The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 821 - The Left Turns Womanhood Into A Halloween Costume

00:00:00.000 Today on The Matt Wall Show, our culture has turned womanhood into a costume for men to wear.

00:00:04.540 We'll discuss the latest example. It's a pretty ridiculous example. Also, Colin Powell died of

00:00:08.260 COVID, and the media are quick to point out that he had comorbidities. But why is this the one time

00:00:13.060 that they actually want to talk about COVID comorbidities? And the Loudoun County prosecutor

00:00:17.040 defends his decision to send a rapist student to another school where he proceeded to rape again.

00:00:21.640 His defense is not very convincing. Plus, outrage over hooters. Did you know that they require

00:00:26.280 their waitresses to wear skimpy outfits? Shocking stuff. I had no idea. In our daily

00:00:30.240 cancellation, we will deal with a feminist college professor who says that men have an unfair

00:00:34.380 advantage in the workplace because of all the bonding we guys do in the bathroom. There are

00:00:39.240 a number of problems with that theory of hers, and we'll discuss that and so much more today

00:00:42.980 on The Matt Wall Show.

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00:02:01.640 So we begin today with perhaps the most important news story of our time. This is an urgent controversy,

00:02:06.680 one which demands our full attention. The question at issue is this. Who was the first man to wear a

00:02:11.220 dress? Was it Billy Porter or Harry Styles? That's what we find ourselves debating today,

00:02:15.980 and I think for good reason. You know, I can't imagine any subject more salient, more paramount

00:02:19.800 than this. You may remember about a year ago when the pop star Harry Styles appeared on the cover of

00:02:25.360 Vogue, dressed like a nine-year-old girl who just raided her grandmother's closet. And this was,

00:02:30.640 as we were informed at the time, a historic moment. I mean, a man in a dress. What courage. What

00:02:35.500 innovation. Previous generations won world wars and they invented space travel. We put our male pop

00:02:42.500 stars in dresses. That is our contribution to the historical conversation. And what a contribution it

00:02:48.460 is. When it was all said and done, of course, most of us thought that the story was over. Harry Styles

00:02:55.100 had worn a dress. Peace and harmony had been established across the globe. Mankind had reached

00:03:01.380 its zenith. Utopia was upon us. Or so we thought. Little did we know that things were far more

00:03:08.560 complicated. There was a darker side to Harry's blouse. There were skeletons in the closet, or perhaps

00:03:15.080 out of the closet in this case. As has been reported this morning by CNN, BuzzFeed, Yahoo News,

00:03:20.500 the Daily Beast, the Los Angeles Times, TMZ, many of our nation's other most prestigious publications,

00:03:26.940 Billy Porter has emerged all these months later to talk about the pain and trauma that Harry Styles'

00:03:32.940 skirts have caused him. Now, Porter is an actor, I think. Honestly, I'm not exactly sure what he

00:03:37.780 actually does for a living or why anybody knows his name. As far as I could tell, his primary

00:03:42.020 occupation is to dress in tacky pantsuits and attend award shows. Somehow he's found a way to

00:03:47.440 monetize that hobby of his. More power to him, I suppose. And he's not happy that Harry Styles is

00:03:52.840 stealing his cross-dressing drag queen thunder. From the CNN report, it says, in an interview with

00:03:59.500 British paper The Sunday Times, Porter argued that there was a disconnect in the opportunities

00:04:04.220 afforded to him as a black gay man and those given to Styles. Quote, I feel like the fashion industry

00:04:09.620 has accepted me because they have to, he said. I created the conversation about non-binary fashion,

00:04:15.420 and yet Vogue still puts Harry Styles, a straight white man, in a dress on the cover for their,

00:04:20.440 for their first, uh, for the first time. I was the first one doing it, and now everybody's doing it.

00:04:26.040 I'm not dragging Harry Styles, but he doesn't care. He's just doing it because it's the thing to do.

00:04:32.040 This is politics for me. This is my life. I had to fight my entire life to get to the place

00:04:37.360 where I could wear a dress to the Oscars. All Styles has to do is be white and straight.

00:04:42.520 Then he later on, went on to say, I changed the whole game. I personally changed the whole game.

00:04:48.840 And that's not ego. That's just a fact. This is, he's fought his whole life. This is the, this is,

00:04:56.440 this is it. This is the achievement of his life is to wear a dress to the Oscars.

00:05:00.840 And it's not ego. You know, uh, he wants to be sure that we understand it. Not at all.

00:05:06.680 Why would we think that a man who cries to the media because he doesn't get to be the only guy

00:05:10.740 wearing a dress has an ego? Billy Porter's a humble man. I mean, he's a man of dignity,

00:05:16.640 a man of humility, prancing on the red carpet in a ball gown. Yeah, he's prancing, but he's doing it

00:05:23.980 in a dignified way. But is it true that he invented the concept of cross-dressing? Well,

00:05:28.880 no, of course it's not, not remotely. This is one of the many contradictions we run into with

00:05:33.160 the proponents of gender fluidity. On one hand, they insist that, you know, nothing they're doing

00:05:38.420 is novel or unprecedented. They assure us that all of their wildest gender inventions have a long

00:05:43.400 and storied history. They say that there were, you know, trisexual, genderqueer, sadomasochistic

00:05:49.660 furries back in George Washington's time. Maybe he was one himself. Who knows? Traditional

00:05:55.760 cultures throughout the globe have expansive ideas about gender, they tell us. You could hack

00:06:00.220 your way into the Amazon rainforest and stumble across an uncontacted tribe, and no doubt that

00:06:06.880 tribe will have its own sex reassignment clinics. This is all quite widespread. It's universal.

00:06:13.580 It's in keeping with historical precedent, they say. But then on the other hand, when a man puts on a

00:06:18.380 miniskirt and winks at a camera, they want us to throw him a parade as if he just landed on the moon.

00:06:22.820 So all of this stuff is normal and universal and totally ordinary, and also revolutionary and bold

00:06:30.560 and unique and daring. All at once. Well, okay then. And yet, there's something revealing, I think,

00:06:37.980 about this controversy, if we can call it that. Because we notice again, in perhaps, you know,

00:06:43.400 the most direct and explicit way that we've seen yet, how womanhood has been turned into a trophy

00:06:50.000 to be won or a flag to be captured. Billy Porter, other guys like him, they wear femininity

00:06:58.240 like a Halloween costume. And it looks ridiculous on him. It looks ugly, profane, vulgar. He appropriates

00:07:06.140 it. He makes a mockery of it, and he demands to be celebrated. Now, sure, anybody can wear a dress.

00:07:11.660 That's precisely why it's no achievement to wear one. But dresses are designed to accentuate the female

00:07:17.200 form, if you have no female form to accentuate. At best, you'll end up looking silly, like a dog

00:07:23.580 in a sweater. Worse, because you're ridiculing, and you look worse than that because you are ridiculing

00:07:29.400 the feminine, even while trying to claim it as your own. You have turned womanhood into a performance,

00:07:36.200 into a comedy, a not very funny one, more of a farce, a tragedy. But there are still more direct

00:07:44.680 ways of going about that, of course. Like Rachel Levine, who's the biological male HHS official,

00:07:50.740 who, according to an announcement for the Biden administration this morning, has now been sworn

00:07:55.100 in as a four-star admiral, making him the U.S. Public Health Service's, quote, first ever female

00:08:02.540 four-star admiral. That's the official announcement from the Biden administration. That's in their press

00:08:07.460 release. First ever female four-star admiral is a man. Female. Not even saying woman, but female.

00:08:17.020 He's been given not just the social designation, but the biological one as well. Womanhood was awarded

00:08:23.240 to him, like the four-star rank. It's a badge that he can wear around on his chest, like his fake

00:08:31.120 breasts. It's just a fake thing that he can wear around. It's an object. That's what these people

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00:10:11.300 on the road here as our world tour continues. And a note to pilots, if I could, on planes.

00:10:23.220 You know, there's this thing, there's a concept of TMI, too much information. And I think if you're,

00:10:28.980 and far be it for me to give you any advice whatsoever. But this is a mistake that pilots

00:10:36.500 make sometimes where they, they, and I guess they figure, you know, we're sitting back there.

00:10:41.600 We want to know everything that's going on. We don't, at least I'll speak for myself.

00:10:45.840 I don't want to know. I don't, I don't want to know what's happening up there. I just want you

00:10:48.640 to get us there. I don't even like to see when, when the door cracks open and I see the cockpit and

00:10:54.700 I see all the buttons and the levers and everything. And it just looks like for, it looks to me like

00:10:59.880 600 opportunities for things to go terribly wrong. So I don't like to know. I don't like to see,

00:11:04.120 but sometimes the captains, you know, they'll come on the intercom and they'll, they'll give

00:11:06.840 information. So we were about to take off on our flight yesterday to head here. And, uh, the pilot

00:11:10.920 comes on the intercom and he says, he says, uh, he apologizes for the delay, which is all he needed

00:11:16.060 to do. Cause there was a delay. Just say, Oh, you know, we're, we're working something out. It's a

00:11:18.980 delay. But instead he tells us that, uh, they're having a problem with one of the engines.

00:11:23.520 And he says, it's no big deal, but it doesn't start like normal. And so it has to be manually

00:11:27.540 started. No big deal. It's just that it's a problem with the engine. We're about to be 35,000 feet in the air

00:11:31.600 going 500 miles an hour. Uh, and we have a faulty engine. No big deal.

00:11:36.380 And it probably is no big deal, but you know, I'm ignorant. I don't know anything about any of this.

00:11:41.380 None of us do. So as far as we're concerned, it's basically pixie dust that keeps us up in the sky.

00:11:46.320 It's magic. We're flying on the wings of angels basically. And so if you give us a little bit of

00:11:53.380 information and we don't have the rest to fill in the context, then all we're left with is our

00:11:58.980 imagination. And that's the problem. So unless you're going to give us a full on lesson in

00:12:04.080 aerodynamics to explain to us why the faulty engine isn't a big deal, then don't tell us

00:12:08.600 anything. Cause then I'm thinking you need, you need to manually start it from outside of the

00:12:14.320 plane is what he said. So, so what happens if the engine goes out in the air and it needs to be

00:12:18.420 manually restarted from outside of someone crawling out on the wing? Is that one of the jobs of the

00:12:23.600 person in the exit row? Is that like, I've always wondered when they tell you in the exit row

00:12:27.260 and they come up and they say, Oh, you're in the exit row here. You know, you have to be ready to

00:12:31.280 help us. And nobody ever asks what exactly are we doing for you in case things go wrong? Maybe this

00:12:37.460 is one of them. You're closest to the exit row, pop that thing open, climb out there, get the engine

00:12:41.580 started. Uh, anyway. And then they also told us before we got on the flight, the, uh, the woman at the

00:12:48.900 gate said that, uh, we should be happy. Um, and, uh, we should, you know, say, say hello to the

00:12:53.640 captain on the way in because, uh, he's a, he's a really good pilot. He's one of the best.

