A major publication publishes an article claiming that MAGA Republicans are more dangerous than Hamas. Also, a Senate Republican has been holding up senior military promotions in an effort to stop tax money from being used to facilitate abortions for military members. And a restaurant in Georgia goes viral with a surcharge for parents. We ll talk about all that and more today on The Matt Walsh Show.
00:00:00.000Today, The Matt Walsh Show, a major publication publishes an article claiming that MAGA Republicans, quote unquote, are more dangerous than Hamas.
00:00:06.320This is all part of a far ranging plan by the left to dehumanize and demonize their political opponents.
00:00:11.300And we all know where it leads and where it's supposed to lead.
00:00:13.680Also, a Senate Republican has been holding up senior military promotions in an effort to stop tax money from being used to facilitate abortions for military members.
00:00:21.520The battle over child gender mutilation finally makes it to the Supreme Court.
00:00:24.680And a restaurant in Georgia goes viral with a surcharge for parents.
00:00:28.120We'll talk about all that and more today on The Matt Walsh Show.
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00:02:01.780For nearly a month now, pretty much every college campus in the country has made it clear that decolonization means basically kill whitey.
00:02:10.140It's long been obvious this is always what the left meant by decolonization, as I outlined on this show a few weeks ago.
00:02:15.880But after Hamas' attack on Israel, activist groups have made it explicit.
00:02:20.220They want similar murders to happen in this country.
00:02:22.660They don't view their enemies as human.
00:02:25.040And they basically want them exterminated.
00:02:26.840Now, for its part, the establishment left didn't quite join in on these calls for violence, at least not directly and explicitly.
00:02:33.880But that's all starting to change, especially when you look at what was posted online at the outlet Salon yesterday, which passes for mainstream among leftists, I suppose.
00:02:44.060And it published an op-ed from a journalist named Brian Karam.
00:02:47.040Now, in no uncertain terms, the point of this op-ed is to justify the dehumanization of conservatives and, in particular, conservative Christians.
00:03:08.040What a lot of people are missing is that this op-ed is just the latest iteration of a long line of op-eds from this same guy in Salon that accused conservatives of being terrorists.
00:03:17.060In fact, just a month ago, Karam wrote a piece in Salon entitled, Hamas and the GOP are both terrorist groups.
00:04:02.100As melodramatic and deranged as that op-ed was, no one paid any attention to it whatsoever.
00:04:07.300So this week, Karam basically rewrote the same article, except he added a little more bite to it this time around.
00:04:13.780Before I get any further into specifics of this unhinged screed, it's important to emphasize a couple things.
00:04:19.920First of all, Karam is not an intern or a random troll or anything like that.
00:04:24.560But he's the former senior White House correspondent for Playboy.
00:04:28.660And for years, he's been a credentialed member of the White House press pool.
00:04:33.260This is one of the most coveted positions among mainstream journalists.
00:04:36.980Back when we had journalistic standards, it used to mean something to be a White House correspondent.
00:04:42.040But we don't have journalistic standards anymore.
00:04:44.100And so Brian Karam is free to publish op-eds saying that his domestic political opponents are worse than Hamas terrorists who kill civilians,
00:04:50.440while retaining his White House press credentials.
00:04:53.600In a serious country, if you write something like that, you're not going to be invited into the White House press pool.
00:04:59.240But again, we're not a serious country.
00:05:01.920The other important point to emphasize is that while I'm going to refer to Karam's writing specifically in this monologue,
00:05:09.580he's far from the only prominent figure on the left who feels this way.
00:05:13.100First of all, whatever editors still work at Salon had to approve his pieces and publish them.
00:05:19.280But more to the point, the leaders of the Democratic Party have been demonizing their political opponents using these terms and in this way for years
00:05:27.740and doing it in ways that are not that dissimilar to what Karam is doing.
00:05:31.900It was just a year ago, who could forget, that Joe Biden all but declared war on quote-unquote MAGA Republicans,
00:05:37.200calling them a threat to democracy for disagreeing with him.
00:07:07.780And so there he is, standing in front of the Marines with the blood-red backdrop, shaking his fists and telling the country that democracy means voting for Joe Biden.
00:07:15.640Everyone who doesn't vote for Joe Biden, by contrast, is a terrorist.
