The Matt Walsh Show - August 22, 2018


Ep. 88 - Progressivism Descends Further Into Insanity

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gender-inclusive language
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Matt Walsh
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In this episode, we discuss a new term that has been introduced in the Safe Sex Guide, "the front hole." What does this mean? What does it mean and how can it be used in safe sex guides? And what does it have to do with gender?

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00:00:00.000 I want to bring your attention to a couple of things here.
00:00:03.020 First, we have the popular health information website Healthline, which I think gets like 80 million visitors a month or something along those lines.
00:00:11.000 And it has a safe sex guide, which is supposed to guide you in the ways of having safe sex.
00:00:20.020 But in that guide, it has introduced a new term, which is supposed to take the place of an old term.
00:00:27.000 And I want to read a bit of this guide to you, okay?
00:00:30.000 This is what it said.
00:00:31.720 These guides, talking about other safe sex guides, these guides often unnecessarily gender body parts as being male parts and female parts and refer to sex with women or sex with men, excluding those who identify as non-binary.
00:00:48.020 Now, just a second here.
00:00:49.820 You notice how they use the word gender as a verb.
00:00:54.460 This is very common these days.
00:00:56.360 You hear people say gender like it's a verb, like it's something that you do.
00:01:00.000 But it's not a verb, okay?
00:01:02.080 Gender is not a verb.
00:01:03.760 You can't gender something. 1.00
00:01:06.100 It's not something that you can do to a thing.
00:01:09.040 If you go out for the day and you come home and somebody says, what were you doing today?
00:01:13.340 It wouldn't make any sense for you to say, oh, I was out gendering.
00:01:16.680 You know, I was doing a bit of gendering.
00:01:17.880 That's all.
00:01:18.280 Just gendering. 0.99
00:01:19.040 Did a little gendering here. 1.00
00:01:20.100 A little gendering there. 1.00
00:01:21.000 That doesn't make any sense.
00:01:24.540 It's not a verb.
00:01:26.320 Stop it.
00:01:27.300 Stop it.
00:01:29.740 Many individuals don't see body parts as having a gender.
00:01:33.360 People have a gender.
00:01:35.400 What?
00:01:37.000 Body parts don't have a gender because people have a gender? 0.92
00:01:40.460 But people have body parts, don't they?
00:01:44.280 What does that mean?
00:01:45.960 Are we really separating the concept of a person from the concept of body parts from the concept of gender?
00:01:52.920 So those are three separate things.
00:01:55.760 So what is a person then considered apart from their body parts and their gender?
00:02:01.020 So what is a person?
00:02:02.780 A person is just like this abstract concept floating in the ether.
00:02:07.160 Is that the idea of a person that you have?
00:02:09.820 It's like saying, many people don't see hair as having a color.
00:02:15.940 People have hair color.
00:02:20.180 Anyway, as a result, going back to the guide. 0.96
00:02:24.120 And as a result, the notion that a penis is exclusively a male body part and a vulva is exclusively a female body part is inaccurate. 0.97
00:02:33.780 Oh, that's how many people see it. 0.97
00:02:35.840 Okay, so that's how people see it.
00:02:38.020 All right, people see it that way.
00:02:39.820 If people see it as people see the earth as being flat, well, then I guess the earth is flat, right?
00:02:45.200 Because people see it that way.
00:02:49.760 By using the word parts to talk about genitals and using medical terms for anatomy without attaching a gender to it,
00:02:56.560 we become much more able to effectively discuss safe sex in a way that's clear and inclusive.
00:03:02.200 For the purposes of this guide, we'll refer to the vagina as the front hole instead of solely using the medical term vagina. 0.98
00:03:11.300 This is gender-inclusive language that's considerate of the fact that some trans people don't identify with the labels the medical community attaches to their genitals.
00:03:22.140 Well, guess what?
00:03:28.100 I don't identify as having arms.
00:03:29.720 I don't think I have arms.
00:03:32.000 I've decided that I don't have arms.
00:03:33.540 So don't call them arms anymore.
00:03:35.280 You have to think of a new word because I don't identify as having arms.
