild in just a moment.
00:29:34.000Okay, she's dismissed guy number two, and here comes guy number three, and he also is a good-looking dancer.
00:29:41.000And so she's dancing with everybody, and by dancing, I mean she stands around and they do all the dancing.
00:29:46.000It's like dancing with the stars watching this Tinashe lady.
00:29:49.000So she's good at writhing and having large breasts.
00:30:01.000And in a minute she's gonna dismiss this dude and she'll move on to the real love of her life who she wants to have sex with, who looks like he is straight from prison.
00:32:07.000Is the depiction of women here accurate?
00:32:10.000Now, I understand that the feminist movement wants to promote this image of women as completely the same as men in every way, which, as we've said, the rest of the program ends in the transgender myth, which destroys feminism.
00:32:20.000But part of the myth of feminism is that women and men act similarly on the sexual level.
00:32:26.000Okay, this whole video is this woman dancing with these men and then rejecting them after presumably, you know, having sexy dances with them.
00:32:33.000Okay, this is such unbelievable nonsense.
00:32:36.000Has anyone who has, I don't know if these people have ever met a woman, or if they've ever met a man, I don't know if they live in a bubble somewhere, but this is not how women act.
00:32:44.000And then they wonder, all these people wonder, how is it that men have a perverse and wrongful view of women?
00:32:49.000Why do they view women as sex objects?
00:33:01.000There's another Top 40 song we considered doing today, it's a Justin Bieber song, and the whole Bieber song is, you won't tell me what you want, sometimes you want to go, sometimes you want to stay, sometimes you want to have sex, sometimes you don't, I don't know what to expect from you.
00:33:12.000Okay, this level of frustration is probably derived from watching videos like this and listening to the lyrics.
00:33:17.000Because if you just watch videos like this, if you just listen to the Top 40 culture, women want sex all the time.
00:33:35.000Women, in this view, women and men are identical when it comes to sex.
00:33:40.000This is untrue and it's highly damaging to girls who buy into it.
00:33:43.000Much more damaging to girls than to guys.
00:33:45.000This is guys creating a guy's utopia, right?
00:33:47.000Guys, that lyric, I met her in the lobby and we started loving in the elevator, you just described every man's fantasy of the world, right?
00:33:55.000Every straight man's fantasy of the world, and gay men's fantasy too.
00:33:58.000The difference is that when it's men on men, then men both want this fantasy, so it's more commonly, it's more,
00:35:43.000By every available standard, it is better for women than it is for men, particularly because once you have kids, it locks the man in to actually provide.
00:35:50.000But the entire feminist movement is based around the idea that there can't be any distinction between men and women, and so women act like men, and then women are unhappy when men treat them like men.
00:36:18.000It was actually the same year as this whole feminist routine from Beyoncé, where she's dressed skimpily, skimpily attired, in front of this feminist sign.
00:36:24.000That same year, Sofia Vergara, who's a very attractive woman, was on the Oscars, and they put her on a pedestal.
00:36:30.000And the whole joke was that all the men were staring at her on the pedestal.
00:36:35.000Okay, Sofia Vergara's appearing on a pedestal for a bunch of men was significantly less damaging to women than Beyoncé acting as sexualized as men do on a regular basis.
00:36:45.000Because number one, it's not true, and number two, when women embrace the idea that it is true, they participate in behaviors that actually hurt them.
00:36:51.000The fact is that promiscuity among teenage girls is highly linked not just to elevated levels of disease, but to depression and suicide as well.
00:36:57.000Because men and women don't treat sex the same.
00:36:59.000But in the goal of obliterating all distinctions in the name of collective human happiness, in the idea that my subjective view of the world ought to rule all people's view of the world, we've created a more unhappy society, and a society that is bound to eat itself in the end.
00:37:15.000And that's the direction that we're moving.
00:37:16.000The good news is that in Houston, at least, it was stopped by a two-to-one vote.
00:37:19.000But when the left says that they don't want something to happen, when the left says, and we don't want the obliteration of the sexes, don't believe them.
00:37:54.000And then, within two years, they were trying to throw bakers in jail for not catering to same-sex weddings.
00:37:59.000There is no end to what the left wants, because when you're questing for utopia, everything is an obstacle and everything must be destroyed.