The Michael Knowles Show


Ep. 379 - Why AOC Is Wrong About Gender, Patriarchy, And Everything Else


Summary

In this episode of The Michael Knowles Show, Michael talks about sexism, patriarchy, and the Epstein scandal. He also talks about how Jeffrey Epstein became one of the most powerful men in the world, and why the left is so obsessed with him.


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00:00:37.780 Freshman Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez accuses fellow woman Kellyanne Conway of being sexist toward her because, quote,
00:00:47.820 the patriarchy has no gender.
00:00:50.440 We will examine why AOC is wrong about gender, patriarchy, and everything else.
00:00:55.700 Then, soccer star Megan Rapinoe agrees with her conservative critics about equal pay and a judge rules that President Trump can't block people on Twitter.
00:01:06.060 All that and more.
00:01:07.100 I'm Michael Knowles, and this is The Michael Knowles Show.
00:01:08.960 Okay, before we get to the sex that I want to talk about, which is the sexism and the gender and the patriarchy,
00:01:23.720 we have to talk about the sex that I don't want to talk about, which is this sordid saga of Jeffrey Epstein.
00:01:31.580 Because you know how much I hate to point out that I told you so.
00:01:35.380 Well, yesterday on the show, I mentioned that the left would be framing this as an anti-Trump issue, that this is all about Donald Trump.
00:01:43.420 I just want to point out that the major Washington Post coverage on this today, this is the headline, quote,
00:01:48.880 No headline about the really shady, bizarre past of Jeffrey Epstein.
00:02:05.060 No headline about that.
00:02:06.040 No, no, it's just all about Trump, which is the only reason they're bringing this up now.
00:02:09.720 And I just want to, on this one point where they keep going back to this 2002 New York Magazine article where Donald Trump called Epstein a terrific guy,
00:02:19.120 I just want to remind everybody that Donald Trump regularly calls awful people terrific guys.
00:02:25.100 This is just, I guess, his way of speaking.
00:02:27.280 He'll, you know, if it's convenient, he'll say, Oh, yeah, him, he's terrific.
00:02:30.360 Oh, I really like that guy.
00:02:31.500 Even if he's the worst guy on earth.
00:02:32.920 He actually has done it about the worst guy on earth.
00:02:36.300 Back when he started opening negotiations with North Korea, he used the exact same word to refer to Kim Jong-un.
00:02:43.800 Here's President Trump.
00:02:44.800 We're making tremendous progress.
00:02:48.020 Chairman Kim has been really very open and terrific, frankly.
00:02:55.140 So we know this is just the way that President Trump talks, especially when he's flattering people.
00:03:00.740 I mean, Trump, historically, has been a flatterer.
00:03:04.020 He'll flatter people, and then the minute they turn on him, he'll call them the worst names you can possibly imagine.
00:03:11.080 This has been true of Rosie O'Donnell.
00:03:12.840 This has been true of everybody else that he's encountered.
00:03:16.880 I also want to point out, there is a lot of weird stuff with this Epstein story.
00:03:22.740 It seems like every hour we're getting new information that complicates the picture.
00:03:27.620 And there are some pretty wild theories swirling around.
00:03:31.840 I'm not going to call them conspiracy theories, because I guess they could be true.
00:03:35.260 But I'm not going to say that they're obvious facts, because we just really have no idea what's going on here.
00:03:41.280 But the big question that keeps popping up is, how did Jeffrey Epstein make all his money?
00:03:48.600 Because Jeffrey Epstein isn't just rich.
00:03:52.020 Jeffrey Epstein is really, really, really rich.
00:03:56.280 Jeffrey Epstein, in 1992, had the largest private residence in Manhattan.
00:04:03.480 Manhattan is the center of the world.
00:04:05.800 Manhattan is the most primo real estate on earth, basically.
00:04:10.260 And Epstein had the single largest private residence on the whole island.
00:04:16.120 There's rich, and then there's really rich, and then there is unfathomably infinite resources rich.
00:04:22.740 And Epstein falls into that last category, and the question you have to ask is, how?
00:04:30.320 The guy's a college dropout.
00:04:32.020 I guess he was at the Cooper Union, which is an art school, art and engineering.
00:04:35.800 He dropped out of it.
00:04:37.540 He then, this is kind of a weird coincidence, he was hired to teach at a private school,
00:04:43.480 a very prestigious private school in New York, actually not far from where I grew up.
00:04:47.100 He was hired there by Attorney General William Barr's father, Donald Barr.
00:04:54.340 And he taught there for a little bit, and then he left.
00:04:56.660 Then he worked at Bear Stearns, the financial firm, which went under.
00:05:03.160 This became a big part of the financial crisis in 2007, 2008.
00:05:06.040 Then he left under pretty shady circumstances.
00:05:09.920 We don't know why he left.
00:05:10.880 We don't know how he did there.
00:05:12.240 And he started his own hedge fund.
00:05:14.260 And then he ostensibly became this incredibly wealthy guy.
00:05:19.540 I know people who have worked for hedge funds and who have their own hedge funds,
00:05:22.980 and a lot of them have made an insane amount of money.
00:05:26.020 But it's also worth remembering, most hedge funds fail.
00:05:29.780 It's not like, I mean, hedge fund, even that term is so vague.
00:05:34.320 And so a lot of people at the time were wondering how, where did Epstein get his money from?
00:05:41.060 Is he just the greatest investor in the world?
00:05:43.440 I mean, who are his clients?
00:05:44.520 He kept his clients to be a tightly held secret.
00:05:46.800 We just don't really know anything about that guy.
00:05:50.180 And it gets even weirder because now today, from the Daily Beast, there's a report in about why
00:05:55.920 now Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta, who was then a U.S. attorney,
00:06:00.320 let Epstein off the hook with this sweetheart deal.
00:06:03.980 Instead of sending him away for life for all of the charges against him,
00:06:07.300 he got 13 months in a private wing of a county jail, and that's it.
00:06:11.360 And he got to leave six days a week for 12 hours a day.
00:06:14.540 How did he get that deal?
00:06:15.660 And this is what the Daily Beast is reporting.
00:06:17.340 Quote,
00:06:17.480 Is the Epstein case going to be a problem for confirmation hearings, Acosta had been asked.
00:06:24.880 Acosta had explained, breezily apparently, that back in the day, he'd had just one meeting on the Epstein case.
