Ep. 969 - Journalist Tries To Debunk ‘What Is A Woman,’ Fails Miserably
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It finally happened. A brave left-wing journalist watched and reviewed What is a Woman, and they didn t like it. Also, the January 6th hearings were held last night, and nobody cares. More shocking and damning revelations about the law enforcement response in Uvalde, Texas. Plus, a former NBA star opens up about his quote-unquote "trans child." Parents sue Instagram for the damage that it did to their daughter. And Old Navy tries to virtue signal to the body positivity crowd, and it backfires in a major and hilarious way. We ll talk about all that and more today on the Matt Walsh Show.
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Today on the Matt Walsh Show, it finally happened. One brave left-wing journalist watched and reviewed
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what is a woman, and they didn't like it, shockingly. Also, the January 6th hearings were
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held last night, and nobody cares. I certainly don't. More shocking and damning revelations
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about the law enforcement response, or lack thereof, in Uvalde, Texas. Plus, a former NBA
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star opens up about his quote-unquote trans child. Parents sue Instagram for the damage that it did
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to their daughter. And our daily cancellation, Old Navy tries to virtue signal to the body
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positivity crowd, and it backfires in a major and hilarious way. We'll talk about all that
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Well, as you know, the left has tried its best to ignore my film, What is a Woman, even as it has
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dominated the conversation, become the most popular streaming movie in the country this month,
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according to Rotten Tomatoes. That's not to say they haven't criticized the documentary. They
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have. It's just that they've criticized it from a safe distance and without actually watching it
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first. But it's come to my attention that one person on the left and one left-wing publication
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did actually watch the movie. And just this one, as far as I know, or they claim to have watched it
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anyway. And I would be remiss if I did not acknowledge this brave soul and honor her for her efforts.
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But I can only give full credit if she watches the film and then engages with it and criticizes it
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honestly. And it's on this last step that the writer Aaron Rook of the publication LGBTQ Nation
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kind of tends to falter. Still, I think it could be worthwhile to go through this critique because
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it shows, once again, I think, just how totally flimsy and bereft of logic the other side of this
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discussion truly is. While trying to debunk the film, she only manages to prove most of the major
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points in the film, as we'll see. So Rook delivers her commentary in a review titled, quote,
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The Dangerous Deception of Matt Walsh's documentary, What is a Woman? We watched Matt Walsh's anti-trans
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propaganda, so you don't have to. Spoiler alert, it's full of transphobic lies.
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That sounds pretty bad. Full of transphobic lies. Now, before delving into what she claims are the
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myths propagated by the film, Rook writes, quote, The film is slickly produced, thank you, and includes
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interviews with some reputable sources. But Walsh seems more interested in exposing these efforts,
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these experts, than actually learning from them. He also allows his anti-transgender sources to spout
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off dangerous disinformation unchecked. Now, that's incorrect. I was not interested in exposing
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them, and I did not expose them. They exposed themselves, figuratively anyway. I mean, one guy
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in San Francisco literally exposed himself. But as for the so-called experts, they exposed the
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vacuousness of their own worldview. I didn't do anything except provide them a forum for this
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self-destruction, and that's all we did. That was the whole point. We just asked questions.
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She then proceeds to list the film's most malignant myths. Now, let's go through these.
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These are the myths propagated in my film. It says, myth, trans people who medically transition
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are at increased risk of suicide. And she explains, in an effort to portray gender transition as dangerous,
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the film includes the assertion that transition makes people suicidal. This claim is likely rooted
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in a misinterpretation of the research promoted by anti-transgender psychiatrist Dr. Paul McHugh
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in a 2014 Wall Street Journal op-ed. But the 2011 Swedish study he references was not designed to
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evaluate the efficacy of gender affirmation surgeries and its authors caution against such
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an interpretation. Trans journalist Kristen Williams interviewed lead author Dr. Cecilia Dejing,
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who expressed her frustration at the ways in which her research had been misrepresented.
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Quote, I've even seen professors use my work to support ridiculous claims. I've often had to
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respond myself by commenting on articles, speaking with journalists, and talking about this problem
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at conferences. People who misuse the study always omit the fact that the study clearly states that it's
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not an evaluation of gender dysphoria treatment. If we look at the literature, we find that several
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recent studies conclude that WPATH standards of care compliant treatment decrease gender dysphoria
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and improve mental health. Okay, now, the fact that the authors of the study, the Swedish study,
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were not trying to prove that gender affirmation surgery, quote unquote, big scare quotes around that,
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increases suicidality, and yet they proved it anyway, only makes the results more compelling,
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not less. That study, no matter what the authors of the study would prefer or how they'd like us to read
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the data, clearly shows that trans people are the most suicidal a decade after the surgery.
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Again, according to the author of the study, as this article points out, this one author,
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that's not what she was trying to prove. That's not what she set out to do, and yet she proved it.
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So, these are results that cut against the biases, apparently, of the people who conducted the study,
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which just makes the results all the more convincing. This is what the data shows, plain as day.
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And that's why in this attempt to debunk the, quote, myth, the writer never actually says outright
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that the claim about suicidality is wrong. She cautions against misinterpretation, but does not
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attempt to refute it because she can't. And that's because the data is clear. In fact, every study that's
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ever been done by anyone, anywhere, shows that trans people, pre-op, post-op, no-op, affirmed,
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unaffirmed, no matter what, have suicide rates significantly higher than the general population.
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This clearly indicates that there is something deeper going on inside the mind, that it's a
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problem in the mind, which is why surgeries can't fix it. And as this study shows, don't fix it.
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You know what else our friend Erin doesn't do? She doesn't provide any contrary evidence at all.
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This is a theme that will continue throughout the article. And it continues with any attempt to
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debunk my movie or to debunk any of the arguments that we make on the anti-gender ideology side.
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They never present any evidence to prove their assertion. She debunks the claims in my film
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without really refuting them and without providing any evidence to support her position.
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So kind of a rough start, but let's see if things maybe get a little bit better.
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Continuing, it says, quote, myth, gender-affirming surgeries are experimental and dangerous.
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She explains, some of the worst fear-mongering comes from transgender man, Scott Nugent,
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who is on a crusade against medical transition for youth. In the film, Nugent says that gender-affirming
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surgery comes with a 67% complication risk and shows the scar from his phalloplasty-related
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skin graft for dramatic effect. Phalloplasty, a complex procedure, is not without risk of
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complications. However, rates are much lower than the 67% Nugent claims and vary depending
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on the approach taken by the surgeon. A 2017 study found that rates of urethral complications
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were between 31.5% and 32.8%, depending on the approach. It's also not the most commonly
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sought transition-related surgery. Transmasculine individuals are much more likely to seek a double
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mastectomy, aka top surgery, which has a complication rate of about 12%. And many trans people don't
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seek any surgical interventions, which casts doubt on his claim that for every child convinced
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to transition, big pharma rakes in 1.3 million. Okay. Now, actually, the 67% figure may be vastly
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understating it, depending on what study you look at, and also depending on how you define
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complication. But let's just go with her figure. For the sake of argument, she's trying to debunk
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the myth, quote-unquote, that gender-affirming surgeries are experimental and dangerous.
