The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 140 - Heroic Masculinity

00:00:00.060 Today on the Matt Walsh Show, masculine men stepped up to the plate during the shooting in California two days ago, protecting and saving women.

00:00:06.920 We'll talk about the value of masculinity in society.

00:00:09.780 Also, on the way other end of the spectrum, a transgender man is suing 16 women for refusing to touch his genitals. 0.76

00:00:17.920 Yes, really. 0.54

00:00:19.320 We'll talk about that on the Matt Walsh Show.

00:00:24.580 There is nothing worse in life than hotel coffee.

00:00:28.220 But you make do in a desperate situation.

00:00:31.380 And another thing I don't understand about hotel coffee, can I just say this?

00:00:34.340 Why is it that they give you an equal number of decaf in regular coffee packets?

00:00:40.960 Because there are only about three sociopaths in the whole country who drink decaf.

00:00:45.420 And frankly, those people do not need their depraved desires and instincts catered to.

00:00:51.320 So it's the worst form of affirmative action that we have to have an equal number of decaf in regular coffee.

00:00:58.600 All right.

00:00:59.340 Hope you guys are having a great, great day so far.

00:01:01.260 A couple of things I want to talk about today.

00:01:04.440 And we'll start with this.

00:01:05.560 Over the past 24 hours or so, we've heard many stories about what happened inside Borderline Bar and Grill in California during the shooting that took 11 innocent lives.

00:01:15.200 The stories are harrowing and horrifying, of course.

00:01:18.200 But there have been some really inspiring glimmers of courage and heroism that have come out of this.

00:01:23.540 And I want to highlight two of those if you haven't heard about these.

00:01:26.180 A woman by the name of Taylor Whitler was celebrating her friend's birthday at the bar. 1.00

00:01:31.800 And here's what she reported to Good Morning America.

00:01:34.780 This is what happened to her.

00:01:35.720 She said, while we were all dogpiled over at the side, there were multiple men that got on their knees and pretty much blocked all of us with their back toward the shooter, ready to take a bullet for any single one of us.

00:01:48.680 And just the amount of people that made sure everyone got out okay, or if they were out, they made sure they went around to every single person around them and asked them if they were okay and if they needed a phone to call their family or just in general, any way that could help.

00:02:03.420 It was awesome.

00:02:04.660 There was another story from a woman named Savannah who said that two men broke the windows with chairs and then carried her and her friend out to safety.

00:02:12.460 So we have men shielding women from bullets.

00:02:15.940 We have men, you know, breaking windows, carrying women out to safety.

00:02:21.560 And this is an incredible scene amidst all the tragedy.

00:02:26.480 And I think the culture needs to hear about stuff like this because it's a culture where we hear so often about toxic masculinity and we hear about men who are, you know, awful and evil and dangerous.

00:02:41.080 Men are denigrated all the time.

00:02:42.260 And it's important to stop and recognize these kinds of moments when they happen, I think.

00:02:46.680 Masculinity, real masculinity, heroic, true masculinity saves lives, does not take lives, it saves lives. 0.98

00:02:53.700 Now, you can easily point out that the scumbag who did the shooting was also a man, and that's true enough. 0.98

00:02:59.960 But there is a stark contrast here between the scumbag shooter and these men who are saving lives, and I think it's worth exploring, okay? 1.00

00:03:08.700 The shooter is a desperate, pathetic, empty, soulless coward spraying bullets at unarmed and innocent people. 0.99

00:03:18.260 So he was a man, yes, biologically, according to his chromosomes, according to his anatomy, but he was devoid of masculinity. 0.99

00:03:25.200 He was, this was not a masculine man.

00:03:28.200 This was not an expression of masculinity when you go in and you kill innocent people. 0.96

00:03:32.880 This was an empty man, a hollow man.

00:03:35.420 The men, on the other hand, shielding women from bullets, carrying women out to safety, and so on.

00:03:43.800 These are men who feel a duty to protect.

00:03:47.020 These are men of action.

00:03:48.740 These are courageous men, men of strength and resolve in the face of danger.

