Ep. 624 - Sex Work Is Not Real Work
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Summary
AOC and others on the left have been celebrating the glories of sex work and defending sites like OnlyFans this week. They say it s a legitimate and noble way to make a living. Why are leftists always encouraging people to do things that make them miserable? We ll talk about that, also, including $600 stimulus checks as part of the latest COID relief bill. What good will $600 do? And today, in our daily cancellation, we ll cancel or rather we ll discuss and cancel lots of people associated with the intense controversy over the singer Lizzo drinking a smoothie. We ll deal with that question and more today on the Matt Warshaw Show.
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Today on the Matt Wall Show, AOC and others on the left have been celebrating the glories of
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sex work and defending sites like OnlyFans this week. They say it's a legitimate and noble way
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to make a living. Why are leftists always encouraging people to do things that make
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them miserable? We'll talk about that. Also, five headlines, including $600 stimulus checks as part
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of the latest COVID relief bill. What good will $600 do? And today in our daily cancellation,
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we'll cancel, or rather we will discuss and cancel lots of people associated with the
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intense controversy over the singer Lizzo drinking a smoothie. Is she betraying the
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fat community? We'll deal with that question and more today on the Matt Wall Show.
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online at charitymobile.com. This week, the New York Post has come in for intense criticism after
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publishing an article about a paramedic in the city who was working a side job selling pornographic
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images of herself on the website OnlyFans. The EMT worker, Lauren Quay, apparently didn't want to
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be profiled by the paper, but they published a story anyway. Now, it's not true that the Post
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doxed Quay, as they've been accused by other media publications. Doxing is the malicious
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publication of private information. The story may have been malicious, but they were publishing what
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the woman herself had already publicly revealed. You know, anything you put on the internet for public
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consumption is no longer private by definition. The New York Post did not force Quay or any other
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woman to make public what should be private. That was her decision. Now, with that said, the story was
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inappropriate and rather baffling, as Quay is not a public figure and nothing about her life is
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newsworthy. Lots of people put embarrassing material on the internet on purpose. A news organization should
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have a clear and ethical reason for publishing that material. I can't imagine what that reason would be
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in this case. But the national conversation has gone beyond merely criticizing, rightly, I think,
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the Post for running a needless and oddly vindictive story about a random woman on OnlyFans. Quickly,
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the controversy became an opportunity for prominent voices on the left to promote sex work itself as a
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legitimate pursuit. Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, along with the ACLU and others,
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have declared this week that sex work is work. Lengthy think pieces have been written defending
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cyber prostitution and old-fashioned prostitution, too, as noble professions. Now, while the wagons are
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circled around OnlyFans, other publications like the Daily Beast have this week worried that the recent
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criticism of Pornhub may be driven by anti-sex work bias, which is a very bad thing. It's long been a goal
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of the left to normalize prostitution. Companies like Pornhub and especially OnlyFans, porn sites
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that empower women by providing them a platform to sell their bodies, have essentially achieved that
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long-sought goal of normalizing prostitution, even while prostitution remains technically illegal in
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most states in the union. But is it true, though? Are women empowered through prostituting themselves
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online or offline? Is sex work real work, as AOC contends? Now, as to the latter question, in a very
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strict dictionary sense, the answer is yes. Work means, it's defined as, activity involving mental or
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physical effort done in order to achieve a purpose or result. So I suppose there's a very minimal amount
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of physical effort involved in posing nude for a webcam, and the intended result of helping men
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masturbate in exchange for profit is no doubt accomplished. But if we take a more elevated
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view of work, and we define it as the use of a certain skill in performing crucial services that
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have tangible and lasting benefit to the consumer, it is not work at all. There is no skill involved in
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taking off your clothes, and there's no lasting benefit to the other person involved in the transaction.
