The Ben Shapiro Show - September 02, 2026


What Happened to Body Positivity?


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Length

10 minutes

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165.58

Word count

1,711

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121


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00:00:00.000 You know what was also so crazy?
00:00:02.000 Not just woke 1.0, 2020 corporate advertising, Nike, Starbucks, Target, a lot of others pushed ads that were designed to appeal to basically no one.
00:00:10.000 Is it really a shock that obese people or men dressed as women or people who are very hairy don't sell things all that well?
00:00:17.000 This week, Calvin Klein dropped a new ad campaign with the very normal looking Sadie Sink.
00:00:21.000 And now everybody's noticing that Calvin Klein's woke priors are suddenly gone poof.
00:00:26.000 It turns out that, you know, woke one was pretty crazy.
00:00:29.000 So people are pointing out the differences in how Calvin Klein is approaching its advertising.
00:00:34.000 You can tell a lot by how the advertisers do their business.
00:00:37.000 So, if you go back just a couple of years, you may remember Calvin Klein featuring a pregnant trans man in its ads.
00:00:44.000 You know, like a woman who took some testosterone to grow a beard in the Calvin Klein ads.
00:00:53.000 So, that was what they were doing a couple of years ago.
00:00:55.000 And they also had a pretty woke commercial that they debuted a couple of years ago, a few years back.
00:01:00.000 There was that commercial with some large ladies.
00:01:06.000 I am not a moment.
00:01:08.000 I'm a force to be reckoned with.
00:01:11.000 I am Chica.
00:01:23.000 Calvin Klein.
00:01:23.000 They had to draw back the camera about three.
00:01:30.000 I mean, you got to fit people in the frame.
00:01:35.000 Yeah, the, the.
00:01:39.000 Yep.
00:01:40.000 Well, things have changed because now Calvin Klein is bringing out ads with Sadie Sink, an attractive young woman, dancing around in her underwear, which, again, is probably likely to sell more underwear than, you know, the lady who appears to be welded to the furniture.
00:01:54.000 So here we go.
00:01:55.000 This is making the rounds yesterday.
00:02:00.000 Okay, here she is, checking her phone and then dancing around in her undies.
00:02:11.000 And then apparently, this causes a flood to emerge in her house, and she seems unconcerned about the flood that has broken out in her house.
00:02:20.000 Also, there are electrical devices going off, which seems dangerous.
00:02:24.000 You have a flood, and also electrical devices going off.
00:02:26.000 Calvin Klein.
00:02:29.000 Yes, I mean, this is how women normally operate around the house.
00:02:32.000 I've been well informed by, you know, all the females.
00:02:36.000 This is what they do.
00:02:36.000 They tend to, like, if the sink just explodes, then pretty much all women just stand there posing in their jeans.
00:02:46.000 So, yeah, times have changed.
00:02:48.000 Times have changed.
00:02:50.000 Now, again, I think that we've reached a pretty low point in society when we have to have a cultural celebration that more attractive women are in advertising.
00:02:59.000 I'm old enough to remember as a conservative when conservatives were pretty exercised about Paris Hilton flirting with a car. While eating a cheeseburger, because they're like, uh, this seems like kind of softcore porn.
00:03:08.000 Um, but we're not apparently, um, you know, we've now reached the point where we should just celebrate the fact that we're allowed to restore kind of traditional notions of female beauty.
00:03:19.000 I guess that's a good thing.
00:03:21.000 I guess it's the alternative.
00:03:23.000 Uh, well.
00:03:24.000 Alrighty.
00:03:25.000 So AOC was asked by TMC.
00:03:27.000 She's now on the market, gentlemen.
00:03:29.000 AOC is on the market.
00:03:30.000 So if you are in the market for a rabidly left wing woman who goes on Insta to freeze her eggs, Then I guess she's available.
00:03:44.000 So TMZ asked AOC if she would date a conservative, and her answer was actually shockingly good.
00:03:50.000 Would you ever date a conservative?
00:03:55.000 Is that anything you'd ever entertain?
00:03:58.000 I have to say it's probably not.
00:04:06.000 Don't date across the aisle.
00:04:09.000 It's not to, you know, no foul to people who do, but I think, and of course, how you define that is very different from person to person, right?
00:04:19.000 But I think a lot of politics sometimes, at least for me, is about values and being aligned with values, I think, is tremendously important.
00:04:31.000 She just said a thing that's actually not stupid.
00:04:34.000 I mean, her values are crap, but she is right.
00:04:38.000 I agree with her.
00:04:39.000 You should date people with your own value system.
00:04:41.000 If you're a conservative, you should not date people who are very much on the left.
00:04:43.000 If you are Jewish, you should date Jews.
00:04:45.000 If you're Christian, you should date Christians.
00:04:46.000 I think that that is a good way to go about these things because, again, when you are dating, you're dating to create a family unit, and that family unit should have the same approach toward the children.
00:04:56.000 Not terrible dating advice from AOC, but is that a reason she should be president?
00:05:00.000 According to some, the answer is apparently yes.
00:05:02.000 Our sponsors over at CalShe have her as basically very close second place to John Ossoff in the Democratic nomination race, that she is now riding at 16% for the Democratic presidential nomination.
