The Matt Walsh Show - January 08, 2019


Ep. 171 - Masculinity Is ＂Harmful,＂ According To Psychologists


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36 minutes

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153.32277

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5,641

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411

Misogynist Sentences

12

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00:00:00.000 Today on The Matt Walsh Show, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez says that it's more important to be morally right than factually right.
00:00:07.220 And this is obviously a stupid thing to say, but there's an important point about her comment a lot of people have missed.
00:00:13.540 We're going to talk about that.
00:00:14.680 Also, the American Psychological Association says that masculinity is harmful.
00:00:19.800 And finally, why was Lil Wayne dressed like a Keebler elf on acid last night?
00:00:24.980 We've got to discuss that as well today on The Matt Walsh Show.
00:00:30.000 All right, let's talk about AOC, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
00:00:35.500 I just complained last week about people talking about her too much, conservatives talking about her too much.
00:00:39.440 And then here I am a few days later, like a hypocrite.
00:00:43.960 But I feel like it's not that hypocritical because I don't want to talk about her exactly.
00:00:49.540 There's just one thing that she said, one thing that's gotten a lot of attention, like everything else she says gets a lot of attention.
00:00:57.040 It's also attracted a lot of criticism, rightfully so.
00:01:00.740 But I think we're kind of missing an important point because there's something legitimately interesting and kind of instructive about what she said.
00:01:10.560 But we're missing it. We're missing it.
00:01:11.880 So this was on 60 Minutes, not long after she proposed that 70 percent tax, which would result in massive unemployment and destroy the economy.
00:01:20.660 But she said something, you know, on this during the interview.
00:01:24.900 She said, I think that there's a lot of people more concerned about being precisely, factually and semantically correct than about being morally right.
00:01:34.800 OK, so she's she's complaining that people are more concerned about being factually right than about being morally right.
00:01:43.500 Obviously, as many people have pointed out, the number one problem here is that this is what we call a false dichotomy.
00:01:51.340 It's a false choice. She's making us choose between two things when actually we can have them both.
00:01:56.680 You can be factually correct and morally correct.
00:02:00.680 Most of the time, the two things aren't even necessarily, you know, they aren't necessarily related.
00:02:08.280 So if I were to say that a triangle has three sides, I am factually correct.
00:02:15.200 Am I morally correct? Well, it's it's a morally neutral thing to say.
00:02:19.600 It's not it's not I don't think anyone would say that triangles are morally correct.
00:02:24.720 They're just that's what they are. It's just a it is a it's a matter of fact.
00:02:28.580 But whenever you do or say so, if you say something, if you make a point that is morally correct, then you are also going to be factually correct.
00:02:40.860 So I can say that it's that abortion is morally wrong because you're killing a human being, which is morally wrong.
00:02:48.060 I am both morally correct and factually correct. It wouldn't be possible now.
00:02:52.800 Now, so it is possible for me to say things that are factually correct, like a triangle has three sides and yet morally neutral.
00:03:03.500 But it's not possible for me to say something that's factually correct and morally wrong.
00:03:10.280 Because if it's factually correct, then it's true.
00:03:14.340 And if it's true, then either it's just morally neutral, just is.
00:03:19.960 Or it's morally right.
00:03:21.520 Right. So this is not this isn't something we have to choose.
00:03:25.520 If so, we have to decide when someone says something like this, if we wanted to be generous to them, if we wanted to find a way to to for it to make sense.
00:03:35.740 Right. Then maybe we would say, well, the point that she's trying to make is that people get too caught up on the semantics of things.
00:03:42.920 And, you know, they're looking at the at the minutia and everything when really let's look at the moral core of what we're talking about and not get hung up on all the little specifics and details.
00:03:54.340 If we wanted to be generous to her, we would say that that's what she meant.
00:03:57.220 But I don't know if there's any reason to be generous to her in this case, especially because based on other things she said and based on what the left says in general.
00:04:06.440 So the other way of interpreting it is that she's saying, well, sometimes morality can trump truth.
00:04:16.160 You know, sometimes you do have to choose between being between the truth, between what's factually correct and what's morally right.
00:04:26.320 And in those cases, then you have to choose what's morally right.
00:04:29.940 The problem, though, is that when she says morals, what she really means is feelings.