00:06:32.200 He'd cut the non-prosecution deal with one of Epstein's attorneys because he had been told, in quotes,
00:06:38.500 to back off, that Epstein was above his pay grade.
00:06:43.140 Quote,
00:06:43.660 I was told Epstein belonged to intelligence and to leave it alone, he told his interviewers in the Trump transition,
00:06:51.000 who evidently thought that that was a sufficient answer and went ahead and hired Acosta.
00:06:55.780 The Labor Department had no comment when asked about this.
00:07:00.140 This is the stuff of conspiracy theories.
00:07:02.440 I mean, this, except it's being reported by the Daily Beast, which occasionally is a sort of mainstream outlet.
00:07:08.140 You know, it's not like this is one of these really fringy sites.
00:07:11.340 As far as left-wing outlets go, Daily Beast is about as mainstream as they get.
00:07:15.520 Now, before we jump to the conclusion that this is all some secret plot by the CIA or intelligence or whatever,
00:07:22.120 it is possible that Acosta was just coming up with an excuse to explain why he bungled the deal with Jeffrey Epstein.
00:07:29.100 I guess that's possible.
00:07:31.000 Before we conclude that this is some crazy CIA plot to, I don't know, to have a sex ring or to entrap,
00:07:38.140 very powerful men, it's also possible that they were using, that the intelligence community was using Jeffrey Epstein as an asset for other purposes.
00:07:48.200 Maybe in the financial crisis.
00:07:50.000 I mean, the financial crisis was happening as this deal was struck.
00:07:53.400 Maybe he was useful to them in the collapse of Bear Stearns.
00:07:55.980 Maybe he was useful to them for other purposes.
00:07:58.720 We just don't know.
00:08:00.120 We don't know anything about this guy.
00:08:02.180 Anyway, and so the theories are swirling around.
00:08:06.460 There is one theory that the person backing Epstein isn't a person at all.
00:08:13.000 It wasn't just this cabal of, you know, zillionaires who all happened to like 13-year-old girls or 14-year-old girls.
00:08:20.420 One theory that Ann Coulter brought up yesterday is that he could have had a state sponsor,
00:08:25.080 that this was a state-sponsored intelligence operation.
00:08:27.880 I'm not saying that's what it was.
00:08:29.100 I have absolutely no idea.
00:08:31.080 Nobody else does either.
00:08:32.580 But the question of how Jeffrey Epstein made his money, who was funding him in the first place,
00:08:38.200 is going to be central to the rest of this case.
00:08:42.600 And so obviously we'll be following this as it builds.
00:08:46.900 Now to get to the sex that I want to talk about.
00:08:50.000 The sex that I want to talk about is AOC accusing Kellyanne Conway of being sexist toward her.
00:08:58.140 Now you might have heard that name, Kellyanne, that's a woman's name.
00:09:02.640 So AOC, also a woman, is saying that Kellyanne, a woman, is sexist toward a woman.
00:09:08.520 The reason why is that Kellyanne Conway on Fox News referred to the recent tiff between Nancy Pelosi and AOC as a catfight.
00:09:19.240 Here's Kellyanne.
00:09:19.940 Those four female Democrats that Nancy Pelosi is brushing back, I think they're all freshman members,
00:09:26.860 a major meow moment, brushing back in a huge catfight, really ridiculing them.
00:09:33.720 And they voted against the Democratic aid package.
00:09:36.920 Meow indeed.
00:09:38.500 Ooh, it was a catfight.
00:09:39.980 That's not a sexist term.
00:09:41.080 That's an accurate description.
00:09:42.300 This was a particularly snarky battle that was going on between, especially Nancy Pelosi and to AOC.
00:09:52.780 Here's how AOC described it.
00:09:55.100 Quote,
00:09:55.320 Meanwhile, the GOP nominated a woman for vice president in 2008.
00:10:20.520 One of our leading future presidential candidates is Nikki Haley, former U.N. ambassador, governor of South Carolina.
00:10:29.660 I mean, you could go down the list.
00:10:30.880 The GOP has a ton of women.
00:10:33.240 And, of course, Kellyanne Conway, the campaign manager for Donald Trump, first successful campaign, a female campaign manager in American history, and a senior advisor to the president.
00:10:42.960 So I don't think that hit makes a whole lot of sense.
00:10:45.640 But catfight isn't just a term used by Republicans.
00:10:50.600 It's a term that everybody uses to describe when two women are getting angry with each other.
00:10:55.460 I mean, you could say a fight between two men is a bunch of knuckle draggers or a couple of Neanderthals.
00:11:00.300 You hear those kind of terms as well.
00:11:02.840 But then AOC gets to her main point.
00:11:05.340 And this exposes the lie of the entire gender ideology movement.
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00:13:09.920 So then AOC follows this up.
00:13:12.820 And she gets to the actual point here that dissolves, I think, the transgender ideology.
00:13:19.920 And she says, patriarchy has no gender.
00:13:25.220 This is how she explains how a woman can be sexist against another woman.
00:13:29.860 She says, patriarchy has no gender.
00:13:33.220 Now just as a simple point of definitions, I went to the Oxford English Dictionary.
00:13:37.880 I thought maybe I'm wrong about the definition of patriarchy.
00:13:40.620 No, it turns out AOC is wrong.
00:13:42.360 But patriarchy, as defined by the OED, is, quote, a system of society or government in which the father or eldest male is head of the family and descent is reckoned through the male line.
00:13:55.100 Father.
00:13:56.260 Male.
00:13:57.680 Okay.
00:13:58.300 That's patriarchy.
00:13:59.680 It does have a gender.
00:14:00.580 So on the surface, AOC's comment doesn't make any sense.
00:14:05.280 On the surface, the gender ideology, transgender ideology movement doesn't make any sense.
00:14:10.920 But there actually is sort of, almost, an internal logic to it.
00:14:16.280 And conservatives totally mistake how to deal with gender ideology and transgenderism.
00:14:22.540 We make the mistake of trying to argue this point on scientific grounds.
00:14:28.620 This is what you always hear.
00:14:29.500 Let's just talk about the science.
00:14:31.560 Forget religion.
00:14:32.700 Forget morals.
00:14:33.760 Forget philosophy.
00:14:34.860 We just want to talk about the science or the chromosomes or the biology or whatever.