00:03:52.440 And when I say that those are real men and the shooter was not, I mean that the shooter is rejecting his masculinity, rejecting his responsibility as a man, whereas the heroes at the bar are embracing it.

00:04:08.240 Now, there are people who, when you bring this up, they'll say, well, yeah, but anyone could have done that.

00:04:12.480 Anyone could have shielded the bullets.

00:04:15.280 Anyone could have carried the women out.

00:04:17.500 They didn't have to be men.

00:04:19.480 And that's not entirely true, by the way.

00:04:21.160 You know, most women would not be capable of, you know, carrying another grown woman to safety or would have difficulty with it, just, you know, physically doing that. 0.99

00:04:35.940 So, in fact, you do need men for those kinds of jobs. 0.90

00:04:39.880 You do need men to do that kind of thing. 1.00

00:04:42.220 It probably took a man to smash the window with the chair and carry someone to safety. 0.95

00:04:47.500 But it's true that women can be heroes, too. 1.00

00:04:51.880 Nobody is denying that women can be heroes. 0.62

00:04:54.760 But you notice something here.

00:04:57.140 The people who dismiss the connection between masculinity and heroic acts, masculinity and courageous acts, they usually have no problem drawing a connection between masculinity and depraved acts, violent acts.

00:05:11.480 I wonder why that is.

00:05:14.460 Many of these people, they'll be the first to say that, well, when you look at all these mass shooters and the school shooters, there's a problem with men.

00:05:20.780 We need to talk about the problem with men.

00:05:22.580 Well, if that means that we talk about the problem with men, then why can't we point to these other examples and talk about the good things about men?

00:05:30.800 Why is it in our culture that men have to take ownership of all the bad things that men do, but we have no ownership over the good things that men do?

00:05:42.160 The good things, well, anyone could have done that.

00:05:44.180 The bad things, oh, yeah, well, that had to be a man.

00:05:46.780 I mean, you notice this dynamic?

00:05:50.240 Is this really healthy?

00:05:51.860 Is this good for our sons to live in a culture like this, where that's the attitude?

00:05:56.260 Notice something else.

00:05:57.240 If you took a story, if you look at a story like, take one that I read recently about a mother who drowned while trying to save her child from a riptide.

00:06:08.000 Actually, she saved several of her children from a riptide, and then she finally drowned herself, tragically.

00:06:12.300 There was also a story out of China that I read a few weeks ago.

00:06:15.700 And I think there was a case like this in the USA recently as well, but I couldn't find it when I just tried to look it up.

00:06:20.320 But in China, there was a fire in an apartment building, and a mother got her three children to safety by throwing blankets and pillows out of the window, onto the ground below, and then dropping her kids out the window.

00:06:34.900 And then, right after she had saved her last child, she passed out from the smoke, and she died in the fire.

00:06:43.900 Now, these are examples, among many other examples, of motherly love, okay, of strong, feminine motherly love.

00:06:52.100 Nobody would have a problem with me saying that, right?

00:06:54.540 If I say this is what a mother does, this is a real mother, this is motherly maternal love, these are strong women, real women, no one would have a problem with me saying that.

00:07:05.640 And nobody would, if I said that, nobody would respond and say, well, what about Andrea Yates?

00:07:12.440 Yates, rather than save her children from drowning, actually drowned them herself, all five of them, in a bathtub.

00:07:17.360 But the point is that the thing that makes someone like Yates so horrifying and terrifying is that she is a mother, yet she had no maternal love within her.

00:07:31.660 She had none of that feminine strength and courage and beauty and compassion and all of that. 0.94

00:07:37.500 So she, like the shooter at the bar, was an empty shell of what she was supposed to be.

00:07:43.480 And we all understand that.

00:07:46.000 Nobody takes Andrea Yates and says, well, that proves that there's a problem with women, there's a problem with toxic femininity, there's a problem with mothers in America. 1.00

00:07:57.180 Even though, you know, I mean, Andrea Yates is a horrible story from years ago, but you could unfortunately find cases, you could find cases all the time of mothers killing their children. 0.79

00:08:10.740 Yet nobody looks at that and says, well, there's a problem with women. 1.00

00:08:14.840 We don't do that because we look at the positive, strong examples of women and we say, yes, these are women. 0.92

00:08:20.720 Okay, this is what our daughters should be. 1.00

00:08:23.720 And we need women who do this, right? 1.00

00:08:27.760 Well, all I'm saying is that we could do the same thing for men.

