Latest / Honey Badger Radio / Speaking With Gender Equalist and Non-Feminist Elizabeth Jack | Fireside Chat 231
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- 0:00Hello, everybody, Welcome on Honey Badger Radio. My name is Brian and
- 0:03this is the Fireside Chat. We are a number two hundred and thirty one
- 0:07fireside Chat episodes at least. Today we have a special guest, Elizabeth Jack.
- 0:13Elizabeth is an American equalist who writes about gender issues, focusing primarily on
- 0:17sexual domestic abuse. She has a left leaning but non feminist approach to gender
- 0:22and a pawnchant, a pawnchant for debate. So welcome to the show,
- 0:27Elizabeth, Thanks thanks for having me. Yeah, so I watched your talk
- 0:32that you did. I think it was for Cafe Yeah, yeah, yeah,
- 0:37yeah, and it was well that was probably a while ago, is
- 0:40that Is that fair, like a few years ago? Yeah? Yeah,
- 0:43I think twenty nineteen sounds right. And you've been I guess like we should
- 0:49give a little backstories to like how you came to be on this show.
- 0:54So you used to be there. They're on Facebook. In the back in
- 0:58the Stone Age, there was a in internet years that's basically like you know,
- 1:03cretaceous period, we had a Facebook group. It was not the one
- 1:08managed by us, but it was like you know, people who were fans
- 1:12put it together and it was very active for a while, or a lot
- 1:15of people on there, and of course, you know, because it's the
- 1:18it's the Internet, people fight and things like that. But it was good
- 1:22for a while, and I know that you were part of it, because
- 1:25I guess I was adding people as friends from that group that, you know,
- 1:30if they said something or if I liked their posts or whatever, you
- 1:34know, I would I would just add them. I'd be like, oh,
- 1:36this person's from this group, right, So if you're active in the
- 1:38conversation, is how I saw it, I would add you. So I
- 1:45guess like that's how that started. And then that book, that group it
- 1:48got shut down by Facebook years ago. I don't remember exactly what it was.
- 1:55It was, you know, we violated the terms, which were kind
- 1:57of like constantly change. I don't know who it was specifically. It wasn't
- 2:01me. I'm not band on Facebook. I'm banned on Twitter, so that's
- 2:06different, you know, But that did happen, and so like everybody kind
- 2:10of the you know, went into their own little circles, and yet I
- 2:15was still in touch with people like you and a few others. And I
- 2:21saw you made a post and I don't want to I don't want to misquote
- 2:24you, but you had criticisms of either the Honey Badger or radio Facebook group,
- 2:30the Honey Badgers in general, or the men's rights movement in a more
- 2:36broad sense. And I don't, like I said, I just I don't
- 2:38want to tell you what you were saying. I want to ask you,
- 2:42like, help me clarify, because I don't you know, it was it
- 2:45was a while ago. And then right after that, I said, hey,
- 2:47you want to talk about it, you know, and I went into
- 2:50your comments and then we you know, we ended up talking to each other
- 2:53and set this up. So give me a little bit of what your thoughts
- 2:58are about that. Yeah. Sure, So I'll take a step back first,
- 3:04because I kind of have a lot of hills to die on about how
- 3:10like human rights movements market themselves in general, like not just the MRM,
- 3:17not just you guys, not just anybody in particular, but like any movement.
- 3:23I feel like we as people are pretty bad at talking across the aisle,
- 3:27and we don't really think about advocating as marketing, but it is marketing.
- 3:32So when I see us sort of allying with people whose interests are not
- 3:42the same as ours, I kind of or like when I see us I
- 3:49sort of delving into like really jargony sort of discourse with people who are not
- 3:58already a part of our move meant or even like like God bless him,
- 4:04I get what Paullum's trying to do, but you know, there is there
- 4:09is a problem when when people kind of approach the normies that way, right,
- 4:13like, and then people like you and me have to go like no,
- 4:15no, no, no, no, no no, you don't understand
- 4:16that's you know, that's not what we're doing here. Yeah, and you
- 4:19know kind of like explain that to the normies, right yeah. So,
- 4:25I like my criticism was largely about in that particular post, was largely about
- 4:32how we active like do activism and and advocacy as a movement, and how
- 4:39we have kind of reached a point where we've stopped differentiating ourselves as hard from
- 4:46some of those more traditionalist movements that I think are like fundamentally incompatible with men's
- 4:59rights. We can that sounds like something we should dig a little deeper into.
- 5:03But first I guess you're I don't know if it's your gain, but
- 5:08you're peaking a little bit like there's a little bit of a when you make
- 5:12like an S sound or a T sound, it like clicks. There's like
- 5:15a bit of feedback. So I don't know if it's your gain or whatever,
- 5:17but we'll we'll just try. We'll see if there's if that changes,
- 5:24I don't know if you can make any adjustments. But otherwise I can hear
- 5:26you fine, it's not like there's you know, so okay, so I
- 5:31think I know what you mean. I have. It's you know, it's
- 5:40tough, Like I feel like I'll put it to you this way. I
- 5:43started doing this work ten years ago, and ten years ago I was pretty
- 5:48I considered myself to be pretty solidly on the left in terms of my politics,
- 5:55and and I never thought that men's rights should be something that needs should
- 6:00be part of it. Like I didn't think it should be. I know,
- 6:01I know, and I still don't think it should be. But as
- 6:04I've been doing this more and more, and most of what I do I
- 6:09don't I don't, I guess. For to be clear, I don't consider
- 6:13what I do here activism because I think activism is like maybe I just have
- 6:19like an incomplete picture of what it is. But to me, activism is
- 6:23like you know, rallies and protests and you know, campaigns and things like
- 6:29that. And I am more of an advocate I would. I'll talk about
- 6:33stuff right, and and I try to do it in well again, I
- 6:40try to do it in a non partisan fashion, and and I think that
- 6:45over the years, I've changed my outlook a lot. Part of it is
- 6:49for me, it's about I'm trying to be practical because I think that.
