The Matt Walsh Show - September 14, 2022


Ep. 1021 - Public School Sex Ed Teaches 'Porn Literacy'


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58 minutes

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698

Misogynist Sentences

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00:00:00.000 Today on The Matt Walsh Show, sex ed curricula in public schools now includes lessons on porn
00:00:05.260 literacy. We'll have to talk about that, unfortunately. Also, Lindsey Graham proposes
00:00:09.420 a federal abortion ban right before the midterms. I'll tell you why, as a diehard pro-lifer myself,
00:00:14.540 I do not support this move. Plus, Dr. Phil takes on the abortion issue. Also, Jimmy Kimmel is
00:00:20.120 finally accused of racism, but not because of all the blackface he's done in the past.
00:00:24.040 And in our daily cancellation, we have our most creative attempt yet to solve the what-is-a-woman
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00:01:53.040 Well, it's not always easy to live in a decaying society. Watching civilization fall to pieces around
00:01:59.400 you can really take a toll on your mental health, I think. And so it's understandable that we're
00:02:02.920 sometimes inclined to tell ourselves comforting lies. You know, we want to take solace in pleasant,
00:02:08.500 encouraging myths and superstitions. And one such fiction is that we like to tell ourselves is that
00:02:15.180 we can escape our cultural decay by just moving away from it physically. We like to pretend that
00:02:21.680 most of the really crazy and disturbing stuff happening in our country can be avoided by simply
00:02:25.920 living somewhere that isn't San Francisco or Seattle or Austin, Texas or anywhere in Vermont.
00:02:32.500 But that's not the case. Because the media, the internet, federal government, the education system,
00:02:37.820 they act as a delivery service for all manner of perversion and moral insanity. And they're
00:02:44.100 everywhere. You can't completely escape it no matter where you go. You cannot socially distance
00:02:48.940 yourself away from this contagion unless you're moving all the way into the unexplored regions of
00:02:55.140 the Amazon or somewhere like that. It is still certainly a good idea to stay away from the most
00:03:00.820 demented leftist hellholes. It's possible to find places in America that are much better and safer
00:03:05.980 than that. Well, they'll never be completely safe. And that's an important thing to realize
00:03:11.380 so that we don't let our guard down completely. For example, Idaho is about as red as a red state
00:03:20.560 can get politically. It's voted for the Republican candidate in every presidential election since
00:03:26.720 forever. I mean, at least for the past 40 years and longer. And yet, as Libs of TikTok reports today,
00:03:32.100 the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare is teaming up with an activist group to provide
00:03:37.560 porn literacy materials for children in school. The Idaho Freedom Foundation organization has more
00:03:44.080 details about this. Quote, Idaho's Department of Health and Welfare implements a sex education
00:03:49.340 curriculum endorsed by Planned Parenthood in its schools. The curriculum and training for sex education
00:03:54.280 facilitators is purchased from an interest group that promotes queering education and normalizing the
00:03:59.440 consumption of pornography. Idaho law requires sex education taught in public schools to reinforce
00:04:04.200 traditional family arrangements. IDHW promotes what Idaho law prohibits, however. IDHW takes funds from
00:04:11.100 federal programs like the Personal Responsibility Education Program and Title V Sexual Risk Avoidance
00:04:17.320 Education. Then IDHW acquires sex education products from nonprofits like Education Training and Research
00:04:24.260 Organization, which is ETR, whose curriculum is developed and endorsed by Planned Parenthood.
00:04:30.440 Yes, Planned Parenthood has taken a special interest in sex education, not just in Idaho, but across
00:04:36.580 the country for a long time. It's not difficult to see why. Sexualizing kids at younger and younger ages
00:04:42.360 means more and more customers for them in the long run. The earlier that they sexualize kids,
00:04:48.600 then the more reckless sexual behavior you can expect. And then the more, quote unquote, unwanted pregnancies,
00:04:54.760 the more STDs, and then you get the more people walking into Planned Parenthood clinics. So it's
00:04:59.740 from a business perspective, it makes a lot of sense for them. Here's a little more from the report. It
00:05:04.180 says, ETR's reducing the risk curriculum promises to teach abstinence, but instead, ETR delivers a variety
00:05:11.900 of approaches, including an LGBTQ inclusive curriculum that queers education with an emphasis on gender
00:05:18.680 identity, sexual orientation, and behavior. ETR also advocates for teaching elementary students
00:05:23.920 about porn literacy, which involves instruction on kink and power, pleasure, sexual identity,
00:05:30.180 sexual acts, and sexual exploration in relation to pornography.
00:05:33.820 Now, if you'd like to know more about porn literacy, or even if you don't, either way,
00:05:41.420 here's a video from ETR explaining. Watch.
00:05:44.820 We can promote a shame-free educational space by letting young people know that it's okay if they
00:05:49.560 are curious. It's okay if they have watched porn, and it's okay if they have thought about porn.
00:05:54.900 I always make sure to say someone being curious about sex and or porn does not make them a bad person.
00:06:00.000 It makes them human. It's so important we normalize that this is a natural human experience.
00:06:05.420 And I also want to point, make a point to share that not wanting to watch porn is also completely
00:06:10.240 fine. There is no judgment and shame for not being curious. That's okay too. And we want to create
00:06:15.360 environments in the classroom where students don't shame each other. So as an educator, my job is to
00:06:21.420 provide information about sexual health and have students critically think by exploring all sides of
00:06:27.280 an issue. Critical thinking skills are the largest component of porn literacy. It's the ability for
00:06:33.300 young people to analyze and ask questions about the media that they're viewing. Critical thinking
00:06:38.200 skills allow young people to understand the intention behind pornography. So much of sex education is
00:06:43.920 reflecting on our values and beliefs in relation to a topic, and porn literacy is no exception.
00:06:50.020 For facilitators, it's first important for them to reflect on their reasons for wanting to teach porn
00:06:54.260 literacy. Do they want to teach porn literacy because they believe watching porn and by extension sex
00:06:59.260 work is inherently bad and they want to stop young people from accessing it? That's unfortunately not
00:07:04.580 going to lead to good conversations because it's pushing one agenda that porn is mad.
00:07:09.820 No, we wouldn't want to give the kids a negative view of hardcore porn. You know, we don't want to
00:07:15.680 bias nine-year-olds against pornography before they've even had a chance to check out Pornhub
00:07:21.180 for themselves. We wouldn't want to do that. The real goal, they say, is to teach critical thinking
00:07:26.380 skills to the porn viewer. Yes, because pornography is famous for its ability to nurture critical
00:07:32.660 thinking skills. Everyone knows that the average porn viewer is only watching it so that he can hone his
00:07:39.340 skills of discernment, which is quite a euphemism. Now, however, if we leave the land of make-believe
00:07:47.360 and we come back to reality-ville, which is where I prefer to live, we can plainly see that the
00:07:52.660 opposite is the case. Porn actually destroys critical thinking. This is why porn viewers become
00:07:58.580 less discerning the more they watch. Porn manipulates the brain. It floods its reward systems with dopamine
00:08:05.500 and creates an effect similar to a drug. Research has shown that over time, this process results in
00:08:11.440 increasingly dire physical changes to the brain itself. I mean, porn changes your brain physically.
