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- 0:00Hello everybody, and welcome on Honey Badger Radio. My name is Brian.
- 0:03I'm here with Allison and this is maintaining frame number sixty nine. Oh no,
- 0:10apropos, it's not really. Yeah. Yeah, men have a problem,
- 0:15but they still have to put women first. We're going to be covering
- 0:19a couple of things. It started with an article, but thanks to it
- 0:25expanded to something that's sort of related and I don't know, I'm sorry,
- 0:29guys. We're gonna have to talk about the Barbie movie a little bit as
- 0:33well, because this stuff is related and it is important to not simply see
- 0:40it as a doll movie, which is like, how do you remember do
- 0:46you remember in like the late two thousand in teens? You know, I
- 0:52don't know what to prefer to them, like two thousand and seven, two
- 0:55thousand and six, after Gamer Game, maybe even a little bit before gamer
- 0:59Base, there is sixteen. Well you're around that area like in the teens.
- 1:07I apologized to everybody who's cringing for me, saying that when on YouTube
- 1:12there used to be this fashion or this trend of young women, like really
- 1:19young, like in their teens, doing bedroom feminism, and I don't mean
- 1:25that, like like a sexual thing. I know. It was like the
- 1:29college student that just like got like the tender studies. You know, she's
- 1:33got something to share. Yeah, it's seventeen year old who just read like
- 1:38the first feminist greed and she's she's reporting from her excessively pink bedroom with all
- 1:44the little new dads on the on the beds. This is this is that?
- 1:49Like the Barbie movie is that? And I remember responding to a lot
- 1:53of those girls and pointing out all of the illogic in in their assumptions,
- 2:01pointing out the real foundation of their beliefs because a lot of these these women
- 2:07have no idea what feminism is actually saying academically. And uh yeah, I
- 2:14remember all of those discussions, all those response videos for for the for the
- 2:19I don't know what we called them back then, but they like the really
- 2:22young neophyte feminists who are doing their first YouTube channel on feminism. Okay,
- 2:27the Barbie Movie is them, except growing up a little bit. I mean,
- 2:31that's it. That's basically all of Hollywood is all of those the tumbl
- 2:36tumble resa's they write for for TV and film. Now, So but I
- 2:40will I will say that, so anybody who was back then? They were
- 2:46like the same people who were saying, oh you get what are you responding
- 2:49to the Barbie movie? I bet you guys back then said why are you
- 2:52responding these these these innocent little little well you maybe you guys didn't like them,
- 2:57but why did you little girl? What's your problem with women in gaming?
- 3:00Or alternatively, like the people in our audience back then said, why
- 3:05are you responding these these girls? They have they have no clout? Oh
- 3:08yeah, why are you respondering to the Tumbler feminists? Why are you responding
- 3:14the bedroom feminists, you know, talking from their dorm room about the new
- 3:17feminism that they found. Well, because they do, they do have clout.
- 3:23Tumbler now writes for Hollywood, and these bedroom feminists have grown up and
- 3:27created a movie. Yep. Well now, I mean I've been talking about
- 3:30this forever, like like you know, I keep whenever I learned something new
- 3:36going on with Anita Sarkasian, I make sure to mention it in a new
- 3:38story because I want people to know that. You know, you'll find people
- 3:43in the quote unquote skeptic community saying Anita Sarkasian is old new She's gone,
- 3:46and they'll even talk about how oh, look, feminist frequency has been you
- 3:51know, it's been closed down. She's lost. It's over feminism BTFOD And
- 3:55I'm like, no, she works in the industry now, she's like,
- 3:59you know, working with developers. She's she's at the she's where she wants
- 4:02to be. She's got more power than she ever had before. She just
- 4:06doesn't need feminist frequency anymore. And that's the thing that Look, we're up
- 4:11against a Leviathan. This is not just like, it's not just bedroom feminists.
- 4:16It's not seventeen year old girls. It's the ideology. The ideology is
- 4:19one hundred over one hundred years old. It's only getting more powerful. And
- 4:25the fact that we have we still have so much simpage in our world is
- 4:30only essentially feeding that beast even more so. We're up against a titanic foe.
- 4:35And the only thing we can do, I mean, there are people
- 4:39doing you know, good stuff, right, Cafe is helping, Menu N
- 4:46yeah, NCFM, yeah, and x Y crew. You know, these
- 4:50are small things, but we're doing their best, and and other people have
- 4:55started mankind UK thank you. And then you know, you got like the
- 5:00people who are just like talking about how to sort of unravel this like rats
- 5:08nest of talking points and propaganda and like narratives that people need to look at
- 5:15because we're all like this whole thing started before any of us was born.
- 5:20So we came into this world and the world was already covered in lies.
- 5:26It was like it like lies running on top of lies, on top of
- 5:30lies, and we're living in a world of lies, and so like to
- 5:33unravel it and find the truths. It's it's not an easy thing. It's
- 5:38not something we're gonna see. It's gonna be low. It's gonna be a
- 5:42multi generational affair. Like you have to keep talking about it and making sure
- 5:47that the next generation knows and the next generation and so on. That's the
- 5:53only way. And I'm sorry, but you're not gonna see major change in
- 5:56your lifetime. You're just you're just gonna hope that you have started the process
- 6:00by talking about these things. And that means that people are going to talk
- 6:04about it in a clumsier way. They're going to be less efficient, maybe
- 6:09they're going to be less you know, specific or precise, but as long
- 6:15as they're at least pointing in the same direction and they're seeing, like where
- 6:19the root of the problems are at or some of the problem, instead of
- 6:24dealing with symptoms or getting distracted identifying enemies like that's the other thing. Yeah,
- 6:31yeah, well, I mean because the reason why I say that is
- 6:35people identify enemies when in fact, this is a behavior. Now I will,
- 6:41I will take this to my grave. This is a behavior. This
- 6:44is a behavior that anyone can succumb to. It is this, this,
- 6:47this, and that's a very difficult message to tell people. Uh no,
- 6:53there is no external enemy. I mean, to their degree. There are
- 6:56people who who who indulge in this behavior more or us than others. But
- 7:00everybody is susceptible to it. Everybody is susceptible to wanting to make excuses for
- 7:08putting women first. Yeah. Yeah, it's not it's yeah, it's not
- 7:14something you can unpack like at all easily. I mean, people have a
- 7:18visceral reaction to even like holding women accountable like that. Like it's so hard.
- 7:26And it's not simply a self preservational thing that women engage in, although
- 7:30I think that's part of it. But it's just it's just something we've been
- 7:34conditioned into for generations. It's not something the boomers did. It's not something
- 7:41gen X did, It's not something the silent generation did. It's something that
- 7:45we've been dealing with since like before World War One so well, and something
- 7:49ultimately that we've been dealing with since the dawn of civilization. Yeah, when
- 7:54I look at when I look at the progression of empire like it, it's
- 7:59it seems to go in these stages where you have this this identity for men,
- 8:07and for the most part, men's identities. I know this is not
- 8:09going to be the most popular thing to say, but as far as I
- 8:13can tell, men's identities, protecting and providing for women are is pretty much
- 8:16a universal throughout history. They will in the Bronze Age, they took an
- 8:22identity from protecting women. You know, Romans was both provision and protection of
- 8:28an abstraction, which later became nationality. But it's always revolving around a relationship
- 8:35to women, either the women, physical women, or often, I think
- 8:41a lot more productively, an ideal woman that represents the fraternity of men like
- 8:46a national identity, if that makes sense. But it always seems to have
- 8:50that kind of feminine muse at its heart. And what seems to happen is
- 8:58that a society lucks into some kind of really positive identity that gets men cooperating
- 9:05and working together, and it's it's driven by producing or providing and protecting for
- 9:11women at its core. Then it slumps into shaming men and it just paralyzes,
- 9:20and the productivity declines, the ability to form families decline, everything goes
- 9:24into decline, and there's this rise of almost feminine narcissism and then everything it
- 9:31doesn't necessarily collapse. It collapsed in Bronze Age, it didn't collapse in Rome.
- 9:35It just moved east and changed itself through the process of adopting Christianity,
- 9:39so it can reinvigorate itself with a new story, which is what I'm hoping
- 9:43is going to happen. But it just seems like it goes in the cycles,
- 9:48and we are definitely in an age driven by narcissism, specifically women's narcissism.
- 9:54I think in response, there's been a lot of masculine narcissism, but
- 9:58it started there's a push for masculine narcissism as well, but I don't think
- 10:01it's the right move. I think that's doubling down on the problem and it's
- 10:07just going to make that problem a lot worse. Yeah, we all should
- 10:09be serving the future of our species. Yeah, you know, and to
- 10:13a degree, the future of our planet, you know, the future of
- 10:16the creatures, our fellow creatures, our friends. You know. Think about
- 10:22what will happen to the dogs if we really fuck ourselves as humans? You
- 10:24know, what will happen to the cats and the hamsters? What do you
- 10:28think is going to happen to them? Well, the hamsters will probably be
- 10:31okay, the cats will probably eat the hamsters. The dogs would probably warn
- 10:35us. Yeah, but you know, like what would happen to all of
- 10:39the creatures that we've sort of taken responsibility for if we don't take care of
- 10:43ourselves, you know, and the Earth needs us at this point, like
- 10:46we are in symbiosis with the earth, the Earth. The Earth has us
- 10:50now we are here, and the Earth needs us in our present form to
- 10:54continue to exist as it does to avoid an extinction event. So I mean,
- 10:58think about all of that, these lots of things that we should we
- 11:01should be caring about a lot more than who Nina slept with. I don't
- 11:05know if anybody gets that reference. It's Logan's something or other. Logan Paul's
- 11:11uh yeah, there's some kind of drama about that. So I was trying
- 11:18to decipher it because everybody on Twitter when they would do this, these kinds
- 11:22of uh you know that when the dramas, when the kids go into the
- 11:26drama, they start using this very cryptic language that's sometimes impossible decipher, being
- 11:31you know, older as I am. But yeah, so there's lots there's
- 11:37lots more to care about in the world and to want to go forward for
- 11:43to realize that we are important and we are necessary, and human beings need
- 11:48to be here. We have a right to be here, We're wanted,
- 11:52and we need to be here. So you know, let's roll up our
- 11:54sleeves, solve these these psychological problems, ask the questions that need to be
- 12:01asked, and get her done. And like it's okay, before do you
- 12:07want to get into the the art. Let's let's get into the article.
- 12:09We should probably get started because we've already spent maybe I should do fifteen,
- 12:13Yeah, yeah, go ahead, do the things, all right, So
- 12:16we are doing our monthly fundraiser to keep this conversation going as long as we
- 12:22can. It's been ten years now and we want to keep it. We
- 12:26want to keep a note. We haven't want to do another ten years.
- 12:28Well, we don't want to do an We feel that if we can do
- 12:31another ten years, we will do another ten years. It'd be great if
- 12:35something really big changed in the in the interim, but it's probably unlikely.
- 12:41But we want to keep talking about the things in the way that we do
- 12:43because more and more I'm realizing that our approach is completely unique. We don't
- 12:50necessarily identify enemies. We identify behaviors, and that behavior is making excuses for
- 12:54putting women first that harm men's identities and sense of self. In this case,
- 13:01this egregious bullshit about men have constructed society for their own benefit at the
- 13:07expense of women, and the fallout of that belief, which again has never
- 13:13been proven to any standard, not even a civil court standard, much less
- 13:16a scientific standard, which such a belief would need to be proven if we
- 13:20lived in a non corrupt system before it's presented as some kind of universal truth
- 13:26in the way that it has, so it's not been proven. But it
- 13:31also leads to believing that the course of history is not driven by biological factors,
- 13:39So women's role in history wasn't driven by biological factors. It was driven
- 13:45by oppression by men, okay, and that itself sets us all on the
- 13:50long march to radical transgenderism. You cannot embrace the idea that gender roles are
- 14:00are socialized where it benefits women and then suddenly stop the train. Stop that
- 14:07freight train once it's up to like one hundred and sixty miles an hour,
- 14:11when you realize, oh shit, uh this this is the men are going
- 14:15to start to going to start to slip the bounds of our expectations based on
- 14:20biological factors. Geez, no, well, you know what. The freight
- 14:22train is already at one hundred and sixty and it's it's gonna it's gonna barrel
- 14:26into your society and you are not stopping it because literally, the people who
- 14:33are shoveling, you know, the people who say things like or believe things
- 14:39like men would construct society for their own benefit expensive women. The gender roles
- 14:45throughout history excluded women. They oppressed women. They weren't based on biology,
- 14:50They were based on men appropriating things for themselves at the expensive women. Well,
- 14:54what if you've done there, You've you've just set the one of the
- 14:58most powerful instincts that humans have, which is to protect and provide for women.