00:14:41.720 I know that's tempting because scientifically our points are correct.
00:14:45.600 But gender is not a scientific concept.
00:14:48.920 The way that the left is talking about gender, the way that AOC is talking about gender and patriarchy, is not scientific.
00:14:55.740 Gender is not a scientific term.
00:14:57.200 Gender was a term that was never applied to human beings in popular culture until about the 1960s.
00:15:06.160 Gender was a term that was applied to language.
00:15:09.760 You have gendered language.
00:15:12.260 Really not so much in English, but in other languages.
00:15:14.900 So, for instance, Latino has a masculine gender.
00:15:19.220 Latina has a feminine gender.
00:15:22.260 Pizza, the Italian word pizza, it ends in an A and it's got a female gender.
00:15:28.900 But, I don't know.
00:15:30.380 Pranzo, which is the Italian word for lunch, it ends in an O and it's got a male gender.
00:15:35.340 The gender is a language term.
00:15:37.360 The entire purpose of the left making gender into a description of people is to undermine science.
00:15:45.760 It's to separate sex from gender.
00:15:49.220 You hear this all the time.
00:15:50.120 I talk to conservatives all the time on campuses around the country, and I think even many conservatives believe this.
00:15:56.340 They believe that there is a difference between sex and gender.
00:16:00.140 I mean, in their defense, this is what they're taught in classrooms.
00:16:03.580 This is what kids are now taught from kindergarten all the way through college or graduate school.
00:16:08.960 The thing is, there is no difference between sex and gender.
00:16:12.820 You can lock that away with the Easter Bunny and the Tooth Fairy.
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00:16:19.060 We just have sex.
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00:18:34.840 So, even conservatives fall into this trap.
00:18:37.960 We buy the leftist premise that there's a difference between gender and sex.
00:18:43.580 Or, if we don't, maybe we don't want to grant that premise, but we try to argue about it scientifically.
00:18:50.100 There's no scientific argument for it.
00:18:51.940 Here is how, I've talked to so many left-wingers about this.
00:18:54.380 They can never answer the ultimate questions.
00:18:57.580 Here's how the argument goes.
00:18:58.780 This is what the left says.
00:19:00.920 They say, sex is biological, but gender is not biological.
00:19:06.920 It's a social construct.
00:19:08.860 It's psychological.
00:19:10.160 It's not physical.
00:19:12.220 It's not the same as sex.
00:19:14.900 But, if gender is just a social construct, if it's just sort of a choice, then people should
00:19:20.760 choose to make their gender conform to their biological sex, right?
00:19:25.240 If you can just kind of choose your gender, and it's just a matter of your personal will,
00:19:30.080 then if you're biologically a man, but you identify as a female, and that's just a choice,
00:19:37.480 then you should just choose to identify as a male.
00:19:39.640 That's much easier than going through all this awful surgery, mutilating yourself, changing
00:19:44.960 every single bathroom in the country, right?
00:19:46.920 Of course.
00:19:47.800 But then what the gender ideologues will say is, it's not quite like that.
00:19:53.340 Sex is in the body, in the chromosomes or the genitals or whatever, but gender is in the brain.
00:20:01.640 Okay, and you can't change your brain.
00:20:05.600 Well, okay, except then that means that gender is biological.
00:20:10.900 Then it's not a difference of biological and not biological, because the brain is the part
00:20:15.000 of the body.
00:20:16.140 The brain is probably the most important part of the body.
00:20:18.900 So then you have to conclude, sex and gender are both biological.
00:20:23.280 So how can your biology be both male and female?
00:20:26.080 How can your biology be both you are a man and a woman?
00:20:30.020 Except in the exceedingly rare case where there's some confusion in chromosomes or in genitals,
00:20:35.440 which is not what transgender ideologues are talking about.
00:20:39.580 How can it be both one thing and not that thing?
00:20:42.820 So this is what they're coming around to now.
00:20:44.700 This is the new stage of gender ideology.
00:20:46.960 And it's where you hear phrases like biologically female penises.
00:20:50.940 I had a gender activist tell me once at the University of Michigan, she said, yes, of course there
00:20:57.620 can be biologically female penises.
00:20:59.900 And of course there can be biologically male uteruses.
00:21:05.180 Biological.
00:21:06.100 See, because they want the language of science.
00:21:08.000 But if that is the case, then the words male and female, the words man and woman have no
00:21:14.120 meaning because the word male in that case can refer to either male or female.
00:21:21.340 The word man can refer to either man or woman and vice versa.
00:21:27.740 It's not that you're even changing the definition of the word so much as you're just getting rid
00:21:33.060 of the words altogether.
00:21:34.180 Now, they get very confused on this and they always run away and they can't answer these
00:21:39.260 questions.
00:21:40.240 But I actually see what they're trying to talk about.
00:21:43.180 What the gender theory people are trying to describe is not a scientific characteristic of
00:21:48.960 people.
00:21:49.900 They're trying to describe the soul.
00:21:53.500 They're trying to describe the difference between my physical body and my metaphysical
00:21:59.180 soul.
00:21:59.620 So, what the transgender ideologues say is, on the physical level, I look like a man.
00:22:05.220 You know, I've got broad shoulders, I've got a beard, I've got everything below the waist
00:22:08.920 that makes me look like a man.
00:22:10.520 But, at a more essential level, deep, deep down, somewhere that you can't see, I'm not
00:22:17.180 really what my body says that I am.
00:22:20.180 I'm something else.
00:22:21.720 There's a difference, they say, between me and my body.
00:22:25.380 And this is not a totally new question.
00:22:28.760 I mean, we think of transgenderism as this bizarre new idea.
00:22:31.580 It's just a bizarre new version of a very old idea.
00:22:35.280 This is the central question of the gender theory.
00:22:39.100 This is the central problem.
00:22:40.820 Is a question as old as time.
00:22:45.280 What is the relationship between me and my body and my soul?
00:22:49.540 And this question took on special modern significance with René Descartes, with the father of modern
00:22:55.480 philosophy, who laid the foundation for the Enlightenment and who, consequently, gave us
00:23:00.640 a lot of our modern problems.
00:23:02.460 What Descartes said is that the body is not essential to a person's identity.
00:23:08.120 So, my body, you know, I've got sort of swarthy skin, I've got a little bit of a Roman nose,
00:23:12.180 I've got some poofy hair.
