Matt Walsh Reacts To Woke Gender Roles TikToks - Part 1
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Summary
In reference to a passage that discusses wives submitting to their husbands, I asked, what did women need protection from? The most common answer I got was animals, wild animals, and natural disasters. Is this command still relevant in a modern context? Or are men sincerely convinced that they re out here saving us left and right from bears and tsunamis?
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You believe in a lot of cases that men and women have roles.
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If we walking up to the car and I don't open your car door,
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These are all videos having to do with gender roles.
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And I assume, I haven't seen any ahead of time,
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but I assume that these are all mostly TikTok videos.
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So we're going to get insight from TikTok on the question of gender roles.
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And I'm sure that the insight will be quite profound and indeed insightful.
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In reference to the passage that discusses wives submitting to husbands,
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I asked, what did women need protection from?
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The most common answer I got was animals, wild animals, and natural disasters.
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Assuming this is the case, is this command still relevant in a modern context?
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Or are men sincerely convinced that they're out here saving us left and right from bears and tsunamis?
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Well, yeah, if you ask a bunch of stupid people a question, you'll get stupid answers.
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I mean, first of all, that's actually not even necessarily a very stupid answer.
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First of all, it may be the case for you as someone living, you know, in a comfortable environment in the modern Western world.
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It may be the case for you that you don't have to worry about animal attacks.
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That's the kind of, like, that's a real threat for actually billions of people who currently live on planet Earth right now.
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And in fact, when we talk about, you know, like, where do we get the idea that men should be protectors?
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And it goes back to a time when things like animal attacks were irrelevant threats to most people who lived on Earth.
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If you have a tornado bearing down on you at this exact moment, then it's unlikely that a man will be able to step in your way and, like, punch the tornado and make it go away.
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But I don't think that's what people mean when they talk about natural disasters.
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Here's one way that we protect ourselves from natural disasters, let's say one way, is by building homes that will be able to withstand natural disasters.
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And who are the people building, doing all the building, like almost all the building?
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As soon as the zoning committee gives me their approval, I know the bank's going to release the money right now.
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I'm just asking anyone to just, you know, power through.
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If I was to look and I don't have the information right in front of me, and so anyone is free to fact check me on this.
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But if I was to look at the demographics for construction workers, am I going to find that it's 50-50 men and women?
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Or am I going to find that nearly every construction worker on the planet is a man?
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So that is actually an example of men protecting women and themselves and society.
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But there are many other things as well that women would need protection from.
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Like, if you live in a city, you probably don't have to worry about a lion chasing you down.
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That's why if you live in a high-crime area, or even if you don't live in a high-crime area, and you're a woman,
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you're probably going to feel much safer if you have a man at home with you.
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I don't care how feminist and how empowered they think they are.
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Will they feel safer at night knowing that a man is in their home?
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Like, if they're married, do they feel safer when their husband is there at night?
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I think for nearly every single woman, they'll say, yeah, I feel safer when a man is there.
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Is there any man who feels safer at night at home knowing that his wife is there?
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I don't think to myself, well, if anybody breaks in, at least my wife is here to handle it.
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So I think that also tells you something about the gender roles and how they still apply.
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I want you to be true to yourself, not restricted by what society expects of your agenda.
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Mom and I believe you can do whatever you want, despite society's pressure, put you in a
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And here we are, one month into your life, I'm outside doing the macho work while mom's inside
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I understand it's normal to have some things gendered, but we weren't like this before
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And honestly, it worries me as your role model.
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But the lesson I'm learning here is that there will be moments in life where things
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we do are gendered, but it doesn't mean that you're restricted by your gender and your journey
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Yeah, of course, because if you want to send a message to your, how old is the baby?
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If you want to send a message to your baby, the way to do it is to make a TikTok video.
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How about if you want to impart lessons to your child?
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And I mean, when they're infants, it's a little bit early.
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They're not going to understand what you're saying.
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But as they get a little bit older, how about you just sit down and talk to them?
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So that, of course, tells us that you're not actually talking to your kid.
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You're talking to society because you want to be applauded for your enlightened attitude,
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It's like he's outside building something and it feels the need to apologize for it to
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Like, yeah, I know I'm building something and my wife is home caring for the baby, but don't
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Even though we feel that we're enlightened, I would not send my wife out to go build the
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Which only goes to show that even the people who think that they are beyond gender roles and
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that they're living a life beyond them, even those people really aren't.
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Because a lot of what we call gender roles, these are just, these are ingrained in humanity
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Women have certain capabilities that men don't have.
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Men have certain capabilities that women don't have.
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And the whole point of gender roles, it's not an arbitrary designation that was invented
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by society to oppress you and to make you feel bad.
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It's more society recognizing these differences in men and women and these capabilities that
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men have and these capabilities that women have and saying to the individuals, well, there
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That means you're going to be stronger than your wife.
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You know, you're going to have, so there's a responsibility that comes with that strength.
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It actually makes a lot of sense when you think about it.
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And you don't have to think about it that hard to see that it makes sense.