00:04:36.000 So what she really means is sometimes you have to choose between what's actually true and what feels good or what feels right.
00:04:44.280 And so that's what she means.
00:04:48.000 And that's completely wrong.
00:04:50.420 But that's not really the point.
00:04:52.000 OK, that's that's not the point that I want to make here.
00:04:55.040 The bigger point, I think, is that you have this whatever, 29 year old congresswoman, the big star of the Democrat Party.
00:05:05.940 And she's on 60 Minutes.
00:05:07.560 And what is she doing?
00:05:08.640 OK, how is she she's trying to justify her various terrible positions and opinions.
00:05:14.220 And how does she do it?
00:05:15.580 She does it on moral grounds.
00:05:18.120 She is making a moral argument.
00:05:20.500 Now, it's a faulty moral argument.
00:05:22.960 It's a ridiculous moral argument.
00:05:25.420 And her idea of morality is completely wrong.
00:05:29.900 As I said, what she when she says morally right, what she means is feels right, feels good.
00:05:35.100 So it's morally right to tax rich people up to 70 percent.
00:05:40.240 It's morally right in the fact that it just it makes people feel good.
00:05:43.440 It's like it feels like they're too rich.
00:05:45.380 Let's take their money.
00:05:46.660 That's what she means by morals.
00:05:48.360 But now that that's the case.
00:05:50.940 But the fact remains.
00:05:53.260 She is still trying to make a moral argument.
00:05:57.480 And I've been this is a point that I've been making for years now.
00:06:00.820 The left has this is what the left does.
00:06:03.660 The left makes moral arguments.
00:06:07.660 Yes, they make them wrongly.
00:06:09.520 They have the wrong idea about what morality is.
00:06:12.480 They make the arguments dishonestly.
00:06:14.840 Yes, that's all true.
00:06:16.680 But they still they still latch on to that concept of morality.
00:06:21.440 And that's how they package their arguments.
00:06:24.780 Bernie Sanders did the same thing.
00:06:27.680 Nancy Pelosi is running around this week saying that, well, we can't have a we can't have a wall
00:06:33.480 down on the southern border because it's immoral.
00:06:36.180 Walls are immoral.
00:06:37.400 It's immoral to have walls.
00:06:39.520 Of course, except for the walls that she has on her house.
00:06:41.880 Right.
00:06:42.120 Those those walls are perfectly fine.
00:06:43.960 And most of the other walls that she comes across in her daily life that are meant to keep people out.
00:06:49.000 She's fine with that.
00:06:49.600 But just having a wall on the southern and and for other countries to have walls on their borders, that's fine.
00:06:55.100 She would never judge them.
00:06:56.140 Right.
00:06:56.380 You can't judge other cultures.
00:06:57.820 But it's our our wall is immoral, she says.
00:07:01.720 Again, it's a stupid moral argument.
00:07:04.220 It's a wrong moral argument.
00:07:05.760 But it is still a moral argument.
00:07:07.580 The significant point is that what the left does, even though they're moral relativists, and even though most of the time they sound like hedonists, and even though they'll stand up and justify things like killing babies in the womb, they still make the moral argument.
00:07:22.920 And why do they do that?
00:07:24.960 They do that because that's what speaks to people.
00:07:29.820 OK, that's what gets people motivated.
00:07:31.620 That's what sends people into the streets marching.
00:07:36.900 You're not going to find anyone at a march or a rally with like a practical slogan on their banner or the poster that they're carrying around while they're chanting their mottos.
00:07:50.400 No, the slogans, the things that you put on the on the banners and the signs and the mottos that you march under are always moral.
00:07:58.640 It's always this is right.
00:08:01.400 That's wrong.
00:08:02.400 You know, we're standing for what's right.
00:08:03.980 We're standing against what's wrong.
00:08:07.380 Nancy Pelosi knows that on a practical level, there's no way that you can't on a practical and economic level.
00:08:13.920 There's no way to argue against protecting the border.
00:08:17.840 It obviously makes good practical sense and it obviously makes economic sense.
00:08:23.580 What she's saying and what the left always says about everything is, yeah, you know what, even if it is practical, even if it is economically the right thing to do, it's just wrong.
00:08:33.620 It's morally wrong.
00:08:34.440 And so that's why we shouldn't do it.
