The Josh Innes Show - Bunny Saga Follow Up: Gender Roles

Episode Date: June 26, 2025

I forgot to dive into this during the initial Bunny Saga pod... It's moments like these you learn that men and women are really not equal as it relates to expectations... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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time. Visit your local Chevrolet dealer for details. A quick follow up to the bunny saga. When you really, something you learn from situations like that, where there's a bunny that's still alive, that your dog has tried to consume, but this bunny is still alive, still breathing, you know it's gonna die

and someone has to do something about it. Those are the moments you learn that men and women are not equal. There is no equal. Everybody wants equality. Like, ah, the lady basketball should be paid the same as the men. And, oh, women get paid 30 cents less, percent less on the dollar than the man does. All this shit. Everybody wants to talk about equality and then we should have more ladies doing this and more ladies doing that. Everybody likes to talk about how genders and equality and blah blah blah blah blah. Let me tell

you when there is no equality, when there is a dead bunny dying out in your lawn that your dog tried to eat and someone has to get rid of it. I don't care whose house you're in. 99% of those houses, if not 100% of those houses, it will be the man's job to go out there and get that money and that friends shows you that we are not the same. There is no balance in any of this. Oh well men and women need to be equal. No because when there's a bug in the house, which we deal with a

lot like there'll be a bug some sort of bug on the wall because these bugs will fly in and all whatever. Oh god go get Josh go get that go get it off the wall. It's huge. I'm like you could get up and get it. I'm going to do the exact same thing you're going to do or you in theory could do. Right? All you have to do is get up, go get like a paper towel or go get the giant fly swatter, which by the way, we have this gigantic fly swatter we bought at the grocery store, it extends to like two feet

long. And like it's one thing to have a you know, an extended handle that's like two feet long. It's another thing to have like you know an extended handle that's like two feet long it's another thing to have like the swatting part of it like the giant plastic part of it that's like the size of a 13-inch television and we're just swatting things left and right it's like when we used to have that electric tennis racket to kill all those carpenter bees in Nashville it's kind of fun but like that's when you know things are not equal. We can talk about it and we can say, oh yeah ladies can do stuff now and sure ladies can do stuff now. But then there's also things that ladies conveniently don't want to do and they do it under the guise of,

hey you're the man. So being the man means you have to get up off the couch after you just took a shower, go sweat your dick off outside trying to find a way to dispose of a dying, not dead, bunny carcass knowing that you're either going to have to smash it over the skull and kill it or you're going to have to leave it there to die and either way it feels like a shitty thing but you have to do it because you are a man. And those things will never change. Now, maybe as we get into a world where like more relationships

are like lady on lady relationships, because seemingly everyone's queer now, right? Like you read it on the internet, like this person's like, I'm not straight even though I've only had boyfriends. I'm queer, right? So you keep hearing that. I asked somebody about that the other day

that I know who is gay. I was like, so like, why isn't everybody just queer? Like, why do you need, this is a totally random asylum. First of all, let me play a couple of commercials then we'll continue. At Desjardins Insurance, we know that when you are a building contractor, your company's foundation needs to be strong.

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gay relationship, right? Like if there's two ladies in a lesbian relationship and there's a dead bunny, which one picks up the bunny? Because in most instances, the man has to go out and pick up the bunny But anyway, I digress but I was talking to a friend of mine who is gay and I was asking him about like these stories like the Jojo Siwa's and all these people who like magically have boyfriends now, but like for five minutes They were seemingly bisexual or lesbian, but now they identify as queer, right?

Like that's like the thing. And when you hear what the definition of queer is, why isn't just everybody queer and we just leave it at that? Like, queer is like, you can be whatever the fuck you want to be. It's like a super-duper, like, all-access card to be whatever sort of, whatever letter in the LGBTQIA letter rainbow alphabet, alphabet rainbow thing you want to have then why isn't everybody just queer now? I'm sure there are some people who just like dudes and they are dudes and that's fine.

I don't give a shit or some people that just like ladies and they're ladies and that's fine. But I think once you start getting into the other shit, there's just too many letters. We had this discussion a couple weeks ago. You need to eliminate some of the letters because I think queer kind of encompasses all of them. Like if you want first of all gay, you don't need the L because

lesbians are gay. Gay is lesbian lesbian is gay. It's an identifier for women, les a gaze, but it's gay. So you don't really need the L mark off the L. So then you have just the G. So let's just start with G. LGBT. So then you go to bisexual. Bisexual, when you really break it down, sounds eerily similar to queer, right? Now let's go to chat GPT for this. Maybe chat GPT can help me. Let's see. Chat GPT. All right, let's see. Allow access to microphone. Okay. Chat GPT, what is the difference between bisexual and queer? Okay, let's see. Now it's between bisexual and queer. All right, yes. Let's ask the question. Thank you. Request timeout. Why? Why are you timing

me out here? I need to know the answer. Okay. Great question, chat GPT says. The terms bisexual and queer are both related to sexual orientation, but they have different meanings and are used in different ways. Okay. See, this is good now. Look, questions don't hurt. Ignorance does. I'm not trying to be hateful I'm not trying to be a piece of shit. I'm legitimately asking questions. I think we can eliminate some letters here. So, let's see Bisexual is a person who is sexually romantically or emotionally attracted to more than one gender often But not always both men and women may include it may include attraction to non-binary people as well. Some bi people define it as attraction to genders like mine and different from mine.

