Matt Walsh (35:26)
So we've talked about the progress that we've made on this issue. We still have a long way to go, clearly. And the next step, one of the next steps should be laws that ban people like this from teaching. This person should be legally barred from teaching children. Now, if we're banning trans identified people from the military, which is a policy I agree with, of course, but if we're doing that and we say, well, they're not right, it would be a threat to national security to have them in the military if they're struggling with these kinds of very serious mental health issues. Okay, I totally buy that argument. But then how in the hell are we allowing them to teach children? If it's a national security threat to have a trans identified person in the military, then what kind of threat are we talking about if they're teaching kids? Because there are two ways of looking at this. When you look at this video and you see this man, either he is confused about the basic facts of human biology, or he's not confused, but he enjoys acting out his fantasies in public. In the first case, clearly he would not be qualified to teach children. In order to teach, you need to have, at a minimum, a basic grasp of the laws of physical reality. Whatever the subject is you're teaching, you're teaching some subject that is based in reality, one would hope. And so if you don't understand really, really fundamental things like the fact that men can't have babies, if you don't understand that, then there's no possible way that you could be qualified to teach. But in the other case, if this guy actually is not confused, if he actually understands perfectly well that men are men and women are women, then that means that this is a kind of role play, fantasy game that he's engaging in. And that makes him even less qualified to teach children. Children in school should not be sucked into a teacher's role play game. Teachers should not be depending on children to give them a feeling of euphoria Like, I don't want, I don't want teachers feeling euphoria in the classroom at all for any reason. That's just bizarre. That's extremely weird. What do you mean euphoria? Who the hell feels euphoria? And why are you feeling that in a classroom around a bunch of kids? I don't want my children to ever be in the same room as a grown adult man who feels euphoric around children. I mean, hell no. Especially if that euphoria is tied to the fact that he's wearing women's clothes and he's depending again on these children to somehow he's showing a kind of emotional codependency on these kids. And that's the most mild way of putting it. But that alone, that alone makes them unqualified to teach. So this is the conversation we need to have next. And I'd like to know which lawmakers are going to step up to the plate on this one, because I'm telling you right now, it would have wide support among the voters. Show that video to the average voter. Get 100 average voters in the room. Representative sample, show them that video and ask them, do you think that this person should be allowed to teach kids? Would you want your child to be in that person's classroom? Yes or no? Hundred average voters in the room. How many do you think are going to say yes? Oh yeah, I'd love to have. Yeah. Oh yeah, sign my kid up for that. Would you get 10 out of 100? You're not getting 20, I'll tell you that. So this would have wide support among the voters. And I think this needs to be a step. Next step. I'll quickly mention this. The son of Snow White producer Mark Platt, Jonah Platt is the son's name. He is speaking out publicly against Rachel Zegler and blaming her for the film's catastrophic failure at the box office. He wrote a comment on Instagram in response to someone who was upset that his dad reportedly reprimanded Zegler for her antics at some point before the movie came out. And I just want to read this. The comment says, your dad flew to NYC to reprimand a young actress. Any word on this? Cuz that's creepy as hell and uncalled for. People have the right to free speech. No. Shame on your father. And then Jonah Platt, who's the son of the producer of the film, responded and said, you really want to do this? Yeah. My dad, the producer of Enormous Piece of Disney ip with hundreds of millions of dollars on the line had to leave his family to fly across the country to reprimand his 20 year old employee for dragging her personal politics into the middle of promoting the movie, for which she signed a multimillion dollar contract to get paid and do publicity for. This is called adult responsibility and accountability. And her actions clearly hurt the film's box office. Free speech does not mean you're allowed to say whatever you want in your private employment without repercussions. Tens of thousands of people worked on that film and she hijacked the conversation for her own immature desires at the risk of all the colleagues and crew and blue collar workers who depend on that movie to be successful. Narcissism is not something to be coddled or encouraged. Well, I mean, he's totally right. Now, of course, as we covered, the movie is terrible anyway in its own right. It was probably going to underperform regardless. People are tired of the soulless, soulless cash grab remake thing. They're tired of all that. The movie has all kinds of problems that could be pinned partly on the producer. Like the producer did not do a good job. Nobody who produced this movie did a good job. And that's apart from all of the political controversy started by the actress. So the