The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 918 - How Words Became Violence

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Wall Show, I have another big announcement to start the show. Also,

00:00:02.960 after the slap heard around the world, the consensus on the woke left is that it is in

00:00:07.240 fact acceptable and justified to physically assault someone for mean jokes, although there

00:00:10.660 are a number of important qualifiers that we must take into consideration to understand this rule.

00:00:14.360 We'll talk about that. Also, Florida officially enacts the anti-groomer bill while the

00:00:18.020 pro-grooming factions react with demonic, pedophilic fury. The NFL also updates its

00:00:24.020 diversity rules to encourage the hiring of more women because women are famously experts when 1.00

00:00:28.000 it comes to football. And a male who identifies as trans announces that he has just had his first

00:00:32.680 period and should probably seek medical attention right away. And our daily cancellation, psychiatrists

00:00:37.120 and pharmaceutical industry have just announced that grief is now a mental illness and there's

00:00:42.680 a drug to cure it, which will make them even richer. What a happy coincidence for them.

00:00:46.020 We'll talk about all that and more today on the Matt Wall Show.

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00:01:57.780 So we start today with some rather significant personal news. As you all know, I am already the

00:02:02.580 number one best-selling LGBT children's author in American history and beyond that, the most revered

00:02:07.920 and respected LGBT voice in the world. Now, you might think that much that such an achievement would be

00:02:13.340 enough for one lifetime, but now I can add another. I am officially, as of this week,

00:02:19.180 a best-selling women's studies author. Along with being a best-selling LGBT children's author,

00:02:25.440 I am also now the preeminent women's studies authority in the nation. This development coincides

00:02:31.460 with the announcement of my new book, What is a Woman? I told you about the What is a Woman film,

00:02:35.620 which will come out in May. I also have a book titled What is a Woman? One Man's Journey to Answer the

00:02:40.320 Question of a Generation, which is now available for pre-order at Amazon, or you can go to whatisawoman.com

00:02:45.260 and get it there as well. I'd recommend that you go now and order your copy because it's a good book

00:02:50.360 on an important subject, and also because we both know that there is no choice now but to ensure that

00:02:55.920 I remain atop the women's studies category for as long as possible. Now, as for the book itself,

00:03:01.940 just like the movie, the question in the title, What is a Woman?, is only the beginning of the journey.

00:03:06.740 That's the doorway which takes us into a deeper exploration of gender ideology. I spoke with many

00:03:12.280 alleged experts in the field, and I discovered many things that will shock and horrify you.

00:03:17.480 Over the past year, I've been on a strange and disturbing adventure, but at times it has also

00:03:22.420 been hilarious, often in the darkest ways imaginable. You can read about it for yourself if you pre-order

00:03:27.360 the book What is a Woman at whatisawoman.com and look out for the film, which is coming soon.

00:03:31.660 Now, as a best-selling LGBT women's studies children's author, I've been thinking more

00:03:39.040 about the infamous Will Smith incident at the Oscars. It's been interesting, really, especially

00:03:43.040 to view this story through the marginalized lens of an LGBT women's studies expert. My community is

00:03:49.060 so often ignored in these conversations, no matter how many best-selling books we write. So over the

00:03:54.140 past day or so, a consensus has emerged on the left, at least among the race hustlers and other

00:03:59.740 members of its wokest factions. The settled narrative is that Will Smith, as a black man,

00:04:06.060 ostensibly in defense of a black woman's feelings, is entitled to lash out as violently as he wants, 0.68

00:04:12.380 in whatever context he wants. That seems to be the sentiment. Now, I think a few viral tweets might 0.96

00:04:17.980 summarize things for us. This one, with 134,000 likes, says,

00:04:21.880 Chris Rock's one joke was rooted in misogynoir, texturism, and ableism. Degrading a black woman 0.99

00:04:29.700 in a room full of her peers on live TV, the fact that y'all don't see that as violent is beyond me.

00:04:35.740 Yes, who has not flown into a violent rage because of texturism? Everyone in my life knows that

00:04:41.460 texturism, much less texturism mixed with misogynoir, is my biggest pet peeve. When I hear texturism,

00:04:49.080 you know, they can hear me shouting from the other room. Is that texturism? Are you guys doing

00:04:53.040 texturism in there? Especially as a women's studies expert, they know, don't bring, don't bring that 1.00

00:04:58.540 mess around me. So I can understand that, but still. Also, someone in media named Shea Bully

00:05:04.920 concurred, posting, black emotions scare white people. That's quite clear. Y'all shook because

00:05:11.280 you're used to seeing your favorite black people wear their masks. Then a woman named Grace Randolph 0.96

00:05:16.960 adds, Will Smith wins best actor. He is still clearly very shaken by what was said about Jada,

00:05:22.720 his choice to stand up for her, and the abuse that goes on today of public figures, people of color,

00:05:27.940 and more. He will surely speak on this more all week, as will others. The New York assemblywoman,

00:05:34.300 by the name of, I don't know her name, but she joined other politicians like Ayanna Pressley and 0.96

00:05:39.360 Jamal Bowman, in claiming that Chris Rock's joke was a form of violence. She tweeted,

00:05:45.120 it is violence to mock someone's health condition and vulnerability. It is violence to physically

00:05:50.580 assault someone. It is violent to not take responsibility for violent actions. It is violence

00:05:55.580 to allow and excuse violence. It is violence to call for violence. Yes, it's violence to excuse

00:06:01.980 violence, she says, as she excuses violence. Meanwhile, the media has gotten in on the action.

00:06:07.680 USA Today published an article with the headline, Jada Pinkett Smith, Chris Rock, and why his hair

00:06:13.320 joke was so problematic. And then Forbes asks this question in their headline, why are jokes always

00:06:20.220 at the expense of black women? Now, I can answer that. Jokes are not always at the expense of black 0.96

00:06:28.700 women. In fact, jokes are almost never at the expense of black women. We might reasonably say that 1.00

00:06:34.800 black women are the least mocked and least joked about group in the country, perhaps even beating 0.99

00:06:40.300 out trans people for that title. On the rare occasion that anyone does tell a joke about black 0.98

00:06:46.320 women or about a black woman individually, it is always another black person telling a joke. 0.99

00:06:51.960 I can't remember the last time I've heard a non-black person tell a joke about a black woman, 0.93

00:06:56.960 much less black women in general. 1.00

00:06:58.800 On the other hand, non-white people tell jokes about white people and especially white women 0.95

00:07:05.100 all the time. The term Karen is itself a derogatory joke about white women, which was first popularized 0.98

00:07:12.200 by non-white people. So Karen is a joke that black people tell about white people. There is no 0.97

00:07:18.760 synonymous joke going the other direction. It doesn't exist. What's more, I think we can all,

00:07:23.920 we all know that if Chris Rock had made a joke about a white woman, I mean, he's told many jokes

00:07:30.240 about white women many times for many years, but if on that particular night he had happened to joke 0.70

00:07:34.340 about a white woman and her white husband strode onto the stage and slapped him across the face, 0.83

00:07:40.540 we could be quite sure that there would be nobody defending him, the guy doing the slapping that is,