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Now, perhaps you could say my definition of work is a bit ad hoc. You know, I came up with it in order
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to disqualify a prostitution. Maybe so, but it points to the clear distinction that obviously exists
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between a prostitute and, say, a car mechanic. Both are doing something with their bodies in exchange for
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money. Fine. But only one involves a tangible and rare skill, and the results will benefit the consumer
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in a substantial way and for longer than a few moments. If these are both work, or even real work,
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they're still not the same kind of work. There's a reason one is respected and the other is not.
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And it ought to stay that way. The other thing that separates the OnlyFans prostitutes from members
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of more dignified professions is that the prostitute debases and dehumanizes herself. Her entire role is to
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be debased and dehumanized. She is meant to be nothing but a masturbatory aide, an empty vessel,
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faceless and nameless. Workers and other kinds of jobs may feel rather debased at times, and often
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for good reason. But the prostitute offers up her debasement as the product. Her body, her privacy,
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her sexuality, all that is most intimate and sacred is what she sells. It's a very different sort of
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thing from the Walmart cashier who may experience her own sort of namelessness, but her dignity is not
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the product that consumers have come to buy. There's a reason that drug abuse and suicide are
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so common among porn stars and prostitutes. The media chalks it up to mental illness or social
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ostracization, but one need not be sick or alienated to feel despair amid a life dedicated to one's own
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degradation. Of course women are depressed when their, quote, work consists of presenting their bodies
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to be ogled by creepy men on the internet. What else would they feel? Joy? Fulfillment?
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You know, we're constantly being assured by miserable people that if we do what is meaningless
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and empty, we're going to find happiness. As always, the lie reveals itself. Nobody actually is happy
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doing these things that are supposed to make them happy. We find despair and self-destruction where the
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happiness was supposed to be. That's how it always goes. But it was interesting to debate
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this issue on Twitter this week and read the counter arguments, as I have been doing.
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Two themes emerge, both seeming at first to contradict the other. You know, first I was told,
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as we've discussed, that prostitution and porn are empowering and beautiful. But second, I've also been
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told over and over again that all work is debasing and dehumanizing. Every worker is a prostitute in
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effect because they're being exploited in exchange for money. Now, this is Marxism and it's wrong,
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but it helps clarify what's really happening here. See, it turns out that the left is not actually
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elevating prostitution by calling it real work. They are rather degrading real work.
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They aren't trying to pull prostitution up to the level of work. What they're doing is pulling work
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down to the level of prostitution. Yes, prostitution is dehumanizing and exploitative and ultimately
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pointless, but so is everything else, they say. Their view of life, of everything, is so vulgar and
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dreary that they cannot see the difference between somebody who uses skills and talents they've
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cultivated in order to provide a good or service that has actual value and makes people's lives
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better and someone taking off their clothes and showing their genitals to strangers on the
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internet. See, it's not actually, it turns out, that they see the genital flasher as doing something
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noble. It's that they can't understand why the person with the real job is doing something noble.
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They don't know what noble is or what it means. They see the whole world in shades of gray and all
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things to them are empty at their core. So why not prostitute yourself? Why not turn your body into
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a commodity? Why not treat it like something no more valuable than a toaster oven you find in the
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clearance section at Walmart? Nothing has value, nothing has meaning. That's their fundamental belief.
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Happily, though, life is much more than they make it out to be. Your body is much more than a product
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that can be put on a shelf. Your sexuality is much more than a service to be bought and sold.
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And that is the actual truth, which is far more empowering, far more uplifting, far more liberating
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from CBS. It says lawmakers are running out of time to pass another coronavirus relief package
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before Congress adjourns for the holidays. Uh, a major point of contention is whether any package
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will include a second round of stimulus checks, the direct cash payments that help millions of
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households, whether the economic crunch caused by the coronavirus pandemic, of course, to clarify,
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this is not an economic crunch caused by the pandemic. It's an economic crunch caused by
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the disastrous lockdowns where we're telling people they can't go to work. Um, a, uh, a $908
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billion bipartisan proposal initially left out stimulus payments. Um, but a last minute addition
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to the package could include another round of checks, most likely at the $600 per person level.
