The Matt Walsh Show - June 05, 2021


C is for Consent ｜ Matt Walsh Reviews (Another) Woke Children's Book

Topics
consent in children's book
Hosted by
Matt Walsh
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Finn Eleanor Morrison Frankenstein Grandma Grandpa
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Length

6 minutes

Words per minute

179.02

Word count

1,227

Sentence count

113

Harmful content

Misogyny

3

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Toxicity

19

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Hate speech

2

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In this episode of Woke in the 90s, we read a book called "C is for Consent" by Eleanor Roosevelt Morrison. It's a short, sweet book about a young boy named Finn, who has a difficult relationship with his family and friends, and they want him to give them a hug, but he doesn't feel like it. Does that mean he has to hug them? Or does he have to kiss them?

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00:00:00.000 Okay, so now we're going to look at another woke children's book.
00:00:02.800 This one, on the surface, I mean, literally reading the book by its cover,
00:00:07.280 it seems maybe not as bad as some of the others that we've looked at,
00:00:11.360 that we've reviewed, but you never know.
00:00:13.160 So we just kind of, we're going to read this whole thing.
00:00:15.480 It's pretty short, and I'll read the whole thing,
00:00:17.440 and then I'll offer my review.
00:00:19.620 So let's get into it.
00:00:20.240 This is called C is for Consent.
00:00:24.680 And this is, it says ages, this is for ages zero and plus.
00:00:28.780 So if you have a zero-year-old child, they could read this.
00:00:32.520 And up from there, I mean, you know, it's a board book.
00:00:34.500 It's short.
00:00:35.100 So this is really for kids, probably, you know, two, three, four, five years old.
00:00:39.680 All right.
00:00:40.860 It says, it's time for a party with family and friends.
00:00:45.300 And you see, of course, there, we've got the interracial gay couple.
00:00:49.340 We've got the interracial disabled couple. 1.00
00:00:51.480 Well, one member of the couple is disabled.
00:00:53.320 You got to get all the representation there.
00:00:54.960 And that's, I don't see any furries.
00:00:59.140 I don't see anyone who's apparently transsexual or even transgender or pansexual.
00:01:05.080 So that's, that's a problem, but we'll keep going.
00:01:07.520 Grandma wants a hug, but Finn isn't in the mood.
00:01:11.240 That's okay, says dad.
00:01:12.660 You don't have to give hugs if you don't want to.
00:01:15.680 Grandpa leans down to kiss Finn.
00:01:18.040 Mom says, please ask for consent first.
00:01:20.900 Grandpa asks, may I kiss you on the cheek?
00:01:25.300 Finn replies, hmm, yes, you may.
00:01:29.640 Auntie and uncle want Finn to sit with them.
00:01:32.260 Come sit on my lap.
00:01:33.500 No, you have to sit on my lap.
00:01:35.360 Finn says, no, thank you.
00:01:37.060 My parents say I don't have to sit on anyone's lap if I don't feel like it. 0.95
00:01:41.280 What a brat this kid is.
00:01:44.080 Mom's friends give Finn a present. 0.77
00:01:46.200 Does that mean he has to hug or kiss that person?
00:01:48.720 Only if he wants to.
00:01:50.020 Maybe Finn could high five or fist bump instead.
00:01:53.480 Or maybe he doesn't want to be touched at all.
00:01:55.480 It's his choice what happens to his body.
00:01:59.020 Finn is happy to see his best friend, Rue.
00:02:01.240 He asks, may I hold your hand?
00:02:03.460 It is okay for you to say no.
00:02:06.040 Rue replies, yes, you may hold my hand.
00:02:08.880 Thank you for asking first.
00:02:12.600 And that's it.
00:02:13.400 That's the end of the whole story.
00:02:14.320 Okay.
00:02:14.800 Then there are discussion questions at the end, which we won't get into.
00:02:18.380 So that actually is, somewhat surprisingly, this is the worst one yet, I think.
00:02:23.620 This somehow manages to be more disturbing than books that are pushing transgenderism and bisexuality and all that kind of stuff.
00:02:31.840 Those books are bad too, but don't get me wrong.
00:02:34.240 But this one disturbs me on a deeper level.
00:02:38.800 So let's count the ways. 0.60
00:02:40.820 To begin with, before we get to the major problems here, this kid is awful. 0.88
00:02:46.820 I mean, this is what happens when you have permissive hippie parents.
00:02:50.520 I would not, I can't imagine if I was a little kid, if I was like six years old, and my grandmother came to visit and said, hey, give me a hug.