00:07:45.740 and he would have been arrested and charged with a hate crime before he could even get back to his

00:07:50.280 seat. That's the real lesson we can take from this. And there are two others related less to

00:07:57.680 the incident itself and more to the reaction on the left to the incident. First, we see how the

00:08:02.960 racial victim narrative is superimposed onto everything, regardless of the facts on the ground. 0.95

00:08:09.400 It doesn't matter that this was black on black crime. It doesn't matter that the men involved had 0.79

00:08:13.780 the same race, same socioeconomic status, same gender, same age, same sexual orientation. 0.99

00:08:18.560 You would think, if you didn't know any better, that one rich black man slapping another rich black 1.00

00:08:24.600 man at the Oscars would be an event impervious to racial tribalization. If there's any story that 0.86

00:08:30.900 cannot be intersectionalized, it would be this, you might think. But you'd be wrong. The race

00:08:36.680 hustlers, as we've learned time and time again, they need only for a black person to be involved. 0.98

00:08:41.300 That's all the clay they need to mold the image they want to mold from it. And even if there was no 0.95

00:08:45.920 black person involved, even if this was white on white violence, you know, Leonardo DiCaprio 0.93

00:08:50.700 slapping Tom Cruise or something like that, which would have been great, by the way, still they 0.97

00:08:55.340 could make black people the victim. Second, most importantly, we see that the left is serious 0.96

00:09:01.900 when they say that words are violence. Now, of course, that statement is heavily qualified. Words

00:09:07.000 insulting or joking about certain groups of people are violence. I mean, you can, of course,

00:09:13.620 say whatever the hell you want about straight white people. Chris Rock could have done a 15

00:09:18.060 minute routine where he fantasized openly about rounding up all the white people in the room 1.00

00:09:22.340 and burning them alive. And it would have been considered comedic brilliance. He could have 1.00

00:09:28.240 actually rounded them all up and really burned them alive. And it's arguable whether he'd be in jail 0.98

00:09:32.340 right now. That much is established. But words attacking or supposedly attacking or simply just

00:09:38.780 criticizing or lightly mocking members of a protected class are indeed violence in the minds

00:09:45.140 of a leftist. Why? Well, this is where the story ties in with everything else we're witnessing in

00:09:51.980 our culture. It intersects with gender ideology, which is a topic that I explored, by the way,

00:09:57.700 in my bestselling women's studies book, What is a Woman? Available now for preorder at whatiswoman.com.

00:10:01.860 For an individual in a protected class, their self-perceptions, their feelings, especially

00:10:08.080 their feelings about themselves, are just as important as their physical well-being.

00:10:13.660 That's the way it's seen in our culture. In fact, even more important. Remember, in the modern world,

00:10:18.800 we have assumed the power to make ourselves. We are forever engaged in the never-ending process of

00:10:24.520 self-creation. The most important version of yourself is not your physical self, your actual self,

00:10:30.680 but the self you have constructed in your imagination. Physical violence cannot necessarily

00:10:36.900 touch your imagined self, which is your most important self, again, but words can. Ideas can.

00:10:43.920 Ideas can even kill a person's imagined self, their self-perception. And so in that sense,

00:10:51.280 words are violence, the worst kind of violence. This obviously applies most to a person's so-called

00:10:57.540 gender identity, but it applies to everything else that they think and feel about themselves.

00:11:03.160 Jada Pinkett Smith had spoken publicly before the night of the Oscars, even recently,

00:11:07.620 about how she loves her bald head. She's proud of it. She thinks it's beautiful.

00:11:12.300 Now, that's obviously not true. She doesn't really think that, or else she wouldn't be so sensitive to

00:11:16.900 jokes about it. I mean, if you're really proud of something, and you think it's great and beautiful,

00:11:20.280 and you have no problem with it, and somebody tells a joke about it, it's not going to make any

00:11:24.640 dent at all on you. It's just going to bounce right off you, because you're confident.

00:11:29.900 So she's not really confident about it as she pretends, but she wants to think that way about

00:11:34.400 herself. That's the self-perception she is trying to conjure up and create and maintain. 1.00

00:11:42.100 A joke obstructs that process, and so it's violence. It's violence against the version of herself 0.93

00:11:49.900 she is trying to perceive. That's what they mean when they say words are violence.

00:11:57.500 It's all completely insane, of course, but it's the world we're living in, nonetheless.

00:12:02.380 And it's good to try to understand it to the extent that we can.

00:12:06.040 Now, let's get to our five headlines.

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00:13:36.040 All right, as a best-selling LGBT women's studies author, I want to get right now directly into the

00:13:41.820 five headlines. You know I'm going to run this joke into the ground. It's just going to be

00:13:48.200 obliterated. You're going to hear about it so much, but it's not a joke. It's actually real. I really am

00:13:52.120 a women's studies expert. Okay, we'll start with this. From Fox, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis

00:13:58.260 signed into law Monday a parental rights bill that bans teachers from giving classroom instruction

00:14:02.580 on sexual orientation or gender identity in kindergarten through grade school, or rather

00:14:06.120 through third grade, not even grade school. I just overstated it. Talk about self-perceptions

00:14:10.200 and what you want to be real. That's what I wish this bill did. I think this bill actually should

00:14:15.060 apply to every level of school where this stuff does not belong in grade school at all,

00:14:21.300 but it only goes into third grade. It's just pre-K through third grade. So like four years old

00:14:30.040 to about eight, you're not allowed to give instruction, official classroom instruction

00:14:36.320 on sexual orientation and gender identity. So teachers are not allowed to go to a little

00:14:42.640 six-year-old kid and sit down with them and say, what's your gender identity? What's your sexual

00:14:48.480 orientation? That's all they're being prevented from doing. But as we know, the groomers out there

00:14:55.080 are very, very upset about this. So much of their project in the culture depends on being able to

00:15:04.600 indoctrinate, groom, abuse little kids. And so if you stop them from doing that, you're going to get

00:15:13.760 this kind of satanic fury, which is what we've seen. And we know that the bill was mocked at the

00:15:21.880 Oscar Sunday night with co-hosts Wanda Sykes, Amy Schumer, and Regina Hall repeating the word gay as

00:15:26.040 the crowd applauded. But DeSantis announcing it hit back at his critics in Hollywood saying,

00:15:31.100 if the people who held up degenerates like Harvey Weinstein as exemplars and as heroes and as all that,

00:15:35.460 if those are the types of people that are opposing us on parents' rights, I think I wear that like a badge

00:15:40.060 of honor, they don't want to admit that they support a lot of things that we're providing

00:15:43.820 protections against. For example, this again is DeSantis talking, they support sexualizing kids in

00:15:49.340 kindergarten. They support injecting woke gender ideology into second grade classrooms. And so what

00:15:53.580 they're doing with these slogans, these narratives, is that they're trying to camouflage their true

00:15:56.700 intentions. Very well put, could have been said any better. Let's listen to a little bit more of

00:16:01.260 Ron DeSantis yesterday announcing and talking about this bill.