- 15:03Against the idea that that gender is a thing that's appropriate or that gender
- 15:09roles are come out an expression of our biology. No, now, their
- 15:15expression of oppression of women. You know, you're going to destroy the very
- 15:22basis, the very belief that men and women and their different behaviors are good
- 15:30or or at least neutral when you say that, actually they're an expression of
- 15:33oppression of women. That's what you're doing. You're destroying it by embracing the
- 15:37impression of women narrative. So every single person who embraces the oppression of women
- 15:43narrative that women's roles are are oppression, not based on biology, every single
- 15:50and also additionally, the reason why women have been liberated from their roles is
- 15:56not because they of feminism, but because of all of the technological achievements that
- 16:03reduced the labor in the home and gave them control over their fertility. Okay,
- 16:07that's it has nothing to do with effeminism, and it had nothing to
- 16:11do with oppression. In the past, people were dealing with the limitations of
- 16:15human reproduction. It was about biology, not oppression. And once you brace
- 16:19the oppression narrative, you are, in a sense, destroying all of the
- 16:27anything that protects roles sex roles as something innate or even neutral. They become
- 16:36an oppression that must be destroyed for women. And inevitably, once you start
- 16:41destroying that, you start destroying the entire structure of the child legitimacy behind gender
- 16:48roles, and that is going to put you on the path to radical transgenderism
- 16:59right there. There's no way around it. And everybody who embraces the idea
- 17:03that women are oppressed is basically in the radical transgender freight train saying oh,
- 17:10we need to stop while shoveling coal into the engine. Every single one of
- 17:17you is engaging in the behavior that's making the train go faster. Every single
- 17:23one of you that indulges in that, in this idea, that history is
- 17:29the history of the oppression of women, rather than the attempt by men to
- 17:33mediate the biological limitations that women exist under by necessity of reproducing the next generation.
- 17:41You are all shoveling the coal into the engine that's increasing the t the
- 17:48rate of speed of the radical transactivists. And I'm not talking about trans people
- 17:52who are currently even in transactivists in Canada who are opposing things like not informing
- 17:59parents that their children have suddenly started to use the opposite sex pronouns, or
- 18:03not using their sex as pronouns. I'm not talking about the trans people who
- 18:07just want to live their lives and think that this the radicalization, the victimization
- 18:14of the community is nuts. I'm talking about the radical transactivists who want to
- 18:22essentially push children into transitioning and who are increasingly like, what is it,
- 18:27ten percent? Now ten percent of children are now trans. Yeah, you
- 18:33know, and you go into you go into a school and you can manipulate
- 18:40children to believe anything. Okay, this is no more legitimate than any particular
- 18:47like this is no more legitimate than than some radical cult getting into a school
- 18:52and telling them that, you know, Jesus was actually space alien that hated
- 18:56them and wants them to commit suicide. Okay, this this is no different
- 19:00than any other radical extremist group deciding to go into a school and preach it's
- 19:04particular version of reality. All right. I don't know if this will end
- 19:10up getting us demonetized, but this isn't where that doesn't belong in a school,
- 19:15you know, and unfortunately all of you who think that you're actually opposing
- 19:22this freight train. Okay, all of you, who are you are?
- 19:26If you still push the narrative that women are oppressed by men, you are
- 19:32shoveling more coal into the engine. You have to stop. And this is
- 19:37the thing. This is why nobody wants this is This is why this just
- 19:41keeps going, and why the one group of people who seems capable of opposing
- 19:45it is who the Muslims. Why Because the whole concept of women's oppression hasn't
- 19:53gotten its claws as deep into their culture. Okay, that's why they have
- 19:59the the hut SPA to oppose this, and the rest of you just keep
- 20:06you say, oh, oh, we should stop this old Could you pass
- 20:10me another bucket of coal? I'm gonna throw it into the We should really
- 20:14stop this train. No, no, give me some more oppression of women.
- 20:15I'm gonna throw it into the engine. I think. Yeah, oh
- 20:18well, well shit, we're hitting eight hundred and eighty. Oh crap,
- 20:22we really should give me another bucket of coal. Yeah, yeah, women
- 20:25are oppressed, Ye throw it in. It's like it's watching. This is
- 20:27insane, and the people who embrace this think that their counter culture you're not
- 20:33counterculture. You're pushing this. We're you're gonna achieve substantic speeds at this rate
- 20:40because now what you've done is you have created the radical trans transactivist. It's
- 20:47like, it's like, Okay, bear with me, guys. I know
- 20:49this is maybe painful, but just just just bear with me. You have
- 20:55the radical transactivist agenda, and you the group of people who are looking at
- 21:02the radical transactivist agenda and saying, oh my god, it's more oppression of
- 21:06women. You've got a freaking uh, perpetual motion machine right there. Like
- 21:14it's like you're you're, you're, you're throwing the coal into the engine,
- 21:18and then it's just reappearing and throwing more into the engine. Oh, it's
- 21:22all all oppression of women. Oppression of women, throwing more coal into the
- 21:26engine. Let's get this damn freight train headed right for the heart of our
- 21:30society. Let's get it to subsonic speeds. Yeah, oppression of women more,
- 21:36bringing it, bring it, put it in. We can go faster,
- 21:38we can make the explosion worse. Let's make it so no one survives.
- 21:45Okay, so or waiting. Yeah, it's only been a half an
- 21:56hour. Allison, I mean we couldn't. Sorry, guys, got a
- 21:59little passionate. I got a little passionate. Oh sorry, I think we're
- 22:03gonna get much done today. All right, go ahead. Well it's just
- 22:07it's so I'm sorry, guys. All right, so you go to feed
- 22:11the Badger dot com slash support to help us out. I will do some
- 22:15arm twisting because we only have two days left and we have about eighteen hundred
- 22:21and ten to go to hit the fold, to hit the the goal.
- 22:26So once again, let's feed the Badger dot com slash support. Please,
- 22:29please, please do help us out, because, like I said, more
- 22:33and more, I'm realizing that what we say is unique. The fact that
- 22:37it actually may not be unique, but the fact that I refused to step
- 22:41away from this line, and I refuse to say that there's any compromise here.
- 22:49We have to stop seeing women as oppressed or our world is going to
- 22:56implode, period, And I am there's no way I'm going to stop away
- 23:03from that, step away from that line, because I can see the connection
- 23:07between that belief system, that central belief system about the sexes and everything falling
- 23:14apart, Everything falling apart, because everything rests on an essential foundation of the
- 23:22relationship between the sexes. I know that sounds really crazy, but where else
- 23:26would it come from. Where else would the foundation of our society come from,
- 23:30but the relationship between the sexes. And as soon as you embrace the
- 23:33narrative, everything starts to deteriorate. Now, there may be some reasons why
- 23:38initially, and someday I'll go into that, but at this point, we
- 23:44are an end game and we need to stop engaging in this behavior if we
- 23:48want to have a future. And this is not a very popular narrative,
- 23:52although you guys always every month, which is amazing and thank you so much.
- 23:56You manage to reach into your couch cushions and throw it enough dash at
- 24:02us for us to make it another month. But it does because it's not
- 24:07popular, because it's not about identifying an enemy, but identifying a behavior.
- 24:11You know, we're never going to see the numbers that other groups see or
- 24:15other other commentators see if we do. If we do, it'll probably be
- 24:22like, you know, fifty years from now, when we're all gone,
- 24:25and then they're like they discover it and then they're like, oh my god,
- 24:29the font of wisdom. I'm being egotistical but anyway, so but make
- 24:33sure that we can continue to talk about these things in the way that we
- 24:36do and without compromise. Feed the Badger dot com slash support and if you
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- 24:45hand it back to Brian so we can get this started. Yeah, let's
- 24:48start the show. So, by the way, shout out to Rumble Rumble
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- 25:10Rumble and that's where these streams will also go live. They go live at
- 25:15the same time. Also, Joejoe is with us today. Hi Jojoe.
- 25:19He's pretty tired, but I do have him on camera because Lindsay is working,
- 25:23which means I have to end the show at about an hour and a
- 25:26half to pick her up. But we'll see how far we get. So
- 25:30yeah, let's get into So. I have an article from The Independent,
- 25:37written by one Olivia Petter, and she, I guess it's a series called
- 25:42Let's Unpack That, because the best conversations start with Let's unpack that. And
- 25:51she says, men have a problem and it won't be solved by either Enter
- 25:55Taate or Caitlin Moran. So we'll get into some of this. I also
- 26:00have two other things. There are two interviews that I thought might we might
- 26:04get to hopefully, if not today then maybe like next week or something.
- 26:10But we are talking about the Barbie movie. But I wanted to bring this.
- 26:12I wanted to bring this bit up because I have an interview with greta
- 26:18girl wig and she explicitly talks about the feminism of Barbie. And here's another
- 26:23interview with her and Margot Robbie, and it's literally a section on feminism.
- 26:30So you know, like in case somebody told you it's just a movie about
- 26:33a toy for girls, that's just stop it, okay, just stop pretending
- 26:38it's not. I want to see I want to see how accurate I was
- 26:41in my interpretation. I think that I know that my interpretation is not what
- 26:49they intended. But the truth is that you can say something in your work
- 26:56that you never intended to say. And I think that's what happened here.
- 27:03Maybe more I think an I think Gretwig hates man. That's what I think.
- 27:07But oh yeah, I mean there's a there's a way to color.
- 27:11It's where it's like, no, no, no, I don't hate men.
- 27:12I just think men should be serving women. Okay, I do not
- 27:18disagree, Like, what what I'm saying is not in any way incompatible with
- 27:22what you're saying. Yeah at all? Okay, not at all. So
- 27:27but we should probably save that for when we get to the the actual interview.
- 27:33Yeah, okay, if we get to it. Yeah, let's look
- 27:37at the article first. So I will start here. Oh, here we
- 27:40go. Oh I don't get to see I don't get to see Jojo.
- 27:42Oh yeah, because I mean I could. Yeah, it's there's a little
- 27:47picture of Jojo. He's just sleeping on his bed. Okay, all right,
- 27:51But anyway, so Caitlyn Morn and some questions for men. Why do
- 27:57they only go to the doctor if they're white? For girlfriend makes them?
- 28:00Why do they never discuss their penises with each other but make endless jokes about
- 28:04their balls? Is their fondness for super skinny genes leading to an epidemic of
- 28:08bad mental health? Are they allowed to be sad? I think this is
- 28:11meant to be like quirky and funny. This is the thing about these people
- 28:15is they never like. They never take things seriously when they should be,
- 28:21and then they become serious when it's totally inappropriate. Published earlier this month,
- 28:26more Ends What About Men. It's a book that she wrote. We talked
- 28:30about some of Moron's book or yeah, I'll just call a moron. I
- 28:33don't know how you pronounce it. Morons. What About Men sees, one
- 28:37of the nation's most prolific feminist writers, turn her attention through the problems facing
- 28:42men and masculinity. Market it as a deep dive into the modern man.
- 28:48The book interrogates a range of issues, for mental health to sexuality. It's
- 28:52a noble pursuit, and yet it's one that has been ruthlessly torn apart apart.
- 28:56Critics have labeled it everything from patronized, too full of quote flagrant stereotypes
- 29:03end quote. One reviewer described it as quote rhetorical essentialism that lucratively pigeonholes men
- 29:08and women, even at the risk of misconstruing both end quote. I don't
- 29:15know, i'ven't read the book, but into we'll go ahead, and I'm
- 29:18not feeling it. I mean I saw some like it. We we went
- 29:22through an interview that Caitlin Moran did, and my conclusion is it's simply what's
- 29:27been happening everywhere where male. The problems that men face is finally being felt
- 29:36by people like Caitlyn Moran, like our government, like our entire society,
- 29:41you know, and even the men are trying to like you know, voice
- 29:45their their their feelings about this. I think that even though what's the name
- 29:52of that country singer Patrick something right who did that song rich men north of
- 29:59Richmond, I think that that was despite a lot of people having their own
- 30:03views on what, you know, who it's supposed to speak to, I
- 30:07think it's mostly speaks to men because it's men that are dealing with the at
- 30:11the at the bottom of the you know, at the end of the day,
- 30:14they're the ones confronted with these struggles, and that's why it's mostly men
- 30:18that resonate. Uh yeah, Anthony Oliver, That's that's what I said,
- 30:22Patrick. I don't know why I said that, but anyway, so I
- 30:26think that there's a lot of things going on that sort of show that there
- 30:30is you know, men's pain and their their issues are becoming basically un ignorable.