00:08:31.180 For the sake of our sons.

00:08:32.440 And it's okay to point out that there are things, there are positive and unique aspects and attributes of men.

00:08:49.760 And the reason why we point those out is so that we can show those to our sons and to other young men in America and say, you know, this, be this, do this.

00:09:02.520 You'll realize your full potential.

00:09:04.100 And if you do that, you know, and if we put that kind of example forward to our sons, then maybe, you know, maybe down the road we'll have more of the kind of men who are shielding bullets and fewer of the sort of men who are shooting them at innocent people.

00:09:25.660 Speaking of masculinity or lack thereof, I want to tell you about this.

00:09:33.460 A male to female transgender, that is a man who thinks he's a woman, is suing 16 women for refusing to wax his male genitalia. 0.95

00:09:43.660 Okay. 0.82

00:09:44.840 Here's a, let me read a little bit from the Daily Wire article on this.

00:09:47.480 It says, John Carpe, who's a lawyer for the president and the president of the Justice Center for Constitutional Freedoms, is representing two of the women who are being targeted by the complainant.

00:09:57.240 The complainant referred to only as J-Y.

00:10:01.040 In, now he's, he's referred to only as J-Y.

00:10:05.160 He's anonymous in accordance with an order from the B.C. Human Rights Tribunal.

00:10:10.620 So he gets to be anonymous, but the women are named.

00:10:13.540 And, um, anyway, the lawyer says, in recent months, J-Y approached 16 Vancouver area female estheticians, estheticians, estheticians, is that what the, we'll just call them waxologists, I guess, uh, for simplicity.

00:10:27.380 He approached 16 waxologists who only serve women requesting a Brazilian bikini wax on his groin area.

00:10:35.440 Uh, in spite of the fact that J-Y is able to maintain, obtain a manzillion in Vancouver as well, J-Y has filed 16 complaints against these women at the B.C. Human Rights Tribunal, claiming discrimination on the basis of gender identity.

00:10:50.720 The female waxologists in question only serve women and do not offer so-called manzillions, which is the male equivalent to a Brazilian wax.

00:10:58.440 Can I just pause here for a minute?

00:11:00.060 Because I find this, this is annoying to me, where we, we put man in front of things to, to specify that it's something that a man is doing when it, it doesn't make sense because Brazilian, okay? 1.00

00:11:11.820 Bra doesn't mean women. 1.00

00:11:13.920 It's just, shouldn't it be man Brazilian? 0.99

00:11:16.140 Why do we need, it, it, it just, man, you don't need to, you don't need to sub out bra for man because it could apply to, to either men or women, couldn't it?

00:11:27.660 Um, anyway, the procedure for providing a man with a manzillion is quite different, using a different kind of wax and a different technique, noted the lawyer.

00:11:37.740 Sheila Poyer, one of the women Carpe is defending against J-Y Pro Bono, is a single mother who works out of her home.

00:11:43.740 So we should give credit to this lawyer, by the way, is doing this pro bono for these women or one of the women anyway.

00:11:49.840 And the story goes on from there.

00:11:51.240 Apparently the man, uh, dropped one of the complaints that he, that he had made, uh, against one of the women when he saw that the woman was going to defend himself and had procured a lawyer.

00:12:01.760 But he's also said that he will drop all of the complaints if he's given $2,500 from each of the women.

00:12:11.680 He wants $2,500 a piece, and then he'll drop all the complaints.

00:12:17.460 So, just to be clear about this, okay, let's be, just to be clear about what's happening here. 0.95

00:12:22.540 This is a man demanding that women pay him for the right to not touch his genitals. 0.92

00:12:29.360 I want to say that again, okay? 0.99

00:12:30.480 I don't want to say it again, but I will. 0.99

00:12:32.420 This is a man demanding that women pay him for the right to not touch his genitals. 0.97

00:12:37.920 Side note, I'm in a hotel right now, and the walls are very thin, and I can hear somebody on the other side of those walls. 0.97

00:12:45.560 So they're, I don't know how much of this they're picking up, but they're probably very confused that there's someone in the other room shouting about genital waxes.