00:12:57.240 And then that made me think, well, this is the first time I've been specifically told about a

00:13:02.480 really good pilot. What about all the other flights I'm on? Are those the bad ones?

00:13:07.600 All right. Uh, we'll, we'll start here. This is from Breitbart. It says president Joe Biden

00:13:13.100 expressed his regret Monday that former secretary of state, Colin Powell died of complications from the

00:13:17.920 coronavirus despite being fully vaccinated. Biden commented on Powell's death after a surprise

00:13:23.280 appearance at the white house, honoring the state and national teachers of the year on Monday.

00:13:29.660 And here's what he told reporters. He said, by the way, he had serious underlying conditions. As you

00:13:33.980 know, that's the problem. It wasn't that the vaccinations aren't good. He had two very serious

00:13:39.500 underlying conditions and unfortunately didn't work. God love him. Unfortunately didn't work. The

00:13:47.900 vaccine didn't work. It sounds like what he's saying. So this is this interesting thing that's

00:13:52.520 happening now where, um, president Biden, the Democrats, the media, you know, I say these as

00:14:01.260 if they're all mutually exclusive groups, which they aren't, but they're very quick to tell us

00:14:06.040 that Colin Powell, he was, uh, I think 84 years old. He had multiple comorbidities. You know, he had

00:14:11.900 multiple serious illnesses, 84 years old. He gets COVID. He's, he's been fully vaccinated. He dies.

00:14:17.580 And they're very quick to tell us about the comorbidities and Hey, by the way, he's, he was

00:14:22.820 very, very old and he was, and he was sick. And, um, and you know, his, his time was, was, was coming

00:14:28.120 very soon, unfortunately anyway. And so it's, it's, it's, it's not that the vaccines didn't work.

00:14:33.740 This is the one time I can't think of any other time. This is the one time when they've, when they

00:14:38.960 have made a point to focus on comorbidities, on the fact that someone's older, but one time they do it.

00:14:47.880 In fact, it, this, a total role reversal because Tucker Carlson was talking about, uh, Colin Powell's

00:14:55.620 death on his show yesterday. And he mentions how he was fully vaccinated and he got COVID and he died.

00:14:59.620 And that's true. And this morning the media is blasting Tucker Carlson for not making a, a, a point to

00:15:09.300 highlight the comorbidities when usually they're the ones who aren't highlighting that fact. Why are they

00:15:16.380 doing it? Well, obviously because they're trying to defend the dignity and honor of the vaccine that this,

00:15:21.920 that's why this is the one time, uh, when the comorbidities actually matter. If it wasn't

00:15:29.580 for that, you know, if he was not fully vaccinated and he died with COVID at the age of 84 and along,

00:15:38.260 alongside a bunch of other, uh, terminal illnesses, they wouldn't be mentioning those illnesses at

00:15:43.260 all. We know that. All right. Next we've got from the daily wire. It says, as we continue to track

00:15:49.180 the situation in Loudoun County, Loudoun County prosecutor Buddha Bibaraj defended the decision

00:15:55.180 to transfer a boy accused of sexually assaulting a female student in a girl's bathroom to a different

00:15:59.320 high school in the same school district late last week, telling local media that the boy had no

00:16:04.240 prior record. The daily wire reported earlier in October that Scott Smith's daughter was allegedly

00:16:09.580 raped in a high school bathroom by a male student who reportedly identifies as gender fluid. Um, so we

00:16:15.480 know about the background there. Then the 15 year old student who was according to Smith charged with

00:16:20.240 several counts of sexual assault, uh, including a charge of forcible rape and a charge of forcible

00:16:25.000 sodomy, ostensibly violent crimes. The student, however, was transferred to another school

00:16:29.480 within the same district and reportedly went on to commit a second sexual assault.

00:16:34.740 Bibaraj, according to Smith and Smith's attorney, Elizabeth Lancaster pushed for jail time against

00:16:39.640 Smith who was slapped with charges of disorderly conduct and resisting arrest.

00:16:45.500 And Bibaraj, of course, knew when Smith showed up to the, to the school board meeting and was

00:16:51.880 extremely, extremely angry because his daughter had just been raped in a bathroom. Um, and then gets

00:16:58.180 arrested. Bibaraj knew exactly all, all of the background on it. He's the prosecutor

00:17:04.160 and yet he's still pushed for jail time for this father.

00:17:12.260 Think about how evil and twisted that is and just cruel and callous.

00:17:18.220 You know that this is the father of a, of a young girl who's been raped

00:17:23.740 in a school in your district.

00:17:28.520 And he commits the crime of getting upset

00:17:31.220 at a school board meeting, upset after

00:17:34.780 they just lied to his face

00:17:37.000 and said that no rape occurred.

00:17:40.780 And you want to throw him in jail for that.

00:17:42.560 Just complete and total callousness

00:17:47.540 and cruelty on the part of these people.

00:17:50.140 Um, Bibaraj told a Washington DC news outlet, quote,

00:17:54.060 we believe based on the facts

00:17:55.520 that he had no history of having done this prior to this offense that was alleged.

00:18:01.420 Um, she said, because of that, there was a belief it was unlikely

00:18:05.380 he would re-offend.

00:18:07.140 She said her office consulted with the family of the victim

00:18:10.140 and the office of probation about the decision.

00:18:12.720 She said the judge agreed with the recommendation.

00:18:16.760 She then suggested that there are unreported details about the alleged attack.

00:18:20.900 I would ask this for people to be patient because as we know,

00:18:23.980 what sometimes is reported initially

00:18:25.500 is not then what the end result of all the facts are.

00:18:28.480 So her excuse for sending this, um, alleged rapist to another school

00:18:37.380 where he allegedly raped again

00:18:38.980 is that he had no prior history of committing a rape

00:18:41.460 except for the one he just committed.

00:18:45.180 So what she's saying is,

00:18:47.020 yeah, except for that,

00:18:49.240 except for that he hadn't raped anybody.

00:18:51.940 And so that's why we sent him to another school.

00:18:58.480 Again, cruelty and callousness,

00:19:00.760 total disregard for

00:19:02.300 the safety of, uh, of, of the kids in the school.

00:19:08.480 Not at all concerned about what is actually the right thing to do.

00:19:11.560 That, that doesn't even factor in.

00:19:15.400 Related issue here, Terry McAuliffe,

00:19:17.200 as we head to the gubernatorial election

00:19:19.460 in early November in Virginia.

00:19:22.600 Now we know that Terry McAuliffe has gotten himself into trouble

00:19:24.840 because he said during a debate

00:19:26.860 that, that parents should not be the ones deciding

00:19:29.940 what their, their, their own kids are taught in school.

00:19:33.700 That's what he said.

00:19:34.340 Those were his own words.

00:19:36.580 And, uh, he's, he,

00:19:37.860 it was a mistake to say that out loud.

00:19:41.480 That's, that's one of those things that, uh,

00:19:43.180 you shouldn't think at all,

00:19:44.180 but if you do, you shouldn't say it out loud

00:19:45.340 when you're running for governor in Virginia.

00:19:47.180 And so this has been a,

00:19:48.240 this has been a, a real crisis for him

00:19:51.320 heading into the election.

00:19:52.000 And to, to, to show you how bad it is,

00:19:54.180 here is an ad that the Terry McAuliffe campaign

00:19:57.400 just put out as we're just two weeks away

00:19:59.120 from the election.

00:19:59.960 And this is their kind of closing argument.

00:20:02.300 Listen to this.

00:20:04.300 As parents, Dorothy and I have always been involved

00:20:06.800 in our kids' education.

00:20:08.240 We know good schools depend on involved parents.

00:20:11.220 That's why I want you to hear this from me.

00:20:13.580 Glenn Youngkin's taking my words out of context.

00:20:16.300 I've always valued the concerns of parents.

00:20:18.700 It's why as governor, we scaled back standardized testing,

00:20:22.600 expanded pre-K,

00:20:23.920 and invested a billion dollars in public schools.

00:20:26.800 I'm Terry McAuliffe, candidate for governor.

00:20:28.600 And I sponsored this ad because working together,

00:20:31.060 we can give our kids the education they deserve.

00:20:34.060 Yeah, that is never a good sign

00:20:35.680 when you're running a campaign

00:20:36.780 and you have to put out an ad

00:20:38.400 that contains the words,

00:20:40.420 I've been taken out of context.

00:20:42.620 That is never a good sign,

00:20:43.960 especially two weeks from the election.

00:20:45.200 And it's not true, of course.

00:20:46.280 He's not being taken out of context.

00:20:47.360 That's exactly what he said.

00:20:50.300 Parents should not be the ones

00:20:51.540 to decide what their kids are taught.

00:20:54.500 That's what he said.

00:20:57.200 That's the quote from his own mouth.

00:20:58.540 We all heard him say it.

00:21:00.820 Now, when he says taken out of context,

00:21:02.060 what he means is,

00:21:02.800 I didn't mean to say that out loud.

00:21:05.860 And that's not the same thing

00:21:06.480 as being taken out of context.

00:21:09.140 But never a good sign

00:21:10.300 when this is your closing argument

00:21:11.820 that, oh, I've been taken out of context.

00:21:13.460 That means, of course,

00:21:16.240 that you're on defense.

00:21:19.560 This is almost at the level of,

00:21:21.700 not quite,

00:21:22.440 but who was that Republican in Delaware

00:21:24.020 years ago who put out the ad,

00:21:26.180 I think running for Senate,

00:21:27.380 put out an ad saying,

00:21:28.280 I'm not a witch.

00:21:30.160 She had to defend herself

00:21:31.140 from charges of being a witch.

00:21:33.340 And, you know,

00:21:34.140 this is not quite as bad as that,

00:21:36.040 but it's still pretty bad.

00:21:38.400 All right.

00:21:38.860 So here are two people

00:21:39.800 that we're going to lump together,

00:21:40.900 seemingly unrelated,

00:21:41.660 Stacey Abrams and Pete Buttigieg.

00:21:44.100 First, there's a documentary

00:21:45.300 about Pete Buttigieg coming out

00:21:47.280 for some reason.

00:21:49.300 And there's a trailer.

00:21:50.600 And for some reason,

00:21:51.200 I'm going to play that trailer

00:21:52.140 for you now.

00:21:52.800 Here it is.

