The Matt Walsh Show - April 13, 2024


Is This Story Real or Fake？


Episode Stats


Length

6 minutes

Words per minute

219.31116

Word count

1,490

Sentence count

95

Harmful content

Misogyny

7

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Summary

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Amanda Marcotte's article about men punching random women in NYC is a desperate last gasp of male rage fueling MAGA you are fake news, and it's written and published without a hint of irony. She's a feminist writer for Salon.

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00:00:00.000 Today we cancel Amanda Marcotte, feminist writer for Salon, and I'll admit canceling Amanda Marcotte is perhaps a little cheap.
00:00:07.720 It's like canceling stubbed toes or indigestion or head lice. A little too obvious.
00:00:12.260 In any case, Marcotte has earned her spot in this segment today by publishing an article for Salon 0.99
00:00:16.640 that is so crushingly stupid, so fantastically ridiculous and dishonest that it somehow, against all odds,
00:00:21.560 manages to lower the bar for feminist writers and Salon, a bar that was already sitting approximately 10,000 feet below sea level.
00:00:28.160 Here's the headline.
00:00:28.920 Men punching random women in NYC. A desperate last gasp of the male rage fueling MAGA.
00:00:35.760 You are fake news.
00:00:36.920 This is another one of those headlines that I saw circulating on social media, and I had to stop to verify that it was real.
00:00:41.940 At first, I honestly thought that it wasn't.
00:00:43.800 It's the kind of thing that a right-wing meme account might create as a joke, and if they had, it wouldn't have even been very funny.
00:00:50.400 But this is not a meme. It's an actual article, written and published without a hint of irony.
00:00:54.220 Quote, men are punching random women on the streets of New York City.
00:00:56.840 As usual with these kinds of diffuse and chaotic stories, there's much that is unknown, including how often this is happening,
00:01:02.720 how many people are involved, or whether it's at all coordinated.
00:01:06.220 Women report being assaulted by men of different races and ages.
00:01:09.720 Well, actually, no, there's not a lot of racial diversity in the men who are committing these assaults.
00:01:13.980 We'll return to that in a moment.
00:01:14.980 Still, across the different stories, a couple of similarities pop out.
00:01:18.620 The alleged victims are mostly young and pretty, and most of them say they were minding their own business when they were attacked.
00:01:23.620 Some were on their phones or reading on tablets.
00:01:25.520 Others were speaking to friends or daydreaming.
00:01:27.480 Whatever they were doing, they were just living their lives, and that, it seems, is what enraged their assailants.
00:01:31.440 While it rarely turns to violence, most women who spend much time walking around in public have experience with men
00:01:36.300 who berate them for paying attention to something other than the man who is now, often out of nowhere, spewing invectives.
00:01:41.960 In our modern era, that often manifests with men who are infuriated at women for looking at their phones.
00:01:46.620 But I'm old enough to remember when I would get yelled at for reading books in public.
00:01:49.960 A quick aside here, that didn't happen.
00:01:52.180 Nobody yelled at her for reading a book in public.
00:01:54.340 Much of what she said in that paragraph is exaggerated or entirely invented.
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00:02:53.180 Let's get to the crux of the issue from Amanda's hallucinatory perspective.
00:02:57.180 Quote,
00:02:57.340 Whatever the excuse the angry man concocts, the impetus is always the same.
00:03:01.720 The eyes of a woman are directed at someone or something that is not him and he is indignant over it.
00:03:06.560 These stories resonate as well because the nation is having a moment of increasingly unhinged male fury at women for daring to have lives that are centered around something other than catering to a man's every whim.
00:03:16.260 Unleashed by Donald Trump and the MAGA movement, there's an upswell of loud male entitlements shouting at us from every corner.
00:03:22.160 We see it in the male fans of Jordan Peterson who clamor to his events to hear him croak out a just-so story about how lobsters justify their faith in male dominance.
00:03:30.640 Or the rise of trad wives online who make a living pretending they're unemployed and housebound. 1.00
