The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 667 - The Democrats Declare Total War On Reality

Episode Date: February 26, 2021

Today on the Matt Walsh Show, Democrats declare total war on reality, passing the Equality Act which seeks to legally erase women and give delusion precedence over reality. Also Five Headlines including Rand Paul’s brilliant and bold questioning a HHS nominee who supports drugging and mutilating gender confused children, and another race hoax exposed, but not before lives were ruined because of it. And in our Daily Cancellation, we will discuss the plight of Mr. Potato Head, who is struggling to decide whether he is gender fluid or not.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Today on the Matt Wall Show, Democrats declare total war on reality, passing the Equality Act, which seeks to legally erase women and give delusion precedence over reality. Also, five headlines including Rand Paul's brilliant and bold questioning of a HHS nominee who supports drugging and mutilating gender-confused children and another race hoax exposed, but not before lives were ruined because of it. In our daily cancellation, we will discuss the plight of Mr. Potato Head, who is struggling to decide whether he is gender fluid or not. All of that, and much more today on The Matt Wall Show.

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first invented the concept of gender identity several decades ago, he probably couldn't imagine that the Democrat Party would one day enshrine his half-baked crazy ideas into law. Back when Money was running sexual experiments on young boys, having them strip on camera, simulate sex acts on each other, and forcing one to live as a girl against his will, it would have seemed like a pipe dream that in the not too distant future, his ideas, his theories about biological sex and gender being too somehow distinct and valid forms of identity would be legislatively imposed on the American population. And when his two human experiments eventually went on to kill themselves, I'm sure

money might have feared that his theories would end up on the proverbial ash heap of history. But that's not what happened. Now the good doctor who died 15 years ago can look up from wherever he is and, I have some theories about where that might be, and feel proud that although the concept of gender identity is nonsensical and incoherent, and though his attempt to scientifically prove the validity of his theories ended with the suicides of two people, still his ideas won the day. And soon the entire country will be forced by law to live according to them. So the so-called Equality Act was passed by the Democrat-controlled House of Representatives on Thursday,

moves now to the Democrat-controlled Senate. The law is a sweeping and radical assault on religious liberty, women, children, moral decency, sanity. It is indeed the most serious legislative attack on women's rights in American history, as it seeks to legally erase women in a way and to an extent that not even the most dastardly and misogynistic agent of the patriarchy could have ever dreamed. The people who were worried that Mike Pence would bring handmaid's tale to life were the whole time working. working to establish their own dystopia that goes far beyond anything that Margaret Atwood conceived. The bill has other significant consequences, too, as our own Ian Haworth explains for the Daily Wire. The Equality Act sets the stage to dismantle religious liberty. He writes in a recent article, quote,

The Equality Act would expand protection against discrimination provided by the Civil Rights Act, such as employment and housing, to also cover federally funded programs and public accommodations, which include retail stores, online retailers, stadiums, transportation service providers, et cetera. As an example, this would mean that businesses targeted discrimination suits for refusing certain services based on religious objections would be impacted by the Equality Act, such as florists or bakeries. The Equality Act would also supersede the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, passed in 1993, which, quote, set a higher bar for the government to defend laws if people argued those laws infringed upon religious freedom. Now, the act also

obliterates conscience protections for those who don't want to fund or perform abortions. Alexandra DeSanctus in National Review lays out the details. She writes, under the Equality Act, healthcare professionals will be required by law to perform sex reassignment procedures or offer hormone treatment or offer related hormone treatment, even if such procedures contradicted their own best medical judgment. So, too, the law would treat refusals to perform an abortion as pregnancy discrimination. which would be treated as an illegal form of discrimination on the basis of sex.