00:16:04.400 And so we will continue to recognize that in the state of Florida, parents have a fundamental role

00:16:13.500 in the education, health care, and well-being of their children. We will not move from that. I don't

00:16:19.780 care what corporate media outlets say. I don't care what Hollywood says. I don't care what big

00:16:26.120 corporations say. Here I stand. I'm not backing down.

00:16:30.780 Well done. This is, I've said it a million times, I'll say it a million more times. This is what every

00:16:38.040 Republican should be doing. This is a winning issue. Run on this issue. If there's a Republican

00:16:45.360 running for office at any level, as we head into the midterms, who is not running on this issue,

00:16:49.920 it's not just that you mention it from time to time. Run on this issue of protecting children

00:16:55.120 against sexual indoctrination. Why do you run on it? Because it's one of, if not the most important

00:17:02.180 issue in our culture today. And also as a benefit, our view as conservatives is the winning view.

00:17:15.300 You're putting the other side in the position of having to defend the sexual indoctrination of

00:17:21.720 children. Let them do that. That's all you have to do is just get them talking.

00:17:29.000 You know, a Republican in a debate, all you have to do is say, okay, so you think six-year-olds

00:17:33.960 should be taught about sexual orientation. You want public school teachers to sit down with 1.00

00:17:39.400 six-year-olds and talk to them at six about their sexual orientation and quote-unquote gender identity.

00:17:45.600 Tell us more about that. Go ahead. I cede the floor to you. I'll give you five minutes. Go ahead

00:17:52.640 and talk as much as you want. In fact, I won't say another word in this debate. I'll just let you

00:17:56.980 talk all you want about how we got to talk to five-year-olds about transgenderism. I'll give you

00:18:03.980 the floor. I'll just sit back here and let you talk. That's all you have to do.

00:18:10.480 It is, it's a winner, but you got to stay on message and you can't let them drift into

00:18:19.280 the fantasy world, which is where they want to take this.

00:18:25.020 They know, look, they know that their position on this issue is, is abhorrent. Now it's not

00:18:32.180 abhorrent to them because they have no souls, but they know that it's abhorrent to normal people.

00:18:37.420 If they didn't know that, then they wouldn't be going through all this effort to invent 0.95

00:18:42.960 bills that don't exist, like, you know, don't say gay. They wouldn't be going through all this

00:18:47.220 effort making claims about this bill that are easily debunked. You could spend just 30 seconds

00:18:56.440 reading the language of the bill and see what an absolute lie their narrative is. And they

00:19:02.460 wouldn't be doing that if they didn't have to basically, because the other option is, um,

00:19:10.780 well, the real, the one other option is to stop trying to sexualize kids, but that's off the table

00:19:15.260 for them. They can't stop. They can't stop themselves. Uh, which is, which is very common

00:19:19.820 of predators, which is why predators should all just be locked in prison and never let out.

00:19:22.700 But, but so they can't stop themselves, but they also can't, they can't come out and make a case for

00:19:27.460 it. So the more you can get them talking about it, put them on the hook, put them on the spot,

00:19:36.300 the better. It's a winning issue. Now DeSantis, he also brought, um, some parents on to talk about

00:19:42.520 why this bill is needed because that's the other response from people on the other side of this is,

00:19:48.440 uh, is all right. You know, even if it's not the don't say gay bill, uh, even if it is a bill that

00:19:53.660 just stops teachers from sexually indoctrinating very young kids, is that, is that really needed?

00:19:58.240 Where is this happening? I mean, where is this happening in society except everywhere? Where is

00:20:04.160 this happening except every single public school in the country? So we had a few parents talking

00:20:09.900 about their own experiences with this kind of thing. And, uh, here's one mother telling a really

00:20:13.460 horrifying tale. Listen. In September of 2020, my daughter told me after school, she had a meeting

00:20:19.920 with school officials that was held behind closed doors where they asked her which restroom she wanted 1.00

00:20:25.320 to use. I immediately contacted the school and was told by the guidance counselor and assistant

00:20:30.460 principal that I could not be given any information regarding the meeting and that by law, my daughter

00:20:36.260 had to be the one to authorize my notification of the meeting or attendance to the meeting. In other

00:20:43.280 words, school officials asked my 13 year old child, her permission as to whether or not

00:20:48.320 my parental rights would be honored. After many weeks of going back and forth with the district,

00:20:53.840 we learned the middle school had created a transgender gender non-conforming support plan

00:20:58.940 with our 13 year old daughter without our knowledge or consent.

00:21:04.420 This kind of thing, uh, you know, if you have a, if you have a room full of parents, you could

00:21:10.960 just throw a rock, which is what a lot of people on the left would like to do. Uh, but you could

00:21:16.340 throw something and you're guaranteed to hit a parent who's, who has, if they, if they've got public

00:21:20.460 kids in public school, they might not have stories. Hopefully many of them do have stories as bad as

00:21:26.280 that and as dramatic as that, but they've all encountered this kind of thing. Um, this is happening

00:21:32.480 everywhere. And that's why we need, that's why we need laws like this, but we actually need laws that

00:21:38.300 are much stricter and go much further than that because the law that was just passed. And again,

00:21:44.360 it's a great law. I mean, I'm, I'm in favor of incremental gains. If the other option is no gain

00:21:50.420 at all, I'll take the incrementalism as long as we keep going and we're not satisfied. That's my one

00:21:54.620 criticism. My one fear with this, uh, with this parental rights bill in Florida is that Republicans

00:22:01.780 might be able to say now, well, we, uh, we did it. We protected parental rights and we passed the bill

00:22:06.180 and let's move on to something else. If they do that, that's a big problem because all you've done

00:22:11.520 here is offer protection for the youngest kids, which is great, but kids in fourth grade need

00:22:18.180 protection too. Kids in fifth grade, six, seventh, eighth, ninth, 10th, 11th, 12th, they all need

00:22:22.300 protection. They're all kids. Um, there's quite a lot of this that happens in elementary schools.

00:22:28.020 It really kicks into high gear in middle school because that's right around, you know, the age of

00:22:34.200 puberty. And that's when, and that's when the indoctrination kicks into high gear. That's also

00:22:38.700 when kids are the most prone to being, uh, confused about their identity, feeling out of place

00:22:46.840 socially, feeling out of place sort of with within themselves, trying to figure out where they fit in

00:22:52.660 the world, who they are, what kind of person they are. Every kid goes through this. It's the most

00:22:57.220 normal thing in the world. And it's, it's, it's even more common and more pronounced for girls, 0.84

00:23:02.620 given the changes that they're, that they're experiencing, where they start to feel kind of

00:23:08.740 alien in their own bodies. You talk to almost any woman and, and they'll, they'll, they'll tell you 0.99

00:23:13.700 that any woman listening right now can relate to it to some extent to that, having gone through that.