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And she does so by favorably citing a study that says rates of complication are over 30%.
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That's extraordinarily high. 30% complication rate? She's taking the very low end of the complication
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rate, okay? The most generous study she could find, and she still must admit it's a rate at a minimum,
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at best, of over 30%. And this proves that it's not dangerous? How so? And how in the world could this
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prove that it's not experimental? She takes refuge in the fact that double mastectomies have only,
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only a 12% complication rate, still very high. But she ignores the fact that the primary
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complication with cutting off a woman's healthy breasts is that you've cut off a woman's healthy
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breasts. The complication is that you've removed a piece of her body, a piece of her, and you've done
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it on the theory that it will help her to be a man, even though she can never be a man, and chopping
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off her breasts will bring her no closer to manhood than she was when she still had them.
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The fact that there are allegedly only, quote unquote, additional complications in 12% of cases
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does not rescue you from this fact. It's the surgery itself that's the problem.
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Even if everything goes perfectly well when you're cutting the breasts off of a woman,
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you're still cutting her breasts off. And that's the issue. You are removing healthy body parts,
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and often you're doing this to young girls who would not even be allowed to legally get tattoos
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because they've been judged too young for it. Finally, it's insisted that many trans people
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don't get surgeries, which she says casts doubt on the claim that every child who transitions rakes in
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1.3 million for Big Pharma. Now, with this rebuttal, the writer is simply pretending, I guess,
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that hormone pills and puberty blockers don't exist. Because obviously, when we're talking about
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the money that Big Pharma makes off of all of this, we're primarily talking about the pills
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and the injections. But okay, none of that exists apparently. Okay. Incredible. Now,
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that concludes basically the closest thing to an attempt at a real rebuttal that you'll find in
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the article, though she does continue listing myths while the debunking efforts get lazier and lazier as
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she goes along. She addresses the myth in the film that, quote, real transgender people are rare.
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And she does this by pointing to a UCLA study that claims 0.6% of the population is trans. Now,
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that would still qualify as rare by any definition of the word rare that I've ever heard, 0.6%.
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But she then notes that a recent Pew study found that 5% of young people identify as trans.
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But that doesn't refute anything we say in the film. In fact, we claim in the film that trans
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identification is skyrocketing among young people. She's agreeing with us, not refuting us. That's our
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point. Okay. So again, using the numbers presented, 0.6% general population. Fine. That's still
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insanely high, but fine. What 0.6%? 5% for people under 30. How in the world do you explain that?
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Well, our point is that this astronomical rise is due to social contagions and indoctrination.
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She makes no attempt to address that. Next, she tries to debunk my claim that children can't choose
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their own gender. And she does that by ensuring us that, in fact, it's, quote, widely accepted by
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pediatric professionals that children can choose their genders. That's it. It's widely accepted. So
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move on. Now, it's true. It is widely accepted. And one of the main points of our film is to reveal
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that this wide acceptance is not rooted in any coherent underlying logic. Like, I totally agree that
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it's widely accepted. That's one of the reasons we made the movie. But what we're trying to discover
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is why is it so widely accepted? And what we discovered is that it's not widely accepted based
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on any kind of rational, logical basis, unless you want to talk about profit motive as a rational,
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logical basis. Finally, she seeks to debunk the myth, quote, unquote, that transgender identities are a
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modern Western invention. And she claims that on this topic, quote, Walsh hasn't done his homework.
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Well, I literally went to Africa. I mean, it's hard to do more homework than that on something like
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this. The writer, on the other hand, did much more extensive research by Googling it for five
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seconds. And from her Googling, she learned about Native American two-spirit identities and the
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Ahidra in India. And she says that these are examples of non-Western trans identities.
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The problem is that the two-spirit designation was invented by LGBT activists in America in the 90s.
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So it is itself a modern Western invention. Okay, the Comanche on the Great Plains weren't going
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around calling themselves two-spirit and transgender. It didn't exist. As for the alleged variation in
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India, the groups she refers to are not traditionally seen as trans in the way that we use the term,
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this is a spiritual concept, often referring to eunuchs who undergo castration rituals.
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This is not the same as the belief that men can actually be women. Okay, so this is a really
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important point. To prove that transgenderism is not uniquely modern and Western, you would have to find
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non-Western cultures where they believe men can actually literally be women and women can literally
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be men. Not spiritually or figuratively or performatively, but literally. You'd have to find
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somewhere that believes a pregnant person can be a man, an actual man. And you'd have to prove that
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this culture had this idea, came up with it on its own, and that it wasn't introduced to them by
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Westerners. Now, you won't find that because it doesn't exist. I'll just make it easy for you.
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Not going to find it. It doesn't exist. Just as you won't find any actual rebuttals in this rebuttal
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or in any other rebuttal of what is a woman. But she did watch the movie at least. Next time,
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she should probably watch it with her eyes open and the earplugs out. She might actually learn something.
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was last night and I just don't care at all. I mean, I'm so bored by this story. I had a whole
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thing here. I have articles. I was going to, I really don't care. I'm not even going to talk
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about it. I, I, this, this story is a, it's an affront to me. I think as a, as a news commentator,
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as someone who has to, I have to make my living talking about the news and current events and the
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way they keep cycling back to January 6th. And I'm supposed to keep finding things to say about it.
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I got nothing else to say about it. I have nothing else to say. It happened. Uh, I wish it shouldn't
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have happened. It was a bad thing. You know, it was, it was stupid. It was a very stupid thing
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to go rushing into the Capitol, taking selfies at Nancy Pelosi's desk. Very, very stupid. Um,
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that's it. That's really all there is to say about it. Um, and I, I certainly am not interested
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in hearing these lawmakers reliving their trauma, talking about how traumatized they are. It's just,
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it's so I'm bored. I'm bored to death by it. I really am. And I think everybody else is too.