00:21:53.260 Watch it.

00:21:54.520 Anything you want to make sure

00:21:55.840 that I ask him?

00:21:57.580 You spent so much of your life

00:21:58.980 hiding who you truly were.

00:22:01.160 Did you feel like you were able

00:22:02.560 to be your true self

00:22:03.620 for the campaign trail?

00:22:06.300 A hometown boy

00:22:07.500 who went to Harvard

00:22:08.360 and became a Rhodes Scholar

00:22:09.780 only to return to the city

00:22:11.700 where he grew up.

00:22:12.840 He's also a newlywed.

00:22:14.420 I made Pete promise

00:22:15.380 that we would have fun.

00:22:17.160 This is the only chance

00:22:18.220 you'll ever get

00:22:18.920 to vote for a Maltese American

00:22:20.780 left-handed Episcopalian

00:22:22.200 gay war veteran

00:22:22.940 Mayor Milena.

00:22:23.560 It's a leap going

00:22:27.460 from being a mayor

00:22:28.260 to being a presidential candidate.

00:22:30.320 But I realized

00:22:31.180 I had something to offer

00:22:32.040 that was just different.

00:22:34.080 I mean, there are literally,

00:22:36.200 literally dozens

00:22:38.080 of people who will be waiting

00:22:40.620 to watch that documentary.

00:22:42.900 That's probably,

00:22:43.880 that's probably a generous estimate.

00:22:46.160 Now, I'll have something

00:22:47.540 to say about that in a minute.

00:22:48.380 But like I said,

00:22:48.820 I'm going to put these together.

00:22:49.860 We also have Stacey Abrams.

00:22:51.120 She was campaigning in Virginia

00:22:53.560 for Terry McAuliffe

00:22:54.540 and he's brought in

00:22:56.380 Stacey Abrams.

00:22:58.160 He's brought in Kamala Harris.

00:22:59.360 He's got, you know,

00:23:00.200 Joe Biden helping him out.

00:23:02.120 So he's bringing in

00:23:02.880 all these people from outside

00:23:04.040 for this gubernatorial race,

00:23:06.040 all these people

00:23:06.400 who are not,

00:23:06.800 who are not residents of Virginia.

00:23:08.780 And he's bringing them in

00:23:10.020 to help him out.

00:23:11.780 But, but, but remember,

00:23:13.160 you know, at a school board meeting,

00:23:15.600 they don't want outsiders.

00:23:17.300 If you're, if you're not from Virginia,

00:23:18.660 if you're not a resident

00:23:19.400 or at least a former,

00:23:20.520 a former resident like me,

00:23:21.960 then you don't belong there.

00:23:23.940 And they say that

00:23:24.860 while their,

00:23:25.600 their gubernatorial candidate

00:23:27.800 is enlisting,

00:23:30.940 it's pretty much nothing

00:23:32.520 but people from outside of Virginia.

00:23:34.720 What does that tell you?

00:23:36.900 So here's Stacey Abrams

00:23:38.140 campaigning in Virginia

00:23:39.280 for Terry McAuliffe.

00:23:40.260 And here's what she had to say.

00:23:42.880 You see, I'm here to tell you

00:23:44.260 that just because you win

00:23:45.820 doesn't mean you're one.

00:23:48.800 We've got folks

00:23:49.780 who were ready to take back

00:23:51.140 what they think is theirs,

00:23:52.600 but they are not entitled

00:23:53.920 to our progress.

00:23:55.400 They are not entitled

00:23:56.700 to our justice.

00:23:57.940 They are not entitled

00:23:59.220 to our votes.

00:24:01.880 But either we use them

00:24:03.340 or we lose them.

00:24:05.360 I come from a state

00:24:06.700 where I was not entitled

00:24:07.960 to become the governor,

00:24:09.460 but as an American citizen

00:24:10.800 and a citizen of Georgia,

00:24:11.760 I'm going to fight

00:24:12.260 for every person

00:24:13.060 who has the right to vote

00:24:14.200 to be able to cast that vote.

00:24:15.420 And here in Virginia,

00:24:16.580 you need to cast that vote

00:24:17.640 for Terry McAuliffe.

00:24:21.260 You need to cast that vote

00:24:22.760 for Hala Ayala.

00:24:24.540 You need to cast that vote

00:24:26.180 for Mark Herring.

00:24:27.720 And while you're at it,

00:24:28.880 go all the way down the ballot.

00:24:30.380 Don't stop till you reach the bottom.

00:24:33.680 And then double check your work.

00:24:38.320 Because we know,

00:24:40.200 blow-vue all the way through.

00:24:41.480 Because we know what is possible.

00:24:45.860 Okay, first of all,

00:24:47.160 you're actually correct,

00:24:48.800 Stacey Abrams,

00:24:49.460 that you're not entitled

00:24:51.180 to become governor.

00:24:53.460 She says that like it's a bad thing.

00:24:55.780 I wasn't entitled to be governor.

00:24:57.700 Well, yeah,

00:24:58.580 of course you're not entitled

00:24:59.480 to be governor.

00:25:00.040 No one is entitled

00:25:00.720 to be governor.

00:25:04.140 That's exactly our point.

00:25:05.840 But she still has not accepted

00:25:08.700 the results of that election,

00:25:10.140 which is,

00:25:10.560 this is an ongoing insurrection

00:25:12.920 being led by the militant,

00:25:16.420 radical insurrectionist,

00:25:18.720 Stacey Abrams,

00:25:19.500 in the state of Georgia.

00:25:20.820 Ongoing.

00:25:21.420 She has not accepted those results.

00:25:23.580 She still claims to be,

00:25:24.800 basically,

00:25:25.260 the shadow governor

00:25:26.180 of Georgia.

00:25:27.840 But when you watch that clip,

00:25:31.520 you see the thing

00:25:31.940 with Pete Buttigieg.

00:25:34.460 These two are similar in that

00:25:36.380 these are two of the most

00:25:39.420 incredibly unimpressive,

00:25:44.000 relentlessly unappealing people

00:25:46.500 in all of politics.

00:25:51.060 And they're also losers.

00:25:54.160 I mean,

00:25:54.460 they're making a documentary

00:25:55.640 about a guy who was

00:25:57.080 mayor of South Bend,

00:25:59.060 I think it was.

00:26:00.080 And then he runs for president

00:26:01.320 and he fails miserably.

00:26:04.020 And then they make him

00:26:04.980 transportation secretary.

00:26:07.700 And he proceeds to take

00:26:08.760 a two-month paid vacation

00:26:09.980 in the middle

00:26:11.120 of a transportation crisis.

00:26:12.380 And he gets a documentary.

00:26:14.820 Stacey Abrams

00:26:15.440 has just never done anything.

00:26:17.920 What has she done?

00:26:18.880 Why is she a thing?

00:26:19.740 She's like Billy,

00:26:20.380 this is the political

00:26:21.700 Billy Porter.

00:26:23.920 She's a thing.

00:26:24.840 We all know her name.

00:26:25.460 Nobody knows why.

00:26:26.440 She's never done

00:26:27.100 anything at all.

00:26:29.180 She has no talent,

00:26:30.460 no charisma.

00:26:33.440 She looks a little bit

00:26:34.660 better in a dress

00:26:35.320 than Billy Porter,

00:26:36.020 but not much.

00:26:39.420 But you see how,

00:26:42.400 this is what makes them,

00:26:43.740 they're almost impressive

00:26:44.900 in their unimpressiveness

00:26:45.960 because they have

00:26:48.220 the most powerful PR team

00:26:49.740 in the world,

00:26:50.840 which is the American media,

00:26:52.140 trying to make these two,

00:26:54.360 Stacey Abrams

00:26:54.920 and Pete Buttigieg,

00:26:55.780 into rock stars,

00:26:57.140 doing everything they can

00:26:59.220 to make them into rock stars,

00:27:00.520 to make them a thing.

00:27:02.200 And it still isn't taken.

00:27:05.080 I mean,

00:27:05.280 if you have that kind of

00:27:06.660 PR support,

00:27:08.900 and if you have

00:27:09.540 that sort of marketing,

00:27:11.320 this is really millions

00:27:12.660 and millions of dollars

00:27:13.980 of marketing

00:27:14.700 that are behind them,

00:27:16.100 officially and unofficially.

00:27:17.780 And that should be enough

00:27:20.160 to make almost anyone,

00:27:21.440 at least on camera,

00:27:23.220 seem like a star.

00:27:25.960 You could just pull

00:27:26.980 like any random person

00:27:28.360 off the street,

00:27:30.260 put millions of dollars

00:27:31.240 of marketing behind them,

00:27:33.160 put the entire media

00:27:34.080 behind them,

00:27:35.100 and you can make them

00:27:36.320 into a star.

00:27:38.300 And it still has not

00:27:39.420 really worked with

00:27:40.160 Stacey Abrams

00:27:40.720 and Pete Buttigieg.

00:27:43.500 That's what nothings they are.

00:27:46.080 Absolute nothings.

00:27:48.700 For them,

00:27:49.420 it's not like you're

00:27:50.060 pulling a person

00:27:50.700 off the street

00:27:51.160 to try to make them a star.

00:27:52.100 This is like trying

00:27:52.980 to pull a roll

00:27:54.120 of paper towels

00:27:55.020 off of your kitchen counter

00:27:57.040 and making that

00:27:58.020 into a rock star.

00:28:01.420 Harder job.

00:28:02.860 Okay,

00:28:03.400 we got to talk about

00:28:04.900 this Hooters thing,

00:28:06.160 which is really important,

00:28:07.260 but before we get there,

00:28:09.860 one other brief thing

00:28:10.680 I want to play for you.

00:28:11.420 This is Jon Stewart

00:28:12.900 in an interview

00:28:13.620 had some thoughts,

00:28:15.000 some I thought

00:28:15.440 quite incoherent thoughts

00:28:16.580 about cancel culture.

00:28:17.780 Let's listen to that.

00:28:19.340 People that talk

00:28:20.340 about cancel culture

00:28:21.460 never seem to shut

00:28:23.340 the f**k up about it.

00:28:25.680 Like,

00:28:26.420 there's more speech now

00:28:27.880 than ever before.

00:28:29.420 It's not,

00:28:30.440 you can't say,

00:28:31.840 it's that when you say it,

00:28:33.820 look,

00:28:34.420 the internet

00:28:35.220 has democratized criticism.

00:28:37.660 What do we do

00:28:38.560 for a living?

00:28:40.020 We talk s**t,

00:28:41.420 we criticize,

00:28:43.600 we postulate,

00:28:44.980 we opine,

00:28:45.980 we make jokes,

00:28:48.300 and now other people

00:28:50.320 are having their say.

