The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 375 - Another School Board Abolishes Privacy In The Girls Locker Room

00:00:00.000 We talked yesterday about Chick-fil-A's cave to the LGBT rage mob, and I pointed out, as many

00:00:07.140 others pointed out as well, that the cave, on top of being cowardly and shameful, is also pointless

00:00:12.680 and counterproductive. It's not going to accomplish anything from a pragmatic or business perspective

00:00:17.520 because it only has the potential to alienate their current base of customers, and it's not

00:00:22.620 going to appease their critics or create new customers, so there's really nothing in it for

00:00:27.240 them. And now that certain gay groups have offered their official reactions over the last

00:00:32.580 couple of days to this news about Chick-fil-A's surrender to them, I think my point has been

00:00:40.640 totally confirmed. So I want to go through a few of these here. There's definitely a lesson

00:00:44.900 in this for all of us that we can all learn. I referenced this yesterday, but here's the actual

00:00:49.560 statement from GLAAD, Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation. In addition to refraining from

00:00:54.700 financially supporting anti-LGBTQ organizations, Chick-fil-A still lacks policies to ensure safe

00:01:00.640 workplaces for LGBTQ employees and should unequivocally speak out against the LGBTQ reputation that their

00:01:07.240 brand represents. So, translation there. Number one, they want Chick-fil-A to come out, and it's not

00:01:14.560 enough to just stop donating to, quote, anti-LGBTQ organizations, which, by the way, that's the

00:01:19.860 Salvation Army, a group that helps the poor, provides toys for kids around Christmas time.

00:01:26.460 That's anti-gay in the minds of the people over at GLAAD. But they need, on top of that,

00:01:34.140 they need Chick-fil-A to come out and actually explicitly denounce Christian teaching on gay

00:01:40.020 marriage, denounce their founders and their CEO's position on it. That's what they need.

00:01:47.140 And then, in terms of policies to ensure a safe workplace for LGBTQ employees, that, of course,

00:01:52.320 is just nonsense. There's no indication, no hint, no evidence at all that Chick-fil-A has discriminated

00:02:01.080 against gay employees or provided an unsafe environment for gay employees. And that's what's

00:02:06.980 been the absurdity all along with this, is that Chick-fil-A hires and employees gay people.

00:02:13.820 They don't discriminate there. They serve gay people. There's never been any discrimination at

00:02:18.860 all. But GLAAD is, so what they're doing here is they're not only giving additional demands,

00:02:25.440 but they're also slandering and smearing Chick-fil-A on top of it. That's their way of saying

00:02:30.740 thank you, is to smear them. And then the Human Rights Coalition says, while this is an important

00:02:36.560 step for Chick-fil-A, the company still does not have workplace protections and policies that are

00:02:40.480 fully inclusive of LGBTQ people. This is according to Beck Bailey of the HRC Foundation.

00:02:46.900 We look forward to the day when Chick-fil-A's commitment to welcoming all is reflected in

00:02:50.400 their workplace policies and practices by including explicit sexual orientation and gender identity

00:02:55.040 non-discrimination protections. Meanwhile, you've got the website LGBTQ Nation with the headline,

00:03:01.320 remember, Chick-fil-A isn't LGBTQ friendly yet. And the website, the advocate says,

00:03:06.620 Chick-fil-A still isn't LGBTQ friendly despite pledge on donations. Okay. And this is just a

00:03:13.700 handful of examples, but this shows you, this is the response. Okay. So, and you've got, you got this

00:03:21.900 response from, from the left and from the gay groups attacking Chick-fil-A. And now you've got

00:03:26.640 conservatives and Christians criticizing Chick-fil-A. So they've just, they just pissed everybody off.

00:03:31.240 And the latest I saw is they're already sort of flip-flopping. And the president of Chick-fil-A came out

00:03:36.240 and said, well, we still haven't totally made up our mind. Actually, we, we still haven't totally,

00:03:40.720 maybe we'll still donate to Salvation Army. We'll see. I'm paraphrasing slightly, but so now they're

00:03:45.720 scrambling. And the thing is, if, if they backtrack and say, no, nevermind, we're, we're, we're still

00:03:51.060 going to donate. It's, it's too late. They've just, this was such a horrendous mistake. This is the

00:03:58.060 classic unforced error. Everything was going fine for Chick-fil-A. Everything was going swimmingly. It was,

00:04:03.740 it was splendid over at Chick-fil-A. They were growing, they were serving chicken. Everybody,

00:04:07.600 everybody, you know, most people love them. Then you got this small group of fringe people that

00:04:12.260 were complaining about them. But in fact, it was kind of nice having them because those people,

00:04:16.340 it was just more publicity and it kept Chick-fil-A in the headlines and, you know, galvanized support

00:04:21.160 behind Chick-fil-A. They, Chick-fil-A really had the ideal situation for, uh, you know, a, a restaurant

00:04:29.100 chain. Really. When you think about it, because great product, great service, great reputation,

00:04:33.800 as far as that goes, lots of support, um, growing and it, but then also having that little core of

00:04:41.960 people always attacking them is kind of good because like I said, it galvanizes support.