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There's just, there's no, there's no interest in this. I mean, they, they put this thing on prime
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time intentionally, you know, cause they'd done the hearings before they've done. How many hearings
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have they done on this, on this stupid thing already? They've done many hearings and a lot of
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times they're doing them, you know, during the day and nobody's watching, no one cares, no one's
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talking about it. And so then they thought, you know what, let's, let's wait till everyone's home
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from work and we'll put it on prime time, prime time viewing. And then people will care. And still
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no one cares, especially me. So moving on, here's something I do care about. Uh, police officers,
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this is from daily wire police officers waited outside Robb elementary school for more than an
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hour, despite being armed with knowledge that there were still children trapped inside with the
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gunman still alive and possibly wounded. According to an article published yesterday,
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detailing an investigation undertaken by the New York times into the widely panned police response
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to the tragic shooting in Uvalde, Texas, body camera footage and documentation suggests that
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the initial claims made by law enforcement were false. Uvalde school district, top cop Pedro
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Arrandondo, who was in charge at the scene of the shooting reported that he was unaware students
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were dialing 9-1-1 from inside the classroom. One even taking a phone from her deceased teacher
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in order to do so, but the times report suggests otherwise quote, heavily armed officers delayed
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confronting a gunman in, uh, in Uvalde, Texas for more than an hour, despite supervisors at the scene
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being told that some trapped with him in two elementary classrooms were in need of medical treatment.
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And this is according to new, uh, video footage. So they straight up lied. Okay. They were told
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that there are, that there are still people alive in this classroom, people who need medical treatment
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desperately, and they still waited an hour. Uh, instead of the documents show they waited for
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protective equipment to lower the risk to law enforcement officers. So it might seem a lot of
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this is, it might seem like the things that we already knew, but these are, um, now we have actual
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evidence. I mean, it seemed almost immediately that something, uh, that the story we were told by
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law enforcement was not true. And then we started getting, we, you know, we started seeing videos of
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parents outside the school desperately wanting to go in. We see the cops kind of standing around
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and the information's trickling in and then it trickles in, in a way that allows them to try to
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massage the story in a certain way to make them to, to, um, you know, mitigate their own fault here.
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But now with the body camera footage, 911, 911 records, it's a hundred percent clear
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that the, this lunatic was in the classroom with children. Children were still alive in that classroom.
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Um, he continued shooting during the course of that hour, executing these, these kids. Um,
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others were laying there needing medical attention. How many died because they weren't getting medical
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attention in the first hour? We don't know that yet. Maybe eventually we'll find that out.
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And now we know that they, they were standing outside largely because they were waiting for
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protective equipment so that they didn't get hurt going in there. This is the, uh, this is the biggest
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law enforcement scandal of all time. I think I can't think of anything bigger than this.
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And I, I, this is just for the sake of, uh, obviously for the sake of justice, but also for the sake of
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civilized society, you know, so we can stave off the, the chaos and anarchy that we're already seeing
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in so many cities. Uh, if we want to, if we don't want that to get a lot worse, then the people
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responsible for this need to not just be fired, but put in prison. I mean, you need to start
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arresting people. The officers that were there on the scene waiting outside, they should all be under
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arrest. And the police, the, the law enforcement official who was in charge there lying about it
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should all be under arrest. I mean, this is, this is necessary because if you don't do that,
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then it's just going to be impossible for people to have any trust in law enforcement. I mean, in order,
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in order to maintain or, or restore any sort of trust in our institutions, including law enforcement,
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you need to hold people accountable in a situation like this.
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All right. So we told you about, uh, moving on to this, we told you about Redskins coach,
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Jack Del Rio, who tweeted something yesterday, a couple of days ago, saying that the BLM riots were
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worse than January 6th, which they were. Uh, and then he doubled down in a press conference and,
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but then he, then he folded. And as, as I learned live on the air yesterday, very disappointed to
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learn. I was, I was, I was trying to give him credit as one of the very few guys in a situation
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like this says something, people are upset. Then he does a press conference. He doubles down in the
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press conference. Very rarely happens. And the thing is, I don't even care what the situation is,
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what you said. In this case, it happens that he said something that was true. And I agree with,
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but even if, even if he hadn't, I don't even care what it is. You say something people are
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upset. And then you double down. I have respect for that. But then, uh, shortly after doubling
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down, he decides to fold and apologize, apologize to all the people that were hurt by his tweet,
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you know, because there are a lot of people out there who were deeply hurt because Jack Del Rio,
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almost nobody, unless you're, unless you're an avid football fan, you know, you have no idea who Jack
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Del Rio is. And if you are an avid football fan, you've hurt, you know who he is, but you certainly
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don't, there's, there's no opinion he could offer that's going to cause any emotional or physical
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pain to you. But he apologized to the people that he hurt. And, um, the question is, will that apology
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save him? And we already know the answer to that. So here's Yahoo Sports. Derek Johnson,
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the president of the NAACP called for the resignation or dismissal of Washington commander's
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defensive coordinator, Jack Del Rio for his Wednesday comments about January 6th attack on the U.S.
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Capitol. He says it's time for Jack Del Rio to resign or be terminated. His comments could not
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have been more offensive and ignorant. The January 6th insurrection, insurrection and attempted coup was
00:24:38.540
far more than a dustup. Each day we learn more and more on just how close our democracy came to
00:24:43.140
autocracy. Downplaying the insurrection by comparing it to nationwide protests, which are in response to
00:24:48.200
a public lynching is twisted. You can't coach a majority black team while turning your back on the
00:24:53.240
black community. It's time for you to pack up and step off the field. So the apology was, it's not
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that, okay, he had an opinion, he expressed it. And then a day later, he, he reinforces that opinion,
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doubles down on it. And then a couple hours later, he's apologizing. Did he realize that this opinion
00:25:13.760
that he's held this entire time in the, in a couple hours after that press conference, did he realize he was
00:25:18.800
wrong in the opinion? He was incorrect? No. So he knows that he's right about what he said, but he apologized
00:25:25.480
anyway to avoid exactly this, but it doesn't matter because it doesn't matter if you apologize. It makes no,
00:25:31.720
it actually makes no difference whatsoever. It is not going to have any effect on the backlash. The people who
00:25:38.240
want to fire you for your opinion are still going to want you fired, whether you apologize or not. You could, you could
00:25:44.320
drop to your knees in tears and beg them, beg them tearfully to accept your apology and to let you keep
00:25:53.900
your job. It will not make a difference. I wanted to play this clip also. ESPN, of course, they're very
00:26:01.440
offended about this and they're talking a lot about it. This, this gives them a chance, you know, to do what
00:26:05.200
they love to do, which is to talk about anything but sports. So see if you can make heads or tails of
00:26:09.540
this, here's Ryan Clark, a former NFL player and now NFL analyst. And here he is giving his take on,
00:26:17.680
on this controversy. For me, the insensitive, insensitivity in which he approached it.
00:26:23.760
When you're talking about these protests, if you're speaking after Jacob Blake, there are people that
00:26:27.820
lost their lives. Kyle Rittenhouse killed two people during that protest. There were officers out there
00:26:33.620
with AR-15s or officers out there with assault rifles policing the people who were protesting.