00:23:13.320 That is not essential to my identity.
00:23:15.680 That's just sort of accidental.
00:23:16.920 What I really am is immaterial.
00:23:22.180 My body exists as a machine, and then my soul, which is who I really am, exists as a ghost
00:23:28.740 in that machine.
00:23:30.240 Now, I don't really believe that.
00:23:31.880 That's what a lot of modern people think.
00:23:34.560 That's what Descartes thought, and that's what these gender ideologues believe.
00:23:38.000 But this isn't the traditional understanding.
00:23:39.840 The traditional understanding of the body, the Christian understanding, Aristotle's understanding,
00:23:45.280 Thomas Aquinas' understanding.
00:23:46.920 Is that the body is essential to a person's identity.
00:23:51.840 Now, there are a lot of weird theories that have popped up throughout history to say that
00:23:55.480 the physical world is evil.
00:23:57.140 The physical body is evil.
00:23:58.800 Matter is evil.
00:24:00.140 And therefore, we should divorce ourselves from the material world.
00:24:03.420 This has cropped up as a number of bizarre movements and heresies and things like that.
00:24:07.440 Those ideas have always been defeated because civilization would collapse if we really believed that.
00:24:14.720 If we really believe that everything physical is just evil and terrible and awful and has to be utterly rejected,
00:24:20.740 you can't have a civilization.
00:24:22.840 You can't have a society.
00:24:24.040 You can't even move around in your own body.
00:24:26.780 But that's what the gender theory people believe.
00:24:30.460 They're searching for a soul.
00:24:32.640 But they can't bring themselves to admit that because they also tend to believe that there's no such thing as a soul.
00:24:39.000 So they're stuck in this awful place where they're arguing the extremes of two ideologies,
00:24:43.880 both of which are completely wrong.
00:24:46.140 I think I know how we can deal with this.
00:24:48.100 I think I know how we can talk to people about the gender ideology that isn't just,
00:24:52.720 look at the chromosomes, look at the science.
00:24:54.660 Because I think ultimately that doesn't really go anywhere.
00:24:57.040 We'll get to how to deal with them in a second.
00:24:58.840 We will also get to Megan Rapinoe.
00:25:01.640 I guess it must be a chilly day in hell because I'm actually agreeing with the soccer star on one question.
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00:25:58.380 So the gender theory people are trying to describe the soul,
00:26:11.060 except they don't believe in the soul because they tend to be materialists.
00:26:14.660 They tend to think that only the physical world exists.
00:26:17.720 And all of the things that aren't physical, like love and joy and the soul,
00:26:21.520 that it's all basically just an illusion.
00:26:23.680 That we're just matter.
00:26:24.660 We're just kind of flesh and that's all that we are.
00:26:27.960 So they distinguish between the physical body, sex, and the metaphysical mind, or gender.
00:26:35.120 But then they go right back and they deny the difference between the mind,
00:26:38.740 which is not physical, and the brain, which is physical.
00:26:42.020 And so you get to this contradiction.
00:26:44.520 Any way you slice it, gender ideology doesn't make sense.
00:26:48.600 But we are very foolish if we think that we're going to convince them of that based on science.
00:26:53.660 It's not a scientific question.
00:26:55.280 It's a philosophical and religious question.
00:26:58.500 And at times throughout history, when people have been philosophically and religiously shallow and stupid,
00:27:05.540 these kind of theories crop up.
00:27:07.700 The foundation for gender theory was laid by two things.
00:27:13.300 The decay of education and the decay of religion.
00:27:17.160 And we are now seeing the fruits of that.
00:27:19.420 Because people just don't, they have these really shallow ideas.
00:27:22.800 I mean, Dr. Johnson famously said,
00:27:24.800 all shallows are clear.
00:27:27.560 Little shallow bodies of water, very clear.
00:27:30.520 Profound things are murky.
00:27:31.760 You can't see to the bottom of profound things.
00:27:33.600 And we have a very shallow religious and educational culture right now,
00:27:37.820 which is why these gender people are so convinced that they're correct,
00:27:40.980 even though they couldn't possibly be more confused.
00:27:43.820 You're not going to be able to just convince people that gender ideology is wrong with a simple argument.
00:27:51.700 You're going to have to slowly build on that.
00:27:54.680 You're going to have to raise serious religious questions,
00:27:58.100 raise serious philosophical questions.
00:28:00.060 You're going to have to rebuild the educational system.
00:28:02.220 You're going to have to start going back to church or synagogue or wherever you go.
00:28:06.420 You're going to have to start taking these things seriously.
00:28:09.020 Because if conservatives just keep up this,
00:28:11.240 look at the science argument,
00:28:13.160 you're not going to convince anybody.
00:28:14.860 It's not about science.
00:28:16.120 It's about something much deeper and something that we've lost.
00:28:19.800 And we know as conservatives,
00:28:21.760 you can't just shout from the rooftop all day.
00:28:23.900 You actually have to do the thing.
00:28:25.740 You can't just talk about how great religion is.
00:28:27.940 You actually have to practice it.
00:28:28.980 You can't just talk about how great certain education systems are.
00:28:33.920 You have to do them.
00:28:34.800 You have to read the books.
00:28:36.060 And you have to make it a big part of your life.
00:28:38.520 So, bizarrely, I can't believe I'm saying this,
00:28:41.340 I actually sort of agree with AOC that the patriarchy has no gender.
00:28:46.940 Because nobody has a gender.
00:28:48.780 Because people don't have genders.
00:28:50.340 We have sex.
00:28:51.380 It's all about sex, baby.
00:28:53.840 And in other bizarro world news,
00:28:57.140 I'm also finding myself agreeing with the U.S. women's soccer star,
00:29:01.200 Megan Rapinoe, also on a question of sex.
00:29:04.440 Megan Rapinoe was on my MSNBC show last night,
00:29:08.020 and she was there to discuss her calls for equal pay
00:29:10.700 for the men's and women's soccer teams.
00:29:12.840 And she accidentally, I think,
00:29:15.200 but nevertheless, she agreed with the arguments of her conservative critics.
00:29:19.480 Here's Megan Rapinoe.
00:29:20.180 In the moments immediately following the final whistle,
00:29:22.860 you get that USA, USA chant,
00:29:24.800 but equal pay, equal pay along that same cadence.
00:29:27.240 I think fans want to know what they can do to support that fight.
