The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 121 - That Viral Feminist Song Shows Everything Wrong With Feminism

00:00:00.900 So, I'm afraid I traumatized my poor son this morning.

00:00:07.480 There was a bee that flew up onto the porch and it was on the window, and the twins were

00:00:14.140 arguing.

00:00:14.940 They were looking at the bee and they were arguing with each other about whether or not

00:00:17.660 it's a boy bee or a girl bee.

00:00:20.320 And of course, my daughter was saying it's a girl bee, my son was saying it's a boy bee.

00:00:23.920 And so, I told them that, no, it's definitely a girl bee because boy bees, they don't leave 0.99

00:00:29.980 the hive.

00:00:30.400 They don't have stingers.

00:00:31.240 They just, they hang around the hive all day.

00:00:32.860 They don't do anything.

00:00:33.620 That's what boy bees do. 0.98

00:00:34.900 And my son was very upset by this.

00:00:38.000 He was in tears.

00:00:39.540 And then my daughter proceeds to chase him around the house saying, you're just like a boy bee. 1.00

00:00:44.660 You don't do anything.

00:00:45.880 Girls do everything. 1.00

00:00:46.920 So, I bring up that story just to show you that you may think I'm not enlightened and

00:00:54.880 that I would never raise a feminist, but in fact, I am, as you can clearly see.

00:00:59.860 Speaking of feminism, so, I happened to see on Facebook yesterday this video, and last 1.00

00:01:07.560 I saw it had like 18 or 20 million views on Facebook in just a couple of days, then 70

00:01:13.420 or 80,000 retweets on Twitter, and it's about, it's by a woman, and I think her name is Linz,

00:01:21.620 and it's meant to sort of mock and satirize all of the people who are saying that now is

00:01:29.420 a scary time for guys because of the prospect of having your life ruined by false accusations.

00:01:34.600 Well, Linz, like all feminists, thinks that it's hilarious, that anyone would have any sympathy 1.00

00:01:40.000 for guys whatsoever. The idea that it's a scary time for guys, well, she finds it, like she

00:01:46.420 and all the other feminists, they find it completely hilarious. So, she wrote this song airing her 0.99

00:01:51.920 grievances, talking about how hard it is for women, all the things that women can't do because 0.99

00:01:58.960 they're women, as opposed to men who can do everything. So, I can't play the song for you, 1.00

00:02:04.640 but I will, and I'll do you a favor, and I won't sing it for you. So, instead, I'll just read you

00:02:09.380 some of the lyrics just so you can understand what it's about, because this song is resonating

00:02:14.460 quite a bit with a lot of people. So, some of the lyrics, it's a little spoken word poetry here for

00:02:19.860 you. The song says, I can't walk to my car late at night while on the phone. I can't open up my

00:02:26.820 windows when I'm home alone. I can't go to a bar without a chaperone, and I can't wear a miniskirt if

00:02:32.600 it's the only one I own. Tell me about it. I know the feeling. I can't use public transportation

00:02:38.100 after 7 p.m. I can't be brutally honest when you slide into my DMs. I can't go to the club just to

00:02:44.780 dance with my friends, and I can't ever leave my drink unattended. But it sure is a scary time for

00:02:50.740 boys. Yeah, gentlemen, band together, make some noise. It's really tough when your reputation's on

00:02:56.060 the line, and any woman you've assaulted could turn up any time. What else? Okay. I can't live

00:03:04.180 in an apartment if it's on the first floor. I can't be wearing silk pajamas when I answer the door.

00:03:09.340 I can't have another drink even if I want more. I can't make you feel invalid, unseen, or ignored.