00:04:47.660 It creates headlines. That's what they had. Now it's just, it's all, it's all ruined. And what you

00:04:53.300 have to understand, what we have to understand is how the left operates in the culture war. We're seeing

00:04:57.500 it here. They are like Sherman's march to the sea in the civil war, burn everything down, make sure

00:05:02.960 every house is destroyed. Every field is smoldering. The enemy is the enemy. So give them no quarter,

00:05:09.140 no respite, uh, do not accept surrender, right? Or, or, or at least, um, unconditional surrender.

00:05:18.680 And as always, you contrast that with the other side, you contrast that with the opposition

00:05:25.620 and the strategy for years on the other side has been, well, maybe if we show how reasonable we

00:05:32.360 are, maybe, you know, maybe they'll go easy on us then. Maybe if we concede a little ground here

00:05:37.180 and a little ground over there and okay, a little more ground here and a little more ground there

00:05:42.440 and, and, and, and maybe now they're happy. Okay. They're not happy. So we'll just a little bit

00:05:46.300 more. We'll just back up a little bit more, a little bit more, a little bit more until you've just

00:05:50.940 backed up and they've pushed you over the cliff into the sea. It's, it's completely pathetic at a

00:05:59.900 certain point. I don't know. At a certain point, you think people, everyone's going to learn their

00:06:03.800 lesson and understand how this works. And the thing for Chick-fil-A is, and this is really the truth.

00:06:11.220 It, it, it honestly does not matter what they do. They could even do the donation thing. No more

00:06:21.000 donations. They could, they could come out with a statement condemning, uh, Christians and, and,

00:06:28.000 and disavowing just complete and total surrender. They could do that. And it's, that still wouldn't be

00:06:38.340 enough. I guarantee you because the, you know, the gay lobby and the left, they're not ever going to

00:06:47.120 forget or forgive because of what happened in the past. I mean, think about the left going and

00:06:56.060 tearing down statues of people that lived 200 years ago or 500 years ago. Centuries could pass

00:07:02.880 and they're still not going to forgive you. It could be five, it could be five, it would be 500

00:07:07.700 years in the future. Okay. We could be, we could be looking at like the year 2,500 and, and Chick-fil-A

00:07:16.160 has, has, you know, long sentence disavowed and everything. And they still, still would be persona

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00:09:23.480 This is not hyperbole. I'm not being dramatic. The video that I want to play is very upsetting.

00:09:28.860 It's infuriating. And let me give you the setup first. Thanks as always to LifeSite News for their

00:09:35.100 great work on this and for bringing it to my attention. Let me read a little bit actually

00:09:39.160 from LifeSite News, uh, their article on this. It says, provoking concern among both parents and

00:09:43.780 students in Illinois school district voted last week to allow gender confused students to choose

00:09:48.720 which restrooms and locker rooms reflect their gender identity. Uh, the board of, uh, the board

00:09:54.940 of district 211 voted five to two last Thursday evening to adopt a new policy for Palantine high

00:10:00.740 school. According to the daily Herald, it declares that students shall be treated and supported in a

00:10:06.020 manner consistent with their gender identity, which shall include students having access to

00:10:10.280 restrooms and locker rooms that correspond to their gender identity. The vote came at a meeting

00:10:15.280 attended by nearly 500 community members after the school board rejected a proposal to let the

00:10:19.520 community vote on the question in a district-wide referendum. Many of the attendees vehemently

00:10:23.320 disapproved of the plan with one video in particular, starkly contrasting the benefit to trans

00:10:27.980 students with the fallout for the majority. Okay. Now the video referenced. What you're going to see

00:10:33.200 here are two reactions to this insane vote by the psychos over at this school board. The first is

00:10:39.760 a boy gloating that now he gets to change in the girl's locker room. And the second is a girl, a real

00:10:46.380 actual biological girl giving an honest reaction to what has transpired. And you could tell that she is

00:10:51.200 hurt. She's scared. She feels betrayed. She's got tears in her eyes. I do not know how any decent person

00:11:00.680 could watch the video I'm going to play for you and not feel sympathy for the girl.

00:11:09.240 Really, you'll see the boy and then the girl. I don't know how you could possibly watch this and feel more

00:11:16.920 sympathy for the boy than for the girl. But tell me what you think. Give this a watch.

00:11:23.080 I'm really hoping they vote for it. It's definitely going to be a step forward in progress. I'm

00:11:31.640 really excited if they vote for it. A bit nervous though, as always, just you never know.

00:11:39.640 But it's definitely a first step forward in many more steps. It's a great policy.