00:28:53.120 And that's not cancel culture,

00:28:55.440 that's relentlessness.

00:28:57.380 Yeah,

00:28:58.760 he didn't say it,

00:29:00.040 but he's going with,

00:29:01.300 it's not cancel culture,

00:29:02.180 it's accountability,

00:29:03.100 right?

00:29:03.600 That's what he's going with.

00:29:06.040 And we're simply pretending,

00:29:09.200 or at least Jon Stewart

00:29:10.320 is pretending

00:29:10.720 and wants us to pretend

00:29:11.640 that,

00:29:15.780 you know,

00:29:16.660 or rather,

00:29:18.220 we're ignoring

00:29:18.900 all of the canceled people

00:29:20.820 who weren't even public figures,

00:29:23.500 weren't even trying

00:29:24.700 to make a statement.

00:29:25.800 I mean,

00:29:25.960 think about this.

00:29:26.780 There are so many examples,

00:29:28.280 you couldn't possibly list them all.

00:29:30.020 One that comes immediately

00:29:30.960 to mind is,

00:29:31.900 what about that,

00:29:32.440 you know,

00:29:32.580 the truck driver

00:29:33.620 who was driving along

00:29:37.920 and,

00:29:38.340 you know,

00:29:38.960 was like cracking his knuckles

00:29:40.100 and made the mistake

00:29:42.060 of,

00:29:42.820 you know,

00:29:42.960 when he was cracking

00:29:44.220 one of his fingers

00:29:45.180 to make the okay gesture,

00:29:47.740 incidentally.

00:29:49.340 And next thing you know,

00:29:50.580 that guy's got the internet mom

00:29:51.880 coming after him,

00:29:52.340 he loses his job,

00:29:53.020 he loses everything.

00:29:55.600 Is that,

00:29:56.220 is that Jon Stewart,

00:29:57.080 is that just relentlessness?

00:29:59.340 Okay,

00:29:59.520 that was someone

00:30:00.000 who wasn't trying

00:30:00.700 to make any statement at all.

00:30:02.420 He was just living his life.

00:30:06.360 And the mob tracked him down

00:30:08.400 and ruined it

00:30:09.340 for no reason.

00:30:14.080 This is one of the hallmarks

00:30:15.400 of cancel culture.

00:30:17.760 No,

00:30:18.320 cancel culture is not just,

00:30:20.400 I express an opinion

00:30:23.100 and people are,

00:30:24.320 just disagree with that opinion

00:30:25.680 and they let you know about it.

00:30:27.900 That's not cancel culture.

00:30:29.380 People let me know every day

00:30:30.280 that they disagree with my opinions.

00:30:33.560 A cancel culture is,

00:30:36.420 one of,

00:30:40.080 one of the hallmarks is

00:30:41.400 when you go,

00:30:43.200 they go digging for it.

00:30:44.920 They go looking.

00:30:47.600 Okay,

00:30:48.020 let's,

00:30:48.320 let's find a reason.

00:30:49.620 Let's dig up a reason

00:30:51.080 to ruin someone.

00:30:55.700 John Gruden.

00:30:57.980 I mean,

00:30:58.620 he,

00:30:58.820 he wasn't out making

00:30:59.860 any public statements

00:31:00.980 at all to anyone.

00:31:03.920 This is not him

00:31:05.020 being held accountable

00:31:05.960 for the opinions

00:31:07.020 that he chose to express.

00:31:09.200 You know something,

00:31:09.660 with John Gruden,

00:31:10.820 if he had stood up

00:31:12.420 during a press conference

00:31:14.300 after a game

00:31:16.880 and had said

00:31:18.300 some of those things

00:31:19.460 that he said in the email

00:31:20.380 and he lost his job

00:31:23.160 for it,

00:31:24.260 I wouldn't be defending him.

00:31:26.360 I would say,

00:31:26.980 okay,

00:31:27.380 fine.

00:31:28.240 Because

00:31:28.660 you're,

00:31:29.800 you're a football coach.

00:31:31.280 Your job is to coach football.

00:31:32.840 You chose

00:31:33.860 to stand in front

00:31:34.860 of a microphone

00:31:35.700 and do that.

00:31:38.660 When,

00:31:39.120 when the people you work for,

00:31:40.260 they have no interest

00:31:40.900 in,

00:31:41.100 in that.

00:31:42.600 Okay,

00:31:43.000 so you,

00:31:43.420 you chose to take it

00:31:44.480 this direction

00:31:45.100 knowing the kind of environment

00:31:46.600 that we live in.

00:31:47.780 You have,

00:31:48.620 have chosen to bring

00:31:49.860 this kind of heat

00:31:50.740 on your employer

00:31:51.460 and yeah,

00:31:52.040 you're going to face

00:31:52.520 the consequences for that.

00:31:55.180 A football coach

00:31:56.000 just stick to football.

00:31:58.540 But that's not what happened.

00:32:01.220 These were private conversations

00:32:02.440 from a,

00:32:02.960 from a,

00:32:03.560 not only in a private email,

00:32:04.840 but from a private email address,

00:32:06.480 not even like an employer's email address.

00:32:08.560 This is from a Gmail account

00:32:09.620 or a Yahoo account

00:32:10.280 or something.

00:32:13.020 And they went digging for it

00:32:14.500 to ruin his life.

00:32:18.900 That's cancel culture.

00:32:22.900 Cancel culture is also ideological.

00:32:24.700 It's also political.

00:32:27.160 It's,

00:32:27.720 it is,

00:32:28.120 uh,

00:32:28.400 inconsistent

00:32:28.900 in the people that it targets.

00:32:34.260 So,

00:32:34.860 I mean,

00:32:35.080 you can call it

00:32:35.680 whatever you want.

00:32:36.680 Cancel culture

00:32:37.360 is just the label

00:32:38.480 that we've come up with

00:32:39.480 for this social phenomenon.

00:32:42.920 If you don't like cancel culture,

00:32:44.100 call it something else.

00:32:45.560 We can go back to just

00:32:46.540 good old fashioned pitchfork mob,

00:32:48.220 but,

00:32:48.460 but there's no denying

00:32:49.800 the phenomenon itself.

00:32:51.740 You can deny it all you want.

00:32:53.020 People can see what's right

00:32:53.720 in front of their face.

00:32:56.720 All right.

00:32:57.240 So,

00:32:57.980 there's been a controversy

00:32:59.180 over the new uniforms

00:33:00.720 for Hooters waitresses.

00:33:02.100 it is.

00:33:03.520 Um,

00:33:04.380 apparently the,

00:33:05.360 the weight,

00:33:06.100 the,

00:33:06.280 the uniforms are,

00:33:07.800 have been judged

00:33:08.500 too skimpy,

00:33:09.540 um,

00:33:11.320 for,

00:33:11.980 for the waitresses.

00:33:12.620 It,

00:33:13.160 I guess they,

00:33:14.800 Hooters had assigned

00:33:15.700 new shorts

00:33:17.280 that are not really shorts,

00:33:18.340 but they're more like bikini bottoms.

00:33:20.380 And,

00:33:20.860 um,

00:33:22.000 the waitresses

00:33:22.480 are very upset about this

00:33:23.500 and they were making their TikToks

00:33:25.180 and they were posting

00:33:26.060 on Instagram

00:33:26.480 and saying,

00:33:26.980 look,

00:33:27.120 look at what we're being for.

00:33:27.940 This is objectification.

00:33:29.180 We're being forced to wear this.

00:33:31.560 This is not what I signed up for

00:33:33.020 when I went to work

00:33:33.820 for something called Hooters.

00:33:36.400 And now here's the latest

00:33:37.460 from the New York Post.

00:33:38.740 It says,

00:33:39.420 Hooters rump roasted

00:33:40.400 new uniform policy

00:33:41.800 has bottomed out.

00:33:44.500 What?

00:33:45.980 Hooters rump roasted

00:33:47.100 new uniform policy

00:33:48.320 has bottomed out.

00:33:49.060 I don't even know

00:33:49.380 what that means,

00:33:49.840 New York Post.

00:33:50.980 That,

00:33:51.180 that doesn't mean anything.

00:33:52.040 Just get,

00:33:52.420 get to the point

00:33:53.000 or get to the,

00:33:53.520 the article.

00:33:54.080 Okay,

00:33:54.240 I will.

00:33:54.940 It says,

00:33:55.280 the company now says

00:33:56.060 it is reversing

00:33:56.780 its recent mandate

00:33:57.660 that female servers

00:33:59.000 trade in their

00:33:59.600 already short shorts

00:34:00.520 for new skin-tight

00:34:01.660 bikini cut bottoms.

00:34:03.980 A Hooters America

00:34:05.060 representative

00:34:05.700 wrote in an email

00:34:06.860 to Business Insider,

00:34:08.320 quote,

00:34:08.560 as we continue to listen

00:34:09.540 and update the,

00:34:10.300 the images of the Hooters girls,

00:34:11.940 we're clarifying

00:34:12.860 that they have the option

00:34:13.640 to choose from

00:34:14.220 traditional uniforms

00:34:14.960 or the new ones.

00:34:16.880 Quote,

00:34:17.520 they can determine

00:34:18.200 which style of shorts

00:34:19.160 best fits their body style

00:34:21.060 and personal image.

00:34:22.860 The Cheeky Company's

00:34:23.940 turnaround came after

00:34:25.180 some of its servers

00:34:25.960 took to social media

00:34:26.740 to rip the new underwear shorts.

00:34:29.100 Employee Kristen Songer

00:34:30.480 said in a trending

00:34:31.500 TikTok video,

00:34:32.380 oh look,

00:34:32.820 a wedgie.

00:34:34.540 Added Songer,

00:34:35.620 this is why all the

00:34:36.280 Hooters girls are upset

00:34:37.780 because this is not

00:34:39.280 what I agreed to wear

00:34:40.320 a year ago

00:34:40.980 when I was hired.

00:34:43.300 Still,

00:34:43.840 there are some others

00:34:44.420 who appear to plan

00:34:45.860 to,

00:34:46.200 they're still going

00:34:46.720 to wear them.

00:34:48.200 TikTok user

00:34:49.260 Jaz E

00:34:50.960 says,

00:34:51.580 I've been making

00:34:52.140 way more money

00:34:52.880 with the new shorts.

00:34:53.660 Okay,

00:34:56.840 so Songer says,

00:34:57.760 this is not

00:34:58.440 what I agreed

00:34:59.880 to wear

00:35:00.400 a year ago.

00:35:01.040 Well,

00:35:02.180 maybe not,

00:35:04.500 but you agreed

00:35:05.800 to work

00:35:06.400 for a company

00:35:07.840 called Hooters.