- 30:38And I think that Caitlyn Moran sees that, she sees the writing on
- 30:41the wall. She sees the response right the growth of these you know,
- 30:45sort of men's I don't know, conversations, peace spaces, like the whatever
- 30:49podcast like Pearl, like Fresh and Fit, like Andrew Tate, et cetera.
- 30:53And she's like, well, somebody's gonna do this, and it can't
- 30:57be them. It can't be the red pill part of the Internet. It
- 31:02can't be these men. It has to be somebody like me, because if
- 31:04it isn't me, then they're you know, basically like these men are going
- 31:10to teach men to oppress women or something like that. There's this there's a
- 31:14fear that men are gonna like self actualize and that you know, they're gonna
- 31:19get their information from people, these people despies, and it's not men necessarily,
- 31:23because you know, Pearl is one of these people, not the only
- 31:29one either, and so they're like, well, yeah, go ahead,
- 31:32oh yeah. Well what I was gonna say is that it's pretty hilarious because
- 31:36Basically she's saying, we gotta change this lightbulb. Yeah, but it can't
- 31:42be changed by anybody with a light bulb. Yeah, exactly. She's not
- 31:48good. She doesn't have an interest in solving this problem. Because look,
- 31:52you know, if I was, if I was about as charitable as I
- 31:56could be, I would say that she's just going with like she's basically just
- 32:01going with what she learned in college about men, which is feminist, the
- 32:06feminist perspective on men, and that's the only way. It's like she's only
- 32:10learned how to use the same tool, and now she has to use the
- 32:14tool in a place where it doesn't work, but she's been told it does.
- 32:17And that's that's what Caitlin, That's what the that's what the response is,
- 32:21right, That's what Shuan Head was responding to. That's what she was
- 32:24showing with all of her videos. This is it's the same arguments. It's
- 32:29the Barbie movie. That's why I said there's a relationship, because when Greta
- 32:32gerwig Is is asked about, you know, whether or not the film is
- 32:36feminist, she says, well, yeah, you know, like like I
- 32:40have to it. Okay, yeah, you got me. It's a feminist
- 32:44movie. And then Margot Robbie is like, well, it's it's a slice,
- 32:46and she's like, yeah, but it's a pretty big slice, right,
- 32:50And at the end of the day they try to like, you know,
- 32:52stick the landing. Oh it's humanist, right, but it's it's not,
- 32:55because it's at the end of the day, the Barbie movies pose it
- 33:00like desire to give men a spot in the women's hierarchy or whatever, you
- 33:07know, is the same thing that all of the crazy commies that responded to,
- 33:13you know, in Chuan Head's video and and the stuff that Caitlyn Morran.
- 33:16They're all pushing the same perspective, and it's all about saying, well,
- 33:21we know men are a resource, we need to use them. We
- 33:23better tell them that they're gonna be best used by us. And that's all
- 33:28it is. It's a it's a utility, you know. And so like,
- 33:31I think that that is essentially what this woman's going to argue. But
- 33:37she's just basically I think I haven't read this yet, but I'm gonna make
- 33:40a prediction. I don't think she disagrees with Kitlyn Morand's approach. She just
- 33:45thinks that Kitlyn moran is not using the proper like levels of rhetoric so that
- 33:51you can hide what you're actually doing better, because it's not really about like
- 33:54what we need to do, It's about how do we make men think or
- 33:58feel comfortable enough to do what we want them to do without hating themselves as
- 34:04much. Okay, oh damn it, I may have forgotten what I was
- 34:08going to say. Oh no, no, no, no, let me
- 34:13think, Let me think, all right. Honestly, I think it's possible
- 34:19that once again two things. From talking to a bunch of feminists, there
- 34:27is a huge amount about themselves that they don't understand from what I can tell,
- 34:31Like, for example, a recent conversation I got into with a feminist,
- 34:35I was asking her she told me that I said to her, Okay,
- 34:40according to your belief system, basically there is no point in which you
- 34:45are not controlled by men. And she came back with I'm not controlled by
- 34:52men because I don't believe in God or something or religion. And I said,
- 34:55so while I'm an atheist, so i'm not or I'm agnostic, so
- 34:59I don't believe in men, or I'm not controlled by men, and she
- 35:01said, well, you can still be controlled by men, contradicting herself if
- 35:07you seek their approval, And I said, well, I mean there's a
- 35:08lot of situations in which you would seek a person's approval. You know,
- 35:13you might seek ammand's approval to get your visa. You might seek command's approval
- 35:16to park somewhere. So you obviously need to narrow that down a bit.
- 35:21What types of approval make a woman controlled by a man? And she's now
- 35:28three days later, has refused to answer because I don't think she has an
- 35:31answer. She's never actually thought about what her beliefs mean, or their affect
- 35:39on her, or their affect on other women, or any of that.
- 35:43She has no curiosity at all. I mean, I'm curious. I'm curious
- 35:47to her response. That's why I keep asking, But she's not giving me
- 35:50one because I don't think she has one. And that's really like, it's
- 35:55like people go into these cults, and these cults give them easy answers by
- 36:02simply saying, well, whatever's wrong, you call it this, that's the
- 36:07enemy, and that's it. They don't give them a prescription for how to
- 36:13be a better person, what to avoid. Really, it's all so nebulous
- 36:19because it's all so shifting. It's like the eternal revolution. It's like,
- 36:23embrace the paradoxes. And it's like, I don't want to live that way.
- 36:29I want to know what approval should a woman avoid in order not to
- 36:32be controlled by a man? No answer, And it's like you realize that
- 36:37a living to that standard will end up will be you living to a standard
- 36:44you never know how to. Embody will be complete. Like like you said,
- 36:47embrace the paradox embrace eternally. Walking on edge stells for groups of people
- 36:53who are waiting for you to slip out so that they can eject you,
- 36:58and they can enjoy the feeling of the spasmodic ejection feeling as they get to
- 37:05scapegoat someone. But the other thing I wanted to say is this is what
- 37:09I wanted to point what I was trying to say when when Karen was arguing
- 37:14with me, which I don't think we were really arguing. But whatever,
- 37:19those people or those men, it's going to come down to this, does
- 37:25your ideology create men capable of doing the job of keeping society going? That's
- 37:32it. If your ideology does, If it makes prepares men and gets men
- 37:38motivated to actually work the jobs that are required to keep society going, to
- 37:44keep civilization going. Then that ideology will be what people embrace in the future,
- 37:51because the alternative is everybody enjoys the lights turned off for the first time
- 37:58in generations, no food on the shelves and no lights and no central heating
- 38:05and no plumbing. It'll come down to that eventually, and the ideology that
- 38:12keeps men continuing to work will be the one that wins out. The question
- 38:20is what does that look like? That's what I meant. Yeah, and
- 38:27it doesn't. I don't think it looks like whatever these people are talking about.
- 38:30Okay, let's keep going, all right, So let me continue,
- 38:37all right. But but in twenty twenty three, a time when misogyny is
- 38:40rife online and the likes of Andrew Tate and Jordan Peterson are upheld as stalwarts
- 38:45of masculinity, Moron's questions are the kind we need to be asking more than
- 38:50ever, why is it? Then nobody wants to answer them. Moron has
- 38:54since responded to the backlash in an article in The Times, claiming that she's
- 38:59been confronted by two different kinds of critics. Quote the first, We're all
- 39:02like, how dare you suggest men have problems with communicating their emotions. That
- 39:07is an incredibly old fashioned and patronizing generalization. End quote. Moran then writes,
- 39:13quote, and the other half were like, how dare you suggest that
- 39:15men should communicate their emotions? We're not biologically designed to be emotional. You're
- 39:20just trying to turn us into women. End quote. I'm sure that those
- 39:23are different. Those are exactly what that the binary set up that exists,
- 39:29and not yeah, yeah, go ahead. Well I was going to say,
- 39:34like, I don't, yeah, go ahead, go ahead. Well,
- 39:37I mean you can have both at once. Yeah, how dare you
- 39:39suggest men have problems with communicating their emotions? Make men communicate their emotions in
- 39:44ways unique to them. It's incredibly old fashioned and patronizing generalization to say that
- 39:50men don't communicate their emotions based on how women communicate emotions? How dare you
- 39:55suggest that women should communicate their emotions like women. We're not both biologically designed
- 40:00to communicate emotions like women through emotional displays. You're just trying to turn us
- 40:05into women. There you go more. Yeah, it's not it's not contradictory.
- 40:09Plus, it's not a new thing. This whole like men need to
- 40:13like express themselves like women. It's it's not a new thing. It's been
- 40:15going on for one hundred years. Again, you can watch old episodes of
- 40:19like The Honeymooners or The Flintstones where they were like, you need to get
- 40:22in touch with your feminine side, and that was it was that, it
- 40:24was, It was exactly that, you know. So this isn't even a
- 40:29new thing, like Kaitla Moran is not. She's not pioneering new territory with
- 40:32this. The only thing that these people need to do is maybe listen to
- 40:36men like you know what I mean, like that that would like just listen
- 40:39to them, stop telling them how to communicate with you, and just take
- 40:44them as they are. You know, this is something else that I've seen
- 40:46a lot. I just want to mention briefly. You know, there were
- 40:50a lot of women, and I've talked about this before, there were a
- 40:52lot of women in this in that to sort of like travel in this space,
- 40:57in this or red pill men's issues whatever space, right, which is
- 41:02like not an easy and simple thing to define, and it shouldn't be.
- 41:07It's fine that men are all dealing with their own shit in their own way.
- 41:10It's almost like we're individuals. But eventually it seems that and this is
- 41:16not just true for women, but it does seem to be like more common
- 41:22with women is that the longer they're in this area, the longer they deal
- 41:25with, or talk with or listen to men who are extremely frustrated, who
- 41:30are extremely lonely, depressed, angry, whatever, and they're trying to like
- 41:36talk about it, the more likely or the harder it gets for those women
- 41:43to stick around. And eventually, most like well not most, but a
- 41:46lot of the time, they just unplug. I can't handle it. There's
- 41:49too much anger, there's too much missogyny. Don't just say the missogy even
- 41:52though it's not that it's just that these men are mad and they're frustrated enough.
- 41:58No, they probably isn't enough, but but you know what I'm saying.
- 42:01And then they'll walk away and they'll be like, I can't do this
- 42:04anymore. And that's where you get I'm not gonna name any names, but
- 42:07that's when you get some of the people who used to be sympathetic to these
- 42:10issues and they've like essentially walked away or said those people have gone too far
- 42:14or whatever, and it's like, you no, nothing's changed. The anger
- 42:17is the same. It's just that now you're like getting it in the raw
- 42:22and you're not able to handle it because it's not like it's not some woman
- 42:27complaining about you know, the pink tax or something stupid. It's it's real,
- 42:30serious stuff that has real consequences, you know, for men who are
- 42:35struggling. Like that's that's why you can't handle it, because it's real and
- 42:38you're dealing with fake shit. You're dealing with people who are you know,
- 42:43mad because somebody like had fucking a three egg omelet and that that was like
- 42:47some chickens babies, and they're all broke up over it. You're mad because
- 42:52somebody claimed that you know, I don't know, like the like the volcano
- 43:00eruption is because you bought like, you know, plastic straws or something like
- 43:07not real things, right, But instead when there's a man who's like,
- 43:10you know, I lost access to my kids, I've been falsely accused,
- 43:14I've been I was you know, somebody attempted, like my girlfriend tried to
- 43:17kill me or she lash out of rage and I call the police and they
- 43:21arrested me. Whatever. When you're dealing with this stuff, this real shit.
- 43:25Then you know these women can't handle it. It's mostly women that they
- 43:30get to a point. And so my point in saying that is is that
- 43:35Kaylin Moran isn't going to be able to help because she's not ready for men's
- 43:40pain. And the reason why is because she is a feminist who believes that
- 43:45men are stronger than women. They have more power, they have patriarchy,
- 43:50they have oppressed women, and they'll do it again if they're not doing it
- 43:52now right, And the same is true of the person who's writing this article.
- 43:57The same is true is of Greta Gerwig. That's why did she put
- 43:59the lie in the movie where the guy was like, we still do patriarchy,
- 44:01we're just better at hiding it that it's they they and if he does.
- 44:06As long as you hold that belief, you can't help men because you
- 44:09will always think that they're invincible. You're gonna always think that they have power
- 44:14and it doesn't matter. You know, you're gonna always be more worried about
- 44:17their effect on you. Yeah, you're always going to worry about them.
- 44:21You're gonna worry about the backlash. Put that quote. Yeah, you're gonn
- 44:23always give me more worried you're more worried about controlling men than helping them,
- 44:28and that you're never going to be in a position to help. And I
- 44:31don't know what it is, like I've been doing this for twenty years.
