00:00:00.060Today on the Matt Walsh Show, masculine men stepped up to the plate during the shooting in California two days ago, protecting and saving women.
00:00:06.920We'll talk about the value of masculinity in society.
00:00:09.780Also, on the way other end of the spectrum, a transgender man is suing 16 women for refusing to touch his genitals.
00:01:05.560Over 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.
00:01:15.200The stories are harrowing and horrifying, of course.
00:01:18.200But there have been some really inspiring glimmers of courage and heroism that have come out of this.
00:01:23.540And I want to highlight two of those if you haven't heard about these.
00:01:26.180A woman by the name of Taylor Whitler was celebrating her friend's birthday at the bar.
00:01:31.800And here's what she reported to Good Morning America.
00:01:35.720She 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.
00:01:48.680And 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.
00:02:04.660There 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.
00:02:12.460So we have men shielding women from bullets.
00:02:15.940We have men, you know, breaking windows, carrying women out to safety.
00:02:21.560And this is an incredible scene amidst all the tragedy.
00:02:26.480And 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.
00:03:48.740These are courageous men, men of strength and resolve in the face of danger.
00:03:52.440And 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.
00:04:08.240Now, there are people who, when you bring this up, they'll say, well, yeah, but anyone could have done that.
00:04:12.480Anyone could have shielded the bullets.
00:04:15.280Anyone could have carried the women out.
00:04:19.480And that's not entirely true, by the way.
00:04:21.160You 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.
00:04:35.940So, in fact, you do need men for those kinds of jobs.
00:04:39.880You do need men to do that kind of thing.
00:04:42.220It probably took a man to smash the window with the chair and carry someone to safety.
00:04:47.500But it's true that women can be heroes, too.
00:04:51.880Nobody is denying that women can be heroes.
00:04:57.140The 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.
00:05:14.460Many 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.
00:05:20.780We need to talk about the problem with men.
00:05:22.580Well, 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?
00:05:30.800Why 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?
00:05:42.160The good things, well, anyone could have done that.
00:05:44.180The bad things, oh, yeah, well, that had to be a man.
00:05:57.240If 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.
00:06:08.000Actually, she saved several of her children from a riptide, and then she finally drowned herself, tragically.
00:06:12.300There was also a story out of China that I read a few weeks ago.
00:06:15.700And 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.
00:06:20.320But 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.
00:06:34.900And then, right after she had saved her last child, she passed out from the smoke, and she died in the fire.
00:06:43.900Now, these are examples, among many other examples, of motherly love, okay, of strong, feminine motherly love.
00:06:52.100Nobody would have a problem with me saying that, right?
00:06:54.540If 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.
00:07:05.640And nobody would, if I said that, nobody would respond and say, well, what about Andrea Yates?
00:07:12.440Yates, rather than save her children from drowning, actually drowned them herself, all five of them, in a bathtub.
00:07:17.360But 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.
00:07:31.660She had none of that feminine strength and courage and beauty and compassion and all of that.
00:07:37.500So she, like the shooter at the bar, was an empty shell of what she was supposed to be.
00:07:46.000Nobody 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.
00:07:57.180Even 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.
00:08:10.740Yet nobody looks at that and says, well, there's a problem with women.
00:08:14.840We don't do that because we look at the positive, strong examples of women and we say, yes, these are women.
00:08:20.720Okay, this is what our daughters should be.
00:08:32.440And it's okay to point out that there are things, there are positive and unique aspects and attributes of men.
00:08:49.760And 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.
00:09:04.100And 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.
00:09:25.660Speaking of masculinity or lack thereof, I want to tell you about this.
00:09:33.460A 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.
00:09:44.840Here's a, let me read a little bit from the Daily Wire article on this.
00:09:47.480It 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.
00:09:57.240The complainant referred to only as J-Y.
00:10:01.040In, now he's, he's referred to only as J-Y.
00:10:05.160He's anonymous in accordance with an order from the B.C. Human Rights Tribunal.
00:10:10.620So he gets to be anonymous, but the women are named.
00:10:13.540And, 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.
