FEMINISM： Michael Knowles Vs Melonie Mac ｜ FACE OFF
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In this episode of Face Off Feminism, Ben and Michael are joined by Melanie Mckenzie to debate three of the most destructive creations of the 20th century: feminism, the patriarchy, and the patriarchy itself. Find out who's a feminist and who's not.
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if you have just two emotional women that just keep going keep going and like it's like if a
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woman settles down with another woman she already lost the game that is the intro clip to this
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episode and there is no debate about it fat man little boy and feminism three of the most destructive
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creations of the 20th century responsible for wiping out entire generation destroying society
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and also making two large explosions now some would argue today's topic is by far the most
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And to discuss this weapon of mass destruction,
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we've assembled two people who many assume
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who codes feminist because his physical aptitude testing
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would land him among most adolescent women.
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And the other, Melanie Mack, who codes feminist
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because she dresses like a My Chemical Romance groupie.
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I am a big My Chemical Romance fan, so it does check out.
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Yeah, regardless of my views on Mr. Davies, it's lovely to see you, Melanie.
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Okay, so look, all of my knowledge of feminism has basically just been imbued by the popular culture
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with a little Mary Wollstonecraft and others thrown in.
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You're obviously a radical third-wave feminist, right, Melanie?
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So, yeah, my experience with feminism is people assuming I'm going to be a feminist
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and then getting really shocked when I say things that are not feminist.
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All right, well, before we repeal the 19th, let's get going on some of these questions.
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Each host has 30 seconds to scribble down their answer.
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the loser they must deliver a glowing 30 second pitch for the winner y'all ready oh okay i'm ready
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all right here we go one what percentage of american men said they would be less likely
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to date someone who identifies as feminist now we're not gonna do closest with going over because
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michael loves doing all this you have to you have to do closest to going over or else you can tie
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we could yeah we could do american yeah we can tie it's fine but i don't want someone to do like
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49 and someone do like 50 or something like that.
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Alright, fine, fine. Alright. Close without going over.
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I just want to know if they're being honest or if they're scared that women are going to hear them say it.
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I want to point out, had we done your stupid rule, Ben?
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It's almost like there's some home cooking going on here, Michael
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What percent of women said they'd be less likely to date a man
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I'm really banking on them being honest, or at least mostly.
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If they were being honest, I would be just cleaning house right now.
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Even if they were being honest with themselves, I bet they wouldn't even admit it to themselves.
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are these feminist women going after these soy male feminists?
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Oh, there's nothing hotter than making me pick up the check, right?
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roughly what share of women were said to be either opposed to suffrage
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What percent said they were opposed or indifferent to?
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If it's 1603, you know, that's going to be diverse.
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Massachusetts, I mean, I don't know if that helps.
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I pried it out of you. You said I want to tell you what it is
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but then you did tell me what it was. Dude you're just abusing me this whole episode
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Had that been closest for that not going over, I would have gotten that point.
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Because, yeah, people don't realize what a minority view women's suffrage is.
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And there were women who were opposed to it who wrote really eloquently, really beautifully their arguments against it.
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And it wasn't about women being inferior or men.
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It was what it really was about was reformulating the bedrock unit of politics from the family to the individual.
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So it was actually a very profound political philosophical view that the blue haired suffragettes, the purple haired, well, there's one purple haired lady that I like at least, but the rest of them, the ones in the early 20th century, they really were the radical feminists that you know today.
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They were witches, plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose.
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Yeah, and these other women are like, hey, I don't want to be like that.
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Also, to note, too, because I was going through and proofing these
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and we got to this one, it was like, just star asterisk by it.
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Just so you know, this is using a lot of anti-women propaganda
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Just because it's propaganda doesn't mean it's not true.
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Number three, what percent is the proposed syntax in Florida
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If the average man is at 100% grip strength,
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Okay, so how close is she to the 100% line?
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I don't, you know, I think my hands are a little greasy or something,
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what do you have 42 percent 42 25 the correct answer is about 60 so about half half the strength
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okay holds his back in it man they must have had a lot of like soy boys in the study like to compare
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i know they know they weren't all big they weren't giga chats like your boy yeah yeah i'm thinking
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like yeah or my i'm like okay but comparing my strength to my dad's my dad is like a billion
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like a plant needs perfume, or D, a woman needs a man like Knowles needs a gym membership.
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I had one once, but you keep trying to take over the show.
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I just got my gym membership again recently, I'm excited.
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Hope you're working out enough for the two of us, Melanie.
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Yeah, we'll have a pickle jar opening contest for the next episode.
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All right, on Tinder, what percentage of profiles do women typically swipe right on showing interest?
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Like, one in ten guys are actually getting the light.
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There's, like, a ton more guys on there than girls, and, yeah, it's—
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I've never been on the dating apps because I missed it.
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But Sweet Lulies and I got back together right before they really became a thing.