- 44:35I'm I rarely have a problem with the anger. I'm not sure what it
- 44:37is. Well, I mean, like if you if you see it,
- 44:42like I mean, I get angry sometimes. I don't know if you like,
- 44:45but like a little bit. I mean sometimes I tried, you know,
- 44:52I don't think it's good. But one time I got upset, uh
- 44:58and I yelled and lindsay I made or cry and I felt awful about it,
- 45:01but she didn't. She understood, you know, like she was like
- 45:06I understand, like, you know, and it didn't drive her away.
- 45:08So I think that women can find strengthen that in fact, that might be
- 45:14something that would make a woman a better woman, is if because that's the
- 45:20thing that I think women do for men. And when they just run away
- 45:23or they're like, well this isn't comfortable, I'm gonna leave. Well,
- 45:27yeah, you're not helping anymore. Yeah, it's about comfort, right,
- 45:29It's like, oh I'm not comfortable, You're you're mad at like, you
- 45:32know, women in the abstract or a woman or a series of women you've
- 45:37run into. And I don't like that because I feel like that's a little
- 45:39too close to me, even though it's got nothing to do with me,
- 45:43but it might have something to do with me, so you know. And
- 45:45that's that, I mean, that's that's that's something that women had to face.
- 45:51It's the only way. And these women, this woman who wrote this
- 45:53article, and Caitlyn Moran, she's not going to face that. No,
- 45:58well, she's a dick did to the lukewarm amniotic fluid that she floats in.
- 46:04But she's addicted to that, just that just sort of placid, kind
- 46:07of constructed reality that men have created for her. She can't conceive of being
- 46:13outside of it and actually realizing like much less realizing the the external chaos beyond
- 46:21beyond the membrane of men, but even just realizing men's reaction to that external
- 46:25chaos and the difficulties of it. She can't handle it. She's too weak
- 46:30and frailty, right, exactly right, and Essenti'll she'll write passive aggressive jokes
- 46:37about it. Yeah, it is. It's it's cowardice. What why aren't
- 46:43you talking about your penis is more Favianism does hide a lot of female cowardice,
- 46:49yeah does, and insecurity like it reframes things not in terms of of
- 46:55recognizing a standard bravery for women, but that you pulled women to a standard
- 47:00of bravery becomes misogyny because the expect putting any expectations on women is misogyny somehow,
- 47:07not because women can't fulfill those expectations, but because they shouldn't have to
- 47:12or something. But really it comes down to this individual is too weak minded
- 47:19to truly understand men's issues, you know. And I can't even understand men's
- 47:23issues the way men understand them. But you know, like I, I
- 47:29understand them to a degree because I've listened and researched for two decades and for
- 47:36whatever reason, I'm just somebody. I know what you're saying, Brian,
- 47:42because I've seen it time and time again that the kitchen gets too damn hot
- 47:47for the women and they run it. They just can't handle it, you
- 47:52know, you just can't handle the heat. And I have seen it over
- 47:55and over again. And it usually comes when a decision that they've made about
- 48:01their life gets questioned or or they hear something that hits too close to home,
- 48:07right yea, Like a man complains about something a woman did to him,
- 48:09and the woman who's listening is like, oh shit, did I do
- 48:13that? And then you know, like and then now that, yeah,
- 48:15they don't want to deal with that. I think that happens a lot.
- 48:17So yeah, yeah, And like I said, I don't know what,
- 48:22like, I'm pretty sure that I want to call myself a counterexample at all,
- 48:25because you know, probably in some ways I have well, I definitely
- 48:30have the same issues. Sometimes you just need to step away and be like,
- 48:34okay, break time, go play with the dog. But I haven't
- 48:38yet turned away. I can't turn away from this because this is the truth.
- 48:44Now, this is reality. Reality isn't the lukewarm sack that moron is
- 48:51floating in, constructed by the men in her life, and the men are
- 48:53who support the men in her life, and the men who support all of
- 48:57the things that she enjoys and who are sheltering, literally sheltering her and continue
- 49:01to shelter her from true understanding of the cost of constructing her lukewarm amniotic sack.
- 49:09Okay, like she is, she is, like, you know,
- 49:15it's difficult because a woman might poke a hand out of her amniotic sac and
- 49:19it just feels so it feels so awful, doesn't it, that on that
- 49:23very vulnerable skin, like it's just just and then she has to go back
- 49:28in, chicag go back in because she's too weak and too frail. And
- 49:31that's that's all it comes down to. Anyway, Let's keep going, because
- 49:35right, let's keep going. So even this response vow came under fire,
- 49:42with further critics arguing that Moron seemed to misunderstand why so many people were troubled
- 49:46by the book, that, rather, What about Men flouted individualism to instead
- 49:52present men as one universal body with shared belief systems and behavioral traits, all
- 49:57of which seemed wildly outdated, and that the implication of her book was that
- 50:00men are in trouble and Moron is here to fix them. Yeah, no
- 50:05shit. Also, ye are buried, Yes, yes they are, and
- 50:10Moron was operating under stereotypes. I remember watching the interview and I was like,
- 50:17I was like, yeah, you don't do you do you even understand
- 50:21men? Like you have sons, Like that's actually why she's writing this book.
- 50:23She has two sons, and you don't understand then, like you're still
- 50:29operating under what do you like? Watch like The Brady Bunch or something like
- 50:32some old TV show with men in it, and like, oh, that's
- 50:36what men are, right, So come on, men are unique. But
- 50:40what the expectations that men labor under are not. The expectation is that men
- 50:45put women first. Yep. And when they can't put women first, they
- 50:51are a burden and burdeners need to be removed. That's what they labor under.
- 50:55All men labor under that. You know, sometimes they get that.
- 51:00I think one of the appeal of Andrew Tate is that he's managed to construct
- 51:07an almost the illusion of an independent masculine identity. But when you actually listen
- 51:14to him, it isn't like he's he's not really getting anything from the women
- 51:19he's with. He's providing something and getting something in return, which somehow has
- 51:23become misogyny but regardless, but he's constructed this illusion of an independent identity,
- 51:30and that is actually in defiance of this expectation that men put women first.
- 51:37You know, I don't think he's not putting women first. He may be
- 51:40putting women, uh, he may be putting himself in there. Somewhere,
- 51:47But like Andrew Tate, is not an example of the reverse. It's the
- 51:52it's it's a counter example. It's almost like a release valve for men who
- 51:57are in a situation where they either have been and raised to put women first,
- 52:00or are socially expected to put women first, or governmentally mandated to put
- 52:06women first. And here they get to see this guy who apparently seems to
- 52:10not put women first but get something for himself. Yeah, and the irony
- 52:17is that. I mean, if you look at the Barbie movie, and
- 52:22the Barbie movie is a great illustration of a lot of stuff, but the
- 52:25Kins really wanted to help the Barbies, and that's what the Barbies used to
- 52:30manipulate the Kins into losing power. And so even the Kins wanted to put
- 52:37the Barbies first, but they wanted to be in position to put the Barbies
- 52:39first. And that was the problem. Like we're entering into the endgame,
- 52:45whereas men want to be in position to put women first. They want to
- 52:51be the hero saving the damsel. But we have to now deconstruct that role
- 52:57and give them nothing, not even that role of putting women first, because
- 53:01that's too much astoundingly, Yeah, you see what I'm saying. Yeah,
- 53:07it's misogyny. It's it. We are we are going into the endgame where
- 53:13men's identity, which was once based on guilt, which is the very pro
- 53:17social emotion and it encourages protection and provision, is now based on shame.
- 53:23There is no I mean, you can have this idea that there's the villain
- 53:28as long as you've got the man is a villain, as long as the
- 53:30heroes of a man, right, that's not true anymore. It's not true.
- 53:36So they're completely deconstructed. They're trying to retain men's identity of putting women
- 53:40first while deconstructing it. And the cost is men's mental health. To be
- 53:45honest, all right, yere, I got a super I got some super
- 53:52chats though, So alex W gives us two dollars, thank you, alex
- 53:57W. And Albatross gives us five dollars and says it's better they leave if
- 54:04they can't take the heat. Otherwise they're just the hindrance to the health of
- 54:06folks they claim to care about. I agree, I mean, I think
- 54:08it's better. But then you know, I ask that if you, if
- 54:13you want to do this work, you're gonna have to deal with a lot
- 54:16of mail emotion like, and that's the thing. Kately Moran and Shoe and
- 54:24all of her people and Lauren Southern and other names that I said I wouldn't
- 54:30drop. They basically think that men should be doing things the way that feminists
- 54:35say mens do things, and when they don't and they're just doing it their
- 54:37way, then that's too scary. So I guess you're not cut out to
- 54:43deal with this, and maybe, you know, go do your Midsummer cryfest
- 54:46over there and men will figure it out. Well, I mean, we've
- 54:51all, we've done it since the beginning of time. I guess we're just
- 54:53gonna have to keep doing it our way. But anyway, okay. Acording
- 55:00to gender studies academics, oh, I love this because these people are the
- 55:02best. They are the experts. And I don't know if you guys know,
- 55:07but the experts are the only people we should be getting any advice from.
- 55:12According to gender studies academics, there are several issues with this thesis.
- 55:15The first is that men might not really be in trouble at all, at
- 55:19least not in the way that Moron suggests. Historians have found people worrying about
- 55:23the crisis of masculinity, which they put in quotes throughout history, says doctor
- 55:28Ben Griffin, Associate Professor in Modern British History at Girton College, University of
- 55:34Cambridge. But if a crisis is perpetual, it's not really a crisis.
- 55:37It's just the way of things. Okay. What they mean by the crisis
- 55:42of masculinity is the crisis of men living up to the expectations that are placed
- 55:45on them. And yeah, that has been what a surprise that our society
- 55:52that is constructed for the benefit of men at the expense of women is constantly
- 55:58an eternally concerned that men live up to the expectations placed on them to sacrifice
- 56:05themselves and provide for others. You know that. That's what that means.
- 56:08Yeah, that doesn't mean that we have ever ever looked at things in terms
- 56:15of, well, how is this affecting men that like the crisis of masculinity?
- 56:21Excuse me, The crisis of masculinity does not mean the crisis of not
- 56:28caring about men. It means the mule isn't pulling its weight. What do
- 56:34we do about it? Yeah, that's it. Yep, that's right.
- 56:38And feminists is part of that, like, it's this is the continuation of
- 56:43the crisis of masculinity conversation. It's literally not doing anything new. It never
- 56:46was. It's always been the same ship since before it was even called feminism.
- 56:52So the real problem, he claims, is that masculine. I want
- 56:57to say one last thing, Okay, okay. He does have a point
- 57:00though, because this is what I see and a lot of the conservative conversation
- 57:07about all of this. Again, it comes down to men living up to
- 57:10responsibilities and a roll, not whether or not society is giving them the means
- 57:15to do so or providing them a way of coping with what they're expected to
- 57:22do. So it's nothing about what men need and what it's about what men
- 57:28need to do for others. And and he's right, like, this is
- 57:32this a lot of this comes down to it on you know, the side
- 57:37that isn't his side supposedly, is that it really is more about whether or
- 57:42not men live up to a standard than it is about whether or not they're
- 57:46getting what they need to do so or you know, getting what they need
- 57:50at all. All right, I just wanted to point that out, all
- 57:52right, Yes, a sort of point here, That's what I'm getting at
- 57:57the real problem, he claims, is that masculinity can not be discussed in
- 58:00such singular terms. If we asked a football fan, a vicar, and
- 58:05a banker to define manliness, we would probably get three very different answers.
- 58:08He says, when people talk about a quote crisis of masculinity and quote,
- 58:13they are usually complaining that their preferred variety of masculinity seems to be losing prestige
- 58:17or influence relative to other forms of masculinity. I don't think that's true.
- 58:22I don't think that's true. No, I don't think men are competing with
- 58:27other men in that way. But I do think that it's true. A
- 58:30vicar, a football fan, and a banker have different Well, they might
- 58:36have a different idea of how masculinity is presented, but I think there is
- 58:39a unifying like thread that runs through all of it. Right, So,
- 58:45like a football player, a person who uses his body, a person uses
- 58:49his mind, and a person that uses their heart. I guess they could
- 58:52all be men, and they could all be doing the same thing in general
- 58:58that would be considered masculine. Merit service and sacra Yeah, merit service and
- 59:02sacrifice. An acknowledgement of their effect on the world. So a vicar,
- 59:07a football fan, and a banker have an effect on the world and they
- 59:09are aware of it, and it is like a big part of what defines
- 59:15them. It's not just about the acquisition of the material or of they're a
- 59:22success or approval with women, it's it's it's not status, it's not those
- 59:27things, right, It's just like I feel strongly about this thing. Like
- 59:30artists. You know, the most of the finest, the best artists in
- 59:34history have been men. That that doesn't mean that they weren't masculine in their
- 59:38own way. And I resent this idea. And I think this is what
- 59:42gender studies teaches is that masculinity is always a force for let's say, something
- 59:50aggressive, oppositional, you know, competitive. That's why this guy is saying,
- 59:55Oh, the banker feels like his masculine is threatened by the football fan.