00:11:45.640 Unfortunately, it's not everything we want, such as talking about even the small things like changing

00:11:52.360 the name on your student ID, which you're required to wear at all times. So I'm really hoping that the

00:11:59.960 district makes the right decision here and votes it. Yeah, it passed. It passed.

00:12:04.680 And how does that make you feel? Oh, I'm ecstatic. I'm just... I'm sorry. I'm sorry.

00:12:20.840 I feel uncomfortable that my privacy is being invaded as I am a swimmer. I do change

00:12:27.320 multiple times naked in front of the other students in the locker room.

00:12:31.160 And I understand that the board has an obligation to all students, but I was hoping that they would

00:12:40.040 go about this in a different way that would also accommodate students such as myself.

00:12:45.640 Okay. First of all, I dare anyone to step up and explain why that girl with tears in her eyes,

00:12:53.400 terrified that she has to change in front of a boy. And you heard her explain, you know,

00:12:59.320 she's in swimming, so she's using the locker room. She's getting completely changed. And

00:13:06.120 I dare someone to explain why she's a bigot. Why she's a bigot for wanting privacy. Please,

00:13:11.880 someone, send me an email, explain it to me, spell it all out, because I want to hear it.

00:13:18.920 Now, second, for the sane among us, what you see here is the two competing claims.

00:13:24.440 Very clearly illustrated. We see the two sides represented. On one side, you have a biological

00:13:32.120 boy dressed up like a girl, sort of, who claims he has a right to change with girls. On the other

00:13:40.760 side, you have a biological girl who claims she has a right to privacy and to be protected when

00:13:47.480 she's in a vulnerable and exposed state at school. Okay. Now let's break this down.

00:13:54.360 Let's say that we say to the boy, I mean, let's pretend that we're all sane and reasonable. And so

00:14:01.320 we say to the boy, like we should say, you're out of luck. Sorry. You're not getting what you want.

00:14:05.960 You're just not getting it. That's it. Now go change in a boy's locker room. That's where you belong.

00:14:12.600 Let's say that we said that. What's the downside? I mean, what is the worst case scenario? What's the

00:14:19.800 worst case consequence or something like that? The downside for him is that now he has to change

00:14:25.480 with boys because he is one and he's being treated like every other boy. Now that might make him

00:14:32.600 uncomfortable, but it's a discomfort born from his own confusion. Okay. Now what's the downside

00:14:41.640 on the other side? What's the downside to telling the girl she's out of luck? Sorry,

00:14:44.920 we don't care. You have to get naked around a boy. What's the downside? Well,

00:14:48.200 she's now being deprived of privacy. She has to deal with the fear and worry of having boys in

00:14:53.720 a locker room with her. Her safety is in jeopardy. Her personal space and privacy is obliterated.

00:15:01.640 I just don't see how any sane person could look at this situation, the two competing claims and decide

00:15:06.600 that the downside for the boy is somehow worse, somehow more severe, and in fact is so terrible

00:15:12.040 that it overrides the claims of the girl. That's just absolute madness. But hang on a second,

00:15:18.040 because this isn't just one boy versus one girl. This is one boy or maybe a few at most in a whole

00:15:25.800 school versus all of the girls. So what we're saying or what the school board is saying rather is

00:15:32.600 that the comfort of these couple of boys outweighs the privacy of every girl in the school.

00:15:41.400 So this bears repeating. The claim here is that the comfort of a few boys

00:15:46.440 outweighs the privacy concerns of every single girl in that school. That is just, look,

00:15:54.740 if you're on board with this, if you're in agreement with the school board, there are only two explanations

00:16:03.140 as far as I can tell. Either you're insane or you're evil. I just, or you are very, very, very stupid

00:16:12.980 and you have allowed yourself to be duped by the leftist talking points on this. So I'll allow for

00:16:20.560 that third possibility, but there really isn't, there is not a scenario. There just isn't where

00:16:25.680 a morally decent, sane, intelligent person could say that, oh yeah, I think that boy has a right

00:16:33.600 to change in the girl's locker room. There just isn't. And I, you know, and that's a, and that's

00:16:37.100 a broad brush stroke and I'm, and I'm using it. That's a broad, big, huge paintbrush. And I'm,

00:16:41.860 and I'm, yeah, I'm, I'm painting the whole side that way. What I'm saying is of all the people

00:16:46.040 who are on this boy's side saying he should change it. Every, not a single one of those people are

00:16:51.140 intelligent, morally decent and sane. Not a single one. Now let me, um, and there, there are some

00:17:01.740 issues like that. And then that's why, let me head something off of the past year. I always hear this

00:17:07.320 whenever I talk about this issue. And when I speak in such strong terms about it, I always hear someone

00:17:12.060 say, look, man, I'm not saying you're wrong, but it's complex. It's, it's a complex issue. It's

00:17:16.420 very complicated. And this is where the stupid people come in. This is, this is the stupid person

00:17:21.720 response. Um, because it's not complicated. Okay. And I'm at the point now where I'm, I'm a lot more

00:17:29.920 annoyed by the it's complicated people than I am by the people who would just come flat out and defend

00:17:36.200 putting boys in the girl's locker room. The ones who try to make it, that's nuanced. It's complicated.

