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00:00:29.440 We recently did a show about how the feminization of society and everything in society is ruining the country, which is obviously a fact, and it has been a catastrophe, especially the loss of traditionally male spaces and institutions like the Boy Scouts, for example.

00:00:46.180 But as you might expect, not everybody agreed with our take, so we're going to take some time and go through some comments on the subject, see what we come up with. 0.54

00:00:54.180 Jay Blum writes, I have no problem with girls on my grandson's hockey or soccer team. Just don't 0.74

00:00:59.280 establish quotas. If they're good enough to play, fine. I would object if each team was required to

00:01:03.920 have a certain number of girls on the team. Yeah, I still disagree. I mean, at the highest level,

00:01:07.960 sure. I mean, theoretically, women can play in the NFL. There's no law saying they can't play. 1.00

00:01:14.140 They're not banned. They couldn't be. And hey, yeah, if one of these days an actual wonder woman,

00:01:20.380 an actual superhuman woman comes along and has the ability through her own athletic merits to 0.77

00:01:28.000 get a spot on an NFL roster, then so be it. That's never going to happen, ever, but fine.

00:01:36.420 At the younger levels, though, I think you do need to maintain the gender segregation. 0.83

00:01:41.680 and uh yeah i do it is also a problem at at the at the youngest ages where all these sports leagues

00:01:50.720 are um you know girls and boys because sure there are six-year-old girls who can play

00:01:56.280 soccer about as well as any of the six-year-old boys can because at that age they're all terrible

00:02:01.900 okay and anyone who's seen six-year-olds play any sport knows they're all bad and no one knows what

00:02:07.840 the rules are and it's total mayhem, absolute chaos. No one's even keeping track of the score

00:02:13.460 anymore in these leagues. And, you know, fine. It's like, yeah, girls can do that just as well

00:02:20.640 as boys can, you know, very often. But I still think it's important for boys, even at a young

00:02:28.200 age, perhaps especially at a young age, to have their own spaces, just like it's important for

00:02:33.880 girls. I mean, this idea that like girls and boys have to do everything together. They can't have

00:02:38.980 their own. This is what we're talking about. They can't have their own spaces. There can't be

00:02:43.220 anything that's just for boys. If you, you know, you've got a six, seven, eight year old boy,

00:02:48.000 your son is that age. What, what can he do? Like, where can you take him that it's, it's just for

00:02:54.640 boys? And the answer is nowhere. Nothing like that exists anywhere anymore. And is that, can

00:03:01.220 anyone actually argue that's good? Like no one is saying that every single thing should be

00:03:07.140 segregated by sex, but does that mean that nothing should be ever? That there should not be anything

00:03:14.140 where a boy can go and it's just boys and he has that kind of camaraderie just with boys?

00:03:21.400 Well, that's the situation now. Night Cycle tweeted, says, and when are you going to hold

00:03:26.860 women accountable for it instead of being a tradcon simp blaming men. Right-wingers are no

00:03:33.140 better than the left when it comes to holding women accountable for the crap going on in society. 1.00

00:03:37.080 Mothers and female teachers are the ones doing this. Yeah, this is funny. Of course, I have 0.75

00:03:41.620 absolutely no problem blaming women when women deserve the blame. In fact, in the very show this 1.00

00:03:46.620 person's responding to, I did that. I repeatedly lay the blame at the feet of feminists and women 1.00

00:03:51.980 who can't mind their business and just won't allow men to have their own thing.

00:03:56.380 I do that in the very episode where he accuses me of not doing it.

00:04:00.440 I mean, this is the internet.

00:04:01.320 This is like 80% of my comments.

00:04:03.180 It's like, why didn't you do this thing that you just did?

00:04:07.720 Why didn't you say the thing that you said in the thing I'm responding to?

00:04:13.380 Now, I don't think that when it comes to the feminization of everything, 1.00

00:04:16.200 the blame rests entirely with women. 0.99

00:04:18.900 Obviously it doesn't.

00:04:19.660 And also rests with men who have allowed this to happen and have facilitated it and submitted to it.