00:08:35.540 So while the left has been making the moral argument for these many decades, the right increasingly has fled from those kinds of arguments.
00:08:50.600 People on the right, you know, what you find the common kind of Republican idea is that if you want to speak to people, if you want to win people's hearts, then you get to them through their wallet or you get to them through their practical concerns.
00:09:05.540 But we don't want to talk about morality.
00:09:07.380 We don't want to get into that because then we're going to be accused of being theocratic and trying to legislate morality and so on.
00:09:13.360 We don't want to be accused of that.
00:09:14.640 So we're going to make the practical argument.
00:09:15.880 We're going to make the economic argument because that's what people care about.
00:09:18.740 Wrong.
00:09:20.080 Actually, that's wrong.
00:09:21.420 Of course, people do care about money.
00:09:22.880 They do care about practicality.
00:09:24.660 But the thing that speaks to people's hearts most, first and foremost, is our principles, morality.
00:09:32.560 People want to feel like they're living the right way.
00:09:36.680 They have the right views on things.
00:09:39.440 They're standing for the right principles.
00:09:43.180 And if people are going to mobilize and take to the streets and make sacrifices for something,
00:09:48.580 they're going to do it for something moral because they think they're on the right moral side.
00:09:54.520 And the problem is that on the right, we have basically ceded that ground to the left.
00:10:04.280 It's almost as if we've said, well, you know what?
00:10:06.500 If you care about morality, go over there.
00:10:08.680 We're not talking about that, which is exactly the wrong way of going about it.
00:10:13.540 What we need to be communicating, whether it's with the wall or with taxes or gun rights or any of the so-called social issues, abortion, whatever,
00:10:26.900 on any of these issues, I think the first thing we need to be pointing out is that this is morally right.
00:10:34.380 This is the right moral thing to do.
00:10:37.240 To protect the border is the right moral thing.
00:10:40.660 It's morally right.
00:10:43.460 To give people economic freedom, it's more, yes, it also is going to lead to job growth and all that great stuff.
00:10:50.240 More money in your pocket, more money in your wallet.
00:10:52.620 But before any of that, it's morally right.
00:10:55.420 A man has the moral right to his own, you know, to the fruits of his own labor,
00:11:01.580 to put food into the mouths of his children without it being stolen by the government and given to someone else.
00:11:05.920 That should be the first argument we make because that's what speaks to people.
00:11:11.640 And that's why the left has been winning for decades, is because they're speaking to people on that level.
00:11:19.480 If you want your cause to win hearts and win minds, it has to position itself as the right moral cause.
00:11:31.040 And more than that, it has to make moral demands.
00:11:40.320 It has to ask for sacrifice.
00:11:46.420 On the left, that's part of the attraction.
00:11:50.440 That's why they're always arguing for higher taxes.
00:11:55.400 Because now it's true that the people who are demanding higher taxes won't be the ones paying the higher taxes,
00:12:02.180 so it's easy for them to say, right?
00:12:04.580 But even so, part of the attraction for the left when it comes to higher taxes and when it comes to their economic philosophy in general
00:12:14.980 is that it feels like a sacrifice, even though they're not making any sacrifice.
00:12:21.720 But it feels like one.
00:12:24.720 And people want to feel like they're sacrificing for a cause.
00:12:29.680 And the leaders of the left understand that.
00:12:36.180 And so that's why they unabashedly are going to say, yeah, let's pay higher taxes.
00:12:40.720 You know what?
00:12:41.140 We all need to make sacrifices.
00:12:43.340 Again, yes, when they say we, they don't really mean we.
00:12:45.980 They mean they.
00:12:47.420 But they say we.
00:12:49.240 Because people want to feel like that.
00:12:52.180 That's one of the secrets of progressivism.
00:12:55.600 Just like it was one of the secrets of communism.
00:12:57.220 Actually, yeah, I read this book recently.
00:13:03.380 It's called, it's an obscure book, Dedication and Leadership, which I don't know if you can find it anywhere, by a guy named Douglas Hyde.
00:13:11.400 And the interesting thing about the book, this guy was, it was written, I don't know, a few decades ago.
00:13:15.440 And this guy was an avowed communist back in the 70s.
00:13:24.600 He was a big time radical communist.
00:13:26.960 And then he got out of communism and came to the light.