00:08:16.960 You can see it on a brain scan. It warps it and rewires it. Porn has an especially corrosive
00:08:22.640 effect on the prefrontal cortex, which is precisely the part of the brain most involved in critical
00:08:29.100 thinking and discernment. As an article in neurosciencenews.com says, porn use has been correlated
00:08:35.400 with erosion of the prefrontal cortex, the region of the brain that houses executive functions like
00:08:40.100 morality, willpower, and impulse control. To better understand the role of this structure in behavior,
00:08:46.100 it's important to know that it remains underdeveloped during childhood. This is why
00:08:50.540 children struggle to regulate their emotions and impulses. Damage to the prefrontal cortex in
00:08:54.940 adulthood is termed hypofrontality, which predisposes an individual to behave compulsively
00:09:00.360 and make poor decisions. Does that remind you of anyone? Like, everyone. Does it remind you of
00:09:07.820 everyone? You know, if it seems like people these days are stuck in perpetual adolescence,
00:09:13.540 their maturation stunted, lingering in a kind of juvenile state forever, that's not your imagination.
00:09:19.720 That is, in fact, what's happening. And rampant porn use in childhood has much to do with this
00:09:25.060 problem. It's not the only culprit. It's not the only thing causing the problem, but it's definitely
00:09:29.180 contributing to it. Kids are being exposed to material that corrodes the very parts of their brain
00:09:35.640 necessary for attaining intellectual maturity. If we want children to learn critical thinking,
00:09:41.700 the very last thing we should ever do is introduce them to pornography. Of course, there are many
00:09:46.880 other reasons to refrain from intentionally exposing them to sexual content, reasons both
00:09:51.500 scientific and moral, not to mention legal. It's against the law to do exactly what this Idaho sex ed
00:09:58.180 program has declared its intention to do, and what so many other sex ed programs across the country
00:10:02.620 do every single day. Now, the fact that this sort of insanity is happening in a sex ed program in
00:10:08.720 Idaho only goes to show, once again, that sex education is hopelessly flawed as a concept. There
00:10:17.500 is no rescuing it. There is no good version of sex ed. All sex ed traces back to Alfred Kinsey and is
00:10:25.360 structured on his theories of human sexuality. Even abstinence-only sex ed is absurd because it is
00:10:32.020 abstinence education fundamentally built on the work of a degenerate pedophile. None of these conversations
00:10:39.760 have any place in the school system, and no matter what you do, no matter what sort of sex ed program
00:10:45.320 you devise, it will always devolve into this sort of thing, always, every time. Porn literacy and all the
00:10:52.980 other varieties of perversion. That's always what it turns into, and that's because this is what sex ed was
00:10:59.160 always meant to be and to achieve. This is its natural and intended endpoint.
00:11:07.200 Alfred Kinsey, looking up from hell while roasting in the flames, probably takes at least a little bit
00:11:12.160 of pleasure amid his eternal damnation in the fact that sex ed has turned into exactly what he wanted it
00:11:17.740 to be. He's looking up from hell at sex ed and porn literacy and saying, yes, exactly. See, that's what I
00:11:24.600 wanted. And that's why he's where he is right now. And we might also ask why there would be such an
00:11:33.540 insistence on exposing kids to porn. I mean, it's not like anyone needs help finding it. We already
00:11:38.280 live in a porn-addicted society. Everyone is familiar with porn, certainly, and everyone is familiar with
00:11:44.620 the staggering numbers that places like Pornhub boast at the end of each year, the many billions of
00:11:50.720 collective hours Americans spend watching porn, the many and increasingly disgusting varieties and
00:11:57.360 genres they explore, and so on. And we're all familiar with that. And it's not just Pornhub
00:12:03.500 enjoying the windfall. The CEO of OnlyFans, who we know, by the way, almost nothing about,
00:12:09.900 okay, we know his name. We don't know anything else about this guy. He escapes media scrutiny despite
00:12:13.700 being the most prolific pimp in the history of the world, perhaps second only to Hugh Hefner.
00:12:18.120 But he has earned $500 million just over the past two years, half a billion in his pocket from
00:12:26.980 OnlyFans. Suffice it to say that people are watching lots and lots of porn already. So why do activists
00:12:38.460 and school teachers, but I repeat myself, want to get even more people sucked into this world? Because
00:12:44.800 here's the answer. When a person is addicted to porn, they are exactly where our culture wants them to
00:12:51.720 be and how it wants them to be. So as already established, porn tends to erode your critical
00:12:58.720 thinking skills, your powers of discernment and self-control. That is all advantageous to the left.
00:13:04.340 I mean, they love that. Porn isolates people, makes them lonely, emotionally and spiritually
00:13:09.820 desolate and desperate. Porn also obviously militates against all of the traditional values,
00:13:18.260 which we used to call virtues, chastity, temperance, patience, humility, all dwindle away through porn
00:13:25.040 consumption. So isolated, undiscerning, lacking in self-control, lacking in critical thinking,
00:13:34.040 lonely, intemperate, unchaste. That's how the left wants us. Because for one thing,
00:13:42.320 it makes us easier to control. Now let's get to our five headlines.
00:13:54.160 First of all, look, I'm not going to make a big thing of it. I've already talked
00:13:56.700 about this. I think we reposted my rant on this subject on YouTube over the weekend. So I'm not
00:14:03.140 going to belabor it. I'm not going to spend, but I just need to say, I have to say, all I'm going
00:14:08.200 to say is that yesterday I was driving home from work. I was on back country roads and I found myself
00:14:15.740 stuck in traffic, which is unusual because there's not a lot of, you know, it's usually not a lot of
00:14:20.480 traffic there. And I'm moving at a snail's pace and I'm stuck there for, you know, several minutes
00:14:26.400 and I'm thinking, what's going on? I thought there was an accident. And then I get to the source of the
00:14:32.620 problem only to find out that it's a gang of dorks on bicycles in the middle of the damn street,
00:14:39.520 holding up the lines of cars behind them and forcing everyone to go around them across a
00:14:45.520 double yellow line on a windy country road into oncoming traffic. So they, for the sake of their
00:14:54.460 recreation, don't tell me, oh, they're just commuting. It's a whole gang of them with their
00:14:58.420 little spandex outfits and everything. They're not, they're not all commuting to work. They're
00:15:02.480 just doing it for fun. They said, let's go, let's get together and go for a bicycle ride
00:15:05.540 in the middle of the street, right at the time, you know, prime commuting time. People are coming
00:15:11.580 home from work, the middle of the road, back country roads. You're holding everybody up and
00:15:16.220 endangering their safety for the sake of your recreation. Sociopaths. I don't know how we allow this.