movie had all kinds of problems creatively and conceptually. But there's no doubt that she drove the final nail into this movie's coffin. She probably drove the final two or three nails into the coffin. And a lot of what you see with Zeigler is really just this pretty common Gen Z mentality and approach to work that she believes that she should be able to express herself and speak her truth or whatever nonsense, regardless of the consequences to everybody else. But in reality, you have a job. You're getting paid to do this job. You signed on the dotted line, you took on the role, you took the job. And that job comes with certain basic responsibilities. And one of the most basic is the responsibility to control yourself and comport yourself a certain way publicly so that you don't harm the project and thereby harm all the hundreds of other people who are working on it. So a lot has been said about the fact that Rachel Zegler is a leftist fruitcake, and she is. But she's also just a spoiled, entitled, narcissistic brat who was perfectly willing because she's not stupid. Well, she might be stupid, but she's not so dumb that she didn't realize that by, for example, coming out and saying that all Trump supporters deserve to suffer for like, she's smart enough to know that. Of course that's going to upset a large portion of the potential audience for this project that I'm on. But she knew that and she didn't care because she has this mentality. And she's not the only one. It's kind of a common mentality that, hey, the only thing that matters is how I feel. That's the only thing that matters in the world. And there are no obligations or responsibilities that I could possibly have that would outrank my own feelings. And I think that's really what this all comes down to. If you own a handgun, you know the dilemma. You either keep it locked away somewhere secure but tough to access, or you compromise on security for quick access. 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You know, you might post 10,000 interesting, incisive things on the Internet, but it will be the simplest, most straightforward, most uncontroversial thing that creates all the controversy. That's the way it goes. And for Inez, it was a post thanking her husband. And we all know that in the mind of a feminist anyway, there is nothing more divisive and provocative than that a woman can do than show a basic level of gratitude towards her husband. So here's what Inez posted a couple of days ago. Quote, this is by no means universal, so don't yell at me. But I'm starting to suspect that behind many of the complaints that dad doesn't help enough with the baby are women who are extremely finicky and inflexible about what caring for the baby looks like. Now, she's right about that. But it was the follow up post that really attracted the ire of the feminist hordes because here's what she said next. Get ready for this. Brace yourself. Quote Anyway, shout out to my husband for taking care of the baby at 7am because I had a headache. That's it. Oh no. A woman just thanked her husband for helping with the baby. The feminists will not stand for that. There won't be any thanking of men allowed on this platform or anywhere else. So I'm gonna read just a very quick sample of the replies. There are hundreds of them that are all along the same lines that are very upset at that second tweet specifically. And it's worth talking about them because these women who will read some of their comments, they represent an increasingly common point of view and it's one that has destroyed many marriages and will destroy many more in the future. In fact, I don't think it's an exaggeration to say that the replies I'm about to read represent one of the greatest threats to marriage in modern society. So here are just a few of those responses. First, one says, that is literally his job. I never want to become this kind of mother or wife. Another one says, girl, what do you mean shout out? Isn't that just the bare minimum of being a parent? Another says, giving a shout out to your husband for doing his job as a father is wild. Another comment says, women really out here be thanking fathers for being a father. Omg. A father doing regular father things. So cool. Round of applause for this man who did the bare minimum of fatherhood. Stop praising men for the bare minimum. He's the father. You don't need to thank him since he shouldn't only take care of the baby when you're feeling bad. Another says, it's his kid too. It's his responsibility too. It's his job too. Finally get that through your thick heads. Another says, does he give you a shout out every time you do the most basic put out stuff of parenthood? Why marry someone who needs a public parade for taking care of their own children? Another says, why would you shout out your husband for doing his job? It wasn't just you who made the baby. He had 50% in that as well. He should be taking care of it too. And then here's my favorite response. We've been divorced for a while at this point, but still, every day I feel gratitude that the father of my children loves actually being a father, and I never once have had to thank him for simply participating in parenthood. Now there are many more comments, some quite a bit more vulgar and angry, but all of them are along these lines. And as I said, this is a very common attitude these days, which is why it's worth discussing. All of these women agree that Inez's husband is doing, quote, the bare minimum and that it's ridiculous to thank him for it. So they all concur with each other