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my buddies would do it and they just be i mean they could automate like one of those little
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birds in the water you know to just like keep swiping every single chick but i i know it was
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worse for the guys i didn't realize it was 14 that's bad it's it's really rough for the guys
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yeah just so fyi uh men of people they're attracted to swiping right on is 46 so half the
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ladies out there well are dateable according to that i would have thought i would have thought
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Just as a number, I would have thought it'd be 75%.
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Because you just think you don't need to actually talk to them if you match.
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All right, number seven, what percentage of divorces in the U.S. are initiated by women?
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like Whitney and Law and Erwin and Erwin, yeah.
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but I think it's kind of like the IQ Belker meme.
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she shouldn't divorce me and get half my stuff.
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That's how she would take care of the problem.
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There is some sexual inequality going on on this program.
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what percentage of Gen Z women now identify as feminists?
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60. Y'all are both dead wrong. It is 53%, but Melody's closer.
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Hey, that's good because I know that like Gen Z men are getting more conservative,
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but I thought women weren't. But hey, maybe this is an improvement.
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That's great. This is like the divide politically where people try to say Gen Z is more right wing
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or more left wing. And the reality is they're just more of everything.
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so the left wing zoomers are all trannies and the right wing zoomers are nazis you see on average
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they probably stay exactly the same but i'm glad to see that on the feminine that that's a major
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that's great not wow good stuff i do think i i when i look through tiktok and stuff i see a lot
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of these girls these young girls are like hey i'm sick of this i don't want to pay for dates
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i don't want to be in the workforce i want to stay at home and so a lot of them it actually
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makes sense okay the kids are all right that was one of my favorite reaction videos that noles did
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where it's just like these women these liberal women discovering conservative men for the first
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time like oh my gosh he paid for my meal he opened my door you crazy like whoa yeah this is actually
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the first generation though that's been the majority so it's not looking that okay so
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all right all right number nine in the 1960s about 92 percent of women reported cooking at home
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Now, that number has dropped in the late 2000s.
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I think most people have cooked at home once a year.
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I would assume in their general, like, most days.
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I'm redoing it because I was counting it for like now.
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oh wow okay reading my notes that was scary 20 melanie that i know a ton of women don't cook
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a ton i i cook i'm just saying what do you cook what's your specialty well i mostly do like
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carnivore meals carnivore or keto but mostly carnivore so i make like a lot of steaks a lot
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of just like ground beef and eggs and breakfast foods like eggs and sausages and bacon and things
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like that so it's pretty easy but i do cook and you're still alive well no now they say that's
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healthy yes now because the food pyramid flipped now it's like if you eat broccoli you're a big
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fat glutton and if you eat bacon and eggs for every meal you're you're a healthy guy yeah thanks
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I didn't want to use the most recent data because there was one that came out in 2024,
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I believe, and it actually has increased because it's just a more extreme one.
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According to the UN Women's Press release in 2022, how many years will it take to achieve
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It's got to be global. It's got to be global, yeah.
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All right. All right, Melanie, what do you have?
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Yeah, I think they were being a little optimistic when they said 300 years.
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I mean, the real answer, if you really want to know, like, that's what the U.N. says, and I'll take the point.
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But the real answer for, like, equality the way they mean it, like feminist equality, is infinity years.
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You know how long it'll take to get that grip strength from the pickle jar to the equality?
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And according to the CDC, how much more likely are lesbian women to report experiencing domestic violence compared to heterosexual women?
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Let me just explain to you the statistical problem that you didn't consider.
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You probably would count that as 25% more likely.
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but 75% compared to 50% is actually 50% more likely
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because the delta is 25% and 25% into 50% is half.
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are you doing it based on percentage points or percent?
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What percent, like, how much more likely are you?
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I'm saying, are you looking, that's how I wrote it, though.
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I know it's how you, but I'm saying, is it like, there's a survey of all women and here's the likelihood that they're, and, you know, for straight women, it's 42 and for lesbians, it's 62.
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And you're just, you're just subtracting one from the other?
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because, yeah, how many of these women are admitting that they're fighting each other?
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Literally every lesbian I've ever met has been in domestic violence with their other lesbian.
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It's funny because it surprises people to find out that the most violent relationships
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It surprises people because apparently they've never met women.
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Like, I don't, it doesn't surprise me at all.
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Women get a little, can I say it, a little emotional sometimes.
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they do we're emotional creatures yeah they do and there's no the other thing is with a man
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even some men lose their temper and stuff too but men are told because men know that we can
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really be violent men are taught to restrain their violence from a very young age yeah whereas women
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are always taught that they can get away with anything and they're not actually all that
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physically strong and they're never told like don't don't you ever hit a woman don't you it's
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like, no, they get into catfights. Exactly. And men tend to deescalate better. So it's just like,
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okay, you know, let's, let's calm down. Like, or I'm sorry. You know, men tend to do that more
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than women. If you have just two emotional women that just keep going, keep going. And like,
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yeah, women are competitive with each other in general. Like just look at how many female
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friendships actually stand the test of time not nearly as many as male friendships yes the one
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confounding factor though of this statistic is that lesbians don't exist so i don't know how
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they got them that can be a question for another time that's also true i agree with that so it's
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confusing i yeah i think the actual it's just lesbians are lesbians because they can't get
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the man that they want so they just like but if they could get the man they want they would or
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there might be a very small percentage of those who were like abused and they're scared of men
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because of that but otherwise it's like if a woman settles down with another woman she already lost
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the game it's like she couldn't get the man so she just didn't want to be alone that is the intro
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clip to this episode and there is no debate about it very well done very well done all right number
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12 first wave feminism was most associated with suffrage second wave feminism was workplace
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Third wave feminism was individualism and girl power.
