Ep. 1115 - Stop Sacrificing Truth On The Altar Of Nice
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Summary
200 journalists write a scathing letter to the New York Times complaining about all of its anti-trans coverage. Plus, Don Lemon tries to criticize Nikki Haley but does it in a way that even upsets his leftist co-hosts. In our Daily Cancellation, a left-wing magazine takes a crack at answering the great question of our time.
Transcript
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Today on the Matt Wall Show, lots of people are very upset because of some things I said
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on this show about the trans TikTok personality Dylan Mulvaney. Even conservatives are claiming
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that I need to be nicer and more gentle in dealing with the trans agenda. Today, I'll explain why the
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people making this claim are horrifically stupid and wrong. Also, 200 journalists write a scathing
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letter to the New York Times complaining about all of its anti-trans coverage. What does it tell
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us that even the New York Times can be considered anti-trans now? Plus, Don Lemon tries to criticize
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Nikki Haley, but does it in a way that even manages to upset his leftist co-hosts. In our
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Daily Cancellation, a left-wing magazine has taken a crack at answering the great question of our time.
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We'll see how they did. All that and more today on the Matt Wall Show.
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There's been a lot of discussion this week about the latest CDC report showing, as New York Times
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headline put it, record levels of sadness among teenage girls in this country. From the Times,
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it reports nearly three in five teenage girls felt persistent sadness in 2021, double the rate of
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boys, and one in three girls seriously considered attempting suicide. The findings, based on surveys
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given to teenagers across the country, also showed high levels of violence, depression,
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and suicidal thoughts among lesbian, gay, and bisexual youth. More than one in five of these students
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reported attempting suicide in the year before the survey. According to the agency, the Youth Risk
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Behavior Survey was given to 17,000 adolescents at high schools across the United States in the fall of 2021.
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The survey is conducted every two years, and the rates of mental health problems have gone up with
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every report since 2011. Now, this is self-reported data, which always has its limitations. As it turns
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out, people are not always the best judges of their own mental states and experiences, a point that is
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probably doubly true for teenagers. But even with those limitations in mind, there is no question
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that young people, especially adolescents, are in crisis. There's an epidemic of despair that has
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seized hold of our society, and this mental and spiritual plague has infected children most of
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all. It is not normal, or it should not be normal, and hasn't been normal historically, for millions
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of kids in a generation to be chronically depressed, much less suicidal. It's become our normal, but it
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shouldn't be. The big question, of course, is why this is all happening. I mean, what lies at the root
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of a generation of teenagers who are basically ready to give up on life after having experienced so
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little of it? And this is the part, the diagnostic process, where most of our institutional authorities,
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like the CDC and the corporate media, become totally useless. You know, they can identify some of the
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elements of the problem. Everyone seems now to agree, for instance, that shutting down schools,
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locking kids in their homes for a year or two years was a very bad idea, which had and is still having
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a disastrous effect on their mental health and their physical health and in their health in all
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senses of the term. Now, many of us said that at the time. At the time, we said that this would happen,
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but we were shouted down and we were silenced. And now many of the people who did the shouting
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are echoing the very points that they shouted down. But the lockdowns don't tell the full story.
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After all, these were all trends that were present before COVID. It was a fire already burning before
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our government's COVID response poured gasoline onto it. So what else then? Well, you know,
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there's the fact that kids spend 10 hours a day staring at their phones, that they have been robbed
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of the true joys of childhood, that their lives have been consumed by these little glowing screens they
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carry around. This is a major factor to go along with the breakdown of the family, the decline of
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faith in our country, the general purposelessness and listlessness that defines modern American
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culture. All of these are ingredients. And all of that goes along with the one major factor that the
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CDC and the corporate media and the medical establishment will never mention. In fact, they're more likely to
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present this as a cure rather than a cause. And that is, of course, the gender insanity that has
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gripped hold of the youngest generations. It is absolutely not a coincidence that suicidal tendencies
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and sadness and depression and anxiety are skyrocketing among adolescent children, especially
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girls, at the same moment that trans and quote-unquote non-binary self-identification is also skyrocketing
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among children, especially girls. These kids get sucked into this world. They contract the trans mental
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virus from their peers and from TikTok and from other social media platforms and from Hollywood and the
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school system. And they see it as a solution to their problems, you know, because they're unhappy, they're
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confused, they feel self-loathing, they feel resentment that they don't quite understand. And in
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transgenderism and gender fluidity, they think they've found a way out, a new beginning, a sort of
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rebirth. But instead, they tumble directly into an identity crisis and the loss of whatever remnants of
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meaning and purpose they had in their life before. They think they found the antidote because they've been
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told that it's the antidote. But the antidote is poison. They're trying to escape whatever parts of
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themselves they don't like. But the escape hatch is a door that leads to a world of confusion and despair
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and regret far worse than what they were already experiencing. That's what's happening. And when
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we're taking into account all of the many horrific consequences of the trans agenda and the stranglehold
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that it has on our culture, this needs to be at the top of that very long list. That it is sending
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children spiraling into anguish, despondency, self-destruction. Millions of children, and counting.
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And that is also why, on a personal note, I don't pull any punches when I talk about this subject.
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It's why I long ago decided to be direct, plain-spoken, honest in my opposition to the trans agenda,
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even if it means being harsh, even brutal. We don't have the luxury of soft-pedaling this.
