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The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #466

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	Hello and welcome to the podcast Lotus Eaters.
	This is episode 466.
	I'm your host, Harry, joined today by our special guest, Nick Dixon.
	Word.
	He's about to drop a mixtape on all of us, it seems.
	But before we get into that, we'll be talking today about the fight against trans ideology, something that we've covered plenty, but which is always an ongoing battle, the slow death of feminism, and also what is behind the cost of living crisis.
	Before we get into that, I will just say that we do have a gold-tier Zoom call tomorrow for all of our gold-tier members that will be at 3.30.
	It's going to be me and Connor that you can join and talk to as part of that, because Carl and Callum are going to be going to the Skildings event, which I think is hosted by AA and will feature guests like Radical Liberation and Mencius Moldbug, otherwise known as Curtis Yarvin.
	So that should be very interesting.
	Now that I've gone through that, let's get into the news.
	So...
	Trans ideology is something that we talk about a lot on this, and I think we've made it clear at this point that we're not particularly big fans of it.
	Me personally, generally speaking, you know, if somebody who's an adult wants to do something that could potentially ruin their life, you know, they have every right to do so.
	But it's generally when it starts to get pushed on kids that we start to ask a few questions and it could ruffle a few feathers.
	Such as when Thomas and I, a few months ago, went through these lesson plans, these curriculum plans for schools in Seattle, which was discussing the trans ideology and pushing it on these children through children's books, talking about how a boy bear, which was discussing the trans ideology and pushing it on these children through children's books, talking about how a boy bear, a little toy bear owned by a little girl, started off as a boy, but then told the little girl So you can find that on the website if you're a premium member.
	It is what exactly are leftists teaching our kids.
	And I really should do a follow-up to this at some point because this is just the tip of the iceberg, realistically.
	Can I just quickly say, I love the title, they're here, they're queer, they're in our schools.
	They're in schools.
	You actually can't tell at this point if that's their propaganda or ours.
	Oh, they'd be more than happy to throw that out as the slogan.
	Yeah, we're here, we're queer, and we're indoctrinating your children.
	And that's a good thing, Bigot.
	That's the general rhetoric that we get from those sorts.
	But I wanted to point out this first tweet that came about, because Chris Rufo, who of course does fantastic work, he primarily started out focusing on critical race theory, but like James Lindsay, who is sadly still completely banned, permabanned off of Twitter for going up against trans ideology.
	Chris Rufo has moved over to that sort of battleground as well, because it is very important.
	So sadly, it will probably not be too long before Chris Rufo also gets the boot off of Twitter, because Twitter seems to be, you know, you can say bad things about critical race theory, that's only one area of attack.
	But trans ideology, gender ideology, is where they really put the boot on you.
	Yeah, someone used my dead name the other day, I reported them immediately, and they went...
	What is your dead name?
	I don't know.
	I didn't think that joke through, but you know how dead names are the worst thing you can use?
	Oh yeah, absolutely.
	Just a reminder that you used to go by a different name.
	Yeah, someone called me Nicholas, and I was like, report, and they were gone.
	Well, I would assume that just brought back memories of your mother telling you off.
	Nobody uses your full name like your mother does.
	But anyway, Chris Rufo was sharing this story of a Florida father, Wendell Perez, who is suing a school currently because of the fact that they tried to secretly transition his 12-year-old daughter and affirmed a male name and pronouns, which contributed to a suicide attempt that she had in a school bathroom.
	So this is all pretty awful stuff.
	And if we go over to the next one, I actually got a copy of the lawsuit which Chris shared in the thread underneath.
	And I think this is actually a perfect take, a perfect case study of the tactics that these sorts of leftist, insane teachers take to try and indoctrinate and brainwash your children into making some pretty terrible life stories.
	So, just as a cliff notes, and then I'll read through some of the explicit statements made throughout this...
	So the school basically secretly transitioned the kid and told all of the students and teachers to address her by a new male name, which led to bullying in the school.
	And then she attempted suicide on the school property twice, two days in a row, by trying to hang herself in a school bathroom.
	And it was only on the second attempt that the school contacted the parents.
	And they only contacted the parents because she had to be taken away to a hospital and they needed to notify the parents of that.
	Pretty awful stuff, but let's read through some of the explicit statements made through this so we can get an idea of how they will take your young, vulnerable, oftentimes isolated children and brainwash them with the gender ideology.
	So they say, as part of the...
	Statement, after returning home, AP, which I assume means anonymous person or anonymous plaintiff, explained that during the fall semester of 2021, she was being bullied at school and felt weak, that as a girl, that she could not do anything to stop it.
	AP likes video games and sports and was told by her peers that these were boy things.
	A friend confided in AP that she thought that she was transgender, and AP as a result began to think that she could be transgender too, because she wanted to be strong and free like a boy.
	AP went to see Mrs.
	Washington, who is one of the defendants, one of the school teachers, and noticed that Mrs.
	Washington had a lot of posters, literature, and other promotional materials related to LGBTQ pride in her office.
	AP thought these materials were cool.
	AP asked Mrs.
	Washington if she supported transgender people, and Mrs.
	Washington said that she did.
	AP then said to her that in that case, call me M, they've left out the name, and he.
	So...
	Pretty standard stuff.
	You take a kid that's being bullied, is isolated, feels vulnerable, and then there are these other social pressures coming from the rest of the school because this is infected to the point where, yes, it is a social contagion where all these young girls will see this trend going on and try to adopt it.
	The same as they did with stuff like alternative and emo trends 10 to 15 years ago.
	Except this one, instead of just recommending that you, you know...
	Yeah, and the other difference being, of course, that the teachers are encouraging it.
	When it was emo and things like that, they were like, okay, it's rebellion, it's not great, but we'll deal with it.
	Right.
	Imagine now, imagine teachers saying, hey, you should cut yourself.
	And of course, that's what they are doing.
	They're doing so much worse because it's this permanent surgery.
	It's just unbelievable.
	This is the bleakest one we've done yet.
	It's absolutely horrific.
	Oh, the bleakest one you've done yet?
	Right, yeah.
	You've not seen some of the other stuff that I've covered.
	This is pretty standard for me.
	But there are some schools out there that are fighting back against this sort of thing, whether it's the school districts or the schools themselves.
	Being forced to no longer put up with the ideology and not put up with the ideology being displayed all over classrooms with the flags everywhere.
	Once again, one of the things, this girl was being bullied.
	She goes to speak to a teacher about it, sees all of these flags that signal allegiance to the ideology, and from there it gives you an easy gateway for the teacher to open up about, oh yeah, I'm completely supportive of this.
	Have you thought that you might be a boy?
	Et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.
	When the schools, other than maybe supporting, I don't know, nationality, if you're in America, I thought that was a pretty common thing for the schools to do over in America, they shouldn't be signalling political allegiance to any other real causes, should they?
	They shouldn't be having these pride flags up, the Black Lives Matter flags up, because at the end of the day, more than anything, that's just a distraction from teaching, which is what these teachers are there to do.
	Yeah, they used to pledge allegiance to the flag, the American flag, now they pledge allegiance to this flag, it's a pretty straight swap.
	Yeah, it's a very clear subterfuge that's been going on.
	But this one, Kettle Moran's school board in Wisconsin has banned teachers from displaying flags with political messaging.
	And the state school board has outlined that teachers will not be permitted to reveal their preferred pronouns in emails after they disclosed that staff and students had become increasingly concerned.