00:35:10.500 What did you think

00:35:11.480 that meant?

00:35:14.100 Did you,

00:35:14.540 did you,

00:35:15.020 did you think

00:35:16.660 that it was

00:35:17.160 a fraternity

00:35:19.780 of owl enthusiasts?

00:35:21.080 Is that what

00:35:21.840 you actually thought?

00:35:23.640 Did you think

00:35:23.980 you were going

00:35:24.260 to work

00:35:24.500 for a nature center?

00:35:25.940 A bird sanctuary?

00:35:31.420 Somehow,

00:35:32.000 I doubt that.

00:35:35.000 This is what

00:35:35.860 we find again,

00:35:37.060 as usual,

00:35:38.400 with this new,

00:35:39.320 especially pitiful

00:35:40.900 form of feminism,

00:35:43.520 where there's,

00:35:44.120 there's no personal,

00:35:45.540 talk about accountability.

00:35:47.980 It's like women

00:35:48.840 acting like they

00:35:49.520 have no free will.

00:35:51.600 Like they're

00:35:52.060 automatons

00:35:52.840 or something like that.

00:35:55.260 Like you just

00:35:55.960 woke up one day

00:35:57.060 and,

00:35:57.760 and you,

00:35:58.320 you,

00:35:58.700 you woke up

00:35:59.820 in a Hooters uniform

00:36:00.520 working for Hooters

00:36:01.260 with the name tag

00:36:01.880 and everything,

00:36:02.400 serving people hot wings.

00:36:04.120 Or maybe,

00:36:04.740 like you were kidnapped.

00:36:05.660 Like the Hooters

00:36:06.620 showed up at your house.

00:36:08.140 They sent,

00:36:08.700 they sent their,

00:36:10.000 their,

00:36:10.320 their armed goons

00:36:11.380 to your house

00:36:12.000 and put you in chains

00:36:13.500 and dragged you

00:36:14.380 to,

00:36:15.320 to go work for them.

00:36:16.160 If Hooters does that,

00:36:17.220 then I totally agree.

00:36:18.120 Then,

00:36:18.320 you know,

00:36:18.520 I oppose,

00:36:19.420 I oppose that.

00:36:20.300 I oppose all of it.

00:36:22.240 Um,

00:36:23.080 but no,

00:36:23.600 you,

00:36:23.900 you decided,

00:36:25.040 Hey,

00:36:25.160 I'm going to go work

00:36:25.940 for a place

00:36:26.900 where the whole attraction

00:36:29.780 is women wearing

00:36:31.000 skimpy outfits.

00:36:32.560 And I'm going to try

00:36:33.380 to profit off of that

00:36:34.300 because I'm going

00:36:36.400 to make more tips

00:36:37.100 working at Hooters

00:36:37.760 than I would

00:36:38.140 at Applebee's.

00:36:39.780 Presumably.

00:36:42.200 You know,

00:36:42.700 no one,

00:36:43.080 no one's going

00:36:45.240 to Hooters

00:36:45.620 for the,

00:36:46.060 for the food.

00:36:47.640 We all know

00:36:48.280 why they're going.

00:36:48.740 So you,

00:36:49.520 you make that choice

00:36:51.180 and then add,

00:36:53.240 act victimized

00:36:54.900 because you're

00:36:56.040 being objectified.

00:36:57.080 Yeah,

00:36:57.400 it is.

00:36:58.060 Is it degrading?

00:36:59.180 Is it insulting?

00:36:59.960 Is it objectifying?

00:37:00.840 To work at a place

00:37:03.160 called Hooters?

00:37:05.500 Yeah,

00:37:06.000 it absolutely is.

00:37:08.880 I could see why

00:37:09.900 women wouldn't want

00:37:10.560 to work there.

00:37:11.060 I could see why

00:37:11.360 most women don't.

00:37:14.540 This is why

00:37:15.180 no daughter of mine

00:37:16.060 is ever going to work

00:37:16.680 for a place called Hooters.

00:37:19.040 But that's the decision

00:37:20.140 that you made

00:37:20.920 to go and work there

00:37:22.380 and to objectify yourself.

00:37:24.640 And here's the thing.

00:37:27.340 When you make that decision,

00:37:29.580 now,

00:37:29.820 you could make

00:37:30.900 that poor decision

00:37:31.780 and then change your mind

00:37:33.100 and leave.

00:37:33.880 That's a great idea.

00:37:34.720 You could say,

00:37:35.280 actually,

00:37:35.580 I don't want to do this.

00:37:36.160 This is incredibly insulting.

00:37:38.000 Maybe I will go work

00:37:38.880 for Applebee's,

00:37:39.440 which is only,

00:37:39.820 which is only

00:37:40.500 slightly less insulting.

00:37:43.960 You can,

00:37:44.780 you know,

00:37:45.220 you can make that decision.

00:37:46.580 But if you choose

00:37:47.500 to stay there

00:37:48.440 in this objectifying

00:37:50.320 environment

00:37:51.680 where you,

00:37:52.760 where you have made

00:37:53.540 yourself

00:37:54.160 and your,

00:37:54.860 sort of your sexuality,

00:37:56.180 your body

00:37:56.940 into a commodity,

00:37:58.240 when you do that,

00:38:00.160 you can't really

00:38:01.100 start drawing lines

00:38:02.600 in the sand.

00:38:03.820 You can try,

00:38:05.560 but you've already

00:38:06.600 bought in

00:38:07.320 to making yourself

00:38:08.920 into a commodity.

00:38:12.400 So,

00:38:13.020 when you say,

00:38:13.520 I'm going to sacrifice,

00:38:15.080 you know,

00:38:15.360 I want to sacrifice

00:38:15.940 my dignity,

00:38:17.320 but,

00:38:17.460 but this little shred

00:38:19.980 of it,

00:38:20.240 I want to hold on to.

00:38:22.580 I'll give you my dignity,

00:38:23.680 but there's this little

00:38:24.520 thimble full of dignity

00:38:25.760 that I want to keep

00:38:26.520 for myself.

00:38:27.360 I can't give you

00:38:28.120 all of it.

00:38:30.220 You can try to do that.

00:38:31.380 Many people have tried

00:38:32.280 that,

00:38:32.780 but it's,

00:38:33.160 it's,

00:38:33.820 it never works.

00:38:36.400 Because once you agree

00:38:37.340 to it,

00:38:37.780 what you find is that

00:38:38.740 you give up

00:38:40.360 a little bit of your dignity,

00:38:41.360 you end up giving it all.

00:38:44.640 Better option would be

00:38:45.520 to just keep it

00:38:46.840 for yourself

00:38:47.360 in the first place.

00:38:49.040 That would be my advice.

00:38:50.780 All right,

00:38:51.060 let's get now

00:38:52.040 to reading the comments.

00:38:54.980 This theocratic

00:38:56.260 vowship dictatorship

00:38:57.540 is on its way.

00:38:58.900 Daily cancellations

00:39:00.180 are the law

00:39:00.920 and order of the day.

00:39:04.280 We're the sweet baby gang.

00:39:09.160 All right,

00:39:09.700 let me see here.

00:39:10.280 Caleb says,

00:39:11.060 dad of three daughters here.

00:39:12.580 Matt is 100% correct

00:39:13.860 on paternity leave.

00:39:15.540 My current employer

00:39:16.280 gave me two full weeks

00:39:17.400 of paid leave

00:39:18.120 for the birth

00:39:18.600 of my youngest.

00:39:19.760 I recognize

00:39:20.200 this is a luxury

00:39:21.120 that it is a discretion

00:39:22.460 of my employer.

00:39:24.280 My previous employer

00:39:25.180 made me use

00:39:25.840 my own PTO

00:39:26.680 and anything more

00:39:27.540 than a week

00:39:27.900 was frowned upon.

00:39:29.320 When we had

00:39:29.940 our youngest

00:39:30.300 earlier this year,

00:39:31.000 I did spend

00:39:31.440 most of my two weeks

00:39:32.220 caring for the older

00:39:32.880 two girls

00:39:33.340 and doing housework

00:39:34.560 for my wife,

00:39:35.120 especially because

00:39:35.560 the baby refused

00:39:36.260 to bond with me

00:39:36.980 for a full week.

00:39:40.520 Yeah,

00:39:40.960 that is,

00:39:41.340 that's why I said before,

00:39:42.640 paternity leave,

00:39:43.860 whatever you want to call it,

00:39:44.740 whether you're taking

00:39:46.100 leave or not,

00:39:47.140 or if you just have

00:39:48.020 a few days like I did,

00:39:48.980 like Caleb did,

00:39:50.420 if you have older kids

00:39:52.120 as the dad,

00:39:53.260 then that becomes

00:39:55.280 your primary role.

00:39:55.980 You're taking care

00:39:56.480 of your wife

00:39:56.920 and you're taking care

00:39:57.440 of the older kids

00:39:58.100 while your wife recovers

00:40:00.260 and also is the one

00:40:02.600 who's doing the lion's share

00:40:03.660 of caring for the baby.

00:40:05.360 So that is another one

00:40:07.340 of the really important roles

00:40:08.660 that a dad plays.

00:40:09.600 It's just that

00:40:12.440 this is a,

00:40:13.580 this is a sort of

00:40:14.540 a supporting role.

00:40:17.040 And the thing is

00:40:17.800 that there's,

00:40:18.240 there's humility

00:40:19.220 in acknowledging that

00:40:21.460 and in saying,

00:40:24.060 you know,

00:40:24.320 when the,

00:40:24.620 when the baby is born,

00:40:25.760 really all through

00:40:27.640 the pregnancy,

00:40:28.200 the baby is born,

00:40:30.020 uh,

00:40:31.020 the,

00:40:31.240 the mom,

00:40:32.220 mom and baby

00:40:33.040 are the stars

00:40:34.420 of the show,

00:40:35.020 right?

00:40:35.320 They're,

00:40:35.600 they're the focal point

00:40:36.640 and you as the dad,

00:40:38.240 you're kind of,

00:40:38.860 you're doing the grunt work.

00:40:40.200 You're out on,

00:40:41.220 you're,

00:40:41.480 you're out on the edges.

00:40:42.980 Um,

00:40:43.880 you're,

00:40:44.440 you're doing what's,

00:40:46.040 what's asked of you to do.

00:40:47.840 And,

00:40:48.360 uh,

00:40:48.480 you're,

00:40:48.740 you're picking up slack

00:40:50.480 where you can

00:40:51.100 and playing that kind

00:40:52.860 of supportive,

00:40:53.640 supporting role.