The Equality Act redefines sex to include pregnancy, childbirth, or a related medical condition. And as the bill's opponents have noted, federal agencies and courts have already determined that the phrase related medical condition can be interpreted to include abortion. This is all quite horrifying on its own, but it isn't even the most extreme consequence of the bill. Worst of all, the Civil Rights Act of 1964 would be updated to include sexual orientation and gender identity. identity as protected classes on the same level as race. The text of the bill reads, in part, quote, an individual shall not be denied access to a shared facility, including a restroom,

a locker room, and a dressing room that is in accordance with that individual's gender identity. In fact, as already noted, this mandate would apply to all public accommodations, and conveniently enough, pretty much everything counts or can count as a public accommodation. Your home does appear to be exempt at the moment, but the Democrats, I'm sure will not let that loophole remain for very long. What this means is that if this law passes, it will be effectively illegal to provide any private or exclusive spaces to women. Bathrooms, sports teams, locker rooms, all of these must, by law,

be opened to any man who demands access. Under the Equality Act, the government would not recognize woman as being a necessarily distinct category from men. All that matters is a person's gender identity. This raises an important question. What the hell is gender identity? Well, it's not really anything in particular. It's an entirely invented artificial concept,

originating with the child abusing quack mentioned earlier. That's probably best defined, if it could be defined at all, by the human rights campaign, which was a fervent and influential proponent of the Equality Act, HRC says on the sexual orientation and gender identity definitions page of their website that gender identity is, quote, one's innermost concept of self as male, female, a blend of both or neither, how individuals perceive themselves and what they call themselves. One's gender identity can be the same or different from their sex assigned at birth.

Let us try to wrap our heads around the sheer lunacy here. Your biological sex is what you, you actually are, your true sexual identity, as determined by immutable physical characteristics. Your gender identity is what you feel like you are, or what you want to be, or how you perceive yourself. Under the Equality Act, one's perception of themselves, even if incorrect, takes precedence over the reality of what they actually are. The reality is no longer legally recognized. at all, in fact, delusion and fantasy supplant officially truth. Falsehood wins the day.

Of course, female sports teams never had anything to do with self-perception. It makes absolutely no difference what a male thinks or how he feels about himself or how he feels about anything. None of that changes his biological features, which give him an unfair advantage over females. And though the male may feel like he was supposed to have a vagina, whatever the hell that means, the reality is that he has the same equipment as any other male and belongs in the same locker rooms and bathrooms as those other males. The sign on the bathroom door says or said men and women, not those who feel like men today and those who feel like women today. That's the only sensible and coherent way to organize these things based on what actually is, not how you feel. It's also the only way that provides women with the privacy and protection they need. but sensibility and coherence are soon to be illegal. It doesn't take much imagination to see where this goes.

If self-perception is more important than reality, if in fact self-perception is our new reality, then there's no reason whatsoever to limit that standard to gender. I mean, what about a white man who seeks the advantages of affirmative action in college admissions on the basis that he perceives himself to be black? It might be crazy to accept that a white man is a black man, because he sees himself that way, but it's still quite a bit less crazy than accepting that a male is a female on the same basis. What about a pedophile who perceives himself to be nine years old?

Again, it makes no sense to give his perception of his own age legal precedence over the reality of his actual age, but it's certainly no more senseless than doing the same in the realm of biological sex. Any argument for giving gender identity protected status would apply absolutely. to age identity, race, to age identity, race identity, or anything else. As always, the left will scoff at what they will call a slippery slope argument. And then, in a few years, they will do exactly what they mocked us for predicting they would do. That's the way these things always work, and will most assuredly work in this case. The Democrats have declared total war on reality, and we haven't even begun to reap the

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Pennsylvania also sent infected people into nursing homes on purpose, just like New York did. But we're going to reward this person with a position purely on the basis of identity politics, of course. Rachel Levine had a hearing in the Senate on Thursday, and at least one senator stepped up. That would be Rand Paul to take him to task for. his support of drugging and mutilating gender-confused children. A position that would be totally disqualifying in a sane and healthy country. You know, it's, if you have that position where you're in favor of drugging and mutilating confused children, that should qualify you for a mental institution or prison,

not for a position in government. But as we've been talking about, this is, we're looking at the enshrinement of insanity, a war on reality, which is what the Democrats have been waging for some time now. That's nothing new. So Rand Paul questioned Levine and couldn't get a straight answer, but let's watch some of this. Let's watch Rand Paul at least make an attempt. You know, give it the old college try to get an answer out of Rachel Levine when it comes to, you know, mutilating children and what should the policy be with gender confused children?