	No surprise there.
	I mean...
	Preferred pronouns in emails is completely irrelevant.
	Address me by name in email.
	That's all I need.
	And the only official vote against the ban was a man called Jim Romanowski, who said he had changed his mind about this upon listening to the students about the policy, because that's what real adults need to do.
	Real adults need to listen to their thoughts, opinions, and, let's be honest, whining of small children to be able to determine what's right and wrong.
	Complete flip of the usual standards that we practice of older people, the older and wiser generations teaching the younger people.
	We'll just flip that on its head.
	And following the announcement, the policy has been met with fierce criticism, because of course this is a Unilad article, they need to present it in one specific way.
	Abigail O'Connor, a queer student in the district, told the outlet, I know people who cannot come out to their parents.
	They aren't accepted at home, so they look for acceptance at school.
	But now that acceptance is slowly fading away.
	And now schools are a place where, yes, you should have a certain level of comfort to not feel anxious.
	You shouldn't really be recommending that people bully people because, you know, it's a place for learning.
	You want to maintain professional standards, both with the teachers and the students to a certain extent.
	But this is the you can't have the schools and the teachers bowing down to children's every whim, can you?
	It's not a place, this is the place thing with, what was it, was it Peter Boghossian who got shouted at a few years ago where the student shouted at him, was it at Berkeley saying, this isn't a place of learning, it's supposed to be a home.
	No, this is a place of learning.
	This isn't your home.
	We're not here to give you hugs and pats on the back for doing nothing.
	Well, it'd be nice if school did feel safe.
	Unfortunately, growing up in a comprehensive in the north, it was just an everyday struggle for survival in a sort of hellscape.
	But it led you to where you are now.
	Exactly.
	It's toughened you a bit.
	Classic northern attitude from me and Harry.
	But can I just say, Wisconsin has a Democrat governor, so this is just like a particularly base district, is it?
	I can only imagine so, yes.
	You expect it's in Florida, don't you?
	But it's Wisconsin.
	Well, yeah, in Florida, you expect that sort of stuff, because it's seeing as DeSantis has no problem cracking down on all of this nonsense.
	But to see it in Wisconsin, like you say, with a Democratic governor, is quite promising.
	The policy has even led Wisconsin students Bethany Provan and Britt Farah to initiate a petition, because they always work, don't they?
	When LGBTQ students walk into school and see that simple rainbow flag hanging on the wall, they finally feel safe and supported.
	Once again, it's not the school's job to bow down to your political ideology, especially when you're a teenager and you don't know anything about your life.
	When I was 14, 15, I thought I knew everything.
	I thought I was the smartest person in the world.
	I'd figured everything out.
	And you're still like that today.
	Exactly.
	But now I'm right.
	Now you actually do.
	Now I actually do know about the world.
	You've done the research.
	You've lived some hard years.
	I educated myself as people have thrown at me recently.
	You listened and learnt.
	I need to educate myself so I read up on a few Twitter threads and now I know everything there is to know about trans ideology.
	The online petition launched via Change.org and has already accumulated over 13,000 signatures.
	And hopefully, like so many other petitions, it just does nothing.
	But we've also got in North Texas, which is a place that you would actually expect to be doing this sort of stuff, as opposed to Wisconsin as well, but once again that just shows it's promising that schools are starting to stand up, has now let teachers reject children's pronouns, even if parents approve of them.
	Based...
	Yeah, the only thing, the only similar thing I can think of in this country is Suella Bravman came out very strongly on this and that's when I knew she was going to run for the Tory leadership.
	She had an article out back in sort of March, I think around then when she was saying we don't have to listen to kids who want to change pronouns, things like that, teachers don't have to acknowledge it.
	She said actually it's in law that teachers don't have to acknowledge that and she stressed that again recently.
	No, good.
	I mean, I am very much in favour of parents being able to have a say over their children's education.
	I think one of the problems that's led to a lot of these issues with trans ideology, putting books like Gender Queer, etc., Public school libraries has been a lack of say on behalf of the parents.
	But at the same time, I will be happy to see people reject this ideology altogether.
	If these parents want to find a school that supports their ideology, they should be able to, you know, go off and find one.
	But if these schools don't want to support the ideology, then why should I submit to your pronouns?
	I disagree.
	There shouldn't even be schools pushing this ideology.
	Oh no, I agree with that.
	But, you know, if California is going to be California, these people in North Texas, if the parents don't approve these schools, for instance, they can move to California.
	I see what you're saying.
	Get away from the base people.
	Get away from me, Comet.
	Yes, exactly.
	At the end of the day, if it's happening over in California, not my problem.
	And it says, it's the latest move by a school board to more formally exclude transgender youth in schools.
	Ooh, they're being excluded.
	No, they're not.
	They're not being kicked out of class, are they?
	They're just saying, actually, miss, it's Xi.
	And the teacher goes, no, it's not.
	Sit down.
	Yeah, S-T-F-U. Yeah, pretty much.
	And teachers won't be forced to address students by pronouns that match their gender identity, even if a parent asks them to.
	And transgender students will be barred from playing sports if two new policies targeting gender identity are approved on Monday night by the Grapevine Colleyville Independent School District Board.
	And it's the latest...
	I already read that bit.
	The Grapevine Colleyville District...
	Just added two members to its seven-member school board in May.
	Both received donations from the Christian cell phone company Patriot Mobile, which has targeted the defeat of any school board candidate who endorses what they call critical race theory, and ones who support books about LGBTQ identities, saying that kids were exposed to explicit and woke books, which I have covered...
	Plenty, in the course of this show and on Lotus Eater's premium content as well, is absolutely true.
	Genderqueer and other such things are not something that should be presented and supplied to children in schools where they can get it at the age of 8.
	Well, it's 12, actually, I should say, where it's got...
	Graphic images of lesbian sex and people sucking on dildos, etc.
	They're funded by Big Christian Mobile.
	I knew it.
	That's who's behind it all.
	Always the case.
	Always the case.
	Patriot Mobile strikes again!
	The pronoun measured before Greatville, Colleyville ISD states that the district will not promote, require, or encourage the use of titles, yada yada yada.
	Mike Sexton, whose children attend schools in the district, told board members he opposed the proposals.
	You can talk about Santa Claus, but you can't talk about gay people to fifth graders.
	Yes, because one is appropriate and one is not.
	Why are you trying to tell fifth graders, like 10-year-olds, about gay people anyway?
	The most that should happen is...
	Kid puts the hand up.
	Do gay people exist?
	Yes, they do.
	Ask your parents about the rest of it.
	That's one of the worst analogies of all time.
	You can tell them about the Easter Bunny, you can't tell them about anal.
	No, you can't.
	That's correct.
	That is correct.
	Can we say that on this podcast?
	This is a good thing, and yes, we can.
	The ACLU of Texas criticised the proposal, saying they would restrict education on the country's history of racism and lessons that incorporate social-emotional learning.
	Correct.
	Try about it, ACLU. And I found this originally through them sharing this about on Twitter, if you go to the tweet that I sent through.
	And so it's set to vote on the policy, and they say it's violating First Amendment rights, which don't apply in schools, because you're state employees, so you need to do what the state tells you to, and what your school district board tells you to.
	So, doesn't really apply, sorry.
	And this all came out because of a bill in Texas, which I read through a little bit of, which if you go to the next one, which is just an act talking about the curriculum in public schools, including certain instructional requirements and prohibitions.