00:29:31.020 Fans can come to games.
00:29:32.860 Obviously, the national team games will be a hot ticket.
00:29:35.760 But we have nine teams in NWSL.
00:29:38.140 You can go to your league games.
00:29:40.060 You can support that way.
00:29:41.820 You can, you know, buy players' jerseys.
00:29:45.100 You can lend your support in that way.
00:29:46.540 You can tell your friends about it.
00:29:47.780 You can become season ticket holders.
00:29:49.120 I think in terms of that,
00:29:51.940 that's the easiest way for fans to get involved.
00:29:55.200 She's totally right about this.
00:29:57.580 The issue of equal pay for the men's and women's soccer teams
00:30:01.020 is not a question of some regulation or some law
00:30:04.080 or some secret, hidden, institutional patriarchy.
00:30:08.140 It's a question of revenue.
00:30:10.360 Matt Walsh had a great point on this yesterday.
00:30:13.300 It's not just that women's soccer players are underpaid
00:30:17.580 or they're paid less than men.
00:30:18.920 They are paid less than men as a matter of just numbers.
00:30:23.020 But as a matter of, you know, hard cash,
00:30:25.740 as a matter of the percentage of their business that they're paid,
00:30:29.060 women's soccer players are actually overpaid.
00:30:32.140 And the reason for that is,
00:30:33.260 just to cite a few statistics here,
00:30:35.900 the Men's World Cup generated $6 billion in revenue.
00:30:39.700 That was the last World Cup, $6 billion with a B.
00:30:43.360 The Women's World Cup generated, can you guess,
00:30:46.920 $131 million of revenue.
00:30:52.700 Way, way, way less.
00:30:54.020 Not multiples, you know, an order of magnitude less.
00:30:56.580 Well over that.
00:30:58.460 So men, if you look at the total revenue of the World Cup,
00:31:01.120 were paid 7%.
00:31:02.780 That's what the players got.
00:31:04.440 If you look at the total revenue of the Women's World Cup,
00:31:07.160 they were paid 20%.
00:31:08.700 So they got almost three times as much
00:31:12.920 as a percentage of their total revenue that the men got.
00:31:15.760 Now women apparently want 400% of their revenue.
00:31:18.680 Where's that money going to come from?
00:31:19.740 Magic, I guess.
00:31:20.480 Or maybe they'll take it from the men's team
00:31:22.080 or something like that.
00:31:23.120 So she's right.
00:31:23.860 The way, if you want to build up women's soccer,
00:31:26.400 which I don't recommend you do,
00:31:27.600 but if that's something you want to do,
00:31:29.000 the way you do it is you buy season tickets,
00:31:30.920 you go to the games,
00:31:32.320 you buy popcorn and cracker jacket at the games,
00:31:34.580 or there they probably have like acai bowls
00:31:36.440 and kombucha or something.
00:31:37.620 I don't know, whatever they sell at the stadium.
00:31:39.240 You buy the jerseys.
00:31:40.460 I don't know if they have playing cards,
00:31:41.680 but you buy the cards.
00:31:42.660 You just, you give your money to the sport
00:31:44.860 and it becomes very big.
00:31:46.220 That's how baseball went from being,
00:31:48.600 you know, a relatively cheap endeavor
00:31:50.320 in the 1940s and 1950s.
00:31:53.340 Now I go to a baseball game at Yankee Stadium.
00:31:55.560 I have to take out a mortgage on my car.
00:31:58.160 It's a big business.
00:32:00.040 That's because people like it.
00:32:01.140 It's because people really care about it.
00:32:03.020 Now I don't want to give the wrong impression here
00:32:05.000 that I like Megan Rapinoe
00:32:07.180 or that I think she's like a good figure
00:32:09.640 in American culture.
00:32:10.900 She is awful.
00:32:12.980 And she exhibited in a video
00:32:14.420 that has now gone viral
00:32:15.600 with her holding her trophy,
00:32:17.840 why people really don't like her
00:32:20.260 and why people really don't like
00:32:22.060 the whole ethos around this women's soccer team.
00:32:25.060 Here is what Megan Rapinoe thinks about her win.
00:32:29.420 Is it she's so humble,
00:32:30.960 she's so thankful to God,
00:32:32.540 she's so thankful to all the fans?
00:32:34.360 No, she says three words.
00:32:37.200 I deserve this.
00:32:39.620 Oh, it's like everything
00:32:53.240 that's wrong with feminism.
00:32:54.700 It's everything that's wrong with
00:32:57.040 this soccer team.
00:32:58.940 It's everything that's wrong with leftism.
00:33:01.680 I deserve this.
00:33:02.940 I'm entitled to this.
00:33:04.460 I'm so great.
00:33:05.840 I'm so proud.
00:33:07.320 I have nothing to be ashamed of.
00:33:08.920 I'm the best thing ever.
00:33:10.360 This is pride.
00:33:11.280 I mean, we've been talking about pride
00:33:12.580 obviously for the whole month of Pride Month.
00:33:15.320 Pretty soon it's going to be Pride Year.
00:33:18.080 This is pride and people hate pride.
00:33:20.460 Pride is a vice.
00:33:21.940 Pride is a sin.
00:33:23.280 It's ugly.
00:33:24.200 Nobody likes it.
00:33:25.320 We like humility.
00:33:27.020 It's amazing to me
00:33:28.060 that the left gets on Donald Trump
00:33:29.620 because Trump brags all the time.
00:33:31.580 You know, he puts his name on everything.
00:33:33.260 Says, I'm the best president ever.
00:33:34.840 He actually has been a really good president.
00:33:36.480 He's got a lot to brag about
00:33:37.900 and he rarely misses an opportunity to brag.
00:33:40.480 And the left says,
00:33:41.600 this is awful.
00:33:42.220 This is terrible.
00:33:42.980 I hate this.
00:33:44.380 But I love when Megan Rapinoe
00:33:47.060 kicked a ball
00:33:47.920 only a little bit worse
00:33:49.320 than a 14-year-old boy.
00:33:51.120 And she deserves everything.
00:33:53.320 She deserves the bottle of
00:33:54.600 Veuve Clicquot champagne
00:33:55.520 she's drinking
00:33:56.160 and she deserves the statue
00:33:58.080 that she's holding in her hand.
00:34:00.000 You don't deserve it.
