The Matt Walsh Show - Matt Walsh Roasts Feminist Celebrities

00:00:00.000 Well, there are many candidates for today's Daily Cancellation, but ultimately when faced

00:00:08.160 with a surplus of potential cancelees, I have to simply go with whichever one I find the

00:00:13.280 most personally annoying.

00:00:14.580 And for that, we turn to Will Ferrell, an actor who, as it happens, and I went back

00:00:19.660 and checked, hasn't starred in a good comedy since 2008 with Step Brothers, but that's

00:00:25.100 not why he's canceled today.

00:00:26.120 He's canceled for this, as The Blaze reports, quote, actor Will Ferrell told a group of

00:00:30.640 mostly women that it's time for them to take over the world when he gave opening remarks 1.00

00:00:35.040 for the Women in Entertainment Gala hosted by the outlet The Hollywood Reporter.

00:00:38.740 Ferrell likely earned a spot at the gala because he co-owns a production company focused on

00:00:42.660 female-led television and movie productions called Gloria Sanchez Productions, founded 1.00

00:00:47.220 in 2014 as a division of his existing production company.

00:00:50.780 Ferrell went on to plead with actress Kerry Washington to run for president, joking that

00:00:54.720 the gala could start a GoFundMe page to raise money for her campaign.

00:00:58.440 The anchorman actor noted that Washington would receive the Equity in Entertainment Award in

00:01:03.180 recognition for her work, quote, amplifying the voices of underrepresented communities in

00:01:07.340 the entertainment industry and beyond.

00:01:09.360 It's hard for me to imagine an award that could possibly be more meaningless than the Equity

00:01:14.060 in Entertainment Award.

00:01:15.960 This is an award that would win the award for most meaningless award, which somehow would

00:01:20.760 be a more meaningful award than the Equity in Entertainment Award itself.

00:01:24.840 But also, just for the record, it is, of course, a total misnomer that black people are underrepresented

00:01:30.220 in the entertainment industry.

00:01:32.080 In fact, according to the job site Zipia.com, 13% of professional actors are black, which is

00:01:37.980 precisely in line with the overall black population in the United States.

00:01:41.880 So far from being underrepresented, they are exactly, specifically, correctly represented.

00:01:48.000 But that's not really the point.

00:01:49.760 Yeah, there was a lot of groveling to, quote, unquote, people of color going on at the Women 1.00

00:01:53.420 in Entertainment Gala.

00:01:54.740 But most of the groveling was to women, as you might expect, given the name of the gala.

00:01:59.120 And on that end, here's Will Ferrell.

00:02:01.460 Forget about the entertainment world.

00:02:03.080 Isn't it just time?

00:02:06.600 Isn't it just time for women to run the planet? 1.00

00:02:09.460 I mean, I'm not just trying to placate you, I swear.

00:02:15.580 But I don't know what else to do, because we, men, we've been running the show since, what,

00:02:25.240 10,000 BC, something like that.

00:02:28.440 And we're not doing so good.

00:02:30.340 So please, can you guys just take over?

00:02:35.640 Now, I understand this is mostly just the typical Hollywood girl power shtick.

00:02:40.040 I also realize that this is coming from Will Ferrell, who's not exactly known for his wisdom

00:02:44.420 or insight.

00:02:45.540 Still, it's worth pointing out that everything he said there, which is the kind of thing you

00:02:49.120 hear all the time these days, is absolute nonsense.

00:02:52.000 So let's start at the end.

00:02:52.940 He says that men have been running things since 10,000 BC, and we, quote, haven't been doing

00:02:58.940 so good.

00:02:59.840 Now, it's a bit of a confusing sentence, even leaving aside the poor grammar.

00:03:03.260 When he says we haven't been doing so good, does he mean that things have started to decline

00:03:08.000 recently, or is he saying that we haven't been doing so good the whole time?

00:03:12.140 Now, if the former doesn't really make sense, because men have never been less in charge

00:03:16.520 than they have been in recent years.

00:03:18.480 So if you think things that have been going poorly recently, as women have increasingly 1.00

00:03:23.580 taken charge, it's hard to see how even more women in charge will fix that. 1.00

00:03:27.820 But we'll get back to that in a moment.