00:03:15.200 I can't jog around the city with my headphones on my ears. I can't speak out against my rapist after 35

00:03:20.340 years. I can't be taken seriously if I'm holding back tears, and I can't ever speak earnestly about

00:03:25.920 all my fears. Okay. And in fairness, the song is catchier than it sounds when you just read the

00:03:33.940 lyrics. It's a catchy little tune, and I would even say it's a clever song, but it's also completely

00:03:41.700 wrong and cynical and manipulative and dishonest. So let's go through this, all the claims, all the

00:03:48.400 things that she says she can't do. And this is, she's just echoed. This is kind of the feminist

00:03:52.240 talking point. She's just putting it all to music. She said she can't open her windows. She can't walk 0.91

00:03:57.520 to her car late at night. She can't go to a bar without a chaperone. She can't wear a miniskirt.

00:04:01.180 She can't be brutally honest. She can't dance with her friends. She can't leave a drink unattended. 0.61

00:04:05.120 She can't live in a first floor apartment. She can't wear pajamas when she answers the door. She can't 1.00

00:04:09.380 jog with earphones in. She can't make somebody feel ignored. I don't know why that has to do with the

00:04:13.900 other things, but that's what she can't do. Well, here's the thing. First of all, if she really can't

00:04:21.020 do most of these things, that's a reflection, not of her gender, but of where she lives.

00:04:28.240 If you really can't do any of those things safely where you live, then you should move. If you can,

00:04:34.660 you should definitely move. Because that means it's basically unsafe for you to live a normal human

00:04:41.480 existence. And if you have a choice, I would definitely say, go find somewhere else to live.

00:04:45.940 If you can't even open your own windows or go for a jog, then you just live in a very unsafe place

00:04:53.620 and you shouldn't live there. But here's the important point. If it is an unsafe place,

00:05:02.140 if it is such a violent and crime-ridden place, so violent and crime-ridden that you can't,

00:05:09.960 you have to worry every time you answer your door, you can't open your windows, so on and so forth,

00:05:13.980 then that means it's also unsafe for men. If it is statistically unsafe for a woman to open her 0.97

00:05:21.520 windows in a particular part of town, then it's also unsafe for men. We're not bulletproof, okay?

00:05:29.020 We're not superheroes. We can also be hurt and killed, and we are all the time.

00:05:34.800 The statistics show that, in fact, men are at a greater risk of being the victims of violent crime

00:05:41.180 than women. So we also would have these same concerns if we lived in a really unsafe place. 1.00

00:05:48.360 Yet, I think we all know that even though she's listing all these things she can't do,

00:05:54.820 we all know that she probably does almost all of those things all the time. She's saying,

00:05:59.560 I can't, all these things she's saying she can't do, she almost certainly does. Most women do. 0.90

00:06:06.620 Women wear miniskirts all the time. What is this? Women can't wear miniskirts. What are you talking 1.00

00:06:10.120 about? Am I just seeing things? I mean, am I imagining this? It seems as though women wear 1.00

00:06:15.060 that kind of stuff all the time. Women can't dance with their friends. I don't know. I feel like that's 1.00

00:06:20.900 something women do all the time. Women can't open up their windows. My wife opens up the windows in 1.00

00:06:24.680 her house all the time. Should I be telling her not to? You can't wear pajamas when you answer the

00:06:29.820 door. Well, I mean, I think that you should probably, it's just, it's good decorum to not

00:06:36.440 answer the door in pajamas, I feel like. I mean, I'm a, you know, I'm not a, I'm a, I'm a pajama

00:06:43.640 critic. I think pajamas belong at night, in the home, when you're sleeping, but at that, but then you

00:06:49.140 take them, but then you put on regular clothes after that. That's my feeling. You don't go out in public

00:06:52.600 and pajamas. And I wouldn't answer the door in pajamas. I'd rather be wearing regular clothes.

00:06:57.920 But I don't even, so you're, you're worried that if you answer the door in pajamas, you'll be

00:07:02.420 assaulted? Can't live in a first floor apartment. Well, women live in first floor apartments all the 1.00

00:07:09.060 time. I lived with my wife in a first floor apartment. We never even, we never worried about

00:07:12.800 it. We never even thought about it. It was a safe area. I see women jogging with headphones in

00:07:17.600 all the time in my neighborhood, all the time. It's a perfectly normal thing.

