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00:10:06.120So, we see here again, and I don't want to keep picking on Serena Williams, so just using that as a setup here to get to one of my favorite things to complain about, which is how we have taken this concept of rights.
00:10:22.420And we have so cheapened it and turned it into such a shallow and ridiculous thing in American culture.
00:10:30.140And that is particularly the case with women's rights.
00:10:32.640So, we see here again how women's rights has become a meaningless phrase in modern American society.
00:10:39.240used by feminists to reinforce this idea of this fantasy of patriarchal oppression.
00:10:48.040And that's how it goes pretty much any time the left puts a qualifier in front of the word rights.
00:10:57.560You know that it's going to be something shallow and petty and superficial the moment they put a qualifier in front of rights.
00:11:08.300But I think of all the fake rights crusades that are going on in America right now, none have become more absurd or more frivolous than this idea of women's rights.
00:11:17.860Whenever someone in America says that they're fighting for women's rights, it seems like it's always something dumb, like with, you know, Serena Williams, she's fighting for women's rights by cussing out the or shouting at the umpire in a tennis match.
00:11:33.180I mean, that's, it's just a perfect example of what women's rights, women's rights have become in America, that Serena Williams is fighting for them by shouting at an umpire in a tennis match.
00:11:45.860Um, it just seems like they're always, when, when, when this idea of women's rights comes up, the person who's talking about it, they're always referring to something silly like that, because there isn't any serious women's rights battle left to be fought in America.
00:12:02.900Women have all of the same rights as men.
00:12:22.740And so we should just move on, you know, history should just move on to other and more real battles, but, but feminists have not allowed that to happen.
00:12:32.860And now, in fact, you know, we must say that women not only have all the same rights as men, but they even have some rights that men don't have.
00:12:41.940So if there's any legal inequality going on in America, it is definitely going on in the other direction.
00:12:48.060For instance, women are the only ones who have the legal right to kill children.
00:12:53.100Now, um, through abortion, of course, that's not a right that I want or that I think men should have, or that I think anyone should have, but it is nonetheless a legal, legal right, a very powerful legal right that only women wield.
00:13:12.120Women are empowered to be judge, jury, and executioner over human lives.
00:13:23.180Um, I mean, you could point all you want to, to, there are a lot of violent men out there who do terrible things, and that's true.
00:13:29.360And feminists like to point that out in an effort to prove that women are, um, you know, second-class citizens in America or treated that way anyway.
00:13:37.780But, um, in those cases, you know, when a man does something violent, when he kills somebody, it's illegal.
00:13:45.780And there are quite a lot of men in prison for doing violent things.
00:13:49.400And you could say, well, we, you know, we need, we need to do a better job of prosecuting violent men, um, and I'll, fine, I'll agree with you there.
00:14:01.760But the fact is, men do not have the right, they don't have the legal right to violently victimize anyone.
00:14:10.820And if they do violently victimize someone, and they, and they don't go to jail for it, it's because they were able to successfully argue that they never did that thing.
00:14:19.400But if it's found out that they did do it, they're going to go to jail.
00:14:24.860Now contrast that with something like abortion, where women have the legal right to kill a human being, a defenseless innocent human being.
00:14:46.440I mean, the only thing you had left was, you know, you know, like in the military fighting on the front lines, but all that's changing now, too.
00:14:56.460Um, so all of the, if there are any legal inequalities, it seems to go the other direction.
00:15:03.000And we could also look at the fact that women get lighter sentences for the same crimes in federal court.
00:15:07.040Uh, there are fewer women in prison, there are fewer women homeless, there are fewer women who are murder victims, uh, there are fewer female dropouts, uh, in high school, and on and on and on.
00:15:17.940So the idea that, uh, women's rights must still be established in America, and that we need people like Serena Williams to fight for them is plainly absurd.
00:16:20.700We, we should, we don't, we shouldn't be dividing it down and, um, and all that, you know, and, and, and divvying it up and separating and distinguishing people.