00:03:38.700 So if I go to the doctor and they say, look at your arms, I'm going to be traumatized.
00:03:42.620 Because what do you mean?
00:03:43.380 I don't identify as having them, right?
00:03:45.500 So that's how this works now.
00:03:46.960 This works now.
00:03:47.660 For example, some trans and non-binary identified people assigned female at birth may enjoy...
00:03:56.500 Now, let's stop there for a second.
00:03:59.440 As I've said a million times, your sex is not assigned to you.
00:04:05.160 Now, notice something here.
00:04:06.580 They use the phrase assigned female.
00:04:10.580 So that's...
00:04:11.260 They're not even... 0.93
00:04:11.980 Usually they try to draw this ridiculous distinction between gender and sex. 0.99
00:04:15.560 You know, like there's two different things. 0.99
00:04:16.680 But female is definitely sex. 1.00
00:04:19.960 So what this medical guide is claiming is that your sex...
00:04:24.260 It's not just gender.
00:04:25.420 Your sex, your biological sex is assigned to you by the doctor after you are born.
00:04:33.180 That is what we're...
00:04:34.380 That's what we're being told now by...
00:04:37.680 Like your actual sex is something that your doctor decides.
00:04:42.920 Randomly.
00:04:43.820 Arbitrarily.
00:04:44.500 Just, yep, that one's a girl. 1.00
00:04:47.020 Could have been a boy.
00:04:48.340 Could have been a dragon.
00:04:49.200 Could have been the tooth fairy.
00:04:51.000 But no, we decided to make it a girl.
00:04:56.040 And anyway, it goes on from there.
00:04:58.160 Talking about front holes and so forth.
00:05:01.320 Now, two quick things.
00:05:03.520 Number one...
00:05:04.460 I don't want to get overly graphic here.
00:05:08.280 But front hole is not even an anatomically correct description of the body part that you have renamed.
00:05:19.620 That's all I'll say.
00:05:21.120 Number two.
00:05:22.960 You really see the coarsening of the culture here.
00:05:25.940 That I am forced to sit here in front of mixed company and talk about front holes.
00:05:30.820 Like, that's not...
00:05:32.800 I would prefer not to talk about these...
00:05:35.080 This should be...
00:05:36.660 And we are all...
00:05:37.700 All of us.
00:05:38.160 We are way too comfortable having these kinds of conversations with each other.
00:05:42.660 Where we're using words like front hole and we're talking about, you know, these sorts of things.
00:05:48.580 And that's what the culture has done.
00:05:49.980 Because when you've got...
00:05:51.900 It's kind of like the choice that we have is we can ignore this kind of stuff.
00:05:57.100 And we can let this insanity happen where body parts are being renamed in order to indulge the fantasies of mentally disordered individuals. 0.85
00:06:11.160 We can just let that happen and say fine and not acknowledge it.
00:06:15.360 Or we can engage with it and address it and oppose it.
00:06:21.160 But in doing so, we're forced to have these kinds of conversations.
00:06:26.380 And I think that latter option is the correct option.
00:06:30.060 We have to engage.
00:06:30.980 We have to...
00:06:31.300 We can't just allow this insanity to occur.
00:06:35.000 But it means necessarily that we all kind of end up down in the muck.
00:06:42.040 And we're all affected by the coarsening of the culture. 0.98
00:06:46.240 It's the same thing when you've got people who are literally marching down the street announcing their sex lives to the entire world.
00:06:54.460 It's like, hey, everybody, guess what kind of sex we like to have?
00:06:57.980 And we're proud of it.
00:06:59.200 When people are doing that, again, there's the coarsening of the culture where we...
00:07:04.960 It's like, we don't want to know.
00:07:06.300 We'd rather not know.
00:07:07.120 We'd rather not talk about it.
00:07:08.020 But you are shoving it in our face.
00:07:11.160 And now we're forced to have this conversation, which is not even a conversation that we want to have with strangers in public.
00:07:18.440 This is private stuff.
00:07:19.960 We shouldn't even be talking about it.
00:07:21.480 But we're forced to.