00:17:42.060 Maybe what annoys me is that they're so stupid, but they're trying to look intelligent. They're

00:17:46.540 trying to, they're trying to come up with the, you know, sort of rise above it. I'm not on either

00:17:51.080 side. You know, I'm, I'm, I'm, I see both and I see the nuances and you just don't see it. So

00:17:56.340 they're trying to take the intellectual high ground, even though they are so enormously stupid.

00:18:03.660 This is not a complicated issue. There are complicated things. Quantum physics is complicated

00:18:08.800 when it comes to moral issues. Uh, you know, an issue like capital punishment is, I would say

00:18:14.260 complicated. Well, you know, a complicated issue, here's how, you know, a moral issue is complicated.

00:18:20.320 If there are intelligent and reasonable arguments on both sides, you know, if you've got people on

00:18:28.220 both extreme ends of this discussion, making intelligent and reasonable points,

00:18:33.700 um, then that's, and then, and then in between on the spectrum, bridging that gap, there are a bunch

00:18:41.760 of intelligent and reasonable points too. Okay. That's how, you know, you've got a complicated

00:18:46.620 issue on your hands and something like capital punishment. I would say, yeah, I've heard really

00:18:50.500 intelligent and reasonable points on both sides of it and all the way in between.

00:18:54.240 This is not one of those. There aren't any intelligent or reasonable points on the pro

00:19:01.160 letting boys into the girls' locker rooms. There just aren't. There are none. This is so simple.

00:19:07.440 There's nothing complicated about it at all. A boy says he wants to change in a girls' locker room.

00:19:12.740 No, you can't. That's it. That's it. That's all you have to say.

00:19:18.060 Now, if you want to talk about an emotional level as well, but don't you feel sorry for these boys that

00:19:23.640 are confused? I'm the first one to say that normally when we talk about the gender thing and

00:19:28.480 we talk about gender confused people, I'll be the first to say that, yeah, I think we feel compassion

00:19:35.260 for people who have this confusion. Um, that doesn't mean that we compromise with them. That

00:19:40.500 doesn't mean that we give up on reality. That certainly doesn't mean that we succumb to their

00:19:44.740 delusion or we, we, we support them in their delusion, but, um, yeah, we can have compassion

00:19:50.940 usually, but, but here, but here's my thing. The moment you demand as a man or a boy to have

00:20:00.540 access to a girl's locker room and the moment that you arrogantly, narcissistically, cruelly

00:20:08.860 say that their concerns don't matter. You know, you could look at that girl, you have people crying

00:20:17.060 because they don't want you in there because they feel uncomfortable. And you're looking at them

00:20:22.420 and saying that screw you. I don't care. So the moment you do that, I don't feel sorry for you

00:20:26.860 anymore. I am sorry. I have no more compassion for you. I think you're just a bully and a jerk.

00:20:32.480 And I think what you're doing and I, and I hold you also responsible. Why wouldn't I? I mean,

00:20:37.800 you're responsible. You should be a decent person putting the confusion aside. I understand that part

00:20:42.820 of it, but you're looking at these girls, you see how uncomfortable, how about just worrying about

00:20:47.920 them a little bit instead of yourself? How about, how about not putting yourself above everybody?

00:20:55.600 Uh, one other point I want to make your defenders of this madness will often say, oh, come on. Do you

00:21:04.300 really think a boy is going to pretend to be transgender so that he can watch girls change in

00:21:08.500 the locker room? Do you think that's really going to happen? Now that's actually irrelevant. The point

00:21:13.680 here is the privacy rights of the girl, the exact internal motivation of the boy who invades the

00:21:18.500 privacy of the girl is, is basically irrelevant. It doesn't, doesn't actually matter. Um, but since

00:21:26.680 we're on the subject, do I think that a boy would potentially pretend to be transgender so that he

00:21:31.480 could watch girls change the locker room? Yes, I do. It's, it's certainly, it's at least possible

00:21:38.360 if you're creating a scenario where a biological boy has every right to go into the girl's locker

00:21:47.820 room, as long as he's transgender, but then also there's no way to, we just have to take his word

00:21:54.380 for it that he's transgender. It's not like there's any tests that can be done. Uh, there's nothing.

00:21:59.460 It's just, we got to take his word for it. He says he identifies as a girl. I mean, and it doesn't

00:22:03.120 matter if he, if he came to school yesterday as a boy and he was boy. And then a day later,

00:22:10.340 12 hours later, 24 hours later, he's saying, he's a girl. You have to just go, you can't,

00:22:15.300 you've just, you've take his word for it. So do I think it's possible that a boy who is not gender

00:22:23.080 confused would exploit a scenario, a situation such as that? Yes, it's possible. In fact, you can't deny

00:22:30.960 that it's possible. You have to agree with me that it is at least possible, right? You can't say that

00:22:35.300 it's impossible. Is it impossible that a boy would, a biological, a non-gender confused boy would

00:22:40.860 exploit that? No, it's not impossible. It is possible, right? We, we, we have to agree on that.