00:40:55.600 And you would think

00:40:56.500 for men,

00:40:56.920 for men to acknowledge that

00:40:58.540 and say,

00:40:59.000 look,

00:40:59.140 that's my role after when

00:41:00.300 that,

00:41:00.920 that is my role here.

00:41:02.680 You would think

00:41:03.480 that feminists

00:41:04.340 and women

00:41:04.920 and the left,

00:41:06.220 you,

00:41:06.520 you'd think that they would

00:41:07.900 embrace that

00:41:08.900 and say,

00:41:09.500 great.

00:41:12.560 But no,

00:41:13.020 it's like they,

00:41:13.460 they got mad at me

00:41:14.620 for not pretending

00:41:18.060 that I had a bigger role,

00:41:19.740 that I have a bigger role

00:41:20.540 than I really do,

00:41:21.560 which is interesting.

00:41:24.860 Um,

00:41:26.980 E432 says,

00:41:28.220 you can make the argument

00:41:28.980 that twins are harder,

00:41:30.120 but oh wait,

00:41:30.900 Mr. Walsh has twins

00:41:32.000 and knows what it's like.

00:41:33.640 Yes,

00:41:33.900 dads can help more with twins.

00:41:35.360 I nanny twins.

00:41:37.080 But the four weeks

00:41:37.780 of paternity leave

00:41:38.580 he got was just too much.

00:41:40.320 Yeah,

00:41:40.520 twins,

00:41:40.980 twins do,

00:41:41.440 of course twins make it

00:41:42.080 a lot harder.

00:41:43.840 Having twin babies

00:41:44.740 is very difficult.

00:41:46.340 That was our first way.

00:41:47.240 We started with twins.

00:41:48.280 We,

00:41:48.380 we dove right into

00:41:49.360 the deep end with it

00:41:50.240 and it was really hard.

00:41:51.540 But the other thing is

00:41:52.160 also,

00:41:53.080 no matter how much

00:41:53.540 paternity leave you have,

00:41:54.900 and I think my wife

00:41:56.320 and I,

00:41:56.560 we realized this that,

00:41:58.040 uh,

00:41:58.460 because I only had a few days

00:41:59.400 and I had to get back to work.

00:42:00.920 Well,

00:42:01.760 even if you have four weeks,

00:42:02.640 even if you have eight weeks,

00:42:03.520 you're going to have to figure out

00:42:06.040 how to do this

00:42:06.800 with at least one of you

00:42:07.760 working eventually.

00:42:10.640 So,

00:42:11.140 even if you buy yourself

00:42:12.120 four weeks,

00:42:13.100 in the end,

00:42:13.800 it doesn't really make much

00:42:14.720 of a difference

00:42:15.180 because you've got a whole life now.

00:42:17.500 Okay,

00:42:17.700 you've got a lifetime now

00:42:18.980 of,

00:42:19.360 of being a parent of twins.

00:42:21.420 And at least 18 years

00:42:22.700 of that life

00:42:23.340 are going to be,

00:42:24.020 there's,

00:42:24.540 there's going to be

00:42:24.980 a lot of challenges.

00:42:26.560 So,

00:42:26.940 you've got to figure it out.

00:42:28.760 One way or another.

00:42:31.080 Um,

00:42:32.800 LRT says,

00:42:33.880 when are you going to do

00:42:34.480 a review of the

00:42:35.400 Let's Go Brandon rap song?

00:42:37.480 Number one on iTunes.

00:42:40.140 Yeah,

00:42:40.460 I wanted to play that song.

00:42:41.540 Okay,

00:42:41.740 so I,

00:42:42.100 you,

00:42:42.400 I didn't know about it

00:42:43.080 until you told me about it.

00:42:44.040 Uh,

00:42:44.240 there is a rap song,

00:42:45.080 a Let's Go Brandon rap song.

00:42:48.560 And,

00:42:49.000 um,

00:42:49.480 I,

00:42:49.740 I did want to play it,

00:42:50.900 but

00:42:51.080 there's,

00:42:53.040 I think every second

00:42:54.480 in the song,

00:42:55.280 there's an F-bomb,

00:42:56.420 bomb.

00:42:57.040 Uh,

00:42:57.320 it's,

00:42:57.600 it's like part of the,

00:42:58.320 part of the beat

00:42:59.120 is the F-bomb.

00:43:00.040 And so I,

00:43:00.400 I decided not to do that.

00:43:01.860 I had some mercy on our editors

00:43:03.100 and I decided not to do that.

00:43:04.420 So I can't play,

00:43:05.260 but you could go if you wanted to

00:43:06.180 and go track it down on YouTube.

00:43:08.080 Um,

00:43:08.440 I did listen to it.

00:43:09.320 What's my review of it?

00:43:10.260 Uh,

00:43:10.620 first of all,

00:43:11.160 I just want to say that it's,

00:43:12.240 it's great that,

00:43:13.040 you know,

00:43:14.000 the rapper,

00:43:14.620 and that song is so,

00:43:15.960 so supportive of Brandon.

00:43:17.780 It's great that everybody

00:43:18.700 is so supportive of Brandon

00:43:19.840 these days.

00:43:21.100 And,

00:43:21.520 um,

00:43:21.880 other than that,

00:43:22.440 what can I say?

00:43:22.900 I mean,

00:43:23.020 the song really spoke to me.

00:43:23.980 It's catchy,

00:43:24.640 but it has real depth.

00:43:27.160 It has soul to it.

00:43:28.940 I loved it.

00:43:30.080 Too early to talk about

00:43:31.400 where it falls in the list

00:43:32.400 of greatest songs of all time.

00:43:33.760 I think it's definitely

00:43:34.700 in the top 50,

00:43:35.380 no question about it.

00:43:36.840 Um,

00:43:37.400 and,

00:43:37.800 uh,

00:43:37.940 beyond that,

00:43:38.460 it's really in the conversation.

00:43:39.600 Also,

00:43:40.640 about the Let's Go Brandon

00:43:41.980 trend in general,

00:43:43.240 I,

00:43:43.960 I did want to say

00:43:44.660 that I actually think

00:43:46.020 that this is pretty devastating

00:43:47.340 politically for Joe Biden.

00:43:50.220 Not to make too much of it,

00:43:51.960 but,

00:43:52.860 but I mean that.

00:43:54.240 The trend is devastating,

00:43:56.220 not the song specifically.

00:43:57.360 Though the fact that

00:43:58.200 they're making songs now

00:43:59.300 really tells you something.

00:44:00.700 And I'll tell you why

00:44:02.500 it's devastating politically.

00:44:04.500 Because Let's Go Brandon

00:44:05.800 along with the more vulgar

00:44:07.760 version of that chant.

00:44:10.460 All of this makes a mockery

00:44:12.000 of Biden,

00:44:13.080 right?

00:44:13.920 It makes him into a joke,

00:44:15.640 into a silly,

00:44:16.580 sort of contemptible,

00:44:18.120 ridiculous person.

00:44:19.800 And that's the death knell

00:44:21.160 for a president

00:44:21.960 or for any politician.

00:44:24.420 If not the death knell,

00:44:25.620 it's,

00:44:25.760 it's,

00:44:26.020 it's very hard to come back

00:44:27.260 from that

00:44:27.680 when you become

00:44:28.560 a ridiculous punchline.

00:44:31.040 And the left usually

00:44:32.460 has a much easier job

00:44:33.740 of doing this

00:44:34.280 to Republican presidents,

00:44:35.820 partly because they have

00:44:36.780 the media on their side.

00:44:38.080 Also because,

00:44:39.960 you know,

00:44:40.100 let's face it,

00:44:40.720 some of the most recent

00:44:41.760 Republican presidents

00:44:42.700 have made it pretty easy

00:44:45.380 for the left

00:44:46.200 to make fun of them.

00:44:47.400 But Obama

00:44:48.340 never really became

00:44:50.240 a joke.

00:44:50.960 the right could never

00:44:53.480 quite get there with him.

00:44:54.740 He was a joke

00:44:55.560 in many ways,

00:44:56.840 but he was never seen

00:44:57.660 that way

00:44:58.220 in the popular imagination.

00:45:01.520 Even Clinton.

00:45:02.540 Yeah,

00:45:02.700 there were a ton

00:45:03.260 of Clinton punchlines,

00:45:04.580 but it wasn't,

00:45:05.760 it wasn't like this

00:45:06.840 where Joe Biden

00:45:08.840 is just a joke.

00:45:10.180 He's this pitiful,

00:45:12.280 pathetic,

00:45:14.040 ludicrous clown.

00:45:17.260 And there are a lot

00:45:18.120 of things.

00:45:18.560 I mean,

00:45:18.700 you can make a politician,

00:45:20.940 you can paint them,

00:45:21.920 you figure out

00:45:22.640 how you want to brand them

00:45:23.920 as the opposition.

00:45:25.460 You can brand them

00:45:26.360 as tyrannical,

00:45:28.100 as lawless,

00:45:29.240 as corrupt,

00:45:30.720 dishonest.

00:45:31.380 You can brand them

00:45:32.160 as,

00:45:33.280 I mean,

00:45:33.720 even incompetent.

00:45:38.460 None of that.

00:45:39.220 I mean,

00:45:39.320 all of that

00:45:39.940 they can work around.

00:45:42.380 But you brand them

00:45:43.460 a joke.

00:45:44.500 You brand them

00:45:45.180 ridiculous.

00:45:47.760 And that's hard

00:45:48.480 to come back from.

00:45:49.840 And that's kind of

00:45:50.340 what the Let's Go Brandon

00:45:51.580 thing represents.

00:45:54.660 And I think it's fantastic.

00:45:55.900 I think it's great.

00:45:56.880 You know,

00:45:57.100 for those of us

00:45:57.580 who grew up

00:45:58.200 before smartphones

00:45:59.520 and before the internet,

00:46:02.800 it may seem

00:46:03.380 to younger people

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00:46:04.760 no past at all

00:46:05.940 because you can't

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00:46:07.920 on the internet.

00:46:09.440 We don't have it

00:46:10.220 stored away

00:46:10.720 on the phones.

00:46:11.240 Like,

00:46:11.340 did we just fall

00:46:12.400 from the sky one day

00:46:13.400 or we dug up

00:46:14.520 out of the ground

00:46:15.280 or something like that?

00:46:16.040 No,

00:46:16.880 it's just that

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00:46:17.880 and our memories,

00:46:18.700 they are stored

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00:47:35.140 Let's get now

00:47:36.100 to our daily cancellation.