00:04:25.300 So there's blame to go around. 0.99

00:04:28.120 So the problem for someone like this guy is, yeah, they're noting how men are blamed for things more often than women are, and that's true.

00:04:41.620 But often for like this guy, the solution is, well, no, men shouldn't be blamed for anything ever.

00:04:46.400 Everything's about women.

00:04:47.220 and so now men are what just helpless weakling victims have no agency whatsoever

00:04:54.020 the total emasculation of men you think that's the solution

00:04:59.560 so there's blame to go around i'm not going to hesitate to give women their share why would i

00:05:05.660 you think i'm worried about upsetting feminists you think i'm worried about that

00:05:10.780 it's so funny when i hear this from these manosphere guys

00:05:14.780 You just don't want to piss off the feminists

00:05:17.660 Son, I've been pissing off feminists 0.99

00:05:20.780 Longer than you've been alive 1.00

00:05:21.960 I don't know how old you are

00:05:23.400 But sit down, son

00:05:25.060 Like pipe down, okay

00:05:26.200 You have no idea what you're talking about

00:05:28.720 Oh, you know, Matt Walsh 1.00

00:05:30.340 He doesn't want to upset those feminists 1.00

00:05:32.180 It's just a funny thing about the way things work these days 1.00

00:05:37.900 Where every group out there

00:05:39.160 Every faction

00:05:40.220 Has its own weird narrative

00:05:42.800 and when it comes to my interaction with them they have their own weird narrative about me

00:05:48.400 so i always hear this stuff yeah well why don't you ever say fill in the blank and then the blank

00:05:55.380 is something that i actually say all the time invariably people have these narratives where

00:06:00.940 i avoid subjects that not only do i not actually avoid but i talk about so constantly that fans

00:06:07.620 of the show are tired of hearing about it. So anyway, thanks for the feedback though,

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00:07:04.920 America and Girl Scouts. The Girl Scouts have drifted away from merit-based ranks and minimum

00:07:10.080 requirements. Half the badges are training kids towards liberal activism. My kid wants survival

00:07:16.120 skills and camping, so she does a girl-only Boy Scout troop. Well, the solution there is to fix

00:07:22.340 Girl Scouts, right? I mean, you're pointing out a problem with Girl Scouts. The solution is to fix

00:07:26.880 Girl Scouts, not to destroy Boy Scouts. And the fact that there is a girl-only Boy Scout troop,

00:07:32.560 I didn't, I didn't, this is how naive I am. I didn't know it was that bad. I didn't know that existed. A girl, a Boy Scout troop that's only girls? Really? I guess I shouldn't be surprised. That's exactly the problem I'm talking about.

00:07:45.580 but uh why not form a girl only girl scout troop of girls who want to do the things you're talking

00:07:54.980 about what about that and and by the way boy scouts don't really do much of that sort of thing

00:08:04.560 either and this was a problem going back to when i was a kid i i joined a boy scout troop

00:08:09.540 when i was i don't remember how old and i was in it for about a year we spent nearly the entire

00:08:15.340 year in a church basement doing arts and crafts at the direction of our scout leader, who was

00:08:21.720 someone's grandmother. I remember one of our big events was a cake baking contest. I'm not making

00:08:28.760 that up. One of our big events, we had to bake a cake. And I distinctly remember it because all the

00:08:36.920 other boys brought in, and it wasn't just boys, it was girls too, brought in cakes that clearly

00:08:43.040 their parents made these cakes were way too good like there's no way you made that and I was the

00:08:48.840 one kid like actual and this is how it was for me in school in general where you get these projects

00:08:53.280 and then every other kid they go home and their parents just do it for them and then they come

00:08:57.560 back with the poster board it's just like beautiful it's the most beautiful display ever

00:09:02.280 and I've got this rinky-dink thing because I actually had to do it and uh and anyway

00:09:10.340 but that's so it's kind of been that way with boy scouts for a while and i i know as you get

00:09:16.160 to the older ages maybe it's a little bit different but um so some of this kind of some

00:09:21.320 of this is the feminization of girl scout of rather boy scouts it's been it's been going on

00:09:25.680 for a while and at this point we for my son my son i'd mentioned before he loves

00:09:32.900 outdoor wilderness survival is his obsession he's obsessed with it which is great

00:09:40.340 and you'd think he'd be a perfect candidate for Boy Scouts.