00:22:43.980 It's at least possible. We could debate how possible or how likely it is. What's the degree

00:22:49.300 of likelihood, but forget about that. It is possible. So here's my point. It's, we, we're creating a

00:22:56.760 scenario where it's at least possible a boy could exploit it to gain access to the girl's locker

00:23:00.780 room. Everyone agrees it's possible. What you're saying, if you agree, if you're on board with

00:23:07.700 this, what you're saying is, yeah, it's possible, but it's a risk worth taking. So I just want you

00:23:17.480 to say that out loud. That's all. I just want you to say, I want, because that's your position. That

00:23:22.280 is your position, even if you're not saying it out loud. So I'm just, that is your position. Just say

00:23:26.100 it out loud so that you can hear yourself saying it. I want you to say, yes, I support

00:23:33.120 a policy, which it would be possible for a boy to exploit in order to invade the privacy

00:23:38.760 of girls and watch them change. But that's a risk I'm willing to take. Just say that out

00:23:46.480 loud. See how it feels when you say it out loud. In fact, maybe look in the mirror while

00:23:50.340 you say it. So you can see what kind of person you are who would take a position like that.

00:23:56.100 In fact, for me, put everything else to the side, even though this isn't even the main

00:24:01.340 point, because like I said, the motivations of the boys, that's not even the main point

00:24:04.760 or even all that relevant, but this is enough right here. This should, this point right here

00:24:09.720 should be enough. That is not a risk that I'm willing to take. Or maybe I should phrase

00:24:15.960 another way. That is not a risk that I think girls should be forced to take because I'm

00:24:22.800 not taking the risk. You're not taking it. It's, it's the girls in the school and it's

00:24:28.380 our daughters generally in schools across country. We're forcing them to take a risk.

00:24:34.580 And no, I don't think they should be forced to take it. I don't. And if you do, if you think

00:24:40.120 they should, then yeah, look in the mirror and say that out loud and see if you, if you can

00:24:44.580 really be proud of yourself holding a position like that. All right, before we move on, you

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00:25:38.460 last topic, Sprite has a new ad out. We'll cover this quickly. I've been, I've had this

00:25:43.280 on, on the docket to talk about for a few days now. So Sprite, they have a new, a new

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00:26:00.160 don't have anything to do with the product at all. But not only does it not mention Sprite,

00:26:04.660 but it doesn't even feature anyone drinking a Sprite. I think from what I noticed, maybe

00:26:08.020 I, maybe I missed the shot, but I didn't even see someone drink a Sprite in the whole commercial.

00:26:13.160 Uh, anyway, that's not really the point. The point is that this ad is creepy as hell.

00:26:18.640 If you haven't seen it, give it a look.

00:26:20.800 When you walk through a storm, hold your head up high. And don't be afraid of the dark.

00:26:48.800 At the end of a storm, there's a golden sky. And the sweet silver song of a love.

00:27:18.780 Walk on through the rain. Walk on, walk on. With hope in your heart. And you're never, ever one.

00:27:44.280 Alone.

00:27:56.280 Okay. First of all, can we just go back quickly and freeze frame it at 119?

00:28:03.660 I want you to look at the, at, at minute 119 right here. This is where the cross-dressing

00:28:09.800 guy heads to the gay pride parade with his boyfriend and the dad is looking on. And I

00:28:15.160 guess the dad is supposed to seem proud or whatever, but, but look at his expression.

00:28:19.640 I think they needed to reshoot that one because that's not, that's more of a like, damn it.

00:28:25.560 I screwed this one up. Didn't I look, isn't it? That's not, I don't really see the, the pride.

00:28:30.600 It's like a worried, depressed look. Uh, I, I just, I, I think that they, I don't know.

00:28:37.460 They, they, they probably need to go back and, and, and do that one over. Um, you can kind of tell

00:28:43.040 that he's thinking the dad's sort of thinking, well, this really didn't work out how I intended.