00:13:30.180 But then he wrote this book talking about, you know, what communists did right.
00:13:34.840 How they were able to attract so many people, especially young people.
00:13:39.160 And this is one of the points that he makes, is that communists, the reason why that movement appealed to young people so much is that the communists made demands.
00:13:49.820 They made moral arguments, bad moral arguments, but they made moral arguments.
00:13:53.820 And they made demands of their adherence, and they asked for sacrifice.
00:14:01.960 And that's what people want.
00:14:03.880 That's how you motivate people.
00:14:06.900 And this is something that I just think the church needs to realize this, and the right needs to realize it.
00:14:15.800 Conservatives need to realize this.
00:14:17.320 We need to stop, we need to stop letting the left, leftists be the only ones who talk about morality.
00:14:25.040 That's the point.
00:14:27.280 Okay, the APA Monitor, which is the flagship magazine of the American Psychological Association, had this headline on Twitter yesterday.
00:14:39.800 It says, APA has issued its first ever guidelines for practice with men and boys.
00:14:44.900 They draw on more than 40 years of research, showing that traditional masculinity is psychologically harmful, and that socializing boys to suppress their emotions causes damage.
00:14:56.440 Traditional masculinity is psychologically harmful, they say.
00:15:00.940 So let's take a look at this from APA.org.
00:15:04.880 The article about the guidelines at APA.org says, in part,
00:15:08.980 Prior to the second-wave feminist movement in the 1960s, all psychology was the psychology of men.
00:15:16.260 Most major studies were done only on white men and boys who stood in as proxies for humans as a whole.
00:15:21.420 Researchers assumed that masculinity and femininity were opposite ends of a spectrum,
00:15:26.220 and healthy psychology entailed identifying strongly with the gender roles conferred by a person's biological sex.
00:15:33.700 Well, yeah, I mean, that's basically right, actually.
00:15:40.000 But just as this old psychology left out women and people of color and conformed to gender role stereotypes,
00:15:46.360 it also failed to take men's gendered experiences into account.
00:15:51.400 Once psychologists began studying the experiences of women through a gender lens,
00:15:55.220 it became increasingly clear that the study of men needed the same gender-aware approach.
00:15:59.940 The main thrust of the subsequent research is that traditional masculinity,
00:16:03.800 marked by stoicism, competitiveness, dominance, and aggression, is, on the whole, harmful.
00:16:10.320 Men socialized in this way are less likely to engage in healthy behaviors.
00:16:16.240 And researchers at Boston College found that the more men conformed to masculine norms,
00:16:23.180 the more likely they were to consider as normal risky behaviors such as heavy drinking, using tobacco, and avoiding vegetables.
00:16:32.960 And they were more likely to engage in these risky behaviors themselves.
00:16:36.560 Avoiding vegetables is now considered a risky behavior?
00:16:39.880 I had no idea I was such a rebel.
00:16:41.840 I mean, I'm kind of, I'm excited, actually.
00:16:44.880 I was thinking recently how I don't really engage in any risky behaviors anymore.
00:16:49.620 I feel sort of old and lame, but I didn't realize that every time I forego my vegetables
00:16:54.260 in favor of another helping of just pure meat, that I was doing something risky and rebellious.
00:17:01.060 So that's kind of exciting.
00:17:02.920 All right, stoicism, competitiveness, aggression are harmful traits now.
00:17:08.640 The problem, of course, is that these have been male traits since time immemorial,
00:17:15.460 since the beginning of time.
00:17:16.760 And you are calling something harmful, which has always been a part of the male identity.
00:17:25.440 Now, psychologists and psychiatrists, they try to flip this around, and it's kind of a chicken or egg thing.
00:17:30.300 So what they'll say is that, well, no, you see, society decided that men were supposed to be stoic
00:17:38.700 and competitive and aggressive.
00:17:40.000 And so then little boys grow up, and they see what society is saying,
00:17:44.360 and they try to conform themselves to those expectations.
00:17:48.560 But actually, you see that, and this is what you get from psychologists and psychiatrists
00:17:55.680 and the, you know, so-called mental health experts.
00:17:58.940 You get these, they make these proclamations that are ideological, philosophical, theoretical.
00:18:07.400 What they aren't is scientific.
00:18:10.600 It seems very rare these days that you hear anything actually scientific from these people.