00:05:14.000 That puts her essentially tied for first with John Assoff, who is having, again, a little bit of a moment.
00:05:19.000 I don't think that moment is likely to last very long.
00:05:21.000 Gavin Newsom has dipped pretty significantly.
00:05:23.000 So it seems like his hot moment is ending.
00:05:25.000 He peaked too early.
00:05:27.000 Now, again, her values are trash.
00:05:29.000 I think that her values are totally wrong, which is why no one who agrees with me should probably date her.
00:05:36.000 And now, AOC did have some comments about her concerns about having a baby because she couldn't afford childcare or something.
00:05:44.000 It's just nonsense.
00:05:45.000 It's just absolute nonsense.
00:05:49.000 I do think that for a very long time, I was very concerned.
00:05:53.000 You know, if you're a working person, Here, you face a lot of the constraints that a lot of other working people across the country face.
00:06:02.000 And it was very hard for me to imagine very basic things for a very long time.
00:06:08.000 It was very hard for me to imagine being able to have a baby here when childcare is so expensive.
00:06:17.000 And I acknowledge that I'm, relative to many Americans, I am in a place of privilege.
00:06:21.000 And even I don't know how it would be possible.
00:06:27.000 She doesn't know how it would be possible to have a baby.
00:06:28.000 Like we do it all the time.
00:06:30.000 In fact, people all over the world who are much, much poorer than Americans have babies all the time.
00:06:35.000 But again, it's society's fault that you are not having a baby.
00:06:38.000 She also talks about her life decisions.
00:06:40.000 She says she has career ambitions and she wants love and she wants family.
00:06:45.000 Again, this is why conservative gentlemen aim your Cupid's arrows elsewhere.
00:06:54.000 I think sometimes these conversations about political speculation happen very two dimensionally, right?
00:07:00.000 Is she going to run for this or is she going to run for that?
00:07:03.000 And for me, I make decisions about my whole life, right?
00:07:07.000 It's not ever just in a career context.
00:07:10.000 It's about how do I fit all of these things.
00:07:14.000 And I feel like my ambition is not just a career ambition, it's about how do we get to soak up as much of this life as possible.
00:07:24.000 And sometimes that has to do with doing really aspirational things with work, and sometimes it has to do with really big aspirational things with love and family.
00:07:35.000 I was always raised as a family first kind of person.
00:07:39.000 Well, I mean, that hasn't been.
00:07:46.000 I have some skeptical questions about being raised as a family first type of person, as a person who is literally deprioritizing that as the biological clock ticks.
00:07:55.000 I mean, that's just a reality of choice making.
00:07:59.000 A very wise person once said that women can have it all, they just can't have it all at the exact same time, which is just true on a material level.
00:08:07.000 Meanwhile, when we speak of social liberalism and the left, it is incredible.
00:08:10.000 So, the left is dramatically oriented against the idea that nature exists.
00:08:15.000 According to them, everything is merely a societal construct.
00:08:18.000 Sex is a societal construct.
00:08:21.000 Sexuality is a societal construct.
00:08:22.000 In fact, they want to have it both ways.
00:08:23.000 They want to say that trans is an inborn quality, but heterosexuality is environmentally driven.
00:08:30.000 There are Kiki Palmer and Laverne Cox on the idea that parents influence their kids to be trans, which, by the way, is obviously and clearly true, which is why you have everyone in Hollywood with a trans kid.
00:08:39.000 And nobody in Peoria with a trans kid.
00:08:42.000 But apparently, they believe that actually it's parents who cause their kids to be straight, which, by the way, if that's true, then better for society since we do need the people to have the babies, and that happens when the men have the sex with the ladies.
00:08:57.000 That's how that works.
00:08:58.000 Here we go.
00:09:01.000 People were sort of talking about, well, you know, children are too young to make decisions about this, and they don't know, and parents are forcing.
00:09:10.000 The idea, and people are.
00:09:13.000 Are you saying so many people are saying that parents are forcing their children to be trans?
00:09:19.000 I was like, that is the most ridiculous thing ever.
00:09:22.000 And it completely discounts all of the conservative parents who find themselves with trans kids and have to navigate it.
00:09:29.000 But I never understand that because if that were the case, if people could make somebody anything, well, what about all the hetero stuff y'all pushing?
00:09:35.000 You get what I mean?
00:09:36.000 If you could force somebody to be anything, shouldn't we all be whatever the thing y'all pushed?
00:09:41.000 You know what I mean?
00:09:41.000 Like, it doesn't make.
00:09:42.000 Period.
00:09:43.000 You can't, you know what I mean?
00:09:45.000 That doesn't really work.
00:09:48.000 Mm.
00:09:49.000 Mm.
00:09:50.000 It doesn't really work.
00:09:51.000 Well, I mean.
00:09:54.000 Life is a combination of genetics and environment.
00:09:56.000 I know these are controversial statements.
00:09:59.000 And genetically speaking, it turns out that actually, actually, the vast majority of humanity is geared toward heterosexuality because that is evolutionarily beneficial.
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