00:28:49.440 But anyway, what you're seeing here is, is again, the promotion and propagation of confusion,

00:28:54.820 mental disorder, child abuse, and it's being promoted and propagated by a powerful force

00:28:59.260 in our society. Now I, I said this on Twitter a few days ago and there were leftists mocking

00:29:03.980 me for it. A daily coast writer among them mocked me for calling Sprite a powerful force in our

00:29:10.140 society. Now, don't you love it? How these people, they drop their evil corporation shtick

00:29:15.260 as soon as the corporation starts singing their ideological tune. Now, all of a sudden,

00:29:20.480 the idea that a corporation is a powerful force is funny. So what are you talking about? Powerful

00:29:25.160 forces. I mean, you spend all day ranting about billionaires and millionaires. And the moment

00:29:30.820 someone responds with this corporation, what they're doing is wrong. Well, what do you care

00:29:34.540 about corporations? It doesn't matter. Now Sprite is owned by the Coca-Cola company, which is a

00:29:41.120 multinational corporation whose largest shareholder is Berkshire Hathaway. So yes, powerful force,

00:29:47.260 very powerful. And it is intent on promoting this. We should ask why. And we should ask what,

00:29:53.500 what is being promoted here? Go back and look at the 17 mark, 17 seconds. What you're seeing there

00:29:58.780 is called breast binding. This is the practice of flattening a woman's breasts to make her appear

00:30:03.120 masculine. Of course, this is highly damaging physically to a woman. Damage to the skin,

00:30:09.380 to the muscle, to the bone structure, problems breathing, infections, bacteria buildup. All of

00:30:14.160 these and more are side effects. Obvious, inevitable side effects of trying to crush a woman's breasts to

00:30:21.640 make her look like a boy. Now, why would a woman or a girl consent to such treatment? Well, she hates

00:30:26.920 her female body and wishes that it wasn't female. And that's when she might want to damage it in this

00:30:33.100 way. This is, um, a form of self mutilation. This is body dysmorphia. This is what people with

00:30:41.520 anorexia have where they, they look at themselves and they're obviously not overweight, but they feel

00:30:47.220 like they're overweight. They look in the mirror and they see an overweight person. Uh, they don't like

00:30:52.380 their bodies. And so they damage themselves physically. So, and again, it's similar to what

00:30:58.540 people who self mutilate suffer from damaging the body body on purpose. Now imagine a Sprite ad

00:31:05.220 with inspirational music, slickly shot and edited, showing someone heroically cutting themselves

00:31:12.100 or purging after a food binge. Imagine a campaign to accept anorexia,

00:31:21.180 anorexia to, to, to stop the stigma against anorexia, not to stop the stigma against anorexic

00:31:28.300 people, you know, not to, not to have us accept anorexic people. That's different. Yes, we should,

00:31:34.780 people who suffer from this disorder, we should accept them. We should be compassionate towards

00:31:39.600 them. We should be sympathetic. We should want to help them. So a campaign like that would be fine.

00:31:45.560 I'm saying, imagine a campaign that says anorexia itself is normal and fine, and we should accept

00:31:52.560 it and celebrate it. We would all be horrified by that. We'd condemn whatever corporation produced

00:32:00.080 that ad. We'd call them evil. We'd accuse them of trying to do great harm to children. How is this

00:32:04.800 different? It isn't. The only difference is that the delusion of the girl who chest binds is politically

00:32:11.000 acceptable, ideologically acceptable, whereas the dilution of the, of the cutter or the bulimic is

00:32:16.240 not. That's the only difference. In all of these cases though, you have people damaging themselves

00:32:22.000 out of self-loathing, out of a rejection of their body, a rejection of themselves. All of this stuff

00:32:29.460 these days, and usually what you get from, from corporations and from marketing campaigns,

00:32:35.500 especially when things are geared towards women, it's all about accepting your body,

00:32:40.340 accepting yourself for who you are. You're beautiful and all of that. Well, this runs directly

00:32:47.540 counter to that because this, what you're seeing depicted in the commercial would be a, a, a girl,

00:32:54.220 a female who does not accept her body and, uh, in, and rejects it. And so rather than saying,

00:33:03.260 no, accept who you are, the ad is saying, yeah, well, no, go ahead. And that's yeah, go ahead and do

00:33:09.540 what you have to destroy yourself. It's again, horrific. All right. Let's move on to emails.

00:33:19.020 Matt Walsh show at gmail.com. Matt Walsh show at gmail.com. This is, hang on a second. This is from

00:33:26.640 Dan says, dear Matt, did you happen to see or hear about the latest episode on the blacklist

00:33:31.160 on NBC. I've watched on and off for a few years, but the latest episode was my last. The basic plot

00:33:36.780 line of the episode was that a woman was kidnapping conservative men and impregnating them

00:33:41.080 with what turns out is her own rapist babies. One man actually gave birth to the baby. In the end,

00:33:49.240 the conservative governor that apparently signed a late-term abortion bill in his own state was

00:33:52.640 forced to travel to New York for a late-term abortion of his own baby. I could not believe the

00:33:58.060 blanks this episode went to, to propagandize abortion. It really was hard to get through.

00:34:02.120 And of course, in the end, brave NBC failed to show the baby being ripped apart and its head crushed,

00:34:06.000 which would have been the only realistic part of the entire episode. Just thought I'd let you know

00:34:09.320 about this ridiculous show. And thank you for speaking up about abortion and faith issues.