- 6:56And I mean Allison probably she's the person who runs Honey Badger Radio. She
- 7:00probably doesn't see eye to eye with me on this, but Allison's always says
- 7:04that we need something completely new, right, like a new way to like
- 7:10organize everything right, a new story that we all operate under. And I
- 7:15don't as ms as Honey Badgers, as as MRAs as just like as a
- 7:19society like the because we're in a world now where men's contributions are not just
- 7:28taken for granted. I mean they're actively shit on, they're frowned upon,
- 7:31they're criticized there, you know, And this isn't this isn't even getting into
- 7:36anything dealing with the legal or the political or the actual like policies and things
- 7:43that we want to change because the thing is what I've come to realize is
- 7:46that if you can't change people's opinions or attitudes about men as a group,
- 7:51then you you're like, you're never gonna get support. So if I say,
- 7:55well, what about prostate cancer, and people laugh at me and they
- 7:58say, well, that doesn't really happened, and I'm like, well,
- 8:00look at how much breast cancer gets, you know, for funding versus how
- 8:05much prostate cancer gets, and they will, you know, people will just
- 8:07they we have this. It's not just a blind spot, you know,
- 8:13like there's a blind spot. Like if you tell people, well, you
- 8:16know, men in the Middle East, they have a bunch of problems all
- 8:18their own, people will say, no, that's impossible, Like it's impossible.
- 8:22And I think it's it's got to do with the way that we view
- 8:26men as a group and the way that we view women as a group.
- 8:30And I think it's an op it's a it's a massive obstacle, and where
- 8:33things are getting so bad now that it's you can't even begin, like I
- 8:41said, you can't even begin talking about things like, you know, male
- 8:45suicide and paternity rights and father absence without saying we have to care about men.
- 8:54I mean, people take for granted that men essentially maintain the infrastructure,
- 9:00you know, like you and I are talking to each other because of men
- 9:03right right now? Yeah, so so like, uh, I think then
- 9:09I guess I'm I'm getting a little I'm getting into the weeds. What I'm
- 9:13wondering about is what do you think about? Because I don't know what Alison
- 9:18is proposing, But but your concerns seem to be that there is a what
- 9:26like a conservative like push happening or like what are what are the things that
- 9:31you're worried about? Yeah, so I don't I don't care if somebody's like
- 9:35liberal or conservative, right, Like, I don't care what your thoughts are
- 9:37in economics or like immigration or you know, all of this other that has
- 9:43nothing to do with me. I'm not worried about that. But when I
- 9:46see, like when I'm talking to somebody and they call themselves a men's advocate,
- 9:48and I'm like, cool, what do you mean by that? You
- 9:52know, what do you think about the draft? And they're like, oh,
- 9:54well, why wouldn't you want to fight for your country? You pussy?
- 9:58And you know I talk to them about domestic abuse, and well,
- 10:01what you you're not going to fight back. She's half your size, And
- 10:03I'm like, oh, you're not an MRA, You're a traditionalist, no
- 10:05interest in these issues. I'm not even sure one of those people in our
- 10:09discourse space. Yeah, Like I think that means we've marketed ourselves wrong.
- 10:15That's that's that's possible. So we're talking about I mean, I guess from
- 10:18your perspective, you're talking about tactics or approaches or maybe optics to some degree,
- 10:24Like you have people that still have a lot of bluepill thinking that are
- 10:28sort of in the space. But I would, I would, I would
- 10:33say, I would dare to say, though, there is when it comes
- 10:37to things like the ones you brought up like that, you know, why
- 10:41are why are you know, why don't you fight back? Or why are
- 10:43you letting this woman beat you up? Or why aren't you dying for your
- 10:46country? Or whatever? Those do strike initially as traditionalists, but feminists believe
- 10:54in that stuff too, So yeah, I mean yeah, so like it's
- 10:56it's no, they do, they do, And there's I mean, I
- 10:58have a thing about how feminism is like traditionalism masquerading as progressivism in a number
- 11:03of ways, and like might too to your point, and to my point,
- 11:09what I think we should be doing is uh, seeing these incoming people
- 11:16as people to red bill, not people that are already on our side.
- 11:18You know, we need to think about them as like somebody we need to
- 11:22talk to you across the aisle, just like we do with feminists. Yeah,
- 11:24like we we like It's like we assume that because they're like in our
- 11:28groups, in our like discussion forums, that they're already with us, and
- 11:33a lot of the time they're not. They they got there because they had
- 11:35this arithmetic in their heads where they said, Okay, feminists are left and
- 11:39I'm on the right. Therefore any non feminist space or any anti feminist space
- 11:45must be like people that already agree with me. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
- 11:50And that's that's also tricky. I mean, I do, I do
- 11:52say this a lot, that feminism does come from the left, but that
- 11:58the issue is not feminism itself, but rather valuing the female perspective over the
- 12:07male perspective, because there are plenty of women on the right, or conservative
- 12:11women and the men that support them that will essentially advocate for the exact same
- 12:16stuff. So it's not really I mean, you know, I've talked about
- 12:20this on my show a lot. And I know that I've put pissed people
- 12:24off or confused them, But I think that left and right is in a
- 12:28way it's it's feminine and masculine. And the way that it sort of like
- 12:31bears out. This has nothing to do with things like religion or you know,
- 12:37traditional values or whatever. It's nothing to do with those. It's about,
- 12:39like, you know, whether or not you value security or if you
- 12:45value liberty, and women tend to value security and mental potent of value liberty.
- 12:48And that's where the clash has and that's why we have two wings and
- 12:52so, but setting that aside, I think more importantly than that, or
- 12:56even like bigger picture than that, is there are feminine ways of seeing the
- 13:03world, of operating within the world, and there are masculine ways. And
- 13:07and feminine doesn't mean women, because there are men who operate in those feminine
- 13:11ways, and there are women who operate in those masculine ways. Like you're
- 13:13talking about like pre industrial erge types. Yeah, sort of like like my
- 13:20like the people I work with, Honey Badger Radio was created by women.
- 13:22It's run by women. I'm I'm the producer, but like I work for
- 13:26women mainly right. And these women are women that like the way that Alison
- 13:31puts it is they it's like to be it's like seeing the consequences of your
- 13:37actions and being like gay or your your value or your worth being gay,
- 13:43like you know, judged by that. Right. So women, women tend
- 13:48to not see the world as how they affect it, but rather how it
- 13:52affects them, and men see it the other way around. Well, because
- 13:56that's how they're taught, you know, Yeah, we teach we teach are
- 14:00young girls that like the world revolves around them and that you know, everything
- 14:03needs to be comfortable for them, and you know, we teach our young
- 14:09boys that they need to make it comfortable for women. Yeah, exactly.
- 14:13And so but that that has like hasn't really, I don't think. Not
- 14:18only do I not think it's changed. I think it's gotten more extreme in
- 14:22that way. And I think that absolutely, yeah, And because of that,
- 14:26I think men, young young men are trying to break free of it.