00:18:16.880 These are, they just, they make these, they just declare these things about how people work,
00:18:23.360 how men work, how women work, how people are supposed to be, how society is supposed to be.
00:18:29.700 And we all just listen to them, unquestioning.
00:18:33.080 Um, because they have a, they have an MD or whatever.
00:18:37.920 Well, actually, psychologists don't even have MDs.
00:18:40.360 Um, or psychiatrists don't have MDs, but I forget which one it is.
00:18:44.600 But it doesn't matter.
00:18:47.380 This, that is, that's not a scientific, uh, um, you know, uh, conclusion.
00:18:57.080 Because the fact is, it goes the other way around.
00:18:58.940 Men are just naturally more competitive, competitive, uh, more aggressive, less emotional.
00:19:07.600 That's how men have always been.
00:19:09.400 It's biological.
00:19:10.460 It's ingrained.
00:19:11.460 And society noticed that about men.
00:19:15.480 So it's not that society, as this kind of abstract entity hovering above us,
00:19:21.380 decided that men are supposed to be that way.
00:19:24.160 No, society, which is just, you know, we're all, society are just,
00:19:28.180 a group of people.
00:19:29.660 It's just the people we all live together in a civilization.
00:19:32.320 We're a society.
00:19:33.860 And so we have noticed this about men and about ourselves.
00:19:38.900 And so that's where these gender norms came from.
00:19:41.460 They're not arbitrary, is the point.
00:19:44.680 This is just how men are.
00:19:46.640 So when you say that it's harmful, what you're saying is that the male identity itself is harmful.
00:19:53.000 And then you wonder why they complain in this article about how men are less likely to go and seek help from mental health experts.
00:20:01.800 Well, do you think maybe this is why?
00:20:04.600 Because you're sitting there saying that there's something wrong with all men,
00:20:08.400 that, that, that, that, that, you know, there's something diseased and disordered about manhood.
00:20:13.280 And then you expect men to go to you and listen to you as you try to turn them into women.
00:20:21.220 Now, I'm not saying that all psychologists and all psychiatrists do that.
00:20:25.080 That's not my point.
00:20:26.580 But when you have, when you have this kind of thing coming from the American Psychological Association,
00:20:33.580 it's going to have the effect of turning men off of psychology and psychiatry.
00:20:43.480 And that's their, it's not the men's, it's not, it's not the fault of men.
00:20:46.620 It's the fault of them, of these so-called mental health experts
00:20:50.140 who have long ago ventured way outside of the, of the parameters of actual mental health.
00:20:59.340 And they have gotten into philosophy and, and, you know, social engineering and all that kind of stuff.
00:21:09.780 This is the, the, and by the way, what's, what's wrong with, with being stoic or being competitive?
00:21:17.560 What exactly is wrong about it?
00:21:20.140 You know, of course, all personal traits have to be balanced.
00:21:25.500 So it's possible, whatever your personality is, whatever personal character trait we're talking about,
00:21:31.360 it's possible to be too much that thing.
00:21:35.480 And there are going to be situations and circumstances for you that call for you to be less one way and more another way.
00:21:41.760 So obviously there's got to be a balance, but generally speaking,
00:21:46.140 men are going to be less emotional, more competitive, more aggressive.
00:21:49.160 There's, there's nothing wrong with it.
00:21:50.280 That's just, that's just how we are.
00:21:52.720 There's nothing wrong with it.
00:21:55.040 Again, that is a subjective determination that the American Psychological Association has made.
00:22:02.880 And there's no reason why we should listen to it.
00:22:06.280 Who are they?
00:22:07.460 Who made them experts on people?
00:22:10.660 That's the problem.
00:22:12.800 They, they, they do not confine themselves to talking, you know, only about the brain and what's going on in the brain and what's going on neurologically with people.
00:22:24.840 Instead, they have the, the, you know, psychiatrists and psychologists, what they've done is they have declared, you know, this is how a human being is supposed to be.
00:22:39.540 And if you're not that way, then you need drugs.
00:22:42.860 That's what they've done.
00:22:45.340 But they have no authority to do that.
00:22:47.880 They are not experts on the entire human person.
00:22:57.980 This is the disease-ifying of masculinity, and it continues unabated.
00:23:03.260 It starts at a very young age with boys in school.
00:23:06.040 I've talked about this many times.