00:15:24.280 I don't know how we allow it. This should be illegal. They should, there should be a paddy wagon
00:15:28.340 showing up and just cuffing all these people and throwing them into it and taking them to jail.
00:15:33.680 That's what should happen. How are you not, don't, don't you feel, I said I wasn't going to get into
00:15:38.900 it. It's my last point. How do you not feel uncomfortable at least? Like if I was on a bicycle
00:15:45.060 in the middle of the street and there was a whole line of cars behind me, I would feel uncomfortable
00:15:50.300 knowing that I'm inconveniencing all these people just because I want to have fun. It would make me
00:15:54.580 very uncomfortable. I would feel bad about that. I would be able to feel their glare, right, like on
00:16:00.140 the back of my neck. I would just know they're glaring at me and I would be forced to just move to the
00:16:03.920 side of the road because I don't like inconveniencing people if I can help it. But these cyclists are just
00:16:09.940 no self-awareness or either that or they want to cause these problems. It's these insidious
00:16:17.380 villains. Anyway, all right. So speaking of insidious villains, yesterday, Lindsey Graham,
00:16:25.460 normally a squish extraordinaire, made a surprise announcement. He was introducing a bill in the
00:16:31.540 Senate to ban abortion federally across the country at 15 weeks. So here he is making the announcement
00:16:39.360 yesterday. So here's what I think we will be doing about the unborn. We will introduce legislation. I,
00:16:46.940 along with a lot of my colleagues, to basically get America in a position at the federal level,
00:16:53.820 I think is fairly consistent with the rest of the world. Can we? We have charts. Shows you how serious
00:17:02.540 we are. All right. 15 weeks. A baby's at the 15-week period. What does that mean? Well, it means if you're
00:17:11.620 going to operate on the baby, which happens to save the child's life, to provide medical treatment,
00:17:17.440 the standard practice in medicine is to provide anesthesia. Now, why would you do that? You provide
00:17:23.640 anesthesia because the science tells us that the 15-week period, the nerve endings of the baby
00:17:29.320 are pretty well developed and the child feels pain. So here's our point, that if you have to provide
00:17:36.360 anesthesia to keep the baby from feeling pain to help save its life, should we as a nation be
00:17:42.500 aborting babies that can feel excruciating pain from an abortion? No, we should not. Absolutely,
00:17:49.840 we should not. He's right about everything he's saying there. Children can feel pain. They're human
00:17:55.540 beings. Killing them is a horrific crime. It is quite perverse, to say the least, that if you operate
00:18:05.480 on an unborn child, which he's correct, that that is also something that happens quite frequently,
00:18:09.340 that operations on human beings in the womb, and they use anesthesia. But through the process of
00:18:16.160 abortion, there's obviously no anesthesia because there's no recognition that this human being is a
00:18:23.680 human being. So if we're going to operate on the child, then we recognize the child as a human.
00:18:28.900 In abortion, we pretend that the child isn't. It doesn't make any sense whatsoever.
00:18:33.840 All of that is true. And yet, I disagree with what Lindsey Graham is doing here. I am against it.
00:18:43.500 I'm against this bill right now at this point in time, and I'll explain why.
00:18:48.220 Now, first of all, I don't need to go over my pro-life credentials here. I'm as pro-life as
00:18:53.320 they come. You know that. I'm radically pro-life. I am pro-life from conception. I've been fighting
00:18:57.680 against the abortion industry my whole public career and before that. So that's something that
00:19:02.600 you all know. Banning abortion at 15 weeks, definitely. I would ban abortion from conception.
00:19:07.360 That's how I want to ban it. I want a, my, you know, I think our ultimate goal, the thing we really
00:19:11.720 want is a constitutional amendment, a personhood amendment, which we shouldn't need because the
00:19:18.140 constitution already protects, you know, guarantees the rights of all human beings, which obviously
00:19:24.720 includes those in the womb. But we do need it, and that's what I would want to see. I'm in favor
00:19:29.900 of a federal ban also. I am in favor of a federal ban. I'm not one of these conservatives who says that
00:19:34.960 this is, well, it's a state's issue. This is a state's rights issue. Lots of conservatives say that.
00:19:38.940 I don't say that. That's not what I think. I don't think states have the right to legalize the murder
00:19:44.780 of babies. I believe in state rights, but obviously states' rights is not an absolute.
00:19:49.940 They don't have the right to legalize anything they want, and I don't think they have the right. They
00:19:56.560 don't have the moral right, and they shouldn't have the legal right to permit the murder of
00:20:02.460 babies. I don't think that the genocide of an entire category of people is something that falls
00:20:08.080 within the purview of states' rights. But I'm against the bill. Why? Well, because it's very
00:20:13.220 simple. And let's establish something from the outset. There is zero debate about this part of
00:20:19.900 it. The legislation that he's introducing will not become law. The bill will not become law. It is
00:20:26.660 literally impossible that the bill that Lindsey Graham is introducing will become law. Impossible,
00:20:32.380 okay? Congress and the White House are controlled by the Democrats, and they are not going to pass
00:20:37.520 a federal abortion ban. They won't even let it come up for a vote. It's not going to happen.
00:20:42.340 Never. Impossible. You'd have better luck jumping off of a 100-story building and using a napkin as a
00:20:49.460 parachute. It's not going to happen. And this isn't even one of those, well, it's worth a try.
00:20:55.640 No, you never know. No, this is not even a try. That's like putting a, I don't know,
00:20:59.920 putting a rock in a microwave and saying, well, maybe an elephant will pop out. It's worth a try.
00:21:05.460 No, that is not within the realm of possible outcomes. It just isn't.
00:21:10.760 So why introduce the bill? Well, it's a political play. That's all it is. That's all it can be.
00:21:14.780 It's its only function. So that's the only way that we should be judging this, is as a political
00:21:20.000 play, because that is all it can be. Now, I have no problem in theory with proposing doomed
00:21:25.940 legislation as a political strategy. When you're in the minority, you're the minority party. You
00:21:33.300 don't control Congress. You don't control the White House. You can't actually pass anything.
00:21:37.140 Does that mean you shouldn't propose anything? No. I think it could be a good strategy sometimes
00:21:41.360 to propose bills that you know will not pass, in theory. But it has to be a good political
00:21:48.200 strategy, because that's all it is, is a political strategy. So is this a good political strategy?
00:21:52.100 What is the strategy in proposing this legislation right now before the midterms?