- 14:30And that's why I don't know, if you saw this data, this
- 14:33recent data that said Generation Z men or boys are becoming more and more right
- 14:41wing and Generation Z girls are becoming more and more left wing. And because
- 14:46the left panders to women and humanizes men. Yeah, like it's going to
- 14:50join a club that hates them, right of course, of course. And
- 14:54but what I'm but I think even though that's the way that they describe it
- 14:56is left and right, I think it's more like men moving towards like they
- 15:01want to be free from the you know, from like authority. They want
- 15:05to be able to operate freely. They don't want to have to like essentially
- 15:09serve women, or serve the state, or serve whatever. And women are
- 15:15looking these young girls, they're looking for men to serve them. And that's
- 15:18why that's how I don't think. See they're describing as left and right or
- 15:22conservative at liberal, but it's not that. It's it's the men are are
- 15:26grasping at masculinity whatever they can get their hands on. Right. That's why
- 15:31people like Andrew Tay are popular. It's not because he is an icon or
- 15:37some kindness, because he's unabashedly masculinely. He just says this is what I
- 15:41am, even if it's a kind of cartoony version, which I think it
- 15:46is. But it doesn't matter because when you're a teenage boy and there's you
- 15:48know, a high likelihood you don't know who your father is because your mother
- 15:52excluded him from your life. You're going to look for some other icon or
- 15:56model to go after. And that's what they're doing. And meanwhile, the
- 16:00girls are getting what you said, the constant like propaganda about you know,
- 16:04girl power and all this, but it is all so like so there there's
- 16:08there's a larger division between men and women now in this youngest generation than there
- 16:14was before, which in a way, well, I think it's obviously like
- 16:18a part of feminism. What I'm getting at is like men's uh, these
- 16:23young men they're they're they're only going to these places because they don't know where
- 16:27else to go. And you're right, the left is offering them nothing.
- 16:30I mean, did you see Shoe on Head? Do you know who that
- 16:34is? Yeah? Oh yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. I thought she
- 16:38had a really insightful video. Yeah yeah so that did you see that?
- 16:42Then? You you saw because we've we used to have Shoe on our show
- 16:47like all the time, like way back in twenty fifteen or something, and
- 16:52she's still friends with us like on social media and stuff. And she went
- 16:56through and she was like, well, here, what the people on might
- 16:59say to the defense are saying about men, and you know, it's just
- 17:02demonization. And she even made recommendations. She was like, well, here
- 17:06are some good guys. And I looked at them and they were they're all
- 17:10feminists. I mean it's the same, it's the same song and dance.
- 17:12They're not going to change anything because they haven't. They haven't been able to
- 17:17figure out that all men want is to be left to do. What they
- 17:21want to do is to realize their own potential without interference, without people telling
- 17:25them what they have to do. You know what, Yeah, what a
- 17:27man in what a man isn't And you know, uh, most people are
- 17:32guilty of that. They think that man is something you become. Women is
- 17:37something you are, right, that's an interesting dichotomy. Yeah, like there's
- 17:42no Well, what I mean is is that a boy. Uh let's go
- 17:48to ancient cultures. Okay, when you were in a tribe and you're a
- 17:52boy and you are coming of age whatever that is, maybe thirteen or something,
- 17:56there is like you know, a kind of a they do some kind
- 18:00of ritual or there'd be some some trial, right that the adult men would
- 18:04put the boy through. Maybe they take him on a hunt with him or
- 18:07something, and when he comes back, he is basically referred to as a
- 18:11man now because he has done something right, some some service to the tribe.
- 18:15Right. This is like the hero's journey, which is like you know,
- 18:18Joseph Campbell's archetype story, which has been used in like all the most
- 18:22popular films, of a person, usually a boy or a young man,
- 18:29in like a mundane life and then something pulls him out of that into a
- 18:33world outside. It's Star Wars basically, and then he comes back and he's
- 18:36different, right, It's the Hobbit. It's countless other examples story. Yeah,
- 18:41every epic story that involves that that sort of cycle. With women,
- 18:45there used to be something like that, but there isn't anymore. And I
- 18:49don't know when it changed. I think probably in the last one hundred years
- 18:52or so. But the idea of a woman becoming a girl becoming a woman
- 18:56and that comes with, you know, sort of parallel or complimentary responsibilities,
- 19:03it doesn't exist in women now. Women are basically they have nothing that they're
- 19:08expected to do. And I think the reason for that is things like the
- 19:12feminist movement that have said, well, women are perfect already. This is
- 19:18why you get the kinds of female stories you get now, right, where
- 19:22women just have to realize that they're awesome and there's nothing to learn and there's
- 19:26nothing to grow because there's no because there can be no recognition of your impact
- 19:30on the world as a woman. And I mean one could say that one
- 19:36of the ways that I think that that does change for women is when they
- 19:38have children, because I think that's where that's the one thing that makes women
- 19:44different from men. Right. But and you can see that in some like
- 19:48if I wanted to use pop culture, I assume you're a nerd like me.
- 19:53Yeah, so like you if you've seen like Terminator or Aliens, those
- 19:59are the those are examples like Sarah conn is protecting her son, right and
- 20:03Ellen Ripley's protecting this girl. So like that's there's like this motherhood thing that
- 20:08is like you know that, that's why they're successful because we on some deep
- 20:14level where like this is real, right, even if it involves cyborgs from
- 20:18the future or aliens, it doesn't matter because it's that's the root of this
- 20:22is a real thing. And right, And meanwhile, we're told that like
- 20:26people like Captain Marvel are the first female protagonists. Yeah, exactly, you
- 20:30know, and yeah, And a lot of people will say, well,
- 20:34that's just what you know. I've heard this from I don't want to call
- 20:38I don't want to necessarily name their politics, but they're people who generally were
- 20:42a political but they were interested in pop culture. They will say, well,
- 20:45they're just making these men into these women, and they're just having them
- 20:51behave like men. But that's not true either, because the men have to
- 20:55they have like an arc, they have to overcome something, they have to
- 20:59recognize the pact of their actions on the world. And these Captain Marvel characters,
- 21:03they don't. They're just perfect and people just have to figure that out.
- 21:07Right. So Ellen Ripley did have that arch. She did have to
- 21:11come and you know, she got her ass kicked and she had to come
- 21:14back and keep going. Well that, but it was the thing we didn't
- 21:17We didn't root for her because she was already great. We know, we
- 21:21were afraid for her. That This is what Why are the well, I
- 21:23mean, I know we're getting into like pop culture stuff, but just just
- 21:26a minor digression, if you'll entertain me. Why are the protagonists of every
- 21:32horror movie a woman? Almost every horror movie because we care about what happens
- 21:37to them. Yes, we don't want them to get killed by the big
- 21:38scary slasher guy. And and so like there is like a place, you
- 21:44know, in our collective unconscious I guess, where we have a certain way
- 21:48that we you know, relate to women in the same way that we late
- 21:52to men. But I think that's become really skewed culturally speaking. And so
- 21:56if the culture is meaning that way, and like young people are coming up
- 22:02in this and they're seeing it, I do think a lot of this is
- 22:06evolved or it's natural, it's part of our nature. But the extra push
- 22:11is definitely socialized, which is what you were talking about, right, Like,
- 22:15you do this enough and women will grow up believing that they're they can.