Here it is. Let's watch. Dr. Levine, you have supported both allowing minors. to be given hormone blockers to prevent them from going through puberty, as well as surgical destruction of a minor's genitalia. Like surgical mutilation, hormonal interruption of puberty can permanently alter and prevent secondary sexual characteristics. The American College of Pediatricians reports that 80 to 95 percent of pre-puberal children

with gender dysphoria will experience resolution by late adolescents if not exposed to medical intervention and social affirmation. Dr. Levine, do you believe that minors are capable of making such a life-changing decision as changing one-sex? Well, Senator, thank you for your interest in this question. Transgender medicine is a very complex and nuanced field with robust research and standards of care that have been developed. And if I am fortunate enough to be confirmed as the Assistant Secretary of Health, I would look

forward to working with you and your office and coming to your office and discussing the particulars of the standards of care for transgender medicine. So this is the old, you got to pass the bill to find out what's in it. In this case, we're being told you got to confirm the nominee to find out what they actually think about this issue. Because the response that Rand Paul gets, we'll play the next clip yet because he, again, we'll play the next clip at a second because he makes another attempt. but the response is, well, why are you confirmed me?

And then I'll come to your office and we can talk about it. No, why don't you talk about it now? This is a very simple question. Very easy question. Of course, we already know the answer to it because we have Rachel Levine's previous statements on this subject, and he's been very clear about it. We already know the answer to it.

And if we didn't already know the answer, we'd know it now because, you know, when you're asked, do you support genital mutilation of gender-confused children and drugging them? When you're asked that, if you answer anything but, hell no. What are you crazy? Of course not. Any answer outside of that tells me that your real answer is yes. And you don't belong anywhere in government or anywhere in civilized society.

This is one of those issues, and there are several. of them. But this is certainly one where if you ever, you know, if you're more on the moderate in the middle kind of person, and you may be a little confused about who the real bad guys are. And I'm not going to sit here and tell you that the Republicans are heroes, courageous heroes. They're far from it. I think, I like Rand Paul. I think Rand Paul is great. But I'm not going to tell you Republicans are general. there are clear bad guys though and if you ever get confused about it if you need to be reminded then go back and watch this exchange again because there is one political party that supports drugging and mutilating children children who are simply confused

as all children are it's very normal for a child to be confused and of course a child is going to be confused about something like biological sex, if he's not given explanations. You know, if a child at the age of four is, you know, a four-year-old boy start saying, oh, I think I'm a girl. If at that moment, his parents and his teachers, if he's in school and his doctors, if they all say to him, oh, no, no, no, no, no, no, little Johnny, you're not a girl, you're a boy. Or you can even ask him, Why do you say that? Why do you say you're a girl? That's a really simple question.

If you get any kind of answer at all from the four-year-old, I guarantee it is going to be something along the lines of he likes to play with dolls and he thinks that pink dresses are pretty, something like that. And because in his little four-year-old brain, you know, that's what he thinks a girl is. He doesn't know. He doesn't actually know what a boy or girl is at the age of four. or five or six, they don't really understand what that means. So that little child, that's all.

He's drawing an association. He's noticing, he's perceptive, and he's noticing that generally the people that the adults call girls are, you know, they have the pink stuff and the dolls and everything. And the people the adults call boys, they wear the blue and the darker colors and they like trucks. And so if that four-year-old boy is going through, phase where, you know, he's a little bit more interested in the adults? Big deal. Who cares? Fine. What he's going to say is, oh, I am a girl. He doesn't know what that means because he's four. What he actually means is, I am interested in these things which I associate with girls.

And sane, decent adults will respond to that by saying, okay, great. You want to play with a dog? Go play with a doll. It doesn't matter. Fine. You're still a boy, though. The child. The child. If a child gets that kind of response from his parents, from, you know, all the adults in his life, he'll be fine. He'll get over this phase of calling himself a girl in a few weeks, if not right that second. But if the child is told, oh, well, if you say you're a girl, then maybe you are. And if he's told this by all of the adults in his life we trust, then of course he's going to be confused. Who wouldn't be? fast forward a few years and now we're going to drug that child.

By the way, another thing, we'll hear this from Rand Paul in a second. Just so you know, when the left says that puberty blockers and all these hormone treatments and hormone pills and stuff, given to children, when the left says that it's safe, that there are no long-term side effects, they are lying. They are lying through their teeth. either they are speaking out of ignorance or they are straight up lying. Because the fact is, number one, it is definitely not safe. You're using this medication off-label. You're using medication that was not made to be given to children who are physically healthy. You are stunting intentionally their normal physical growth.