- 59:59No, that's not how the No. And also that in the in
- 1:00:05academia, like literally they removed all the positive virtues of masculinity. Yeah,
- 1:00:09so what what what they What we're actually looking at now is this idea that
- 1:00:15masculinity itself like the expression being a man, the hormonal system that is,
- 1:00:22male has no virtues and we can't recognize those virtues. That is a that's
- 1:00:28not a crisis of men aren't living up to something. That's a crisis of
- 1:00:34we regard the identity of man to be a like a something criminal or corrupt
- 1:00:42or mentally ill. Okay, that's literally what it is. And you can
- 1:00:46see the progression of this in academia and the psychologic psychologic psychology industry. So
- 1:00:53that is, it has nothing to do with what men are are not living
- 1:00:57up to and everything to do with how people are finding men to exclude any
- 1:01:01kind of virtue and saying that the the identity you would take from being born
- 1:01:08in a male body is virtueless, corrupt, and criminal, okay, and
- 1:01:15it's it is also culpable for men, and it's also diseased. Okay,
- 1:01:21that's what's being said, right and digressing into the cold the crisis of masculinity.
- 1:01:29People saying, oh, men aren't living up to their expectations. Well,
- 1:01:32first of all, I also have beef with those people. It's the
- 1:01:36weak men. People, weak societies breed weak men. Blah blah blah.
- 1:01:45You are concerned about men living up to expectations while men are being told that
- 1:01:54they are by virtue of the identity that they take from being born in their
- 1:02:00body and identifying with their body, corrupt, criminal, and diseased. Okay,
- 1:02:09we need to stop telling men that. I know this is going to
- 1:02:14come to as a shock to a lot of people, but men probably are
- 1:02:17going to have a great deal more difficulty doing the things that men do thus
- 1:02:22living up to the standards being set by the people who need people those men
- 1:02:27to do those things if they're constantly being told that they are criminal, corrupt,
- 1:02:34and diseased because of who they are, and also they're going to have
- 1:02:38some mental health problems because they're being told that they're criminal, corrupt, and
- 1:02:43diseased because of who they are. Okay, that's how it sort of works.
- 1:02:46So you can continue to talk about how weak men aren't living up to
- 1:02:51the standards imposed on them by society, but you might want to look over
- 1:02:53here and see what those men are having to deal with in terms of the
- 1:02:58way that they're they're framed as men and realize that it's actually really difficult to
- 1:03:06wake up in the morning shoulders the burden of a society telling you that you
- 1:03:10are criminal, diseased and corrupt, and also shoulder the burden of making sure
- 1:03:16that society has running water. It's it's a little bit you know, this
- 1:03:21is like, it's it's a little bit much to ask of these quote unquote
- 1:03:24weak men. Yeah. Sorry, I'm not a little pissed there. That's
- 1:03:30sight Okay, all right, So let's see today we have ideas of masculinity
- 1:03:38coming from all angles, whether it's in sociology, pop culture, advertising charities,
- 1:03:45TikTok, government campaigns, or around a table in the pub. Well,
- 1:03:47actually all of those are feminist perspectives, though, so I don't see
- 1:03:51like they're all basically like in Lockstaff, except maybe the guys in the top
- 1:03:54in the pub. Amid this cacophony of competing voices. Not really, it
- 1:03:59is harder than ever. That's like saying, oh my god, I'm on
- 1:04:01the news talking about masculinity, and there's somebody making a movie about masculinity,
- 1:04:06and there's somebody like teaching a class on masculinity, and there's somebody on TikTok
- 1:04:12making a video about We're all saying the same thing, but wow, what's
- 1:04:15with all these competing voices? Really, they're all saying the same thing.
- 1:04:20You're all saying the same thing, and none of you understand men and don't
- 1:04:24have an interest in learning about men. Maybe you should listen to the guys
- 1:04:27in the pub. Even if they're scrambling to figure out how to put what
- 1:04:30they're going through into words, maybe they're saying something more true amid this cacophony
- 1:04:35of competing voices. It is harder than ever for any one form of masculinity
- 1:04:40to establish itself as culturally dominance, says doctor Griffin. To some people,
- 1:04:45that looks like a crisis. Again, it's not about doctor Griffin is a
- 1:04:47moron. Yeah, well he's a sociologist, so well, it'd literally he'd
- 1:04:53be like, oh my god, this peacock has a gigantic fan of feathers,
- 1:04:57and this raven has black feathers, and this blue a blue crested titty
- 1:05:01bird whatever has blue crest while these birds have absolutely nothing in common. And
- 1:05:09that's you're fucking moron. You are a moron, doctor Griffin. All of
- 1:05:14these birds, Oh but look at all the different colored plumage. They nothing
- 1:05:17in common, dumb ass. Your analysis and your taxonomy is as shallow as
- 1:05:28like a micro like a a nanometer, deep puddle like this is this is
- 1:05:36this is this is absolute stupidity. This man has said, amazing that this
- 1:05:42gets public. No, it's not amazing that this gets published. Oh oh,
- 1:05:45they're all what these birds they have nothing in common. They look so
- 1:05:47different, yes, of course, but they have fundamental features in common.
- 1:05:53And also what I see is that they will point all of these different groups
- 1:05:57of men who have these kind of superficial differences and they will say, well,
- 1:06:00there's no real masculinity. Therefore, we don't have to recognize that it
- 1:06:04has any kind of quality to itself. So the reason why he's identifying all
- 1:06:11these different masculinities, so that masculinity itself just disappears in a puff of smoke
- 1:06:17and we don't have to actually recognize itself as something legitimate in and of itself.
- 1:06:23Yeah, he's breaking it up into a powder and he's atomizing it.
- 1:06:27Every grain is a different masculinity, and it's like you're useless. I mean,
- 1:06:32I think honestly, these people don't actually want to fix anything. They
- 1:06:39just want to talk around it forever and forever, like they don't they don't
- 1:06:45ever want to get to anything real. They don't ever want to actually help
- 1:06:47someone. They just want to keep talking around it because they're not They're afraid
- 1:06:51to face the reality. They have to know the reality by now, like
- 1:06:56they have to. If you're involved in this for this long, even if
- 1:06:59you were in like embedded in academia for like ten years chasing after a PhD,
- 1:07:04you have to at some point have thought, you know, some of
- 1:07:06this doesn't really sound like it makes sense. There has to be but and
- 1:07:12that's if I'm being really really charitable. But it seems to me that these
- 1:07:15people who are so smart, so big brained, they will never they don't
- 1:07:21want to get to the truth. And I think that a lot of this
- 1:07:25stuff is very simple. They're just they don't have this courage to face it.
- 1:07:29Okay, all right, we have a we have a burnt out light
- 1:07:32bulb. Okay, it's in the hallway. We're all arrayed around it.
- 1:07:36What are we gonna do? Okay, Well, obviously anybody who knows how
- 1:07:42to replace a bulb, or knows that they exist or has one, obviously
- 1:07:46they're they're not in the conversation because because you know, they have toxic masculinity,
- 1:07:53you see, our toxic balbininity or whatever. It's just Griffin, who
- 1:07:58is going to say, but do we know this is a light bulb?
- 1:08:01I mean, there are light bulbs that you put on your Christmas tree.
- 1:08:06There are light bulbs you put on a lamp post in a in a in
- 1:08:11a city intersection. There there are light bulbs that you put in a light
- 1:08:16bright. There are light bulbs that you put in your nights stand. There
- 1:08:23are light bulbs on the moon. You know, there are light bulbs under
- 1:08:27the ocean. There are so many kinds of light bulb. Therefore there is
- 1:08:31no light bulb at all. Yeah, and you still can't see because it's
- 1:08:36still dark. Okay, it's still dark. That's not to say, though,
- 1:08:42that there aren't issues that need solving. In her book, Moron sites
- 1:08:45a range of shocking statistics, shocking maybe for you, Among them that boys
- 1:08:49are more likely than girls to be medicated in school for disruptive behavior, less
- 1:08:54like the anxiety that prefers boys over girls. Yeah, in the patriarchal society,
- 1:09:00less likely to go on to further education, and more likely to become
- 1:09:03addicted to alcohol, drugs, or pornography. Men also make up the vast
- 1:09:08majority of the homeless and prison populations, and on top of all that the
- 1:09:12leading cause of death for men under fifty is suicide. Other concerns have also
- 1:09:15emerged of late. Since the pandemic, There has been a notable rise in
- 1:09:20penile enlargement surgeries, for example, a trend that highlights society's obsession with defining
- 1:09:26masculinity and sexual terms by placing social currency on penis siety. Really, I
- 1:09:30wonder, I wonder that society, society, society that. Yes, of
- 1:09:39course, when men go on tender and they're trying to they're trying to find
- 1:09:44a society to date. It's just this just society is always like, well,
- 1:09:47how big is your deck? Yeah? You know, I have no
- 1:09:54idea what that was. That was the That was the joker, because we
- 1:09:58live in a society, Allison, Yes, we live in a society.
- 1:10:01Literally. Yeah, it's society's obsession with defining masculinity and sexual terms. Society's
- 1:10:06obsession, society. Yeah, society, Society is forcing them to get us
- 1:10:14enlargement surgeries. Is society also forcing men to try to add like four inches
- 1:10:18to their height to incredibly painful breaking leg and putting pins in your legs.
- 1:10:26So you you you you increase the Yeah, it's like a pin. Yeah,
- 1:10:32the inswort a pin that that gradually uh open, I know, I
- 1:10:39know about I've looked into it. I wanted to it's society that made that,
- 1:10:43and the penile thing and the and the you know, like the chin
- 1:10:46maxing, the jawline stuff, all of that I want to talk about on
- 1:10:50a lodge because it is society else, and it's society that's pushing these pressures
- 1:10:55on men. Yeah, society. It's not society is just another way of
- 1:10:58saying it's patriarchy that is that. Yeah, it's patriarchy that's obsessed with men
- 1:11:02getting taller than they are in average and men having larger than average penises.
- 1:11:08That. Yeah, that's all society. It's not you know, women's list
- 1:11:13of attributes that they want that they put on their their profiles on dating sites.
- 1:11:18No, it has nothing to do that. It's society. Why would
- 1:11:23patriarchy give a crap about its sons, femurs and penis. I don't know
- 1:11:30why. Indeed, why wouldn't patriarchy just be like, yeah, ladies,
- 1:11:35no, you don't have the right to ask for you don't have a right
- 1:11:39to ask for men to earn like double what they have because you know what,
- 1:11:44then we'd need two other earths to fulfill your material desires, ladies.
- 1:11:48And you don't have the right to ask for men to be four inches taller
- 1:11:51than average. And you don't have the right to ask for a penis side
- 1:11:58that's larger than average or even like within the average spread. Okay, that
- 1:12:02you get. You get an average man because you are an average woman.
- 1:12:08That is it? You know, if I were designing patriarchy, instead of
- 1:12:13forcing men to go through probably horrific surgeries that have a high high degree of
- 1:12:18potentially, I would imagine losing your penis or or getting blood clots in your
- 1:12:24lungs in terms of increasing your or or having to take on the stress of
- 1:12:29earning twice as much. Instead of that, I would actually raise girls to
- 1:12:34realize that they're average and thus being average deserve only an average man. That's
- 1:12:43what I will do, Isn't it like I could? Seriously, I need
- 1:12:46to find the grand Poobah patriarch and tell him I could do this better for
- 1:12:50you. I could do this. You need a woman. You need a
- 1:12:54woman, You need a woman's touch. I believe he has an octopush shaped
- 1:12:59base in the middle of a swamp in the Everglades and his name is doctor
- 1:13:01Society. Well, I gotta find him. I'm going to offer him a
- 1:13:06service. My services is his right hand handmaiden? Or is it like the
- 1:13:13giant robot spider base on the moon on the further side of the moon.
- 1:13:15I don't know. It's one of those. We gotta figure it out.