00:26:39.320
And so now when you look at a person in Jack Del Rio that has to sit in the room in Washington that
00:26:44.580
is 85% African-American and he, and you have to know as a player, he is either not aware or doesn't
00:26:52.160
care enough about the people he works with or the people or communities they come from to be smart
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enough not to say this. My problem and issue is when you're talking about what Jack Del Rio is saying,
00:27:03.760
he's saying this, that one wrong is better because of the people involved. Now you can think that's
00:27:10.020
because those people think like him or feel like him or support the same things that he supports.
00:27:15.020
Or you can think that's because those people look like him. Many of the people in the rooms Jack
00:27:22.400
I just, most of that's basically incoherent. And these people, like sports analysts, not all of them,
00:27:30.540
many of them are so stupid. And he, I watched this whole clip of him and he just rambles. Like, what are
00:27:38.980
you even trying to say? What I did pick up on though, is that the insensitivity of the harmful language.
00:27:46.080
This is a form of football. This guy was on, I think he played defense for the Pittsburgh Steelers.
00:27:50.660
Okay. This guy's playing defense. He's, he's, he's hitting people for a living.
00:27:56.680
Maybe that's part of the reason why he can't string together a coherent sentence anymore, but
00:28:00.000
this is what he does for a living. And now he, and now he's on TV. What the hell happened
00:28:03.940
to a, I know it's a standard complaint these days, but now you have football players.
00:28:11.480
He was being insensitive in his language. His opinion was harmful. My God, man, have some self-respect.
00:28:20.660
Um, and how does this have anything to do with race? What's racist about it? Well,
00:28:25.120
of course there's no way to explain that whatsoever. Um, this says his, his opinion that he expressed
00:28:30.820
had nothing to do with, with race, obviously, but somehow NAACP is chiming in. So if you're
00:28:40.760
I mean, that's, you're, you're linking. So to, to oppose rioting has happened in 2020
00:28:49.220
in cities across the country. That is an anti-black opinion.
00:28:56.080
If anything, that seems like the rather kind of a racist claim to make. Um, we'll stay in
00:29:01.680
the, kind of in the sports world here, or at least former sports stars. This is also from
00:29:05.240
Daily Wire. It says, former NBA star Dwayne Wade told CNN that he fears for his transgender child,
00:29:10.140
Zaya, and disagrees with legislation that would make gender affirming procedures on children illegal.
00:29:15.800
Now, Dwayne Wade is married to Gabrielle Union, who is a Hollywood actress. And they have,
00:29:24.940
it was a, because this is a boy who at a very young age, they declared is, is actually a girl.
00:29:31.120
Um, and like so many of these parents, you know, it's bad enough that they're transitioning their
00:29:38.020
child, but also, of course, they have to tell the whole world about it, which, and this is
00:29:43.620
intentional, but also has the effect of cementing that child in that identity, that false identity.
00:29:51.580
Because once you've taken this little kid who doesn't know any better, uh, and then, and you're
00:29:56.060
parading him around to the entire world, say, look at this. Well, he can't back away from it now.
00:30:04.520
You've made him into a, into an activist. You've made him into a leader of a movement.
00:30:13.200
Anyway, here he is on CNN talking a little bit about this, about his, his fears, you know, as,
00:30:18.520
as the parent of a quote, trans child, he's deeply afraid. Let's find out why.
00:30:22.340
I mean, just overnight, Louisiana enacted an anti-trans sports ban. It's not the first state
00:30:28.280
to do so. The governor there, um, called it discriminatory, distressing. And I wonder what
00:30:34.480
your reaction is and your message to lawmakers in states where these bans are, are happening.
00:30:40.440
You know, you're, you, you guys are going through this in your own family and I wonder what you think.
00:30:44.720
Yeah. I, I, to me, it's a, it's a, it's a joke. I mean, this is our life. We live this.
00:30:50.440
And so when you're out there making rules and if you're not experiencing this, if you're not
00:30:54.880
living this and you're just out there signing away and making laws, that's not right. That's
00:30:58.800
a joke. Like come and live, come and live a day in my world with my daughter, come and see how it
00:31:03.180
is to walk through this world as, as her. Right. Like, like, like I just think like we, we losing,
00:31:09.160
we, we losing our humane, like we, we losing our, the human side of us. Um, and it's, it's,
00:31:15.980
it's as sad as it is, as, as blessed as my daughter is to have parents who, who can support
00:31:20.560
her. I'm still afraid every moment she leaves our house and not just because of gun, gun
00:31:25.440
violence, but because of the way that people perceive her in this world. Right.
00:31:32.320
Yeah. Well, Dwayne, you know, I, we, we, we can't really walk in the shoes of, of your
00:31:38.420
daughter or understand what it's like to be your daughter because your daughter doesn't
00:31:44.720
exist. That's not your daughter. That's your son. Okay. That's a boy. And he has, you
00:31:53.060
know, something else. And this is something that, uh, Scott Nugent said in our film, what
00:31:57.480
is a woman that I thought was like everything else in that interview is very well put and
00:32:03.020
very powerful. She said that you don't have the right to do this. You do not have the right
00:32:07.520
to do this to your child. You do not have the right to transition your child. You don't
00:32:10.260
have that right. You don't have that right. Okay. You don't have the right to make that
00:32:15.480
decision for your child. And don't sit here and tell me that your child made that decision
00:32:20.340
because your child did not. Children can't make decisions like that. They can't consent
00:32:26.140
to that. They literally cannot. They don't have the abilities to do it, which is why I'm pretty
00:32:35.020
sure that if your son wanted to, you mentioned gun violence, should he be allowed to go buy
00:32:44.120
a gun at this age? Should it be legal for him to go buy a gun? Oh no. Why not? Okay.
00:32:52.580
Why shouldn't 12 year olds be allowed to buy guns? Explain to me. Explain to me why a 12 year
00:32:56.400
old can't buy a gun. See, you can't explain it. You cannot explain it without, without saying
00:33:03.200
something about how, about their, their lack of psychological and neurological development.
00:33:12.580
Okay. Whatever explanation you give for why 12 year olds shouldn't be allowed to buy guns,
00:33:15.500
it's going to have something to do with the fact that they're not fully developed in their brains.
00:33:19.600
They can't be trusted. They're, they're immature. They're reckless. They don't think far enough
00:33:24.660
into the future. That's your answer, right? That's your reason. Yeah. Well, that's also why they
00:33:32.140
can't choose their own genders, of course. Um, let's see. Okay. So this one, I just saw this
00:33:40.320
number right before we went on the air. So this is from the website bounding into comics. And
00:33:45.760
they mentioned something about, uh, what is a woman here? They say, so letterboxd is a social
00:33:51.420
platform that allegedly allows users to post and share their opinions about movies, whether new or old.