00:34:14.040 I, there's, I have so many questions. I mean, how did she impregnate a man? What, in what way did

00:34:21.260 he give birth? I probably don't want to know the answers to these questions. This is what they put

00:34:24.520 on NBC at what, you know, eight o'clock in the evening or whenever Blacklist airs. Yeah, this is

00:34:30.660 why, um, and, and, and, and I mean, network shows in general are mostly just trash. I mean, putting

00:34:37.820 it, even putting aside the political propaganda and the morally objectionable content, which is,

00:34:44.100 there's much, there's a lot of that, but even putting that aside, my, my, my, my first problem

00:34:49.100 with a show like the Blacklist that I watched a few episodes years ago, I can't believe it's still

00:34:53.020 on TV. Just a bad show. I don't know how these networks are still getting away with putting

00:34:58.000 bad television on there. We live in the golden era of television. You've got, you've got HBO and,

00:35:06.220 and, and Netflix and Amazon and some of the other, some cable and premium channels just putting out

00:35:12.260 beautiful shows, masterpieces. And yet the networks like NBC and CBS are still producing garbage.

00:35:20.480 They're, they're producing stuff that would have been, that would have seemed bad in 1996.

00:35:26.760 Why do people watch it? I mean, you do know that Netflix exists, right? I'm not saying everything

00:35:32.920 Netflix puts out is great, but even, even like the worst show on Netflix quality wise is a hundred

00:35:39.120 times better than the best show on NBC. Anyway, um, that's not really the point. The point is the,

00:35:44.880 is the ideological. And this is, this is why you had another reason not to watch these network shows.

00:35:51.920 And I think you're right to just stop watching it. Why would you want to put yourself through that?

00:35:57.960 Uh, and you know, this reminds me of what was that episode? I was a show on show called scandal a few

00:36:05.460 years ago. I don't know if that was, was that an NBC? Maybe I think it was ABC, ABC show. And they had

00:36:10.440 their Christmas episode a few years ago, featured a woman getting an abortion while the song silent

00:36:16.280 night played in the background. So they're not trying to hide it. They're just putting it right

00:36:21.000 out there for you. And what they're saying to you as the viewer, if you're a conservative,

00:36:25.560 if you're pro-life, what they're saying is you are scum. We hate you. We don't want you watching.

00:36:32.000 That's the message. This sounds like this blacklist episode. That's really the message to the viewer

00:36:36.540 saying, if you're, if you're not a radical pro-abortion leftist, we hate you, despise you.

00:36:41.960 Don't want you to watch. And so, yes, I think we should respond to that and say, okay, if you don't

00:36:45.640 want us to watch, we won't. This isn't even boycotting. This is just, you clearly don't want

00:36:51.200 ratings from us. And so we will oblige. It's you don't want us to watch. We won't.

00:36:58.540 So I think you're responding the right way to that, to that. This is from Phil says, Hey Matt,

00:37:02.260 a friend from high school used to be conservative is now staunch liberal hates everything Trump says and does.

00:37:06.520 actually hosted a drag queen story hour at the local library supports childhood, transgenderism,

00:37:10.820 et cetera. He's been posting lately about how non-affirming Christians are hurting the LGBTQ

00:37:15.820 community, specifically those who identify as transgender says that any gospel interpretation

00:37:20.120 that confronts, confronts it as sin or makes them feel guilty about their choices is wrong and should

00:37:25.720 be condemned. He reasons that if we just affirm their choice, then no transgender person would commit

00:37:30.920 suicide. And this is more in line with Jesus's teachings. What are your thoughts about this argument?

00:37:34.900 I do not want anyone to take their own life and I would never want to harm, harm to come to anyone,

00:37:38.900 but I do not agree with this rationale. His basic premise seems to be that we change the Bible and

00:37:44.340 science so that people can live whatever lifestyle they choose. The, there appear to be no surrender,

00:37:49.340 no call for devotion to God and his holiness in his argument. It seems that he focuses only on the

00:37:53.980 love of God and none of God's other attributes like wrath, holiness, redemption, et cetera.

00:37:57.840 I wanted to hear your take on it. Well, I think what you said is exactly right. I would add two

00:38:03.640 things. Number one on the suicide argument, it's of course absurd to suggest that simply by

00:38:11.360 affirming biological truth, we are somehow causing people to commit suicide. That is emotional blackmail

00:38:18.780 of the worst and most cynical kind. And also on the suicide note, it's just not true that transgender

00:38:26.420 people are committing suicide at a higher rate because of bullying. That is not true. It is true

00:38:30.240 that they're committing suicide at an astronomically higher rate. Their rate of suicide attempts,

00:38:34.760 I think is somewhere around 40%. If I'm, if I'm remembering correctly, it's something,

00:38:38.780 something in that ballpark, very extremely high. But what you find is in any culture across the world,

00:38:49.920 no matter if it's an affirming culture or not, no matter if it's progressive or conservative,