00:03:29.280 On the other hand, if you're saying that men have been screwing things up the entire

00:03:32.480 time since 10,000 BC, then I guess I need to know how well you think we should be doing

00:03:39.220 at this point.

00:03:40.480 After all, what have men done since 10,000 BC?

00:03:43.940 Well, nothing really, I guess, except build civilization.

00:03:48.200 Almost every major advancement and achievement in the history of mankind since the dawn of human

00:03:53.600 society itself has been made by a man. 0.99

00:03:56.500 Not all of them, but most of them.

00:03:58.960 I mean, most of them that you can name have been achieved by a man.

00:04:03.860 That's just a fact.

00:04:04.940 Things haven't been perfect, of course.

00:04:06.960 We're talking about the whole span of civilization's existence.

00:04:09.560 It's not going to be a smooth sailing the whole time, but mostly through male leadership,

00:04:13.180 we went from mud huts to walking on the moon in a few thousand years.

00:04:18.340 Now, I have nothing to compare it to.

00:04:19.640 Neither does Will Ferrell, but I think that's pretty impressive.

00:04:23.000 That's not bad.

00:04:24.300 Is that not good enough for Will Ferrell?

00:04:25.760 Is it not fast enough?

00:04:27.000 Is there any reason at all to think that women, if they were solely in charge, would have done 0.94

00:04:32.120 better?

00:04:33.160 Is there any reason to think that humanity's prospects in the future will be improved by

00:04:36.860 getting more women into leadership positions? 1.00

00:04:38.820 Well, we don't really have to speculate about that.

00:04:42.120 You know, society is run through institutions, and those institutions have increasingly elevated

00:04:46.460 women to leadership roles over the past several decades.

00:04:49.080 And on Will Ferrell's theory, and on the theory of any feminist or anyone else who's adopted 0.99

00:04:54.080 this line, we should be able to look around and see that these institutions have measurably

00:04:58.060 and significantly improved due to the rapid dramatic rise in female leadership. 0.98

00:05:04.540 But do we see that?

00:05:06.480 Have the deliberate specific efforts to increase the proportion of women in leadership roles actually 0.95

00:05:13.300 helped any institution thrive?

00:05:16.220 Can you name a single institution that has been improved by these efforts to put more

00:05:22.540 women into positions of leadership? 1.00

00:05:24.180 Now, I posted this question on Twitter yesterday, and predictably, lots of people were very upset

00:05:27.200 at me for asking an uncomfortable question.

00:05:30.280 Even more predictable, lots of people missed the point entirely and started naming individual

00:05:34.080 women who were great leaders like Queen Isabella and Catherine the Great, who both presided

00:05:38.880 over governments comprised almost entirely of men, by the way.

00:05:41.220 But that's besides the point.

00:05:42.860 I'm not asking whether there have ever been any great individual female leaders in the

00:05:46.600 history of mankind.

00:05:47.720 Of course there have been.

00:05:49.060 I'm certainly not asking whether there have ever been any impressive, wonderful, competent,

00:05:53.060 intelligent women in the world. 1.00

00:05:54.440 Obviously, there have been many of those.

00:05:55.880 I should know.

00:05:56.560 I married one of them.

00:05:57.620 But the question is whether any institution has been quantifiably improved by the effort to

00:06:05.140 increase as a percentage the number of women in leadership roles.

00:06:09.260 Perhaps another way of asking this is this, has the deliberate feminization of any institution

00:06:16.680 helped it succeed?

00:06:18.980 Can you look at anything now, after years of trying to get women more involved and into

00:06:22.600 the leadership ranks, and say, wow, that institution is doing way better than it was before?

00:06:27.620 If you can give an example, then give it.

00:06:29.700 But I don't think you can.

00:06:32.080 I don't think anyone can.

00:06:33.500 I think instead we all recognize, even if we don't want to admit it, that every institution

00:06:38.160 or field that you can name has become less effective and less productive and less competent

00:06:43.700 and less impressive as women have been moved up the ranks and leadership has been diversified.

00:06:49.540 Now, this is certainly true of the military, academia, law enforcement, the sciences, medicine,

00:06:54.340 even the film industry.