00:23:20.360 Now, the danger now, most of us, if we're adults, we went through puberty, we went through

00:23:27.300 childhood. We had the experiences of not feel, not fitting in, you know, not feeling totally at home,

00:23:33.320 kind of figure, trying to figure out who we are and what we're all about. And, um, we all, we all

00:23:38.300 had that experience. All kids throughout history have had that experience. But the difference is

00:23:44.360 that you and I and every other kid prior to the current generation of kids going through school

00:23:49.500 right now, we were basically allowed to go through that, go through that phase and come out the other

00:23:56.400 end of it and grow up and have a normal life. We were given space to do that. Now you have these

00:24:04.240 predators, these evil, satanic, disgusting groomers who are waiting there to pounce. As soon as a child 1.00

00:24:13.780 begins to have any questions about themselves, begins to feel out of place at all, um, begins

00:24:21.600 to have any questions about their bodies and the changes that, that they're experiencing, the moment

00:24:26.300 that happens, these groomers are there to pounce and say, Oh, Oh, you're feeling that way. Well,

00:24:31.060 I'll tell you why you're feeling that way. And they've got this entire framework ready to go.

00:24:36.520 Here it is. I got all the answers for you.

00:24:39.400 That's the difference. Kids before this, you went through that phase, you got, you went, you got

00:24:48.180 over it. Uh, but now kids, there's a lot of confusion also. And now they have this framework.

00:24:55.860 They have this whole ready-made system, which appears to make sense of everything that they're

00:25:01.780 feeling. It actually doesn't make any sense at all, but they don't realize that.

00:25:05.360 And then adding to the pressure, they look around at their friends and their friends are

00:25:11.660 all buying into this. There's a lot of social capital to be gained. You know, our kids are

00:25:17.940 going through the situation for our kids right now in schools is that to be, you know, to

00:25:23.900 be just like a normal 13 year old girl, just a normal girl. There's no social capital in 0.96

00:25:29.360 that. You gotta, you gotta add something onto that, have some kind of extra thing you're

00:25:35.620 adding to your identity, find your place under the LGBT umbrella. That's where the social capital

00:25:41.620 is. So this is happening everywhere. Um, and, uh, this is why we need bills like this everywhere

00:25:48.300 that in fact go much farther than this bill goes and let the groomers, let the groomers panic 0.51

00:25:57.100 and scream and, uh, let them make their case for sexualizing kids. Let them make their case. 1.00

00:26:01.860 We want them to, we want them to make the case, talk about it, take the mask off, expose themselves.

00:26:08.300 All right. Um, meanwhile, Disney has issued a statement. They say Florida's HB 1557, also known

00:26:15.740 as the don't say gay bill should never have passed and should never have been signed into law.

00:26:19.840 Our goal as a company is for this law to be repealed by the legislature or struck down in the court.

00:26:25.140 So we remain committed to supporting the national state organizations working to achieve that.

00:26:28.680 We're dedicated to standing up for the rights and safety of LGBTQ plus members of the Disney family,

00:26:33.340 as well as the LGBTQ plus community in Florida and across the country.

00:26:38.940 So Disney, which produces much of the entertainment, um, that your kids probably watch,

00:26:46.080 they have come out and at first they tried to basically stay out of it, but now

00:26:50.800 caving to the pressure that, I mean, this is a company with thousands and thousands and thousands

00:26:57.120 of employees, billions of dollars and a handful of them came out and complained and were able

00:27:06.160 to bring Disney, the Disney corporation to its knees. You want to talk about social capital?

00:27:13.500 That's the kind of power that you wield if you're in the LGBT camp. 0.90

00:27:19.320 Going back to why, why, why so many kids, it's tempting for them to buy into it because they

00:27:24.940 see that and they see the power and popularity that comes with it. But Disney caving to all the

00:27:31.420 pressure. Now they're, they're offering full, a full defense. They are fully in favor of sexualizing

00:27:37.360 young kids. Now, of course we know that Disney has been in favor of that actually for, for a long

00:27:43.840 time, but now they're out in the open about it. They think that your five-year-old should be

00:27:50.880 sexualized. They think that your five-year-old should be taught about transgenderism and gender

00:27:54.200 identity and sexual orientation. Now the question becomes, are we as parents going to continue to

00:28:03.480 purchase Disney products and sit our kids down in front of televisions to watch entertainment from

00:28:10.180 Disney after Disney has told us that they are in favor of sexualizing your kid? That's what they want

00:28:17.560 to do. They are, they are committed to it. They say they are steadfastly committed to the sexualization

00:28:25.420 of kids. Been the case for a long time. Now they're out coming out and saying it. They are fully out of

00:28:32.800 the groomer closet. We have to make a decision now as parents. Um, is Disney entertainment so

00:28:44.060 important, so crucial to us as parents that, um, we'll, we'll continue to give them our money even

00:28:50.180 after they've told us they want to sexualize our kids? Or will we finally have a little bit of 0.99

00:28:56.240 self-respect and say, you know what? You don't even have to call it a boycott. I mean, call it a boycott

00:29:00.980 if you want. I don't care what you call it. But when a, when a, when a company comes out and says,

00:29:07.340 number one, we hate you. We hate everything you stand for. We hate your values. We hate who you are.

00:29:13.900 We hate everything you believe. And we want to sexualize your kids. Um, here's a whole bunch of 1.00

00:29:20.640 entertainment we've made for your kid. Please sit them down in front of the TV and let them watch it.

00:29:24.120 As parents, we have to decide, uh, is it, is, are we going to say, well, okay.

00:29:33.100 Be like brainwashed, hypnotized automatons and saying, well, okay, sit down kids and watch this.

00:29:39.640 What else are we going to do? Well, a life deprived of Disney products is unlivable.

00:29:44.700 Who could imagine such a thing? It's about having a little bit of self-respect and respect,

00:29:51.500 you know, for your kids. Um, all right. In more groomer news, Libs of TikTok has this that says,

00:29:57.740 these are internal messages from a fourth grade elementary teacher in Austin independent school

00:30:02.380 district. She's upset that an entire week dedicated to LGBT still wasn't good enough. 1.00

00:30:07.000 And coincidentally 20 out of 32 of her fourth graders are LGBT and have come out to her.

00:30:14.360 Okay. So we found, we, we talked last week about in Austin schools, they've had a, they had a pride

00:30:19.400 week, which included having a forced pride march through the hallways and they decked all the kids 0.99

00:30:24.920 out and rainbow stuff and all that kind of thing. And they had signs and they were waving flags and

00:30:29.360 marched through the schools. Um, and they had community. This was where they had the community

00:30:33.180 circles where they'd sit all the kids around and they'd tell secrets and they were told

00:30:36.740 don't tell anybody outside the circle, especially your parents about the secrets.

00:30:41.760 Um, but teachers are upset that this happened. Not, not because, uh, it was totally inappropriate,

00:30:48.860 but because it shouldn't just be a week. It should be an entire year.

00:30:52.400 So here's this teacher, um, from an internal message, fourth grade elementary teacher

00:30:56.560 says, I feel that it is inappropriate to call our pride, our parade this morning, a wellness walk.