00:07:20.620And we saw that kind of rhetoric constantly last year, around the same time as Joe Biden's diatribe about MAGA Republicans, various outlets, including the Daily Beast, labeled me a stochastic terrorist.
00:07:30.740They use the same term to describe lives with TikTok and many others.
00:07:34.040And it's a term that means nothing, basically, but sounds vaguely intelligent, I guess, so you hear it all the time now.
00:07:59.100Quote, the House of Representatives, now run by Mike Johnson, offers a discount version of the apocalyptic orgasm that Holy Rollers have dreamed of for years.
00:08:07.200They've renewed the Inquisition and seem determined to convert the U.S. into a theocracy run by people who will thump you with the Bible but haven't read much of it.
00:08:16.880Now, at this point, you're probably wondering, where has that happened?
00:19:51.840If we take back the White House, we'll go back to the Mexico City policy, limiting dollars to be given to overseas entities that are engaged in the abortion business.
00:20:01.580Some pro-choice people don't like that.
00:20:04.540What would happen if they put a hold on all the officers because they don't agree with the Republican administration?
00:20:12.240Well, first of all, Lindsay, what will happen is, will Democrats do that in response to Tuberville blocking these promotions?
00:20:27.280If they decide they want to do it, they will do it anyway.
00:20:30.040They are not waiting for permission from Republicans.
00:20:34.260They don't need to have the precedent of Republicans doing something in order for them to do it.
00:20:39.020So if they decide that they want to advance their baby-killing agenda and it will help them in some way, you know, and holding up military promotions as a way that they could do that, then they'll do it.
00:20:55.800You know, they want to put another middle-aged woman into a senior military position and they won't be able to now for, they haven't been able to for a few months now.
00:22:17.260Because there are certainly a lot of women earning senior military positions these days.
00:22:23.880Almost as if they aren't earning the positions at all, but they're just being given those positions for political reasons.
00:22:28.800And regardless, even if all of these senior military officials are a bunch of wonderful, competent patriots, and not the left-wing bureaucrats that they almost certainly are,
00:22:42.820still, that wouldn't change anything or make Tupperville any less right or righteous in his stance.
00:22:49.400It is an absolute disgrace to force taxpayers to pay for military members to get abortions.
00:22:56.020We should be paying military members to protect innocent life, not destroy it.
00:23:02.700And this is not only wrong, but it's the kind of thing that severely compromises whatever moral authority we think we have on the world stage.
00:23:12.300I mean, is our military supposed to be the guardians of truth and justice and freedom, even as we use tax money to help them murder their own children?
00:23:25.300But the justification for this, what we're told by the left, like why we need to have this policy of paying, helping to facilitate the abortions for female service members,
00:23:34.560we're told that, hey, if we don't have this policy, then it's impossible for women to be in the military.
00:23:43.000Now, I don't think that's true, actually.
00:23:44.960I think that it's quite possible for women to be in the military without having tax funds facilitating their abortions.
00:23:55.060If you tell me that there is no way to have women in the military without without also paying to facilitate their abortions, if that is a requirement of entry.
00:24:05.100Well, then I guess we need to get women the hell out of the military.
00:24:32.200And the fact that he does not have, the fact that he doesn't have 100% support from his fellow Republicans is, just shows you how utterly worthless these people are.
00:24:47.600You know, yeah, the stance from every Republican should be, we're not doing a damn thing.
00:24:51.520If there is one single dime of tax money being used to help facilitate an abortion, we're not doing anything.
00:25:00.660We're not funding a single damn thing until that's gone.
00:25:06.220You should consider it a scandal of immense historic proportions for even one dime to be taken out of the pocket of a taxpayer and given to someone to help them kill their kid.
00:25:30.920I wanted to mention something about this.
00:25:32.340There's been a lot of talk on Twitter, though I imagine probably nowhere else, about Ron DeSantis and his boots.
00:25:40.240And not something I really wanted to talk about either, but it's just, it, it, eventually I get baited into talking about things when I get so annoyed by them.
00:26:02.400And I don't know if it's true or not, obviously, but that's the claim.
00:26:05.600And then he appeared on the podcast of Patrick Bet David.
00:26:10.480And Patrick Bet David brought it up, brought up this issue of the boots and kind of made fun of DeSantis and then made a big show of giving DeSantis new shoes.
00:26:19.700Right, to make a joke about the lifts and the shoes.