00:23:07.340 There's a reason why ADHD seems to mysteriously affect boys much more often than it affects girls.
00:23:16.700 And nobody ever asked that question.
00:23:19.380 Again, so many people, they just go along with it.
00:23:22.440 Because they're told, they have, they've got psychologists going around saying, well, ADHD.
00:23:27.160 And so everybody just listens and says, okay, well, they said it, so it must be true.
00:23:32.500 Nobody ever stops and thinks, now, hold on a second.
00:23:34.740 You know, why is it that this, if this is some neurological condition, why is it so much more common in boys?
00:23:43.340 And why, you know, why does it seem to only really be a problem in the public school setting?
00:23:50.820 You know, why do we have so much ADHD coming out of the public schools and not very much of it coming out of homeschooling?
00:23:57.620 Why is that?
00:23:59.600 Nobody ever stops and asks these questions.
00:24:01.360 It's because we have taken boyhood and we have disease-ified it and medicalized it and we have slapped this medical label on it and called it ADHD.
00:24:18.640 So it starts at a young age and then it goes all the way into manhood and adulthood and it just never ends.
00:24:28.260 And we are destroying entire generations of men by telling them that there's something wrong with the fact that they are men.
00:24:38.940 And that they should be fundamentally different from how they naturally are.
00:24:45.800 And that just, it ruins people.
00:24:48.100 It destroys people.
00:24:50.960 All right, I want to make brief mention of this.
00:24:53.660 The BBC, BBC Three actually, tweeted an article a few days ago with an interesting title.
00:25:00.360 The title was, We Need to Talk About Thin Privilege.
00:25:03.700 The article apparently is from a few months ago, but it's making the rounds now for whatever reason.
00:25:09.520 Let me see if I can find the article.
00:25:12.500 The title of the article is, What is Thin Privilege and Who Has It?
00:25:16.900 Well, I'm guessing thin people have it.
00:25:18.300 My guess is thin people have it, but we'll find out.
00:25:21.500 It says, Buying clothes in high street shops and sitting comfortably in train and plane seats are things some people take for granted, but not for much longer.
00:25:30.780 As lingerie blogger Cora Harrington says, These things mean you probably benefit from thin privilege.
00:25:39.860 Lingerie blogger.
00:25:42.080 Does that mean that you're blogging in your lingerie?
00:25:45.940 I don't know what that means.
00:25:47.640 Or you blog about lingerie every day?
00:25:49.660 How much is there to say about lingerie that that could actually be your job?
00:25:53.500 But we'll put that to the side.
00:25:56.380 In a detailed Twitter thread, Cora says,
00:25:59.500 You don't have to feel thin to have thin privilege.
00:26:02.320 It just means you're not on the receiving end of other people's fat phobia.
00:26:06.780 Yeah, fat phobia is a thing now.
00:26:08.720 And you don't find it difficult to do everyday things because of your size.
00:26:12.260 And then she goes on, quoting from her tweet thread, explaining what thin privilege is.
00:26:23.660 She says, My job involves looking at photos of models who are much thinner than me.
00:26:28.100 So I rarely feel thin, but I can also walk into almost any clothing store and expect, without even thinking about it, to buy something in my size.
00:26:35.860 That is thin privilege.
00:26:39.000 And then she goes on to explain and describe other examples of thin privilege.
00:26:46.260 Just one point.
00:26:50.740 I'm not going to spend a lot of time on this.
00:26:52.180 But it's just, first of all, this idea of privilege has been just stretched into oblivion.
00:27:01.420 I mean, 20 years ago, if you said, Oh, that person over there is privileged, everybody would know what you're talking about.
00:27:08.800 They would get a general idea.
00:27:10.180 They would think of like a rich guy on a yacht, or they would think of a rich kid at a fancy private school.
00:27:18.280 Okay, that's privileged.
00:27:19.300 Someone who has a lot of money, hasn't faced a lot of challenges in life, silver spoon, all that.
00:27:24.640 That's a privileged person.
00:27:26.940 And so we all, okay, so that's what it meant.
00:27:29.800 But now we have kind of dissected people into a million pieces and analyzed every part of their life and said,
00:27:37.840 Okay, that part's privileged. You've got privilege over there.
00:27:40.860 You've got privilege there, privilege there, privilege there.