- 22:21First of all, nothing they do matters right because they don't have an
- 22:25impact. That means that they do something immoral, it doesn't matter, right.
- 22:30So I guess I don't think we really disagree that much on the the
- 22:37what you were concerned with, Like this, people who are basically still blue
- 22:42pilled or maybe purple pilled that are talking about men in a less sympathetic way
- 22:48than they should because I think That's that's the important problem, right, Yeah,
- 22:53it is. And I think we could, we could, we would
- 22:57really benefit from like making a point to differentiate ourselves from that, because that's
- 23:03the stereotype, right, I mean, it's not the only stereotype about us,
- 23:07but this idea that we want to roll things back, that you know,
- 23:10we want men in the field and women in the kitchen. And you
- 23:14know, we criticize feminists for not calling out their own crazies or for not
- 23:17calling out their own misguided members, and and you know, I try to
- 23:22make a point, you know, when I'm out there, when I'm talking
- 23:23to people, I try to make a point like this is what you think
- 23:26we are. It's not what we are. And the person who says that
- 23:29doesn't speak for me. And really they really don't speak for the movement in
- 23:32general. No, I would say they don't, although I would ask,
- 23:36though, what do you think general relations should look like? Like? If
- 23:42you could, if you you have like an idea of what it like,
- 23:47what the I don't know, what the society you want to look like appears
- 23:51to be. Yeah, you just mean, like how men and women interact
- 23:56with each other? Yeah, Like how would how would we want the world,
- 23:59like our society arranged so that it looks more like what you want,
- 24:04Like whatever, the fairness or justice or equality or whatever. I want,
- 24:10equality under the law, I want, honestly, I just I want like
- 24:15a certain level of gender blindness. Not like I mean, I understand there
- 24:18are going to be like differences, right, especially physiological stuff. But you
- 24:22know, like I understand that you're going to have way more firefighters that are
- 24:26men, way more soldiers that are men. That's fine. I don't care
- 24:27about that. But when you're interacting with a person, you know, I
- 24:33would like for us not to make assumptions about who they are and what they're
- 24:36like based on gender stereotypes. You know, like I go to a lot
- 24:40of you know, like I'll go to a party and I'll hear somebody just
- 24:42like casually say, you know, when you're walking down an alley and you
- 24:45see a guy, so you're scared, And I'm like, how do you
- 24:48feel that way about Muslims? Do you feel that way about racial minorities?
- 24:51The hell is wrong with you? You know, Like I would like a
- 24:52world where we stop that. And you know, I like you mentioned maybe
- 24:57this is evolutionary, and maybe maybe it is, but we are humans.
- 25:02We put somebody on the moon, we have indoor plumbing, we have alarm
- 25:04clocks. We subvert our nature for the way we function in society every day.
- 25:11You know, if we can do that, if we can get up
- 25:14before the sun, if we can you know, poop inside, we can
- 25:18figure out how to not be so just like dinocentric, I agree. I
- 25:22think that we can, like I would. Okay, this is why I
- 25:25said that, because I think that to some degree, men will always put
- 25:30women before themselves. To some degree, I think that it's been it's been
- 25:34hyper amplified, and I think there's a reason for it, you know,
- 25:38the limiting factor being reproduction. But also I think maybe we have Yeah,
- 25:42we have been if you consider that we've been sexually selected from the beginning.
- 25:48You know, if I'm just making the evolutionary argument for it, I could.
- 25:52I think that if a man sacrifice himself for his wife for whatever reason,
- 25:59like felt like he had to, I wouldn't I wouldn't call that gnocentric.
- 26:04I think that sometimes I think the word gotocentrism gets thrown around a little
- 26:07bit too much, because I think that the men have a nature, like
- 26:11I said, and it's okay. I just don't want that to get you
- 26:15know, blown out of proportion. I think that where that begins, where
- 26:18we can change that is what what we're lacking is is that women are not
- 26:29getting respect. And when I say that, because people are like, what
- 26:33what do you mean that, You're yeah, like respect, and men are
- 26:37not getting loved. So I think that when I say respect, yeah,
- 26:42yeah, Tim Gold is exactly. It's like women are not earning anything,
- 26:48but they're expected to get love and they do unconditionally. And I think that
- 26:52has to change. But the only way that will change is if women are
- 26:53held accountable to a degree commensurate with men, and men should also get love
- 27:02without you know, condition to some degree. Again, I know that men
- 27:06prefer to earn, and I'm only saying that speaking as a man, you
- 27:10know, but I would imagine that women would like that too. They'd like
- 27:12to know that they worked hard and did something, and people are like,
- 27:15hey, you did well, like my today's my birthday, by the way,
- 27:18happy birthday. Yeah, thank you. You'll never believe how old I
- 27:22am. But anyway, my wife, we don't have a lot of money,
- 27:27and so my wife was like, well, what do you want for
- 27:30your birthday, and I was like, you know what, I don't care.
- 27:33And she will offer to get me a cake, but I'm like,
- 27:34you know, we're not eating any carbs, no sugar, and no nothing.
- 27:37And so what she made me was my favorite. So I'm my family's
- 27:44from Puerto Rico. I grew up in Chicago. In Chicago, we would
- 27:47get this little Puerto Rican restaurant down the street from my house that I used
- 27:49to go to and pick up what we call carne frita, which is basically
- 27:53it's like pork belly cut into cubes and deep fried. Is delicious. All
- 27:57it is is pork okay, And my wife got some and she cooked it
- 28:02for me and I ate it, and I thought, man, this is
- 28:03the best thing that you have ever done. Like I was so grateful,
- 28:07and of course she loves to hear that. So my point being, I
- 28:11know that women want to get props for something like they really did, as
- 28:17opposed to oh, well you're a woman, therefore right, that's just and
- 28:19men wouldn't want that either, So I guess what I what I think needs
- 28:23to change is that we need to present women have to be accountable in the
- 28:30same way that men are, so I don't have it. You know.