00:07:22.600 As far as making people feel ignored or invalidated, I feel like women can in fact do that. I feel as,

00:07:28.660 in fact, I think that women do that to each other quite a bit. 1.00

00:07:35.560 But the rest of it though, if you live in a reasonably safe area, it's perfectly fine.

00:07:42.240 With a few exceptions. You know, it's a good policy not to leave a drink unattended. It's a good policy

00:07:47.540 not to have another drink. If you've reached your limit, it's a good policy not to walk to your door,

00:07:52.460 to your car late at night through a dimly lit parking lot while on the phone, because you

00:07:56.800 should have situational awareness and you should be aware of your surroundings. So that's a good

00:08:00.640 policy for everyone, men and women included. Again, I remind you, men are not bulletproof.

00:08:05.660 We can also be mugged and killed and shot. And again, we are all the time. It happens to men all

00:08:10.860 the time. It happens to men more frequently than it happens to women. So what is the point of a song like

00:08:18.200 this? What's the point of, when feminists do this in general, what's the point of painting this picture 1.00

00:08:22.960 where women can barely leave their homes without being killed or kidnapped? Well, we see, well, 0.87

00:08:31.120 with this song, first of all, the first point is to make a straw, it's just one big straw man

00:08:34.660 argument. It's to make a straw man out of the concerns that men have. The way that she reconfigures 1.00

00:08:41.280 it is that men, the thing that we're worried about as men, the thing that men are worried about is 0.84

00:08:46.580 that they can't rape anyone and get away with it. That's how she has interpreted. And that's how

00:08:54.640 feminists in general are interpreting the concerns that men have. Well, of course, no, that's not our 1.00

00:09:00.060 concern. Our concern is that we will be accused of doing something like that, even though we have not

00:09:06.320 done that thing. I don't know. Why is this so difficult to understand? What's so hard about

00:09:12.080 understanding this? It's not about we can't get away with it. It's about we could be accused of

00:09:18.180 something we didn't do. I feel like, am I speaking Greek? I think I'm speaking English. It should be a

00:09:24.040 pretty easy thing to understand. That's the concern. It does happen. And so men are worried about it.

00:09:29.860 They have every reason to be worried about it. Worried about it, especially because

00:09:35.120 we are told, believe all women. So that means that all it takes is for a woman to tell a story

00:09:45.700 about us and we're finished. That's all it takes because you're the one saying, believe all women. 1.00

00:09:52.900 That's the scary thing. But beyond that, I think we see here the ugliest and most cynical 0.97

00:10:04.820 aspect of feminism on full display because it operates on division and fear. It wants to make 1.00

00:10:12.960 women afraid of men on one hand. And then also on the other hand, it wants to make them resentful of 1.00

00:10:21.420 their own children. That's the other goal of feminism. So you see how isolating, not that this 1.00

00:10:31.920 song had nothing to do with that part of it, but this song is making women afraid of men. And then 0.99

00:10:38.620 also the other part of feminism is resenting your own children. So this feminism has this isolating 1.00

00:10:43.940 effect, I think. You see how it isolates women. It divides them from men and from children. So from 0.86

00:10:50.200 everyone. And it's no wonder that feminists are bitter because it's a very isolating thing to be 1.00

00:10:58.520 a feminist. They've been indoctrinated into this worldview that tells them that everyone is out to 0.99

00:11:05.800 kill them or steal their autonomy. That's how they see the world. Men are rapists, children are parasites.

00:11:13.200 What a horrible way to live. Again, it's no wonder that feminists are so miserable and bitter and 1.00

00:11:20.880 angry. Think about living that way. Think about going through your life, seeing the world that way, 1.00

00:11:27.300 seeing people that way. It's a horrible thing. Another point, and I think this is worth mentioning,

00:11:35.360 if you're really worried about your safety, if you're worried about answering your front door or

00:11:42.820 walking down the sidewalk, there is something else you could do. Well, number one, like I said,

00:11:49.020 you could move if it really is unsafe. If you don't live in an unsafe area and you have all those

00:11:54.260 concerns, you feel like you can't open a window, walk down the sidewalk, then I would say you probably

00:11:58.120 need some medication. You're extremely paranoid. But when it comes to more reasonable fears, and we all

00:12:04.360 have certain fears, and you could have reasonable fears, or you could want reasonably to take certain

00:12:09.800 precautions, when it comes to that, well, here's another idea. Get a gun and a permit to carry it.

