Matt Walsh Reviews The Worst Moments In Pop Culture
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Summary
The Oscars were held last night, it was an event that passed almost an almost entirely without notice, if not for one incident which we'll discuss in a moment before we get to the story of what happened at the ceremony.
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to love people and to protect people it's like k-pop right but it's gay pop
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the oscars were held last night it was an event that passed almost an almost entirely without
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notice if not for one incident which we'll discuss in a moment before we get there it's
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worth reflecting on the fact that award shows used to be ratings bonanzas i mean there was a
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time in the not too distant past when 40 million people 50 million people would sit around their
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televisions on a sunday night and watch a bunch of wealthy drug addicts give themselves awards for
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five hours those days are long gone soon the era of televised award shows will be officially over
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they'll no longer exist at all and our children will look at us with bewilderment when we explain
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that once upon a time we used to actually watch celebrities give speeches about how great
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celebrities are they will certainly find that confusing i have always found it confusing and
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i live through that era in history myself last night judging by the clips that i saw online anyway
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because of course i didn't like everybody else i didn't actually watch the show uh they kick things
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off by going political right away wasting no time just planting the flag right away this is what it's
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about and of course the first item on the woke agenda was to virtue signal about the fictional
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don't say gay bill that leftists have invented watch we're gonna have a great night uh tonight and for
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you people in florida we're gonna have a gay night
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what courage what courage i mean it's hard to fathom the bravery required to stand on stage
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in front of a room full of gay people and say the word gay over and over again this is this is what
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heroism is all about and they kept playing the hits you know later in the monologue monologue they
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threw in a bit about toxic masculinity and also mitch mcconnell listen you know this year we saw a
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frightening display of how toxic masculinity turns into cruelty towards women and children damn that mitch
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mcconnell i know yeah because when you think of toxic masculinity the first person that comes to mind is
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mitch mcconnell a little later in the night hispanic actor uh john liguizamo took the stage to applaud
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hollywood's representation and all of the beautiful latinx faces listen
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look at all these beautiful faces out here all these beautiful latinx faces we got great representation
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here tonight people oh sorry not not latinx latinx yeah uh i always forget how to pronounce that made
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upward i'm not exactly sure what a what a latinx face looks like seeing as how there's no such thing
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as a latinx person latinx at best sounds like the name of a of a hispanic only fans site it's certainly
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not the name for a group of people especially because if this sort of thing is important to you
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there are already numerous gender neutral terms available to describe that group terms like hispanic
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or even just latinx but again wokeness is insular self-referential it's gibberish to anyone who is
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not already fully indoctrinated into it that's why the left has to work so hard and so desperately
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to indoctrinate children into the cult because they know that adults who grew up in saner times are
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increasingly turned off by this sort of thing and are rapidly tuning it out in a literal sense when it
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comes to the oscars that is people were tuned out until the smack heard around the world now you've
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no doubt already seen this clip but let's all watch it again for entertainment's sake if nothing else
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watch he is praying that will smith wins like please lord jada i love you gi jane 2 can't wait to see it
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okay i'm out here oh richard oh wow wow will smith just smacked the out of me
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keep my wife's name out your mouth wow dude yeah it was a gi jane joke keep my wife's name out your
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that was a greatest night in the history of television okay
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truly the most atrocious thing will smith has done since the aladdin remake uh it's i mean he
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this guy learned nothing at all after spending all that time with his auntie and uncle in bel-air
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on the positive side however smith's physical assault of chris rock completely overshadowed
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and drowned out all of the virtue signaling that came before it you know all this like lgbt stuff
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they had all the ukraine stuff and like all that's out the window the celebrities in attendance wanted
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the story to be about them heroically chanting the word gay wearing blue ribbons in support of ukraine
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they didn't want this to be the story that's also why you shouldn't buy into any conspiracy theories
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that the incident was staged okay it it was not that's that's a more absurd
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idea than the incident itself was now maybe the vma circa 1997 may have staged something like this
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this is entirely real and we should admit the most entertaining thing that's happened at any award
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show in at least 25 years personally i might actually start watching these things if the whole
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show was just a bunch of celebrities beating the hell out of each other on stage like a really well
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dressed version of celebrity death match but as fun as it may be to watch that was nonetheless a
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physical assault which was committed on national television in front of literally dozens of viewers
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something tells me that if you or i had walked onto stage during an event of that kind
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or any other kind and committed assault against a presenter right in front of everybody we'd be in
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handcuffs within 15 seconds instead will smith sat back down enjoyed the rest of the show even one
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best actor later in the evening where he proceeded to cry and paint himself as the victim of the physical
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assault that he just committed listen richard williams um was a fierce defender of his family
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i mean scientology really messes with your brain uh just don't don't try it kids even once
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only in hollywood can a man assault another man and then 20 minutes later give a tearful speech about
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i'm a river to my people by smacking chris rock
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also keep something else in mind will smith and this is the most important thing about this incident to keep in mind
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um he has bragged publicly on multiple occasions about the fact that his wife sleeps with other men