00:27:43.260 And it doesn't mean that.
00:27:44.040 So now everybody's privileged in one way or another.
00:27:48.160 So they say that, you know, you have white privilege.
00:27:51.520 But then if you're fat, then you don't have privilege.
00:27:54.460 So then what about a fat white person versus a skinny black person?
00:27:59.200 So, you know, who has more privilege there?
00:28:01.420 We get into a privilege, we get into the privilege oppression Olympics, right?
00:28:05.980 And we have a competition about who's more privileged, who's less privileged.
00:28:09.760 It's just, it's so ridiculous.
00:28:13.800 It's not, the word doesn't mean anything anymore.
00:28:17.060 And even if it does mean something, you know what?
00:28:19.840 Stop whining.
00:28:21.740 Just stop whining about, oh, they have more privilege than I have.
00:28:25.740 Okay, well, just shut up and just live your life.
00:28:28.800 Okay, yes, everybody is going to be privileged in certain ways that you aren't.
00:28:34.840 And then you're going to have certain privileges that other people don't have.
00:28:37.800 I mean, that's just, that's what it means to live and to be a human being.
00:28:43.040 There are certain advantages that you have that other people don't.
00:28:45.960 There are advantages that they have that you don't.
00:28:48.600 And if you chose, if you choose to focus on the advantages that other people have and you don't have,
00:28:54.520 that's your, that's your fault.
00:28:56.180 That's your problem.
00:28:56.900 And if you choose to see, to see society like this and to see life this way,
00:29:04.000 as this constant, like, jockeying for position about who's going to be more victimized,
00:29:11.140 if that's how you want to live, that's your choice.
00:29:13.840 But that's not much of a life.
00:29:16.280 The other option is just to shut up about it and just live.
00:29:19.980 It's a, and also, obesity is not, it's not an identity.
00:29:34.960 Okay, it's not, it's not a community.
00:29:38.200 So we can't talk about, well, the obese community and the struggles that they face.
00:29:44.020 Like, I'm, yes, people that are overweight, they do face certain struggles.
00:29:47.020 I'm not, I'm not downplaying that.
00:29:50.720 But they're not, it's not a, that's not a, like a category of person.
00:29:54.440 If you're obese, it just means you have a little bit extra weight on you.
00:29:59.260 And probably if you go on a diet and you get some exercise, you'll get rid of some of that weight.
00:30:05.220 So it's not, that doesn't make you, I might as well talk about the, you know, I'm six foot one.
00:30:10.180 I might as well talk about the six foot one community.
00:30:12.360 And here are the struggles and challenges that we face.
00:30:15.580 It's not a, it's not a, it's just, that's just how tall I am.
00:30:21.380 And that actually I can't do anything about.
00:30:23.460 But if you've got extra weight on you, you certainly can do something about it.
00:30:26.980 Now, now it may be true that you're never going to be rail thin, but that's fine.
00:30:34.660 But everybody in the world, you know, if you, if you, whatever, whatever your weight is now,
00:30:39.000 you can change it at least to some degree.
00:30:43.240 Just by changing your lifestyle and your diet and everything else.
00:30:47.160 Let's just, let's just stop focusing.
00:30:49.120 That's my proposal.
00:30:50.300 Okay.
00:30:50.580 For everybody.
00:30:51.220 I mean, whatever, whatever you are, fat, skinny, uh, whatever race, whatever culture,
00:30:55.860 however much money you have, stop focusing on privilege and, and, uh, and what other people have
00:31:02.040 and you don't have, stop whining about it and just go and live.
00:31:05.240 Okay.
00:31:05.440 That's my, that's my, um, pep talk for the day.
00:31:11.160 All right.
00:31:12.360 Finally, um, a couple, well, two other things, um, two little pieces of video.
00:31:19.640 I want to show you here.
00:31:20.700 We go first to an incident at the, uh, Fort Lauderdale airports.
00:31:25.060 A woman was apparently denied entry into a, onto a flight because she was intoxicated.
00:31:32.400 And then, well, here she is, um, interacting, shall we say, with the gate agent.
00:31:39.320 She's a gun, she's, she's, she's, she's in there though.
00:32:03.700 I just want to say one thing here.
00:32:15.960 Okay.
00:32:16.140 I, I, I'm not going to criticize this woman.