00:31:02.980 While I understand that wellness walk is something that was previously in motion to promote health

00:31:06.560 and fitness and is something we want to continue really takes away from the experience of celebrating

00:31:11.240 pride to couple the two. The first pride was a riot. It is not enough to just welcome, love,

00:31:16.520 and celebrate queer folks, folks with a, with an X. Your allyship should always lead you to activism, 0.91

00:31:23.200 speaking up and fighting for what is right. Even when it feels uncomfortable, we can't choose

00:31:27.900 in and out of our protest spaces. Uh, and then it continues out of the 32 students that I teach.

00:31:36.020 20 of them are LGBTQIA plus and have come out to me. I feel that we need to do better for them to

00:31:43.200 affirm our students. I think it would only be appropriate and right to publicly announce that

00:31:46.920 we had this morning, that what we had this morning was a pride parade. Our students are aware and are

00:31:51.660 paying attention. Okay. So a big part of her problem is that they had a, they had a, uh, a march to the 0.82

00:31:57.520 schools and there were pride flags and everything, but they didn't specifically call it a pride parade.

00:32:02.000 And that's what she's worried about. Well, let's put all that to the side and just focus on this detail

00:32:07.040 for a moment. This is a fourth grade teacher saying that 32 students, 20 of them in fourth grade

00:32:14.060 are LGBT she says, and have personally come out to her 20 out of 32. Um, that's as opposed to like 1.00

00:32:27.440 everybody else's experience. If you're an adult in fourth grade and basically no kid would have

00:32:34.220 identified as LGBT. It just wasn't on the radar. You weren't thinking about it. You weren't talking

00:32:39.740 about it now, 20 out of 32, she says, and she says it proudly. This is not a secret that she wants

00:32:47.980 to keep. This is, um, to call this a social contagion, I think understates the facts of the

00:32:56.980 matter, but this is something unlike anything that the world has ever seen. We are watching an entire

00:33:03.780 generation of children be reshaped and reformed in front of our very eyes. Um, laws protecting kids

00:33:16.020 is like the least that that's, that's starting level of what we need to be doing. All right, let's move

00:33:20.540 to this. Al Butler, a sports reporter has this says women will now be included in all Rooney rule 0.75

00:33:26.280 requirements in the NFL. All 32 teams will be required to hire a diverse person, female or a member of an

00:33:32.920 ethnic or racial minority to serve as an offensive assistant. And then he has the language from the 0.79

00:33:39.080 NFL and it says, uh, this is what it specifically says. Offensive assistant coach. A former resolution

00:33:45.860 was adopted to provide greater opportunities for diverse candidates to serve as offensive coaches.

00:33:50.840 Beginning this season, all 32 clubs will employ a diverse person. So the person themselves,

00:33:57.940 the actual individual person is diverse. It used to be when you think of diversity,

00:34:02.920 if we're talking about diversity among people, that's like a group of people could be diverse

00:34:07.000 because you have people of, from various different backgrounds and cultures and whatever,

00:34:12.340 um, all in the same room. That's a diverse group.

00:34:15.780 Now we say that an individual person is diverse or non-diverse. Does that make any sense whatsoever?

00:34:21.260 No, of course it doesn't. Uh, it says this person will receive a one-year contract and work closely

00:34:26.320 with the head coach and offensive staff to gain experience. Clubs will receive reimbursements from a

00:34:31.020 league-wide fund towards the coach's salary for up to two years. In recent years, head coaches have

00:34:35.840 predominantly had offensive backgrounds. We believe this resolution will assist greatly in continuing

00:34:39.480 to source and identify diverse candidates earlier in their careers, providing pipeline depth and

00:34:44.800 furthering developing the, uh, diverse offensive pipeline. Then it goes on from there.

00:34:52.160 So we already knew about the Rooney rule that's put in place requiring that teams at least interview,

00:34:57.940 uh, well, I, we used to say interview black candidates for coaching jobs. Now we might say

00:35:02.360 diverse candidates, diverse individuals for coaching jobs. And the real update here is that, um,

00:35:09.940 they're putting women into that, into that category as well. Trying, hoping to work towards

00:35:17.640 a day where there will actually be a female head coach in the NFL. 1.00

00:35:23.660 You know, a, a, a female who is a, a leader of men leading all of these, you know, all of

00:35:35.660 these, uh, professional athletes, all these men, we're going to have a woman leading them

00:35:40.000 into battle on the football field. That's what the NFL wants to see anyway. And they're, you

00:35:47.240 know, they, they have at this point stopped short and eventually they're going to get to this

00:35:51.620 point. I think where they're going to have to do this because no matter how many diversity

00:35:55.280 requirements they put in place, it's one thing you have the diversity requirements requiring

00:35:59.120 to interview black candidates. That's, that's okay. I mean, it's absurd to have any of these 1.00

00:36:03.460 requirements at all, but one of the reasons why it's absurd to have this in place for black 1.00

00:36:08.120 candidates is that there, there are black people working at every level of the NFL.

00:36:13.400 Um, but if you want to have a woman as a coach in the NFL, and if the, if the goal, as it says 0.76

00:36:24.060 there is eventually, because you want to, you know, it's, it's put them in the pipeline so that

00:36:27.980 eventually they can be head coach. If you want that to happen, then the NFL is going to have to

00:36:31.720 eventually come in and just point to a team and say, you must hire a female head coach. 1.00

00:36:36.360 My guess is in the next five years, that's what they're going to do.

00:36:41.280 All right, moving on. Democrats are hoping that Ketanji Jackson will, um, help, you know,

00:36:46.340 alleviate some of the, some of the polling problems they're having right now. Um,

00:36:50.920 the latest poll on Biden, I don't have the numbers right in front of me, but it's, it's,

00:36:55.120 you thought he'd already gone as low as he could possibly go. And it's an even lower than that.

00:36:59.640 So they think that, uh, the fact that he nominated Ketanji Jackson is a thing that's going to make a lot

00:37:04.800 of people excited. So they're, they're still talking about it, heaping praise on Ketanji

00:37:08.580 Jackson. Uh, yesterday, CNN actually ran a piece praising Jackson, not only for being such a

00:37:13.580 wonderful justice, but also for her physical beauty as well. Listen to this.

00:37:17.980 Judge Jackson isn't only changing the image of justice, but the image of beauty.

00:37:26.700 Unfolding on a small device. My parents were public school teachers. A big moment in America.

00:37:32.440 They gave me an African name, Ketanji Onyeka, which they were told means lovely one.

00:37:40.780 The Senate confirmation hearings for judge Ketanji Brown Jackson capture Chicago stylist,

00:37:46.340 Portia Egba. That's empowerment. That's it. That's empowering. And her client,

00:37:51.400 Lauren Buford. Seeing her potentially become a justice is inspiring to be able to see yourself

00:37:59.180 and see what's possible. She is overqualified. And this confirmation is overdue. Not only will

00:38:06.260 you make the court look more like America, but hopefully think more like America. She thinks

00:38:12.420 like other moms. I've tried to navigate the challenges of juggling my career and motherhood.

00:38:18.340 And I fully admit that I did not always get the balance right. I love you so much. Across the city,

00:38:25.720 the acceptance that others are giving her just to be herself is just a beautiful thing.