00:47:40.960 So today we cancel

00:47:41.980 a woman named Alice Evans

00:47:43.460 who, according to her bio,

00:47:45.900 is a lecturer

00:47:46.660 at King's College London,

00:47:48.340 a faculty associate

00:47:49.300 at Harvard

00:47:49.740 and an author

00:47:50.700 who writes about issues

00:47:51.640 related to gender equality

00:47:52.860 and the patriarchy.

00:47:53.660 That's probably more information

00:47:54.680 than you ever needed

00:47:55.660 to know about somebody

00:47:56.420 called Alice Evans

00:47:57.180 but you never know

00:47:58.000 what you'll learn on this show.

00:47:59.360 So the reason we're talking

00:48:00.260 about her today

00:48:00.780 is that she recently wrote

00:48:01.980 a blog post

00:48:02.800 which she shared on Twitter

00:48:04.280 titled Smash the Fraternity

00:48:06.060 and in the post

00:48:07.340 she complains

00:48:08.160 that men have an advantage

00:48:09.620 in the corporate world

00:48:10.420 because of the fraternal bonds

00:48:12.000 formed through

00:48:12.940 sports banter,

00:48:14.380 she says,

00:48:15.120 smoke breaks

00:48:15.840 and in the men's restroom.

00:48:18.240 Now if you're a man

00:48:19.180 hearing this already

00:48:19.900 you're probably confused

00:48:20.860 because you probably

00:48:22.380 don't take smoke breaks

00:48:23.460 and you've never held

00:48:24.220 a conversation

00:48:24.800 with another person

00:48:25.580 in any restroom

00:48:26.280 in your life

00:48:26.920 and I'm just as confounded

00:48:28.580 as you

00:48:28.920 but we'll get back

00:48:29.680 to that in a moment.

00:48:30.560 First let's hear from Alice

00:48:31.560 let's let her

00:48:32.360 make her case.

00:48:33.820 She says,

00:48:34.260 quote,

00:48:35.060 male bosses

00:48:35.700 and male dominated

00:48:36.500 workplaces

00:48:37.120 consistently fail

00:48:38.080 to recognize

00:48:38.740 and elevate

00:48:39.900 female talent.

00:48:42.140 Rewards and promotions

00:48:43.060 go to those

00:48:43.840 who put in long hours.

00:48:45.280 Men can take advantage

00:48:46.040 of this system

00:48:46.600 because they're emancipated

00:48:47.560 by women

00:48:47.920 who continue to shoulder

00:48:49.040 the burden

00:48:49.460 of social reproduction

00:48:50.340 at home.

00:48:51.400 Thus the contemporary

00:48:52.020 system of employment

00:48:52.800 is predicated

00:48:53.400 on the domestic gender

00:48:54.640 division of labor.

00:48:55.800 Entrenching their

00:48:56.340 first mover advantage

00:48:57.340 the male nomenclature

00:48:58.680 tends to disregard

00:48:59.480 women's expertise

00:49:00.280 and resist

00:49:01.300 family friendly reforms.

00:49:02.360 So if you really want

00:49:03.420 to level the playing field

00:49:04.180 it's time to smash

00:49:05.540 the fraternity.

00:49:06.980 By the way

00:49:07.420 the word fraternity

00:49:09.480 doesn't just refer

00:49:10.880 to a group of

00:49:11.600 drunken hooligans

00:49:13.040 doing keg stands

00:49:13.880 right?

00:49:14.960 Fraternity also means

00:49:15.980 friendship,

00:49:17.200 bonds,

00:49:18.340 mutual support

00:49:19.340 and respect.

00:49:20.880 What feminist Alice

00:49:22.140 wants to do

00:49:22.880 is smash

00:49:23.640 male friendship.

00:49:25.520 She's noticed

00:49:26.000 that men can get along

00:49:27.040 with each other

00:49:27.580 can develop bonds

00:49:29.040 of respect

00:49:29.720 and she wants

00:49:30.880 to destroy that.

00:49:32.980 This comes as no

00:49:33.820 surprise of course.

00:49:35.180 Feminists have always

00:49:35.800 been driven

00:49:36.260 almost exclusively

00:49:37.080 by their desire

00:49:37.960 their jealousy

00:49:39.320 of men

00:49:39.760 and their desire

00:49:40.260 to become men.

00:49:41.660 And the thing

00:49:42.000 that constantly

00:49:42.540 reminds them

00:49:43.320 of the fact

00:49:44.480 that they aren't men

00:49:45.260 is that they're

00:49:46.340 unable to bond

00:49:47.220 with men

00:49:47.680 the same way

00:49:48.200 that men do

00:49:48.700 with each other

00:49:49.200 which means that

00:49:49.920 those bonds

00:49:50.700 are the things

00:49:51.120 that they hate

00:49:51.560 the most.

00:49:52.820 That's why you

00:49:53.200 should never marry

00:49:53.780 a feminist

00:49:54.200 or date a feminist

00:49:55.200 or spend more

00:49:55.880 than 45 seconds

00:49:56.680 in a room

00:49:57.100 with a feminist.

00:49:58.600 She'll make

00:49:59.120 your life miserable

00:49:59.740 in many ways

00:50:00.420 ways you can't

00:50:00.980 even imagine

00:50:01.500 but this will be

00:50:02.480 a big point

00:50:02.980 of contention.

00:50:03.500 She will not

00:50:04.020 want you to have

00:50:04.680 male friends.

00:50:05.280 She will resent

00:50:05.880 your ability

00:50:06.540 to get along

00:50:07.400 with other men

00:50:07.920 given that she

00:50:08.460 cannot get along

00:50:09.440 with other men

00:50:09.920 or other women

00:50:10.560 for that matter

00:50:10.980 or anybody.

00:50:12.640 Back to Alice.

00:50:13.220 She says

00:50:13.480 patriarchy has persisted

00:50:15.260 for thousands of years.

00:50:17.000 Yada yada yada

00:50:17.840 etc.

00:50:18.280 Skipping ahead.

00:50:19.560 Male bonding

00:50:20.080 is part of the story.

00:50:21.420 Building trust

00:50:21.980 and respect.

00:50:23.500 Homosocial schmoozing

00:50:24.620 talking about sports

00:50:26.280 and sharing smoke breaks.

00:50:28.220 So if you ever talk

00:50:28.800 about sports

00:50:29.220 with another man

00:50:29.980 just so you know

00:50:30.740 you're engaging

00:50:31.720 in homosocial schmoozing.

00:50:34.880 Just never call it that

00:50:36.180 when you're talking

00:50:36.660 to the other guy.

00:50:37.500 Hey you want to do

00:50:38.260 a little homosocial schmoozing?

00:50:40.260 No?

00:50:42.220 Anyway

00:50:42.660 that accounts

00:50:43.240 for over a third

00:50:43.920 of the gender pay gap

00:50:44.860 at one Asian bank.

00:50:46.540 Likewise

00:50:46.860 in U.S. Big Oil

00:50:48.120 where women comprise

00:50:49.000 38% of entry level posts

00:50:50.500 but only 10%

00:50:51.660 of executives.

00:50:53.120 Now she continues

00:50:53.720 to complain along

00:50:54.460 these lines

00:50:55.020 listing all of the areas

00:50:56.080 where men

00:50:56.560 are able to socialize

00:50:57.800 while excluding women.

00:50:59.140 She's especially concerned

00:51:00.080 with male fraternizing

00:51:01.540 in the restroom.

00:51:03.120 And she includes

00:51:03.620 this cartoon

00:51:04.220 I'll show you

00:51:04.680 of a woman

00:51:05.160 looking on dejected

00:51:06.640 as a group of

00:51:07.300 back slapping men

00:51:08.300 head into the men's room

00:51:09.380 together

00:51:09.700 with a sign that says

00:51:10.940 corporate boardroom

00:51:11.860 on the door.

00:51:13.320 Alice also shared

00:51:13.960 a message she received

00:51:14.900 allegedly from a man

00:51:15.860 going into more detail

00:51:17.340 about all the

00:51:18.060 gabbing and bonding

00:51:19.460 that we boys do

00:51:20.460 in the bathroom

00:51:21.000 supposedly.

00:51:22.020 Here's the message

00:51:22.720 from her friend.

00:51:23.140 It says

00:51:23.480 with all your thinking

00:51:25.580 about gender

00:51:26.120 and management

00:51:26.640 I wanted to share

00:51:27.720 this little anecdote.

00:51:28.940 I used to work

00:51:29.360 at a large organization

00:51:30.300 and I happened to work

00:51:31.020 on the same floor

00:51:31.620 as the organization's

00:51:32.380 vice president

00:51:32.840 who was also a man.

00:51:34.360 Sometimes I'd run into him

00:51:35.200 in the bathroom

00:51:35.600 and while we were

00:51:36.240 both using urinals

00:51:37.020 he'd tell me

00:51:37.940 some new idea he had

00:51:39.060 and often asked me

00:51:39.860 to take some action on it.

00:51:41.580 At some point

00:51:42.160 to avoid getting new work

00:51:43.160 I started using

00:51:44.200 the bathroom

00:51:44.860 on another floor.

00:51:46.100 But it definitely

00:51:46.720 suggested to me

00:51:47.420 that with male managers

00:51:48.420 male employees

00:51:49.240 get more casual contact

00:51:50.520 and potentially

00:51:51.480 more assignments

00:51:52.140 with opportunities

00:51:52.760 to succeed

00:51:53.320 even in something

00:51:54.100 as simple as

00:51:54.640 running into them

00:51:55.280 in the restroom.

00:51:56.960 Okay.

00:51:58.000 Let's just get one thing

00:51:59.140 out of the way up front.

00:52:00.160 Alright.

00:52:01.880 Ladies,

00:52:02.400 take it from me.

00:52:03.440 As a man

00:52:04.200 who has been a man

00:52:05.380 almost my entire life

00:52:06.600 literally 85%

00:52:08.440 of my life

00:52:08.780 I've been a man.

00:52:11.660 And I've used

00:52:12.400 hundreds of restrooms

00:52:13.160 all across

00:52:13.620 these fruited plains.

00:52:15.680 The situation

00:52:16.500 described here

00:52:17.140 is as imaginary

00:52:18.400 as Alice's friend.

00:52:19.540 It does not happen.

00:52:21.560 You do not need

00:52:22.120 to worry about it.

00:52:23.400 Men are not bonding

00:52:24.420 in restrooms.

00:52:25.060 We don't even speak

00:52:25.940 in restrooms

00:52:26.520 unless it's absolutely

00:52:28.080 necessary

00:52:28.540 which it never is.

00:52:30.580 We don't rest

00:52:31.740 in restrooms.

00:52:32.520 We don't take baths

00:52:33.260 in bathrooms either

00:52:33.960 for that matter.