- 28:33I'm not the kind of person that thinks men should ever be blamed if they
- 28:36do something wrong. Obviously we want to lean that way, and I guess
- 28:40you wrong them out, we should, yeah, of course, and we
- 28:44should do the same for women. That's where because I think that that's probably
- 28:49the primary disparity. I mean, I just saw a story. It's not
- 28:55a story. It was a clip from an interview, and there was this
- 28:57woman. She was on a podcast, and she was talking about how she
- 29:02was angry with a man she was dating, and so she made like she
- 29:08he had kids with somebody else, and she called Child Protective Services and told
- 29:15him that told told them that his kids were in trouble and that he was
- 29:18doing something to his kids because she was just angry at him and wanted to
- 29:22get back at him. And the cop showed up at this guy's house,
- 29:25fortunately like his even get his kids taken away from him. But the point
- 29:29is she did that, and and everybody end the po they were laughing about
- 29:32it, you know, and I was like, you see, this is
- 29:36when I say, you know, like there's problems with false allegations. There's
- 29:38problems with women using the you know, the police state against men or using
- 29:45whatever, like they use the government, they use other men. Right,
- 29:48this is a big problem because the it's it's not just because they're doing it,
- 29:55it's that they can do it and there will be what no consequences,
- 29:59Like she was literally on a podcast joking about it. This is what I
- 30:02mean by accountability Schumer bragging about sexually. It's hosting a drunk and conscious person.
- 30:07Yeah, or raised across the country for it. Yeah, and Cardi
- 30:10B. You know, the would Cardi B like bragged about how she would
- 30:14have sex with men and while they were I guess she would drug them or
- 30:18something and then she would rob them, you know, and so like you
- 30:22know, and then what she's like a multimillion dollar musician, like she can
- 30:25just say that nobody goes wait a minute, like Johnny Depp almost like lost.
- 30:29Everything happens to Lizzo after the allegations. Yeah, yeah, And I
- 30:36mean, you know, we are talking about celebrities. But it's a good
- 30:38example, you know, one of the things we do on our channel.
- 30:42So I guess I should make it clear that whatever goes on to the whatever
- 30:48used to go on at the Honey Badger Radio Facebook group is not what we
- 30:51do on the show. So you're, yeah, it's like you're gonna get
- 30:56You're gonna get people that are probably gonna put their foot in their mouth or
- 30:57they're figuring things out. That's you know, I'm maybe I'm a little I'm
- 31:02really charitable because I know that people are coming at this is like a completely
- 31:07unique perspective that no one has. Like in general, SOO is more geared
- 31:14towards like movement members who are like trying to keep up to date on like
- 31:19the issues and the current events, and rightly, are most of your audience,
- 31:22like yeah, you know there are there aren't like regular people walking around
- 31:26the street who have no idea about any of this, who you know are
- 31:29going to listen to this and go like, oh you had so and so
- 31:32on the show that people you think, yeah, yeah, I do.
- 31:34So I do try to get guests from different walks of life so that people
- 31:38can't easily like throw us into a box. They will anyway, they will
- 31:44anyway because this is what the media does right like like right now, I
- 31:47think like when the red pill comes up in any conversation on the mainstream,
- 31:52like if you're looking at BBC or CBC or whatever it is, right,
- 31:57they're going to basically say oh Andrew, hey, oh fresh and fit oh
- 32:01you know, the the mannisphere like these guys. And it's like, well,
- 32:06we we can't control what those guys do or say. And and sometimes
- 32:09I think that they become really popular and it's kind of artificial, Like no,
- 32:15it's okay. Sometimes I think they become popular artificially because like you know,
- 32:21you're like I've been doing this for ten years and nobody knows who we
- 32:23are, and yet you know, Andrew Taate is huge or whatever, and
- 32:28it's because he's like he's he's like a perfect straw man of what we are,
- 32:34you know. So he's inflammatory in a way that ye yeah, yeah,
- 32:37yeah exactly, and it's you know, it does it's very like status
- 32:38quo for all the for all the stuff he says that's inflammatory. Like he
- 32:44also he wants men to be meat shields. Yeah, you know, he
- 32:46talks a lot about that, Like that's very traditional. Yeah, he's totally
- 32:52traditionalist. I mean a lot of these guys are. But what my point
- 32:55is is that, yeah, so we don't really get heard and we end
- 32:59up fighting the propaganda more than just talking about the issues, and that's what
- 33:04we try to do. So, like what our channel exists for mostly is
- 33:07to equip people with the knowledge to talk about this stuff in public without well,
- 33:15I mean, I don't know if you can avoid any aggression because people
- 33:19have like a knee jerk reaction to criticism against women. But but yeah,
- 33:23we try to help people understand this is what is going on in the world.
- 33:28This is why you know these things are talked about in this way.
- 33:32Anyway, I'm not so I will ask this though, because this is like
- 33:37the thing that I'm running up against right now. So I would like all
- 33:43the things that you said I want. I want justice, right, so
- 33:46we call it equality under the law. I just want things to be just.
- 33:50I just want like people to be gender blind, as it were.
- 33:52Right, if somebody does a crime or they're trying to get custody of their
- 33:58kids or whatever, their genders should not factor in. Okay. But then
- 34:04there's like the other thing is is that I think in general most men and
- 34:08women want to like pair up, find someone to love, you know,
- 34:15marry them, and start a family. I think that that and we can
- 34:20call that trad but I think that's what just I don't. I don't even
- 34:22think calling it traditional is necessarily accurate because I think this is just what most
- 34:29people want. There's a million ways to like actually approach that, yeah,
- 34:34you know, and that you could do it in a traditional way, you
- 34:36could do it in a non traditional way. But I think most people do
- 34:38want like a long term live in partner and kids. Yeah, yeah,
- 34:43exactly exactly like I'm married, no kids yet. We're working on it.
- 34:47But but yeah, I don't. I don't think of our relationship as like,
- 34:52you know, whatever trad is, even though she does do a lot
- 34:55of it cooking. But but but I never said that's what she has to
- 34:59do, right, and we both were to cook. That's fine. Most
- 35:01people cook, yeah exactly. That's not even saying that women cook like they're
- 35:07adults. Yeah. Sure, So, so I got some super chows.
- 35:13I'm gonna read them really quick. Fresh water Squid didn't send a message,
- 35:17but sent us three different donations five dollars, twenty five dollars, and twenty
- 35:22dollars. So thank you, freshwater Squid. I think I have a sound
- 35:27effect for you. Let me go ahead and play that. So a flu
- 35:36cash and fireside chat number two thirty one, sends us five dollars and says,
- 35:42Hi, Elizabeth, I agree in the sense that an individual, individualist
- 35:45evaluation of a person should be considered over an evaluation based on groups and stereotypes.
- 35:52But do you think a world where we do not consider stereotypes is possible?