00:38:32.700 Redefining beauty. That is an important job of a Supreme Court justice, isn't it? To redefine beauty

00:38:39.200 standards. That's what we look to the Supreme Court for. I mean, that's where all the, you know,

00:38:44.160 that's famously people on the Supreme Court, a lot of lookers on the Supreme Court famously.

00:38:47.640 Um, I, I almost as absurd as all this is really the line there about that, that escaped my notice

00:38:56.740 during the actual confirmation hearings, but, uh, that Ketanji Jackson will help the Supreme

00:39:02.380 Court look more like America and also think more like America as if that should be the goal.

00:39:09.940 No, we don't, we don't want the Supreme Court. It doesn't matter if the Supreme Court looks like

00:39:13.180 America makes no difference. Whatever that means to look like America, but also think like America.

00:39:19.160 What does, again, I don't know exactly what that means, but whatever it means, I'm quite sure that

00:39:24.360 that is not what we want the Supreme Court to do. Um, that's, that's, that's sort of the point of them

00:39:30.280 not being elected representatives. They're not elected by the people to represent

00:39:36.580 precisely what we want them to do. There's, they are put in place to represent the constitution.

00:39:43.520 That is their job. That's their only job. It doesn't matter if the majority of Americans decide

00:39:49.360 they don't care about the constitution anymore. Um, that's still the Supreme Court. Their job is

00:39:55.280 supposed to be to represent the constitution, interpret it, defend it. That's their job.

00:39:59.720 All right. One other thing I want to put up on the screen before we get to the comment section.

00:40:02.640 So this tweet went viral, um, a few days ago and, uh, just want to read it and we can all

00:40:11.680 appreciate it together. It says, okay, I'm a trans woman who's experiencing her first period cramps

00:40:17.820 and what the F I've literally never felt pain like this. Why do we people let people live like this?

00:40:25.140 By the way, 91,000 likes on that tweet. And if you read the comments, which I don't recommend because

00:40:32.280 it's, it's, it is, uh, quite depressing. You find person after person, including women 1.00

00:40:38.700 responding to this mail and say, yeah, welcome to the club sister.

00:40:46.000 Now let me just explain this to you. Um, if you're a man, you cannot have a period. You don't have a

00:40:53.560 menstrual cycle. You don't have a uterus. Uh, even if you grow your hair out, even if you 1.00

00:41:00.140 go to a, a plastic surgeon and have your, your genitals mangled and mutilated, you still are not 0.98

00:41:06.980 going to have a menstrual cycle. So the cramps you're feeling, uh, I would seek a doctor about 0.98

00:41:13.100 that. Or maybe you just had Chipotle. You know, that's something that a lot of us have been through,

00:41:16.580 but if there's any, if there's blood coming, I don't want to get into any graphic details here,

00:41:21.740 but if there's, if there's, as a man, you got blood coming out of, uh, orifices or anything like

00:41:25.420 that, that is, that's, that's not a normal thing. I'd seek medical attention immediately.

00:41:32.620 Well, what, what happens then? I mean, this does raise a lot of questions because we know that the,

00:41:36.600 the medical community now is fully bought into affirmation. Their job is to affirm.

00:41:41.720 And so what happens? I wonder if this man is, is experiencing blood coming out of areas where it

00:41:50.140 should not come and having, um, you know, bad cramping, obviously not a menstrual cycle because

00:41:57.280 he's a man who can't have that. So there's some serious medical problem happening, but he goes and

00:42:02.620 talks to a doctor and says this and says, Oh, I'm having my period. Is the doctor even allowed to say,

00:42:07.920 uh, no, you're not because you're a man. There's, you know, you might be dying of something.

00:42:14.320 There might be internal bleeding going on. Let's get, can a doctor even say that without getting

00:42:19.860 sued? I don't know. Um, maybe we'll find out. So we've been talking a lot lately, of course,

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00:43:30.700 your free info kit now. Let's get now to the comment section.

00:43:34.680 Do you know their name? They're the sweet baby gang.

00:43:41.940 All right. We'll do one quick video comment. This is clip. Let's go to clip 18.

00:43:47.720 Hey, Matt. Is this you?

00:43:50.100 Okay. So that's even worse than the shirtless guy dancing on the golf cart, the shirtless fat guy. 0.95

00:44:03.260 So this is allegedly me on a COVID testing poster. But you know, no, as I've said a million times,

00:44:13.340 okay, am I going to deny that there's maybe some resemblance there? I'm not going to deny it. But

00:44:19.520 not every man with a beard and glasses looks like me. Okay. I'm not, I'm not just my beard and glasses.

00:44:26.900 There's more to me. This, this makes me feel marginalized along with everything else, especially,

00:44:36.780 and I shouldn't need to say this, but these kinds of attacks that I suffer

00:44:42.420 are especially inappropriate now and problematic given that I am the bestselling women's studies

00:44:49.840 author in the world. All right. This is from grenade away says it's, it's like Will is a psychopath

00:44:55.760 laughing hysterically, then mad, then tearful and grateful. What the F? Um, no, this is, this is, 0.97

00:45:02.700 uh, this is just him being a cuckold. You know, he laughed at the joke and then he looked over at

00:45:06.540 his wife and his wife was, uh, upset about it. And so then he, he leaped into action. That that's all

00:45:13.780 it is. But I, but I will say, you know, to his credit that Will Smith's wife's boyfriend, um, I think

00:45:24.420 is no doubt very grateful that he defended their, their woman in that way. Um, Vicky says, uh, you laugh

00:45:32.680 to the joke, then you punch Chris rock for making the joke. Then you're laughing after punching him

00:45:35.840 lost all respect for Will Smith. It's not okay to lay your hands on anyone. Did you have respect for

00:45:39.540 Will Smith to begin with? I think that's the problem here. Steven says, Matt, two weeks ago,

00:45:43.580 you were, you were just justifying violence in response to insults, especially to defend your

00:45:47.760 wife. Well, as you noticed, um, I have not said, there are other people that have said in response

00:45:53.560 to this, that violence is never okay. In response to words, uh, that's not my position. I did not say

00:45:59.620 this. That's not what I said. Now that violence in that situation, in response to that comment

00:46:06.540 was obviously completely out of bounds for a whole bunch of reasons. We don't need to get into. I

00:46:11.080 think we've already talked about them. And we could just start with, with the basic fact here

00:46:15.580 that you are at an award ceremony. Chris rock is there. He's hired to get up there and tell jokes

00:46:23.200 about the audience. That's his job. And you have chosen to attend this event where that sort of

00:46:29.120 thing happens. So no, you cannot, that that's not an occasion where violence in response to words is

00:46:36.340 appropriate. Um, but I'm not going to say that it's never appropriate. I mean, of course it could

00:46:41.280 theoretically be appropriate. And when we talked about this, I don't even remember the context,

00:46:45.920 but we talked about this a couple of weeks ago. The hypothetical example I gave is if you're

00:46:50.040 walking down the street or something and a guy comes up and sexually harasses your wife,

00:46:54.720 that's not what happened at the Oscars. Okay. But if that were to happen and you're out in the

00:46:59.680 street, guy comes up and is accosting your wife in that way. Um, is it justified to punch him right

00:47:04.660 in his face? Of course it is not only justified, but I would say it's your duty as a man to respond

00:47:09.360 that way. So there is a little bit of a nuance here. I don't think we have to take the position that

00:47:16.280 violence in response to a word is never okay. Any more than we would say that it's always okay.