00:21:59.540 All it does is give the Democrats exactly what they want. They want to talk about a federal
00:22:04.080 abortion ban. They want to distract from the economy, from crime, from the transing of kids,
00:22:09.880 from the education system, from the grooming that they're doing, all of that. They don't want to talk
00:22:14.620 about any of that. They want to talk about a federal abortion ban. It's very clear that they want to
00:22:17.680 talk about that. And so Graham is giving them exactly what they want. This is exactly what
00:22:23.080 they want to talk about. Now, it only makes sense to do something like this if a federal abortion ban
00:22:32.280 at 15 weeks is massively, enormously popular. Because then, if it's massively, enormously popular
00:22:38.460 for it to have a federal abortion ban at 15 weeks, then you can incentivize voters to vote for you
00:22:43.260 with the promise that you'll pass the law if you're voted in. Even if the Republicans,
00:22:48.880 there was a landslide, there's a red wave at the midterms, they still can't pass any laws because
00:22:53.280 it'd be vetoed by the White House. But still, as an incentive, it makes sense if you're proposing a
00:22:57.900 really popular piece of legislation. It also changes the conversation to focus on this popular piece of
00:23:04.860 legislation. But is a federal 15-week abortion ban that popular? No. I mean, not according to,
00:23:13.260 any poll, not by any metric. It should be popular, but it isn't. It should be popular,
00:23:20.140 but it isn't. There are varying claims about how unpopular it is, but the fact is that it's not
00:23:25.640 nearly, here's what we can say at a minimum. It is not nearly popular enough to justify this strategy.
00:23:34.440 If you're going to put up legislation like this right before the midterms, then it has to be an
00:23:40.440 absolute home run that's going to be like, you're going to get 60, 70 percent approval from the voters
00:23:48.460 for it. Then it makes sense to do. But that's not the case with a federal abortion ban.
00:23:57.760 I mean, at best, this is like, it's a split down the middle, you know, type of thing,
00:24:02.780 which is a sort of issue that you, that's the kind of thing that you do. It's the sort of thing you work
00:24:08.180 on. It's the sort of thing you push after the election, not before it. This is not the conversation
00:24:14.340 the Republicans should be having going into the midterms. It helps Democrats, not Republicans.
00:24:17.760 If you want to pass pro-life legislation, you need a pro-life government, and this makes that
00:24:22.440 less likely to happen. You have decreased the possibility of actually passing a bill like this
00:24:27.600 by proposing it a few weeks before the midterms at a time when the Democrats are desperate to change
00:24:32.200 the topic and to focus on something like this. That's why the Dems, they were practically crying
00:24:38.000 tears of joy when Graham announced this. They were ecstatic. All of them were in front of microphones
00:24:45.360 and cameras, and they had their fundraising pitches ready to go within 19 seconds. They were so excited
00:24:52.000 about this. Here's Chuck Schumer, for example. Now, that's total nonsense, of course. They're
00:25:11.160 focused on creating jobs and bringing the country together. That's not at all what they're focused
00:25:15.740 on, but that is exactly the talking point they wanted. Republicans are focused on this, and this
00:25:21.760 is what we're doing. Katie Porter in California had an ad ready to go within like 30 minutes. Here's
00:25:29.980 that. The Supreme Court has taken away our right to choose, giving politicians power to control women's
00:25:36.580 most personal health decisions. In Washington, they're planning a nationwide ban on abortion,
00:25:42.080 no exceptions, not for rape or incest. The word extreme gets tossed around a lot, but making it
00:25:48.240 illegal to have an abortion, no exceptions, truly is extreme. I'm Katie Porter. I'll fight any attempt
00:25:55.420 at a nationwide abortion ban. Okay. Now, I'd be the first to say that we don't decide what we're
00:26:03.720 going to do as conservatives based on what the left will say about it. We can't refrain from doing the
00:26:08.640 right thing because the left will be mad about it. That obviously is how I feel. But again, given that
00:26:13.160 this is just a political play, that's all it can be, you have to think, is it smart politically
00:26:17.640 to give the Democrats exactly the conversation that they want right now? Not to mention, as
00:26:25.600 Karen Jean-Pair pointed out correctly when she was talking about this at the White House press
00:26:31.420 conference, she quoted Lindsey Graham from a month ago on TV saying that he thinks abortion is a state's
00:26:39.360 issue and shouldn't be decided by the federal government. He did say that a month ago.
00:26:44.900 I don't even agree with that. I think that it should, again, I think the federal government does
00:26:48.060 have a role. But that's what he said. And now he's the one who's coming out with this? He's never been
00:26:55.660 a big pro-life advocate in the first place. Like Lindsey Graham? When does he ever show that he gives
00:27:00.340 a damn about the pro-life cause? In the past when Republicans have controlled the government,
00:27:07.060 Lindsey Graham wasn't leading the charge to pass pro-life legislation.
00:27:11.660 And there are things that could have been done even when Roe v. Wade was still active.
00:27:16.000 So when they actually have the ability to do something, he doesn't want to do anything.
00:27:19.780 And when the bill can't pass, that's when he's behind it.
00:27:25.560 It's almost like he wants Republicans to lose. That's the conspiracy theory that I would actually
00:27:31.800 subscribe to here. He wants Republicans to lose. This is a, this is sabotage. It's the only way to
00:27:39.820 explain it, given who it's coming from, especially. It's one thing if this is coming from someone in
00:27:46.860 Congress who's just been deeply pro-life, a pro-life activist for years, and this has been their number
00:27:51.340 one issue. And so, you know, and this is all they talk, this is one of their central things they
00:27:55.980 talk about all the time. And, and, you know, this is, they're just so excited about it that they
00:28:01.300 maybe put the cart before the horse a little bit and came out and proposed this right before the
00:28:06.380 midterms. That would be one thing. Now, I'd still say it's a bad political strategy, but then at least
00:28:10.260 I could believe that it's sincere. In this case, I don't even believe that it's sincere.
00:28:15.660 This to me seems like sabotage. Because there are Republicans who want to be the minority party.
00:28:21.520 They want to be the opposition. They want to be in the position of, of, of proposing laws that
00:28:25.720 they know cannot pass. You know what? If you want to pass a bill, or rather not pass a bill,
00:28:35.020 because you can't pass it. If you want to propose a bill right before the midterms
00:28:38.540 with the intention of changing the conversation or focusing the conversation on something that,
00:28:46.080 that's, that's politically good for you to be talking about. And with the intention also of
00:28:50.380 making Democrats seem extreme by their opposition to it, here's the bill that you should be proposing.
00:28:54.960 Okay. So what all the Republicans in the Senate should be getting together, Mitch McConnell and,
00:28:59.000 and Lindsey Graham and all of them should be coming out, holding the press conference saying
00:29:04.000 that they are proposing a federal ban on child castration and on cosmetic double mastectomies
00:29:12.560 for minor girls. That's what they should be doing. Not going to pass. No way it's going to pass,
00:29:19.760 but politically that's a winner because now you're putting the Democrats in the position right before
00:29:26.960 the midterms of having to defend castrating and butchering kids. Now that is a winning political
00:29:35.080 strategy. And, and we can guarantee the vast majority of this country, if they are made aware
00:29:43.180 that this is even happening, and many people don't know that it's happening, but if they're made aware
00:29:46.720 of it, of course, they're going to be against it. That's what you do if you want to win.