that thanking your husband for being helpful is outrageous. And it's a sign that you're some sort of battered wife. And then there's that last comment from a woman named Charlotte, who recommends not thanking your husband for things. And you should take her advice on how to have a healthy marriage. After all, she's been divorced for quite some time, and it has not occurred to Charlotte, apparently, that perhaps the reason why she's divorced is that she never once felt the need to express any kind of gratitude to her husband at all by her own testimony. So let me offer a few thoughts, a few things that these feminists might want to consider. First of all, a father who helps with the baby at night or early in the morning is, in very many cases, doing a lot more than the, quote, bare minimum. Often the father has to get up and go to work in the morning. And that means that helping with the baby at night or in the morning represents a very real sacrifice on his part. And these kinds of women, the ones who left the comments, seem to think that if the dad is doing less than exactly 50% of the childcare, then he's automatically doing the bare minimum. But none of the roles in a functional and happy household are going to be split down the middle. 50, 50 like that. Which means their conception of what constitutes the bare minimum is completely off base. If the man is earning 100% of the income that keeps a roof over everyone's head and food on the table, or even 80% or 70%, but then he's also doing, say, 20 to 25% of the child care duties, is that still the bare minimum? Like, couldn't he just as easily flip it around and accuse her of doing the bare minimum, seeing as how she's doing 70 or 80% of the childcare, but contributing nothing or almost nothing to the family income? Now, I have no idea if this actually applies to Inez's household or not, but my point still stands either way. My point is that there's a lot of work that needs to be done constantly, all the time, to keep a household running and a family alive and fed and cared for and happy. And for all of our talk about being a society that has moved beyond gender roles, the fact is that the man is still the primary breadwinner in a majority of American households, and the woman is the primary breadwinner in only a small minority, 15 or 16%, last I checked. So all the feminist complaints about men not contributing enough to childcare and to household duties just simply ignore this point entirely. They treat the man's role of working every day and carrying the burden of supporting the family as if it's nothing, as if it doesn't matter at all. It doesn't count. A man can carry the financial needs of the family on his shoulders alone, but if he changes fewer than 50% of the diapers, then he's still effectively a deadbeat. This is the attitude they have, and it's why almost all of them are single or divorced or married, yet soon to be divorced. Now, in the real world, almost again, none of the roles in a family are going to be split 50, 50. And any married couple that insists on portioning the responsibilities out that way will become very unhappy very quickly and almost certainly get divorced before long, unless they grow up in a hurry. Because marriages with scorecards fall apart. And this is true in like 100% of all cases. Lose the scorecard or lose your marriage. And once you lose the scorecard, you realize that statement statements like he's doing the bare minimum are often incoherent because he might be contributing minimally in one specific area, but he might be contributing maximally in plenty of other areas. So how does it all average out? Who is doing more when you factor everything together? Well, if you're asking that question about your marriage, you're basically already halfway to divorce court. And if you're asking that question about somebody else's marriage, you're simply a childish moron. And second point, putting all that aside, no matter who is doing what, no matter who's earning the money, no matter who's feeding the baby at 7am, no matter who's changing the diapers, no matter what, one thing will always be true. It is good to show gratitude to your spouse. It is in fact necessary to show gratitude to your spouse. Whether this was the first time Inez's husband ever got up with a baby in the morning, or whether he gets up with the baby every morning, we don't know. But in either case, it is good that she said thank you. Wives should show gratitude to their husbands. They should show gratitude every day. Husbands should show gratitude to their wives. They should show gratitude every day. A marriage without gratitude will die. It can only die. Let's go back to our friend Charlotte's comment again, because I think it's instructive. She said, we've been divorced for a while at this point, but still, every day I feel gratitude that the father of my children loves being a father, and I never once had to thank him for simply participating in parenthood. I never once had to thank him. She feels gratitude, she claims, but she never once thanked him. Never once. And now she's divorced and her children are the victims of a broken home. And she still hasn't put the pieces of this puzzle together. A lack of gratitude lies at the heart of almost every failed marriage. I mean, you talk to any divorced person, talk to any unhappily married person, and they will almost always say some version of this, I was never appreciated. She didn't appreciate me, he didn't appreciate me. And in most cases, while they were busy feeling unappreciated, the other