00:16:31.840That's the idea that our founding fathers had.
00:16:34.380Now, there was a, there was a glaring oversight for the founding fathers, because they said that all people have the same rights and people are created equal, except they excluded racial minorities and women from that, um, from that group.
00:16:49.120So, it was very necessary for us to go back and correct that and make sure that we include racial minorities and women in that group.
00:17:48.440But as long, as, as long as everyone is allowed to do legally the same sorts of things and legally they have the same opportunities open to them, then, um, then we can say that the fight for rights is over.
00:17:59.800Now, there are, there are other human rights fights in America that still need to be had.
00:18:08.140The one that I referenced earlier, for instance, there, there, there is still a group of human beings who are categorically excluded from the idea of human rights.
00:18:19.220So that's a fight that still needs to be had.
00:18:21.540We still are, we still, um, we still, after, after all this time, still have not reached a point.
00:18:29.800Where everyone in America is included under the concept of human rights.
00:18:37.060Which is a very, you know, it's, it's very sad when you think about it.
00:18:42.180That we had, you know, we had this, the, the founding of America and supposedly everyone had equal rights, but of course racial minorities and women were excluded.
00:18:50.380And then there was this battle for over a century, um, you know, a century and a half to get, um, to make sure everyone really was included.
00:18:59.800And so we, we, we, we had just kind of established that and then almost immediately you have Roe v. Wade and now we're excluding a whole other group of people.
00:19:10.120It's like, we almost got to the point where we had it right and everyone really had equal rights and then we ruined it.
00:19:17.560Um, so that's still a, a fight that needs to be had.
00:19:21.880Um, now I think, so, you know, you have the concept of, of rights, which again, that's just, as long as we all have the same legal opportunities and nobody is legally excluded from, you know, um, doing certain things or being treated a certain way, then, then, then you have rights.
00:19:43.940Um, so there's no reason to talk about women's rights unless we're talking about unborn females who, who, um, who, you know, across the world anyway, are disproportionately affected by abortion.
00:19:54.320You have sex, selective abortion, everything else, everything else.
00:19:57.920But aside from that, we could put the rights discussion to the side, but we, we, we still could have a discussion and should have a discussion about other, about ways that our culture particularly degrades women.
00:20:09.560Now that isn't that our culture removes rights from them.
00:20:13.460These are not women's rights issues, but they are human issues.
00:20:18.460And they are issues that seem to especially impact females.
00:20:24.120You know, for example, you have the porn industry, pornography, which primarily trades in the debasement and objectification of women and children.
00:20:33.300Um, for another example, you have the fact that femininity in our culture is constantly cheapened by this concept of transgenderism, um, who insists that they can become women by, you know, mutilate, mutilating themselves or putting on a dress or something like that.
00:20:49.820So again, um, the idea of womanhood has been cheapened and objectified, um, and appropriated by men.
00:20:59.880So that's an issue of, of women being degraded and debased in our culture.
00:21:04.100And then for another example, to go back to it another time, women are victimized by the abortion industry and not just because girls are often targeted for sex selective abortion, but because women are lied to and taken advantage of and told to convinced, coerced into, um, denying the gift of motherhood, rejecting the life in their womb and embracing this life of regret and emptiness and guilt.
00:21:27.960So pornography, so pornography, these are very real enemies of women in our culture because they defile women, they objectify, they cheapen, they degrade, they kill, but you'll notice that feminists with very rare exceptions, when they talk about women's rights, they're not referring to any of those things.
00:21:51.900They usually support all of those things.
00:21:57.960Those are the real battlefields, the real battles that need to be fought.
00:22:02.840They, you know, they're on the wrong side of those where women are actually being victimized.
00:22:07.300They're, they're usually in favor of all that, but then they're going to go and rally behind Serena Williams because, you know, because she got in trouble with an umpire in tennis.
00:22:20.640So pretty much tells you everything you need to know about the state of feminism in, um, in modern America.
00:22:26.980So, all right, I'm going to leave it there.