Matt Walsh Reviews The Worst TikToks of 2024
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The problem with these tests is that they are tests in the first place, and that no man was consulted in the devising of them. And that's a problem because men understand the psychology of men much better than women do, or at least than women on TikTok do.
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so there seems to have been at least according to my producers who send me this stuff because
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they like to see me suffer a proliferation on tiktok in recent weeks of viral challenges that
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women draft their unwitting husbands and boyfriends into the challenges are really tests and every
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week someone on tiktok comes up with a new way for women to test the men in their lives and if the men
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fail the test they're bad i guess and if they pass the test then they're good at least until the next
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test comes along the problem with these tests is that they are tests in the first place as we'll
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discuss the other problem is that they're invented by women for men with a lot of womanly assumptions
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about what they mean and what a man's failure or success signifies it's very clear that no man was
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consulted in the devising of these tests which is a problem because men understand the psychology of
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men much better than women do or at least better than women on tiktok do so let's go through these
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one by one first we'll go back a few weeks to something called the bird test and here's how
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the bird test works the bird test theory is basically a predictor for whether or not your
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relationship is going to succeed and it kind of goes like this let's say that you and your partner
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are sitting at a coffee shop and you see a bird outside and you mention it to them there's a couple
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different ways that your partner can respond your partner could be like oh that's a really cool bird
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and engage with you and take interest in what you just said or your partner can dismiss it all
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together and be like okay it's a bird what about it basically the gotman institute which is this really
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big psychology institute for relationships calls that a bid and the idea is if your partner takes
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interest in the mundane little small things that you talk about the relationship is just more likely
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to succeed because your partner has genuine interest in whatever you say regardless of whether
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that thing is a small thing or not on the flip side if your partner kind of keeps ignoring your bids
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that's kind of a sign that the relationship is going to fail because whether small or big your partner is
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not giving attention to the things that you personally care about just for the sole reason that you care
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about it now this is the kind of thing that makes sense if you've never been in a relationship that lasted
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more than three months if you are incredibly naive and inexperienced and you get your relationship
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insights from tiktok you might have the expectation that your partner will be quote genuinely interested
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in whatever you say but in the real world which is populated by actual human beings nobody on earth
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will ever be genuinely interested in everything you say and they shouldn't be you're not that interesting
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nobody has ever been that interesting i don't care if you're married to socrates you're not going to be
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hanging on his every last word all day every day forever now i find my wife very interesting and
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intelligent but if she came into the room and said i just saw a bird i would not be especially
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interested in that information i just wouldn't be my only interest would be in the fact that my wife
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has apparently suffered some sort of brain damage otherwise why would an adult be screaming about a bird
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bird bird looky at the birdie like what are you two years old now if you saw say a bald eagle swoop
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down and catch a baby deer with its talons and fly away or something like that then that would be the
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kind of headline that would interest me so there needs to be something spectacular about the bird to
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garner my interest if you saw an ostrich ride by on a scooter that that would be a bird related
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announcement that i would like to hear otherwise what do you want me to say about a regular bird
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like how do you want me to react she said that you know you have to engage about the bird what do
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you mean engage say what oh really you saw a bird cool was it did it did it have wings i don't know what
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the follow-up is i don't know what a bird conversation would even be therefore this entire test fails
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if your husband passes that test it either means that he's being extremely patronizing
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oh you saw a bird did you tell me about the bird or that he's an ornithologist maybe he just really
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is into birds who knows or maybe he sees the cell phone in your hand and he knows that you're filming
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him for a tiktok challenge that could be the other reason why he responds you know what's interesting
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well i don't want to show you well i do want to show you you don't want to see it but but i want to
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show it to you because as you know i had to watch it and so now you're going to see it too and
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and maybe there's maybe there's a a more positive way of looking at this um i know i can be hard on
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tiktokers sometimes but every once in a while the tiktok community provides something useful
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and so here's a viral video of a woman showing us her coping strategies here's how she copes
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a lot of people have you know difficult lives and looking for ways to cope with it the ways to deal
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with it and uh this this is her way of doing it and it's a strategy you might want to try out
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yourself uh here it is let's watch oh i'm here i'm here i know you're scared i know you don't know
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what to do but i've got you and i won't leave you and i love you and i'm so sorry that you're scared
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but it's okay to feel it's safe to feel it's safe to cry it's safe to move through it
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seriously i've got you i won't leave you i can feel the emotions i can hold space for myself
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crying is beautiful crying is healthy crying is not negative
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i mean that that's relatable you know that that was that was basically me at chipotle last
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night when they said they ran out of guacamole and no warning by the way i went through the whole
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line there was no sign saying oh we don't have guacamole because then if i had known that i would
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have gone somewhere else but i went through the whole thing i built the burrito bowl i get to the
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guacamole station they said we're out of guac how does it even happen you have all the other
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ingredients but you don't have guac how does that how did you not are people going through the line
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and asking for a burrito bowl with only guacamole and that's how you end up that's how you end up
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with this disproportionate situation so in situations like that i think it's okay to react that way but
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most of the time i would say not and what what is so sad about these videos i mean what's sad about
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them like besides literally everything else about them what's sad is that i'm sure i think it's an
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important point i'm sure that this woman does have serious trauma in her past and i don't say that
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sarcastically i mean sincerely so we see stuff like this and and we're tempted to go oh what's