00:06:55.660 And that's true, most of all, by the way, of the two most important institutions in society,

00:06:59.320 which is the church and the family.

00:07:00.640 The church in this country has fallen apart as it's been feminized. 1.00

00:07:04.560 And the institution of the family has done the same as society has insisted that women 0.91

00:07:07.920 should be at the head of it.

00:07:09.220 You know, you can't deny that the family is much more female-led today than it ever has 1.00

00:07:13.760 been in the history of the world.

00:07:14.920 And you also can't really deny that the family is weaker and more unstable than it's ever been

00:07:18.960 in the history of the world.

00:07:20.540 Correlation does not prove causation.

00:07:22.420 But there's a lot of correlation here across basically every institution in the modern world.

00:07:27.140 Enough to, we might say, seriously call into question the idea that the world can be fixed

00:07:32.620 by putting women in charge of it. 1.00

00:07:35.260 And certainly enough to say that Will Ferrell is today canceled.

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00:08:35.180 The former porn star Maya Khalifa has gone viral this week with some marriage advice

00:08:38.960 that she offered to her Instagram followers.

00:08:40.860 Now, you wouldn't necessarily expect great marriage advice from somebody like this.

00:08:45.080 The world of cyber prostitutes is not revered for its marital wisdom or any other kind of wisdom.

00:08:50.420 So you're probably thinking, what worthwhile advice could this former porn star possibly have to offer?

00:08:56.260 Well, I can say that life is full of surprises.

00:08:59.540 In general, I mean, but not in this case.

00:09:01.140 The advice is god-awful just like you'd expect.

00:09:03.580 Here it is.

00:09:04.200 Oh, we're comparing stats.

00:09:05.980 Baby girl doesn't know that I am Tom Brady at this game.

00:09:09.400 Married at 18.

00:09:10.520 Divorced at 21.

00:09:11.720 Second marriage.

00:09:12.900 Married at 25.

00:09:14.080 Divorced at 28.

00:09:15.440 Third engagement.

00:09:16.660 Engaged at 29.

00:09:18.800 Ended it at 30.

00:09:19.980 But I kept the ring.

00:09:21.680 I'm still keeping Tom Brady on his toes.

00:09:25.740 We should not be afraid to leave these men.

00:09:29.520 We are not stuck with these people.

00:09:31.560 Marriage is not a sanctimonious thing.

00:09:35.740 It is paperwork.

00:09:37.320 It's something, it's a commitment you make to someone.

00:09:41.120 But if you feel like you're not getting anything from that commitment and you're trying, you got to go.

00:09:47.820 You got to go.

00:09:48.960 You have to go.

00:09:50.120 I know it's difficult to fill out paperwork and to make appointments and to do all of these things.

00:09:56.180 But this is your f***ing life.

00:09:57.960 Do you want to be stuck with someone?

00:10:01.180 Period.

00:10:01.980 This is what happens when women try to make sports analogies. 1.00

00:10:07.740 Maya apparently doesn't understand that Tom Brady has seven Super Bowl rings because he was victorious in seven Super Bowls. 0.57

00:10:14.740 He won a lot.

00:10:16.480 That's why he has the rings.

00:10:17.920 But Maya is a loser. 1.00

00:10:19.660 A failure.

00:10:20.380 She keeps failing at marriage, which makes her, if anything, the anti-Tom Brady of the marriage game.

00:10:26.560 In fact, even that gives her too much credit.

00:10:28.920 You know, because, I mean, Tom Brady, that would be like, Tom Brady did make it to, it's like if he lost a bunch of Super Bowls or something.

00:10:35.620 But no, she's more of an NFL washout, a draft bust. 1.00

00:10:39.900 She's the Jamarcus Russell of marriage.

00:10:42.900 She's the Johnny Manziel of matrimony. 1.00

00:10:45.780 This only goes to show why I have put certain parameters in place for anyone who wants to dispense any marriage tips at all.

00:10:52.520 Now, according to my rules, which don't have the force of law behind them, but should, you are not allowed to give any advice on this topic unless you have been married for at least 10 years and you have at least one kid.

00:11:02.740 From there, the longer you've been in it and the more kids you have, the more seriously your advice can be taken.