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What is fourth wave feminism most associated with?
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These are the terms most associated with each one of those.
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And there's two answers that you could have here.
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Wait, is it a new one or still one or still one of those?
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We're currently in fourth wave feminism now.
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There was a couple more, but I narrowed it down to two.
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for Tranny. The safe term. You never heard that?
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You're not hanging out with the kids like me and Melanie.
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No, it actually originated because of these trannies
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they actually look like a wildebeest in person.
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So it's like, oh, it's a troon, a transgender cartoon.
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The correct answers could be either intersectionality or online activism.
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I mean, mine was the real correct answer, but, you know, it's fine.
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only about 20 to 30% of top-grossing films featured female protagonists.
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Why do we keep making these movies with chicks?
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How come you didn't yell at Melanie for asking that question?
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Top grossing, but, like, not much is doing well.
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I had to go see Captain Marvel for The Daily Wire.
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Maybe you made me go see it, actually, Mr. Davies.
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The correct answer, according to Pew data, is 61%.
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That's horrifying, and I'm happy I got the point.
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I was hoping the country girls would make a difference with that, but okay.
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You said, Ben, Ben, Ben, you said that the percentage of Gen Z that identifies as feminist is 52%.
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And we said, oh, that's lower than we expected.
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And you said, yeah, but it's actually the highest for any generation ever.
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And now you're saying that of all generations, it's 63% or whatever.
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Well, I think as those are like the younger generation, like that, that's the first.
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But I think the older generations, once you get older, then if you don't get married and you're more in, you know, not having success,
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How about you have a home to live in and food to eat and clothes to wear?
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And he was always complaining about how his wife didn't get a salary.
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They're going to say, bro, if you want to pay your wife money, give her a bigger allowance or something.
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But why am I, like, that's a, not everything has to be paid out in banknotes, buddy.
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Also, Pew Research Center in 2020, 61% of U.S. women said the term feminist describes them very well.
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The weird thing is, though, you said the most feminist generation ever is at 53%.
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And then when you add all the less feminist generations in, you get to 62%.
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What percentage of women said they have actively switched off or stopped watching a film or TV show
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because it lacked enough female characters or felt too stereotypical?
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What percent of women said they've turned off because of one of those things?
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One in four women, apparently, were like, not enough ladies in here.
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It's just like, hey, is this story interesting or captivating?
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They make the movies that they want people to want to see.
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because it didn't have enough chicks, you know.
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And this is another generational response to this series.
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they might be the most insufferable generation.
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I don't think there's over 40% of people are like, hmm.
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I certainly didn't see enough black women.
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So it's like a woman gets rescued and it's like, I can't even handle that.
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I don't want to be, you know, that kind of thing.
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I hate when the really hot, rich, strong guy came in and saved that damsel in distress.
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I don't want to hear it with people pretending like they don't like the damsel in distress trope when it's like a lot of the stuff they're actually reading and all of that would say a different story.
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What percent of Democratic voters in the United States are women closest without going over wins?
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It's not what percent of women are Democrats.
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What percentage of Democratic voters in the United States are women?
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Okay. Not what percent of women are Democratic voters.
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Okay. I don't trust that this distinction is, but whatever, I'll go with it.
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What percentage of women vote for Democrats?
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No, what percent of Democrat voters are women?
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According to Pew Research, it's between 54% and 56%.
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If you're counting Candy Crush, I would say it's like 54%, over 50%.
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Y'all are both technically wrong, though Melanie, of course, is closer at 47%,
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I know, used to, it was like, I don't know, a few years ago,
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they said it was just over, because they were like,
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Maybe they're counting the they-them's now.
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But used to, it was like, they said it was just over 50%.
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So they were trying to act like more women are gamers than men,
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but it's just not true because they're just counting.
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Because the modal gamer, the most represented gamer,
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Of all the stats that I found, when I saw that,
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I was like, okay, I don't believe any stat anymore
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It does confound it when you add, like, the modal.
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because the other thing is when I walk by the control room
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and I'll hear Mr. Davies screaming the N-word playing Candy Crush.
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All right, well, to the victor goes the spoils.
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you will ever find grip strength 85% more than women he's brilliant Captain Marvel who why was
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he not Captain Marvel it's just genius knows all of the percentage of feminist facts so he could be
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the best feminist in the world if he wanted to but instead he knows that feminism is a scam
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so he's using he's being that humble awesome person and being like hey you know what even
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though i would be the best feminist in the world i'm not going to for the betterment of society
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