00:12:17.840 See, this is where the train kind of derails for leftists, because on one hand, they try to instill

00:12:23.640 this fear into you, whether it's through something like this or when they tell you that there have been

00:12:28.700 whatever, 600 school shootings in a year, you know, when they are cynically and dishonestly

00:12:34.120 inflating the statistics of mass shootings. And they're doing all that. The idea is to make you

00:12:38.920 afraid. So they do that. But then they also tell you you don't need a gun. So they tell you it's

00:12:48.020 unsafe to open your front door, it's unsafe to go out in public, because there might be a mass shooting.

00:12:53.060 But then they'll laugh at you if you even suggest that perhaps you need a gun. So which is it?

00:12:59.180 I feel like you got to choose between those two narratives. Either it's insane to buy a gun and

00:13:05.520 nobody needs it, or we live in an incredibly dangerous, violent world. And if you even crack

00:13:13.800 your window open, somebody might sneak in through it and murder you. Like, it's really either one or

00:13:18.400 the other, right? You can't do both. Final thing I'll say. My point here is not to completely dismiss

00:13:31.420 the concerns that women may have. I fully admit and I agree that women have to be more cautious 1.00

00:13:38.420 in certain situations than men do. Women are more vulnerable in certain ways and in certain

00:13:47.320 situations. I fully, I agree with that. I don't like for my wife to walk across a dimly lit parking 0.98

00:13:54.580 lot at night if we can help it by herself. If someone has to go walk the dog at night, take the

00:14:01.920 dog out in the middle of the night, I'm going to be the one to do it. Even though we live in a safe

00:14:06.260 area, but still, I'd prefer for it to be me. If someone has to go check on a strange noise in the

00:14:11.560 middle of the night, well, I'm going to be the one to go do it. If there's someone we don't recognize

00:14:15.780 knocking on the door, well, I'll be the one to answer it. Even though, you know, 99.99999% chance,

00:14:23.460 everything will be fine, but still. If one of us does have to encounter, you know, someone who means

00:14:33.000 us harm, it would be better for it to be me because I'm the bigger and stronger person, right?

00:14:39.340 But the problem with, with, with, um, the kind of rhetoric in this song and the kind of rhetoric

00:14:44.600 from feminists generally is that it's absurdly exaggerated for one thing. So they greatly

00:14:49.440 exaggerated, but for another, the feminist who makes this case does not believe that men should

00:14:56.360 step in and be in that protector kind of role. The conclusion they want us to draw is that men

00:15:02.480 are horrible rapists. That's what they want us to, that's what they want us to conclude. 0.99

00:15:07.100 But the conclusion that we should draw is that there are bad people in the world, yes, and women 1.00

00:15:12.300 are less physically capable of warding off those bad people, especially if they're unarmed because

00:15:18.060 they're not as strong and they're not as big. Therefore, men should be ready and willing to step in

00:15:24.080 and do that. That's the conclusion we should draw. That's the right conclusion. But that's exactly

00:15:31.000 the conclusion that feminists don't want you to come to. See, whatever glimmer of a legitimate point 1.00

00:15:38.560 might be buried underneath the feminist rhetoric like this, uh, when they talk about the fears and 1.00

00:15:45.320 concerns that women have, there, there is, there is a, there is a, a, a certain morsel of truth to what 1.00

00:15:51.160 they're saying. But the problem is, is that it's buried under so much exaggeration and then also

00:15:59.360 under so much resentment for men that it just destroys, uh, whatever value it might have

00:16:05.720 because they are insistent that whatever happens, we must not resort to anything that resembles

00:16:14.240 traditional gender roles. And, and it's that insistence on their part. It's the insistence that 0.94

00:16:18.640 we cannot have anything that's close to traditional gender roles where men are being protective or

00:16:22.840 anything. Can't do that. Also, by the way, can't have gun rights. So it's, it's, it's, it's, when they

00:16:29.900 do that, that's what destroys, it's what makes all of this. It just makes it pointless. It destroys the

00:16:35.820 point they're trying to make.