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he has long been out of the cuckold closet very open about the fact
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fact that his wife enjoys jumping in bed with strange men
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so any temptation you might feel to take his side
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to argue that this was a husband defending his wife's honor
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as i've seen like a few people a few conservatives even have said well this is
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he's in an open he's a cuckold in an open marriage
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and then looked over at his wife scowling and said uh-oh
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to defend him must be mitigated by the fact that to will smith
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but then again they did award best picture to a movie that doesn't exist so
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it's clear that the smack was not an honorable man fiercely defending his wife from an extremely mild joke about her hair it was rather a privileged yet broken and emasculated man lashing out like a spoiled child and doing what no normal person in this country would be allowed to do and get away with it
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he did what he did for his own sake because he could
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later that night he was filmed at an after party dancing and singing while a crowd cheered him on
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you or i would be sitting in a jail cell right now still
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he was at an oscars party prancing around with his golden statue
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apparently the trauma he suffered from chris rock's joke
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you know a golden statue can heal even the deepest wounds i suppose
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now given that this was black on black violence and both men involved are fairly liberal
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you may be wondering whose side the woke crowd would take
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because it's not maybe not a not immediately clear how this is all going to shake out
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but then when you think about it there's no real mystery
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is that words especially words in the form of jokes are violence
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and so of course assaulting a stand-up comedian
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therefore is that will smith was justified because chris rock's joke
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that's the justification anyway as offered even by prominent politicians like ayana presley and jamal bowman
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but the real justification is that will smith is a non-white left-wing hollywood celebrity
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and so he's allowed to do things that the rest of us peons cannot do
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when did capitalism become such a hot-button issue anyway
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it seems like people have strong opinions about it
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as you can see she's dressed like a villain from power rangers and doing dance moves
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it looks something like a drunk uncoordinated bridesmaid at a wedding
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and this is what jojo hopes you will consider edgy
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she seems to want very badly to be seen as edgy and innovative
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in a recent interview she went so far as to declare that she had even invented a new genre of music
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the genre is i said it back in the day when i first signed with columbia i said i want to start a new genre of music
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and they said what do you mean and i said well it's called gay pop
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and they were like what's that and i was like it's like k-pop right
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yes the revolutionary new style of music is gay pop
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she's the first person to ever combine gayness with pop music
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prior to this moment in time pop music has been renowned for its heterosexuality
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i can remember growing up in the 90s when a kid you know boy caught listening to in sync or the backstreet boys
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might be mocked by his classmates listen to boy bands you must be straight
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this is at least what jojo siwa apparently imagines
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that's why she's so proud of being the first gay person to ever produce a pop song
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which is a bit like an nba player in the year 2024 claiming to have invented a new concept called black basketball
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you know it's like regular basketball that we all know and love except this time get this
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now the claim may not make any sense but jojo isn't worried about making sense
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when i was eight is when miley had her bangers moment
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and i was like all i want is to have that one day like i want that
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and honestly since i was like 15 like my whole like inner circle has been like talking about
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i am shook about your look tell me about these strange tan lines it's really strange
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um i mean what do you want to know about it this is my uh my karma karma
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it's a costume from the official music video honestly i just wanted to wear it again
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i love it so much no one has made this dramatic of a change yet no one has made in my generation
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this extreme of a switch and i am the first in the generation it is very scary but someone's gotta do it
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biggest thing about this video i don't care if people like it i don't care if people hate it
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but i want people to turn their head at it and i want people to notice it
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because i'm the real lesbian i sound the real lesbian will the other real lesbian please stand on up
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i don't care if you like it or hate it i just want you to notice it
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we got to give her credit for honesty i suppose there are a lot of attention seekers in the entertainment industry
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it's just that most of them won't come out and actually say that all they care about is getting attention
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so the forthrightness here is something to appreciate maybe even mildly respect unfortunately
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there's nothing else to respect about this person especially when you consider this story
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here's people magazine quote jojo siwa is sharing new details about her surrogacy plans
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in a video interview for cosmopolitan's if it were me series the karma singer 21 shared that she had
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specific hopes for how and when she would welcome her hypothetical future children
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quote because i'm gay and i have to plan a pregnancy much different than a straight person
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i actually want to take three eggs fertilize three eggs and have three surrogates she said
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quote so technically they'll all be the same batch but they would all be born separately
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i'm gonna have my surrogates my babies then maybe their birthdays will land on different days
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so she's gay as she says that's the term she applies to herself
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it's how she self-identifies and i will certainly respect her self-identification
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would never dream of doing anything otherwise she says that her gay status has led her to the
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conclusion that she should have three babies at the same time from the same batch in her words