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Um, and so that's, that's what we're looking at right now. It's not, it's not, it hasn't gone all
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the way through yet, but we're looking at $600 a person and not for everybody. You know, lots of
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people aren't going to get anything, but this to me is, is just perfect. This is, this is a perfect
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encapsulation of, uh, of what we get from the government and from lawmakers in that it's the worst
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of all worlds. It's pretty much the worst possible thing you could do to give everybody $600 or give
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millions of people $600 because you're still spending all that money. Okay. We're still
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spending billions and billions, almost a trillion dollars on top of the trillions we've already
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spent. So we're still spending that. We got that part of it, but you're not giving nearly enough to
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make any difference to anyone. You know, either someone's in a position where they're doing okay and
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they, and you know, they might not be thriving, maybe they are thriving, but they're doing okay.
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They're making it by. And for them, sure, $600 is nice, but they don't really need it because
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they're already, they're, they're, they're not in the middle of an economic crisis. Um, or someone
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is in a financial crisis and you know, isn't, isn't dire straits. And for them, $600 is going to do
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almost nothing. It'll pay a couple of bills, but it's, that's it. I mean, is there anyone in America
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who right now is in a situation where they're, they're in a crisis, but all they need is $600?
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Maybe someone who, who, who borrowed some money from the mob or has gambling debts and need 600 bucks.
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But I think the people who are in a crisis because of these lockdowns need a lot more than 600.
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So you get people who don't need anything, who are given, we're going to be paying billions of
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dollars to give money to, to, to a lot of people who don't need anything. And also billions to give,
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uh, not enough money to people who need a lot more. So there's no point either give nothing to
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anybody, or you need to give a lot more than this. Um, all right, let's go. Number two,
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ABC news has this. We'll play the video for you. Uh, it says cheers erupted in the streets of Buenos
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Aires, Argentina, after the country's lower house voted to pass a bill legalizing abortion,
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uh, a measure that will next go through the Senate. So you can see here the, the crowds
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celebrating, uh, celebrating, uh, celebrating the, the, the, the passage of this, this bill.
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Oh, I just, you see that they're jumping, mostly women, younger women in the crowd.
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They're jumping, they're hugging, they're waving flags. They're in tears. They're crying tears of joy.
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And what are they now? You see something like this and you think if you had no context,
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what would you think is going on here? Maybe, maybe there's, you know,
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you can see this maybe if they're watching their team won the Superbowl,
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something like that. But no, this is, this is, they're, they're excited. This is what they're
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excited about. They're excited. They'll have the opportunity now to kill their babies. They're
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in tears of joy because now if they need to, if they want to, they can kill their children.
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That's what they're weeping tears of joy over. Not, you know, no great shock here. We know that
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this is the case with the pro-abortion movement, except that what are we always told? We're always
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told that the pro-abortion movement is not the pro-abortion movement. They're not, oh, nobody's,
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nobody's pro-abortion. Nobody likes abortion. This is the line we get from pro-abortion people all the
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time. No, no one likes abortion. No one, no one likes it. No one's, oh, we're pro-choice,
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not pro-abortion. Really? That's what you just saw there. Those aren't people who, who like abortion.