00:02:58.900 And I said, no, I don't feel like it, granny. 1.00
00:03:01.500 I cannot imagine what my dad's reaction would have been.
00:03:04.000 It would not have been pleasant, I can tell you.
00:03:06.320 My reaction with my own kids wouldn't be pleasant in that situation.
00:03:09.660 Yes, I tell them, I guess I violate, I've, let me tell you something.
00:03:13.520 I violate my kids' consent all the time in the sense that I force them to do things they don't want to do.
00:03:21.420 Sit down and study!
00:03:23.000 That's, much of the day, in fact, is, involves them doing things that it's not their idea to do those things.
00:03:29.700 They don't really want to do those things.
00:03:31.940 I mean, clean their room, let's start with that.
00:03:35.720 Like, I don't get their consent for that.
00:03:37.380 What is that, forced labor?
00:03:38.760 Is that slavery?
00:03:39.660 My kids know that when a family member comes over to visit, you go and give them a hug.
00:03:48.880 It's not an option, it's not a choice, you are required to do that.
00:03:53.060 Well, don't look at me like I'm frickin' Frankenstein, give your father a hug.
00:03:56.460 Because that's polite. 0.64
00:03:58.700 But the major problem here is that the book explicitly sexualizes physical contact between family members.
00:04:05.400 I mean, this author is, he is, well, he, who is it, Eleanor Morrison, he, his, her, whoever's, they're taking their own, I don't want to misgender them, whoever it is, they're taking their own complex and projecting it onto everyone else.
00:04:21.580 I don't know what's going on with you, that you view a hug from an aunt or a grandfather as potentially sexual in nature.
00:04:28.240 But it's something you should be talking to a therapist about.
00:04:30.500 You don't write it into a children's book, for God's sake.
00:04:34.400 And this is what you get from the left, right?
00:04:35.820 They grew up on a diet of Freud, whether they know it or not, and now they see everything in sexual terms.
00:04:41.120 Everything is sexual.
00:04:42.280 They're incapable of conceptualizing any human interaction that might occur outside of a sexual framework. 0.98
00:04:49.360 Everything for them is sexual or potentially sexual, and they're weirdos, in other words, to summarize. 1.00
00:04:54.740 Losers, in other words. 0.98
00:04:55.820 I mean, let's take the family dynamic out of it for a second, just for a moment, because I don't want to dwell on that, it's too disturbing. 0.98
00:05:01.740 And let's pretend that we're talking about just some dude and a girl, and they're not related. 0.96
00:05:10.220 Even in that context, the idea that verbal consent should precede every physical interaction is asinine. 0.95
00:05:20.540 I mean, my wife would look at me like a maniac if we were walking somewhere down the sidewalk or something, and I said, 0.96
00:05:27.840 Excuse me.
00:05:29.120 May I have consent to hold your hand, requesting permission to initiate physical interaction?
00:05:36.220 Permission granted.
00:05:38.000 You may maintain physical contact for 75 seconds.
00:05:41.000 Thank you, ma'am.
00:05:42.200 That's what they want.
00:05:43.540 Now we know why leftists are so angry all the time.
00:05:45.500 They're lonely.
00:05:46.000 Nobody wants to be around them, because they act like some bizarre mix. 0.99
00:05:49.920 It's the weirdest mix of hedonistic sex fiend and robot. 1.00
00:05:54.440 You wouldn't know perversion if you put clams on your testicles. 1.00
00:05:58.100 Leftist men in particular are just lonely. 1.00
00:05:59.900 There's no way any woman wants to be around this kind of thing if they carry on like this. 1.00
00:06:05.240 All of this hyper-consent stuff, it makes sense among machines.
00:06:10.380 But for organic creatures, we need organic interactions.
00:06:14.040 We need things to develop naturally.
00:06:16.280 But this all, again, this is, I'm talking now about two adults who aren't related.
00:06:19.840 So I'm doing the book a favor by framing the conversation this way.
00:06:23.220 What the book is actually talking about, again, are little kids and their grandparents.
00:06:29.440 They want robotic consent requests, even in that context.
00:06:34.560 Excuse me, young one.
00:06:35.880 May I have consent to kiss you on the forehead and squeeze your cheeks and remark on how big you've gotten since I last saw you two months ago?
00:06:42.920 Permission denied. 1.00
00:06:44.740 Get lost, you old fart. 1.00
00:06:45.840 That is literally the future the left wants. 1.00
00:06:49.680 And I say, no thanks.