00:52:34.860 We are business oriented

00:52:36.300 in that environment.

00:52:37.940 We go in

00:52:38.460 we take care of our business

00:52:39.560 and we leave.

00:52:40.340 We don't discuss

00:52:40.840 that business with anybody.

00:52:42.140 We don't discuss

00:52:42.680 any other business

00:52:43.360 while conducting that business.

00:52:45.140 Male restrooms

00:52:45.660 are quiet places

00:52:46.880 except for the sounds

00:52:48.440 of dribbling

00:52:48.980 and kerplunking

00:52:49.620 which echo

00:52:50.060 through our chambers.

00:52:51.160 Otherwise,

00:52:51.720 we remain silent

00:52:52.500 and we give each other

00:52:54.380 space.

00:52:56.060 It's an unwritten rule

00:52:57.000 which all men know

00:52:58.000 that when confronted

00:52:59.300 with an empty line

00:53:00.060 of urinals

00:53:00.480 a man must pick

00:53:01.580 one on either end

00:53:02.820 never one in the middle

00:53:03.700 never one in the middle

00:53:05.260 the man who comes in next

00:53:07.420 will pick one as far

00:53:08.220 from the first man

00:53:08.880 as he can

00:53:09.360 the next will again

00:53:10.600 maintain that distance

00:53:11.640 as much as he can.

00:53:13.360 You never choose

00:53:14.200 a urinal directly

00:53:14.980 next to another man.

00:53:16.160 Never.

00:53:16.580 Unless it's an emergency

00:53:17.960 and it better be

00:53:18.660 a real emergency

00:53:19.340 and you better be

00:53:20.200 on the verge

00:53:20.620 of your bladder rupturing

00:53:22.120 and even then

00:53:22.900 a decent man

00:53:24.180 would allow his bladder

00:53:24.960 to rupture

00:53:25.360 in a dignified way

00:53:26.440 a dignified rupture

00:53:27.840 rather than choose

00:53:28.540 to pee six inches

00:53:29.380 from another guy.

00:53:30.800 These are the rules

00:53:31.420 they're set in stone

00:53:32.120 maybe not literal stone

00:53:33.420 but in our hearts

00:53:34.300 and our souls.

00:53:34.860 We as men

00:53:35.300 are born with this knowledge

00:53:36.360 it's our destiny

00:53:37.220 to follow these guidelines

00:53:38.800 we all know it.

00:53:40.780 This may be more information

00:53:41.980 than you ladies need

00:53:42.760 but I'm trying to explain

00:53:43.640 that men's restrooms

00:53:45.660 are not women's rooms.

00:53:47.140 Despite the confusion

00:53:48.060 our culture has

00:53:49.020 on this topic

00:53:49.600 you know

00:53:50.340 that's not the case.

00:53:51.360 Alice seems to think

00:53:52.080 that because women

00:53:52.800 will take a day trip

00:53:53.920 to their local restroom

00:53:54.900 and hang out there

00:53:55.800 for 14 hours

00:53:56.660 pampering themselves

00:53:57.640 talking and doing

00:53:58.380 God knows what

00:53:59.020 that men must have

00:54:00.480 the same approach.

00:54:01.140 We don't.

00:54:01.960 You'll notice that men

00:54:02.640 never go in groups

00:54:03.460 to the bathroom

00:54:04.000 like women do.

00:54:04.980 We'll never see a man

00:54:05.720 stand up at a restaurant

00:54:06.520 and say

00:54:06.780 hey I gotta take a leak

00:54:07.620 hey Bill

00:54:07.980 you wanna come with?

00:54:09.600 In fact

00:54:09.960 if Bill does also

00:54:10.940 have to go to the restroom

00:54:11.720 he'll wait for the other guy

00:54:13.140 to come back

00:54:13.780 and go and leave

00:54:14.940 and come back

00:54:15.300 before he goes

00:54:15.860 or else he'll say

00:54:16.520 oh you're going

00:54:16.940 to the bathroom too

00:54:17.500 well I had to go also

00:54:18.700 you know what

00:54:18.980 I'll just get in my car

00:54:19.860 and drive to Omaha

00:54:20.580 and use a bathroom there

00:54:21.680 so you go ahead

00:54:22.540 because men can never

00:54:24.260 be far enough

00:54:24.880 away from each other

00:54:25.760 in bathrooms.

00:54:26.640 That's the point.

00:54:28.160 Now there are some men

00:54:28.860 who violate these rules

00:54:29.820 the men who treat urinals

00:54:31.020 like water coolers

00:54:32.260 not literally

00:54:33.440 maybe they do actually

00:54:34.860 drink from the urinal

00:54:35.540 who knows

00:54:36.160 the freaks

00:54:36.600 but they'll try to spark

00:54:38.380 a small talk exchange.

00:54:39.740 There are men who do this

00:54:40.520 a few

00:54:40.920 believe it or not

00:54:42.460 there are some men

00:54:43.360 who will relieve themselves

00:54:45.160 in a urinal

00:54:45.760 right next to you

00:54:47.140 even when there are

00:54:48.280 other open ones available.

00:54:50.720 We normal men

00:54:51.660 always assume

00:54:52.340 those guys are weirdos

00:54:53.360 and deviants

00:54:53.900 and we judge them

00:54:54.600 and we hate them

00:54:55.300 and are justified

00:54:56.960 in feeling that way.

00:54:58.380 They're the exception.

00:55:00.220 The rule is

00:55:01.140 as I have described.

00:55:02.620 Now I may be making

00:55:03.540 too much out of this

00:55:04.120 but I think

00:55:04.740 what we find

00:55:05.520 in this bathroom issue

00:55:06.380 is a microcosm

00:55:07.800 a symbol of feminism's

00:55:08.980 great flaw

00:55:09.380 one of its great flaws

00:55:10.600 and that is

00:55:11.900 that feminists

00:55:12.460 don't know

00:55:13.140 the first thing

00:55:14.280 about men.

00:55:15.520 They don't understand

00:55:16.360 us at all.

00:55:17.280 They have no understanding

00:55:18.240 of who men are

00:55:19.280 how we act

00:55:19.940 why we act

00:55:20.580 the way we are.

00:55:21.280 We're not even

00:55:21.660 that mysterious

00:55:22.240 it's just that

00:55:22.760 they're that stupid.

00:55:24.820 As far as men

00:55:25.640 having more success

00:55:26.340 in the corporate world

00:55:27.000 it's certainly not due

00:55:28.280 to any kind of

00:55:28.740 institutional bias

00:55:29.740 in favor of men.

00:55:31.640 All of the

00:55:32.020 institutional bias

00:55:32.680 all of it

00:55:33.140 without a doubt

00:55:33.560 cuts against men

00:55:34.440 especially white men.

00:55:35.940 But if we still

00:55:37.180 have greater success

00:55:38.000 some of that

00:55:38.500 might have to do

00:55:39.100 with the inherent

00:55:39.740 masculine skill sets

00:55:41.460 that men tend

00:55:42.100 to possess.

00:55:43.260 I understand

00:55:43.680 this is heresy

00:55:44.380 I mean all true

00:55:45.280 things are heresy

00:55:45.920 in a culture of lies

00:55:46.760 but men and women

00:55:47.900 have different skills

00:55:48.700 and they excel

00:55:49.140 at different things.

00:55:50.080 Men generally speaking

00:55:50.920 may tend to be

00:55:51.640 better suited

00:55:52.240 and more cut out

00:55:52.920 for some of these jobs

00:55:54.100 and some of that

00:55:55.340 has to do

00:55:55.760 with different priorities

00:55:56.680 also.

00:55:57.400 For all the talk

00:55:57.980 about gender

00:55:58.520 pay gaps

00:55:59.120 and everything

00:55:59.400 the gap

00:56:00.400 if it exists at all

00:56:01.200 exists because

00:56:01.820 women tend to make

00:56:02.720 different choices

00:56:03.500 they choose

00:56:04.020 different career paths

00:56:05.020 they take different routes

00:56:06.400 in life

00:56:06.820 and that's fine

00:56:07.400 that's good

00:56:07.820 that's called diversity.

00:56:09.500 One other point

00:56:10.300 if men are better

00:56:12.700 able to get along

00:56:13.620 work as a team

00:56:15.200 relate to each other

00:56:16.060 outside of the restroom

00:56:17.320 I mean

00:56:17.580 that's not some kind

00:56:19.080 of unfair advantage

00:56:20.180 it's an advantage

00:56:21.260 yeah but it's not unfair

00:56:22.500 we earn that advantage

00:56:24.300 by being direct

00:56:25.820 with each other

00:56:26.300 by not taking things

00:56:27.740 too personally

00:56:28.280 by not getting

00:56:29.840 overly focused

00:56:30.500 on personal slights

00:56:31.480 not getting involved

00:56:32.040 in personal feuds

00:56:32.860 and so on

00:56:33.360 women can tend

00:56:35.160 a little more

00:56:36.680 towards the dramatic

00:56:37.640 as evidenced by Alice

00:56:39.400 seeing men walking

00:56:40.240 into the restroom

00:56:40.800 and imagining

00:56:41.600 that they're hatching

00:56:42.260 some kind of

00:56:42.660 Game of Thrones

00:56:43.320 conspiracy

00:56:43.980 while they stand

00:56:44.840 at the urinals

00:56:45.380 the slightly more stoic

00:56:48.120 emotionally removed

00:56:49.000 and coolly practical

00:56:50.060 approach of a man

00:56:50.780 often works well

00:56:51.660 in business

00:56:52.120 it can sometimes

00:56:53.440 cause tension

00:56:54.020 and strain

00:56:54.480 in relationships

00:56:55.160 though

00:56:55.480 and at home

00:56:56.040 which is why

00:56:57.060 a man needs a woman

00:56:57.960 to help him

00:56:58.440 become more empathetic

00:56:59.460 more caring

00:57:00.020 more relational

00:57:01.000 there's no problem

00:57:03.480 with this dynamic

00:57:04.140 unless you decide

00:57:05.680 to make it a problem

00:57:06.620 and Alice is the kind

00:57:08.500 of woman

00:57:08.840 who likes to make

00:57:09.840 problems

00:57:10.400 but business is about

00:57:12.300 solving problems

00:57:13.200 not making them

00:57:13.900 which is why

00:57:15.380 she's a college professor

00:57:16.340 not a CEO

00:57:17.200 and it's also why

00:57:19.220 she is today

00:57:19.860 cancelled

00:57:20.660 and we'll leave it there

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The Matt Walsh Show - October 19, 2021

Ep. 821 - The Left Turns Womanhood Into A Halloween Costume

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