00:09:44.560 You'd think this is made for him.

00:09:48.660 But it's not because he doesn't want to do the thing.

00:09:51.800 He doesn't want to sit for hours in a church basement.

00:09:55.760 We're going to do arts and crafts.

00:09:57.140 We're going to play these fun activities,

00:09:58.840 which is so much of what Boy Scouts actually is.

00:10:01.440 He doesn't want to do that.

00:10:02.680 He wants to be out in the woods.

00:10:03.860 That's all he wants to do.

00:10:04.840 And so what we do is we have him in wilderness.

00:10:08.560 we had to go and find wilderness survival camps where he goes outside and he camps and he learns

00:10:15.860 how to make fires and he learns how to field dress and he does all that. And now he's way

00:10:20.740 more advanced in those areas than your average Boy Scout his age is, certainly, because that's

00:10:27.720 what he wants to learn. He doesn't want to sit around in an auditorium or a church basement and

00:10:32.580 do busy work or make arts and crafts. He wants to be in the woods. And if that's all your kid wants,

00:10:39.800 then Boy Scouts really isn't the way to go either because there's surprisingly little of it.

00:10:45.520 And even when they do have some of that stuff, it's still, it's not really like wilderness

00:10:49.620 survival. It's a lot of everyone's sitting around the campfire. We're doing it. It's like, you're

00:10:54.540 not actually learning how to survive in the woods. And that's what I think a lot of boys want. And

00:11:00.200 then they're, they're disillusioned by Boy Scouts because they get there and it's like, that's not

00:11:04.160 this at all. With my son, it's like, I want to learn how to, I want to learn how to go in the

00:11:09.480 woods and survive there in real life. That's what I want to know. Boy Scouts is not going to teach

00:11:14.600 you that. Um, at least not, you know, maybe when you get up, you know, you get into Eagle Scouts

00:11:19.780 or something you do, but it takes a while. Flame Column writes, this, according to my son, is why

00:11:24.960 ice fishing was invented. Men were desperate to find any opportunity to get away from women and 0.99

00:11:29.260 figured out that women don't want to sit in a tent on a frozen lake and stare for hours at a 0.97

00:11:33.940 hole in the ice. That's a good theory. The problem is I don't want to do that either. It turns out 1.00

00:11:39.700 I tried ice fishing. I, as you know, I love to fish. So I certainly, the appeal of fishing in

00:11:48.960 and of itself, I totally get, but ice fishing is terrible. I don't know what I expected,

00:11:56.580 But I went out, I did it one time this past winter. I did it one time and I don't know what I expected, but it turns out that, yeah, ice fishing is just sitting on the ice and it's really cold because there's ice and you're on a lake.

00:12:11.880 So there's not much of a windbreak. So the wind is gushing or not gushing, blowing, gusting is the word I'm searching for. You're getting right in the face with like 40 mile per hour wind chill. And you're sitting there over this hole in the ice.

00:12:32.400 that's what you do for hours just sitting there freezing cold small hole in the ice and you're

00:12:40.340 just sitting there staring at it i don't know i couldn't get into it uh bullishly optimistic

00:12:47.040 rights girl scout seems like child labor approximately 800 million dollars in cookie

00:12:51.700 sales each year is that real 800 million dollars is that actually true and maybe 90 cents per six

00:12:59.140 dollar uh box goes to the girls i don't think i'd let my daughter join i don't know if it's

00:13:04.720 child labor but i do know that girl scout cookies are massively overrated we should be honest about

00:13:09.620 that too and besides girls should be learning how to make cookies that's my thing if you're

00:13:17.440 gonna have girl scouts they should learn how to make cookies not sell them in a box my my 12 0.98

00:13:22.400 year old daughter can make cookies that trounce Girl Scout cookies, okay? It's actually a big

00:13:29.820 problem. It's a huge problem in my life that I have someone in the house who loves to bake

00:13:35.180 desserts, chocolate cookies in particular, and will make them on command at any time.