- 35:55I think human nature implicitly built in our ability to evaluate through stereo types.
- 36:00Do you disagree? Can you explain your thoughts here? Thanks, That's
- 36:04a really good question. It's a really interesting question. I like, I
- 36:07think we're always going to form heuristics based on our experience. So if you
- 36:13go through the world and you know, when you talk to feminists who they've
- 36:15been in like a string of abusive relationships and they like automatically stereotype. You
- 36:21know, if they're heterosexual, they're like, oh men are violent, Oh
- 36:23men are abusive. Like they didn't do that on purpose, that that was
- 36:28their experience, So they formed a stereotype. And that's I mean, we
- 36:32should question that, we should ask them to question that. But I think
- 36:37inevitably stereotypes are going to occur, and we just kind of need to have
- 36:42and we do as a society, not about men, and you know,
- 36:45that's the problem. But as a society, we do have conversations about like,
- 36:49Okay, you may have seen a lot of people that look like this
- 36:52and do this, But the problem comes in when you make the assumption that
- 36:58someone who looks like that does that. H Well, thank you fireside Chat
- 37:06number two thirty one, ala ala. So if you guys have any other
- 37:12questions or comments, you can send a super chat or super chow. Super
- 37:15chows are here or super chats are here, and I will read them on
- 37:19the air. So what do you think about Well, let me ask you
- 37:23this. How long have you been doing this kind of work? Fifteen years?
- 37:30Fifteen years? Yeah, in a minute, yeah yeah, And do
- 37:32you feel like in the last fifteen years, Uh, you have changed?
- 37:38We all changed, but like, yeah, what what? In what ways
- 37:43do you think you've changed? I learned to touch grass a little bit,
- 37:49like I used to be. I used to be the person who, like
- 37:53I thought there was a war, you know, and men and women hated
- 37:57each other and like everything was awful and uh, and like i'd be that
- 38:02person at a party, right, yeah, let's interrupt every conversation, like
- 38:07why are we even partying? Right now? There's no time smash. Yeah,
- 38:10like I started talking in one of his movies. Yeah yeah, And
- 38:16I just I kind of learned how to like how to do that a little
- 38:21bit more diplomatically. Yeah, you know, I was. I was really
- 38:23agro. I was really like confrontational, and I just kind of learned that,
- 38:30like that is not how you get people on your side. Like I
- 38:35really admire Daryl Davis, who is not a men's rights activist but is a
- 38:38very oh's some other who hung out with the clan. Yeah yeah, yeah,
- 38:43yeah, yeah, yeah, Like he just walked right into the lions
- 38:45Den and started making friends with people and like no joke, converted converted klansmen
- 38:51out of racism with the power of friendship. Like that. That guy is
- 38:53a huge hero of mine. And I'm like, well, I could go
- 38:59and shout at pop about their like tacit misentry, or I could befriend people,
- 39:07talk to them like a human being, meet them where they are,
- 39:08and you know, try and gently get them to question some of the stuff
- 39:12they believe that might be harmful. Why do you think they didn't kill him
- 39:16right away? I think because it's a really interesting I mean, I know
- 39:25this is really dark, but I'm I'm just saying if it's the KKK,
- 39:30and I'm not saying I doubt this, but why wouldn't they just erase him
- 39:34and hide the body and cover for each other. And then he's just gone,
- 39:37like, yeah, why did they let him in and even talk to
- 39:40him to begin with? If there wasn't already like some hope there because he
- 39:49did this thing. This is my opinion. I Like, I don't know
- 39:51the guy, you know, I've never met him, but I think he
- 39:55does something that advocates don't you usually do, which is sit politely and listen
- 40:04to the person he thinks is harming everybody, Like he gives them courtesy first,
- 40:10sure, and he meets them where they are, and they see him
- 40:15as non threatening. They give him an opportunity to be what I call a
- 40:20polite counter example to their you know, preconceived notions, and the cognitive dissonance
- 40:28starts to become hard to ignore. Yeah, you know, if you can't
- 40:32you can't hate black people if you've never like sat down and talked to one
- 40:37right right or like or like if you have sat down and talk to one
- 40:39is what I mean. Like you you eventually learned like, oh well,
- 40:44this guy's all right, yeah, I just I just wonder about that because
- 40:50you know, I think that we have an idea in our head of what
- 40:53a group like the KKK is like, and then you hear this story and
- 40:57it's like, well, wait, how is he not lynched? Like?
- 41:00How is And I think it's because, well, you know what, they're
- 41:01people too, and maybe they have you know, like one thing I've learned
- 41:07is that And I'm not saying this about the KKK per se, but I
- 41:10mean in general when it comes to like associations with groups. I had a
- 41:15guest on named Naama Kates, and Nama does a series of podcasts. She
- 41:21used to do, like a Crime, one of those real crime podcasts,
- 41:24and she looked into Alec Menascian, the guy who ran down people in like
- 41:31a van in Toronto, I think it was in Canada, and he was
- 41:37reported by the media as an in cell. Later it turned out that he
- 41:42was like just really stressed out his job and he lied about being an in
- 41:45cell and that being the reason. But it doesn't really matter. It put
- 41:49her on this path she wouldn't ended up on down going down the rabbit hole
- 41:52of like understanding in cells, and she did a series of videos and she's
- 41:57very sympathetic, and I've had her on the show a few times. She's
- 41:59kind of a recurring guests on our talk show on Thursdays. But what was
- 42:04really interesting was, and I knew this was true, but I didn't really
- 42:07have confirmation, but she spoke to some people about this, is that a
- 42:12lot of very radical groups and this goes for you know, Antifa, Black
- 42:17Lives Matter, but also skinheads, Neo Nazis, radical Islamists, etc.
- 42:24These kinds of groups, they attract men like in cells to get to join
- 42:34them because these men are looking for a place to belong, they're looking for
- 42:38the Yeah, they're looking for a cause. Though. See like like this
- 42:44is something I've been talking about recently, is that men I think need a
- 42:49purpose more than anything else. They need a purpose because they're not they don't
- 42:52feel like their existence alone is enough. And that's even without all of the
- 42:58negative messaging that men, Yeah, they need something to do. And so
- 43:01if you, if you, if no one is giving them anything, and
- 43:06then this you know, radical person from whatever group X comes along and says,
- 43:09you know where you would be most useful is here, then they will
- 43:13probably there's a good chance will join. And I think that there's probably guys
- 43:19in the KKK that are there because they are looking for like, oh,
- 43:22this is a cause I want to serve, right, just like people that
- 43:25are part of Antifa or other radical communist groups or whatever. They're mostly men
- 43:31that don't really even understand the cause. They just like the feeling of belonging
- 43:36to something. You know, that makes sense, Yeah, it makes total
- 43:39sense. Yeah. I got a super chat from Albatross gives us five dollars
- 43:45and says happy Labor Day, y'all. Well that's a weird way of saying
- 43:50happy birthday, but thank you as it's also Labor Day. But uh yeah,
- 43:57so I oh and I'm sorry. Oh I C gives us a dollar
- 44:02on Rumble and says Darryl Davis turns enemies into nakama. What a weeb?