- 1:13:17We gotta figure it out, all right. I think I could do a
- 1:13:20better job. He's doing way too much cackling and posturing, and he needs
- 1:13:26to get down to the nitty gritty of what needs to happen. Yeah,
- 1:13:30all right, all right. Anyway, so a different kind of crisis talk
- 1:13:34occurs when men find themselves incapable of performing their preferred variety of masculinity, explains
- 1:13:41doctor Griffin. For some, this might be aligned with sexual prowess and performance.
- 1:13:45Any sense of a shortcoming could then lead someone to feel as if it's
- 1:13:48not possible to do things that make you a real man. But then another
- 1:13:53question emerges, what does our men doing this to other men? Oh no,
- 1:13:57I'm sorry, society is doing this to men society, Professor, doctor,
- 1:14:02mister Society. It's this lack of identity that seems to be at the
- 1:14:08heart of some of the biggest problems facing men today. We don't know how
- 1:14:12we are meant to be anymore, says Max Dickens, comedian and author of
- 1:14:15Billy Nomates, how I realize men have a friendship problem. While Max Dickens,
- 1:14:21comedian and author, sounds like he really understands men, what Moran's book
- 1:14:27presents as a stylish exemplar of a discourse that has become stuck. The think
- 1:14:30pieces and the books all tend to have the same form. Here are men's
- 1:14:34problems. The reason for said problems is that men are stuck in a box
- 1:14:39of toxic masculine norms. If only men could behave more like women. That's
- 1:14:44actually surprisingly based take. Well, he's a comedian, so yeah, he's
- 1:14:47a comedian. Zo I guess we shouldn't take what he's saying seriously. No,
- 1:14:51No, he's the comedian. If they are actually any good, they
- 1:14:56usually have some pretty base takes. But I just wanted to, like,
- 1:15:00so, could you roll scroll up again because I wanted to see those sentence
- 1:15:03before this where this lack of identity seems to be at the heart of some
- 1:15:10of the biggest problems facing men today. Okay, well, we have two
- 1:15:14things, right. It's the traditional way of manipulating men to rise up to
- 1:15:18the standards of whatever the powers that be you need them to do in order
- 1:15:21to stay powers that be. For example, in World War One, go
- 1:15:26in and get your head blown off, and watch your buddy get your head
- 1:15:29blown off, and still sign on for next head blowing off adventure and then
- 1:15:34also come home and then be shamed crap by you, by your female relatives.
- 1:15:39But regardless, so you have that, you have be a real man.
- 1:15:44Go get your head blown off, so things, so we can resolve
- 1:15:48our political problems. That that's being a real man. Do you have that?
- 1:15:53And then you have what feminism has done, which is actually the male
- 1:15:57identity is criminal, corrupt, and also diseased. You know, that's where
- 1:16:01it's gone. That's where we're at now because they're they're associating, they're literally
- 1:16:08associating identifying as a man with committing suicide, and they're saying that means that
- 1:16:14the masculine identity is a causal factor for suicide, not correlative. So in
- 1:16:18other words, maybe there's something society is doing to people who identify as men
- 1:16:23that's causing them to commit suicide. No, it's because these guys identify as
- 1:16:27men that they're suicidal. Therefore, identifying as men is a disease marker.
- 1:16:32It's diseased. Okay, that's how that's where we're at. Yeah, we
- 1:16:39have the live up to these stupid standards, so I keep my power men,
- 1:16:44and then we have the masculinity is diseased quadrant. Maybe we could do
- 1:16:50something completely different, you know, like tell men that they have worth by
- 1:16:58virtue of being men, you know, and and that they have despite being
- 1:17:04in a society that says that they're corrupt, criminal and disease, they still
- 1:17:09get up every morning and keep the lights fucking on. And maybe we should
- 1:17:13be thanking them instead of blaming them for the current situation, which, honestly,
- 1:17:17I know you might get upset with me, but this is what I
- 1:17:20see a lot of conservatives doing the weak men ship. Oh it's all men
- 1:17:25that's responsible for this crap. Some conservatives will listen to us. Others seem
- 1:17:29to be eyeball deep in the sewage of blaming men for more shit, you
- 1:17:34know, and uh, let's blame men that will surely at some point stop
- 1:17:40the sewage from getting higher, even though it hasn't for the last one hundred
- 1:17:44years. Okay, Brant done, Let's keep going. Do you have any
- 1:17:47thank you because you haven't gotten anything nothing. Okay, that's really it's really
- 1:17:58okay. I'll give it a go because this is a little bit concerning all
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- 1:19:38the fact any book is promoting or prompting further interrogation into these issues is largely
- 1:19:43a good thing. Well, perhaps something has to change about the tone of
- 1:19:45that interrogation if we're ever going to make progress. Oh here we go.
- 1:19:49Well, we need a shift that encourages men to get involved in the conversation,
- 1:19:54or at least stops casually insulting them, says Dickens. A lot of
- 1:19:58men here phrases like toxic mask, lenity and they simply withdraw or worse,
- 1:20:01it serves to confirm their sense of victimhood, so they chase in salubrious gurus
- 1:20:08who provide cheap hope and unhealthy ideology. Who I wonder who, Yeah,
- 1:20:14confirm a sense of victim Yeah, maybe they are victims Dickens, Like I
- 1:20:19have to actually I have to actually withdraw my support of Dickens. Yeah,
- 1:20:24what if men are victims? Like, why is it so difficult for anybody
- 1:20:29to just be like, just sit with the concept. Yeah, maybe men
- 1:20:31are victims. You know why, It's difficult because our entire society rests on
- 1:20:35men's sacrifice, and if we make that sacrifice in any way illegitimate, we
- 1:20:41have to start contending with some real issues, some real moral issues. Okay,
- 1:20:46that's why, because then we have to start to really really look at
- 1:20:51World War One and World War Two and see them in very different ways.
- 1:20:55And no one wants to do that because we got a neocon agenda to persu
- 1:21:00Thanks Dickens, thank you for sucking corporate and government cock being dped Okay.
- 1:21:11In her response, Oh yeah right. In her response piece, Moron speculates
- 1:21:15that one of the reasons why her book prompted such a backlash. It's because
- 1:21:19it was written by a woman. Oh of course, yes, of course
- 1:21:23that's must be it. It. Oh, I'm a woman that wrote a
- 1:21:26book on men, and everybody hates me. I knew it misogyny. Here
- 1:21:30you are welcome. Oh my god. It was the first question on the
- 1:21:34first night of the tour that resolved my confusion over the backlash. She writes
- 1:21:39you joked that you wish a man had written this book, said a man
- 1:21:42in the audience. But how could he? Can you imagine a man saying,
- 1:21:45what about men? Pay us attention? It's our turn now we'd be
- 1:21:48torn to bits. It had to be a woman who said it first.
- 1:21:50Well, I mean that's he's not lying, you know. I mean men
- 1:21:57have been saying stuff for a long time him. And how how was doctor
- 1:22:01Warren Fell treated? How was Paul Eli How was Sage Gerard treated? When
- 1:22:08he spoke Paul Elam had never written those controversial takes, nobody would know who
- 1:22:14he was. Yeah, and that is actually scary. Like they talk about
- 1:22:18how, oh look at how horrible these men's gurus are, But the only
- 1:22:25ones they pay attention to are the ones that offend them. Yep. I
- 1:22:29don't know, Like, I don't know why they don't pay attention to them.
- 1:22:30I guess we aren't offensive enough. I don't I don't know. I
- 1:22:34think that the people that they get attention on the ones that algorithm favors.
- 1:22:40I think there's I think there's fishy shit going on. But oh yeah,
- 1:22:44because Peterson isn't Peterson is pretty unoffensive and he's considered like the top one of
- 1:22:48the top gurus. Well, he has said if things that are slightly on
- 1:22:53the edge of offensive, like you know, saying that fairly hefty uh Sports
- 1:23:00Illustrated model was not beautiful, you know that was considered offensive. Of course
- 1:23:06it was, But I mean it's just his opinion. Man. Yeah,
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- 1:24:02me feel a lot better. You know, that's really funny because we're in
- 1:24:08and I know people would be horrified by this, but what I've noticed is
- 1:24:11that, uh, even in this in this neck of the woods, guys
- 1:24:17still care about women. You know. It's it's I'm glad because it allows
- 1:24:25me to continue to do this work, but I know in a lot of
- 1:24:29cases it's because you know, you see a woman out there doing it and
- 1:24:34you just you want to help her because she's a woman. In some ways,
- 1:24:39hopefully I'm providing good content that and and and helping Brian provide good content,
- 1:24:44and Brian is also providing good content. But I know there's probably an
- 1:24:47element of that as well. But you know, like maybe it's not so
- 1:24:51bad. Uh. I don't do you want to call that simping because honestly,
- 1:24:56if humans didn't simp to a degree, we probably would be dead.
- 1:24:59As a speed sees So I only I think simping is when you do it
- 1:25:03with like, ok it's not because it's the right thing to do, but
- 1:25:09like because you know you're you're basically like, look, look, not not
- 1:25:14most okay, not every woman is deserving a simpage. Yes, and also
- 1:25:19don't okay, don't simp if you can you can yourself. If you're just
- 1:25:26doing the right thing, I don't think it's simping. But if you're like
- 1:25:29blindly protecting women, either specific bad actors or in the abstract because they are
- 1:25:35women, that is simping to me. Okay, what I was going to
- 1:25:40say is that I think I think that throughout most of human history, women
- 1:25:45have tried to give back to a degree, So a lot of the simping
- 1:25:48made made a certain amount of sense because women were functioning as the logistics.
- 1:25:54So if the men were the infantry, the women were the logistics, supplying
- 1:25:57them what they needed to do, what they could, you know, what
- 1:26:00could and uh, and that makes sense that the infantry protects the logistics.
- 1:26:05So this idea that women do what they can to help men and uh whatever
- 1:26:15insight not just just just help, but also insight and whatever else they can
- 1:26:18do, and in exchange, men support women. I think that's is that
- 1:26:23that isn't simping, right, I mean, if a woman is actually trying
- 1:26:28to be your partner and you are are helping her or making her life eat
- 1:26:33easier, I don't think that's simping. No, No, I mean I
- 1:26:38stand up for my wife. That's not simping. But if my wife looks
- 1:26:41up, I call her out on it, that's all, and she'll do
- 1:26:44the same for me, and I would ask her and then I would expect
- 1:26:45that. Yeah, it's like mutual support. That's that's the ideal to aim
- 1:26:49for. Okay, so I'll give you we do have another thank you,
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- 1:28:00know that we can continue. I don't know if that helped. It's one
- 1:28:03of my strained metaphors. Okay, let's keep going. All right, let's
- 1:28:10see. It's a fair point, but one that highlights how far we have
- 1:28:16to go in order to achieve a meaningful change. After all, no one's
- 1:28:19denying that Moron's book isn't at least attempting to do something important. But I
- 1:28:24think she's trying to hijack the conversation. But whatever, But perhaps the response
- 1:28:29illustrates just how complex an attempt it is, given how charged conversations around gender
- 1:28:34can be. Whatever you say, and whoever says it, they'll inevitably be
- 1:28:39a group of people armed to attack or discredit your argument. That being said,
- 1:28:43Moron's book went straight to number one on the Sunday Times bestseller list.
- 1:28:47That doesn't mean anything, evidently, and despite people's protests, there is clearly
- 1:28:53an audience for her perspective appeal to what is it a bandwagon fallacy and press
- 1:29:00is being made, even if it might not feel like that. Would a
- 1:29:02book like this even have been published five years ago? If well, there
- 1:29:06is a couple of books that have been published that are sort of in this
- 1:29:11ballpark, but you won't acknowledge them. And if it had, would anyone
- 1:29:14have wanted to actually read it? Would Moron fill out rooms of people on
- 1:29:17a nationwide book tour, all of whom had paid to listen to what she
- 1:29:21has to say about men? The truth is because you know, when Peterson
- 1:29:27goes on, he doesn't he doesn't have anything to say when he fills a
- 1:29:30stadium. But okay, although he's not talking to men, I know,
- 1:29:34but like men are like the majority of the people who go to his thing.
- 1:29:39And also I would say, I don't know if he's distanced himself from
- 1:29:43this, but I think at this point, you know, when he said
- 1:29:48that women have the right to select whatever criteria they have, I don't know,
- 1:29:54I think at the point where women have selected criteria that would require two
- 1:29:58additional earths to fulfill, I think they need to somebody needs to bitch slap
- 1:30:02them, and I think it's probably gonna be mother nature or just geopolitics.
- 1:30:09But that's ridiculous. No, you literally, if men fulfilled women's criteria material
- 1:30:15criterias tomorrow, we would be out like an entire earth, Like you would
- 1:30:20just be eaten. The only thing that's stopping that kind of enormous environmental degradation
- 1:30:30is the fact that men aren't fulfilling women's material desires at this point in time.