00:29:53.980 Of course, problem with the Republicans is they don't often want to win. All right.
00:29:59.580 Let's move to, so that was, that was someone ostensibly pretending to be pro-life who doesn't
00:30:04.960 want to win. Here's someone who does like to win on the pro-life side. Lila Rose of live action
00:30:08.860 appeared on Dr. Phil to talk about the abortion issue. And I want to play a little bit of this clip
00:30:14.380 because I thought it was pretty compelling. The predicate of your positions that life begins
00:30:22.380 at fertilization, that science is very clear about that. And you have to know science isn't,
00:30:29.160 there's no consensus among the scientific community. There is, Dr. Phil. 96% of scientists say that life
00:30:35.800 begins at fertilization. If you're an in vitro specialist, you're looking to create a single
00:30:40.160 cell embryo and then you know you have a new human life. So it is a scientific fact.
00:30:45.100 Well, actually it's not. When do you, when do you say human life begins then? There's, well,
00:30:50.040 it doesn't matter what I think. I, I don't care what I think. What I'm saying is the scientific
00:30:56.240 community does not have a consensus about when life begins. It's simply inaccurate. It's simply
00:31:04.500 inaccurate. That's not true. You can go to the body. A single cell embryo is a unique new human life.
00:31:12.720 You can go to the body of scientific literature and you can find neuroscientists who say that it
00:31:19.880 begins when there is a detectable brainwave. But Dr. Phil, in an abortion, if it's not a human life,
00:31:27.520 why do you have to kill it? I haven't spoken over you and you keep speaking over me. And I assume
00:31:32.900 that's because you don't want me to finish my thought, which is if anyone here wants to fact
00:31:41.500 check me instead of speak over me, you can go to the scientific literature and query what the
00:31:50.120 definition is of the beginning of life. Okay. So things got contentious there. I will say I do give
00:31:58.400 credit to Dr. Phil, even though we clearly are seen to be on opposite sides of the, of the abortion
00:32:04.220 issue. I give credit to him for this reason. And that is that he doesn't just talk about these kinds
00:32:12.560 of issues on his show, but he actually brings, this is the part that is unique. He brings people on from
00:32:19.260 the conservative side who are able and articulate defenders of the position, you know, and, and he
00:32:26.760 brings them on to defend the position rather than taking the CNN approach or the MSNBC approach and
00:32:34.720 finding some brainless, uh, patsy whose only role is to get, who's only, you know, there just to get
00:32:43.040 steamrolled the controlled opposition, you know, strategy. So he doesn't do that. Um, he was talking
00:32:50.980 about critical race theory back in the summer. He brought on James Lindsay to talk about it.
00:32:54.460 Talking about gender theory, brought me on to talk about it. Uh, wants to discuss the pro-life issue
00:32:59.300 brings on Lila Rose, you know, as a pro-lifer myself, if someone, if Dr. Phil had come to me and said,
00:33:07.640 who do you think is the best person to, to, to bring on my show to talk about abortion? I would
00:33:11.260 have recommended her. She'd be the one I would have recommended. Um, so I do appreciate that.
00:33:18.280 Of course, Lila Rose is correct though, in this discussion, um, life does begin at conception.
00:33:24.960 It's not really up for debate. It's the only logical point for life to begin. Um, and the reason is this,
00:33:34.080 now we could talk about the, you know, what the scientists say and everything in the, and always,
00:33:38.740 you know, always on the, on the pro-abortion side, they want to find, well, you know,
00:33:41.660 the consensus, scientific consensus says this or that. There is certainly no scientific consensus
00:33:45.620 that life does not begin at conception. Most scientists will tell you that it does because
00:33:50.780 there's no way around it. And then you might have other scientists that say, well, we don't really
00:33:54.080 know. But even outside of that, it's just, it's a, it's a matter of logic. The way that we know that
00:34:01.540 life begins at conception is that at conception, there is something, right? There's a, there's a
00:34:07.320 physical entity which exists. We can agree on that point. Uh, well, any physical entity which
00:34:16.280 exists must exist in a state, some kind of state. And there are really only three options. Every
00:34:24.360 physical entity is alive or dead or inanimate. So you can look around the room that you're currently
00:34:30.720 sitting in, look anywhere, look under a microscope and all you will see anywhere are things that are
00:34:36.620 living, things that are dead and things which are inanimate matter. Well, the physical entity at
00:34:43.100 conception must be one of these, right? So if you're saying it's not alive, then it has to be
00:34:48.760 something else. And what is it? Well, we know it's not dead. We know that we know it's not inanimate
00:34:54.700 matter because it's organic matter. It's growing, it's developing, it's, it's becoming, it has DNA,
00:35:01.400 it has a genetic code. It is in no way like a, like a, a chair or a rock or anything else that is,
00:35:10.400 that is, uh, that is inanimate. So what's left? Well, it's, it's living. It's, it's a,
00:35:18.000 it's a living physical entity. There's no real way around that. So if you're on the pro-abortion
00:35:25.180 side, what you really believe, now you might, you might, you know, I don't know if it's really
00:35:28.980 living or not. No, it is. It's just, there's no way it is. It certainly is. Um, but what you're
00:35:35.180 actually saying is that sometimes it is okay to destroy innocent, helpless human life.
00:35:43.460 That is your, whether you're, whether you'll say it out loud or not, that is actually your position.
00:35:48.820 But there's a reason why you don't want to say it out loud. Uh, and that is that it's a horrifying
00:35:53.180 position. All right. The Emmys were on Sunday. Um, I didn't know that this was happening, of course,
00:35:59.380 until I saw the outrage on Twitter. There's always, there always has to be some sort of awards outrage
00:36:03.240 that comes out of these things. And this time, sometimes the outrage is sort of fun to talk about.
00:36:08.020 The Will Smith thing, I mean, that was a classic, right? That was, that was, that was actually an
00:36:11.300 enjoyable awards show related outrage that was enjoyable to talk about and entertaining.
00:36:19.940 Um, the one from the Emmys, this is a little disappointing. It doesn't quite live up to
00:36:23.400 the hype. So Jimmy Kimmel did a bit. I don't know all the background on this. I don't care.
00:36:28.620 The bit, I guess, is that he was, he was up presenting the award for some category and, uh,
00:36:34.800 he pretended to pass out for some reason on the stage. And then they announced the winner
00:36:41.100 and it was an actress who was black and Kimmel kept lying there, still pretending to be passed
00:36:47.780 out, even as she came up to give her acceptance speech. Let's, uh, let's watch a little bit of
00:36:53.880 that moment.