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They're in tears of joy, hugging in the street because they can now kill their children. They
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obviously want to be able to do that. They are very pro that. Now the pro-abortion movement is,
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is starting to move a little bit away from that line of saying, you still hear it a lot,
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but they're starting, there's a movement now, uh, very clearly to move away from that and to stop
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saying, oh, no one's pro-abortion. And instead to say, sure. But this is still among, mostly among
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the radicals on the pro-abortion side who will come out and, you know, shout your abortion. They say,
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yeah, you know, I like abortion. I'm in favor of abortion. It's not yet in the mainstream of the
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pro-abortion movement, but I think it will go there. And really it's their only, it's, it's,
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it's a, it's their only strategy because the problem all along, it's like when they used to
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say, you never hear this anymore, but I can remember even growing up in the nineties. Um,
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the big, the, the line, the, the slogan, the thing they put on the poster boards and the bumper
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stickers was, um, safe, legal, and rare. And now they, yeah, they still want abortion to be legal,
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of course. And they still talk about the mythical safe abortion, which of course no abortion can be
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safe because there's always at least one person being killed in it. Um, and often more than one
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person being, well, in fact, in every case, more than one person being harmed physically and
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emotionally in every other sense. But, um, so, but they still, they still pretend. So they still say,
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yeah, safe, legal. They don't talk about rare anymore. And the problem is when you say, oh,
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we want abortion to be rare. Or when you say, oh, uh, nobody really likes abortion. The follow-up
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question is why? Well, you say, nobody likes it. Why don't they like it? You say you want it to be
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rare. Why do you want it to be rare? And the answer is because it's a, it's a, it's a horrifying,
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horrible, abominable thing. But if you admit that about abortion, then the whole house of cards
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comes tumbling down. And so their only choice is to, uh, is to pretend that it's, it's, uh,
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that in fact, it's a positive, it's a, it's something to celebrate. All right. We played
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for you yesterday, the clip of Tom Cruise berating the staff on the set of the new Mission Impossible
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film. And now a number of celebrities have come out to defend Cruise, including George Clooney,
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who says that he understands why Cruise did what he did. Um, the guy who played Olaf, what was his name?
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He, he, he, uh, he defended him. Whoopi Goldberg, a bunch of celebrities have come out
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and said that, you know, they've taken his side. This is weird for me because
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I have no affinity for any of these people, Tom Cruise included.
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And I disagree with why they're saying what they're saying. The people defend the celebrities
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defending Tom Cruise. They're defending him on the basis that, you know, everybody should be wearing
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masks. In fact, in fact, George Clooney said it in this answer. I think he was on with Howard Stern.
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And he also said, oh, just wear the damn mask. You know, that's his point that, yeah, it's good.
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It's good that Tom Cruise is, is, uh, is yelling at people for not wearing masks sort of in general.
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I disagree with that, but I also have no problem. As I said yesterday, I have no problem with what
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Tom Cruise did. And I read, you know, it says also that five staffers quit, have already quit
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because of this rant from Cruise. And I'm more on Cruise's side than the staffers.
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Only because if you, if you go back and you listen to what Tom Cruise was saying, he wasn't saying,
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oh, put the mask on because you're going to kill me. If you don't, you know, you're, you're, you're,
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you're endangering my safety. If you don't, if you don't wear the mask or if you don't follow the
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protocols, that wasn't his point at all. His point was, this is what we have to do in order to keep
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this industry running in order for people to have jobs. And you guys need to play this game
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because this is, people depend on this and this, and they're going to lose their homes and they're
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not gonna be able to feed their kids if this movie gets shut down because you guys can't follow the
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protocols that we're all following. That I completely sympathize with, which is also why,
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you know, I've the, the masking thing I hate, but I understand why businesses do it because they have
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to do it in order to open, in order to stay open. At least many of them, it kind of depends on where
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they are, what state they're in, what the local ordinances are, how strict it is. But, um, yeah,
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I have a lot of respect for the businesses that have taken a stand and said, no, we're not going to
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go along with it. But I also understand if you're a business owner and you say, look, you know,
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I got to stay open. I've got employees I got to take care of. I can't afford to get a $5,000 fine
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every day. That's going to shut us down and we're all going to be homeless. And I got a responsibility
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to my employees. So I got to do this. I don't want to, but I have to. I understand that too.