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There isn't room, there isn't time to dance around the subject, as so many others have been doing for so
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many years. Which brings me to the reason that I'm trending on social media today. Lots of people are
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very upset about a segment from my show a few days ago where I addressed Dylan Mulvaney. Mulvaney is,
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of course, the male TikTok guy who announced on TikTok several months ago that he's going to start
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identifying as a woman. And every day since then, he has published one gross and degrading video
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after another, making a sick mockery of womanhood, all in an effort to enrich himself, which he has
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done with wild success, thanks to various corporate sponsorships and the like. And along with promoting
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himself this way, he's also seeking to promote the concept of transgenderism. In his latest video,
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he shows off his plastic surgery, declares that he's the hottest he's ever looked, and that he's so
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attractive that women need to watch out because he might, quote, steal their husbands. Now, I issued
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a brief response, which was succinct and to the point, I thought, and which has now ushered in
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another round of trans activists wishing for my death, while even many of my fellow, quote,
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conservatives are joining them in denouncing me for being mean and hateful and all the rest of it.
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So I have something I want to say about all this, but in order to put it in proper context,
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we should probably play that clip from the show. If you were watching a few days ago,
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you already saw this, but for those who missed it, here's the clip that has everyone so upset.
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Here it is. Dylan, if that is the most attractive you will ever look, then I don't even want to
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imagine what you'll look like when you're at your ugliest. You do not pass as an attractive woman or as
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a woman at all. Even with 50 pounds of makeup and plastic surgery and clever lighting tricks,
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even then, you still cannot escape what you really are and what you will always be.
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You have successfully shed whatever parts of you were masculine, perhaps, at least on the surface.
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Nobody would ever describe you as masculine or manly, so you've got that going. But your femininity
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quotient has not increased at a rate commensurate with the loss of your masculinity. You may not be
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masculine, but you also aren't feminine. Instead, you are weird and artificial. You are manufactured and
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lifeless. You are unearthly and eerie. You are like some kind of human deep fake. That's what you are.
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You are a man deprived of all the best qualities of men, but without any of the best qualities of
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women. Even your personality is contrived. Everything about you is fake. Nothing about you
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rings true. Nobody buys the act. You'll never be accepted as a woman by anyone. Never by anyone.
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Even the people who pretend to accept you as a woman are only pretending because they're afraid of
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being lectured if they don't, or because they want to use you as a platform to virtue signal.
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But everyone who looks at you will see something pitiable and bizarre, something utterly unfeminine
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in every way. You will never be able to actually have the identity that you're trying to appropriate,
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nor will you ever be able to fully escape the identity that you're fleeing. The best you can hope
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for is some kind of limbo, the worst of all worlds. And yet, even in that limbo state,
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you will still be a man. Just not one that any of us can respect or take seriously.
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But other than that, champ, you're doing great.
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Well, there it is. I've got to stop beating around the bush, I think, just to give you an idea of how
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people are receiving this. I'll read a few of the angry responses. Keep in mind that, again, not all of
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these are coming from self-described leftists. Some of them are coming from the right, allegedly. So
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here's a sample. Quote, this is one of the ugliest videos I've come across in my lifetime thus far.
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Matt Walsh deserves no respect for dehumanizing Dylan Mulvaney, for being transgender. She's an
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effing human being, for crying out loud. Another one says, when people like Matt Walsh make videos
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like this, it reinforces the idea that right-wingers are cruel, close-minded, and unlikable. It makes the
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rest of their ideas seem toxic. It gives a hard-on to this tiny 2% online movement, and Matt thinks
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it's a huge W, but it's not. Another says, as has been noted over and over, the cruelty is the point.
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Anytime conservative reactionaries seem like they're gaining momentum culturally,
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they can't hold back the gleeful vitriol. It's not surprising his insults are the exact things
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he's insecure about. Beards aren't magic. Oh, but they are. Another one says, I disdain
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everything about Dylan Mulvaney and what he stands for. This is one of those from one of the so-called
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conservatives. But this is why I don't follow Walsh anymore. I know he thinks he's a hero saying
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the truth that every conservative is thinking, but if you listen to his voice, it's just deep,
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pure hate. He's no longer rational nor Christian, and if you think he doesn't feel this way
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about regular gay people, you're fooling yourself. Another one says, I hope Matt Walsh's God actually
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does exist so he'll burn in hell for eternity for being a soulless, heartless cretin who spreads
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only hatred and fear. He makes the world a worse place with every single breath he takes. I can go on,
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but you get the point. And if I went to my emails and DMs, that's where you'd really hear how people
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feel. And it's not always pretty. So allow me to address these complaints. To begin with,
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needless to say, I don't apologize at all, nor do I wish to amend what I said or soften my language.
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I said exactly what I meant to say, exactly as I meant to say it. And I stand by every single word
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without the slightest bit of equivocation. I will also note that I did not insult Dylan Mulvaney in
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that clip. I merely described him as directly and honestly as I could. If honesty sounds insulting,
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well, that only tells us something about the nature of what is being described. It doesn't
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mean that we should stop being honest about it. Indeed, we need a lot more honesty, direct to the
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point, brutal at times. Why is honesty and the truth brutal? Well, because the reality of what we're
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dealing with is brutal. It is a brutal, horrific thing. And so there is no honest way of describing it
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without sounding brutal yourself. We have gotten to this point where depraved lies and destructive
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lunacy are destroying our country and consuming entire generations of children, largely because
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people have been too afraid to speak honestly and to say out loud what they know to be true. We have
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prioritized politeness and tolerance over truth. And look where it's gotten us. Look what it has
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achieved. So if you, whoever you are watching this, and if you saw that clip of me addressing Dylan
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Mulvaney and you thought to yourself, oh, that's mean. He shouldn't have said all that. I don't
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necessarily disagree, but that's mean. Well, if that's your reaction, then all that tells me and
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what it ought to tell you about yourself is that you are among the legions who have sacrificed truth
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on the altar of nice. And the destruction that has followed from that decision is your fault.