00:07:22.500 Now, the LGBT folks have been trying to make front hole happen for a while now. 0.99
00:07:30.440 And so I did...
00:07:32.120 I wrote a piece yesterday where I suggested some other new words to take the place of offensive body part labels.
00:07:38.720 I mean, if we're doing front hole, then I suggested like looky hole for eyes, smell stick for nose, hearing flaps for ears.
00:07:47.800 Your mouth is now your talk pocket.
00:07:50.940 Side dangler for arms.
00:07:52.460 Like I said, arms is offensive to me.
00:07:54.340 So call them side danglers. 1.00
00:07:56.440 Your fingers are your pointy graspers.
00:07:58.800 Okay.
00:07:59.060 They're not fingers anymore.
00:08:00.340 Your legs are your trunk stems.
00:08:02.480 They're not legs.
00:08:04.100 And actually, the entire human body is now just a skin holder. 0.98
00:08:08.000 It's not a body.
00:08:08.980 It's a skin holder.
00:08:11.640 And, you know, we could go through...
00:08:13.000 There are many bodies.
00:08:14.100 Every part of the human body is probably offensive to someone, so we could rename them all.
00:08:20.180 Okay.
00:08:21.240 Let's table that story for a minute.
00:08:23.080 And I want to go over and look at something else that seems to be completely unrelated.
00:08:31.440 Here's another story.
00:08:33.540 After more than a century behind bars, the beasts on boxes of animal crackers are roaming free.
00:08:40.800 Mondela's International, parent company of Nabisco, has redesigned the packaging of its Barnum's animal crackers after relenting to pressure from people for the ethical treatment of animals.
00:08:50.580 PETA, which has been protesting the use of animals in circuses for more than 30 years, wrote a letter to the company in the spring of 2016 calling for a redesign.
00:09:00.220 Given the egregious cruelty inherent in circuses that use animals and the public's swelling opposition to the exploitation of animals used for entertainment,
00:09:07.640 we urge Nabisco to update its packaging in order to show animals who are free to roam in their natural habitats.
00:09:14.940 What PETA wanted to do is they wanted to free the caged animal crackers from their cages and have the box redesigned so that it's not offensive anymore,
00:09:26.400 and the company decided to actually go ahead and do that.
00:09:31.460 We've got those two things.
00:09:33.460 How are they related?
00:09:34.500 Well, they're both hilarious, for one.
00:09:38.720 But for another, they reveal something about progressivism.
00:09:43.840 Namely, that progressivism always progresses like a cancer.
00:09:49.740 It can't stay still.
00:09:51.460 It can't stay in just one place.
00:09:54.780 It can't camp out and defend what it has gained.
00:10:00.580 It can't do that.
00:10:01.260 It has to always march forward, or in whatever direction it's going, because I don't really consider this to be forward.
00:10:08.420 But wherever it's going, it always has to keep marching there.
00:10:11.840 It always has to find new battles to fight, new victories.
00:10:15.960 And it's just this thing that's constantly moving.
00:10:19.580 And what happens when it has gotten to the point where it's already won the culture,
00:10:24.300 it's already achieved everything that it originally set out to do, what happens then?
00:10:28.860 Well, then it's on to the animal crackers, and it's on to the front holes. 0.56
00:10:34.820 It has to move on to these ridiculous, obscure issues, because it has already achieved everything else that it wanted to achieve.
00:10:44.720 This is the problem with any movement.
00:10:46.800 Once it gets where it's set out to go, it doesn't know what to do with itself.
00:10:54.020 And that goes back to the famous quote about every cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, degenerates into a racket.
00:11:01.800 Well, progressivism is now—it's even—it's worse than a racket.
00:11:06.060 It's this—it's this insane thing that is barreling forward and just consuming everything in its path.
00:11:20.700 Progressivism is a movement more than it's a philosophy.
00:11:25.000 It's a movement because it moves.
00:11:26.800 It always moves.
00:11:27.920 And it simply wants to destroy what was old, what existed before, and replace it with something new.
00:11:33.680 The manipulation of language is a perfect example of this.