	And it includes pretty typical stuff if you're, say, a moderate Republican in America, where you're talking about you can't be doing anything on behalf of political activism, lobbying or efforts to persuade members of the legislative executive branch at the federal state or local level to take specific actions by direct communication.
	So you can't encourage and give extra credit to students who go out and push for your political agenda through lobbying and activism, for instance.
	Fine.
	This is a good thing.
	This is a school.
	I mean, I don't know why you would need that in the first place.
	They're saying that the school curriculum also, they should be reading and understand, say, the Declaration of Independence, the Federalist Papers, even excerpts from Alexei de Tocqueville's Democracy in America.
	This is all fine stuff if you want these kids to be able to understand the intellectual tradition that the country comes from so that they don't just grow up hating it when they're inevitably given stuff like the 1619 Project.
	Which tells them to hate it inherently.
	But it also says stuff like, you know, you can't just be discriminatory against race and sex and tell people that there's one race or sex that's superior to another.
	You know, etc, etc, etc.
	It basically just prescribes all of the woke ideology from being pushed in schools.
	And this makes leftists absolutely seethe.
	And as part of that, one of the things that's come off the back of this is that there have been a number of books in schools in America that have meant that you can't read them there.
	You can't read, for instance, genderqueer in certain schools in Virginia and Florida anymore.
	But it's led to a lot of leftists, such as, sadly, Mark Hamill, who is a disgrace and an embarrassment to himself.
	And whenever he tweets, I think the Star Wars original trilogy becomes worse in my eyes every time Mark Hamill tweets.
	A couple of things.
	I think he was broken by The Last Jedi.
	And the fact that he had to pretend it was good, even though he hated it.
	You know what I mean?
	He came out and said sometimes, I don't know what they did with Luke, then he had to pretend to like it, because he was contractually obliged to.
	I think that broke him on some level.
	And when you say the original Star Wars trilogy, quick correction there, there are only three Star Wars movies.
	Oh yeah, I forgot.
	Phantom Menace, Attack of the Clones, and Revenge of the Sith, right?
	How dare you!
	I know it's a tangent, but I don't even acknowledge the other Star Wars movies.
	There's three Star Wars movies, and there's one Matrix movie.
	Done.
	the best way to take it.
	But yeah, Mark Hamill is really stupid in real life, sadly, and he shared out this Florida anti-woke banned book list.
	A couple of them make sense considering Republicans should be terrified their constituents might read 1984.
	And on this book, you can see apparently Florida has banned Harry Potter from schools.
	And to kill a mockingbird and the adventures of Huckleberry Thin, even of mice and men.
	Can you believe it?
	Can you believe that Florida, in banning these books, has literally done just what Hitler did?
	I know.
	It's an amazing projection, isn't it?
	They're like, 1984, they pretend that the Republicans are doing this kind of stuff.
	And it was funny, in the previous bit you said it goes against their First Amendment rights.
	Like, oh, you care about the First Amendment now?
	No, of course you don't.
	You don't care about the Constitution.
	You only invoke it because you know that certain normie Republican normie cons are going to be like, oh no, not my precious principles, not my precious Constitution.
	But you don't actually care about it.
	And didn't kind of Wokies actually ban To Kill a Mockingbird?
	I think they did.
	And then they had something with mice and men recently as well.
	It was like a trigger warning or something.
	Well, that's because I think the N-word is used a few times in Of Mice and Men when they're referring, there's the black worker who's working on the farm with them, isn't there?
	Yeah, but Toby Young was pointing out that the character doing it is not like a paragon of virtue, so in context, he's not going to be a great guy anyway.
	Also, if anything, you're supposed to kind of feel bad for the black guy because they leave him out of everything that they do.
	But no, it turns out, surprisingly enough, that this list is fake.
	Randy Weingarten, who is the president of a massive teachers association, the American Federation of Teachers, which has 1.7 million members, more than half of the total 3.2 million teachers in the US, shared this list out completely unironically.
	Completely without scepticism, saying, oh, can you believe that Florida banned all of these books?
	You know, showing, one, just the general blatant stupidity of these sorts of people, but also, once again, the unions, like so many other institutions, are completely captured by this ideology when it is coming straight from the top down, so it's no wonder that a lot of the teachers' unions in more progressive states have been behind a lot of the pushing of the woke agenda.
	But, overall, so...
	In America, they are actually legislating against it.
	In America, they're not just legislating against it, they're actively taking steps to try and root this out from some schools.
	And I thought to myself, do we have anything like this in the UK? No.
	No, not really.
	Apart from Suella bringing it up, like you were saying, that the teachers don't have to address people by the pronouns, we don't have any strong gatekeepers against this ideology in UK schools.
	And one of the particular bad examples of this, as with everything bad that happens in the UK, is Scotland, where I saw this particular video going out where a student was kicked out of class by a teacher for saying there are only two genders.
	And let's just play this clip.
	Can I change my sentence please?
	Not very inclusive.
	No, I'm sorry, what you were saying was not very inclusive.
	And this is an inclusive school.
	Yeah, how is what I was saying?
	Because I was saying that the normal website is that there are more than one gender in this country.
	Well, that's your opinion.
	That is my opinion, and that is an opinion which is acceptable in the school.
	I'm afraid yours, which you're saying that there's no such thing as anyone other than male or female, is not inclusive.
	Scientifically, there are just two genders.
	I get it.
	You are choosing to make an issue of this, because I said, are you really going to go?
	That was your opportunity to keep quiet.
	You made the issue with it on the website.
	You said, oh, this website doesn't have more than two...
	Murray, you were clearly given an opportunity not to pursue it.
	You chose to do so.
	Yeah, because I think it's silly.
	You chose to do so.
	Yes, that's the key question.
	You chose to do so.
	I think it's silly to have anything other than two genders.
	Okay.
	Anything else is personal.
	Could you please keep that opinion to your own house?
	Thank you.
	I mean, the absurdity of it.
	The absolute absurdity of it.
	You say that only two genders means that you're not being inclusive, and that has become something of a magic word, hasn't it?
	If you're not inclusive, that's just a blank check.
	We can do whatever awful stuff that we want to you.
	We can kick you out of class, we can kick you out of anything.
	Did you see the tweet the other day to the comedian Matt Ford, who was complaining about the rubbish in Edinburgh because I'm on a bin strike, and a Scottish person replied to him and basically said, F off back to England.
	This is an inclusive, progressive country.
	Oh, my God.
	Yeah, that's right.
	So inclusive.
	We're Scottish.
	We're used to living in our own filth.
	Thank you very much.
	Yeah, I just love that he used that.
	And this guy here is sort of a classic low-T male, has sort of adopted this stuff.
	Murray sounds very based.
	Young man just going, it's nonsense.
	You can hear the deep voice right there.
	This is rubbish.
	That's what we need young men for, to just say no, this is absolute balls.
	Absolutely the right thing to do to just stand up to these teachers, yes.
	But we do have some pushback against some things.
	For instance, the Brighton schools are being investigated because of...
	I mean, are we surprised?
	Brighton, of all places, one of the wokest cities in England, of course they're teaching this sort of stuff, and whether even there is an investigation into it, because they are looking into it by the sounds of it, there's probably not going to be anything that comes out of it.
	It really is there.
	We're starting to be aware of these things.
	Kemi Bainnox pointed some of them out.