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but by three different surrogates now granted she's speaking hypothetically about children who don't
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yet exist she also has no idea what she's asking for if you wind up with triplets naturally then of
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course you embrace them and you love them as a gift from god but no sane person actually sets out
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to have triplets i've had twins twice and even i look uncomprehendingly at parents with triplets i
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can't imagine what taking care of three newborns at once must be like it's the kind of challenge that
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you you uh you let god decide to give to you if he does you put it in the hands of providence
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you don't go seeking it out deliberately so this is obviously an emotionally stunted young woman
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whose brain is warped from having been a child star um from what very little i know about her
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she seems essentially incapable of expressing any kind of authentic human thought everything is a
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desperate attempt to shock and provoke and this stuff about recruiting three surrogates at the same
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time is probably no different yet still the language she's using reveals something about the
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surrogacy industry she wants to cook up a batch of babies she says like they're baked goods and not
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human beings she's not a married woman humbly embracing the procreative facet of the marital
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union she is rather an unmarried self-described gay woman hoping to fulfill some very specific
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weird motherhood fantasy by engineering exactly the results that she desires and all of the problems
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with surrogacy are in evidence here first most obviously it is dehumanizing there's a reason why
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the people who use surrogates can't help but talk about it in dehumanizing bizarrely objectifying ways
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the surrogate mother carrying the baby and the baby that is being carried are both products
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to them they are objects to be obtained and controlled this is human life as commodity as i've said many
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times before commercial surrogacy is the most direct and explicit form of human commodification
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since slavery and that's why it should be banned and anyone who uses surrogates should be treated
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with the same scorn as human traffickers because that's what this is britney spears went viral this
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week for all the wrong reasons which is the only reason that she ever goes viral anymore these days
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and of course she's always you know she's always on instagram posting videos of herself dancing half
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naked or fully naked rambling incoherently uh just coming off like a very disturbed person she recently
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got divorced from her husband after 12 seconds and he claimed that she abused him i don't know that's
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true or not but we do know that she is definitely not the first time that somebody close to her said
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that she is volatile and dangerous this has been what most of the people close to her have been saying
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for a long time anyway the video this week uh that went viral was her dancing with butcher knives
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and she claims that the knives were fake um they very much appear not to be fake but here let's look at that video for a second
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i didn't even realize i never actually even watched the video so i didn't realize that she was dancing
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what is that gregorian chant is that like a somehow it's even more
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disturbing than you originally thought with the gregorian chant in the background
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while you've got this uh half naked woman dancing with butcher knives
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and those knives are not fake by the way those are not what fake knives look like those are real
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so uh and the cops didn't think that the the butcher knives were fake either which is why they showed up
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at her house for a wellness check um and they were the cops they were not called by fans who were
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concerned they were called apparently by a friend of hers who was worried uh that that was worried
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about her and listen it's all very sad um and it's even sadder because we're watching this woman fall
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apart in front of us and it just seems very likely that in the not too distant future she's going to do
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something drastic and really hurt herself or worse uh and it's like we all it's a slow motion train
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wreck and we all know that's going to happen i think we all kind of understand she's what in her
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early 40s now the chance that she that bernie spears turns 50 seems to be pretty low and we all know
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it so which is why her conservatorship was in place to begin with so once again um i was right
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and i said back during the whole free britney movement you may recall and i got a lot of flack
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for it a lot of flack but i said at the time when everybody was demanding that britney spears be
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freed from her conservatorship and why were they demanding it it's because they saw some documentary
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on fx or whatever and most of them didn't even see the documentary they just they just other people
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saw it and then it was trending on twitter and hashtag free britney and so a bunch of people jumped on
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the bandwagon and i said at the time okay people don't get conservatorships placed on them for no
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reason it doesn't happen use your head stop following internet trends now none of us know
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even like one percent of what goes on behind the scenes in anybody else's life much less in britney
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spears's life we don't know but we can use our heads and we can figure out that that you don't lose
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legal rights to make decisions over your own life for no reason now of course everyone claimed that it
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was a conspiracy by the people who wanted britney's money okay well once again use your head there are a
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lot of of rich uh celebrities out there there's a lot of rich female celebrities out there who probably
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have people in their lives who covet their wealth and yet they're not under conservatorships
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britney is why is that could it be because britney very publicly had a mental breakdown and
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repeatedly revealed herself to be a danger to herself and those around her including her children could
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that be it i tried to explain this at the time britney a wealthy famous woman lost custody and lost
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visitation right she lost visitation rights and custody um over her kids in a court in los angeles
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do you understand how difficult that is to do you're a woman you're in los angeles
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and you're rich and famous and you lose total custody over your kids and you can't even visit
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them do you know how how hard it is for a woman to pull that off even if they're not rich and famous
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even if they're not in a los angeles court very very hard