00:32:19.340 Actually.
00:32:19.880 Um, I, I totally understand where she's coming from.
00:32:23.720 I mean, I feel exactly the same way.
00:32:27.140 Every time I'm in an airport, I have exactly the same feeling who among us has not been
00:32:31.540 sitting at the gate, screaming silently to yourself, you know, get me out of here.
00:32:37.000 No, I don't want to do this.
00:32:38.280 That's I think that every single time I'm in an airport.
00:32:40.320 Uh, in fact, I scream in agony to myself at airports, at the DMV, the grocery store, the
00:32:47.640 mall, I scream to myself in agony.
00:32:51.220 Anytime somebody calls me on the phone rather than text me and I get sucked into an actual
00:32:55.740 conversation the whole time, I'm thinking this, the exact same thing the woman said.
00:33:01.340 And it's even worse at airports because you're sitting in this horrid environment, waiting
00:33:06.540 to be in an even more horrid environment.
00:33:08.760 And that's what makes waiting like at the dentist so terrible also, because it's not
00:33:14.580 like you're waiting in line for a ride at Disney world.
00:33:16.680 You're, you're waiting and, and, uh, and it's not fun, but then what you're waiting for
00:33:23.820 will be even less fun.
00:33:25.140 So you're waiting in line at the airport for the privilege of being, you know, packed into
00:33:30.460 a tin box like chickens on one of those poultry trucks you see on the highway.
00:33:34.260 And then you're going to be suspended 30,000 feet in the air where one wrong move, one gust
00:33:39.820 of wind, one cell phone, not put on airplane mode could send you plummeting to the earth
00:33:45.720 in a death spiral.
00:33:47.180 So yeah, I get where she's coming from.
00:33:49.660 The only difference, the only thing that really separates the sane from the insane is that
00:33:54.840 insane people scream out loud.
00:33:58.340 Whereas sane people keep it to themselves, being able to scream silently in agony in your
00:34:05.600 head.
00:34:06.020 That's, that's, that's what, that's what makes you sane and normal.
00:34:10.760 And we all do it.
00:34:12.880 So let us not judge this woman for expressing herself and for, and for exercising her free
00:34:18.880 speech rights as well.
00:34:19.740 Even though she did say that she had a gun at an airport, which, you know, I guess is
00:34:24.900 ill-advised.
00:34:26.420 Okay.
00:34:26.600 Last thing, the college football playoff national championships happened yesterday.
00:34:31.020 Clemson won handily, but something, something very strange occurred during the halftime show.
00:34:38.680 The band Imagine Dragons gave a perfectly subpar performance.
00:34:42.980 And then the rapper Lil Wayne came out in his Technicolor dream coat.
00:34:48.700 And here's how that went.
00:35:00.620 So it appears that Lil Wayne's stylist is from Middle Earth or something.
00:35:07.360 He looks like what would happen if somebody slipped LSD into my grandmother's tea.
00:35:11.580 Okay.
00:35:12.480 It looks like his fashion designer is like an elf who made his outfit by, you know, killing
00:35:19.780 a unicorn.
00:35:21.500 You know, he, he looks kind of like the, the love child of Elton John and a Muppet, or he
00:35:29.000 looks a little bit like a, like the mascot on a box of cereal.
00:35:31.960 Actually, he looks like what would happen if, if Tim Burton had a fashion show.
00:35:37.520 You know what?
00:35:38.200 No, no, this, I think this is it.
00:35:39.620 He, he, he looks, he looks kind of like a four-year-old girl raided her mom's closet and
00:35:45.280 tried to dress up like a grownup, but it just so happens that her mom is Cruella DeVille
00:35:50.400 from the 101 Dalmatians.
00:35:52.540 But you know what?
00:35:54.780 He pulls it off.
00:35:57.520 I mean, he doesn't pull off the music so much, which is terrible, if you can even call it
00:36:02.860 music, but the outfit, I mean, he pulls it off.
00:36:07.100 We got to give him credit.
00:36:08.840 So I get it.
00:36:09.640 I get what he was doing with the whole ensemble and I kind of like it.
00:36:14.000 Um, all right.
00:36:15.520 We'll leave it there.
00:36:16.200 Thanks for watching, everybody.
00:36:17.200 Thanks for listening.
00:36:18.120 Godspeed.
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