00:16:36.800 And by the way, it also hinders any possibility of, of coming up with a practical solution.

00:16:52.400 Like when they talk about all the fears that women have, even, even if it's exaggerated

00:16:56.380 and all this stuff, and then you say, okay, well then what should we do about it?

00:17:00.120 You know, so, okay, let's take that. Then, then maybe, uh, maybe you should look into how to do,

00:17:09.200 you know, self-defense. Um, maybe you should avoid this or that situation. Like, let me, I'm going to

00:17:13.980 take your concerns seriously. Here are some things that can be done potentially to make you safer.

00:17:19.760 But the moment you do that, they shout, oh, you're victim blaming. No victim blaming.

00:17:23.920 The only thing they want to hear is, well, go, then go tell men not to be rapists.

00:17:34.080 That's what we should do. That's, that's the solution is to teach men not to rape, 1.00

00:17:38.460 which is the stupidest thing. It's stupid because number one, the vast majority of men are not rapists. 1.00

00:17:44.600 So they don't need that lesson. They don't need to be told that. And the men who, and the small 1.00

00:17:49.980 minority of men who are rapists, they aren't going to stop just because we tell them it's there. It's

00:17:55.920 not like they're rapists because of a misunderstanding. Okay. They didn't become rapists

00:18:00.560 because nobody ever told them not to rape. That's not the issue here. So teaching men not to rape

00:18:05.740 is a completely pointless, stupid thing to say. Um, because it's irrelevant to the men who have no 1.00

00:18:14.960 interest in raping and would not rape. And it's also irrelevant to the actual rapists because they know

00:18:20.760 they shouldn't be doing it yet. They're doing it anyway, because they are evil, bad, terrible people. 0.99

00:18:26.020 So the question is, um, we know there are evil, there are evil, bad, terrible people out there.

00:18:35.500 That's just a fact of the matter. And we can scold them for being evil. We can, um, try to reeducate

00:18:41.620 them all we want. It's not going to make a damn bit of difference. So then we have to say to

00:18:46.820 ourselves, men and women, we have to say, what can we do to reasonably protect ourselves from those

00:18:55.040 kinds of people? And I think men should do this too. Let's flip this around for a minute. I would

00:19:02.200 say the same thing to men when it comes to false rape accusations. False rape accusations are terrible.

00:19:09.000 They're unfair, but I wouldn't say, well, we have to teach women not to do, not to make false rape 1.00

00:19:14.940 accusations. The women, most women would never do it anyway. Uh, but the small minority of women who 1.00

00:19:20.440 would resort to that, they know they shouldn't do it. So there's no teaching them not to, they know

00:19:25.620 they shouldn't yet they do it. So recognizing that reality, there are certain things that, that men

00:19:31.340 should do it. And it's, and it's not victim, placing a blame on, on, uh, on the victims of false

00:19:36.600 accusations to say that. But men should be careful, uh, about the situations that they put themselves in

00:19:43.680 so that they can insulate themselves from the possibility as much as possible of false rape

00:19:50.500 accusations. So this is something that everyone should do. And if you're not interested in talking

00:19:56.140 about the steps that we as individuals can take to protect ourselves, if you're not interested in

00:20:03.360 talking about that, then why, why did you even bring up the subject? That's the question.

00:20:10.280 All right. Um, thanks for watching. Thanks for listening, everybody. Godspeed.

The Matt Walsh Show - October 09, 2018

Ep. 121 - That Viral Feminist Song Shows Everything Wrong With Feminism

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