00:13:43.500 She's so excited about it. I could wake her up at 1130 at night and say, hey, you want to make

00:13:49.880 some cookies and she would bound out of bed to go make them. And it's a problem because I can't

00:13:56.900 control myself when it comes to baked goods, if I'm honest about it. I like to think I have pretty

00:14:02.620 good self-control, but when she makes a batch of chocolate chip cookies, I will eat them all

00:14:08.680 if I'm not stopped. It's a problem. I tell my kids very seriously, very somberly after she

00:14:17.040 makes cookies, I tell them, listen, go in that kitchen and each of you eat two and do

00:14:25.040 it now. You got about three minutes because by the time I come in there, I will eat all

00:14:30.900 of the rest of them. It's going to be shameful. It's going to be a shameful display. I will

00:14:37.160 scarf them all down. And my son will say, well, can't you leave some for us? No, son.

00:14:44.280 I can't. I'm sorry. Go now. Go while you can. Go now. Anyway, so you don't need Girl Scouts for

00:14:53.680 that. You really don't need Girl Scouts at all. The whole concept of Scout, that's part of the

00:15:00.160 problem. Scouting, the concept of it is that it's really a boy thing. And Girl Scouts only exist

00:15:07.960 just to make things equal and even. 0.88

00:15:12.360 That's the only reason it exists.

00:15:14.920 And this is the whole issue that we're discussing.

00:15:18.440 Is that all these things that were specifically for boys

00:15:21.200 because they appeal to boys,

00:15:22.860 they appeal to the masculine nature of boys,

00:15:26.400 and that's why the thing exists. 0.60

00:15:28.500 And then, you know, the feminists came along and said, 1.00

00:15:30.880 well, we want the same thing. 1.00

00:15:34.760 And then we said, well, but you don't even want that.

00:15:37.500 Like, this is what Boy Scouts, you don't even want that.

00:15:40.600 And then when we look at what Girl Scouts has become, it's clear they don't actually want scouting.

00:15:44.640 They don't really do scouting.

00:15:46.700 And the Boy Scouts don't even do it anymore either because they're trying to appeal to girls.

00:15:49.520 But they don't even do that. 1.00

00:15:53.240 And the feminists said, yeah, we don't want it, but we should have it anyway. 1.00

00:15:56.560 It's only fair. 0.73

00:16:00.820 And no one ever said to the feminists, you know what? 1.00

00:16:02.940 Life's not fair.

00:16:03.640 okay this is one of the most important messages you can give your kids

00:16:08.800 so i tell my kids all the time it's a cliche every parent has said it apparently their parents never

00:16:14.860 did one of the most important lessons life's not fair that's why i don't do this with my kids

00:16:20.960 once you start playing this game with your kids where everything has to be equal oh they got

00:16:27.900 something so i should have it too oh he got a piece of cake and it's a little bit bigger than

00:16:31.700 my piece of cake.

00:16:34.440 In my house, we don't play that game.

00:16:39.240 When one kid comes,

00:16:40.140 they got to do that and I didn't.

00:16:42.140 Okay.

00:16:43.420 Well, it's not fair.

00:16:44.360 Yeah, probably not.

00:16:46.600 Maybe next time you'll get to do something

00:16:48.000 that they don't do or not.

00:16:49.560 It's just the way it goes.

00:16:52.500 Can I get a little bit more of the cake?

00:16:53.920 No, you can't.

00:16:54.380 You just get a smaller piece of cake this time.

00:16:56.020 That's just the way it is.

00:16:57.200 That's just the way it's going to be.

00:16:58.560 That's the way life is.

00:17:02.440 That should be the lesson.

00:17:04.000 So in conclusion, let the boys have their thing. 1.00

00:17:06.980 Let men have their spaces, ladies. 1.00

00:17:10.940 Just shut up and go away. 1.00

00:17:14.020 Just kidding, but not really.

00:17:16.940 Okay, that's it.

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The Matt Walsh Show - April 16, 2026

Ladies, Let Men Have Their Spaces

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