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Okay, this is not a, your cowardice is not a victimless crime. These kids who have been abandoned
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to lies and despair and who are killing themselves because of it, that's on you and everyone like you.
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Now, you can't undo the damage that your cowardice has done, but you can at least get on the right side
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and start fighting for the truth now. You can stop cooperating with the harm and thereby causing harm.
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Get on the right side of the issue. And you need to, because we are way, way past the point of being
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able to worry about nice. I mean, that point never existed. It certainly doesn't exist now.
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Now is a time for truth and nothing else. Now let's get to our five headlines.
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direct and honest truth, I think this helps to underscore that point. Fox News reports nearly
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200 liberal New York Times contributors signed an open letter bashing their own news outlet for its
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recent coverage of trans issues. The letter claimed that the paper's coverage of the propriety
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of medical care for trans children, quote unquote, has featured an eerily familiar mix of pseudoscience
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and euphemistic charged language. Just to be clear, they're accusing those who oppose the trans
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agenda, who oppose trans and kids. They're accusing us, and in particular those who have written in the
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New York Times, which I haven't, but they're accusing us, our side, of using pseudoscience
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and euphemistic language. We're the ones doing that. So they're castrating and mutilating kids and
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calling it gender affirmation care, but we're the ones using euphemisms. They are trying to turn
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males into females with drugs and surgery, but the pseudoscience is on our end.
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I mean, they cannot define any of the terms they use, but we're the ones engaging in pseudoscience.
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Right. Back to Fox, it says, those who signed the letter allege that the outlet has followed the lead
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of far-right hate groups in presenting gender diversity as a new controversy. As Fox News Digital
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reported last November, the Times faced blowback for one of its recent reports delving into the
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potential consequences of puberty blockers. The blowback has now materialized in the February
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15th letter signed by prominent lefty journalists and authors, including Ed Young, Lucy Sante,
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Roxane Gay, and Rebecca Solnit. Personally addressed to the Times' associate managing editors for
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Standards, Philip B. Corbett, the letter alerted him to serious concerns about editorial bias in the
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newspapers reporting on transgender non-binary and gender non-conforming people. The aggrieved liberal
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authors noted that though plenty of reporters at the Times cover trans issues fairly, they are
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eclipsed, however, by what one journalist has calculated as over 15,000 words of front-page
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Times coverage debating the propriety of medical care for transgender children in the last eight
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months alone. Okay. This just like perfectly proves my point, doesn't it? Almost, you couldn't have
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planned it any better. And it's really a profound statement, okay, that the New York Times, we're being
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told, is biased against trans people, according to these journalists, okay, which shows you the level
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of absolute, unquestioned, unthinking loyalty to their agenda that the left demands? Anything outside
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of 100% conformity to everything they say, especially on the trans issue, but really on every other issue
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too, particularly on this issue, there is no amount of leeway granted. You have to go along with everything
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they say. And if you do anything outside of that, I mean, if you, if you venture even one inch off the
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path that they have cut for you, then you are a radical extremist and you're going to get trans
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people killed. What they're taking issue with here, and they even say it outright, that these are
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articles, um, which, uh, which, okay, 15,000 words debating the propriety of medical care for trans
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children. And that's what the articles actually do. That's correct. Now, the New York Times has not
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published anything on the trans issue that any rational person could describe as right-wing or extreme
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or anything like that, okay? They've not come close to it. The most they've done is just acknowledging
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that there is a debate to be had about whether or not we should be mutilating and castrating
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children. But, but really there is no debate to be had about that. There's no debate. It just shouldn't be
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happening. It's, it's a horrific, these horrific Frankenstein medical experimentations on children
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should not be happening. There's no rational debate to be had about it. But that's the point.
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That all they're doing is saying, gee, you know, guys, uh, I know we're doing this to all these
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kids, but maybe we should talk about it. Should we, should we take a second and just talk about it?
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Should we, like, maybe there are people on the other side of this who might object and perhaps we
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should listen to their objections, maybe. And all the articles I've read, we've, we've, uh, read many of
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them on the show when they come up. And they couch, you know, anytime there's this one in particular,
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they're upset about where they talk about, uh, the puberty blockers and even the writers of that
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article, they never say categorically that we should never give these drugs to children.
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Though of course that's correct. We should never give them to children. That's not what they say.
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They're not calling for shutting it all down. They're just saying, well, maybe we should slow
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it up a little bit and we should, uh, you know, we, uh, obviously they say there are times when this
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is the right thing. And clearly there are kids with gender dysphoria and sometimes a medical
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intervention is necessary. Clearly that's the case, but maybe there are times when, uh, kids are
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getting these drugs and they shouldn't, and we should talk about it. That's the only thing they
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say in the articles. And even that, like as that kind of criticism that is couched, that is, uh, that is,
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uh, you know, uh, that is made to is presented in as soft a way as it possibly can be tiptoeing around
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the issue. Like they're dancing over broken glass as they're talking about it, walking on eggshells,
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whatever. Um, even that is, is too far. Even that is an assault on the very, uh, lives of trans people
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and we'll get trans people killed. So what does that tell you? It tells you again that on the
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left, this is the kind of conformity that they demand. There is no room for debate, no room for
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discussion. And so they can come along out of the blue with some absurd, unheard of claim,
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historically unprecedented, such as the claim that, Hey, you know, sometimes girls are actually
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boys and we should chop their breasts off at the age of 14, like something like that to call that
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extreme and radical would be, would be severely understating it, but then come along with a
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statement like that. And, uh, you're not even allowed to question it. There, there, there cannot
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even be a moment of discussion about it. So that's what it tells you about the left, which we already
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know, but what does it tell you about what our response should be and what our approach should
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be? You can couch your language all you want. You can be as polite and nice about it as you want,
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and it won't matter. Okay. They are still going to shout it down and scream at you. They're not
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going to be willing to hear it. So you might as well be direct and to the point and just say what is
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true and put it out there and leave it there. Like you might as well just put the cards on the table
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because any attempt that you make to be, to be, uh, nice about it, it won't matter anyway.