00:47:24.440 Both positions are ridiculous. Um, and finally LKN says, Matt, I can't believe you're actually 0.97

00:47:31.580 buying this obviously staged stunt. No, listen, this goes to Occam's razor. All right. The simplest

00:47:38.300 explanation. What's the explanation that requires the least number of assumptions?

00:47:42.440 And no, it's not staged. Occam's razor would tell us that there are no assumptions we need to make

00:47:49.660 to just accept this incident at face value. The only assumption that we need is that

00:47:54.500 Will Smith is a somewhat deranged, egotistical cuckold. And he responded that way. That's all. 0.98

00:48:03.600 Um, but in order for it to be staged, you know, you have to believe so many things, including that

00:48:12.120 like they would, they would, they would come up with a stunt like this to completely overshadow all

00:48:19.280 of the political woke virtue signaling they did before this. So they put all that into the show

00:48:24.620 and then purposely overshadow it themselves. And then you have to believe that Will Smith and Chris

00:48:30.800 Rock, the two of the most famous people in America decided to go along with this stunt that makes

00:48:36.480 them both look horrible and that they are, they're continuing to play along with it. I mean, Will

00:48:41.860 Smith is going to suffer even though he's got people on the left defending him and everything.

00:48:46.520 There's no question that there's going to be serious career, um, consequences for Will Smith

00:48:52.200 because of this. His whole image is as this kind of like squeaky clean, nice guy thing. That's,

00:48:56.920 that's his, that's his bank ability to the extent that he is a bankable star. It's all,

00:49:01.040 it all rests on that. That's out the window now. So you're suggesting that for the sake of a,

00:49:06.100 of a skit on the Oscars to help with their ratings, he would sacrifice his own career,

00:49:12.720 overshadow his own Oscars win. I mean, he won an Oscar, his first Oscar. And all anyone's talking

00:49:18.820 about it is this. That makes no sense. It's, that is far more ridiculous than the actual incident

00:49:26.740 itself. That's one thing people that buy into conspiracy theories too readily. Uh, one thing 0.88

00:49:33.820 you notice about them is that they, they oftentimes have just no understanding of human nature.

00:49:38.780 You have to understand human nature and, and celebrities and what makes them tick and what

00:49:43.140 motivates them. They would never take part in something like this. Um, in that context,

00:49:50.240 they're way too self-important for that. All right, let's get now to the daily cancellation.

00:50:00.140 So I've warned you many times on this show, including recently about the pharmaceutical

00:50:04.380 and psychiatric industries and their mission, which they've embarked on together hand in hand

00:50:08.780 to methodically identify, categorize and medicalize every aspect of the human condition. Now this I

00:50:14.760 believe is one of the most consequential and catastrophic trends in modern life. It'd be

00:50:19.180 difficult to overstate the severity or significance of this problem. Life itself, what it means to be

00:50:26.120 human, to exist. This is all being redefined by megalomaniac psychiatrists and money-grubbing

00:50:33.740 pharmaceutical executives. They have totally altered our image of ourselves, of what qualifies

00:50:39.700 as normal human existence. And they've done it for money. And because they believe themselves to be

00:50:45.800 gods who are somehow qualified to make these kinds of changes to human nature. Now I've harped on this

00:50:50.940 point quite a bit recently. And as if to prove my point and justify the many cumulative hours I've

00:50:56.440 spent on it, the American Psychiatric Association has now officially declared that grief is a mental

00:51:02.460 illness. Yes, if you are grieving the loss of a loved one, you are mentally ill. But only if your 1.00

00:51:09.500 grief is prolonged, you see. Grief will heretofore be acceptable for a brief length of time. But if you

00:51:15.460 have excessive grief, grief which lasts longer than what is medically prescribed, you should consult a

00:51:20.140 doctor immediately. Now if it already disturbs you that we're talking about grief, the way that Viagra

00:51:24.840 commercials talk about erections, then you're paying attention, you know, because it should disturb you.

00:51:29.480 Yahoo has the news about the latest medical, or rather mental disorder to be added to a list of

00:51:35.100 300 others. Reading now it says, as of last week, prolonged grief disorder officially became a new

00:51:41.400 diagnosis in the latest edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. Despite

00:51:46.000 the nearly decade-long debate on whether grief should need medical treatment, the diagnosis became

00:51:51.320 official during a time when many Americans continue to experience ongoing disasters that have

00:51:55.320 caused death and suffering such as COVID-19. Now you may be wondering, isn't grief normal? Isn't it the most

00:52:02.580 human thing in the world to have grief? Isn't it an utterly essential, if painful, part of the human

00:52:08.780 experience? Isn't the thought of a world numbed to grief actually horrifying? Isn't it literally something

00:52:15.780 out of a brave new world? Well, yes, that's all true. But you see, the psychiatrists and drug

00:52:21.320 companies have decided that grief should only be allowed for a certain period of time. Beyond that

00:52:25.900 threshold, a threshold they have simply just invented out of thin air, it must be treated with

00:52:30.460 medication. So continuing. Characterized by incapacitating feelings of grief, prolonged grief

00:52:37.120 disorder happens when a person loses someone close to them, like a friend or family member, within at

00:52:41.820 least six months for children and adolescents, or within at least 12 months for adults, according to

00:52:45.820 the APA. Typically, the bereaved individual experiences intense yearning for or preoccupation with the

00:52:50.500 deceased person, so much so that their reaction to the loss preoccupies them almost every day for

00:52:56.180 at least a month. A month. Yes, the psychiatrist will allow you to feel grief for a month, just a

00:53:04.180 month, before you're considered sick in the head, mentally diseased. Lose your mother to breast cancer, 0.98

00:53:10.960 spouse dies in a car accident, child drowns in the pool. Well, you better be back to normal in 30 days

00:53:15.120 or else we're stuffing drugs down your throat. But why should 30 days be the cutoff? Well, because

00:53:20.800 as it's explained, grief beyond a month becomes, is a problem because it begins to interfere with

00:53:27.480 quote, social norms. Reading again, their bereavement is considered to last longer than social norms,

00:53:34.340 think five stages of grief, causing distress or problems functioning in important aspects of their

00:53:39.120 lives, such as socially or occupationally. Other symptoms of prolonged grief disorder include

00:53:43.680 identity disruption, feeling as if part of yourself has died, a marked sense of disbelief about the

00:53:49.520 death, avoidance of reminders that the person is dead, intense emotional pain, intense loneliness,

00:53:55.740 emotional numbness, or a feeling that life is meaningless, among others, according to the APA.

00:54:01.280 Now, I don't think I can fully describe how much I hate this. I cannot sufficiently capture the boiling

00:54:09.500 rage that I feel deep within my inner being when I think about what these lunatics are doing to 0.87

00:54:15.580 people. Though I'm sure my moral disgust towards the pharmaceutical industry and psychiatric community

00:54:21.700 is also a symptom of mental illness. I no doubt suffer from chronic pharmaceutical skepticism disorder.