00:33:56.540
However, social media users noticed that something was radically different about the review list for
00:34:01.260
what is a woman. Namely, there are no reviews. Letterboxd has hidden. Okay. Listen to this
00:34:08.340
letter, letterboxd. Now this is, again, this is a site, uh, I guess kind of like Rotten Tomatoes,
00:34:13.800
except in this site, it's a special emphasis on, you know, users rating the film. So letterboxd has
00:34:23.140
hidden all reviews and ratings of the movie from public view. If you're not registered with
00:34:28.080
letterboxd, all reviews of the movie are completely hidden from site. And the rating bar that's
00:34:32.420
displayed to showcase the average score of a film has been removed. Unregistered viewers are unable to
00:34:37.620
see any reviews for the film, both negative and positive. If you're registered with letterboxd,
00:34:42.360
the site only allows you to view the reviews of people in your friends list who've already reviewed
00:34:46.660
the movie. If you go to the review screen as a registered user, it shows no reviews for the film,
00:34:51.700
despite the fact that over 1700 registered users have watched the movie as of this writing.
00:34:56.840
Um, on the reviews of page for what is a woman, you're only allowed to view the star ratings people
00:35:02.080
have given the film, but you're not allowed to read the reviews of the movie unless you go directly
00:35:05.440
to the user's page and read the review. Every other movie on the site has the listed ratings page,
00:35:09.620
recent reviews and popular reviews shown without restriction. This is just, it's just, I mean,
00:35:16.320
it's remarkable, isn't it? They are so terrified of this movie. They really are. I, I don't think,
00:35:22.240
I know I'm kind of biased and I'm, I'm, I'm promoting the movie, but has any movie in recent
00:35:28.620
history made them this afraid? Like, have they ever, has this ever happened to any other movie?
00:35:34.880
They're going this far out of their way to make sure that you can't talk about it.
00:35:38.880
censoring the review, the user reviews of the movie. That's how afraid they are of this film.
00:35:48.000
It is really incredible. And if you haven't watched the movie yet and subscribe to what to
00:35:53.200
daily wire, uh, and, or go to what, what is woman.com and subscribe to watch the movie.
00:35:56.860
This is all the more reason why you ought to do that. Okay. One of the story I really wanted to
00:35:59.780
mention here, this is from the post-millennial, um, in a, uh, an article written by Ashley St.
00:36:06.380
Claire. It says a family in California is suing Meta. That's the, now the parent company for
00:36:11.920
Facebook for their daughter's eating disorder and self-harm following her addiction to Meta's
00:36:16.900
platforms. The family of Alexis Spence is looking to hold the social media giant accountable for
00:36:21.960
severe mental health struggles they claim are a result of Meta's deliberate efforts to get preteens
00:36:26.700
addicted to their products. One group out of Seattle, the social media victims law center has taken
00:36:31.640
on Alexis, Alexis Spence's case to sue Meta on behalf of the, uh, young girl for allowing her
00:36:37.240
and countless other children to access products, which Meta knows are addictive, harmful, and
00:36:40.820
dangerous. Um, the family says that their once confident and happy daughter, Alexis, began
00:36:46.720
developing signs of depression and anxiety shortly after secretly opening an Instagram account
00:36:50.100
at just 11 years old. Through Instagram, she was exposed to a plethora of dangerous content,
00:36:54.900
including sexually explicit messages and photos from adults, as well as solicitation of sexual acts.
00:36:59.180
At 12 years old, Spence was drawing pictures of herself next to her phone with a thought bubble
00:37:04.900
above her head, saying things like kill yourself and stupid fat worthless. Spence continued to have
00:37:10.900
a severe decline in her mental health, resulting in a life-threatening eating disorder and suicidal
00:37:15.020
ideations, all of which her family attributes to social media addiction and the content Instagram
00:37:20.180
exposed her to. Now, uh, a couple of things here. I am fully on board for holding these social
00:37:29.160
media platforms accountable, especially for the damage they're doing to kids. Fully on board for
00:37:33.620
that. And they are knowingly, willingly, intentionally damaging kids in this way. And they're trying to
00:37:40.400
get kids addicted to this stuff. They know how bad it is for them. And so anything that can be done to
00:37:44.800
hold them accountable, I think is great. Sue them, whatever you can do. Fully on board for that.
00:37:50.600
Absolutely. But then there's the other part of this. There's the other piece of the puzzle,
00:37:55.880
the other part of the story, which is that this is an 11 year old girl who has access to Instagram.
00:38:03.860
Now it does say, it's not clear in the article how she accessed Instagram. It says that she opened,
00:38:10.000
okay, she opened the, uh, the account secretly. Her parents didn't know about it. So it's not as
00:38:15.940
though this isn't as bad as parents who even know that they're very young kids are on social media and
00:38:20.360
they're okay with it. But then you have to ask, well, how did she get on Instagram?
00:38:26.580
And I think we can assume based on context here that she got on Instagram because she was given a phone.
00:38:34.180
Um, now it's possible she could have opened an Instagram account some other way. You know,
00:38:38.780
maybe she used a friend's phone. She used a computer at school, something like that. If there's some
00:38:43.700
kind of family desktop in the house, maybe she went there. So we don't know exactly, but it seems like,
00:38:48.220
especially given the fact that she's drawing pictures, you know, with her, she's drawing
00:38:51.780
pictures of her sitting, sitting next to her phone, which tells me that she has a phone. Okay. So if,
00:38:56.440
if that's correct, then these parents gave their daughter a phone at 11 years old with open access
00:39:06.140
to the internet, open enough that she could open an Instagram account. Like they, they didn't even
00:39:13.420
block the social media platforms, which at a minimum, if you're going to give your kid a phone with
00:39:17.940
internet access, you can go in and block certain websites, block any website you want. So it seems
00:39:25.060
they didn't even do that, but a better option instead of giving your kid a phone and then
00:39:31.560
blocking websites, better option is just don't give her the phone. And if you really feel like
00:39:38.180
your child needs a phone for safety, because this is, this is one of the excuses parents always give
00:39:42.240
that I need a way to get in touch with my, with my kid. Now, of course, for most of human history,
00:39:48.860
parents did not have a way to immediately get in touch with their kid every second of the day
00:39:54.160
by calling them on some device that came around in their pockets and kids, you know, most kids
00:39:59.240
survive just fine without it. But if you feel like you need that, then you can give your kid a phone
00:40:03.960
that has no internet capability whatsoever. They do make phones like that.
00:40:07.160
So you really got to go out of your way and invest the money in one of these devices that's going to
00:40:16.300
do such incredible damage to your child. So I'm of, I'm, I'm a little bit split on this. I'm of two
00:40:22.760
minds. On one hand, yes, hold the social media platforms accountable. On the other hand, the parents
00:40:29.520
here are potentially looking to rake in millions of dollars in a lawsuit, yet they're the ones who gave
00:40:35.520
a phone to their kid. Okay. The blame starts with the parents. And then you go to the social media
00:40:44.240
platforms. And this is not like 50% blame. It's, it's not, we're dividing up blame. It's a hundred
00:40:51.280
percent blame goes to everybody. The social media platforms, big tech companies, they're 100% to
00:40:57.180
blame for the things that they do. But you as a parent are 100% to blame for the decisions that you
00:41:03.000
make, including giving your kid a phone. It's just inexcusable. There is no good reason for it.