00:26:24.600And, you know, I have to say, I have no issue with Patrick Bet David.
00:28:15.640And that is one of the seemingly kind of unspoken things here that, you know, if it's true that DeSantis wears lifts in his boots, I don't know if it is, it is also definitely the kind of thing that Trump would do.
00:28:30.880I mean, he wouldn't do that specific thing because he's tall, and so he wouldn't do that.
00:28:35.280But we all know that just in general, doing something to, you know, accommodate for what you consider to be a physical flaw or whatever, like, sure, Trump would.
00:29:11.900I'm just saying that all of these things, the hair, the makeup, the lifts in the boots, if that's even true, they're all in the same category, okay?
00:29:42.240I've been watching over the last, I don't know, maybe 10 days or so, and there are these gotcha people, these people who just want to sit there and they want to talk about how tall you are, whether you're wearing boots with, what do they call it, heel extenders inside?
00:29:55.820I mean, Governor, the southern border is a disaster.
00:30:00.480Terrorists are coming across the border.
00:30:02.320We got two wars that we're kind of funding, and they want to talk about how tall you are.
00:31:13.640But the mistake from DeSantis would be to, in any way, lean into this or bring it up himself because he thinks it makes Trump look petty or whatever.
00:31:31.740That's what they're trying to get him off on this kind of topic.
00:31:34.860And because we know how that worked out in 2016.
00:31:39.960This is just a replay of 2016 playing the greatest hits.
00:31:43.920And 2016 was the same thing where Trump would go after his opponents for these petty and ridiculous reasons, making fun of their physical features and everything else, baiting them, trying to bait them to respond in kind.
00:31:57.820And then we know that when that happened, Rubio in particular, it never worked out well for the non-Trump person.
00:32:05.760Because in that game, just the way it is, that's a game.
00:32:09.840If you play it with Trump, he automatically wins.
00:32:41.960It's a list with only a few names on it.
00:32:44.640And it really tells you everything you need to know about the modern American conservative movement, that the best governor of a generation comes along, and a lot of right-wingers are like, yeah, but he's short, though.
00:33:00.640Yeah, you've got someone who's, like, moving the ball in really substantial ways.
00:33:05.920And landing blows on the left, and not just through tweets, not just through media hits, but, like, through legislation, through wielding his power as a governor.
00:33:21.880And he's doing all that, and then you've got some right-wingers who are saying, yeah, but look how short he is.
00:33:55.280I mean, we've got establishing Republicans in Washington who are insisting that we have to continue funding abortions, because otherwise, you know, these women will not get their military promotions.
00:34:10.120And then we've got other right-wingers who are busy talking about how tall DeSantis is and whether he has lips in his boots.
00:34:16.320I mean, this is what, this is the state of conservatism right now.
00:34:24.340USA Today says a years-long legal battle over gender-affirming care for transgender young people has reached the Supreme Court, handing the justice an opportunity to resolve a dispute that has divided lower federal courts and emerged as a leading front in the fight for LGBTQ plus rights.
00:34:39.100The parents of the three transgender children are asking the Supreme Court in an appeal filed Wednesday to block a Tennessee law signed by Republican Governor Bill Lee in March that bans all medical treatment for gender dysphoria in adolescents, including puberty blockers and hormone therapy.
00:35:09.700Let's, let's have this fight in Supreme Court.
00:35:11.660Um, I'm not, I don't want to get too cocky because I'm not going to pretend that I have a hundred percent confidence in the Supreme Court with its current makeup to get this issue right.
00:35:24.660I'm pretty confident that they will not come down on the side of saying that, um, parents have a constitutional right to have their kids castrated and mutilated.
00:35:37.620I'm pretty confident that won't happen.
00:35:40.820Now they could always punt the issue in some ways they could refuse to take it up.
00:35:44.640I mean, there are a lot of things that could happen that are probably more likely, but if they take up this issue and they issue any kind of actual ruling on it, um, I feel very, I feel substantially confident that, um, that they'll get it right.
00:36:04.980But, um, and, you know, because in truth, how do the, how, with the rights claims here and, uh, whose rights are being infringed on, well, no, parents do not have any constitutional right.
00:36:21.420You don't have a constitutional right as a parent to abuse your children.
00:36:26.100You don't have, that is not a constitutional right that you have.
00:36:29.520And mutilating and castrating a child is certainly abuse.