00:12:52.760 He probably imagines that I'm on the phone, because he only hears one side of the conversation, so he probably thinks I'm on the phone right now shouting to somebody about, uh, about male genital waxes.

00:13:03.660 So we'll just, we'll let him, whoever that is, they'll, they'll, they can wonder about that mystery.

00:13:10.020 Now, here's my question.

00:13:12.320 It's the same question I always have with this stuff.

00:13:14.500 Where are the feminists on this? 1.00

00:13:16.940 What, what, shouldn't every feminist be up in arms about something like this? 1.00

00:13:21.780 Where you have, you have men intruding into, in, you know, we already have men intruding into, into female spaces, into locker rooms and bathrooms and everything. 0.99

00:13:34.760 And now it's gotten to the point where you have a man demanding that a woman touches intimate areas.

00:13:43.020 What's the difference between this and what, like, uh, Harvey Weinstein did?

00:13:50.060 What's the difference between this guy, this quote, transgender and Harvey Weinstein?

00:13:53.680 Harvey Weinstein used his, the power of his position, used his influence to compel women to engage in, in sexual activities with him.

00:14:05.160 Whereas this man is using his status as a victim.

00:14:09.460 He's using his protected status and he's using the authority of the government and the courts to compel women to touch him intimately. 0.69

00:14:18.120 What is the difference between those two things?

00:14:21.500 I, I, I can't think of how we draw any distinction between them.

00:14:24.940 So if the feminists are really going to, to fight the me too fight, and if they're going to be consistent about it, then they should be standing up and, and, and saying something about these kinds of things. 1.00

00:14:39.140 This is, this is why feminism is so useless these days because the, the fights that they should be fighting where we actually need them. 1.00

00:14:48.860 They, they, they, they say nothing because they're afraid they've been cowed into silence by the LGT lobby. 0.67

00:14:53.620 What I'm saying to feminists is, is have some courage, stand up. 0.99

00:14:56.940 Don't let these, don't let the LGBT lobby boss you around, bully you. 1.00

00:15:01.920 Don't sit, don't, don't forfeit everything that you, you pretend to want and pretend to fight for just because they're making demands.

00:15:12.320 I mean, the, most of the legal fights and most of the fights for women's rights, those fights are in the past.

00:15:19.360 Now, those struggles are in the past.

00:15:20.900 Most of that has been done.

00:15:22.020 It's been one women have the right to vote. 1.00

00:15:24.480 They have all the same.

00:15:25.380 They have most of the same legal rights as men, but this is one particular area where women, I think, are being legally persecuted.

00:15:35.660 This is the legal persecution of women. 0.88

00:15:37.740 When men are able to use the, the, the power of the courts and the power of the government to compel women to do this or to, or to, or to tolerate men coming into their locker rooms.

00:15:53.160 That is legal persecution of women. 1.00

00:15:55.680 And that is where feminists should be standing up and saying something. 1.00

00:15:59.080 Where are the feminists on that? 1.00

00:16:01.820 They're, they're, they're off, you know, complaining about man spreading or something.

00:16:05.420 They're complaining about men, um, having their, having their, with, with, with, uh, you know, spreading their legs too much on the subway. 0.97

00:16:13.400 Well, what about this?

00:16:17.300 Why, why is it, by the way, why, why is it, let's just ask ourselves, this guy, why is he, why, why, why must he insist that women be the one to perform this procedure on him?

00:16:32.400 If he really feels for some God-awful reason, if he feels the need to have that part of his body waxed, um, well then fine, there's a place where he can go where men will do it.

00:16:46.020 There's a place that specializes in doing that for men. 1.00

00:16:50.120 And I, I don't want to get into the nitty gritty here.

00:16:52.900 I, I, I don't know how a place that specializes in that doing that for men could possibly stay over. 1.00

00:16:57.340 Are there that men?