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I'm sympathetic with that. And that's why I say all of our anger should be directed at, at the
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government, at the tyrants who are imposing this stuff, not really at the business owners who are just
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doing what they have to do to navigate this and survive. Um, all right. And an ESPN commentator
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and former NFL player has made an admission that he probably should have kept to himself,
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uh, about why he doesn't like the Buffalo bills. Now, plenty of good reasons not to like the Buffalo
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bills, but, um, here's the reason that he came up with an interview on a, on a podcast. This is,
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um, this is, I believe Dominique Foxworth and here's what he said. I will be 100% lying. If I said
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that when Josh does something dumb, a little part of me doesn't get happy. And it's not because I want
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Josh to succeed. It's because the people who are telling me that Josh is the second coming and Josh
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is better than everybody are people with American flags and dogs and skull and crossbones and the
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and then if you go just take a dip into their tweet history, it's some really concerning retweets and
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likes. Yeah. Um, so that's Josh Allen, the quarterback of the Buffalo bills is referring to
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there. Now, just to be clear about what he, what he's actually saying here. Uh, and it's, it's not,
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it's not very subtle. What he's basically saying is a lot of white people like the buff,
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the Buffalo bills. And that's why I root against them. That's what he's referring to. And well,
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more specifically white, like conservative people, people, people with American flags,
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um, in for their profile pictures, uh, like the Buffalo bills. So that's why I root against them.
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It's just, just some more, more open bigotry just put out there. No problem. He's gotten a little
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bit of pushback about this, but, but not much. Um, and he's, he's fine. He'll keep his job on ESPN.
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And because this is the way it goes, this is a totally acceptable bigotry in the United States
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today. Uh, okay. Number five, this is from NPR. This is, this is the, the, the, the headline from
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NPR. They said, Pete Buttigieg, president-elect Biden's pick for transportation secretary said that
00:23:53.260
he has a personal love of transportation, recounting train trips on Amtrak while in college
00:23:58.520
and said he proposed to his now husband, uh, Chasen in an airport terminal. So this is explaining
00:24:06.580
because remember Pete Buttigieg was appointed the secretary of transportation. He is, uh, as we
00:24:10.820
talked about yesterday, big news here, big deal. He is the, um, second gay cabinet official
00:24:18.340
in history. He's the second huge, huge stuff. And probably the first one in the transportation
00:24:25.280
department, but now they're explaining, you know, why he deserves to be the head of the
00:24:30.540
transportation department. And the reasons he deserved it is because he loves transportation.
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He, he rode on the Amtrak as a kid and he proposed to his husband in an airport terminal.
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Now the Washington post has come out in defense, Washington post democracy dies in darkness
00:24:47.320
and they're holding, you know, we can, we can rely on them to hold the powers that be accountable.
00:24:55.480
And so their headline today was Pete Buttigieg is right. Airports are romantic.
00:25:03.320
This by the way, not an op-ed. This is not in their opinion section. I think this was like in
00:25:08.480
their lifestyle section. Airports are romantic. Uh, now many people are focusing on, on this
00:25:17.300
idea that, um, he's qualified to be the secretary of transportation because he proposed in an
00:25:24.380
airport terminal and, and, uh, and, you know, he wrote a train in college. People are focusing on
00:25:29.780
that as the dumbest thing. And that is very dumb. You know, that is like me going to, uh, apply to
00:25:38.580
become the head chef at a four-star restaurant. And, you know, I hand in my resume and I've got
00:25:43.340
listed qualification. Um, I enjoy eating. I had a birthday party at the macaroni grill when I was
00:25:52.140
in fifth grade. You know, it's like that. Um, and that is very dumb. And I think that that deserves
00:25:59.140
quite a bit of mockery, but let's not, let's, let's please not just skip over personal love
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of transportation. What does that mean? You love transportation? Oh, you know, I love
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transportation. Oh, what do you mean? Like you like to travel? No, just transportation in general.