00:11:09.600 Here's one area where trust the experts really does apply, except that the experts don't have to have any academic credentials.

00:11:15.280 Their resumes don't matter.

00:11:16.420 All that matters is that they've actually done the thing and they've experienced the challenges of marriage and family life and they've learned how to navigate them successfully.

00:11:25.700 Taking advice from Maya Khalifa would be like having a driving instructor who's been behind the wheel three times and totaled the car all three times.

00:11:33.440 Obviously, that would be a bad idea.

00:11:34.800 Now, there's probably not much point in responding point by point to the horrible guidance that Maya is offering to women here. 0.83

00:11:43.020 She's correct about one thing, which is that marriage is not a sanctimonious thing, but she's only correct because she's semi-literate.

00:11:51.280 So this was accidental.

00:11:52.360 Marriage is, on the other hand, a sacred thing.

00:11:54.640 It's a covenant.

00:11:55.880 Saying it's just paperwork is like saying that the home you live in is just paperwork.

00:12:01.400 It doesn't make any sense.

00:12:02.680 Yes, you sign some paperwork as part of the process of buying a home, for example, but it doesn't mean that the home itself is not paperwork.

00:12:11.000 And you sign paperwork as part of the process of legally binding yourself to your spouse in marriage.

00:12:15.140 But the marriage itself is not a piece of paper.

00:12:18.100 My kids all got birth certificates when they were born, but my kids are not birth certificates.

00:12:23.700 Marriage is the same way. 0.80

00:12:24.500 It is a living, breathing, vibrant thing, a union, a commitment.

00:12:28.360 Yes.

00:12:29.000 But if, as Maya says, that commitment is null and void the moment you feel that you aren't getting anything out of it, then there's no commitment.

00:12:36.840 This is a mercenary arrangement then.

00:12:39.040 It's like if you built a roof that collapsed under the weight of a slight drizzle.

00:12:44.440 The whole point of the roof is to shelter you from the elements.

00:12:47.080 If it can't withstand any of the elements, then the roof was a sham to begin with.

00:12:51.740 It may as well have not existed.

00:12:53.460 Most likely, if you feel that you aren't getting anything out of your marriage, especially if you feel this way and you just got married like a week ago or however long it was in Maya's case, it's a very good indication that you're looking for the wrong things.

00:13:04.600 You're expecting the wrong things from it.

00:13:07.800 It's like claiming that your oven is broken because it won't wash your dishes.

00:13:11.760 That's not what an oven is designed to do. 0.84

00:13:14.020 The oven isn't broken.

00:13:14.980 Your expectations for the oven are simply insane.

00:13:19.100 For marriage, you cannot expect, as Maya and so many women like her expect, that it'll be some kind of machine that exists to constantly make you personally happy all the time and make your life easier and more fun all the time and keep you entertained and enraptured at all times.

00:13:35.040 This is what the Maya Khalifas of the world expect of marriage. 1.00

00:13:37.300 It is indeed what they expect of everything and everyone in life.

00:13:41.180 When the thing does not provide them immediate and superficial happiness on a silver platter whenever they ring the bell, then they declare that the thing must be defective, and they are morally justified in smashing it to pieces no matter who is hurt in the process.

00:13:53.160 Again, these narcissists approach all of life this way, so it's no surprise that they bring this same sense of entitlement into their marriages.

00:13:59.100 And it's even less surprise that this entitlement has the same effect on their marriages that it does on all other aspects and areas of their life by making them and everyone around them miserable and ensuring that they will fail at everything that they half-heartedly attempt to do.

00:14:13.780 Marriage is supposed to be a deep source of fulfillment and purpose and joy, but like any other worthwhile thing, it requires work and sacrifice.

00:14:21.680 You have to dig deep into the earth to find diamonds.

00:14:25.540 There's no use complaining that they don't fall out of the sky.

00:14:28.120 Besides, if they did, we'd all be killed anyway.

00:14:29.960 The good and beautiful things in life require work, and it's just as simple as that.

00:14:33.360 You have to dig for them.

00:14:35.300 In the context of marriage, the digging doesn't need to be back-breaking or terribly strenuous.

00:14:40.080 It's not like marriage is constant drudgery with moments of happiness thrown in.