00:34:01.740 None of us deserves anything, frankly.
00:34:04.520 I mean, this is a major difference
00:34:07.400 between how conservatives
00:34:09.040 tend to view the world
00:34:10.440 and how radicals and leftists
00:34:13.380 and progressives tend to view the world.
00:34:15.440 I don't think I deserve anything.
00:34:18.580 I have an amazing life.
00:34:20.620 Everything that I've ever gotten
00:34:21.960 is an unmerited gift from God.
00:34:24.520 And all the suffering I've endured
00:34:26.160 is nothing compared to this great joy
00:34:28.180 of life that we have.
00:34:29.600 I mean, just to use a particular example,
00:34:31.440 I got a show
00:34:32.360 because I didn't write a book.
00:34:34.460 I didn't write a book
00:34:35.680 and then I published it
00:34:36.840 and it was called
00:34:37.280 Reasons to Vote for Democrats,
00:34:38.480 a comprehensive guide
00:34:39.340 and it's completely blank.
00:34:40.500 And then I got a show for it.
00:34:41.680 If that's not the unmerited grace of God,
00:34:43.280 I don't know what is.
00:34:44.600 If you have an attitude of gratitude,
00:34:48.320 that's sounding a little cliche,
00:34:49.540 but it's real.
00:34:50.600 It's a cliche for a reason.
00:34:52.000 If you have an attitude of gratitude,
00:34:53.760 you're going to have a better time in life.
00:34:56.400 You're going to be more thankful
00:34:57.760 for the people you have,
00:34:59.060 the friends you have,
00:34:59.760 the love that you feel,
00:35:00.720 the love of God, your creator.
00:35:03.120 Food is going to taste better.
00:35:04.540 Cigars are going to taste better.
00:35:06.220 Drinks are going to taste sweeter
00:35:07.260 because you don't deserve this.
00:35:10.200 You didn't invent your life.
00:35:12.260 You were given your life as a gift.
00:35:13.980 Ultimately, that's what it comes down to.
00:35:16.600 You didn't choose your parents.
00:35:18.040 You were given your parents.
00:35:20.960 And this is true for everyone.
00:35:22.420 This is true for people
00:35:23.160 who have disproportionate amounts of suffering.
00:35:25.800 This is true of people
00:35:26.660 who have relative privilege.
00:35:28.580 I'm kind of agreeing with the left
00:35:29.960 in that I'll check my privilege,
00:35:32.820 but I'm not upset about privilege.
00:35:35.460 I'm not ashamed.
00:35:36.120 I'm happy for privilege.
00:35:37.300 And we all have privileges.
00:35:39.000 It's a wonderful thing.
00:35:40.260 But she says,
00:35:40.980 I deserve it.
00:35:41.560 I'm entitled to it.
00:35:42.460 And it's why she always comes off
00:35:44.480 as bitter and awful.
00:35:45.600 And it's why that whole team
00:35:46.900 is bitter and awful.
00:35:48.120 And they hate their country.
00:35:49.820 And she at least hates her country.
00:35:51.620 And she disrespects the American flag.
00:35:53.920 And she has no sense
00:35:55.380 of how unimportant she is.
00:35:58.560 She has no sense
00:35:59.580 of all the wonderful gifts
00:36:01.160 she's been given,
00:36:01.880 the God-given talents
00:36:03.000 and the ability
00:36:05.860 to develop those talents
00:36:06.980 and a country to support her,
00:36:08.460 to send her abroad.
00:36:09.220 I mean, it's just terrible.
00:36:10.600 And it's not only a problem
00:36:14.220 of women's soccer.
00:36:15.120 This is a cultural disease
00:36:17.360 that has spread particularly
00:36:18.700 on the left.
00:36:20.120 And you've got to just
00:36:20.820 cut it off at the knees.
00:36:22.100 She doesn't deserve it.
00:36:23.340 She doesn't deserve anything.
00:36:24.980 And she's terrible.
00:36:25.940 And only when she acknowledges that
00:36:27.520 will she, I think,
00:36:29.400 come to appreciate
00:36:30.200 all the wonderful gifts
00:36:31.020 she's been given.
00:36:32.380 Now,
00:36:33.100 I have got some,
00:36:36.940 I think, actually,
00:36:38.440 pretty good news.
00:36:39.320 But it's really ironic news.
00:36:41.320 Out of the courts,
00:36:42.800 President Trump
00:36:43.500 has now been told
00:36:46.220 he can't block people
00:36:48.400 on Twitter.
00:36:49.560 I didn't even know
00:36:50.160 that President Trump
00:36:50.760 was blocking people on Twitter.
00:36:52.620 I don't think you should
00:36:53.720 ever block people on Twitter.
00:36:54.840 I think that's
00:36:55.300 the opposite of what Twitter is.
00:36:57.760 Twitter is all about
00:36:58.480 open exchange.
00:36:59.560 I've never blocked anybody.
00:37:00.920 I don't intend
00:37:01.680 to block anybody.
00:37:03.320 This court now,
00:37:04.480 this appeals court,
00:37:05.160 has come out and said,
00:37:06.040 President Trump can't
00:37:07.300 block his critics
00:37:08.200 on Twitter
00:37:08.780 because he sometimes
00:37:11.220 breaks news on Twitter
00:37:12.460 and so this cuts off
00:37:13.700 certain Americans
00:37:15.020 from hearing this news
00:37:16.700 and he sometimes uses it
00:37:18.380 to conduct government business.
00:37:19.840 So he just can't do it.
00:37:20.980 It's unconstitutional.
00:37:22.020 It's illegal.
00:37:22.460 It's wrong.
00:37:22.840 He can't do it.
00:37:23.820 The irony here
00:37:24.940 is that the left
00:37:27.060 blocks people on Twitter
00:37:28.240 way more than the right does.
00:37:31.040 They unfriend people
00:37:32.380 on Facebook
00:37:33.020 way more than the right does.
00:37:35.260 I mean,
00:37:35.660 I can't tell you.
00:37:36.460 There are left-wingers
00:37:37.420 that I've never interacted
00:37:38.900 with ever once in my life
00:37:40.160 and they will preemptively
00:37:41.300 block me on Twitter
00:37:42.300 because they're afraid
00:37:44.020 that I might say something
00:37:44.940 to them or something.