Okay, great. So example it says, I'm attracted to both men and women so I identify as bisexual. Okay, so let's see what queer is. Definition, a broader umbrella term for identities that are not strictly heterosexual or cisgender can include gay, lesbian, bi, pansexual, then why aren't they all just queer? Why do you need a specific term? Queer is the umbrella term for all of it. Just say you're queer and then do whatever you want

within the queer realm, right? There's no need if it's an umbrella term for all of it. Just say you're queer and then do whatever you want within the queer realm. Right? Like, there is no need if it's an umbrella term that includes gay, lesbian, it includes all of the fucking letters of the alphabet. So why does it need like why does Q need its own thing when it should just be Q? Literally includes it all. Some people use queer instead of more specific labels, especially if their orientation is fluid and does not fit neatly into one box. But like, that's fine, but it usually does fit neatly into one box.

Like there's the bisexual box, and that's like you're into dudes and chicks, or you're gay and you're just into the same sex. Shit's crazy, bro. Historically it's a slur, but many have reclaimed it as a term of pride and resistance. Example, I don't label myself as gay or bi. I'm just queer. Then why isn't just everybody queer? Let's see, key differences. Bisexual is a specific orientation and queer is a broad term for non-straight identity.

Then why not just call it, I don't understand. It seems like that's a waste of letters. You're using too many letters. Let me know if you want a breakdown of pansexual, fluid, or other related terms. I'm happy to help. Well, thanks, ChatGPT. I don't think I need any more of your services today. Your services are done. I also don't pay for the full ChatGPT, so I can only upload like two pictures a day for them to look at. And when we were in the process of finding a house, I was looking at fence sizes because I want

to make sure fences aren't high enough where raws won't jump over them. I just keep posting pictures of different rental houses and I'm like, how high is this fence? They're like, well, considering its height compared to the air conditioner unit, I'm going to say that that's about four and a half feet tall. I don't know. How did I go down this wormhole? How did I end up down this path? Oh, it started talking about, okay, so, okay, I remember dead

bunnies. I have to go pick it up because I'm the dude. It kind of goes to that same point I've always made about holding the door. You ever notice that when you're walking into like a department store at the mall, and this is where I generally see this the most because department store doors you have to actually open. Whereas if you go to like a department store at the mall. And this is where I generally see this the most because department store doors you have to actually open. Whereas if you go to like a Walmart, usually like the door just opens itself or Target or whatever the door just opens itself. So like there's not a

door holding situation usually. So I always associate those with the mall or a department store, you know, and you walk into a department store, and you're like out ahead of a woman. And no matter how far behind you that woman is is you will stand there and kind of hold the door or you'll do like the little move where like you kind of kick it with your back leg to kind of reopen it so somebody will walk through. That is what a man will do and that is kind of the understood role of the man in that situation. Like we still deal with these kind of gender normalities or these

roles these gender roles and the gender role is the man will still hold the door for a woman and a lot of times just hold the door for a dude. Now, when it's a woman, you'll actually stand there, hold them and have that awkward eye contact with them where they kind of don't want you to hold the door because they're far enough away where you shouldn't. But then you do anyway because that's what men do because you're chivalrous. And then you have that weird eye Contact with them while you're like then they kind of do like the the half jog to get there Even though they just want to walk peacefully and calmly into the Nordstrom rack, but you're like nope I held the door for you So I'm gonna need you to haul ass to get in here because I held the door for you and there's that whole awkward

encounter you have there But like a woman wouldn't do that for you. Like you could be like two steps behind a woman and nine out of ten women are just going to let the door shut. And that's because we sit there and talk about how like normal constructs and gender constructs are like a way of the past. Yet when it's convenient for ladies, those gender constructs still remain the same. When it's dude has to pay for the date, that's still a normal thing. Most men don't want a woman to pay because

in the mind of a guy, like I get that. But when there's certain gender constructs that we just kind of operate under, some that benefit the ladies, they still ride with. Like the holding the door when the dude, a dude could be two steps behind you and you're not going to hold that door open for that dude because women are not going to hold the door open for a dude. It doesn't work that way like you could be at the Nordstrom rack door and a woman could be across the street at the gas station and you'll still hold the door for this woman because that's what dudes do.

And in the same way, when you have to go pick up a dead bunny, that's where the whole gender thing, the man go pick it up. Oh, yes. So since I'm a man, I have to go pick up this dead. And I looked at this son of a bitch in the eyes, I tell you, it was sad, because it wasn't even like a full grown bunny. It was a baby bunny his whole goddamn life ahead of him. Now, maybe he was going to go run out in the street and get taken out anyway, like I'm aware there's a circle of life, he might get hit by a car.

It's like when you see a dead deer, it's sad when you see a dead deer, but they walked to the fucking road like that shit happens, right? But like it's still sad. I don't care what like I don't care what kind of hardened street tough you are. I don't care if you're some son of a bitch from the prairie days, you know, like where you have to go outside and shoot your own dog because he's got the rabies. Like, I don't like it still sucks. And that sucked. And now that bunny is laying out in the yard dead and I'm gonna have to go pick him up. Anyway, more to come.