	Liz Truss has tried to do some things.
	But like you say, the pushback isn't there yet.
	But I wonder if we've imported the culture war from America to a large degree, will we now import the rebellion against it?
	I can only hope so.
	I certainly do hope so.
	But when it comes to actions being taken by the Conservative government that we've got now, I don't see them as having anywhere near the willpower to be able to actually put their foot down about this.
	Especially when we can push back a bit against critical race theory, especially given that the whole premise of it doesn't fit in England.
	Because we don't, shockingly enough, we don't have the same racial history as America, but, you know, people try and pretend like we do anyway.
	But one of the interesting things is even if you do want to push against gender ideology in the schools, it's basically there in curriculum guidance and legislation that you can't.
	Because I found this, the Plan Your Relationships, Sex and Health curriculum on here from the Department of Education, and this still applies...
	It has a big section through here.
	One, you're forced to have to let the schools teach your kids about relationships.
	I don't know why.
	That seems really inappropriate to me.
	When I've got kids, I don't want schools teaching them about relationships.
	Sex education, especially when I was a kid, is okay enough if it's at the appropriate age because there's a biological aspect to it that I, as a parent, may not be able to explain as well.
	But relationships?
	I would ban it all.
	Yeah.
	That's fair.
	That's fair.
	Or the clothes they prefer to wear.
	So it's basically just this big disclaimer saying, like, don't force them into the ideology.
	Don't force them into these preset gender categories just because off of the back of stereotypes.
	And so I was like, okay, so there's a big section here about what they shouldn't do.
	That's great.
	So we can push back against it, right?
	Except for one thing.
	You can see in this next link here where it says schools are required to teach, and this is absolutely mandatory, relationship education for all primary age pupils, relationships and sexual education for all secondary age pupils, health education for all pupils in state-funded schools only, and they say health education for all pupils in state-funded schools only, and they say here as well that all pupils should receive teaching on lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender relationships during their
	Secondary schools should include LGBT content in their teaching, primary schools are strongly encouraged and enabled when teaching about different types of family to include families with same-sex parents.
	This is all...
	Unnecessary.
	This is all highly inappropriate.
	And if the Conservatives want somewhere where they can actually push back against this ideology, literally just remove this entire section.
	Do not mandate this.
	If you're going to recognise that this ideology is dangerous and harmful to children, don't also mandate that the schools have to teach it.
	It's ridiculous and absurd.
	Appalling.
	I mean, firstly, what is relationships education exactly?
	Why is it?
	And it's primary school kids, so that's young.
	So you want to know what that entails.
	Probably before the age that most of these kids are even thinking about relationships like that.
	Right.
	And then the fact that it says LGBT, I mean, that's already ideological.
	Lots of gay people famously don't agree with the LGBT. That's why they've got the LGBT alliance.
	Groomers slash groomers.
	So this is just simply saying, you know, forcing ideology onto kids as young as possible.
	It is ridiculous, but yes, Conservatives, if you're out there watching, then maybe you should think about repealing this part of what the curriculum mandates, because if you want to actually make a stand and push back against this stuff, you can't also mandate it at the same time.
	There we go.
	Is that the end of your depressing section?
	Classically.
	Oh, of this depressing section, yes.
	Classic Harry stuff.
	Alright, let's move on to my not-quite-as-depressing section.
	Kind of white pill?
	Yeah, it's bordering on that.
	Women take responsibility challenge.
	Impossible.
	I've called it the slow death of feminism, quite optimistically.
	It's a slow death, because I thought, okay, feminism's dying, because all these articles and pieces keep coming out and videos that made me think this.
	Then I realised, reading up on them, it's a slow death, but it is happening.
	And by the way, just a quick disclaimer, if you're at home thinking, Nick, you're just an old crank who hates women, why do we care about your views?
	I'd say, absolutely.
	But I've brought Harry in as the young, sort of Aryan masculine ideal, loved by all women, and I'm predicting he'll agree with me.
	I'd probably go even further knowing Harry.
	I am engaged, so I do have quite a lot of experience with women up close and personal.
	There you go.
	I have, but I've given up.
	You've taken the gay pill, have you?
	How dare you?
	I've gone MGTOW before it was even a thing.
	But anyway, who cares about me?
	The point is, feminism's dying.
	And this came from a Bridget Phetasy article called I Regret Being a Slut.
	But actually, before this article came out, a couple of weeks ago, there was this interesting video which I thought added more context from this Shannon McKayla, a young girl who's kind of known for shooting a picture of Joe Rogan's face with her feet, shooting an arrow.
	I've never heard of this person.
	She's on Instagram.
	She sort of...
	I don't know how...
	If she's on like a unicycle, then with her feet, she shoots a bow and arrow at Joe Rogan's face.
	I'm like...
	Quite a good bid to go viral.
	I mean, it's got everything you need.
	That's really impressive, if nothing else.
	You know, I reckon Joe Rogan would probably see that himself and go, I'd like to go elk hunting with this woman.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	And from that, she does all this yoga stuff, but then she also does really based videos like the following, if we can play this.
	Feminism is a scam.
	A few years ago, I was an angry, blue-haired feminist.
	I once believed that male privilege was real, and that I was a victim of the wage gap.
	Now that I understand the true motives of feminism, I know that this could not be further from the truth, and that modern-day feminism is a war on true masculinity.
	Before women had the right to vote, most were stay at home wives, which meant they weren't working jobs and couldn't be taxed.
	Our overlords didn't like that.
	Rockefeller started funding feminist campaigns in media, and as a consequence of the movement, women started entering the workforce and leaving the home.
	Children would then be separated from their parents.
	And sent to Rockefeller-funded schools to be indoctrinated by the state.
	All of this ultimately disrupting the family unit at its core.
	Feminism is defined as the belief in social, economic, and political equality of the sexes.
	But in the West, I must ask, what rights do men have that women don't?
	Modern feminists are convincing women that hook-up culture, using hormonal birth control, and not shaving is liberation.
	That toxic masculinity is prevalent and the patriarchy must be dismantled.
	Through movies and media, we're taught that working for the man, climbing the corporate ladder, and paying tax is more empowering and valuable than raising the next generation.
	Women have lost touch with our natural loving instincts, and birth rates are plummeting.
	Men and women are not the same.
	And by protesting for equality of outcome rather than opportunity, feminists are demonizing and emasculating men.
	Nice.
	Alright, that was slightly longer than I remembered, but slightly cooler soundtrack as well.
	I just want to say, the Rockefeller part aside, which she's been down some rabbit holes there, but the idea that feminism is...
	It's probably true.
	A lot of those sorts of, what are they, foundations of the Rockefellers and, say, the Henry Ford Foundation, as soon as the person who originally created them dies, the rest of the family just takes them over and uses them for insidious political agendas.
	All right, well, it may or may not be true.
	I can't comment.
	But that part aside, the idea that corporations are exploiting women's labour is one you'll find in, like, Peter Hitchens' The Abolition of Britain.
	So this is kind of an old-school, traditional, conservative attitude.
	And for a young lady that young to sort of pick up on it, that kind of shows where we are.
	It's kind of becoming kind of cool, right?
	And maybe she's been reading some Peter Hitchens.
	Who knows?
	Maybe that's what convinced her.
	She'd probably watch my Lotus Eater segment on him, but...