00:41:10.380
And I, I, I say this somewhat rhetorically because I can understand, but in a certain sense, I can't
00:41:16.740
understand why parents continue to do this, knowing the damage that it does. Here's what we know.
00:41:25.280
If you give your 11 year old a smartphone with internet access, there's no positive result.
00:41:32.660
Okay. Nothing good's going to come of that. It's not going to enhance their lives in any way. It's not
00:41:37.260
going to make them more fulfilled, more happy. It's not going to make them better people. There's
00:41:42.380
zero chance that that happens. It will do damage. It's just a matter of how much damage will it do.
00:41:48.760
And so you give them the phone with internet access, hoping that it's not as much damage as
00:41:52.960
it could be. So now you're just playing damage control at best. A lot of parents don't even
00:41:58.800
do damage control. They just give the phone, internet access, and then say, oh, go ahead,
00:42:02.060
go up to your room. Kids sitting up in their room hours a day. It's, it's, it's nighttime. Your kid
00:42:07.440
went to bed. They've got a phone with them. You have no idea what they're doing. You, you know,
00:42:13.260
this, this world of insanity and filth that's opened up to them and they've got their phone
00:42:20.040
in their beds with them at night and you're, well, you just go to sleep. Not, no, I wouldn't
00:42:24.380
be able to sleep at night if I knew that my child had access to this kind of stuff and
00:42:29.480
I have no idea what he's doing. I wouldn't be able to, I wouldn't be able to sleep. I would
00:42:35.160
say to these parents, literally, how do you sleep at night? I don't, I don't know how you
00:42:38.220
do it. I wouldn't be able to. Do you spend any time on the internet? You know,
00:42:43.240
what's out there. You know how easy it is to access. Oh, but if we don't give our kid
00:42:49.360
a phone with internet access, then there'll be, there'll be weird. You know, it'll be weird
00:42:54.240
because all their friends have it. So you're the parent. Yeah, it will seem weird and their,
00:43:02.560
their friends will think they're weird. So what, why does that matter to you? You're the parent.
00:43:07.660
Yeah. Yeah. It's okay for a kid to, to be so invested in that and, and, and conforming
00:43:13.560
and, and the thing that they fear most of all is that they'll be seen as weird by their
00:43:17.780
peers. So I understand that your kid as a, as a child who's immersed in this world and
00:43:23.060
can't see past the nose on her face that for her, that's the worst thing in the world to
00:43:28.060
be judged by her peers. But you're the adult, you're supposed to know better. You know that
00:43:34.000
she's going to grow up and, and she's going to gradually leave school behind and none of this
00:43:41.020
is going to matter anymore. It's a, it's unbelievable to me. Stop giving your phones to
00:43:49.180
your kids, please. I beg you all, parents. Let's get now to our daily cancellation.
00:43:53.360
Who's bringing shopping carts back to the rightful place. We're becoming saints here in the sweet
00:44:04.420
baby gang. Death from above says, Matt, you misgendered Natalie Wynn. You referred to Natalie
00:44:12.720
as her when in fact, Natalie is a him, which would add more context to his position on drag queens and
00:44:17.420
kids. Uh, I, you know, I was just going based on the name. Always a risky move these days. I had no
00:44:21.880
idea. Um, but thanks for the correction. Mel says, I thought you were unfair to professor Dave. He was
00:44:27.720
a lot more objective than you make him seem. He even says in his video that males have an advantage
00:44:32.620
over biological females in sports. Yeah, he does say that in the video. Now in my response to so-called
00:44:38.860
professor Dave, and I'm starting very much to suspect that he's not a real professor though,
00:44:42.840
who knows? I mean, there are plenty of real professors as we discovered who are idiots, but,
00:44:47.200
uh, I was responding to his criticisms of the right. And then he does have a little portion at the end
00:44:55.540
where he criticizes the left on the gender issue. Mostly criticizes them essentially for not being
00:45:00.300
liberal enough, but he does mention, he does say this, yeah, that, um, he admits that biological males
00:45:06.520
have advantages over biological females in sports. Now, am I supposed to give him a, what am I, give him a pat
00:45:11.180
on the back, give him a cookie because he said that? You have no choice but to admit that. There's no way
00:45:15.340
around it. You have to admit it. But where does he go from there? He says in the video that, uh,
00:45:21.820
biological males have advantages over females, but he does not say that they should therefore be
00:45:28.000
excluded from female sports. And he, uh, he, in his cop-out is that, well, I don't care about sports, so
00:45:32.800
it's not up to me what, what team they play on. What an absolute, so you know that it's unfair, but you're
00:45:40.580
still unwilling to say that they shouldn't be allowed to do it.
00:45:46.840
Well, that doesn't, uh, that doesn't make it more objective. That just makes him more of an
00:45:49.700
intellectual coward. I did him a favor by not mentioning that.
00:45:54.620
All right, Jake says, Matt, I'm curious about your vision for what is a woman. What do you
00:45:59.360
ultimately hope it achieves? You know what I hope for, for the film? I hope that it makes itself
00:46:05.260
irrelevant. That's my ultimate hope. My ultimate hope is that what is a woman will be totally
00:46:10.100
irrelevant at some point in the future. Um, I wanted to get to a point where people see this
00:46:15.040
movie and they're, it's like a snapshot of a bygone era. It's like an anthropological study for
00:46:22.420
them. It's a time capsule where they can look back and see it and say, what the hell was happening
00:46:27.080
back then? That's what I hope. Um, I hope for a time when nothing in the film is remotely relevant
00:46:35.720
to anybody because we don't live in a totally insane society anymore.