00:14:43.180 That's not the point.

00:14:44.240 Most of the work is just like living your everyday life, meeting the normal types of challenges that come your way.

00:14:50.180 The kinds of challenges that you would have to face if you were alone, only now you have somebody by your side.

00:14:55.480 So in many cases, life challenges can be quite a bit easier when you're married for this reason.

00:15:00.540 But you cannot expect that the other person lives simply to make you happy every second of the day as if they have no life or identity of their own and as if the marriage is your play thing which exists for your personal entertainment.

00:15:12.800 It is virtually guaranteed that this is the attitude a person brought into marriage if they get divorced a year later or two years later.

00:15:21.400 Like, we know.

00:15:22.120 This is someone who didn't want a spouse. 0.99

00:15:24.640 She wanted a video game character that she could control for her amusement.

00:15:28.820 I think the real thing to be learned from Maya's video, if anything at all can be learned from it,

00:15:32.760 is that this is why so many young men are terrified to get married.

00:15:37.300 They have a deep and certainly not entirely unjustified fear that they'll end up in a marriage with a woman like Maya Khalifa.

00:15:44.040 The young man who's afraid of marriage is afraid of it because he doesn't want to give his heart and his life to a woman who then treats this sacred union like a piece of paper that she can throw in the shredder the moment that she feels a little bit bored.

00:15:55.420 Given that the majority of divorces are initiated by women and that very often their reasons are intensely selfish like this, this fear is understandable. 0.92

00:16:03.900 Maya Khalifa is obviously a terrible person, an awful woman, a sociopath who professes her love to a man only to casually stab him in the back and treat their vows like a joke. 1.00

00:16:13.700 And she is far from the only woman of this type lurking out there. 0.99

00:16:18.180 And this is a source of great anxiety for young men who otherwise long to become husbands and fathers.

00:16:23.620 Frankly, it should be a source of worry for them.

00:16:26.320 But here's the good news.

00:16:27.080 Here's the good news.

00:16:27.720 These types of women, if you're a man, if you're a young man, you got to just trust me on this. 1.00

00:16:32.240 These types of women are easy to spot, okay? 1.00

00:16:35.280 You can see the Maya Khalifas of the world from a mile away. 1.00

00:16:38.640 And I don't just mean because she's a porn star. 1.00

00:16:40.520 I mean a shallow, selfish woman who is concerned for no one's happiness but her own is very obvious most of the time. 1.00

00:16:48.580 You should be able to pick up on this in one conversation, let alone a date.

00:16:52.720 If you get a whole date with someone and you're talking to them for, you know, a couple hours, you should be able to tell all this real quickly.

00:17:00.740 It is very unlikely that an awful, self-centered, bimbo narcissist will be able to present herself as some kind of high-character woman. 1.00

00:17:08.800 Much less will she be able to keep up the act through the entire process of dating and engagement.

00:17:13.040 Now, there are a few masters of disguise out there, but most of them wear their awfulness on their sleeve because it's the only way they know how to be.

00:17:20.080 And they also aren't aware of how awful they are, so they don't know that they should hide it.

00:17:25.020 So then how do men end up with these kinds of women? 0.96

00:17:27.560 How did three different men propose to Maya Khalifa?

00:17:31.780 Well, that's no mystery either.

00:17:33.480 They become enamored with other aspects of the woman.

00:17:36.240 They allow those other aspects to overshadow the glaring character defects that they definitely do see.

00:17:42.000 And they go out and they buy the ring against their better judgment.

00:17:44.780 So use better judgment.

00:17:46.240 There are plenty of good women in the world, just as there are plenty of good men.

00:17:49.740 If you see a Maya Khalifa walking around out there, just keep going. 1.00

00:17:53.380 Keep searching.

00:17:54.640 She's not worth the trouble.

00:17:56.060 Not even close.

00:17:57.140 And that is why Maya Khalifa, and frankly, the men who were dumb enough to propose to her, are all today canceled.

00:18:02.820 Good morning.

00:18:06.840 Bye-bye.

00:18:12.140 Bye-bye.

The Matt Walsh Show - October 26, 2024

Matt Walsh Roasts Feminist Celebrities

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