Matt Walsh Reacts To Viral TikToks - Feat. Dylan Mulvaney
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Summary
Dylan Mulvaney raps about being a girl, and TikTok makes you feel validated by it. Also, teachers need to stop putting the burden of validation on the kids they re supposed to be teaching and start putting it on themselves.
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We're going to take a look at some viral videos and TikTok videos the kids are passing around on the internet this week.
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These are videos that have been sent to me by my producers, specifically McKenna,
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and she has sent me a lot of Dylan Mulvaney stuff because I guess she, you know, as usual, is trying to get me into even more trouble.
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So I'm only looking at the description here, and they sent me this clip sheet.
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This is all. So clip 20, Dylan raps about being a girl.
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Okay, it's day 200 of being a girl, and I think we can agree that it's been a whirlwind.
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I have a tendency to overshare my life, and y'all are still watching. How cool is that?
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Once upon a time, I was a boy who had ADHD, and now I'm a girl who still has ADHD.
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I really like possums and Twilight and pretzels.
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I accidentally became an influencer. Now here we are.
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Girlhood has had its ups and its downs, and here's what I've learned so far.
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I'm doing my best, and boys, they kind of drool.
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My hormones are wild, and my boobs kind of sore.
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It's only day 200. We have so much more to experience together.
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I think I've said all about this guy that needs to be said, or that can be said.
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I am interested in, well, not really interested, but I'm slightly curious about,
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Wait, first of all, you like possums. What does that mean?
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So, today was our first day back from spring break,
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and I told all my students that my pronouns are they, them,
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but I wanted to tell you about two of my students
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that just made my heart sing and made me feel so validated.
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maybe like half an hour after we had talked about that,
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Um, and it was just so validating to see mix pop up on the screen instead of miss,
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You know, it really, uh, it really, it cannot be emphasized enough how perverse,
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But just the very idea that you are, you are seeking validation from kids,
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not only kids, but the kids you're supposed to be teaching.
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You are supposed to be providing a service to the child by teaching the child,
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and, and therefore to the parents and to the community,
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And yet they become forums, uh, or, or, or you, you have now put on them
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So I think we spent a lot of time talking about how it, it, you know,
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It doesn't make any sense to feel validated by that.
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That is a bizarre and ridiculous thing to be validated by.
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And of course that's true, but also just, just that you want to be validated at all
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by the kids, that you are putting that on them.
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It's not anyone's job to validate you in that sense.
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And I still, I, you know, people make this point all the time when we see these videos of teachers
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and, um, but it's a good point that way I think back to when I was a kid
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and it's like, you didn't know anything about your teachers.
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You didn't know anything about their private life.
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As far as you were concerned, your teacher lived at the school.
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And it's like, the teacher was like a, some sort of a vampire or something that they
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cart out from the basement and then bring up into the classroom and then bring back down.
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It was like, as far as you were concerned, the teachers lived there.
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And then if you, if you saw a teacher somewhere else, if you saw them at the grocery store,
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if you saw them in civilian clothes, anywhere else, it was like mind blowing.
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Cause that, what that shows, of course, it's like as a child, that's, it's a, it's a, it's
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an absurd kind of view that you have of your teacher.
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But what it shows is that there are appropriate boundaries in place between you and the teacher.
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And what this shows is that there are no boundaries at all.
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You know, you should be providing emotional support in an appropriate way.
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And in a, in a, in a properly ordered way to the child, not the other way around.
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If I work somewhere and I express to a number of people what my pronouns are, and I'm working
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there for like six months, um, I shouldn't have to explicitly tell every single person.
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I've been working, I work there for like six months or more.
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Okay, so we have another person complaining about being misgendered.
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This actually reminded me of a video that I had a couple days ago and we didn't get a
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They almost look like similar people, different hairstyle anyway.
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But here's another person complaining about being misgendered.
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And there's an important point to be made from this, but let's, let's watch this first.
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You know what I don't get is why people still see me as a woman.
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Well, people still see you as a woman because, because you are one.
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And this only goes to show that, uh, it actually does not boil down to any individual body part.
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That's a, that's what that, that side accuses us of doing that.
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They, they accuse us of just sort of like reducing people to their body parts and all of that, you know?
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So when you say that, well, a man has a penis, they say, well, that's, that's reductive.
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But then of course the, the irony in the self-contradiction is always is that that's exactly what they do
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because they think we'll remove a couple of body parts or change some body parts, you know,
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and then you're, you'll, you not only will you look like the other sex, but you actually will be the other sex.
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We're the ones saying, no, it doesn't work that way.
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Now it's, it's, it's true that for example, men have penises.
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That's a correct statement, but that's not the only physical difference between men and women.
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So even if a man is castrated, he's still a man and will still look like a man.
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And the same is true for women also, because your, your entire body is a woman.
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And you cannot escape it and you shouldn't try to escape it.
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And also doctors shouldn't be doing that to anyone at all, especially not the kids though,
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which is why to bring this all back to the beginning, because this is a, this is a celebratory
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And I, I hate to end it on such a sour note because at least in Tennessee anyway, anyway,
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uh, doctors would not be able to do that to kids, um, anymore.