	But, so, that was interesting, just some context, that came out two weeks ago, but then even more recently, last week was this Bridget Phetasy piece called I Regret Being a Slut, which is kind of the same thing, but a more gentle, she goes sort of half red-pilled version.
	Ben Shapiro praised this and called it a beautiful piece and spiritual and all this.
	He went a bit too far, it's not quite as good as he says, but it is quite good.
	I've read this already, and I think it's spoilers for our views on this, but you seem to have been a little bit harder on the entirety of it than I was, but I thought for the most part it was a good article, right up until the end, where she kind of does a 180 on everything she said up until that point.
	Yeah, well let's find out.
	So she says, Okay, so she's coming out and using the word slut.
	I'm grateful for the ability to control my reproductive cycle and make my own money, but that freedom has come at a price.
	The dark side of the sexual revolution is that even though it liberated women, unyoking sex from consequences has primarily benefited men.
	So she's still clinging to the idea that it's freedom.
	So she hasn't gone as far as the other girl in the video, because that is questionable.
	But she admits it's worked out better for men, and we could really go further and say probably just a few Tinder bros.
	I mean, you know, it's absolutely true.
	I mean, I come from a place that was a relatively insular, small community in Cheshire.
	And you do see a lot of the women who have taken this sexual revolution attitude towards their sexual conquest do end up really horribly miserable with the state of their lives.
	And then there's, like you say, two or three Tinder bros walking around town like peacocks and stuff, you know, knowing that they can get their strut on whenever they want because all these women have been convinced that sleeping with them unquestioningly is empowering in some way.
	Yeah, you get this Pareto distribution.
	Anyway, she says, if I'm honest with myself, of the dozens of men I've been with, at least the ones I remember, I can only think of a handful I don't regret.
	And I'll skip a bit.
	She goes, if I get really honest with myself, I'd say more of these drunken encounters left me feeling empty and demoralized and worthless.
	I wouldn't have said that at the time, though.
	At the time, I would have told you I was liberated, even while I had to drink away the sick feeling of rejection when my most recent hookup didn't call me back.
	At the time, I'd have said my one-night stands made me feel emboldened.
	In reality, I was using sex like a drug, trying unsuccessfully to fill a hole inside me with men, pun intended.
	I know regretting most of my sexual encounters is not something a sex-positive feminist who used to write a column for Playboy is supposed to admit, and for years I didn't.
	Let me be clear, being a slut and sleeping with a lot of men is not the only behaviour I regret.
	Even more damaging was what I told myself in order to justify the fact that I was disposable to these men.
	I told myself I didn't care.
	The lie I told myself for decades was, I'm not in pain, I'm empowered.
	So it's good that she's admitted that, and it's brave writing and all that, but she's not all the way red pill.
	She's still calling herself a sex-positive feminist, whatever that is.
	It's quite sad to read this because, yeah, it must be quite depressing to think that you have slept with all of these men and you've just been nothing but a throwaway shag for them.
	just another notch on the bedpost to tell your friends...
	I think she mentions later on, without spoiling too much, that, yeah, I'm just a guy.
	I'm just someone they slept with to them.
	That's all I am.
	I'm a conquest.
	But also, it really shows that this whole, oh, I'm emboldened, I'm liberated by this.
	It says exactly what we've been all thinking the whole time, which is that's just cope.
	It's just massive cope.
	Yeah, and she's doing better now.
	She's got her second husband.
	She's got a kid, which we'll get on to.
	But yeah, so she's...
	But anyway, she's acknowledging her past, but she's not as red pill as that girl at the start.
	And you can tell because she still has to have a pop at Christianity and Catholicism specifically.
	She says, long before I ever had sex, I felt ashamed of my natural sexual urges and awkward in my blossoming female body.
	Growing up Catholic, all I remember about sex was feeling bad about it before I even knew what it was.
	I only knew that sex before marriage was wrong.
	Even the thought of a sexual act or masturbation filled me with debilitating guilt.
	The first time I kissed a boy, I was convinced I'd be punished, struck down by an angry misogynistic god.
	As I got older, I was told to guard my virginity.
	Well-meaning mothers and aunts were clear that I needed to withhold sex in order to get a man to love and respect me.
	Fact check, true.
	The sex was...
	With the Catholic thing, I will say, I don't know if that's just necessarily going to be just a standard affair Christianity bashing, because I don't know what this woman's background is like.
	Perhaps there was a very strict element to that that might have warped her perspective.
	Yeah, you're being more generous than me.
	Sex was a commodity, a priceless gem I had to hang on to that increased in value the longer I held it.
	It made me feel like property.
	And although I don't think that was the intention of the wise women who had learned their own lessons the hard way, for me, sex became inextricably linked with my self-worth.
	So I found that interesting for two reasons.
	One, Leila Halepern just did an interesting piece defending Andrew Tate where she said she liked the thought of being property.
	It was based bordering on trolling.
	It was like...
	Andrew says women are property, but I like that idea because it means that men will look after me like they look after their property.
	Well, that's the fun thing, though, isn't it?
	It's like, well, yeah, if you're my property, all of a sudden I'm invested in looking after you.
	I've got a monetary and emotional investment, whereas if you're just somebody who's going to fly away with the wind whenever the mood takes you, it's like, what investment do I have?
	It's one argument, but you can see why that's going to attract some criticism.
	Women know your place.
	But I knew Harry would be more misogynist than me.
	There it is.
	But the second part I thought was interesting there is that she's saying that sex is being linked with self-worth.
	I would say that actually it's just restraint, discipline, delayed gratification of being linked with self-worth.
	In a sense, self-worth itself engenders further self-worth.
	So, you know, if certain behaviours...
	Indicate self-worth to yourself.
	It's not really that sex is being linked, but that's my take on that.
	No, I agree with you, and I would say, you know, it's not necessarily fair that this is the case, but we all recognise it innately, that yes, for women, sex can be an element of your self-worth, as she states throughout this.
	Yeah, and she goes on and says, the shame and guilt I grew up with regarding sex felt oppressive.
	I resented the double standard that men could be promiscuous and it would raise their status and a woman would be slut-shamed for similar behaviour.
	Kind of tough, really.
	I mean, all you can say to that is, resent it all you want, but women have certain advantages, men have certain advantages, you know, if you call it that.
	And like we said, it's not all men, but...
	That's one of them.
	I don't have anybody offering to pay me to just clean the house all day and raise the kids and I'll just get everything else paid for me.
	Right.
	And slut shame, as she talks about there, she'll be slut shame for her behaviour.
	I've always thought slut shame is there to protect women and often it's women that do it.
	Because if you think about it in the past, if a woman was thought to be promiscuous, she would struggle to get married and she would struggle to have a nice life and she had to at that point get married.
	There's a clear reason for that as well.
	As a man, why are you going to make the investment like that on a woman who you don't know if she's going to remain entirely faithful to you?
	That was another part of it.
	But if she couldn't get married, she was financially dependent.
	So actually, it was to protect women in that sense.
	And now it exists for the same reason, not the same in that women can make their own money, but in that if a woman is perceived to be promiscuous, it will put men off marrying her.
	Now, the thing is, whether you like that or not, I'll say it's right.
	That is the case.
	That's just hardwired into us.
	So in a sense, slut-shaming is that I've always thought to protect women.
	Anyway, that's my take on that.
	But she said, My burgeoning sexuality would unfold as a reaction to these repressive religious orthodoxies, old school notions of sexual status and trauma.