00:26:18.260
I love it all. Look, cars, bus, scooter, rollerblades. I'm just a big fan, big fan. I'm a big fan of
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transporting, uh, through really any means. This is good. I mean, it is good though. I think in fairness,
00:26:33.980
it's good to have someone who is pro-transportation heading the transportation department. There are a
00:26:40.040
lot of anti-transportation people out there. That's a big thing. You talk to people all the
00:26:43.940
time and they say, no, I'm really, I'm against, and I, you know, personally, I'm against transportation.
00:26:48.080
I don't think anyone should go anywhere ever. So, um, so maybe that's good. Maybe that's all for the
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best. All right. We're going to get to our daily cancellation in just a second. I did want to
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address something real quick. Um, this is, this is, this is, uh, if you follow me on Twitter,
00:27:04.020
maybe you've, you've followed this controversy a little bit, but before we move on to the next
00:27:07.820
segment, I did want to address this because there are many people, speaking of cancellations,
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there are many people attempting to cancel me this week for a tweet that I, that I sent out,
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um, which I posted a couple of days ago and has provoked a very strong reaction that is still not,
00:27:22.160
still not gone away. Um, I'm being called a sexist and a misogynist and a bad husband and a bad father
00:27:29.480
for this. Here's what I said. I said, as a father of four kids, I can say one thing that never gets
00:27:34.860
easier is changing dirty diapers. Very disgusting. I mean, I've never done it, but it seems like it
00:27:40.120
probably sucks. And this has caused many people, many, you should see the emails I've gotten to
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experience real anger and hurt. Um, because they say that this is, you know, it's misogynistic.
00:27:54.200
It perpetuates a stereotype. And I, so what I wanted to do, I don't, I don't often do this,
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but I wanted to apologize, um, for this. I do deserve to be canceled. And I just want to clarify
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that I didn't mean anything offensive by it. All I meant, all I meant is that changing diapers
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is women's work. That's all I was saying. Um, I didn't mean if I'm sorry, if I was misinterpreted,
00:28:20.160
I didn't mean anything besides that. That's all I was trying to say. And I do admit that I have
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avoided at all costs, the diaper changing task. I have devised many clever schemes in order to
00:28:33.020
accomplish this. And the first one, which is really quite brilliant is, uh, whenever I smell a, a diaper,
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whenever I smell a full diaper, I will say to the child, Hey, you need a new diaper? Go find mommy.
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Go find mommy. Go find her. Go find mommy. I bet she has candy for you. Go find her.
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And then they'll run off and they'll find mommy. And, and then the next part of the strategy is to
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go hide. So, you know, hide, lock yourself in a bathroom, hide in the garage, go run an errand.
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Don't come back to the coast is clear. You know, we develop, these are survival strategies we develop
00:29:06.860
as parents, but, um, that's it. I just wanted to clarify that. And I, I'm, I'm sure that now I
00:29:12.920
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00:29:17.260
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year. So make sure you tune in on Monday for that. All right, we're going to move on now to our
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daily cancellation. Today, we're going to cancel everyone involved in this story. The singer Lizzo
00:32:16.420
has been in the midst of a PR crisis and public backlash because she drank a smoothie. Lizzo
00:32:23.560
announced on Instagram that she had decided to go on a juice cleanse. And this news provoked horror
00:32:28.360
and outrage among many people in the quote, fat community who felt that she had betrayed them.
00:32:33.280
Uh, Lizzo is a smoothie drinking Judas selling out her fellow fat people, stabbing them in the back.
00:32:40.600
Let's read some of the reaction from people who are extremely mentally stable. I'm sure this is one
00:32:45.680
person blue check Mark on Twitter says Lizzo girl. Why? It was inevitable. The industry is so violent
00:32:52.860
towards fat women. Of course she was going to submit to toxic diet culture. It was only a matter
00:32:57.500
of time. I think the disappointment lies in a lot of us, especially fat black women, seeing ourselves
00:33:02.440
in a woman who was so proud and confident in her body. It made us want to do it, want to do the same
00:33:07.380
to ours. I have empathy for those who succumb to the pressures of fat phobia, especially when you're in
00:33:12.820
the public eye, especially when you exist within several intersections that carry little privilege.