00:36:55.340 Quinta Brunson.
00:36:56.660 Abbott Elementary.
00:37:04.800 Jimmy, wake up. I won.
00:37:34.800 Jimmy. Okay. Hold my phone. Um,
00:37:41.760 my goodness.
00:37:49.560 Okay. And then she, uh, could, she just gives her acceptance speech with the guy lying there. It is,
00:37:54.660 it's awkward and weird. Uh, and that's really all that can be said about it. But, but, but
00:38:00.800 as always social media and the news media, they're not satisfied to just say that because there's,
00:38:09.180 there are racial dynamics here. You know, it's Jimmy Kimmel's a white guy. This actress is a black
00:38:14.400 woman. And so now they're making it racial. And so all these headlines saying that it was racist.
00:38:20.240 It was racist for Jimmy Kimmel to, to steal the woman's shine like that, you know, as all these posts
00:38:26.460 on social media, white men are always doing this. Damn white men. This is something white men always
00:38:31.180 do. White men are constantly lying on award show stages while people are trying to give, uh, give their
00:38:38.220 acceptance speeches. It's just, it's a thing we always do. It's part of our culture.
00:38:40.940 Now, um, this just shows again, the problem with racializing everything because you, you, it's
00:38:51.440 guaranteed that you're going to miss the point. And also you, you end up distracting from valid
00:38:57.120 criticisms. In this case, this is like a small example of it, but there's a very valid criticism
00:39:03.320 you could make of Jimmy Kimmel. He's, he's an ass. I mean, Jimmy Kimmel is a jerk. He's a,
00:39:07.640 he's a bad person and he's arrogant and self-centered. And yeah, he wanted to make this
00:39:12.700 moment about him. I'd be annoyed too. If I, if I'm up there giving my acceptance speech when
00:39:18.080 I win an Emmy and there's just some jerk laying on the ground, you know, because he thought
00:39:23.340 of this bad comedy bit and he's, he's, he's doing it in the middle of my, I'd be annoyed
00:39:27.680 by that. I'd, you know, just like kick him in the ribs or something to make him move, but
00:39:33.420 it's not racial. Like the idea that he did it because she's a black woman, he said to
00:39:39.140 himself, Oh, this is a black woman. I gotta, yeah, I gotta do what I can to intrude here
00:39:43.900 is absurd. Although it is kind of a, it is kind of funny that Jimmy Kimmel to this point,
00:39:54.340 you know, with the racial outrage brigade out there searching for racism, wherever they
00:39:59.300 can find it often landing in places where the racism ends up being imaginary and invisible.
00:40:05.380 You know, they're over at BYU searching for an invisible racist who silently shouted the
00:40:10.440 N word. Meanwhile, Jimmy Kimmel has been a late night network TV host for years now. And
00:40:17.500 there are tons of videos of him out there in blackface. This is something this guy did all
00:40:22.240 the time back in the, in the nineties. He was constantly in blackface and somehow he has
00:40:28.600 escaped criticism for that. So it'd be kind of funny if this is what brings him down. Like
00:40:35.060 this is the racial controversy that brings him down where he wasn't even actually being
00:40:38.780 racist. It's a little bit of the, you know, the, the OJ Simpson thing where they couldn't
00:40:44.420 get him for murder. So instead they get him for stealing his own merchandise back or whatever
00:40:48.180 it was. So Bates, it's kind of the same thing here. They didn't get Jimmy Kimmel for the
00:40:52.120 blackface. So they're going to get him for this instead. All right, let's get to the comment
00:40:57.440 section.
00:41:11.720 I will tell you a little bit of good news from my own life is that my wife has finally come
00:41:15.740 around to the fact that we need to buy a van and, um, the SUVs aren't going to cut it.
00:41:20.500 I mean, I told you when we, when we first found out we were having twins, she, you know, has
00:41:25.840 been anti-van our entire marriage. And she still had this idea that even with six kids, we wouldn't
00:41:30.880 have to get a van. Now she's realizing that, um, that there's no way around it. We got to
00:41:37.120 get the van. The van is inevitable, except now she's looking up vans that are like $95,000
00:41:41.960 or whatever. Meanwhile, I go on Craigslist and I find vans for sale for under eight grand. I mean,
00:41:47.860 you can find that. I found, I found a van for $400 on Craigslist and I'm, I'm sending her all
00:41:51.820 these links. Astro vans. Now those are the real deal. They don't make them anymore. You can only
00:41:57.380 find them on Craigslist. You can only find them used, but my family had an Astro van growing up.
00:42:01.220 Our, uh, our, uh, our rear passenger door was falling off and was actually duct taped on.
00:42:06.260 That's true. And I got about six miles to the gallon. The engine sounded like a, like a,
00:42:11.280 a polar bear drowning or something. It was a great vehicle. It was great.
00:42:15.240 There were vomit stains on the third row seat because I had a car sickness problem and I didn't
00:42:19.580 have a, uh, my relief band back then. It's just a great vehicle. There were holes rusted on the side
00:42:26.740 panel. It's like big holes. My brother fell through one of them on the highway. We never saw him again.
00:42:31.940 It was a great, fantastic, a classic. And I'm looking forward to having something like that again.
00:42:37.620 All right. Max Winter says, a black actor playing the little mermaid really is a case of
00:42:41.280 white Eurasia. All forms of art, including fairy tales are meant to be reflections of the author's
00:42:45.560 experiences and observations. Hans Christian Andersen probably based a little mermaid based
00:42:49.420 on experiences he went through in his home country of Denmark. So it makes sense that most of his
00:42:53.140 characters would be white since that's the world and the people he was surrounded by.
00:42:58.660 Yeah. I'm given the way that we deal with these sorts of issues. I'm, I'm sympathetic to that. Now I
00:43:04.600 would be fine. Like we talked about yesterday, we don't have to rehash the entire thing, but
00:43:07.580 if we all agreed that race in, in films and TV shows, especially fictional stories don't matter.
00:43:17.060 And we're going to take a kind of colorblind casting approach and you know, it just, it doesn't matter
00:43:22.960 as long as the actor is good. If we could all agree on that, then I'd be on board. And as I said,
00:43:27.060 that's basically what it was for many years, what it was back in the nineties.
00:43:30.080 But what I cannot abide by is the double standard thing where we say, well, race, the race, the
00:43:38.940 casting, uh, the race of in casting matters only for certain races and not for others that that
00:43:44.160 no, no, we're not doing that. Also, by the way, with the little mermaid, can we also just mention
00:43:51.640 that just from a, from a scientific perspective, okay, it doesn't make a lot of sense to have someone
00:43:58.000 with darker skin who lives deep in the ocean. I mean, if anything, I mean, not only should the
00:44:03.080 little mermaid be pale, she should actually be translucent. If you look at deep sea creatures,
00:44:06.900 they're like translucent. They have no kind of pigmentation whatsoever. And they're just like
00:44:11.060 these horrifying, they look like skeletons floating around in the ocean. That's what the little mermaid
00:44:15.420 should look like. She should be totally pale where, and skeletal where you can see her skull through
00:44:20.580 her face. And that would actually be a version of little mermaid that I would watch.