00:46:40.660
Uh, Rose says, I watched your documentary, Matt, and you interviewed sane psychiatrists and therapists
00:46:47.400
as a therapist. I need to know, does that give you some hope that some of us are fighting back
00:46:50.820
and not going with the insanity to poison and destroy kids? It definitely, it gives me some
00:46:54.680
hope that there are some sane, good psychiatrists and therapists out there. Um, but unfortunately,
00:47:00.640
as you know, Rose, there's not enough. And even to the, even from the sane ones that I talked to,
00:47:08.040
like they all told me that, um, that the deck is stacked against them. And just by talking about
00:47:15.180
this publicly, they've offered themselves up to be sort of exiled from the industry,
00:47:21.840
which is good. It takes a lot of courage to speak out, but it just shows you that how deep the
00:47:28.200
rot is within these institutions. So I have some hope in some individual people in these institutions
00:47:35.280
who have a lot of courage and are willing to say the truth. Uh, but institutionally, I have like no
00:47:40.600
hope for the institutions. Let's see. Sam says, Kelly J. Keene reviewed your film and called herself
00:47:48.560
a female-ist rather than a feminist because she's interested in defending females. What do you think of
00:47:53.280
that? I know you're not a fan of feminism. Uh, female-ist is a interesting, you know, interesting
00:48:00.300
offshoot, interesting variation. I just don't think you need an ist. See, I don't, I don't have a,
00:48:04.140
I don't feel the need for any ist or ism when it comes to this. Um, when it comes to my defense of
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biological reality, I guess I am now a biologist because I'm talking about this, but I don't really
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think I need an ist or ism or a label to attach to that. It's just, uh, like Don Sucker, the Star Wars
00:48:21.900
shop owner said in the film. It's just common sense. Common sense-ism. How about that? Maybe
00:48:27.220
we'll go with that. Um, and Andrew says, I have another criticism of Professor Dave. If gender
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can only be understood through complex neurobiology, why are we allowing kids to decide their own gender
00:48:40.260
instead of only allowing post-graduate college students? Uh, yes, exactly. That's one of the
00:48:46.920
many, I mean, here's one of the problems when you're trying to respond to the gender ideologues.
00:48:51.260
And I, you know, and I try to be as thorough as possible, pick it apart piece by piece,
00:48:55.380
but everything they say is just, is, is layered in so much contradiction and incoherence that,
00:49:02.660
um, you're always going to, you know, you're going to miss a few points and that's one of them.
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Very good point though. Well, as, uh, as you've heard, uh, what is a woman is a huge success.
00:49:11.140
It's something that, I mean, it's, it's certainly exceeded my own expectations for what would happen
00:49:15.800
with this film and it's only a week and a half into it. So first of all, thank you for that. We
00:49:19.180
couldn't do it without you guys, without, without our subscribers. And also, um, this weekend is
00:49:24.760
the pride parade in DC. So we've got some, uh, we've got some, some things in store. We had
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skywriters at the women's March and this weekend we're going to have a mobile truck showing clips
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from what is a woman at the pride parade in DC. I'm very excited about that because I think there
00:49:37.800
are probably a lot of people at the pride parade who haven't had a chance to see the movie yet.
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And so we want to make sure that they see it. It's just very nice of us. I mean,
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we're kind of giving this away for free and you know, in the, in the process, we're changing the
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gender ideology conversation and fighting back in the culture, which has never been more important
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And if you've already seen it, then make sure to tell your friends to watch as well,
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Today for our daily cancellation, it begins with the age old wisdom first uttered, I believe,
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in a Greek epic poem that one who goes woke shall thus soon, as we know, go broke. Old Navy
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was the latest company to learn this ancient truism with their failed experiment in plus-sized
00:50:37.260
clothing. Sorry, not plus-sized clothing. This is inclusive sizing is what they call it. That's the
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new PC term of art because clothing must be inclusive. It must include skinny people,
00:50:47.760
normal-sized people, fat people, morbidly obese people, people for whom morbid obesity is a weight
00:50:53.660
loss goal. Like everyone must be included. A clothing company cannot really show off its virtue
00:50:58.640
and its commitment to inclusivity unless it sells pants that could double as boat covers. Okay. And,
00:51:04.180
and even if nobody can actually fit in those pants, and so nobody's going to buy them, you could still
00:51:09.400
show off the pants, fly them like an enormous flag to signal your wokeness to the world. It's a good way
00:51:15.320
to earn applause. It's just not a great way to earn money. And as Old Navy discovered, you kind of need
00:51:20.560
to earn money if you want your business to survive. Here's the Wall Street Journal. It says,
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Old Navy set out to make clothes shopping more inclusive for women of all body types.
00:51:28.980
It ended up with too many extra small and extra large items and too few of the rest. A mismatch
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that frustrated customers and contributed to fail, to falling sales and a management shakeup.
00:51:40.180
That's what paused there for a second. Um, why just women? See, we, so they, they, they did the
00:51:47.120
inclusive sizing for women. Well, the Old Navy, it's been a while since I've been in Old Navy, but they do
00:51:52.400
sell men's clothing too, don't they? I know they at least sell cargo shorts for men. So we note once again,
00:51:58.460
how the body positivity stuff focus, focuses almost entirely on women. This is why there are
00:52:03.960
no plus size male models. Have you noticed that nobody is ever using men in their fatness is
00:52:09.900
beautiful campaigns. When's the last time you saw a dude with a huge pot belly on a, on a billboard
00:52:15.580
with the words, love yourself or be confident at any size or whatever else. Never. Unless it's a
00:52:22.500
pregnant man. Okay. Then you might see it, but otherwise you don't see it. And that's because it doesn't
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exist. That's because nobody cares actually, if men hate themselves. Indeed, men are supposed to
00:52:31.960
hate themselves unless they're gay or they belong to some other victim group. Um, left-wing
00:52:36.120
victimology means that nothing they say can ever be applied consistently. That's the point. There are
00:52:41.140
no universal principles in leftist thought, which is why most men are excluded from most of this.
00:52:46.260
But back to the article, it says, billed as one of the biggest launches in the brand's history,
00:52:50.640
Old Navy in August began offering all women's clothing sizes in size zero to 30 and X extra
00:52:57.880
small to four X, making it one of the first retailers to play such a big bet on inclusive
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sizing. The big, big bet. I don't know if that was a pun. It did away with separate petite and
00:53:08.820
plus size departments and grouped all sizes of each style together. Mannequins and varying body shapes
00:53:14.360
displayed the new wares. All sizes of a style were priced the same, which was a break with an
00:53:20.360
industry practice in which retailers charge more for larger sizes. This is the largest integrated
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launch in the brand's history and an important growth driver for the business for years to come,
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according to the, uh, Gap chief executive, Sonia Singal. Now, um, just a note here, plus size
00:53:37.040
clothing costs more because it requires more material to make. And clothing is separated into
00:53:42.940
different sections because it's easier for customers to find what they're looking for that way.
00:53:46.820
And generally clothing stores will have much fewer options in the three X and four X sizes because
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there are far fewer people who fit those sizes. Now I'm no business guru. Okay. Nobody's inviting
00:53:57.840
me to be an investor on shark tank or anything, but I do at least know that if you create more
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expensive products, charge less for them, make the customer experience more frustrating
00:54:08.300
intentionally, make it harder for customers to find what they want. And you intentionally stock
00:54:13.320
more products that fewer of your customers want to buy, you will lose money. And it turns out that
00:54:19.400
old Navy did, uh, going back to the article, it says soon after, however, old Navy sales started to
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nosedive last month, Nancy green, the chain's president and chief executive stepped down after
00:54:28.800
less than two years running the brand gap worn that sales for the spring quarter would fall short
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of expectations in part due to the troubles at old Navy, the extended sizes were the culprit.