00:54:28.780 If that's not in the DSM yet, it will be. And if you have any doubts about the motivation behind all of

00:54:34.000 this, the next paragraph should clear that up for you. It says, inclusion of prolonged grief disorder

00:54:39.080 in the DSM means that clinicians can now bill insurance companies for treating people for the

00:54:43.540 condition, reports the New York Times. Currently, clinical trials are testing the drug naltrexone,

00:54:49.400 which is a drug used to help treat addiction as a form of grief therapy. And according to the New York

00:54:53.840 Times, the development will likely set off a stream of pharmaceutical research on other potential

00:54:58.760 prescriptions. Oh, I'm sure it will. Would you look at that? What a coincidence.

00:55:04.000 The people involved in making up these disorders also happen to be in a position where they'll profit

00:55:08.640 to the tune of billions of dollars off of the disorders they've invented. Just a coincidence,

00:55:13.320 of course. Meanwhile, the APA put out a video explaining more about the disorder and the explanation

00:55:18.960 directly from the horse's mouth doesn't sound any better to me. Listen.

00:55:23.860 What makes this different from normal grieving is even though the symptoms appear very understandable,

00:55:30.100 yearning and pining and missing the person desperately. That seems pretty normal after

00:55:36.640 the loss of a loved one. But what we find is that those people who are really stuck and have intense

00:55:42.800 levels, even at the very beginning, very intense levels where they don't know who they are without

00:55:47.520 this person anymore. Those people, oftentimes, a small minority, about 4%, will not get better.

00:55:55.380 They'll just spend and eke out the rest of their existence missing this person and wanting to be

00:56:01.900 reunited with them. And that part is not helpful. It's not helpful to ignore the fact that some people

00:56:09.220 get stuck and could use some assistance and support in reintegrating into a life without this important

00:56:16.000 person who died. It's not helpful. Your grief is not helpful. Let's just make a couple points here.

00:56:24.560 First of all, nobody is disagreeing with the idea that people in grief need and deserve assistance

00:56:30.480 and support. Nobody has any problem with that. I mean, we've always treated grief that way.

00:56:35.640 There are support groups, counseling, all kinds of different resources available and which ought to

00:56:39.700 be available. And that's good. But listen to the way Nurse Ratched in the video is talking about grief. 0.90

00:56:45.300 She says it's not helpful. She speaks of normal grief as opposed to intense grief. She talks about grief as

00:56:52.940 a symptom, which says that it's a disease in which the goal is to get better in the way that you might

00:56:59.820 get better after a bad cold. This is all profoundly wrong. Here's the reality. Nobody, I don't care how

00:57:08.960 many letters they have in front of their name. Nobody is in a position to declare what sort of

00:57:14.420 grief is normal. There is no normal or right way to grieve. And even if you can look at all the grief

00:57:23.200 that all humans experience and somehow categorize it and average it out and come up with a baseline,

00:57:28.620 that doesn't mean that every person who experiences the loss of a loved one ought to be expected to now

00:57:32.320 stay at that baseline level. What kind of madness is that? Well, listen, we've discovered that on average,

00:57:37.440 most people grieve their dead fathers for this amount of time. So we'll need you to keep your

00:57:41.460 grief within those parameters too. Anything beyond that is just not helpful. The real mental sickness

00:57:47.720 here is in the deranged narcissist coming up with this stuff. Grief is not a sickness. It's not fun 0.98

00:57:54.040 either. It's painful. It can be devastating. I mean, it can ruin your life. Depending on who you lost and

00:58:01.200 how, it can certainly change the course of your life. And it's possible that the sadness that you

00:58:05.620 experience will stay with you forever for as long as you live. But just because this reality of life

00:58:10.220 is difficult, that doesn't mean it's an illness. That doesn't mean we need a drug for it. At a

00:58:16.380 certain point, our society needs to understand this basic concept. Not every difficult or painful

00:58:21.700 human experience can be solved with drugs. C.S. Lewis wrote a book called A Grief Observed after the

00:58:29.020 death of his wife. It's a beautiful reflection of grief, but given that he was still deeply grieving

00:58:33.960 his beloved even after 30 days had passed, very unhelpfully, the APA would now probably say that

00:58:39.480 the book is nothing but the ramblings of a mental patient, you know, a mentally ill guy. He should 0.98

00:58:44.540 have simply been given a heavy dose of psychotropic medication. That's it. But in any case, C.S. Lewis

00:58:50.240 wrote that in the book, he said that sometimes there is nothing to do with suffering, but suffer it.

00:58:56.460 Meaning not that a suffering person should be abandoned to their pain, but simply that some

00:59:00.240 painful feelings, the deepest ones especially, must be felt. They must be experienced. There's

00:59:07.640 nothing else to do with them. You could try to numb them into oblivion. That's not going to solve

00:59:11.400 anything. It might make it easier for you to reintegrate into society. It might be the best

00:59:17.480 thing for the economy and, you know, for your managers at work, but it's not the best thing for

00:59:23.200 you as a human being, as a person, which is what you are. After all, what is grief? Well, grief is

00:59:30.700 love deprived of its object. Somebody said somewhere that grief is love with no place to go.

00:59:38.020 You grieve because you loved and you still love. You can't make grief a mental illness without making

00:59:43.680 love itself a mental illness because grief is love. Now, God forbid, if I were to lose my wife or one of

00:59:50.460 my children, I would never get over it. I would never get better in the sense of being back to

00:59:55.900 normal, back to how I was before. I wouldn't want to. I wouldn't want to get back to a life where it's

01:00:00.380 like they never existed because I love them more than life itself. I would gladly die in their place 0.74

01:00:06.680 if that was an option. C.S. Lewis said that grief is like an amputation. You know, it does in fact feel 1.00

01:00:12.940 like a part of yourself is gone because it is. The psychiatrists now say that such a feeling is

01:00:18.900 abnormal. It's beyond average. It's aberrant. It's departing from the accepted standard.

01:00:25.100 But actually, such a feeling is simply human. It's how a person feels after losing someone they

01:00:30.480 love deeply. A drug can't solve grief unless they come up with a drug to raise the dead. Absent that,

01:00:37.140 the absence which causes the grief will remain forever for as long as you live. And so you can

01:00:41.420 either feel that absence and have the pain which comes with it, or you can numb it with a drug so that

01:00:46.320 your loved one is still gone and you still miss them, but you don't feel it anymore.

01:00:50.440 Now, I can understand the temptation to seek refuge in numbness, but that's not what we should be

01:00:55.560 encouraging people to do. Rather, we should be helping them to live with the pain to carry on in

01:01:01.760 spite of their grief and with their grief. The problem is that there simply isn't very much money

01:01:07.740 to be made in that endeavor. And that's all these people care about is the money. And that ultimately

01:01:13.720 is why the APA, the pharmaceutical industry, today are canceled. And we'll leave it there for today.

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Ep. 918 - How Words Became Violence

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