That is by definition not safe. In terms of all of the long-term consequences, we don't know. Now, a rational person can guess, can assume that there are going to be a number of, any number of serious physical, emotional, psychological, long-term effects. But in terms of the full extent of it, we don't know because this, we are, we talk about experiments. We're running experiments on a whole generation of kids right now. We don't know what it's going to look like in 30 years. Democrats will just lie and they'll say, oh, it's safe, we already know it. They don't know that.

What they mean is, well, we hope it's. probably say we hope it's safe and so we'll find out what we'll use these kids as guinea pigs and we'll check back in 30 years see how destroyed their lives are unless they've killed themselves by then as as as the Rimer twins did John Money's victims. All right, let's go back to Rand Paul. He makes another attempt to get an answer out of Rachel Levine. Here it is. For most of our history, we believe that minors don't have full rights and the parents need to be involved. So I'm alarmed that you won't say with certainty that minors should not have the ability to make the decision to take hormones that will affect them for the rest of their life. Will you make a more firm decision

on whether or not minors should be involved in these decisions? Senator, transgender medicine is a very complex and nuanced field. And if confirmed to the position of Assistant Secretary of Health, I would certainly be pleased to come to your office and talk with you and your staff about the standards of care and the complexity of this field. Let it go into the record that the witness refused to answer the question. The question is a very specific one. Should minors be making these momentous decisions? For most of the history of medicine, we wouldn't let you have a cut sewn up in the ER,

but you're willing to let a minor take things that prevent their puberty, and you think they get that back? You give a woman testosterone enough that she grows a beard? Do you think she's going to go back looking like a woman when you stop the testosterone? you have permanently changed them. Raym Paul is exactly right, of course. And he got a lot of grief from the left for calling genital mutilation, general mutilation. What the hell else do you call it?

You're taking a physically healthy person, a girl chopping their breasts off. What else do you call that about mutilation if this is a physically healthy person? or, you know, a male and doing a lot of incisions and cutting in things to fashion their male reproductive organs to look like some approximation of female generals. What else do you call them but mutilation? This is why I like Rand Paul. You know, he's a little too libertarian for my taste on some things, but he gets the gender issue, right?

He gets the life issue, right? A lot of libertarians don't. And so I'm a big supporter of Rand Paul. Okay. Number two from the New York Post. It says a black student's allegations that she was targeted for eating while black at a private Massachusetts college were deemed unfounded, according to investigation of the incident. Umo Canute, then a rising sophomore at Smith College, had claimed that all she did was, all she, quote, did was be black when a janitor called security on her when he found her in a closed lounge in July 2018. But a 35-page investigation carried out by an outside law firm found no evidence of discrimination.

The findings were issued in October 2018, but not widely reported. The incident began when Conote was inside a cafeteria in a dormitory that was reserved for a summer camp program for young children. Since students were not supposed to be used the area, a cafeteria worker, Jackie Blair, reminded her of that fact, but then decided to drop the issue. A january who was in his 60s, had poor vision, then noticed a figure in the distance, eating in a closed-off lounge area. And so school guidance calls for employees not to confront strangers on their own. So the janitor notified security about the person who turned out to be Canute, the outlet, reported the janitor who reportedly later claimed he couldn't tell the person's gender because it was dark, told dispatchers that there's someone sitting there lying down in the living room.

A security officer then drove over, engaged in a polite conversation. But this woman recorded it. And so she was where she was not supposed to be. and you had school, you know, employees followed proper protocol to enforce the rules what they were supposed to do. Now, you also have to keep in mind from their perspective, you know, you've got a stranger in this area where they're not supposed to be as reserved for a summer camp for kids. If they don't say anything and allow that person to be there and then, you know, if something happens, anything happens related to that person, well, they're going to be in trouble for that. You know, they might be liable for that.

So they enforce the rules and and the woman claimed that it was racism. No basis for that claim whatsoever. This was back in 2018. The media ran with it. Everyone ran with it. It went viral online. I vaguely remember this when it first happened,

hearing something like this. And of course, you know, as a rational person, when I first heard the story, I immediately thought, is there any evidence that this is race-based at all? Obviously, there wasn't. But even so, a lot of the people involved with this, the janitor was placed on leave the following day. I mean, people lost their jobs. People were smeared across the media as being racist.