00:54:37.140
According to current and former employees stores were selling out of the middle sizes and were stuck
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with piles of very small and very large sizes. The employee said to clear out the excess goods,
00:54:46.460
old Navy put a large quantity of women's clothing on sale this spring, which contrasts with other
00:54:50.880
retailers that have held the line on discounting because of strong demand and supply chain challenges.
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Now, ultimately old Navy announced that it would be removing the inclusive sizes from 75 of its stores.
00:55:02.440
And this has enraged body positivity advocates who as always, um, are not going to give you points
00:55:08.540
for trying old Navy tried to appease them, lost millions of dollars, and then had to backtrack.
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But the body positivity folks demand that old Navy fully drive itself into bankruptcy
00:55:19.540
because that's what would make them feel better about themselves.
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For example, one fat liberation quote unquote advocate on Tik TOK actually checked to see how
00:55:29.180
many old Navy stores no longer sell plus size clothing. And in the process, she uncovered a major scandal.
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Watch this. Remember the statement that old Navy keeps saying that they're only cutting back plus
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sizes in 75 stores in the U S I may have done something bad. This is what it looks like. If
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the plus size are carried there, see how it says shop plus women's here and see how this one has nothing.
00:55:54.380
I made an Excel spreadsheet and I'm going through each state and you can see there's a good number
00:56:03.700
that don't carry plus sizes. So far, I have only gotten through six states, but there's a total of
00:56:11.520
a hundred that do not carry plus sizes more than 75. It's going to take me a while, but should I keep
00:56:20.060
going? Sure. Why not? You got nothing, nothing better to do. Apparently, uh, continue making your
00:56:25.720
spreadsheet. Maybe, um, you know, consider hopping on a treadmill while you're tabulating the results.
00:56:31.240
I don't say that to be rude. Okay. There's an important point, important point here. This person is going
00:56:36.300
through all of this effort to find stores with plus size clothing, spending hours researching every old Navy
00:56:43.000
location in the country, making spreadsheets, filming Tik TOK videos. She's devoted her life to fat
00:56:48.420
liberation. She's doing all of this when she could simply go on a diet and none of this would be an
00:56:53.620
issue. See the real way to achieve fat liberation is to eat a salad. Now, of course you can't even point
00:57:00.240
this out anymore without sounding like a bully. That's because we consider it bullying to do or say
00:57:05.560
anything that might cause another person to engage in any sort of honest self-criticism.
00:57:09.220
Well, depending on who the other person is, as noted, no principle is universal in our culture,
00:57:14.180
but if the person's in a favored class, you must not ever cause them to look critically at
00:57:18.620
themselves or at their own behavior. You can be guilty of bullying in this regard, even if you're
00:57:24.040
not trying. So for example, this is pretty incredible. Listen to this. Um, Sydney Sweeney is an
00:57:30.080
actress, I think, and she showed up to the MTV awards this past weekend because apparently the MTV
00:57:35.020
awards happened this past weekend. And like so many young women at so many MTV award ceremonies
00:57:41.060
before her, Sweeney was dressed in clothing that barely qualifies as clothing at all. She was scantily
00:57:45.680
clad in other words, and now she's being criticized, criticized largely by young leftists on social
00:57:51.540
media for her immodest attire. They have a problem with her lack of modesty, not because they care about
00:57:59.300
modesty per se, but because her physical appearance makes them feel bad about themselves.
00:58:05.040
So here's the Yahoo article about the controversy. It says, although Sweeney pulls it off beautifully,
00:58:10.560
reluctance from onlookers to praise the outfit has less to do with styling than it does the messaging
00:58:15.060
about beauty and body standards. Quote, no shade to beautiful Sydney, but I'm sad we're seeing more
00:58:21.160
of this ultra low rise waist and ultra flat tummy look again. According to one person on Instagram,
00:58:26.120
someone else said, so coveted yet unachievable for so many of us with different builds.
00:58:31.680
Someone else said, watch body positivity go down the drain once the low ride fashion takes over
00:58:36.920
again. And someone else said, low rise never again. Young generations, learn from the past.
00:58:42.800
Don't ruin your body. Similar sentiments have been expressed by body acceptance advocates who have
00:58:48.260
watched the micro miniskirts comeback. The trend is among others from the early 2000s that have seen a
00:58:52.980
resurgence. However, it is seemingly the most exclusive. Quote, this set is created with this very thin
00:58:59.440
body in mind. It's not created for plus. And so that in and of itself is frustrating. According to some
00:59:05.980
co-founder of something called power of plus, quote, a lot of it too feels very glorifying of a body type that
00:59:12.740
we've been working against actively for many years now. Wait, hold on a second. We've been working
00:59:20.060
against a body type. I thought we're supposed to accept all body types. See, they're criticizing not
00:59:26.540
just the outfit, but the body type, the body itself. They don't have a problem with the way the clothing
00:59:32.320
looks. They certainly don't have a problem with women wearing skimpy outfits. If that was Lizzo
00:59:37.120
dressed like that at the awards ceremony, which she probably was if she was there, they'd be tripping
00:59:42.520
over themselves to extol her beauty and boldness. I mean, Lizzo could, and I think she's actually done
00:59:47.440
this, just walk down the red carpet completely nude. And they would be saying, this is the
00:59:52.220
greatest thing they've ever seen in their lives. No, they have a problem when it comes to this woman
00:59:58.180
with that kind of body, namely an in-shape healthy body, because it makes them feel bad about their
01:00:04.160
bodies. And anything that makes them feel bad is bad. Even some other person's actual entire body
01:00:11.700
can be bad if looking at it makes them feel bad. This, by the way, is the reason why left-wing
01:00:18.160
trans activists have such disdain for women. Because actual women remind them of what they'll
01:00:23.800
never be, and that makes them feel bad. And so women are bad, and they're morally entitled to
01:00:29.060
treat them that way. This is the madness that inevitably results from emphasizing self-perception
01:00:35.100
over reality. When we declare that affirmation is necessary for emotional well-being, and that
01:00:41.340
emotional well-being is just as important, if not more important, than physical well-being,
01:00:45.880
this is where we end up. Soon they're going to be strapping skinny women onto gurneys and force-feeding
01:00:51.680
them Cinnabons just to make sure that everyone is equally fat and unhealthy, so that none of us ever
01:00:56.240
have to feel bad about being fat and unhealthy ourselves. This is the mentality that Old Navy tried to
01:01:01.680
cater to, and they paid the expected price. That's why they are today canceled. And that'll do it for
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us today and for the week. Talk to you on Monday. Godspeed.
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