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All right. This has gone viral. Another, uh, awkward exchange between Don Lemon and his female
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co-hosts. And this one starts when Lemon tries to criticize Nikki Haley and manages to do it in a way
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that, that offends even his leftist co-hosts. Uh, let's watch how that goes.
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This whole talk about age makes me uncomfortable. I think that, I think it's the wrong road to go
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down. She says people, you know, politicians or something are not in their prime. Nikki Haley isn't
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in her prime. Sorry. When a woman is considered to be in her prime in her twenties and thirties and
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maybe forties. That's not according to me. Prime for what? It depends. I mean, it's just like prime.
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If you look it up, it'll say, if you look, if you Google, when is a woman in her prime, it'll say
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twenties, thirties and forties. I don't necessarily agree with that. So I think she has to be careful
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about saying that, well, you know, politicians aren't in their prime. You need to qualify. Are you
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talking about prime for like child caring or are you talking about the facts are Google it? Everybody at
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home. When is a woman in her prime? It says twenties, thirties and forties. And I'm just
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saying Nikki Haley should be careful about saying that politicians are not in their prime and they
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need to be in their prime when they serve because she wouldn't be in a prime according to Google or
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whatever it is. Uh, you, you realize you can see the look on his face that he realized he stepped in
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it. And, uh, it's, it's pretty great as he tries desperately to wiggle his way out of it.
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Look it up on Google. Just Google it. I mean, Google knows about the prime.
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It tells us what the prime is. Okay. These are the facts. They're facts about being in the prime
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and women are not in the prime. Okay. After 40, it said, just look at Google. Google said it.
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What are you talking about? Of course, conservatives, uh, are jumping on this one and they're doing the
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whole, see Democrats are the real sexist routine. And, uh, and also the whole, um, well, imagine if the
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scenario was reversed routine. And yeah, I mean, that's like, of course, if the scenario is reversed
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and, um, Don Lemon had said this about a Democrat woman, uh, then there'd be a lot more outrage.
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And we know that, I mean, like Kamala Harris, how old is Kamala Harris? She's, she's definitely
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above, she's past her forties. That we can say, I think she's, she's approaching 60 at least.
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Um, but Don Lemon is not saying that she's past her prime.
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I can guarantee you that Don Lemon voted for Hillary Clinton in 2016. It was in her like
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late sixties at the time. So yeah, there's a double standard. Um, but it's, it's always,
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you know, I always cringe when I hear that. Oh, see there's sexist. Like accusing,
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it doesn't work anyway. Um, it's not going to have the effect that you want,
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but using the left's language, trying to use it against them. Hey, he's being a sexist.
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Is he, is Don Lemon a sexist? Like, does he hate women or is it that he's just an idiot?
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And he was, he was looking to criticize Nikki Haley because Nikki Haley is a Republican.
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And so he just stumbled his way into this. I think it's more of that.
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It's also true by the way, that there is a prime, uh, for politicians. Like everyone has
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a prime and it, but it depends on the context we're talking about, you know? Um, so it's not
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like there's one human, well, this is the prime for a person. It depends on what, in what context,
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what are we talking about? If you're talking about a physical prime, um, are we talking about,
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you know, what's the prime for a, for an NFL running back? Like it's good. All these things are
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going to change. Um, but there is a prime for politicians and is it, is it, it's definitely
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not 20 or 30, it's not 40, but one thing we can say for sure. And Nikki, Nikki Haley is not past
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her prime. I mean, she, I don't think she's impressive in her prime, but there is a prime.
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Um, and, uh, and the one thing that we can say, and we should say is that your late seventies
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is past it. Whenever that period is like, you're not in your prime in your late seventies,
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you're not going to be in your prime in really any context or any respect when you get into
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your late seventies. And that's not a, that's, that's no disrespect. People in their late seventies
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is no disrespect to elderly people. It's just a reality of aging. We're all going to be there
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one day, unless we die before that. This is just, that's the reality. Either you die before
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you really get past your physical and mental prime, or you get past your physical mental
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prime and then you die. That's, that's what it means to be a mortal creature walking the
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earth. And once you get into your late seventies, you are past your physical prime, you're past
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your mental prime. Um, that's just it. And, uh, so Nikki Haley has nothing to do. There
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are other reasons to criticize Nikki Haley's candidacy reasons that you're never going to hear
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from a, from, you know, a Democrat, but we should absolutely be talking about the fact
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that, uh, you know, once you get into your late seventies, it's just absurd. It's a, as
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I've been saying for so long, it's absurd that we allow people in their late seventies to run
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for office. We've seen how this plays out. It's played out with Joe Biden exactly. It was
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as it was always destined to play out. Um, and as you get into your late seventies and your
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early eighties, the physical and mental decline only accelerates and it accelerates if you're
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retired and you spend your days sitting on your porch in a rocking chair as everyone in
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their eighties should be like that's, you've earned that. That's how you should be spending
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your days. How I want to spend my days if I make it to my eighties. Um, but if you, you
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add on the, the mental and physical stresses of the presidency, which is one of the most high
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pressure jobs in existence, and you add that on to what is already going to be a period
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of mental and physical decline. It just, you end up with Joe Biden and it is, there is no,
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I have not heard one good argument for allowing people past 75 to run for the presidency. 35
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to 75. I think that's a good cutoff. I mean, you could argue for cutting it off sooner than
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that, but I think 35 to 70 is pretty, gives you a nice round number 40, 40 years. You have
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40 years to become president. You can't do it in that timeframe. Then, uh, well, it just
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wasn't meant for you. And that's okay because you know, the vast majority of humans who have
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ever existed in America are not going to be president. So you're just going to be one
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of us. Um, all right. This is good stuff from a magazine called in these times, which
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is like a commie magazine from the sixties or something that's still around now as a website.