00:44:31.280 Let's see. Dionysus voice says, Matt, I really have to express my outrage, disgust and offense at
00:44:36.540 your comparison with woke, wokesters and octopi. Unlike wokesters, octopi have been known to demonstrate
00:44:43.100 a significant amount of intelligence. Well, you pretend to be some sort of expert, but actually octopi,
00:44:47.740 this is like a misnomer that the plural of octopuses is octopi. That's actually not true.
00:44:53.140 It is octopuses. And because you lacked that knowledge about octopuses, you're banned from
00:44:58.760 the show. And finally, Brandon Kelly says, I was looking at a book of African fairy tales,
00:45:04.580 and I want to buy it because these stories are not as well known as the European ones. But what makes
00:45:08.540 it sad is that Hollywood refuses to adapt these stories because they rather have a Latina Rapunzel or
00:45:13.940 a black Cinderella than anything. Yeah. And that's another very good point that other people
00:45:18.640 brought up as we were talking about this. And that is, if we're making the decision,
00:45:24.740 if we're saying, if Hollywood is saying, okay, we need to have more black people who are leads in
00:45:29.300 these kinds of stories. We need to have more children's stories with black leads. We need to
00:45:32.580 have fairy tales with black leads. Just like they say, we need more female action heroes.
00:45:38.360 Well, then why not make new stories rather than taking the old stories and flipping them around
00:45:45.540 and say, oh, well, now we have, we're going to take this action franchise and now we have the
00:45:49.920 girl version of it. And we're going to take this fairy tale. We're going to make the black version
00:45:53.720 of it. Rather than doing that, how about just tell a new story? Then, you know what? Everybody wins.
00:45:59.200 That's a win for everybody. You get the representation that you want. And we also get new stories. We get,
00:46:04.100 rather than recycling the same damn thing over and over again. Okay. They're going to make another
00:46:09.840 Pinocchio in three years. And it's going to be a trans, you know, like trans, uh, trans Asian
00:46:16.260 pansexual Pinocchio. But rather than that, let's just look at, we've told that story. We've, we have
00:46:21.760 a million iterations of Pinocchio. How about just tell a new story? Crazy idea. Well, a big announcement
00:46:29.240 this week, maybe you've heard Candace Owens is back from maternity leave with a vengeance. Her brand
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00:46:57.360 Wire Plus or listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen to podcasts. Now let's get to our
00:47:02.860 Daily Cancellation. So last week we looked at a couple of recent attempts to finally solve the
00:47:12.380 what is a woman riddle. As you may remember, they both failed in spectacular fashion. Their answers
00:47:18.660 didn't even make it past square one. They blew up on the launch pad and killed everybody on board
00:47:22.700 metaphorically. But at least they tried because we finally forced the left to confront this question.
00:47:27.960 They realized they cannot evade it any longer. They have to confront it. And so all of the best
00:47:33.160 minds in the gender ideology world have set to work. This is like the Manhattan Project of green
00:47:39.800 haired gender studies majors. They're all on the problem now. They've been brainstorming around the
00:47:44.460 clock. An all-star team of the smartest and most insightful gender activists in the world,
00:47:49.940 all with comparatively impressive IQs compared to the rest of them. Some reaching even into the high
00:47:54.600 double digits. And they've been digging into this problem, deliberating, searching desperately for a
00:48:00.140 solution. And yet so far, a woman is anyone who identifies as a woman is the best that any of them
00:48:07.920 have been able to do. It's as though the Manhattan Project spent years on research and development,
00:48:12.900 and rather than inventing the nuclear bomb, they came up with like a firecracker. Although at least a
00:48:17.740 firecracker is an actual thing, it exists, it makes sense. A woman is anyone who identifies as a woman
00:48:24.160 is nothing. It's not a definition. It's not anything. It's circular. It's incoherent. And yet again, it is
00:48:29.300 the best that they have been able to do until now. Here to meet the challenge or to die trying is a writer
00:48:36.480 called Paul John Poles. Paul is a self-identified feminine trans man, which I guess is a female who
00:48:45.000 identifies as a male and sees herself as feminine. That presents its own bundle of cords to untangle,
00:48:53.260 but there's not time for that today. It does mean, though, that the writer is coming at this question
00:48:58.720 from a pretty unique perspective. Because usually the gender ideologues who try to tackle the woman
00:49:03.580 question are males who wish to find a definition of woman that will include them. But in this case,
00:49:09.780 interestingly enough, we have a female who wishes to find a definition of woman that does not
00:49:14.880 include her. How will she do it? Well, PJP begins by acknowledging a few points that the gender
00:49:22.340 ideologues usually prefer to ignore. She points out that gender cannot rest on stereotypes and social
00:49:28.180 constructs, as her side usually has it, because that effectively excludes a lot of people from womanhood
00:49:33.280 that she doesn't want to exclude. It also includes her, but she doesn't want to be included.
00:49:39.680 Next, the writer recognizes that a woman is anyone who identifies as a woman, is circular and therefore
00:49:44.020 logically invalid. She does acknowledge that. She also points to another problem that I hadn't even
00:49:48.540 thought about with the woman who identifies as a woman definition. She says that hinging the
00:49:55.560 definition of woman on self-identification is a problem for her side because it excludes people
00:50:01.860 who don't yet consciously identify as women, but may at some point in the future. The trans community
00:50:09.200 creepily refers to people who they think might be trans or can be turned trans as eggs. That's what
00:50:15.700 they call them, eggs, right? Eggs that need to be hatched. And they may sort of home in on a boy who
00:50:23.080 they think could be made into a girl, a process that we used to call grooming before every social
00:50:27.780 media site. But the point is that they want to be able to say that the boy is already a girl and has
00:50:36.260 always been a girl, yet hasn't realized it. That's what they want to say. So when the boy is nine years
00:50:46.280 old and first says, I'm a girl, no, it's the trans side. They don't say that he just became a girl. Then
00:50:53.180 they say, no, he was always a girl, even before that. He just came to realize it now. Well, see,
00:50:59.520 that doesn't work if the very definition of womanhood or girlhood relies on conscious
00:51:04.600 self-identification. That's another problem. So what can be done about this? Here's the writer's
00:51:11.660 solution. I'm going to read now. Quote, this finally brings us to our definition. A woman is an adult
00:51:20.560 human whose subconscious sex is female. The beauty of it is that it doesn't include trans men or cis
00:51:29.280 men. Their subconscious sex is male. And it includes both cis women and trans women. Their
00:51:34.220 subconscious sex is female. And it also doesn't invalidate gender non-conforming trans and cis people.