00:37:46.200 I mean,
00:37:46.360 that guy Carlos Maza,
00:37:47.440 the one who wants to censor
00:37:48.320 all the conservatives,
00:37:49.220 he blocked me
00:37:49.960 in like two seconds
00:37:50.920 and he's blocked,
00:37:51.740 as far as I can tell,
00:37:52.420 thousands and thousands
00:37:53.260 of other conservatives.
00:37:55.740 AOC blocks a lot
00:37:56.800 of people on Twitter.
00:37:57.540 I think now she's being sued
00:37:58.420 for it.
00:37:59.120 So what this ruling means
00:38:00.160 is if President Trump
00:38:01.320 can't block people
00:38:02.000 on Twitter,
00:38:02.680 AOC can't block people
00:38:04.340 on Twitter either.
00:38:06.060 You know,
00:38:06.260 the left can give it,
00:38:07.620 but the left can't take it.
00:38:09.720 And I actually think
00:38:10.620 this is a pretty good ruling.
00:38:11.700 Some conservatives
00:38:12.240 are a little upset
00:38:13.080 that Trump is,
00:38:14.240 you know,
00:38:14.880 being targeted.
00:38:15.740 And it is true.
00:38:16.420 They're going after Trump
00:38:17.220 because he's Trump.
00:38:18.040 But I'm all for it.
00:38:18.920 I want open communication.
00:38:20.220 I don't want to live
00:38:21.080 in a world
00:38:21.580 where we're blocking
00:38:22.640 each other
00:38:23.120 and we're siloing ourselves
00:38:24.380 and we're censoring
00:38:25.620 each other.
00:38:27.220 Speaking of more important
00:38:28.400 court cases though,
00:38:29.580 just a little heads up,
00:38:30.760 we'll talk about this
00:38:31.420 more at a later date
00:38:32.220 when it finally makes
00:38:34.180 its way up to the Supreme Court.
00:38:35.780 But getting back
00:38:37.100 to the main topic
00:38:37.880 of today's show,
00:38:38.740 talking about sex,
00:38:39.640 baby,
00:38:39.980 and gender,
00:38:40.720 there is a hugely
00:38:41.980 important court case
00:38:43.080 that's coming down the pike
00:38:43.960 and it's headed
00:38:44.400 for the Supreme Court
00:38:45.280 and it's called
00:38:46.000 the Harris Funeral Home Case.
00:38:48.680 The case is officially
00:38:49.840 RG and GR,
00:38:51.740 Harris Funeral Homes Incorporated
00:38:53.240 versus Equal Employment
00:38:54.680 Opportunity Commission.
00:38:56.320 And this case is all about
00:38:58.340 sex and gender,
00:39:00.420 whether or not there's
00:39:01.260 a difference between
00:39:02.040 sex and gender,
00:39:03.200 how we can even
00:39:04.180 understand or enforce
00:39:05.460 the left's difference
00:39:06.900 between sex and gender.
00:39:08.780 It's all about Title VII,
00:39:11.880 which is sex discrimination
00:39:13.720 from employers.
00:39:14.860 That's what Title VII
00:39:15.620 of the Civil Rights Act covers.
00:39:17.320 And it involves
00:39:18.060 an interpretation
00:39:18.720 of the protections
00:39:20.100 of Title VII.
00:39:21.020 So basically in this case,
00:39:22.400 you have a funeral home owner,
00:39:23.820 Thomas Rost,
00:39:24.800 and he has a dress code
00:39:25.800 for his employees.
00:39:26.780 Obviously,
00:39:27.280 it's a really touchy
00:39:28.120 business to be in.
00:39:29.360 You've got grieving families,
00:39:31.100 you know,
00:39:31.300 you're around sadness
00:39:32.580 and grief and sorrow
00:39:33.560 all day long,
00:39:34.420 and you want to make sure
00:39:35.220 you look professional
00:39:35.960 and you behave in a way
00:39:37.020 that is comforting
00:39:38.120 and consoling
00:39:39.340 to the grieving families.
00:39:41.300 So he says,
00:39:41.820 okay,
00:39:41.960 men have to wear
00:39:42.680 a jacket and a tie,
00:39:44.280 I don't know,
00:39:44.600 whatever it is,
00:39:45.240 and women have to dress
00:39:46.300 in this certain way.
00:39:48.060 Nobody suggests
00:39:48.960 that it's wrong
00:39:49.840 to say men have to dress
00:39:50.840 one way
00:39:51.200 and women have to dress
00:39:52.420 another way.
00:39:53.440 Nobody is arguing
00:39:54.580 that that's wrong
00:39:55.220 in this case.
00:39:55.760 What they're arguing
00:39:57.820 about here
00:39:58.360 is that one of Rost's
00:39:59.860 employees at the funeral home,
00:40:01.460 who is a man,
00:40:03.160 one day he went on vacation,
00:40:05.120 he comes back,
00:40:06.280 and he decided
00:40:07.240 he's going to now
00:40:08.080 start dressing as a woman,
00:40:09.720 at least when he feels like it.
00:40:11.700 Maybe he doesn't dress
00:40:12.320 like a woman all the time,
00:40:13.180 but he's going to dress
00:40:13.740 like a woman
00:40:14.200 when he feels like it.
00:40:16.000 And Rost said,
00:40:17.660 the owner,
00:40:18.140 he said,
00:40:18.400 you can't do that.
00:40:20.540 It's not all about you,
00:40:21.860 Buster.
00:40:22.360 It's about these
00:40:23.060 grieving families,
00:40:24.100 and if they see
00:40:24.880 a giant man
00:40:25.820 with a beard
00:40:26.400 wearing a dress,
00:40:28.020 like the guy
00:40:28.620 in that video,
00:40:29.320 you know,
00:40:29.800 who's screaming
00:40:31.220 at the employee
00:40:31.960 at the bodega,
00:40:33.740 and he says,
00:40:34.340 I am a woman,
00:40:36.340 it's ma'am,
00:40:37.220 call me ma'am,
00:40:37.760 that that's going
00:40:38.180 to be distracting
00:40:38.860 for grieving families.
00:40:40.760 Obviously,
00:40:41.160 that's the case.
00:40:42.720 Now,
00:40:43.260 the employee sues,
00:40:44.600 and this is going
00:40:45.400 to make its way
00:40:45.920 up to the Supreme Court.