These are normal, and you're talking to a janitor at a school, these are normal working class people. totally innocent who were smeared, libelled, you know, defamed as racist. Had their lives ruined, had their careers ruined, lost their jobs. All because of this. All because of this lie from this despicable person who was looking for attention. You know, for her, that's all, she was at, she's at this fancy college. Everything's going well in her life. Her life's going to be fine.

But she wanted a little bit of attention. She wanted some attention on social media. She wanted to get some Facebook likes and some retweets. And for that, just for that sake, she was willing to destroy the lives of however many people. It didn't matter to her. What a sociopath you have to be. For such little reward, you're willing to completely destroy innocent people. All right, this is number three from Reuters.

The United States on Thursday carried out an airstrike in Syria against, a structure belonging to what is said where Iran back back to militia, which is an apparent response to rocket attacks against U.S. targets in Iraq. Well, this is, you know, the neocons are back in business. This is the return of normalcy. Normalcy is restored. We're bombing overseas again. This, I guess, is what the left wanted, right? So, congratulations. You got what you wanted. Start in the wars in the Middle East again. Number four from the Daily Wire, it says, Internet mega retailer Amazon appears to have quietly updated an internal rule. Just the News reports eliminating an exemption for books and periodicals from its site-wide policy against selling items that contain or promote hate speech. So Amazon, it appears, is now in fort.

Now, they haven't made, as far as I know, any official announcement about this, but it appears that they are expanding their policies against. hate speech and they're now taking down books. And this started earlier in the week with Ryan T. Anderson and his book, when Harry became Sally, responding to the transgender movement, that was unceremoniously removed from Amazon. And it looks like this is the beginning of something. You know, there's more yet to come. But keep in mind with this book when Harry became Sally, rather, the Ryan T. Anderson book. This is a very, we talked about this on the backstage. If you watched backstage episode,

it's a very scholarly book, very civil, compassionate. You know, it's a good book. And this, as Ryan T. Anderson does, if you're familiar with his work, that's how he approaches this issue, like any issue, from a scholarly, really intelligent kind of way. It's not inflammatory at all. Okay, he's not like me. He's not throwing digs in there. He's not being inflammatory. He's not yelling and screaming in written form. So if this book can be taken down as hate speech, for no other reason then it presents the other side of the argument.

It simply argues against left-wing gender theory, and that's why it was taken down. And if Amazon is doing that, then, I mean, it's game over as far as Amazon goes. You know, it's not like they started with some fringe book from some super inflammatory, you know, fringe figure a way off on the far right. They're starting with Ryan T. Anderson? That's bad news. Five, finally, the Daily Wire reports in a nine-page Instagram post, singer and songwriter Demi Lovato called gender reveal parties transphobic and claimed that there are boys with Viguerreys. vaginas and girls with penises. Lovato claimed throughout the lengthy post that transgender activists

dislike gender reveal parties because they divert from reality, quote unquote. To Lovato and other activists, reality is the concept that humans are born without any concept of gender. So this is a lengthy post. She's against gender reveal parties. And I read this and I thought, this is unfortunate because now that means, now that means I guess I have to be in favor of gender reveal parties. I have very consistently been opposed to gender reveal parties, not on the basis of them being transphobic, but just on the basis of them being completely silly and ridiculous. And also, it turns out dangerous because people are dying every year from these, from these dumb things. That's the reason I oppose them. I think it's, you don't need to,

we don't need all the pageantry over the fact that, you know, your child has a gender. Just tell people. You're having a boy. Great. Let people know. Send out a text message. call people up, post it on Facebook, whatever you want to do. We don't need a whole party just for that reason. That's been my take on gender reveal parties. But now that the left is coming out out against them for being transphobic, now I feel like as a contrarian, especially where the left is concerned, I have to completely change my opinion. And now, you know what, I'm in favor of gender reveal parties.