00:16:57.960 Well, anyway, look, the fact is that place exists.

00:17:00.400 But no, this guy insists he wants women to do it.

00:17:04.820 Why is that?

00:17:06.520 I mean, we can only speculate.

00:17:08.400 We're, we're, we're left only to speculate.

00:17:10.640 Is this on his part, some kind of like sexual thing where he gets some sort of sexual fulfillment from, from having women? 0.58

00:17:19.420 I don't know.

00:17:20.020 We, as I said, we can only speculate.

00:17:21.620 And, and when you're a man making these kinds of demands and being a bully like this, then you will, you leave yourself open to speculation.

00:17:28.560 And this is bullying.

00:17:31.680 Okay. 0.99

00:17:32.160 I don't, I know there are people who, who, who think, well, you know, um, yeah, this stuff is crazy, but obviously these, these people are mentally ill.

00:17:41.660 So we should, uh, we should, you know, we should be compassionate.

00:17:45.760 We should have sympathy.

00:17:46.560 And I do have compassion and I do have sympathy and I, and this is mental illness. 1.00

00:17:50.580 And this guy obviously is mentally ill. 0.96

00:17:52.320 And for that aspect of the problem, of the, of the situation for his psychological problems, I do have sympathy. 0.98

00:17:58.380 But when you take this step, um, to try to force women into touching you, well, that is, no, that's, that's not mental illness. 0.89

00:18:11.080 That's just you being a bully. 0.95

00:18:12.760 That is, that is just evil. 0.98

00:18:14.820 That's you being a bad person. 0.99

00:18:16.660 You're just a bad person. 0.98

00:18:18.060 I don't care. 1.00

00:18:18.560 Transgender or whatever.

00:18:19.440 It doesn't matter what your gender identity is. 1.00

00:18:22.340 When you, when you do that, you're just a bad, horrible, awful person. 1.00

00:18:26.480 And you should be ashamed of yourself. 0.83

00:18:28.260 I mean, what, what, what if, what if this guy actually succeeded in, uh, in coercing or extorting these women into performing this thing on him?

00:18:41.400 Is that really what he wants?

00:18:42.720 Does he want these humiliated, uncomfortable, embarrassed women to be forced to do that? 0.92

00:18:52.520 Is that really what he wants?

00:18:53.540 Yeah.

00:18:53.700 Well, it is apparently what he wants because he's just a bad person. 0.76

00:18:56.740 And, uh, he is exactly the sort of bully that feminists ought to be fighting against. 1.00

00:19:06.740 Not only has he appropriated womanhood and made a mockery and a cartoon out of it, but now he is, um, not having no respect at all for the autonomy of women and for their right to, to, to, to, to, to consent.

00:19:26.180 Um,

00:19:26.740 We've, we've, we've made such a mockery of human rights.

00:19:29.080 The whole idea of human rights, we've made such a mockery of it, which is really a shame because our entire civilization is built on the foundation, on the basis of human rights and of the respect of human rights.

00:19:44.180 But what are human rights? 0.64

00:19:46.960 If now we're saying that you have the human right to have your genitals waxed by a woman. 0.99

00:19:53.180 Okay. 0.96

00:19:53.480 If, if, if, if, if that's a human right, then I don't know what isn't a human right at that point.

00:19:59.440 If that qualifies as a human right, then I don't know what couldn't qualify.

00:20:03.400 We have taken the idea of rights and we have completely at this point, conflated it with desire.

00:20:14.540 Where now the two ideas are basically interchangeable where someone says, I have a right to this.

00:20:22.280 It's the same thing as them saying, I want to do this.

00:20:25.120 And there's no way for us to tell the difference anymore.

00:20:26.720 So it's time to stand up against this bullying.

00:20:29.760 Enough is enough at a certain point.

00:20:31.920 All right.

00:20:32.580 We'll leave it on that somewhat disturbing note and have a great weekend, everybody.

00:20:37.500 Talk to you next week.

00:20:38.860 Godspeed.

The Matt Walsh Show - November 09, 2018

Ep. 140 - Heroic Masculinity

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