- 44:08I don't I don't get the reference, but no idea what that means.
- 44:10Yeah, I don't know either. It's I think it's an anime thing.
- 44:14Sorry, I don't know, but anyway, so I guess, uh,
- 44:21I guess, like I don't think that. I mean, I just wanted
- 44:23to make sure, but I don't think we really disagree on much. I
- 44:27don't think we do, no, like, and I wasn't attacking you.
- 44:30I don't. I know you weren't. I know you weren't. But like
- 44:31when you know, when I hear I hear a lot like this has actually
- 44:35been happening a lot with women on in the men's movement. And I'm not
- 44:40including you in this, but I've seen women that have been like, you
- 44:45know, they they they come into it because they're interested and they're sympathetic and
- 44:49they understand the issues. Maybe they know somebody a man that was done dirty
- 44:52by some issue, right, and they get involved and they start talking to
- 44:57people and they realize they get exposed to just how angry some men are at
- 45:02their situation. And I think that's some recoil, like they go, oh,
- 45:07well that's too that's too much for me. Yeah, And so you
- 45:10know, we've seen that, and so sometimes when I hear, you know,
- 45:15criticisms, I just want to clarify. That's why I kind of went
- 45:17in with a little bit of you know, well, let's see what's going
- 45:20on here. Did somebody like say something edgy or you know or what,
- 45:24because yeah, there is a lot of there is a lot of pain in
- 45:29this movement. I mean, I'm not one. I've been fortunate enough not
- 45:31to have been necessarily a victim of any of it, but I know people
- 45:36who have. I know guys going through hard divorces, lost access to their
- 45:39kids, you know, have become self destructive, which is kind of like
- 45:45a slow suicide. So yeah, I know that happens, and I get
- 45:51that. Like the last thing a man in pain wants to hear is that
- 45:55he has to be considerate of somebody else's feelings, right of course. So
- 46:00yeah, and that's an interesting process too, which is why I was kind
- 46:04of critical of the of the Facebook group for being open to the public while
- 46:09also hosting those discussions where like those should really be those those should really be
- 46:15conversations that happen somewhere privately, because they need to happen. They need to
- 46:19get that out of their system. They need to find a place where people
- 46:22are sympathetic to their pain without like advertising men's rights advocacy as red pill rage.
- 46:31Yeah, yeah, yeah, I get that. So so you're you've
- 46:37chilled out, you've touched grass, Is there anything else or is that mainly
- 46:42the thing that you think has changed? Yeah, I mean I've gotten a
- 46:47lot more like nuanced ideas of kind of like the state of you know,
- 46:52the gender dynamic and men's issues. And you know, like I've like I
- 46:59didn't use to see you know, feminism as as an inherently sort of traditionalist
- 47:05movement, and I kind of came to notice that when I started to realize
- 47:08that they were saying the same things. And you know that they claimed to
- 47:13be against gender roles, but promote this notion that women are like silly and
- 47:17helpless and oh, I'm just a girl, you know, and they demand
- 47:22chivalry from men when it suits them. And yeah, I think that it's
- 47:27basically like both of them both. And I hate to put it this way
- 47:31because it sounds like a dichotomy, like a like a binary thing, but
- 47:36feminism and the way that we've always done things in the past or traditionalism are
- 47:40basically asking the same thing of men, except that traditionalists sometimes they thank you,
- 47:46and that's the only real bad Yeah, exactly so. And I get
- 47:50frustrated when I talked to talk to people who like they lean towards that traditionalist
- 47:57perspective, and you know, they talk about, well, I don't really
- 47:59think we can overcome gynocentrism and I don't really think we can, you know,
- 48:06reach a world where men's bodies don't need to be sacrificed. And I
- 48:09asked them, like, okay, so what's your goal And they're like,
- 48:12I just want to be thanked for it. And on one hand, like
- 48:15I sympathize with that, and on the other hand, I'm like, yeah,
- 48:19you got to reach higher than that, dude, Like we can do.
- 48:22But we're humans. We've we've done you know, we've got pocket computers.
- 48:27Yeah, we've like we've done so many things as a species, Like
- 48:30we can reach a point where we respect and love both, you know,
- 48:36sides of the gender coin. Yeah, sure? Do you think we can
- 48:37live in a war? I mean in a war in a world is what
- 48:40I meant to say. Where there will I mean obviously they will always be
- 48:45suffering, right, So I'm trying to think like, yeah, I mean,
- 48:51like I think it's some we want to like try to create as much
- 48:54justice as possible, and we want to reduce possibility of needless strife and suffering.
- 49:07But yeah, I mean I don't know, Like I think there will
- 49:09always be war, and there will always be men and maybe some women willing
- 49:15to make the sacrifice for that. So it's probably at the very least good
- 49:20that we recognize that. And and like men don't need much, you know,
- 49:25women are really really good at motivating motivating men. It's actually like what
- 49:30men look for. So I don't know if I think that guidocentrism can be
- 49:37resisted, and I think that there are logical ways to do so, right,
- 49:43Like, you know, take the amber Heard case, the Johnny Depp
- 49:47amber Heard case. I think that people have woken up to that because you
- 49:53have, yeah, you have this woman and she's doing things that you never
- 49:59thought were possible. And then you have this man that, despite being really
- 50:04popular with women, you know, he has been sort of portrayed as this
- 50:08like this I don't know, just violent guy, and a lot of people
- 50:15bought into it. It took us watching the trial unfold and talking, and
- 50:19I was surprised. I think that the Johnny Depp trial is a big turning
- 50:22point. I've noticed I don't know if you've noticed this, but have you
- 50:25noticed that in the mainstream discourse the word missentry is being used. I have,
- 50:31I actually have, and I've noticed something else, And this is because
- 50:36my sphere is specifically in like the abuse discourse is where I tend to hang
- 50:40out. I've noticed that kind of since like the Red Pill documentary era,
- 50:49I've seen an uptick in people who are like more willing to say like abusers
- 50:55rather than men, or people who are more likely to say like victims are
- 51:00survivors rather than women, and making knowledge that this is not necessarily a gendered
- 51:05phenomenon at all. So the language is changing, it is. It is
- 51:08so like I see that as like a tremendous amount of progress, Like I
- 51:12mean, the policy needs to change, yeah, needs to change dramatically,
- 51:16but I think you know, step one is making people aware of the problem.