Have gender reveal parties. Throw a freaking parade through the street. for our next kid, that's what we're going to do now. Even though I hate gender reveal parties, we're going to have a gender reveal parade through the street, floats and everything, throw in candy to the kids, just to spite you. A gender reveal party out of,

I don't like gender reveal parties, but I like gender reveal parties out of spite. That's how I guess I would split this issue. All right, let's go now to reading the YouTube comments. comments. This is from Jambery Johnson says, Matt, in September of 2019, I was actually diagnosed with gender dysphoria. This was solved not by getting surgeries, but by going to church and attending specialized therapies. In many states, a diagnosis is not even required to medically transition. What are your thoughts on this? Well, my thoughts are, number one, I'm grateful that

you were able to find the actual help you needed. You were suffering from this. rather than people who would contribute to that suffering by making your dysphoria worse, you found actual help. So I'm grateful for that. But we're getting to a point where that's going to be illegal soon. You know, the therapy that, the real therapy that you went out and sought and thankfully received, that's now considered, you know, conversion therapy.

That's how that's going to be labeled. And pretty soon that's going to be illegal. But thankfully you were able to get that help. Christian says, no one is indoctrinating children. You do realize that more kids are gay now because there is less bigotry. Yes, this, of course, Christian, is the argument. I have heard this argument that the reason why the LGBT numbers are skyrocketing among the younger generations is simply because we're more accepting. And so that means that people feel that they're able to safely come out and express their true identities.

Okay, but 11.5%. That was the number, right, if I remember correctly. 11.5% Gen Z identifying as bisexual. Are you really going to tell me, Christian, do you really think that that is reflective of the real numbers in the general population? that do you really think that for the whole globe, all 7 billion plus people, 11% or more are bisexual, but most of them don't feel comfortable to come out and admit it? Does that seem reasonable to you?

Of course, you know, the great thing about the claim you're making is that it's impossible to prove and also therefore impossible to refute. Because you're saying that there are millions and millions of people out there, who are really bisexual, they just won't admit it. Well, it could be the case, sure. I don't see any reason to assume that. I think that is a wild assumption with no evidence for it. I think there are much more reasonable explanations for why we're seeing this increase in numbers. And I talked about

those explanations yesterday. And a big one is, yes, that it is trendy now. It's not merely accepted and tolerated to be gay or bisexual or to identify somehow in the LGBT spectrum, it's not just accepted and tolerated. It's celebrated. It's a trendy thing. It is social capital that you earn in that generation. And so, yes, younger people, kids are encouraged to find a way to sort of wedge themselves into that LGBT, you know, somewhere into those letters somewhere.

That's why we keep adding letters on to it, right? it's LGBTQIA so on and so forth. Keep adding letters on because people are trying, people are desperate to be in that acronym. John Dixon says, I wouldn't say the left hates all religions except for Islam. It's more accurate to say that the left hates Christianity and Judaism while loving Islam and being indifferent to all other religions.

Well, you might be, the left hates the other, right? The left hates anyone who is different. from themselves. The left hates any ideological competition. And that's why I would say they hate all religions, except for the religion of leftism, because it is competition. Even Islam. It's not that the left loves Islam. I wouldn't say that's the case at all. It's simply that they don't feel oftentimes as entitled to criticize it because of all the intersectional identity complications. When you think of Muslims, oftentimes, these are non-white people from oftentimes poor regions of the world. And so, you know, they don't associate it as much with white people like

they do with Christianity, even though the majority of Christians are not white either, but this is how they see it. And so they don't feel as entitled to criticize Islam, but when it comes down to it, I think they hate all religions, except for their own. And finally, Maximilian says, is it just me or is Matt's beard turning gray at the bottom left. I have seen a lot of comments about the graying in the beard. I don't know if it comes on if you can see it in camera right now, but I'm so excited about it. I have to tell you. I have been accused many times by people of dying my beard. And I, of all the false accusations, that is the only one that that really, really bothers me because it is so widely accepted. But in reality, I would never die my beard. I've been excited to go gray. My wife noticed

the gray in the beard and she said, oh, can I pluck that out for you? I said, are you kidding me? I've been waiting for this moment. The dignified graying in the beard. Very excited. Thank you for noticing. Well, we've made it to Friday, and that's nearly the end of the month. We're almost there, which means this is your last chance, very last chance to take advantage of February, February Harry. February Harry, those are the deals over at Beard Supply.