00:36:32.620And so that's not a constitutional right.
00:36:33.640On the other hand, children have a constitutional right to not be treated that way.
00:36:39.880Children have a constitutional right, have a human right to be free from that kind of treatment.
00:36:46.360And I guess, hopefully now this will be an argument that happens in the Supreme Court.
00:36:50.700But before we get to the next segment, here's a report from an outlet called Atlanta News First, uh, in Georgia, obviously, about a restaurant that has created controversy because of a fee that they have passed down.
00:37:03.140For bad parenting, let's, uh, in Georgia restaurant going viral on social media for having what's called a parent surcharge on their menu.
00:37:15.240The charge, according to the restaurant, is for adults who can't parent their children.
00:37:19.880Atlanta News First reporter Amanda Rose spoke to the restaurant today on Aska Road in Blue Ridge after a bad online review sparked a national conversation.
00:37:28.140I've never left a review in my life of a business.
00:37:32.740When I left there, we were leaving reviews.
00:37:35.260Brian Carciolo is still in disbelief after what he calls a nightmare experience at Toccoa Riverside Restaurant in Blue Ridge.
00:37:44.700The restaurant now gaining national attention for one-star reviews left by Carciolo's friends online,
00:37:51.140who say the restaurant wanted them to pay extra for bad parenting.
00:37:56.140He basically said he has raised his children, he's not going to raise ours.
00:38:01.140Carciolo, a restaurant owner who lives in Central Florida, says five families, including his own, visited the restaurant on vacation with 11 children,
00:39:29.360The first point is that one of these angry reviews from a parent says that the owner told them that it is a fancy restaurant and you can't have kids acting up in a fancy restaurant.
00:39:41.360But it's actually an important point that like we saw the outside of this place that ain't fancy.
00:39:46.360OK, like when you have an ATM sign outside of your restaurant that that's a telltale sign that it is not a fancy place when there's a sign that says ice cream and T-shirts, which there is outside that but and candy.
00:40:00.360They have a sign saying candy outside of the way that is that's a very good indication that it's not a fancy place.
00:40:07.360In fact, as a parent, if I am in an unfamiliar area looking for somewhere to eat with my kids, that's the kind of thing I'm looking for to tell me that it is a family friendly, non fancy place.
00:40:19.360If I'm driving by and I see that place and my kids are hungry and I'm just visiting and I don't know what's around and I see that place, I'm like, oh, yeah, this is we're all day.
00:40:27.360This is this is where we need to be. I mean, this is obviously a place where you could bring your family.
00:40:32.360This is not a fancy place. You could just tell from the outside.
00:40:35.360And and so you just can't have a place like that and then expect that people won't bring their kids.
00:40:42.360It's like it's like opening up a mini golf course and then getting annoyed when a bunch of kids show up.
00:40:47.360It's what did you expect? And this is a point for customers, too, by the way, because there are certain kinds of diners who get very annoyed.
00:40:55.360Sharing a restaurant with children. And that and fine, if you know, if that's how you feel fine.
00:41:04.360But the point is, you can certainly avoid kids at a restaurant.
00:41:07.360You just need to go to a place where the entrees are twenty five dollars or more on average per plate.
00:41:14.360They probably even twenty dollars or more per plate is enough.
00:41:17.360No kids menu, you know, twenty thirty dollar entrees guarantee you're going to see very few kids in a place like that, because that's just you're not going to bring your family.
00:41:27.360I'm not going to bring my my kids. I'm not spending two hundred dollars on on a family dinner.
00:41:32.360So if you want to avoid kids, pay up, go to a more expensive place, go to an actual nice restaurant and then you can.
00:41:39.360It'll be it'll be it'll be kid free pretty much at any time of day.
00:41:42.360But you can't go to an affordable place and then get mad when families are there because those places are for us mainly.
00:41:50.360Well, where else do you expect us to go? We got as we're not supposed to go to any restaurants.
00:41:56.360Now, that said, if these families were actually being obnoxious, if the kids were running wild, then sure, I support the owners putting their foot foot down.
00:42:03.360Letting your kids run around a restaurant is crazy. Most parents don't do that.
00:42:09.360I've I've very rarely seen anything like that at a restaurant.
00:42:12.360I've been in many restaurants where where there are kids and I've very rarely seen kids literally running around the restaurant like it's a jungle gym every once in a while.