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And they ran an article calling out the, uh, the transphobes and it's titled transphobic
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violence doesn't happen in a vacuum. And you're not going to believe this, but, uh, they do
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criticize me in the article as a transphobe, you know, transphobe of the year. It's to be
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expected, mostly boilerplate stuff, calling out transphobes, et cetera. But what, what this
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one just takes up a notch because they throw the sweet baby gang into it. And I did, I did,
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we don't often see that included, but it does seem like they're finally discovering the sweet
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baby gang cult and they're not happy about it. So this is some of the articles is notoriously
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anti-trans daily wire host, Matt Walsh speaks frequently to his audience of millions about
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the horrors of drag and gender ideology, including right after the club Q massacre at Walsh's rally
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to end child mutilation in Nashville, uh, last October attendees, not dressed in proud boy or
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other militia branded clothing or wearing gear referencing the quote sweet baby gang, a name
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some of Walsh's followers used to refer to themselves. Walsh, the demagogue has his constituency
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clad in his image. The vilification creates an enemy and a scapegoat. Now that a constituency is
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formed, the demagogue may proceed to heighten the rhetoric and disinformation creating and vilifying
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an enemy. Quote, the hated target is first denigrated writes Burlett, then, uh, I don't know,
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some author then vilified, then demonized and finally dehumanized. A constituency created
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through the weaponization of shared rhetoric, rhetoric, like the avid fan base that listens
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to Matt Walsh every day is primed to hear that an already targeted group is the cause of their
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ills. For Christian nationalists, the targeted scapegoat is often said to harbor or outright be
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the antichrist. Well, yeah, they are the antichrist, but you see, um, the point is that if you're in
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the sweet baby gang, then you are under my control. You have played right into my hands. You're being
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manipulated for my dastardly purposes. That's what they're claiming. And every member of the
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SPG is thinking and listening to that and thinking, well, yeah, that's the whole idea. Although I do,
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I do like the term constituency. So I'm sort of thinking about sweet baby gang. Should it be the
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sweet baby constituency? Got kind of a mafia-esque ring to it. Maybe we'll stick, we'll stick with
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the gang. I think, um, I also have this, uh, video that I've had for a couple of days. Maybe
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you've seen it circulating. I just think it's pretty extraordinary and it's a great lesson for
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all of us. This is a self-described quote unquote non-binary TikToker who came out as non-binary to
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her family and yet has found that her grandmother is not going along with it. So granny ain't having
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it basically. Uh, the TikToker then reads a letter that her grandma wrote to her, which we're supposed
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to see the letter is like horrible and bigoted. It was actually one of the best examples of real
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maternal love that I've heard in quite some time. So I want to go ahead and play that for you. Here it
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is. Hi. So recently I texted my parents because I'm going to go home for Christmas. And I said,
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Hey, do you mind calling me Mike when I come back for Christmas? And then when I got home today,
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I got this letter from my grandma and it is addressed to miss old name. Not actually,
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but you know, I don't want to say my real name on the internet. Dearest dead name on this, our
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blessed mother's feast day. I am writing to tell you that I will not address you as Mike. My decision
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is probably not a surprise to you. Others may comply with your request. My anguish in your chosen name
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and what that means has to do with your eternal soul. Know that I love you more than words could ever
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possibly convey to you. No matter how you decide to identify yourself does not change my deep love
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for you, honey. Because of my concerns for your soul and your mental health, I am spending more time
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with Jesus in adoration. The, my cousin's last names are doing the same for you. Um, then she lists my one,
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two, three, four, five cousins that are below the age of 10 who are apparently, um, offering up special
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personal sacrifices for me, who I didn't tell, um, that I wanted to go by Mike. I didn't want to. I haven't
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talked with your godmother and her family, but I'm sure they would do the same for you. Do you know how much you
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are cherished and loved? It would be a joy to see you and be with you during the, I mean, Christmas,
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Uh, that is what, what love sounds like. That is true maternal and Christian love. That's exactly
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what it sounds like from the grandmother. And this fits right into the theme of the show today,
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I guess, about being a direct to the point and being honest and truthful. And that's exactly what
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this grandmother is doing for her granddaughter. Something that, um, from the sound of it seems like
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most people in her life are not willing to do. And this young lady is, um, going to be very upset
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because she wants to engage in something self-destructive and she wants people to cooperate with her
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delusion. And right now she is guarding that delusion jealously because she sees it as, uh,
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she sees it, she wants it to be her identity and she sees it as her salvation. You know, whatever
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she's trying to escape, she sees this as the way to escape it. And so anyone doesn't go along with it,
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she's going to lash out and, uh, and be very angry and sad about it. But what we can hope and pray is
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that, uh, and I think that there's a good chance of this, that, uh, as this young lady grows up,
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eventually she's going, and this might happen when the grandmother is dead. You know, this might, this
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might be after the, this might be years later after the grandmother has already, has gone on to her
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reward. But, uh, there will come a time, I believe and hope when she will look back and realize
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that her grandmother was perhaps the only person in her life who really loved her.