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in order to make potato head gender neutral. Kimberly Boyd, the senior vice president of global brands at Hasbro, explain the move saying, culture has evolved. Kids want to be able to represent their own experiences. The way the brand currently exists with the Mr. and Mrs. is limiting when it comes to both gender identity and family structure. The website Fast Company, which interviewed Boyd, went to more detail, saying,

this means the toys don't impose a fixed notion of gender identity or expression, freeing kids to do whatever for you. feels most naturally to them. A girl potato might want to wear pants. A boy potato might wear earrings. Hasbro will also sell box sets that don't present a normative family structure. This approach is clever because it allows kids to project their own ideas about gender sexuality and family onto the toy without necessarily offending parents that have more conservative notions about family. Well, yes, we cannot force this outmoded idea of mother and father potato heads onto kids, onto society. Some children may want a potato family with two mom potatoes or two dad potatoes or three mom

potatoes, a dad potato, a chicken sandwich in order to have the full value meal. These are the choices that children must be able to make. This is the world that children deserve to live in. A world with transgender potatoes, homosexual potatoes, pansexual potatoes, bisexual potatoes. Why can't a potato be polyamorous, bisexual, trigendered, and sometimes dabble in a little BDSM? These are all valid expressions, valid identities, and they deserve to be represented. And that's why today I did not originally intend to cancel Hasbro or Potato Head. I was going to cancel all of those, all of you who are mocking this move, calling it silly, superficial, ridiculous, woke virtue signaling, and so on.

I mean, you are canceled for your lack of a progressive worldview, for your lack of appreciation and respect for the lived experience of gender fluid potatoes. those of us with a more enlightened outlook saw the potato news for the landmark occasion that it was, or we thought that it was. This story has a twisted and tragic ending, but before we get there, I just want you to understand what this meant to me and my family. In fact, I'll never forget this. I told my seven-year-old daughter about the potato head news yesterday. I came into the living room. She was sitting at the table, drawing a picture of Greta Thunberg. And I turned to her and I said, listen, Addison, I need to tell you something. And she looked at me and she was a little concerned and she said, what is it, father? And I took a deep breath and I said, it's happened. It's finally

happened. Mr. Potato Head has come out as gender fluid. Now, always remember the look on her face. She was shocked at first, but then a smile spread quietly across her face and she started to tear up. And she said, finally, I had been waiting for this day, my heart. I had been waiting for this day, entire life. Now I can be at peace. And we just hugged each other and sobbed. It was, it was beautiful. And there were so many conversations just like this across the country. A great burden had been lifted. Now, admittedly, there was still so much work to do. Mr. Peanut, Mr. Clean, many fictional characters must still be freed from their gender binary prison. Mr. Pib, most of all. Pib is already a fluid. And yet we bottle it, both physically and metaphorically, and force Pib to live a lie. But progress

takes time and we were taking the first step. At least that's how it seemed. Then later on Thursday, in the midst of the jubilation came the crushing blow. Hasbro sent out another tweet from their official account saying, quote, hold that top. Your main spud, Mr. Potato Head, isn't going anywhere. While it was announced today that the Potato Head brand name and logo are dropping the Mr. I am proud to confirm that Mr. and Mrs. Potatohead aren't going anywhere and will remain Mr. and Mr. and this is potato head. Devastating. And for Hasbro to be so flippant,

making potato puns in the midst of a great national crisis like this is unconscionable. One minute, I thought that bigotry had been defeated, that the patriarchy dismantled, transphobia annihilated, the next we're back in our oppressive reality with plastic potatoes that uphold the gender binary.

I'll never forget breaking the news to my daughter. I went back into the living room, found her cradling her potato, head in her arms whispering, you're free, my child. You're free. And I sat her down and I said, Addison, a tragedy has just occurred. The potato head is still a man. Hasbro duped you. They duped all of us. And I broke down and I wept. And Addison threw the potato across the room, began to kick me violently saying, Father, you lied to me, you lied to me, you scum. All I could do was apologize and plead with her. It was no use. I knew her life was ruined. And

so was mine. So it was a roller coaster day. It ended by careening off the tracks and there were no survivors emotionally. And that's why Hasbro is in the end canceled. Mr. Potato Head is canceled. And all of you who would mock our pain or our joy before the pain are also canceled. How dare you? How dare all of you? And that's going to give us a lot to think about over the weekend. Have a great weekend. We'll talk to you on Monday. Godspeed. Well, if you enjoyed this episode, don't forget to subscribe. And if you want to help spread the word, please give us a five-star review.

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