00:51:39.660 And the best thing about it is that the person who is best qualified to know whether or not you are a
00:51:43.840 woman is still you, which means that we can still keep our beloved ethical guideline of respecting
00:51:48.440 people's self-identification. Except that now the word woman actually means something.
00:51:55.040 Well, no, it doesn't. In fact, it's never meant less if that's the definition. Now, I can appreciate
00:51:59.980 that you've made a valiant effort to avoid a circular definition, but unfortunately, your efforts have
00:52:04.260 driven you even farther off the logical path and deep into the woods where it's dark and confusing
00:52:08.720 and no light penetrates through the canopy. It's even worse now. So let's review all the problems with
00:52:14.200 this definition. Number one, your subconscious, by definition, is the part of your mind that you
00:52:22.240 don't have access to. You are unaware of it. Actually, the subconscious or unconscious mind
00:52:27.880 is a psychoanalytical theory invented by Freud. There are all kinds of logical and scientific
00:52:33.680 problems with it. It also has given risen to all manner of psychiatric fads and panics,
00:52:38.540 such as the infamous repressed memory hysteria back in the 90s, when a whole bunch of women in therapy
00:52:43.220 all realized all of a sudden that they had been abused as children, and then a whole bunch of
00:52:47.600 people got arrested based on that, and it turned out that they were imagining it. For that matter,
00:52:52.820 the concept of transgenderism wouldn't exist either without these Freudian concepts of the unconscious
00:52:58.380 mind and so forth. So there are problems, is what I'm saying, with the whole idea of the subconscious,
00:53:04.060 at least as it has traditionally been understood. But that takes us off on a tangent about how the
00:53:09.460 entire field of psychoanalysis is built on nonsense fabrications and wild theories invented by a bunch
00:53:14.960 of weirdos a hundred years ago. We're going to leave that to the side and stay focused. The point
00:53:19.900 is that the term subconscious means, I mean, this is what it means, the part of your mind you aren't
00:53:25.840 aware of. So if someone is subconsciously female, they wouldn't know that they're female. If you know
00:53:34.000 that you're female, then you are consciously female, not subconsciously. But of course,
00:53:37.520 saying a woman is anyone who is consciously female is just another way of saying that a woman is
00:53:42.820 anyone who identifies as a woman. You're trying to avoid the endless logical loop, which is why
00:53:47.540 you've introduced the subconscious into the equation, but you can't really do that. The
00:53:51.360 subconscious cannot save you. In fact, its entrance into the conversation creates far more problems
00:53:56.480 for you than it solves. Also, your subconscious cannot have a sex. Your consciousness also does not
00:54:03.820 have a sex in and of itself. By definition, sex is a physical category having to do with reproductive
00:54:10.820 organs and chromosomes and DNA. You are here positing a scenario where a person with a physical sex of
00:54:18.820 male could have a mind, even an unconscious mind, with the physical sex of female. So you have turned the
00:54:26.900 mind into its own physical entity, literally contained inside the physical body and which has
00:54:32.860 its own DNA. This is what you're doing, not to the brain, but to the mind. Essentially, you're imagining the
00:54:40.280 human body as some sort of fleshy shell with a whole other person inside it, steering it around. That makes
00:54:46.840 for a good plot point in a science fiction film, but it's not how things work in reality. In reality, you can cut a
00:54:53.040 person open and inspect every part of them, including their brain, external and internal, and all you will
00:54:58.720 find are physical body parts, and every physical body part has physical DNA, which will attest to the
00:55:04.080 physical sex of that person. And that's why your definition doesn't work and makes no sense. And in
00:55:09.940 the end, it's even less coherent than the definition that you were trying to avoid giving. That's really
00:55:14.980 the problem, isn't it, though? What you're trying to avoid, that's the issue. See, it's very clear,
00:55:20.780 has never been more clear. That the gender ideologues, really, what they actually want to
00:55:27.340 talk about is the human soul. Every day, they move closer to the precipice, inching toward it step by
00:55:34.060 step. They talk about self-identity, and inner awareness, and gender identity, and subconscious
00:55:39.500 sex now. But what they mean, what they want to say, is that humans have a soul, and sometimes the soul
00:55:47.520 doesn't match with the body. They stop themselves from saying that because they don't want to admit
00:55:52.720 that gender ideology is, through and through, a religion. It's a religious, spiritual claim. It's a
00:55:57.880 matter of faith. This is the secret they're trying to keep hidden, but they're coming closer and closer
00:56:02.900 to dropping the scientific mask and admitting the truth, that this is religious. This is a
00:56:08.460 religious claim. They believe in the soul. And when they say that a man is really a woman,
00:56:14.340 they mean that he is spiritually a woman, that his soul is that of a woman. That's what they mean.
00:56:22.060 Of course, understood that way, it still is nonsense. It doesn't make any sense at all.
00:56:26.960 You cannot talk about souls without talking about God. I mean, he's the one who makes the souls and the
00:56:32.840 body. And it's absurd, obviously, to claim that God would make some sort of mistake on the spiritual
00:56:38.880 assembly line and accidentally plop a female soul into a male body. That doesn't make any sense.
00:56:45.400 I mean, what sort of vision of God are you now postulating? Some sort of bumbling fool up there
00:56:52.540 in heaven that's just like, you know, throwing different souls into mismatching bodies, has no
00:56:57.280 idea what's going on. Besides, this concept of souls is built on, this concept, the concept that
00:57:03.720 the gender ideologues have, is built on this weird kind of dualism where the soul is seen as, once
00:57:09.160 again, an entity located inside the body and steering it along, like the body is some sort of
00:57:15.200 two-legged SUV. But in reality, our souls and bodies exist in harmony with each other.
00:57:20.760 It's not that we are bodies and we have souls, or that we are souls and have bodies.
00:57:25.760 We are souls and we are bodies. We cannot be one thing spiritually and the opposite thing physically.
00:57:35.280 That's a contradiction. You might as well say that you have the body of a human and the soul of a
00:57:41.580 raccoon or an oak tree. It just doesn't make any sense. So retreating into the spiritual realm will
00:57:48.340 not actually save gender theory. It actually makes it even more absurd than it was when it was judged
00:57:53.060 purely on a scientific basis. But at least if we are talking about it spiritually, at least then the
00:58:00.380 conversation is being had in an honest way. At least the gender ideologues would finally be saying
00:58:06.000 what they actually mean. And that would be progress. Though again, it will not save them or our friend
00:58:14.240 Paul John Poles from being today canceled. And that'll do it for this portion of the show as we
00:58:19.980 move into the members block. Hope to see you there. If not, talk to you tomorrow. Godspeed.