00:10:27.380He approached 16 waxologists who only serve women requesting a Brazilian bikini wax on his groin area.
00:10:35.440Uh, 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.
00:10:50.720The female waxologists in question only serve women and do not offer so-called manzillions, which is the male equivalent to a Brazilian wax.
00:11:00.060Because 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?
00:11:13.920It's just, shouldn't it be man Brazilian?
00:11:16.140Why 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?
00:11:27.660Um, 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.
00:11:37.740Sheila Poyer, one of the women Carpe is defending against J-Y Pro Bono, is a single mother who works out of her home.
00:11:43.740So we should give credit to this lawyer, by the way, is doing this pro bono for these women or one of the women anyway.
00:11:51.240Apparently 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.
00:12:01.760But he's also said that he will drop all of the complaints if he's given $2,500 from each of the women.
00:12:11.680He wants $2,500 a piece, and then he'll drop all the complaints.
00:12:17.460So, just to be clear about this, okay, let's be, just to be clear about what's happening here.
00:12:22.540This is a man demanding that women pay him for the right to not touch his genitals.
00:12:30.480I don't want to say it again, but I will.
00:12:32.420This is a man demanding that women pay him for the right to not touch his genitals.
00:12:37.920Side 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.
00:12:45.560So 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.
00:12:52.760He 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.
00:13:03.660So we'll just, we'll let him, whoever that is, they'll, they'll, they can wonder about that mystery.
00:13:16.940What, what, shouldn't every feminist be up in arms about something like this?
00:13:21.780Where 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.
00:13:34.760And now it's gotten to the point where you have a man demanding that a woman touches intimate areas.
00:13:43.020What's the difference between this and what, like, uh, Harvey Weinstein did?
00:13:50.060What's the difference between this guy, this quote, transgender and Harvey Weinstein?
00:13:53.680Harvey Weinstein used his, the power of his position, used his influence to compel women to engage in, in sexual activities with him.
00:14:05.160Whereas this man is using his status as a victim.
00:14:09.460He's using his protected status and he's using the authority of the government and the courts to compel women to touch him intimately.
00:14:18.120What is the difference between those two things?
00:14:21.500I, I, I can't think of how we draw any distinction between them.
00:14:24.940So 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.
00:14:39.140This is, this is why feminism is so useless these days because the, the fights that they should be fighting where we actually need them.
00:14:48.860They, they, they, they say nothing because they're afraid they've been cowed into silence by the LGT lobby.
00:14:53.620What I'm saying to feminists is, is have some courage, stand up.
00:14:56.940Don't let these, don't let the LGBT lobby boss you around, bully you.
00:15:01.920Don'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.
00:15:12.320I mean, the, most of the legal fights and most of the fights for women's rights, those fights are in the past.
00:15:25.380They have most of the same legal rights as men, but this is one particular area where women, I think, are being legally persecuted.
00:15:35.660This is the legal persecution of women.
00:15:37.740When 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.
00:16:01.820They're, they're, they're off, you know, complaining about man spreading or something.
00:16:05.420They're complaining about men, um, having their, having their, with, with, with, uh, you know, spreading their legs too much on the subway.
00:16:17.300Why, 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?
00:16:32.400If 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.
00:16:46.020There's a place that specializes in doing that for men.
00:16:50.120And I, I don't want to get into the nitty gritty here.
00:16:52.900I, I, I don't know how a place that specializes in that doing that for men could possibly stay over.
00:17:21.620And, 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.
00:17:32.160I 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.
00:17:41.660So we should, uh, we should, you know, we should be compassionate.
00:18:19.440It doesn't matter what your gender identity is.
00:18:22.340When you, when you do that, you're just a bad, horrible, awful person.
00:18:26.480And you should be ashamed of yourself.
00:18:28.260I 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?
00:18:53.700Well, it is apparently what he wants because he's just a bad person.
00:18:56.740And, uh, he is exactly the sort of bully that feminists ought to be fighting against.
00:19:06.740Not 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.
00:19:26.740We've, we've, we've made such a mockery of human rights.
00:19:29.080The 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.