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Um, and this, that's what this love does is like this great, the grandmother obviously wants a
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relationship with her grandchild, obviously loves her, obviously wants to get along with her, wants
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to see her and wants, wants everything to be happy and fine. But she's willing to sacrifice that for
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the time being for the sake of, uh, her grandchild's mental, physical, and spiritual wellbeing in the long
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run. And she's even willing because this grandmother obviously knows what's going on as a
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very intelligent person. And so she knows that there's a possibility that this could sever the
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relationship for the rest of the grandmother's life. And so if the time ever comes when that love
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really sinks in and, and, and this, the, the, the girl has an awakening, the grandmother might not even
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be around to see it, but this is the legacy that she's leaving behind. She is sacrificing something
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in the moment for the sake of the girl's, uh, you know, ultimate betterment and for her salvation.
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That's, that's what, that's what love is. That's what it sounds like. Um, it's no different than if,
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you know, you're on a ship at sea with someone and, uh, let's say the grandmother, maybe the
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grandmother and the grandchild are on a cruise together. And, uh, and the, the, the girl says
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that, you know, she identifies suddenly as a dolphin. And so she's going to jump into the ocean
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and, you know, she's going to jump into the middle of the sea and swim like a dolphin, you know,
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the most loving response, obviously, no matter how much the girl believes that about herself,
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no matter how much she wants to be seen as a sea creature, no matter how much she wants to be
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seen that way, it's not true. And so if the grandmother goes along with it, all she's doing
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is condemning this child to, to drown in the depths of the ocean as she jumps in and, uh, and drowns.
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It's like, so is that love to condemn someone to sink into the dark depths of the ocean and die?
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But that is exactly what many people are doing to, to kids in the name of so-called love,
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condemning them to sink into the darkness and despair and drown and die.
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If you really love someone and you really care, you're going to be willing to tell them the truth.
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All right. A little bit of a lighter note as we, uh, before we get to the comment section,
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Sam Smith is back on TV again, and I'm loathe to play any more clips involving this freaking guy,
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but I have to play this, um, as an angler myself, it just irked me. And so I can't help but play it.
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Yeah, yeah. I'd love to be a fisher, fisher them.
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I'd, I'd be, I'd be any type of fisher them. I think I would like to, one day I'd just like to end my days fishing.
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I do it on the sea and I do it in the lakes. I've never done it alone.
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Um, that's the kind of thing, like, if I found out that, uh, Sam Smith is a, is an angler, considers himself one.
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I would say that as a, that's a joke that I would come up with to make fun of him.
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This is as, as, as these people just continue to be, to, to, uh, get to a point where it's just beyond,
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there's no way to even satirize or mock them anymore effectively because it's beyond parody and mockery.
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He can't be saying it as a joke because then what would the punchline be?
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The punchline would be, you know, the, the non-binary craze.
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So this is what, how he actually wants to be referred to.
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Um, and I'm sorry, I don't, I don't buy Sam Smith as a fisherman or fisher them.
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I know he's not, maybe he's been out a couple of times.
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And, uh, you know, for them fishing is like, you know, just a, uh, uh, a spin cast reel,
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throwing it out into the middle of the, of the lake with a bobber on there.
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And it's like, you know, that, that's the kind of thing that he's, he's doing actual
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I'll tell you why I know he's not a fisher, fisherman, um, it's because the, what makes
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fishing enjoyable is that, you know, it's just like, it makes many hobbies enjoyable.
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It's one of the fundamental joys of it is that you're, you're not thinking about yourself.
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You are, um, focusing and concentrating on something other than yourself.
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You know, it's the, it's the craft and the skill of fishing.
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But we know that a narcissist like that could never find joy in that because everything has
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Everything has to be about his own self-obsessions.
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So anything that takes him out of that is going to be very disturbing.
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So I do not accept him in the angler community.
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We're a welcoming community for the most part, but we, we do draw the line somewhere.
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If you're a man, it's required that you grow up in hay with a sweet baby gang.
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LFTR says, my girlfriend liked Chelsea Handler and showed me some of, uh, the reality show
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Chelsea had done that, that followed her daily life.
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About five minutes in, I had realized I was watching one of the saddest and most miserable
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At six minutes, I had succumbed to Handler poisoning and had to go stand in the sunlight
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First of all, your girlfriend likes Chelsea Handler.
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I'm not saying you should break up with her on the spot because of that.
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There are worse reasons to break up with someone, but I'm not necessarily recommending it,
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So I would go to her today and say, listen, we need to talk about this Chelsea Handler stuff.
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How could you sit and watch, bad enough to watch her give an unfunny monologue, but you
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want to watch and just watch her live her daily life?
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It's not, it's, that's, that's the one thing.
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Yeah, it's, it's, as we've reviewed, it's just sad and pathetic and trying to convince
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everyone that she's happy, but it's also just the life that she's living.
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Um, so at the very least, if you are, you say you're going to be childless or you're not
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going to get married, you're not going to do any of that.
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The most interesting thing you can think to do with this quote unquote freedom that you
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have, because, uh, there's no one in your life that you care about and love.
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And there's no one who loves and cares you, cares about you.
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I don't, but okay, let's call it freedom for a minute.
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So the most interesting thing you can think to do with it is like to go to tourist spots.
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Go do some, I mean, go, uh, I don't know, go explore some unexplored part of the Amazon
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That's a reality show that I would watch actually drop Chelsea Handler off in the Amazon.
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I don't think it's a show that would last very long, but, uh, for as long as it lasts,
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My stepdad is a mountaineer who's done four of the seven summits and many other high mountains,
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and he still does it even with work, even with kids, even with gymnastics competitions
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that my sister has or mountain bike races my brother and I have.