person in the marriage also felt exactly the same way. And keep something else in mind too. You know, if you're, if you're trying to judge how much work your spouse does and therefore how much gratitude you should have for them, which is entirely the wrong attitude. But if you are, remember that you don't see all of it or even most of it. You don't see all or even most of what your spouse is actually doing. We hear a lot about the so called emotional labor done by women. You know, we hear this term emotional labor, and I object to the term. Labor by definition cannot be done emotionally. Labor is something that you physically do. But the point of the term is that women carry a lot of stress and a lot of emotional weight, especially if they're the primary caretakers of their children. And that's the emotional labor so called. And I don't doubt that's the case. And it's yet another reason why men should be very grateful for their wives. But you notice something, we never ever hear anyone talk about the emotional labor done by men. This subject is never raised. Ever. When's the last time you heard the term emotional labor relating to men? I've never heard it. I've seriously never heard anyone even raise the point. And that's because the people predisposed to use the term emotional labor, that being women of a feminist persuasion, they just assume that men have no emotional or mental burdens at all. That's really what they think. They think men are walking around like blank slates in their heads, just blissfully, you know, on cloud nine all the time. Now, the fact that men are the majority of suicides should probably tell you otherwise. But they ignore that point because they refuse to acknowledge that men have unseen emotional depths, just as women do. In fact, for men, the depths are even more unseen and more unheard and more unacknowledged because they're not acknowledged at all. And this is especially true of men who are the primary or sole breadwinners in their homes. And again, there are still many more men in that position in our country than there are women by a wide margin. So if you're a wife dealing with the stresses and burdens of being the primary caretaker, keep in mind that there are also enormous stresses and a huge boulder sized burden that your husband carries as the one who is mostly responsible for making sure that the family has a roof to sleep under and food to eat and medical care when they get sick. And if he fails, everyone he loves loses everything. And this weighs on him every day, every single day, all the time. So if you're looking at your husband and thinking, oh, he's not worried about anything, I have all the emotional labor. What's happening in his head is he's thinking to himself that if he fails, if he loses his job, if things don't work out for him, everyone he loves loses everything they have. That's actually what's in his head and he never forgets it. In fact, your husband might be dealing with an impending catastrophe right now. He might be working hard to avert disaster at this very moment. There might be a disaster coming that he sees and he's trying to avoid and you don't even know it. And he might successfully avoid the disaster and never tell you what almost happened. You know, he might be a step away from losing his job and he's fighting like hell to keep it. And again, that might be happening and you don't even know it. He might be walking in that door at night carrying a stress that is shaving years off of his life. There's a reason why men die younger than women. Okay? He might have a stress on his mind right now that is killing him. And yet if you're one of these women in the comments, you look at him and think he's doing the bare minimum. He's giving everything to his family. And yet you are convinced that he hasn't even done enough to warrant a thank you. That is what kills a marriage in both directions. So yes, this may be scandalous for these feminists to hear, but yes, you should thank your husband. It costs you nothing to show him gratitude. It takes no effort. Like if you go up to him and give him a kiss and say thank you, just thank you, thank you for everything he does. Thank you for supporting the family. Thank you for takes 10 seconds of your time. And what you get in exchange for that bare minimum on your part is a husband who feels appreciated and loved and respected and a marriage that is immeasurably strengthened. And as a bonus, he'll be even more inspired to do even more and help even more in the future. And the same goes for husbands in the other direction. Like, there's no downside here. No marriage has ever suffered because of excess gratitude. No husband ever regretted being too appreciative of his wife, and no wife ever regretted being too appreciative of her husband. No divorced person ever said, yeah, you know, it just didn't work out. There was just too much gratitude. We were constantly saying thank you to each other. It destroyed the marriage. That has never happened. But people who follow the advice of the bitter, angry feminists screaming at Inez for thanking her husband, those people, on the other hand, will end up lonely and miserable. All of them, without exception. Gratitude will definitely not hurt your marriage. A lack of gratitude will definitely kill it. 100% guaranteed. And that is why those bitter, angry feminists in Inez's replies are just like their hopes of ever being happily married. Canceled. That'll do it for the show today. Thanks for watching. Thanks for listening. Talk to you tomorrow. Have a great day. Godspeed.