- 1:30:35So it's like, okay, all right, Peterson, women's desires would
- 1:30:40lead to ecological catastrophe. Do you still think that it's appropriate for women to
- 1:30:45have hold whatever desires they want and furthermore, their desires either we have ecological
- 1:30:50catastrophe because we do not have two extra earths just rattling around, or alternatively,
- 1:30:58it doesn't happen men don't fulfill their desires, so we continue to exist
- 1:31:02not having an ecological catastrophe, but we have a population collapse catastrophe. Maybe
- 1:31:10at some point we could be like, women, what the fuck are you
- 1:31:15doing? What are you expecting? Do you think you might be a tad
- 1:31:20too ridiculous in what you want? You are an average woman, you get
- 1:31:27an average man with an average salary. If that means you have to work
- 1:31:31to support yourself, welcome to human history. At least you're doing work indoors
- 1:31:38now, Like fuck, like, what what the hell? I mean?
- 1:31:45No, No, it seems like nobody, not even Peterson. I mean,
- 1:31:47I'm pretty sure what I'm saying is super radical, Like it must be
- 1:31:50so radical. It's just like people can't even perceive it. It's like,
- 1:31:54I'm i'man you know that Star Trek episode with the people in the supersonic people
- 1:31:59that you couldn't even see because they're moving so fast. I think, I
- 1:32:01think what I'm saying is so radical. The average person when they're looking at
- 1:32:06me saying it just looks like I'm I'm flapping my lips and nothing is coming
- 1:32:10out, you know, And it's that's that's that's why, that's why this
- 1:32:15content is unique. Yeah, even I mean, and it doesn't mean I
- 1:32:18don't think I think that Peterson not being aware of what you're saying about women
- 1:32:26is is not exceptionally like bone headed or anything, because I think that it's
- 1:32:33a well intended thing that he's saying. But he has a blind spot,
- 1:32:39just like ninety nine point nine percent of the population, and all we're doing
- 1:32:44is trying to get people to look at that. So if he gets that
- 1:32:47part wrong, but he's surprisingly people have yeah, go ahead, go ahead.
- 1:32:51Well, surprisingly people have a difficulty seeing their blind spots. Yeah,
- 1:32:57it's wondered. You know, it's interesting how that works. But yeah,
- 1:33:00it's like, right now, if men actually fulfilled women's desires, we'd have
- 1:33:05an ecological catastrophy on our hands, Like, like, we can't do this.
- 1:33:10It's it's there's there's just not enough earths around to do this, so
- 1:33:15women need to And on the other hand, because we can't do that,
- 1:33:18like we really don't want to do that, We don't actually want to fulfill
- 1:33:20women's material desires because yeah, it'll just lead to disaster. But on the
- 1:33:27other hand, if they don't scale back their material desires, they won't partner
- 1:33:30with the average men, and we will have a demographic collapse that may lead
- 1:33:34to another ecological catastrophe because nobody will be able to continue to keep the all
- 1:33:41of the industries operating, like the earth is basically a cyborg. Now all
- 1:33:45of our industries are now need to be kept operating, or we're going to
- 1:33:49be dealing with an extinction event. So we either have a demographic collapse leading
- 1:33:57to an distinction event, or we or men somehow magic up an extra like
- 1:34:03double their salary and which translates into double the material the ability to consume,
- 1:34:13or huge inflation and women eat the earth to death essentially. Or we can
- 1:34:23do the inconceivable, which is finally, tell women you got to stop because
- 1:34:30your desires are ridiculous, and you know you may you may end up with
- 1:34:39a guy who you think is is less than than what you deserve. But
- 1:34:45at the end of the day, when you die, you will have had
- 1:34:47a life partner and somebody who cared enough about you to make your life easier.
- 1:34:53That's gonna be a hell of a lot more than a woman who dies
- 1:34:56and nobody comes to funeral. Yeah, like you know it's I mean,
- 1:35:06eventually the oldest woman in the or the youngest woman in the friend group is
- 1:35:11going to die and all of her older friends are dead. They aren't going
- 1:35:14to her funeral. Anyway, I went in a little bit of a weird
- 1:35:19direction with that. Let's let's keep going all right, all right, let's
- 1:35:25see the truth is that there's always been, there's always going to be certain
- 1:35:28belief systems holding people back, no matter how hard Moron or anyone else tries.
- 1:35:32That's just the nature of conversations around masculinity. I guess we just can't
- 1:35:38fix it. Let's talk about women again. In general. It's a good
- 1:35:42thing for people to recognize that there is no way of there's no one way
- 1:35:45of being a man, says doctor Griffin. Were were really really crazy idea,
- 1:35:49dude, Wow, well many different birds. That means there's no bird.
- 1:35:56There is no right way to mut Men out there thinking that there is
- 1:36:00a right way. Because I know that that's all of you. I know
- 1:36:02because I'm the big brained you know, two million IQ guy. I know
- 1:36:09that there's no one right way to be a man. So stop trying to
- 1:36:13do the thing that I think you're doing. Because I think I'm smarter than
- 1:36:15you. I'm doing men right, says doctor Griffin. Were doing. The
- 1:36:21problem with knowledge art is these people that this is a problem with no ignorance
- 1:36:29is better than knowledge like this. Yeah, okay, but doctor Griffin tells
- 1:36:33us all, well, there are so many different types of bird. That
- 1:36:35means that there is no such thing as a bird. Yeah, good lord,
- 1:36:42you know, then keep your secrets. You know. I think that
- 1:36:45these types of men can recognize I mean, there might be a joking sense
- 1:36:51of competition, but I think for the most part, many of these men
- 1:36:55who are outside of feminism and academia can recognize the nature of the beast when
- 1:37:00they see it, you know, the you know, the footballer can respect
- 1:37:04the vicar. The vicar and has something to offer to the footballer. The
- 1:37:11footballer has something to offer to the banker. The banker has something to offer
- 1:37:15to the vicar. I mean, yes, of course. Yeah, that's
- 1:37:18how that's Yeah, that's how men work. It's how we build society.
- 1:37:24You know. Men have figured out how to be men since there were men.
- 1:37:30And it's only now that people are like, why aren't men manning correctly?
- 1:37:34And who are the people doing that? Women academics and academics. Yeah,
- 1:37:41well yeah, because they were taught by a woman, you know,
- 1:37:45And it all goes back to a man, of course. Yeah, but
- 1:37:47you're right, but have been able to marry. We figured it out.
- 1:37:53It's not that hard. Yeah, if you leave, it's it. It's
- 1:37:58just so sudden, you know. It's like suddenly that when we have this
- 1:38:00entire academic arm that ism is presenting the masculine identity, so identifying with your
- 1:38:09body, the body you were born in, as a man, as a
- 1:38:13biological man, the masculine identity is criminal, corrupt, and diseased. Suddenly
- 1:38:17men are having a problem. Geez, I wonder why maybe we could just
- 1:38:23stop that, you know, like, instead of all of this discussion,
- 1:38:28let's just be like, you know, maybe we just just stop you guys
- 1:38:30like doctor Griffin, and also the other alternative is doctor Griffins, who are
- 1:38:35like, oh, there are so many birds in the world. That means
- 1:38:39there's no such thing as a bird. There's almos so many types of birds.
- 1:38:43That means there's no such thing as a bird. Right of course,
- 1:38:47all right, where was I? In general, it's oh, yeah,
- 1:38:54right, So it might be useful to acknowledge that the same man performs many
- 1:38:58different masculinities in the course of a day. Why are we even categorizing this?
- 1:39:02The individual who is a devoted family man caring for a dying parent might
- 1:39:06be a ruthless businessman in the office and a clown in the pub. People.
- 1:39:13People will have personalities and personalities different depending on the context. What I
- 1:39:18just I just schooled you on this, children, did you know? I'm
- 1:39:24sorry? Go ahead, I know. I know. Birds sometimes glide,
- 1:39:27you know, they don't always flap their wings. They sometimes glide. They
- 1:39:30sometimes hop on the ground, They sometimes perch on a branch. Therefore there's
- 1:39:34no real burdens. Yeah, there is no There is no essence of bird.
- 1:39:43Jesus Christ. Okay. The important thing that's often missing from these conversations,
- 1:39:47both online and off, is no accepting nuance my favorite word. It's
- 1:39:57like society accepting that one person's definition of being a man is different from others,
- 1:40:02and that no two men perform masculinity in the same way is key to
- 1:40:05becoming a more progressive and inclusive society that can benefit all genders. No two
- 1:40:12men perform masculinity, no two farm Okay, but then there is a masculinity.
- 1:40:17Do you recognize a masculinity that's legitimate, not corrupt, criminal and diseased?
- 1:40:25Because there's the problem. Yeah, to this is this is the most
- 1:40:30trivial fucking observation. Yeah, men, men are different, Yo, they
- 1:40:33have different personalities and interests. Oh my god, that means okay, you
- 1:40:39know what they did here, They invented the problem. Like they they're like,
- 1:40:43oh yeah, men, they just said a bunch of words that have
- 1:40:45no meaning, said a whole troutload a word that had no meaning. No,
- 1:40:50Actually they did, and I'm going to tell you how right. Okay,
- 1:40:55So I'm going to go back to our our our lightbulb metaphor. So
- 1:40:59we're all standing in the dark with this light bulb, and you got doctor
- 1:41:02Griffin saying, well, there are so many types of bulbs in the world,
- 1:41:06therefore there is no such thing as a lightbulb. And then you got
- 1:41:11the other people who are like, but light bulbs do all come and whatever
- 1:41:14what they've done. As somebody has said in this article, the author has
- 1:41:19said, the problem isn't that the light bulb has burnt out. The problem
- 1:41:27is this other thing. You know. The problem is that we have shuttered
- 1:41:32the window. Okay, and that's why it's dark in here. So let's
- 1:41:39focus on that as the problem. So the problem isn't this crisis of masculinity,
- 1:41:44which what I would say is the crisis of the demonization of men.
- 1:41:47That's not the problem. The problem is that men cannot recognize each other's masculinity
- 1:41:55as legitimate. Do you see what they've done, Because so they they basically
- 1:42:01define the problem as this and and then they've just basically said, while,
- 1:42:08yeah, it's men men's problem, let's let's move on. But what a
- 1:42:11surprise, huh? You know? Yeah, this articles to government. Men's
- 1:42:15problem is men? Yep, all right, last bit. There's always an
- 1:42:23audience of people who like to be told that their complex problems have simple solutions,
- 1:42:27adds doctor Griffin. Plus some men seem incapable of realizing that Fight Club
- 1:42:31was a satire? Is that like ending on a joke? Yeah? I
- 1:42:35guess so can we can we go back to that because I want to discuss
- 1:42:38it the fight club thing, or yeah, well not the fight club thing.
- 1:42:43I couldn't give a crap about fight Club. Who cares? It's a
- 1:42:45movie, guy, it's not it's not wisdom. There's always an audience of
- 1:42:49people who like to be told that their complex societies have simple solutions or complex
- 1:42:54problems. So if there's a crisis of identity, men identifying as men,
- 1:42:58or men feeling comfortable or men having mental health issues, it can't Possibly the
- 1:43:03problem can't be because people like doctor Griffith either define masculinity out of existence by
- 1:43:11saying there are so many types of birds in the world, therefore there is
- 1:43:14no such thing as a bird, or because other people have defined masculinity in
- 1:43:20the worst way, like they've made men responsible for criminal acts. They've basically
- 1:43:27defined masculinity as responsible for criminality, corruption, and disease. Okay, that
- 1:43:31can't be the problem here. That can't be the problem. No, Instead,
- 1:43:36it has to be men are not recognizing the masculinity of other men.
- 1:43:42The problem is that men are trying to make other men do masculinity in the
- 1:43:45way that they do it. Okay, let's just take the conservatives that this
- 1:43:50might apply to out of the picture, the ones who are like weak men
- 1:43:55crap that end, who also incidentally push a lot of the women narrative.
- 1:44:01Okay, let's take them out of the picture. I have rarely seen a
- 1:44:05man in real life tell another man that he's doing masculinity incorrectly. Maybe maybe
- 1:44:19tw on Twitter, but you can find people expressing every psychotic opinion on Twitter,
- 1:44:28you know, And uh, well, I mean I guess he gets
- 1:44:30shaming of of of of more feminine men, I suppose on Twitter. Yeah,
- 1:44:36and you know that's not great, But this is not what they're promoting.