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He's still actively there for us and prioritizes that, that, that over other things, but he also
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Um, you don't need to give up, you know, again, I mean, if there are things that you
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like to do that are unhealthy and not good and you shouldn't be doing, um, then like
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binge drinking, for example, that is something that you should give up when you have, you
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Well, certainly if you have kids, you should give it up.
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But if there's real, like, wholesome, fruitful hobbies and things that you like to do, there's
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just no reason why you actually have to give up any of that when you have kids.
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Um, you have to put it, you have to, uh, be a little more intentional with your time.
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You have to plan things out more than you normally would, but that's also not a bad thing.
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Um, it's just a, it's just a matter of like reprioritizing, but there's no reason, especially
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if there's two of you, this is one of the, this is a one of the many advantages of having
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children with someone and getting married and staying married because now there's two
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of you and that's also going to, and if you're on the same page and you're on the same team
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and you're looking out for each other and you're both realize, you know, both spouses
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realize that the other needs break sometimes and needs to be, it needs to be able to get
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Um, and, uh, and so if you have that, then there's no reason why you can't do all of those
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And that also gives you things that as your kids get older, you can incorporate them into those,
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Uh, William says about, uh, Chelsea Handler, like Norman O'Donnell said, women aren't good
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Yeah, well, I think it's, I mean, it is a fact that male comedians tend to be funnier.
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You know, this is one of those many, one of the, one of the many, uh, controversial statements
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that, that people act as though it's controversial, even though everyone knows that it's true and
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Like if you were to make a list of the twenties, 20 funniest comedians of all time, everybody
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everybody's list, everyone's list would be a little bit different, but everyone's list
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Um, and if we weren't such a sensitive society, we might be able to have a conversation about
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why that's the case because it is an interesting phenomenon.
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You know, Christopher Hitchens back years ago wrote an article about this, about how women
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aren't funny and, uh, and people were very upset about that.
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And his argument was kind of, um, and this is not a surprise coming to Christopher Hitchens.
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He, he saw it as kind of an evolutionary adaptation that men tend to be funnier because, um, they
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Whereas, whereas for women, it's not like that because men aren't typically ranking funniness
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high on the list of qualities that they need in a woman.
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Now, a good sense of humor, men want that.
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You certainly don't want to be with like a woman who's shrill and has no sense of humor
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Uh, you don't want to be like a feminist, for example, but a good sense of humor doesn't
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Really, it means that you're going to, are you going to laugh at our jokes?
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Um, so I don't know, there might be something to that.
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I think also female comedians, um, first of all, they tend, not always, but they tend to
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structure their comedy around being masculine and man-like.
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So it's a lot of, uh, a lot of jokes that are based, that basically boil down to, hey,
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This is what men usually do, but I'm doing it.
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So it's a lot of that kind of thing and it gets kind of pathetic.
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And then also I think self-deprecation is an essential ingredient in being funny.
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Um, really funny comedians are extremely self-deprecating.
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They're willing to make themselves the butt of the joke, but in particular, these feminist
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comedians, they really struggle in that regard.
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You heard in the Chelsea Handler clip yesterday, uh, one of the first, I don't know, jokes
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that she makes is how she, she looks in the mirror and admires herself for being such a
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It's supposed to be a kind of girl power empowerment thing.
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Um, it's supposed to elicit, uh, clapping applause more than laughter.
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And it's just, it's not funny like self-confidence, especially pretend self-confidence isn't funny.
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And if you can't laugh at yourself and see yourself as absurd, then you're not going to
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And I think that's one of the many problems that, uh, Chelsea Handler has.
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Uh, finally, Captain Everyman says, dude, please, there is no utter disgrace in playing
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You continue the tradition of conservatives being race baiters and undercover totalitarians.
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The Star Spangled Banner is not appropriate for everyone.
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It's a song written by a slave owner in 1812 that declared the U.S. the land of the free
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while my ancestors were held in bondage as chattel slaves.
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The words of our national anthem speak to what the U.S. should not be.
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Lift every voice and sing speaks to what the U.S. should be.
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I'm sorry, what part of the national anthem speaks to what the U.S. should not be?
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Should it not be land of the free, home of the brave?
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Now, your criticism, is your criticism that those words were written when it wasn't true?
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Or is your criticism that the words shouldn't be true?
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Because your criticism can't be both of those things.
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It sounds like it's both, and that doesn't make a lot of sense.
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Also, I'm wondering, by the way, this standard that you've applied to the national anthem,
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where it was written and it's aspirational, talks about freedom and all these things.
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But these aspirational principles were not consistently applied to everyone.
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And so you say that means we need to throw out the national anthem.
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Like if I go and find other countries in the world that have their own national anthems
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that were written at a time when there was slavery and segregation, all that kind of stuff,
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are you going to say that those countries should also throw out their national anthems and get new ones?
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Because I think probably you would tell us it's just us.
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So you're again holding the United States to a standard that you don't hold any other country in the world.
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And certainly African countries you don't hold to that standard.
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And the utter disgrace is in giving racially segregated national anthems.
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National anthems are supposed to be about the nation, about unity.
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And having a black national anthem is meant to be, it's an attack on that very concept of national unity.
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So that's why it's a disgrace, just to be clear.
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All you really need to know is that Covator is yet another leftist rag,
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and it's another one that has decided to take a crack at answering the question of our time,
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They've had months to think about it, lots of time to reflect,
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to organize their thoughts, to plan what they're going to say.
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And this week they unleashed their answer in an article
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but you should know that Preston never really promises an answer exactly.
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an exploration of how transness can expand our understanding of gender.