- 51:21Absolutely, Yeah, that's then that's what we do here, and I
- 51:23do think it's changing. What do you think about We're almost at the hour,
- 51:28but I will ask you another question, what do you think about the
- 51:32people that are kind of I wouldn't say in the doing the same work,
- 51:36but they're kind of traveling in the same circles that are talking about men and
- 51:40women either from a you know, I know that you spe specialized in the
- 51:45abuse and sexual assault areas, but I guess what I'm seeing that's really popular
- 51:52now is like relationships, dating, marriage, that kind of thing. So
- 51:59people like the you know, Fresh and Fits or Pearl have you have you
- 52:05heard about these people? Do you know? Yeah? So, I mean
- 52:08it's going to depend on the advice, right, Like I don't, like
- 52:13I'm always happy for there to be like discourse on how to have a healthy
- 52:16relationship. I think a lot of the stuff that's kind of marketed as manosphere
- 52:21stuff in that realm is like a whole bunch of Victorian erasexual morality with like
- 52:29like a lot of demands on both women and men that are very like sort
- 52:35of regimented, and you know, like I don't I don't particularly care for
- 52:37Like I think Pearl's message is more about abstinence than it is about anything else.
- 52:44Like looking at her content where I'm like, yeah, you talk about
- 52:46men's issues occasionally, you talk about double standards, which is completely legitimate.
- 52:52But I do see a lot of the relationship complaints in the manosphere as being
- 52:58like somebody dumped me, is this Amends issue? Or somebody's having sex is
- 53:02this Amends issue? And I'm like, no, it's not. I mean,
- 53:06it's a personal issue. If it's a problem, then resolve it interpersonally.
- 53:09Yeah, I mean, yeah, I get it. I mean,
- 53:13it's not how I would approach these conversations or even what I'm interested in.
- 53:17My primary focus is like, look, I don't care how you arrange your
- 53:22relationships, but I want it to be something that men and women feel comfortable
- 53:28with at the end of the day. And I think, you know,
- 53:30whatever worked best, because like our well, our population is collapsing. So
- 53:37I'm a little worried about that. You know, we're not having enough kids
- 53:40and it's not in like two generations. I think we're gonna be in a
- 53:44lot of trouble. But or the Amish will just take over, I don't
- 53:47know, because they're having like ten or twenty kids. You know, the
- 53:51religious groups with their b jillion children. Yeah, right, really be worried
- 53:57about the jationalists the brush up, brush up on my aramaic or something.
- 54:01But last thing I guess is that what are you working? Are you working
- 54:07on anything right now? If somebody's interested in following what you do, where
- 54:13would they go for that? I mean, I've got that egalitarian Jackalope blog.
- 54:20I put a link in the description for that. Okay, cool,
- 54:22and that's I mean, honestly, most of what I do is just talk
- 54:24to people. I've had little projects off and on. You know, they
- 54:28come and they go, like I, I navigate toward people and work on
- 54:32something and then we do it or we don't do it, and then I
- 54:36move on. Yeah, a lot of what I do is like just kind
- 54:39of local stuff. Like at one point a buddy of mine and I like
- 54:45walked all the way up and down our like main street in our city and
- 54:47just like put domestic violence resources and all the men's bathrooms and you know,
- 54:52the women's too, but like the men's are the ones that need them because
- 54:54they don't get them. Yeah, you know, so that's a lot of
- 54:58a lot of my projects are like that. That's cool, all right,
- 55:00But yeah, I mean people are welcome to hit me up if they want
- 55:04to work with me on something. I'm always looking for cool stuff to do.
- 55:07Nice all right. So I did get another super chow from Zerranks for
- 55:15five, Thank you very much. That's really nice. Thank you. And
- 55:17he says I've been saying for years that gnocentrism has to be tempered. L
- 55:24any one I think he means to say, come across wants to get rid
- 55:29of rid of it. I don't see how we can recognize women as the
- 55:32bottleneck to human proliferation. That's why we protect women. I think tempering it
- 55:37will work if we keep it in mind. How good a society is can
- 55:42be based on how which women are treated and what it accepts from said women,
- 55:45especially with types like fresh and fit and Tate talking about how they'll give
- 55:47their daughters everything and make their sons work hard. I think that idea will
- 55:52put some form of boundaries around women since we blew them out with birth control
- 55:57and voting rights without responsibilities to the state like men. And then he gives
- 56:01another five dollars and says, happy birthday, Ryan, thank you very much.
- 56:06That's really nice. Thank you. That's the wrong thank you. I'm
- 56:07into this. Thank you come again, all right? So, yeah,
- 56:12I don't know if you wanted to say anything to that. Yeah, I
- 56:15mean rights and responsibilities definitely need to come together. I mean, I would
- 56:20love like the voting thing, I think is a really interesting conversation. Like
- 56:23I would have much rather just men not to have been drafted. You know,
- 56:30if you're in a democracy, like voting is the responsibility, right,
- 56:34like you need to be you need to be informed, You need to like
- 56:37think carefully and have skin in the game. Yeah. Yeah, your skin
- 56:40in the game is that you live there. Yeah, you know, I
- 56:44don't think that we need to be drafted in order to have skin in the
- 56:46game. But I do think that whatever whatever responsibility is, the reciprocal end
- 56:52of that voting right needs to be universal, not just men, not just
- 56:57women, It needs to be everybody. Yeah, there has to be like
- 57:00a I think the way it's a range right now is is just bad for
- 57:04everybody. And yeah, Mark Angelucci, Rest is Peace, Rest in Peace
- 57:08was fighting to change that. But I think someone else is going to have
- 57:13to pick up the torch, and I hope they do. I was really
- 57:15excited about the progress he was making. Yeah. Yeah, it's a real
- 57:19shame that that happened. All right, So anyway, we're gonna go into
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- 57:40a really good time there's lots of extra content, there's lots of activities,
- 57:44there's like people have workshops and all kinds of cool stuff. For men,
- 57:49it's a good resource, but for women too. We have women in there,
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- 58:12I want to thank Elizabeth for coming on. It's nice meeting you in person.
- 58:15Fine, well sort of in person virtually. I've only like written your
- 58:20posts sit with the little profile picture, so I've never spoken to you,
- 58:23you know, in person. So thank you so much for coming on.
- 58:28I really appreciate your perspective. And I want to thank you guys for joining
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