00:33:18.240
Other reactions. Someone says fat phobia intersects with other oppressions. If you're a feminist or an
00:33:23.800
LGBTQ plus ally or stand with BLM, et cetera, you have to stand with fat folk too. Someone else said to see
00:33:30.680
Lizzo finally fall into the trap of detox scams is so disheartening. She was the beacon for fat girls
00:33:36.600
like me. A goal. Sorry. I almost read that as bacon. Um, I did almost read it, but I didn't read
00:33:43.840
it that way. Uh, a goal that showed a goal that showed we could learn to love ourselves and damn
00:33:49.840
everyone else. And now she's not, I feel so hurt. And then there was this, yes, I'm angry. Yes. I'm
00:33:57.200
triggered. Yes. I am mourning a big B word, uh, that she might want to get skinny because that's one
00:34:03.200
more battle. Fat phobia has won another loss to a system that wants me dead. And then someone else
00:34:09.040
accused Lizzo of promoting stuff that directly damages our community. That being the fat community.
00:34:14.220
Now this all led to Lizzo releasing a statement on Tik TOK explaining why she went on a diet. She
00:34:20.220
wants to be very clear that she in no way was trying to lose weight. God forbid she would never try to
00:34:25.260
avoid heart disease and extend her life and enjoy greater health and fitness by losing weight. Never.
00:34:29.280
That would be terrible. So here's how, here's how she explained her suspicious smoothie consumption.
00:34:36.120
Listen, I did the 10 day smoothie detox. And as you know, I would normally be so afraid and ashamed
00:34:43.960
to post things like this online, because I feel like as a big girl, people just expect if you are
00:34:50.700
doing something for health, you're doing it for like a dramatic weight loss. And that is not the case.
00:34:55.980
Um, in reality, November stressed me the f**k out. I drank a lot. I ate a lot of spicy things and
00:35:01.980
things that f**k my stomach up. And I wanted to reverse it and get back to where I was. I'm so proud
00:35:08.900
of myself. I'm proud of my results. Um, my sleep has improved my hydration, my inner peace, my mental
00:35:16.100
stability, my f**king body, my f**king skin, the whites of my eyes. Like I feel and look like a bad
00:35:21.620
b**ch. And I think like, that's it. I'm a big girl who did a smoothie detox. And I wanted to share
00:35:29.540
that with you guys. I got exactly what I wanted out of it. And every big girl should do whatever
00:35:34.520
the f**k they want with their bodies. Sorry, I'm not buying it, Lizzo. I'm not. I think you drank a
00:35:40.480
smoothie because you hate fat people. I know that's what, that's what's in my mind. Every time I go to
00:35:45.620
Smoothie King. In fact, my favorite smoothie is called the fat phobia. It comes with bananas,
00:35:51.200
strawberries, yogurt, whey protein, and a little dash of body shaming. Just a dash. I don't want to
00:35:55.780
overdo it. So there are a number of very dumb things bubbling to the surface amid this controversy.
00:36:00.660
The first and most obvious, of course, is the idea that fat is an identity that one should proudly
00:36:04.740
embrace. Let's be clear about this. Obesity is a condition, not an identity. It is a self-imposed
00:36:11.880
condition in most cases. Being proud of obesity is really no different from being proud of having
00:36:17.080
liver cirrhosis, from drinking too much alcohol. These are lethal conditions brought upon by
00:36:21.840
overconsumption. Some people may be more susceptible to liver diseases, and so their alcoholism causes
00:36:27.920
major problems, whereas somebody else can drink just as much and have no problem. That's unfortunate
00:36:32.920
if you're the person more susceptible, but it doesn't change the fact that it was avoidable. It was
00:36:38.500
brought on by your own choices, and it's bad. It's unhealthy. It's deadly. It's not good.