00:03:35.360 Or Ben Shapiro setting fire to a Barbie doll because he can't stand that a blockbuster comedy starring a woman is about anything but her quest for male affection.
00:03:43.060 The rise of MAGA is fueled by misogyny, but it's less a backlash than a tantrum.
00:03:47.380 A rage explosion by men who want to restore their dominance but fear that this time women won't buckle to their bullying.
00:03:53.200 This rash of men punching women in New York City captures this moment in a dark way.
00:03:57.540 Oh, that's just lazy writing.
00:03:59.880 Now before we get to the content of this screed such as it is, the first thing we notice is just how tired and lame and dull the writing is.
00:04:06.340 Amanda Marcotte has been writing essentially the same article over and over again for 20 years.
00:04:10.140 Now of course, 20 years ago, she wasn't talking about Donald Trump or MAGA, but the basic themes and concepts are the same.
00:04:15.580 And there really is only one theme and one concept, which is that men are misogynists and various bad things are happening because of our misogyny.
00:04:21.860 And this is my biggest problem with people like Amanda Marcotte.
00:04:23.920 It's not that everything they say is wrong, and that's a given.
00:04:26.460 It's that they can't even manage to be vaguely interesting while being wrong.
00:04:31.040 I'm so bored.
00:04:32.340 And as for the claim that she's making, obviously, violent crime in New York City has nothing to do with Trump or MAGA.
00:04:38.200 The men assaulting random, you know, committing random assaults in Manhattan.
00:04:41.440 These are not Trump voters.
00:04:43.240 These are not Jordan Peterson acolytes.
00:04:45.900 They're not listening to Ben Shapiro's podcast.
00:04:48.320 They've never heard the term trad wife, most likely.
00:04:51.620 And these are almost exclusively black men.
00:04:54.780 Oh, hell no.
00:04:55.840 Oh, hell no.
00:04:57.040 Oh, hell yes.
00:04:57.760 And Democrat voters, if they vote at all, which they probably don't, they are repeat violent offenders, career criminals who are on the street, able to attack and victimize random women because of policies that Amanda Marcotte supports.
00:05:09.940 In fact, not only is this not a MAGA phenomenon, but if you go somewhere that is really MAGA country, a predominantly conservative place where you're likely to see American flags and red hats and all the rest of it, in those places, women aren't getting brutalized as they walk down the street. 0.99
00:05:24.540 These attacks on women are supposedly the result of right-wing male rage, and yet they're only happening in blue cities.
00:05:30.460 Go to pretty much any neighborhood with a majority of Trump voters, and any woman will be perfectly safe walking down the street at any time of day or night. 0.99
00:05:37.820 Amanda hates white Republican males more than anything.
00:05:40.120 She blames us for all the violence against women. 1.00
00:05:42.240 And yet, you never hear about a rash of violent attacks on women in white Republican areas.
00:05:47.700 So she's obviously wrong about who is responsible for this violence.
00:05:50.960 She's also wrong about the why.
00:05:52.460 Why?
00:05:53.000 Why?
00:05:53.400 Why?
00:05:53.600 Why?
00:05:53.960 Why would they do this?
00:05:55.120 These attackers aren't going after these women because they feel entitled to their time, or they're mad at the women for looking at their phones, or because they're filled with some kind of patriarchal sense of entitlement.
00:06:05.120 They do it because they can, and they'll keep doing it for as long as they can, until we make it so that they can't.
00:06:11.140 And we don't do that by printing, you know, scolding lectures in salon.
00:06:15.640 Now, what you do is you do that by locking them in prison forever.
00:06:18.480 But Amanda Marcotte doesn't want that. 1.00
00:06:19.900 She's an advocate for criminal justice reform, quote-unquote, which means putting these violent predators back on the street and keeping them there.
00:06:26.460 You've got to be f***ing kidding.
00:06:28.960 I mean, she doesn't care if the violent attacks continue. 0.99
00:06:31.100 At least it gives her something to write about, even if she's writing the same article over and over and over again, and somehow still missing the point every single time.
00:06:39.080 And that is why she is today, I must say, canceled.
00:06:43.060 Maybe night were the stars and you.
00:06:47.620 Maybe night were the stars and you.