	So, to me there, you see, she's rebelling against so-called repressive religion and the so-called patriarchy, which is the old school notions of sexual status.
	And she's also buying into the sort of therapy language of trauma, which is fair enough, when the piece goes on, you see she has some reason for that.
	But, you know, she's to some degree rebelling against God and I will say that trauma, hearing that word, has itself become traumatic to me because I think the word itself has been so overused and devalued that whenever I hear the word trauma I just think, okay, woman complaining.
	That's what I think.
	You're triggered by her trauma.
	I am.
	Absolutely.
	Except unlike them, I have a reason for it.
	I'm legit.
	You might feel slightly bad now because the next section says, I lost my virginity at 17 to my boss at a restaurant where I worked, and a year later I experienced my first sexual trauma.
	I felt damaged and dirty and blamed myself.
	Everyone responds differently to these situations.
	I dealt with the overwhelming shame by becoming hypersexual and promiscuous.
	Obviously that's a terrible thing to happen, but that's why I'm always really annoyed about the overuse of trauma, because it really does devalue the word when it should be kept to terrible stuff like that happening.
	Yeah, and I wonder, is that really a causal link?
	But I know people get molested and they become ultra-sexual, so maybe, I don't know.
	It can warp some people's perspective on these things.
	Yeah, she goes, the culture was right there to pick me up and dust me off.
	I doubled down on being a proud slut and internalised the biggest and most damaging lie that loveless sex is empowering.
	I basked in the girl power glow of that delusion for decades, weaponising my sexuality while convincing myself I was full of the divine feminine.
	I was full of shit.
	Boom.
	So I love that bit because especially the most damaging lie that loveless sex is empowering.
	I mean, for men, it might be in the sense of ego and status, maybe.
	But for women, it just basically isn't.
	And maybe that lie is persisted because, you know, women have deceived each other about that.
	Because men can't really deceive each other.
	We just get our balls busted or we just get a slap.
	Yeah, yeah.
	I think what's happened is that, like everything else with feminism, it ended up turning what was a women's liberation movement into just an outright competition for everything against men.
	In every male behaviour, women had to be even more masculine and do it better than men.
	And if men are known for being philanderers who go off and sleep with loads of random women, then women have got to do that, except even more.
	We've got to be even sluttier than the sluttiest men.
	Yeah.
	Well, that's my favorite bit of the piece.
	She just admits outright she fell for this lie.
	I love the sex is empowering.
	She says, I told myself that because I could seduce a man, I was powerful.
	But as Perry says in her book, women can all too easily fail to recognize that being desired is not the same thing as being held in high esteem.
	Now, here I have a slight disagreement because I think there is a certain power that beauty is a certain power.
	But it's just what you do with it, isn't it?
	If it's something precious that you've got, it's about not misusing it, surely.
	And if something's powerful, like a nuclear weapon, you don't use it all the time.
	You're just appealing to responsibility again, personal responsibility.
	Yeah, but I don't necessarily think there's anything wrong with, like, I think you're going to be decided, is that necessarily the problem?
	Anyway, so maybe that's pedantic, but this bit's interesting.
	But as a defense mechanism, I crafted a man-eater persona.
	My mantles were rigid.
	You can either have a career or a relationship, but you can't have both.
	Intimacy is creepy.
	Motherhood and children are a trap.
	Sex is only about power.
	Another set of lies built on lies built on trauma.
	Again, is it really from trauma though?
	I know plenty of people who haven't been through trauma who still believe these sorts of things, but I can see how if you've been through some kind of horrible sexual experience how you might start to believe something like intimacy being creepy.
	Well, if you go through them, I think most of them come from the culture, like the idea that you have to choose between a Korean relationship.
	Well, actually, that one might even be true.
	There might be something behind that one.
	Intimacy is creepy.
	That might be the trauma one.
	Motherhood and children are a trap.
	That comes from the leftist culture.
	Sex is only about power.
	It's leftism 101.
	They think everything is.
	There's leftism 101, but also, once again, I can see how that would be appealing to somebody who, for instance, had been the victim of sexual assault in the past.
	Yeah, that's fair enough.
	Yeah, the career relationship dichotomy is probably true.
	It's a well-documented fact that women who go off and have children when they're trying to work on a career will face immense difficulties trying to climb the career ladder, whereas women who don't go off and have children and just continue the career forever until they die tend to actually have better results in terms of wages overall than men at similar places in the career.
	And motherhood and children are a trap.
	Once again, Leftist nonsense.
	Yeah.
	And this bit's quite odd.
	She says, well, this bit's true.
	She goes, sex isn't just about power.
	It's also about intimacy and vulnerability and trust, things I wanted nothing to do with.
	Because implicit in modern dating is a complete lack of expectations, especially those of chivalry.
	Whenever a man wanted to pick up the tab or pull out the chair or open the book or pick me up or take me to dinner or see me during the day or wait longer than the first date to have sex, I was shocked and suspicious of them.
	Was he a serial killer?
	That's insane.
	The level of brainwashing of the upside-down, libtard world there is amazing.
	You think this is weird behaviour?
	No, once again, all of the behaviour that she's describing throughout this is stuff that I have seen in many people of my generation.
	Perhaps it's because you're a bit older than me.
	I'm a boomer.
	Yeah, because you're a bit boomer.
	But sadly, everything that she's describing here is true.
	I've spoken to friends who've started to speak to somebody online, and she'll say, oh, he wants to meet with me during the day just so we can meet up and have a conversation.
	What does he want?
	What does he want out of it?
	And it's because of that feminist idea that everything between a man and a woman is purely transactional.
	It's a zero-sum game.
	So if he wants to do something with me, he just must want something out of it.
	Right, right, yeah.
	It's interesting how things have got even worse.
	Now, so I found that bit particularly strange.
	But she says, let me just get to the correct next bit.
	Oh yeah, she says, casual sex is fraught with insecurity and communication.
	Intimacy and love are punchlines.
	When a man I slept with had the curiosity to reach out, I mistook relief for happiness, rewiring my brain to be grateful for the bare minimum.
	The saddest realisation is how low I set the bar.
	The lifetime of allowing myself to be the other woman taken for granted or treated like a doormat under the false pretense of being empowered came to a head one night with the arrival of a text message from an on-again, off-again lover.
	Good night, baby, I love you, it said, quickly followed by wrong person.
	Harsh.
	Yeah, to be honest, the fact that she's got a background in stand-up comedy doesn't surprise me, because a lot of girls are like this in comedy.
	Especially in this sort of open-minded world, they sleep with everyone, and they tell the audience these stories about explicit or...
	About how they've just been thrown under the bus.
	Yeah, horrible things that have happened to them, and quite explicit acts and everything.
	And the audience is just uncomfortable.
	They turn their entire life into the punchline.
	Yeah, it's sad.
	Yeah, you're right.
	When your entire life is the punchline, it's not funny anymore.
	It's just depressing.
	Not really.
	And she says, And let's be honest, you know, they're probably not, you know, they don't have any deep happiness that they're working towards either.
	Yeah, I wouldn't like to speak for them, but it might be great, but I don't know.
	Then she does a sort of bit where she covers her ass a bit, saying, I'm not speaking for all women, which I'm going to skip.
	There's a more interesting part about a theory on transition, but it only really works for transitioning one way, of course.
	But she says, maybe it's the inevitable conclusion to the sexual revolution.