00:40:47.700 The question is,
00:40:48.840 does Title VII
00:40:49.720 of the Civil Rights Act
00:40:50.900 say that employers
00:40:52.260 can't discriminate
00:40:53.300 on the basis of sex,
00:40:54.600 which is what we've
00:40:55.600 always interpreted it
00:40:56.680 to mean,
00:40:57.460 or does it say
00:40:58.540 that they can't
00:40:59.560 discriminate on the basis
00:41:00.840 of gender identity?
00:41:04.120 And what the left
00:41:04.820 is going to argue
00:41:05.380 in this case
00:41:06.000 is that,
00:41:07.160 of course,
00:41:07.820 it always included
00:41:08.800 gender identity.
00:41:10.000 When the Civil Rights Act
00:41:10.920 was passed,
00:41:11.480 no one had any idea
00:41:12.760 what this gender identity
00:41:14.460 thing was.
00:41:15.420 This was not,
00:41:16.260 there was no,
00:41:16.860 no one believed
00:41:17.560 that there was a difference
00:41:18.240 between sex and gender.
00:41:19.980 But just imagine
00:41:21.080 how this,
00:41:21.480 if it were the case
00:41:22.340 that a gender,
00:41:25.640 that it protected
00:41:26.820 gender identity as well,
00:41:28.360 and so therefore
00:41:29.120 the funeral home guy
00:41:30.680 has to let the funeral home
00:41:32.140 employee
00:41:32.580 with a big beard
00:41:34.200 dress up in a dress
00:41:35.300 regardless of what
00:41:36.520 the grieving families want.
00:41:38.660 If that were the case,
00:41:39.780 how is that going
00:41:40.500 to be enforced?
00:41:42.060 What if one day
00:41:43.000 he decides to dress
00:41:43.900 like a man
00:41:44.460 and he says,
00:41:44.980 well,
00:41:45.080 my identity today
00:41:45.960 is a man.
00:41:46.460 You have no ability
00:41:48.880 to run your business
00:41:50.700 as you would like
00:41:51.260 to run your business.
00:41:52.800 But beyond that,
00:41:55.980 what the plaintiff
00:41:57.300 in this case
00:41:57.740 is arguing,
00:41:58.420 the man who wants
00:41:59.380 to dress like a woman,
00:42:00.620 is he says,
00:42:01.100 well,
00:42:01.180 the way you can enforce it
00:42:02.480 is if a guy
00:42:04.480 can pass as a woman,
00:42:06.820 he looks more like a woman,
00:42:08.140 then he can be allowed
00:42:09.080 to dress like a woman.
00:42:10.200 But if he can't pass
00:42:11.380 as a woman,
00:42:11.800 then he can dress
00:42:12.340 as a man.
00:42:12.820 That's a reasonable
00:42:13.520 agreement.
00:42:16.340 That's a compromise.
00:42:17.860 That is insane.
00:42:19.060 And that is,
00:42:19.740 talk about the patriarchy.
00:42:20.980 Talk about going back
00:42:21.920 to arcane views of sex.
00:42:24.920 You're now going to
00:42:25.740 leave it up to an employer
00:42:26.760 to decide if a woman
00:42:28.040 looks womanly enough
00:42:29.040 or too manly
00:42:30.260 or a man looks womanly enough
00:42:31.740 or what?
00:42:32.140 Are you kidding me?
00:42:33.580 This is another irony of it
00:42:35.180 is as feminism
00:42:36.120 has long broken down
00:42:37.800 boundaries
00:42:38.720 and said,
00:42:40.200 look,
00:42:40.400 if a girl wants
00:42:41.180 to wear jeans
00:42:42.180 and she doesn't want
00:42:43.160 to wear a dress,
00:42:43.820 that's okay.
00:42:44.340 It doesn't make her
00:42:44.800 less of a woman.
00:42:45.460 A little girl
00:42:47.300 can be a tomboy.
00:42:48.780 A little boy
00:42:49.380 can play with dolls.
00:42:51.020 Now we're saying
00:42:51.620 the opposite.
00:42:52.220 We're saying
00:42:52.660 women must look
00:42:55.660 womanly.
00:42:56.520 They must wear dresses.
00:42:58.480 And men,
00:42:59.300 I don't know,
00:42:59.620 they have to be cowboys.
00:43:00.480 They have to wear jeans
00:43:01.080 or something.
00:43:01.860 They want to have it
00:43:03.140 both ways
00:43:03.820 on this issue.
00:43:04.740 But this makes
00:43:05.440 no sense whatsoever.
00:43:06.800 I'm hopeful
00:43:07.480 that this will win
00:43:08.360 at the Supreme Court.
00:43:09.380 But this is the issue.
00:43:10.580 I mean,
00:43:10.740 you have got this issue
00:43:11.580 coming down the Supreme Court
00:43:12.620 and you could have
00:43:13.520 gender identity
00:43:14.740 firmly implanted
00:43:16.700 in American law
00:43:17.620 all the way down
00:43:18.360 from the Supreme Court.
00:43:19.220 The stakes are very high.
00:43:20.060 We're going to be
00:43:20.380 following that case
00:43:21.140 as we will all of these
00:43:22.440 crazy gender questions.
00:43:23.600 In the meantime,
00:43:24.200 though,
00:43:25.000 we've run out of time.
00:43:25.820 So get your mailbag questions
00:43:26.740 and I'll see you tomorrow.
00:43:27.680 I'm Michael Knowles.
00:43:28.480 This is The Michael Knowles Show.
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00:44:00.960 Hey guys,
00:44:01.360 over on the Matt Wall Show today,
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00:44:03.960 in America
00:44:04.540 has just come out
00:44:05.620 full throttle
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00:44:09.160 I think it may be time
00:44:10.240 to start homeschooling.
00:44:11.040 I've always thought that,
00:44:11.920 but I especially think it now.
00:44:13.460 Also,
00:44:14.360 there is an effort afoot
00:44:15.800 to stop the teens
00:44:17.040 from vaping.
00:44:18.180 And those efforts
00:44:18.940 have gotten
00:44:19.540 exceedingly corny.
00:44:21.620 And we'll discuss
00:44:22.280 the latest example.
00:44:23.300 And finally,
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00:44:24.880 sexist?
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00:44:27.460 it's necessary
00:44:28.100 to have that conversation,
00:44:29.240 but it is.
00:44:30.760 So we will
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