00:11:37.480 They want to get rid of old words and replace them with new words for no other reason than the fact that the new word is new and the old one is old. 0.87
00:11:48.080 You notice with this front hole thing, they never explain what exactly—even if I were to accept the idea that the word vagina is offensive to trans people, 1.00
00:12:01.000 and therefore it has to be changed, how is front hole better? 0.88
00:12:04.720 What actually makes that less offensive?
00:12:08.200 Nothing does.
00:12:08.900 It's just a new term. 0.99
00:12:10.800 It's a really dumb term. 0.99
00:12:12.380 It's crude. 1.00
00:12:12.920 It's crass.
00:12:13.540 It's juvenile.
00:12:16.180 And I think even in—even in—just by saying front hole, every time you say front hole, you lose five IQ points.
00:12:22.240 That's what—I've said it now ten times, and I've lost 50 IQ points. 1.00
00:12:25.780 By the time I'm done doing this video, I'm going to be—I'm going to be brain dead, laying—just laying here, because that's how stupid it is. 0.99
00:12:36.580 But it's a new word, and that's what progressives do. 0.98
00:12:39.380 They just take the old thing and put a new thing in its place.
00:12:41.760 It doesn't matter.
00:12:42.720 It doesn't matter if the new thing's an improvement, and it doesn't even matter if the new thing actually addresses whatever problems allegedly existed with the old thing.
00:12:52.940 The new thing could have the same problems, but even worse.
00:12:56.400 But it's put in place just because it's new.
00:12:59.640 New is always better, so we always need new things.
00:13:03.240 All the old stuff has to be tossed in the fire.
00:13:05.500 That is—that is—that's what progressivism is doing.
00:13:10.340 Just barreling forward in whatever direction it's going and destroying whatever is in its path and replacing it with new things.
00:13:19.660 And as progressivism moves and moves and moves, it gets further and further away from anything that even vaguely resembles truth or reason or rationality, and it descends further into insanity.
00:13:35.120 And now it has descended all the way into an animal cracker box, and it is finding reasons to fight over animal crackers. 0.67
00:13:44.740 That's what happens.
00:13:49.100 And so we can, as conservatives, it's kind of a double-edged sword because, on one hand, we can look at that and we can say—we can point out to everyone else.
00:14:02.640 We can say, well, look at what progressivism—look at what it's become.
00:14:05.220 Look at what kind of arguments they're having.
00:14:06.860 Look at what kind of things they're fighting for now. 0.99
00:14:09.180 Look at what they consider to be a victory now, renaming the vagina into the front hole. 1.00
00:14:14.220 That's a victory for them. 0.98
00:14:15.980 And we can point that out to try to guide people away from progressivism.
00:14:22.240 And we should be, because it works to our benefit that progressivism has become so completely, utterly insane.
00:14:29.900 But on the other hand, the only reason that they've gotten to this point is that they've been so successful and that they've won every other battle.
00:14:41.060 They've basically accomplished everything.
00:14:43.960 Everything that they wanted, they got.
00:14:45.860 Every battle they fought, they won.
00:14:47.800 And that's how they've moved on to these sorts of things.
00:14:57.080 If you think about it, they already redefined human life through abortion, disqualifying all unborn children from having the title of human being. 0.82
00:15:11.660 That was an enormous accomplishment that they achieved decades ago.
00:15:17.780 They accomplished redefining marriage, which even 20 years ago was an unthinkable thing, but they've accomplished that. 0.99
00:15:25.940 So they've been going through and redefining, tearing out what was old, what was traditional, tossing it in the fire, putting something new in its place.
00:15:35.500 And they've done that with these huge things.
00:15:40.160 And because they've already achieved that, now they can move on to these really small, crazy issues.
00:15:50.960 So we should point to that and say, look, you don't want to be on that side.
00:15:54.180 You don't want to be on the side of front holes and fighting over animal crackers. 1.00
00:15:58.220 But at the same time, we should remember, they only got to this point because of our failures as conservatives to defend the definition of human life, the sanctity of marriage, and on and on and on.
00:16:13.840 All right.
00:16:15.280 Thanks for watching, everybody.
00:16:16.600 Thanks for listening.
00:16:17.680 Godspeed.