- 1:44:40Like, these people aren't promoting this idea, this live and let live
- 1:44:44attitude. They're not promoting the idea that they are certainly aren't promoting the idea
- 1:44:49that feminine men can be feminine but also shouldn't condemn or or being dismissive of
- 1:45:00masculine men. Like they're not promoting that. They're not They're not promoting a
- 1:45:04live and let live attitude. They're promoting once again, men have a have
- 1:45:10a crisis of identity. This is how it's their own fault. And I
- 1:45:14the greatest irony is at the end of that, at the end of trotting
- 1:45:17out the nuanced gymnastics to deal with this problem, the problem of men's identity
- 1:45:25not masculine like not living up to something in terms of identity, but in
- 1:45:29terms of not perceiving themselves to have an identity of worth just innately as by
- 1:45:34virtue of being born, or at least a neutral identity that could be worked
- 1:45:41into something of worth, but instead being saddled with you know, criminality,
- 1:45:44corruption and disease, you know, instead of that we've suddenly come alighted upon
- 1:45:51defining the problem in such a way that men are responsible for it. Therefore
- 1:45:56we don't have to care talk about simplifying things like that's that's not just simplifying
- 1:46:02like he said, Oh, people like a simple answer to whether you didn't
- 1:46:05just simplify the answer to the problem. You simplified the problem, dude,
- 1:46:10Griffin, you you're you're like you're looking at someone else and there there were
- 1:46:14they're seeking a simple answer to their problems or where their problems come from.
- 1:46:18Griffin, you didn't just simplify the solution. You simplified the fucking problem.
- 1:46:29Do you see what I'm saying. You simplified the problem down to men being
- 1:46:35intolerant to other people men's masculinity and attacking other men's masculinity. You simplified the
- 1:46:43problem down to that. And then you said, the problem is you know,
- 1:46:45the source of the problem is men. It doesn't get simpler than that,
- 1:46:49and it doesn't. And this is how he applies his nuance. Yeah,
- 1:46:54to always frame the problem so that the source the problem is men.
- 1:47:00That's nuanced, folks, but spares the pain of having to like confront anything.
- 1:47:04Well, yeah, confront the truth, the reality of what they have
- 1:47:09contributed to. That's well, that is the thing they don't want to face,
- 1:47:15is that women a part to play. God forbid, Olivia or Caitlin
- 1:47:20have their warm amniotic sack punctured and they have to actually face something with a
- 1:47:27bit of fucking courage. I know. Language, Oh yeah, hold on,
- 1:47:32language all right, So I got a little bit of time. Do
- 1:47:38you have any thank yous? Have a pick up, lindsay, But I
- 1:47:43wanted to show that little clip from Greta Girlwig. It's just a little thing.
- 1:47:47This is related. So she's talking about Yeah, so they're talking about
- 1:47:53like it's kind of a puff thing. About seven minutes. I also have
- 1:47:56a longer one. Maybe we can do this another time with Greta Gerwig being
- 1:48:00interviewed along with Margot Robbie. But this is important because this is kind of
- 1:48:05in line with the same thing Greta Gerwig is going to. She's basically talking
- 1:48:10about they're talking about the ken thing. So let's play. Let me turn
- 1:48:14on the why do they have such sleazy smug expressions on she is a very
- 1:48:19strange and awkward woman. And then but what things do you have? Good
- 1:48:24Kenergy's one thing. What's one thing I think we'll be You're getting an echo?
- 1:48:33Yeah, weird? This odd. Let me just see what's going on
- 1:48:36here, all right, maybe it's playing out of two channels at the same
- 1:48:40time on your As long as nobody else is getting an echo, it doesn't
- 1:48:43matter. I'll just I'll just gnaw the inside of my cheek and artistic annoyance.
- 1:48:47Greta Gerwig is the director of this movie. Okay, that's Greta Gerwig.
- 1:48:53Yeah. Margot Robbie started a company because she wanted to make films that
- 1:48:59focus on in and she Margot Robbie had the idea to start the Barbie movie
- 1:49:03as a project, and she brought Greti Herwig on to write and direct,
- 1:49:09so or help her write. I think Margot Robbie was involved too. It
- 1:49:13just sounds insane, but these are the conversations we'd have. I think there's
- 1:49:15self actualized keenergy, which is where Ken gets to at the end of the
- 1:49:18movie. I think, uh, men, in there, just stop it
- 1:49:28there for a second. I don't know if you're going to hit, get
- 1:49:30hit. Okay, she's just very she's just really awkward, guys, Okay,
- 1:49:39strange supporting women with like an open hand, but that like nobody everybody,
- 1:49:45just as everybody wants everybody to soar, okay, stop all right,
- 1:49:51let me that's kind of like the basic of it is that she's saying that.
- 1:49:56I know they're talking about kenergy and I put that in quotes. We
- 1:50:00what she's really saying is good men, Like, a positive masculinity is a
- 1:50:05masculinity that supports women with an open hand. That's literally every argument. No
- 1:50:14obviously not a close fist, but like that's literally every like that's the same
- 1:50:18exact thing that Olivia Petter is saying. It's what Kaitlin Morrine is saying.
- 1:50:24It's what uh you know, all of yeah, I said Olivia Petter,
- 1:50:29all of these people that are actually like that have the largest platforms and the
- 1:50:33largest megaphones that are talking about men, are saying the exact same thing.
- 1:50:39Men are best, Like, the best kind of masculinity is the masculinity that
- 1:50:44is in service to women, because women, no matter how much men have
- 1:50:48been through, women always have at worst. Women always need priority, They
- 1:50:53always need a leg up. And she'll say something like this, fucking you
- 1:50:57know, platitude of a rising tide raises all ships but none of that.
- 1:51:01That's all bullshit, like it's it's it is bullshit. It is so,
- 1:51:05you know, I just wanted to put that in context. Maybe tomorrow or
- 1:51:11whenever we do another thing, we'll go through the other one. I don't
- 1:51:14really want to put Karen through that because she hasn't watched the movie and I
- 1:51:17you know, but I do think that there is you just want to put
- 1:51:21me through it. Well, you've seen it and you made me watch it
- 1:51:24twice, so yeah, I watched it three times now. Oh god,
- 1:51:30yeah, it's it's terrible. You know, it's not. I Like I
- 1:51:34said, I I had an inoculation by reading modern fiction. I get it.
- 1:51:44I get it. No, I disagree, I know, I don't
- 1:51:45disagree. It is it is. Yeah, it's confusing. Is it really
- 1:51:49what it is? You know what I watched recently that was really good and
- 1:51:53I've never seen it before. I've seen two things Atlantis, which is the
- 1:51:56Disney movie, never saw it, it's very good. And Treasure Planet.
- 1:52:00Oh yes, those I was very impressed. See. I was like,
- 1:52:05you know, this is these are kind of underappreciated gems that I never watched.
- 1:52:10So and when there is nothing out there now that comes close to those
- 1:52:15at least mostly not mostly not, and that when Disney was it is in
- 1:52:20its decline too. They were very much like Boys Adventures and you don't see
- 1:52:27that anymore. Nope, at all. Okay, last thoughts, Yeah,
- 1:52:33it basically all of this rhetoric all comes back to men have a problem,
- 1:52:38But how do we put women first? Yep? Is it? Oh?
- 1:52:42We what? The way that we do that is by reframing the problem or
- 1:52:47completely rewriting the problem so that men are responsible for it and thus we can
- 1:52:53dismiss it. And yeah, so guys, your problems are entirely the result
- 1:52:59of you. Okay, they're entirely the result of you. Therefore they can
- 1:53:03be safely ignored. And now you need to put women first. Nuance,
- 1:53:09There is no such thing as men. So how is there such a thing
- 1:53:12as men's problems? There's no such thing as women? How do we put
- 1:53:15them first? Yeah, there's lots of femininities, but they all need help.
- 1:53:23But they're all defined by putting a coaster over their drink when you walk
- 1:53:29past. Yeah. Oh so they're all defined by cowardice and victimhood. Yeah,
- 1:53:32I guess that works. Okay, So once again, I'll do the
- 1:53:38final tally for the uh for the thing. So if you want to help
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- 1:53:46you guys to help us out to make sure we can continue to do this.
- 1:53:50We are entirely community funded because no, ain't nobody touching this like honestly
- 1:54:00we are. We are some dimension away from Peterson and probably Andrew Tate,
- 1:54:06like we're in a radical dimension of sight and sound that makes us almost impossible
- 1:54:11to be heard. And it's not even just like the YouTube algorithm, which
- 1:54:15I do think there are some YouTube algorithm shenanigans happening. It's just this idea
- 1:54:19that we puncture there the amniotic sac that women float in constructed by men,
- 1:54:26and actually shake them and say, hey, there's a reality here. You
- 1:54:30can either start to understand it whow we can still help you as men,
- 1:54:35or it's that amniotic sack is just going to be ripped right open and you
- 1:54:40are going to be slapped into the desert of the reel with no preparation.
- 1:54:45And so one way or the other. But nobody wants to hear that because
- 1:54:50it's really men's identities, to be quite honest, that like this is this
- 1:54:55is something that sells very well. Men want to feel like they're making women
- 1:55:01safe and provided for, Like that's a fundamental want that men have. They
- 1:55:08want to put moren into that that sack of amniotic warmth. And also Caitlin
- 1:55:15and also Olivia and also Greta and Margo. They want to make sure that
- 1:55:20these women are insulated from harsh realities, even the harsh realities that they face.
- 1:55:25They take pride in it. Look at homeless men. Homeless men will
- 1:55:30prioritize homeless women for shelter because they still even as homeless men, I shouldn't
- 1:55:35even say even they're still men. And it's it's hard because on the one
- 1:55:41hand, that's a really noble thing, but on the other hand, at
- 1:55:45some point it becomes very destructive. So how do you recognize it as being
- 1:55:50noble? And on a point that you know, a lot of men consider
- 1:55:55that an aspect of their dignity. I'm gonna be really honest, like it's
- 1:55:59it's it's a difficult thing to navigate because many men feel like that gives them
- 1:56:04purpose and worth and it's a part of being dignified and being and having self
- 1:56:11worth. And how do you navigate that while essentially telling men that they can
- 1:56:18put themselves somewhere on the you know, on the agenda if they need help,
- 1:56:26you know, and also telling men that we're men. Women are way
- 1:56:29too indulged in this society and they do need a reality check, you know,
- 1:56:34And a lot of men don't want to hear that. They don't want
- 1:56:39to hear it. It's not a very popular narrative because it requires going against
- 1:56:43something that makes them feel good about themselves. It makes men feel good to
- 1:56:48take care of women full stop. And somehow we need to be able to
- 1:56:55teach men that if the women aren't taking care of them in return, they
- 1:56:58aren't worth it. We used to understand that that's what lady meant. Being
- 1:57:03a lady. That meant, you know, having courage, behaving in a
- 1:57:11certain way, behaving in a reputable way, being respectable, being kind and
- 1:57:17generous to others. You know, it had a meaning, and it doesn't
- 1:57:23doesn't matter anymore. There's nothing there's no no aspect of that anymore, no
- 1:57:27expectation that's placed on women. And honestly, that's not normal. I mean,
- 1:57:32people will think, like even Peterson has said, oh, women have
- 1:57:36the right to expect anything, well, not without fulfilling expectations in return.
- 1:57:42Period. This what we see today is not normal and it's not healthy.
- 1:57:47And one of the one of the things that is a symptom of that unhealthiness
- 1:57:56is the fact that women are searching for the sources of guilt and piety,
- 1:58:01sources of external expectation, and they're finding them in all of the alphabet advocacy
- 1:58:11for the alphabet people, advocacy for minorities, advocacy for you know, persecuted
- 1:58:18groups. You know, that's where they're finding it. And it is not
- 1:58:24a healthy dynamic because when when women advocate for these groups like purse puppies,
- 1:58:31they take away the recognition of their agency. They create this infantilization which impedes
- 1:58:40their integration into society and their their full recognition of their humanity. Okay,
- 1:58:46we don't recognize the full humanity of an infant because an infant doesn't have agency,
- 1:58:53right, And this is producing a lot of social dysfunction. Okay,
- 1:58:57but it all comes back to you can't hold women accountable. We can't tell
- 1:59:01women that their expectations are ridiculous, and we can't recognize that men. It's
- 1:59:08okay, men can be victims. We can sit with that thought and not
- 1:59:11freak out and recognize that maybe men sometimes need help to Where do you think
- 1:59:16women's accountability is going to come from? All Right? If you like that
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- 1:59:58I really like Lindsay is in the parking lot of her job waiting. Okay,
- 2:00:02we have a super chow as well, So that is the super chow.
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