00:44:13.360I mean, if you want to make yourself miserable, even more miserable flying, then you should do that.
00:44:18.360I understand the motivation that's supposed to be behind it, but it's just that's a high risk situation.
00:44:25.360Because if you fly first class one time and then for the rest of the time you go back to coach,
00:44:33.360you've just made coach so much more miserable when you see what you're missing out on.
00:44:38.360And by the way, first class is not even like first class is just normal.
00:44:42.360Like first class is what normal should be. It's not even unless you're flying first class on some, you know, overseas international flight where they got the pod and all that.
00:44:52.360Give you your own pajamas to sleep in and that sort of thing, you know, and they're really pampering you.
00:44:56.360But usually on just your standard United first class experience, it's it's really just what a flight should be for everyone.
00:45:03.360It's it's it's you're just treated like a normal person.
00:45:05.360Really, you have you have a normal human amount of leg room and and maybe they give you some food.
00:45:11.360They don't even do that a lot of times in first class.
00:45:13.360So it's actually just what what flying should be for everybody.
00:45:17.360But that said, it is way better. I mean, it is way better than coach.
00:45:21.360What I'm saying is that you don't to experience it and then go back to coach makes it so much worse, which is why I tell people this about everything like like don't.
00:45:30.360Don't go eat even to treat yourself at a super nice steak restaurant.
00:45:39.360If you can't afford to eat there all the time, because there's what's going to happen once you experience once you like know what a seventy five dollar steak tastes like, you'll never be able to go back to Outback again.
00:45:50.360You'll have ruined Outback for yourself. If you never experienced that, then Outback is great.
00:45:54.360And so let it be great. That's my recommendation.
00:45:59.360You just you want those you want those kind of frills in life. You want you want to you want to you want those the frills to kind of move up along with your income level.
00:46:07.360You don't want to jump ahead and then just make yourself miserable is what I would say.
00:46:16.360Eminem says, Matt, you have repeatedly stated the middle seat and coach has no human rights.
00:46:20.360This applies to all of coach. Coach passengers are essentially cattle.
00:46:24.360As you said, if there are no human rights, there are no expectations for etiquette.
00:46:27.360No, I never said coach passenger cattle. I said they're treated as cattle, treated as cattle. They shouldn't be.
00:46:32.360No, the middle seat. This is this is I'm not going to allow you to let middle seat off the hook.
00:46:35.360This is a distinction that belongs to the middle seat. If you live in the middle, if you are sitting in the middle seat, then you have no human rights.
00:46:42.360You have no right to any armrest. You have no right to anything really in the middle seat. That's just how it is.
00:46:47.360That's just how it is. And it's got nothing to do. A lot of times you end up with middle seat by accident, like it might not even it's not even your fault.
00:46:53.360It's just luck of the draw. But that's where you are. And that's.
00:46:59.360You have to abide by the rules of the middle seat. Andrew says, my guess is thefts have risen so much across the country that the cost of stolen goods is starting to outweigh the cost of cashier salaries.
00:47:10.360Talking about self-checkout. Well, yeah, this is one of the problems with self-checkout to make it so easy to steal, especially when they make no real effort to check the receipts at all.
00:47:19.360It's like amazing how lackadaisical these places are about that.
00:47:23.360Just the other day, I went through the you know, I was leaving. I set off the alarms. I don't know why.
00:47:30.360And the guy comes over and he glances at the receipt. He does this. OK, I've got I've got probably, I don't know, 25 items in my car.
00:47:40.360Are you going to make any effort to check? Like I am not even as confident that I didn't steal something as you are.
00:47:47.360I am more suspicious of myself in this moment than you are, apparently.
00:47:52.360Especially when you've got kids like you never know, you know, maybe one of your kids took something to put in their pocket.
00:47:58.360Who knows? So they put something in the in the cart. You didn't see it like those kinds of things can happen.
00:48:03.360But the problem is you also have people you've got people guarding the doors at these places and they're getting paid minimum wage and they don't care at all whether you stole.
00:48:14.360It just doesn't matter to them. It's not any skin off their back.
00:48:18.360And so they have no stake in it. And that's part of the issue here.
00:48:23.360John says, here's the deal. We live in a society where human interaction is rapidly disappearing.
00:48:27.360Many people spend their days now doing their jobs at home. These same people now jump into their automobile to go shop for groceries.