	Today's youth are being fed an even more dangerous lie than the one I was fed about loveless sex.
	I was told sex doesn't matter.
	They're being told biology doesn't matter.
	This is a tragedy.
	I suppose the through-line there is just the escalating leftist cultural revolution of permissiveness that wants to break down all taboos.
	The thing is, I have thought this myself as well, and I can see the through-line that goes there.
	Young girls taught from a very young age.
	Men are only going to try and take advantage of you.
	Men are all evil.
	Men are strong.
	Men will earn more than you just because of the fact that they're men.
	Your life is going to be miserable.
	You're going to end up chained down to some baby who ends up being ungrateful and doesn't love you.
	I can understand why there is such an explosion of young girls going, actually, I'm a boy.
	Yeah.
	She says, I'm not suggesting we return to some Victorian-era notion of sex or some 1950s-era ideal about gender roles.
	That's where you lose us on this show.
	And she says she'd tell her daughter, sex can be empowering when you're coming from a position of healthy self-esteem.
	Now, to me...
	That's such a cop-out.
	It's such a cop-out.
	Well, to me, the problem is she's continuing to perpetuate the language of feminism and the left.
	Like, why does it have to be empowering?
	Like, she's established out the piece that actually it's about love and an intimate relationship.
	Why does it have to be about power?
	Like, is watching Netflix together empowering?
	I don't understand why it has to be empowering.
	No, it can just be nice.
	Right, right.
	That's all you need.
	Also, once again, that's basically saying, okay, sex can be empowering when you're coming from a position of healthy self-esteem.
	That just perpetuates everything that she just said that was a bad idea for her.
	If you convince yourself it's a good idea, and it's actually in your best interest, then it's fine.
	That's what she's saying.
	Be a whore as long as you feel good about it, at the end here.
	Right, and we'll go into that more because she says, if you're coming from a place of trauma or insecurity, casual sex won't heal that.
	In fact, it might set you back and undermine any progress regarding your feelings of self-worth.
	If you know your value, you're less likely to sleep with someone who doesn't value you, cherish yourself, and you will be cherished.
	Well, the last bit's fine.
	Yeah, that's all fine.
	But, well, the only thing about it is it's not some subjective feeling, to me, born out of therapy.
	It's through the objective actions.
	Like, in this case, not sleeping around.
	Thus, the action, as I said before, indicates to yourself that you have value.
	Rather than a subjective inner feeling.
	If you meet a woman and for whatever reason it gets onto the conversation and she goes like oh by the way I've slept with 50 guys and the question on a man's mind is not oh do you still feel like you've got high self-esteem though?
	That's not the question on a man's mind.
	The question on a man's mind is okay how do I get away from you?
	Yeah, I mean, she goes into it more, she says, you shouldn't have to withhold sex for a man to respect you.
	He should respect you regardless.
	Now, certainly we should be polite to people, but the idea about, Peterson talked about this, about compelled speech, and that you can't force someone to respect you.
	Actually, a woman earns respect in the same way as a man, through their actions, right, and the indicators of those actions.
	So men, for example, aren't respected if they're lazy.
	So we can't really just sit around on the sofa in a string rest, watching soap operas in the day, shooting up heroin, going...
	Hey, you know, respect me.
	Someone could even love you, but they couldn't respect you.
	So actually, I'm not sure about this thing about inherent...
	I don't know.
	I just think your actions dictate you.
	I think you're right there.
	And further on this point, sexual empowerment has nothing to do with how many people you do or don't sleep with.
	It has to do with how comfortable you are in your own skin, no matter your decision.
	And again, I disagree.
	I'm like...
	Firstly, the idea is she can't let go of this sexual empowerment thing.
	So she's only halfway, like I say, red pill.
	What is this sexual empowerment thing?
	Surely you just let go of that idea.
	Also, this idea of being comfortable in your own skin.
	I mean, what does that really mean?
	It's very subjective.
	Let's say you've slept with loads of guys and you're comfortable with it and that probably comes across in some way.
	That's better than not being comfortable because you can't go back in time and change it.
	So you may as well be comfortable, I suppose.
	But it still doesn't trump just not doing it in the first place.
	Yeah, it still doesn't mean that people have to respect you because, oh, at least she feels good about herself.
	Right.
	And I don't know how much time we've got because I'm going over.
	Well, it's fine.
	Because it's quite a long article.
	The ending is key, though.
	We're almost finished, so we might as well finish it off.
	Okay.
	So she says, it's not about waiting until you're in love to have sex.
	It's about making sure that first you love yourself.
	I mean, I think, why not both?
	Again, if forced to choose, maybe I go with the first one because it'll lead to the second one.
	It's an action, not a nebulous feeling.
	But why not have both?
	Don't ignore that nagging gut instinct.
	Telling you sexual liberation leaves you feeling unfulfilled, you can still be sex positive and accept that for you sex can't be liberated from intimacy and a meaningful relationship.
	Again, she's a lib on the fence.
	She's realised sexual liberation is bollocks, no pun intended, but she's still using lefty terms like sex positive, right?
	She's come on to an enlightened centrist position, which is just regretful leftist.
	Yeah.
	Hey, it's still all great, guys, but I know she can't quite go all the way.
	Here she goes, though.
	She says, I regret being a slut.
	I regret it because I regret that those men can say they slept with me.
	Still, that's how I know I finally value myself.
	Every woman should feel this way.
	Sleeping with me is a privilege, and you have to be worthy.
	And this is the ending that we discussed absolutely sucks, because she goes full Tommy Lahren, boss bitch.
	Ultimately, you realise the piece might just be a long justification of what the red pill world would call ASD, which they call it anti-slut defence, if you go for this kind of thing.
	Which happens to women as they get older, and they so-called hit the wall, which happens at 30.
	And all of a sudden, all of these gangs of men don't want to sleep with them anymore.
	Well, right.
	And it happens, Bridget, who wrote this article, is over 40, which is the entertainment world equivalent of 30.
	But...
	In the Red Pill world, if you believe that stuff, they sort of have the party ears and they hit the wall and then they're like, I don't just want to sleep with everyone.
	And when you look at the ending there, you realise, oh, she's just saying, like, the bar's going to be slightly higher.
	It's going to be slightly harder to sleep with her.
	And also, she has a husband.
	Why is she even talking about future men passing this hypothetical sex test?
	You have to be worthy.
	Like you said, she's still a lib on the fence, so what's happened here is she's still got to use the language of, I am a strong, independent queen.
	So, hence, you have to be worthy.
	You have to bow down before your queen.
	Even if you've got no respect and no interest.
	Exactly.
	So like you say, there are some good parts of the article.
	I had high hopes for it as a red pill takedown of feminist, the sort of feminist lie of sexual liberation.
	But it only tiptoes into that and is largely just a self-help narrative of hitting the wall after the party is.
	But it's a start, you know what I mean?
	It's a bit of a mixed bag, but it does have some good lessons in there for younger women if they read this.
	Yeah, and it's just weird that it came out at this time, and another article came out.
	If you want the kind of flip side to this piece, one that totally buys into the idea that random sex and cheating is awesome empowerment, you should check out this horrific piece, we don't have time for, from Rebecca Wool, called, It's been weeks since my husband's death and I've never felt more alive.
	They're selling this as, like, extraordinary honesty.
	What it is, it's absolutely horrific.
	There's a bit in it where she said she cheated two years into her marriage and then repeatedly with different people throughout the marriage.