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why is your life so hard yeah look at you complaining right you snowflake gen z-er but
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this woman this is she has blue hair okay this is a woman with blue hair and that alone even when we
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putting aside what she's doing in the video that alone is a blaring deafening alarm signaling that
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she probably had a terrible home life almost certainly comes from a broken home a dad not in
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the picture we can assume that either her dad is not there or he's a terrible father he's failed
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utterly you know if your daughter if you catch your daughter wearing blue hair and you're you you failed
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like you as a father that is it that is an f that you got an f grade failure on the report card the moment
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you see the kid wearing blue hair um unless it's like a halloween costume and they're going they're
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dressed up as smurfs do smurfs even have blue hair they have blue skin so that's a good indication that
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she she has actually suffered like real trauma in life and so i'm perfectly willing to believe that
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this woman has legitimate issues real substantive reasons to be upset the problem is that first of
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all she's obviously never received any good counseling nobody's told her how to actually cope
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with the problems that you face in life and indulging yourself right indulging uh indulging in tears
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now i i you know how i feel about men crying women i give a lot more latitude women are you know women
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are criers they like to cry okay i i can't relate but you know we have to accept that it's something
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men and women are not the same fine but um even for a woman you can it's possible to to vastly over
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indulge in in uh in tears and especially in feelings of self-pity and this is what she's doing and that
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is not healthy coping okay if you want to cope with whatever you're dealing with again even if it's
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something real like you had a terrible childhood and your parents failed you go go for a walk like go
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for a hike go get some exercise uh pick up a hobby invest yourself and your time and your energy
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in something other than this rather than dwelling on whatever it is that upsets you
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go just do something else don't think about it take all that energy and channel it into something
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rather than just stewing in your own pity to the point where you you start to enjoy the feeling
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of self-pity a lot of young men are worried about getting married because they're afraid that they'll
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end up uh they'll end up with a bad selfish woman as a wife but the good news is that the bad wives
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generally announce themselves they're proud of it and they'll tell you all about it so take this woman
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named page page is a tiktok influencer also happens to be married with four children and she's a bad wife
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and is very eager to alert the public to that fact uh including with this video watch a few weeks ago
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i said i don't do my husband's laundry and a lot of people are saying whoa whoa whoa those are small
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acts of kindness why wouldn't you want to do that for your partner but here's the thing small acts of
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kindness that are mostly domestic labor just add up to work at the end of the day so here's a list of
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things that i don't do for my husband you all know i don't do his laundry he can do that himself
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i do my laundry and we do the kids laundry but he does his own i don't cook dinner he cooks dinner
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every single night i do breakfast and lunch for us and our kids i don't pack him a lunch if he's hungry
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he'll figure out what he's going to eat for lunch the same way that i do i don't make his doctor's
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appointments because guess what he's not making mine would it be kind of me to do that for sure
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is it my job absolutely not i want him to be healthy but he's a grown-ass man and he can book his
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own appointments right there's a lot of things that i don't do for my husband i don't schedule his
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haircuts i don't pack his clothes for vacation right i don't do those things i don't buy him
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new underwear when it's got holes in it all of those are things that he's a grown man and he can
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do himself can i do small acts of kindness for him of course i can and i do i see a vinyl that i
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think he's going to like because he's creating a vinyl collection i buy it i'm at the store and i
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see something that i think he might enjoy eating i buy it i find a new non-alcoholic beer that he wants
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to try out i buy it right those are small acts of kindness doing his laundry cooking him dinner making
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him lunch booking his doctor's appointments all those things that's domestic labor those are chores
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those are not acts of kindness do i do them occasionally when he's working a lot of course
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do i cook dinner sometimes when he's had a really long day of course but me not doing that does not
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mean that i don't show him love or kindness they're different things it is not my job as a wife it is
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not in my job description to do all the domestic labor as small acts of kindness to my partner and
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receive nothing in return i agree with this commenter if it's going both ways fantastic but
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oftentimes domestic labor especially when you have children adds up and so no i am not my husband's
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personal secretary or his personal assistant i am none of those things i am his partner i am his
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equal and i do not have to do things to cater to him and serve him at all times to be kind and loving
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for him now the video has gone viral with many women in the comments gushing over how much they
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respect and admire her for this approach which is good because it gives single men the chance to go
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through the comments and cross all of these women off of the list of potential wives in the future
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a video like this provides a perfect litmus test like show it to a woman you're dating and if she
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nods her head and says amen break up immediately just cut it off right there because there are two
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major problems with this video and anyone who endorses it also shares in these having these
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problems beginning with the fact that she made the video in the first place like even if i could agree
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that it's defensible for a wife to flat out refuse to do any of the things she lists which i don't agree
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uh i would still be it would still be a major red flag that you're proud of not doing them you're
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taking pride in what you don't do for your husband you are bragging about all the ways that you don't
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help him and don't care for him that alone tells us that your marriage is deeply sick and will not
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survive for much longer unless you change dramatically and quickly there's really no reason why you needed
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to tell the world who does the laundry in your house nobody asked for that information and if they did ask
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for it you could just ignore them but you're proud of not doing the laundry proud of the fact that
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apparently when you do a load of laundry for yourself and the kids you specifically separate
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his clothes and refuse to throw them in the washer with the other clothes it takes actual effort to not
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do the laundry for one person in the house that's how dedicated you are to not helping your husband