00:48:35.360Jump into their automobile. We just call it a car.
00:48:38.360Anyway, run through self-checkout, drive home. No meaningful human interaction.
00:48:42.360We are social creatures. We need to interact with other people before long.
00:48:45.360We live in a totally automated society where nobody runs anything.
00:48:48.360We'll be devoid of a large part of what makes us human.
00:49:40.360And then also, as you point out, it's it's it's less and less human interaction.
00:49:44.360And but at the same time, I will almost always choose the automated option because I don't actually want to talk to people.
00:49:53.360But I guess I should probably be forced to like there should be more situations in life where I am forced to interact with people.
00:50:01.360You have to force me to do it. I can't believe I'm saying that, but it's just it's true.
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00:50:57.360Now let's get to our Daily Cancellation.
00:51:05.360Today for our Daily Cancellation, we refer again to our dear friends over at the gay news site Pink News,
00:51:10.360where all of the most important reporting happens.
00:51:13.360And the big headline this week is no exception.
00:53:24.360Due to many factors, ace people are less likely than other groups to be open about their identity with friends and family.
00:53:29.360Negative reactions include inappropriate, intrusive questions about their identity, many of which feel would never be asked if they had a different sexual orientation.
00:53:38.360Quote, I have definitely had plenty of intrusive questions.
00:53:40.360You know, things like, do you masturbate?
00:53:43.360And then there was, how do you feel when a sex scene comes on television?
00:53:47.360You just think that you wouldn't ask anybody else that question, any other kind of sexual identity, so why ask me, another respondent said.
00:53:54.360In work settings, just under half of ace people, 49%, said that they are not out to their colleagues as far as a far higher figure than the rate for all LGBTQ respondents, which is 18%.
00:54:05.360Okay, so half of self-identified asexual people are not out to their colleagues, which shockingly means that half of them are.
00:54:15.360Which means that half of these people have apparently gone up to their colleagues in a work setting and announced, unsolicited, that they don't experience sexual attraction.
00:54:25.360What the hell kind of thing is that to tell someone at work?
00:54:30.360Like, what do you want them to say to that?
00:55:15.360If you don't want to answer questions about your sex life or lack thereof, the best approach is to just not bring it up.
00:55:21.360But if you bring it up, the other person might feel that they have to ask about it.
00:55:26.360It might feel very awkward to hear that announcement about your sexlessness and then simply respond, okay, well, thanks for letting me know.
00:55:36.360Anyway, now if it were me, I'd respond with something like, why the hell are you telling me that?
00:55:41.360Why is this information that I needed to know?
00:55:43.360But most people are more polite, unfortunately, and so they feel like they have to ask.
00:55:59.360But, of course, I know why the asexuals are telling people.
00:56:02.360It's because you've convinced yourself that your lack of asexual attraction is itself an identity.
00:56:09.360Which, even if it is, okay, even if it's true that your lack of sexual attraction is an identity, you still don't need to tell people about it.
00:57:12.360Of course, the difference is that it's true to say that I am not Chinese.
00:57:17.360Someone who claims to be asexual, on the other hand, is not only giving you incredibly irrelevant and uninteresting information about themselves that you didn't care to know, but they're also not really making sense.
00:57:27.360Because typically in the animal kingdom, asexual means that a certain species can reproduce without mating.
00:57:35.360And if your colleague at work is a Komodo dragon, that would be an interesting fact to know about them.
00:57:40.360So, I mean, then in that case, if you're a Komodo dragon, you should probably tell people at work, at least it's interesting for them to know.
00:57:45.360But most likely, if the person is human, asexual doesn't mean that.
00:57:50.360It just means that they supposedly don't experience sexual attraction.
00:57:53.360And it is at the very least convoluted to call this asexual.
00:58:00.360Either way, there's no reason to think that a person's lack of sexual attraction at any given moment is some kind of immutable state inherent to their identity.
00:58:08.360And if it is, that's an indication that something is wrong.
00:58:12.360Because human beings are sexual creatures, not asexual creatures.
00:58:17.360A human who has no sexual attraction at all is suffering from some kind of deficiency.
00:58:21.360Now, that doesn't make you inferior in any way, but it does mean, again, that it is unhealthy and strange to turn that into an identity in and of itself.
00:58:30.360It's like making a vitamin C deficiency into your identity.