00:38:54.520 the transgender suicide rate remains extremely, extremely high. So you cannot chalk it up to

00:39:02.160 bullying. If it was all about that, then what you should find is that in a backwards conservative

00:39:08.140 culture, quote unquote, you got the high suicide rate, but then if it's a more liberal place,

00:39:12.300 more liberal culture, the suicide rate is back around the average for everybody else. That's not

00:39:19.940 what you find. Also, in fact, I think when you look throughout history and you see examples of actual

00:39:31.340 persecuted minorities, um, such as, you know, the black community in this country prior to, prior to, uh,

00:39:40.020 civil rights, uh, or, you know, so many other examples across the world and across history,

00:39:44.200 you don't find, you know, among black people in this country, in Jim, the Jim Crow South,

00:39:52.520 their suicide rate was not 40%. I'm not sure that it was even any higher than just the, the,

00:39:59.580 the national average at that time. In fact, what you find usually is that, or oftentimes persecuted

00:40:06.420 minorities, sometimes the suicide rate goes down because there's this effect of coming together

00:40:13.020 and resisting the oppression. And, um, and so you actually find that sometimes, but what you don't

00:40:21.220 find, I'm not aware of any other example of a persecuted minority and transgender people are not a

00:40:28.600 persecuted minority in this country, but I'm for the sake of argument, lumping them in with that

00:40:32.480 category. I'm not aware of any other example of a persecuted minority with a suicide rate of 40%.

00:40:39.180 Why is that? That that's, that's noticeable, isn't it? Doesn't that require an explanation or,

00:40:47.900 or are we going to pretend that the quote persecution of transgenders in 2019 American culture

00:40:53.940 is worse than what, what, what black people went through in, in say the year 1905 in Alabama?

00:41:01.220 Are you going to really, is anyone really going to pretend that? I don't think you want to make

00:41:06.300 that claim. Yet the suicide rate is so, so, so much higher. Why is that? You need an explanation

00:41:14.040 that goes beyond external factors like supposed bullying and so on. I think you have to look inside

00:41:21.040 internally. And I think the reason clearly is that these are people who are struggling

00:41:26.120 to accept themselves for who they are. And that is why we do have compassion for them

00:41:31.580 until they start cruelly and arrogantly bullying others and trying to victimize women. Then I think

00:41:38.320 at that point we draw the line and say, that's it. Sympathy is over because now we're going to be

00:41:42.660 protecting these girls over here. And now I'm more concerned about protecting the girls and children

00:41:47.700 than I am about your feelings. But as long as that's not happening, yeah, we have compassion

00:41:52.440 and everything because of this is what's going on internally. And that's what leads to the suicide

00:41:58.980 rate. And this is exactly why we don't quote affirm because that, that this confusion is what is

00:42:07.220 causing their despair. And so when you affirm them in their despair, you are just causing them to

00:42:15.360 plunge deeper into the confusion, which is the source of the despair. So that's how I would

00:42:21.980 respond to that. Let's see. Let's see what I got one more. This is from Matthew says, according to

00:42:27.840 AOC, cows are part of the climate change problem. Using her logic or lack thereof, do you think her

00:42:33.000 plans should now include eliminating farting Swalwells too? Now that's a really important point. I didn't

00:42:38.060 mention yesterday, we were talking about Eric Swalwell's fart on live TV and I spent 10 minutes,

00:42:42.360 I started my show. I did start the show with 10 minutes of analyzing Swalwell farting.

00:42:49.120 That's the kind of quality content you get from me. But yeah, I think, look, Swalwell

00:42:54.200 melted an entire glacier just with that one nuclear rectal blast. And so I think that if we're talking

00:43:02.520 about taxes on carbon emissions, I think it needs to be taxed for that. I think that there should be,

00:43:09.580 and I don't know why AOC isn't stepping up to the plate on this, but if you think about how much

00:43:14.440 he himself, just with that one fart, contributed to global warming. Now we know that we have 10

00:43:19.960 years left on earth. Just with that one gaseous explosion, he's actually knocked two years off

00:43:26.760 of the lifespan of the earth. Now we only have eight years. And I think he needs to be held

00:43:30.380 accountable for that. So I'm in total agreement with you. And I thank you for bringing up that point.

00:43:34.440 And I think we'll leave it there, everybody. Thanks for watching. Thanks for listening. Godspeed.

00:43:37.520 Thank you.

00:44:07.520 Hey, everyone. It's Andrew Klavan, host of The Andrew Klavan Show. Buck, buck, buck,

00:44:24.320 Chick-fil-A, chickens out. And you know what? That's more important than anything that's going

00:44:28.240 on in Congress. Not that there's anything going on in Congress. We'll have all that and the mailbag

00:44:33.360 on The Andrew Klavan Show.

The Matt Walsh Show - November 20, 2019

Ep. 375 - Another School Board Abolishes Privacy In The Girls Locker Room

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