00:36:43.120
The same goes for morbid obesity. Yes, there are different body types. Yes, some people are heavier
00:36:47.840
than others, but morbid obesity is not one neutral body type among others. It is something that happens
00:36:53.540
from massive overeating, a catastrophic lack of physical exercise, and again, it will kill you
00:36:59.900
eventually. So that's one dumb thing. Here's another. The fat community. This is one of the hallmarks
00:37:08.480
of our modern age, the cheapening of the concept of community. Everything's a community now. Your
00:37:13.940
physical characteristics put you in a community. Your sexual proclivities, vices, hobbies, everything.
00:37:19.420
You know, we would say now that a fat man who enjoys Star Wars and video games, and let's say
00:37:25.160
foot fetishism, is in the fat community, the Star Wars community, the gamer community, and the foot
00:37:30.280
fetish community. But in what sense are any of these actual communities? The only thing you have in
00:37:37.620
common is this one aspect of yourself, an aspect that is either unimportant in the grand scheme or
00:37:42.300
unhealthy or just kind of weird. And yet this becomes a community. See, I know what's meant
00:37:47.940
when I talk about the church community. If you have a church community, these are people who live
00:37:52.680
near you, worship with you. They have in common with you the same values and priorities at the deepest
00:38:01.180
level. And you rely on each other for help, friendship, comfort, and support. It's a
00:38:05.820
community. But what does it mean for a fat person to have a community with other fat people?
00:38:11.880
The only thing they have in common is that they don't burn enough calories relative to what they
00:38:16.020
consume. How is this the foundation for any sort of meaningful communal relationship?
00:38:21.560
And the other problem with this communitization of everything, and yes, communitization is a word,
00:38:27.140
according to me, and other members of the Making Up Words community. The other problem with it is
00:38:31.400
that it has the effect of making people comfortable with aspects of themselves that they should not be
00:38:36.940
comfortable with. A person who struggles with a certain vice, say, overeating, can go online,
00:38:42.800
search Google, and find whole communities of people who are the same way and who aren't trying
00:38:47.620
to get over it or overcome it, but are just living in it proudly. And then that person could say,
00:38:52.300
oh, well, a lot of other people have this problem too. It must not be a problem then.
00:38:57.800
Finally, we have to focus on Lizzo herself for a moment. The fact is,
00:39:01.240
you know, she did go on a juice cleanse, and that is something you do if you want to lose weight.
00:39:04.880
Now she's backtracking in what might be the weirdest backtrack in the history of backtracking.
00:39:09.840
But it's clear that she was trying to get a hold of her weight a little bit, which is good.
00:39:15.660
But you find this with a lot of celebrities, and some of those people complaining on Twitter
00:39:23.780
Where so often there are fat celebrities who go on about embracing your body just as it is,
00:39:28.940
even if you're fat, and then they go and slim down and lose the weight.
00:39:33.440
This isn't a betrayal, obviously, but it is a weird sort of hypocrisy.
00:39:37.780
Hypocrisy in that it reveals that they didn't really mean everything they said about embracing
00:39:42.080
your body no matter its size and staying positive about it, even if you're morbidly obese.
00:39:46.300
They didn't believe it, and shouldn't have believed it, because it's crazy.
00:39:50.700
Except that now, rather than say to their audience,
00:39:53.240
hey, listen, actually being extremely overweight isn't good, it's not healthy.
00:39:56.700
You know, I was able to get in a healthier shape, and let me help you do the same.
00:40:00.080
Instead of that, they say, oh, no, being extremely obese is still super great.
00:40:04.580
I'm not fat anymore, but you should totally stay fat yourself.
00:40:07.280
They encourage people to be unhealthy, even though they clearly know better.
00:40:13.180
So the whole thing is crazy, irrational, and highly cancelable.
00:40:16.960
And that's why everybody involved here is canceled.
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