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So we're not off to a great start, but Preston begins, quote,
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as trans women like me struggle to be seen and respected as women,
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the most frustrating conversation to witness has been the one
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It's a question that is so seemingly simple yet insidious at its core
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This question brings divisiveness into the fold as people connect semantics with biology.
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Linguistics and definitions become a hurdle for someone like me to overcome.
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There is a silent threat in those four simple words that aims to dismantle the logic
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We are dismantling the logic of transgenderism, and we're doing it with one single question.
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You know, an introspective person might here begin to wonder whether his logic is fatally flawed
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Preston has described a question as insidious and threatening and compared it to physical violence.
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Now, I have never in my life described a question that way, any question, or thought of any question that way.
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In fact, I quite welcome any question that anyone might ask about my ideas or my worldview
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because the question only gives me the opportunity to say more about my ideas and my worldview.
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Even if the question is asked in bad faith by someone not really interested in the answer,
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still, by asking it, they have given me the floor to speak.
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So, when the trans activist declares that he is threatened by a question,
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he's really saying that he is threatened by whatever might come out of his mouth in response to the question.
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But his worldview is so depraved and indefensible that it can only sound dumber and more depraved the more that he speaks.
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As it is, common definitions of woman are often associated with an adult human female.
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In other words, of or denoting the sex that can bear offspring or produce eggs.
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I lack the ability to bear offspring, to produce eggs, or to menstruate.
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And some people will use that very definition of woman as a weapon to attack the notion that I am deserving of womanhood.
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And to complement that, this logic insinuates that I and women like me are nothing more than men with a mental illness.
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To be a woman is much more nuanced and complicated than a mere biological function.
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This rhetoric continued on into June, Pride Month no less, as Matt Walsh, a right-wing political commentator,
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released his problematic documentary, What is a Woman?
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In this film, Matt Walsh asked various people, from politicians to medical professionals, what is a woman?
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He intended to poke holes into the trans movement with the mindless prejudices under the guise of common sense.
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It was portrayed that no one was able to give a universal definition of woman.
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The common response was that a woman is someone who identifies as a woman.
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And while this makes sense to me, Walsh makes a point to show that this violates the rule
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that you cannot define a word by using the same word or the definition,
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and ultimately puts into question the legitimacy that trans women are women.
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Yes, now you're getting it. That's exactly correct.
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You cannot define a word by using the word you're supposed to be defining.
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So, is this the part where Preston has his come-to-Jesus moment?
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Do the mental clouds open up, allowing the sun to peek through?
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As you can imagine, witnessing these conversations made me viscerally frustrated
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My womanhood was being perceived as having no logic or basis
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because the English language failed to support or encompass my experience as a woman.
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It was the obsession of some to debunk my womanly existence
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with the exclusion of trans women from a definition in the dictionary
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As politicians continued to argue my realness as well as assess my threat to society,
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I grew obsessed with wanting to define woman through a transgender lens
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I wondered if I was asked such a question, what would I say?
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There was a desire to go toe-to-toe with Walsh's pseudo-logic
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that trans women need to fit into a singular definition or otherwise we are not women.
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As I struggled to form an answer to Walsh's question,
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I couldn't help but feel like this was a clear indication
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that the English language sometimes does not appropriately grasp the nuances of gender.
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You know, it's not his logic that's the problem, it's the English language.
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So if he's struggling to use the language to defend and communicate his point,
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it must be because the language itself is deficient.
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This reminds me of the argument that I made to my math teacher in middle school
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when I failed to, you know, I failed all my algebra tests, basically.
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I tried to explain that if I fail the test, that it must mean that there's something wrong with algebra.
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Whatever it is, it certainly can't be that I'm just bad at math.
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Just as with Preston, whatever is the source of his inability to articulate his own point of view,
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the problem simply cannot be his point of view.
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And though the English language is woefully insufficient in conveying whatever the hell he's trying to convey,
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he does make the best of the situation at the end of the article,
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and he finally provides his own answer to the great question.
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And remember, he admits he's been thinking about this for a long time,
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gearing up for this, and this is what he comes up with.
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I am a woman because I know myself to be a woman.
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But that cannot and should not dictate my life or my experience with life.
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The definition of woman is found within me and within every person who identifies as a woman.
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And the meaning that I place upon that word is what I decide it to be.
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Suddenly, the word woman, something that was once aspirational but restrictive,
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now feels limitless because I no longer need to fit into someone else's understanding of gender
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simply because they lack the language to even begin to comprehend me.
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I and every other single woman is a walking, changing, growing definition
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of what it means to be a woman, and no two will ever be the same.
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Okay, so this is a good time for what I call the toaster oven test.
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If I can take the definition of woman that you have just offered,
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and I can swap out woman with toaster oven,
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I am a toaster oven because I know myself to be a toaster oven.
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But that cannot and should not dictate my life or my experience with life.
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The definition of toaster oven is often found within me
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and within every person who identifies as a toaster oven.
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And the meaning that I place upon that word is what I decide it to be.
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something that was once aspirational but restrictive,
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now feels limitless because I no longer need to fit into someone else's understanding of kitchen appliances
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simply because they lack the language to even begin to comprehend me.
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I and every single other toaster oven is a walking, changing, growing definition
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or there is something wrong with the way you're defining your terms.
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And I feel pretty confident that the latter is the case.
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I am a woman because I know myself to be a woman is not a valid definition,
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You can only know yourself to be something if you are that thing.
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You are therefore trying to prove you are a woman
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by offering evidence that can only be convincing to us
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if we accept the very premise that we are challenging.
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You cannot know that your inner experience is that of a woman
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unless you are a woman and have access to a woman's inner experience.
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This is where we start going around in a circle.
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that you are something if you don't know what that thing is?
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And that is also why this writer and this magazine
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