	Wait, did he know before he died?
	I think he did.
	He did, yeah.
	And then she says, here's a quote, The moment Hal died, I opened up again.
	The moment his life force left his body, I felt something happen to mine.
	Something was stirring in me.
	Almost everything I was feeling felt impossible to say out loud.
	I was angry.
	I was relieved.
	I was turned on.
	I was a psychopath is the bit she leaves out.
	I know.
	Gentlemen, I am so sorry to inform you.
	Women...
	I know, I know.
	And you should...
	I went on her Instagram, did a bit of digging.
	She had all the classic, I'm vaccinated, BLM, all this.
	Slipped into her DMs, did you?
	Well, you had to after the article.
	But what...
	The reason...
	This article is an interesting contrast is it's the unfettered horrors of sexual liberation and someone who's just still saying, this is great, guys.
	It's like...
	No, no, it's psychopathic and horrific in every way.
	So my conclusion is, from all these pieces, that feminism is dying.
	The young lady at the start grasped it much quicker because perhaps she's younger, less conditioned.
	But judging from these other pieces, it's going to be a slow and very painful death.
	Yes.
	I think with that young girl at the beginning, what's happened is that she wasn't a slut, so she doesn't have to retroactively go back and try and justify it.
	Right, right.
	She was briefly a blue-haired feminist for like a summer, and she was not doing that anymore.
	And then she looked around and went, why are all my friends fat and insufferable?
	And decided to change course.
	She looked in the mirror, hang on, I'm beautiful.
	She's like, what am I doing?
	Moving on, we've not got much time, so this won't be too long of a segment, but let's take a look at what's behind the cost of living crisis.
	Now, people tell you all over, you know, it's this, it's that, it's this, it's that, but there are a few things that I think can be pretty clear as to causing some of the massive price shocks that We're experiencing, especially in the UK. I've just noticed as well that this premium video that I'm about to plug for everybody has 666 views on it currently, so maybe you shouldn't go and watch it actually, because that's just kind of cool as a metalhead.
	Before I go into anything further, I'll just point to you to this recent premium video that just came out yesterday where Josh and I discussed the politics of Fight Club, which was something inspired to me recently when I did a segment on people working in Silicon Valley jobs at LinkedIn and such who just are basically pets.
	They're owned by these corporations.
	They have no purpose in life.
	They spend all of their waking time at work with these people.
	And they don't even really do any work.
	And it's miserable and depressing from what I can see.
	And they're putting all of it out on social media as though, you know, this is the most fulfilling life ever.
	And it brought to mind Fight Club.
	And I thought, yeah, let's just have a discussion of it.
	Because, you know, people, Josh and I discussed, people kind of get Fight Club wrong on both sides.
	It's not...
	Purely about, oh, look at all of these people basically radicalising themselves into becoming white supremacists, which is what some people suggest, because they all end up shaving their heads.
	Oh, this means that they're a Nazi insurgency group.
	No, that's not it at all.
	But also, if you're looking to regain an element of your masculinity, perhaps just keep it to the fight club element.
	Don't go off and do any terrorist attacks.
	I know.
	Brave words coming from me.
	Don't be a terrorist.
	Well, maybe don't go too far.
	I'm definitely going to watch that because Fight Club's a seminal movie of my generation.
	I'm surprised you've heard of it.
	How are you?
	1999, wasn't it?
	My era.
	I was three.
	Wow, that's disgusting.
	It is.
	It really is.
	But yeah, no, Fight Club's a fantastic film.
	Had a really good chat about it with Josh, so check that out if you're a premium member.
	And if you're not, subscribe and check it out because we've got loads of fantastic content on the website.
	Anyway, so...
	One of the biggest parts of the cost of living crisis that we're all feeling the squeeze right now from is energy bills increasing.
	I'm sure you've probably felt this.
	I've felt it.
	Everybody's felt it.
	Prices keep going up.
	And there are a number of suggestions being thrown out by the media and so-called experts as to why the prices are going up, including the old chestnut, the classic, it's just greedy corporations.
	Have you heard that one?
	British Gas, all these companies, they're just evil.
	They're just evil taking advantage of the situation and making it so that you have to pay more because they want to profit more.
	That's the only factor influencing it.
	Not passing on the profits is something I've heard a lot.
	Yeah, stuff like that.
	And in that situation, you can only ever ask the question of, well, if they're so greedy, why is it only now they've done it?
	Why didn't 20 years ago they decide it was £3 million a month for electricity if they were just greedy looking to get as much money as possible?
	Because Klaus Schwab wasn't telling them to then.
	Well, Klaus Schwab certainly wasn't as influential.
	Well, maybe he was.
	Maybe we should go...
	Digging back in that era as well.
	But no, there are obviously economic factors that play into this.
	One of those mainly being the massive sanctions placed on Russia due to the aggression against Ukraine, the invasion of Ukraine, which of course I don't support Russia invading Ukraine.
	I think it's a very bad thing.
	And I support the people of Ukraine fighting for their freedom, as is their right to do so.
	However, I don't see that it's any of our business beyond that.
	Beyond just throwing out a few, you know, obviously Russia invading is a bad thing, I don't see much of England's involvement in this at all, especially when it turns out we're screwing ourselves over to fight against Russia, because basically the West, America and England and such are fighting a proxy war against Russia by just continually arming Ukraine.
	Yeah, I'm just letting you throw yourself under the bus and not saying anything.
	But I like that you got your disclaimer, like, I'm not pro-Putin.
	I've seen your Putin t-shirt, but...
	You weren't supposed to mention that, Nick!
	God damn it!
	But yeah, so one of the big things that I can see, being a big obvious one, which is that for the first time...
	As far as I'm aware ever or since we started recording these sorts of things, Britain has imported no energy from Russia for the first month on record as UK gas production rises 26%.
	So Britain imported no fuel from Russia for the first time in June, according to official data, and the UK's import of all goods from the sanctioned state fell to their lowest level as restrictions were imposed on Russian firms and individuals, as noted by the Office for National Statistics.
	Just £33 million worth of goods were imported from Russia in June, which was down 96.6% compared with the average monthly rate before the invasion of Ukraine.
	So that's a gigantic drop.
	That's just straight off the edge of a cliff right there.
	There were no imports of gas, oil, or coal, and in 2021, Russia was the country's largest supplier of refined oil.
	But since Vladimir Putin attacked Ukraine, the government has banned the import of certain products and hiked tariffs on others.
	Business Secretary Quasi Quatering said UK gas production rose 26% in the first half of 2020, boosting energy security.
	But obviously not enough though.
	Whatever we've boosted right here is not enough to make up for what we're losing out on due to all of these sanctions with Russia.
	No, it'd be a great thing if we had planned, because we could be energy self-sufficient in theory, but obviously it's too late now.
	Fracking and offshore ventures and such have been shut down by the government due to net zero targets and potential effects done to the environment.
	So people who are going to throw out and say, like, oh, net zero's not done anything to affect it, obviously it has.
	Don't lie.
	Stop being delusional.
	But, I mean, my question would be, if I, for instance, if I sell fish, and I get my fish from a number of different producers, from a bunch of different fishermen, and then the government comes and bans fishing, except for one fisherman, and then all of a sudden, they're more scarce, and they're more expensive, I have to sell them at a higher price, and because of that, my profits go up?
	Is that my fault, or is that the government's fault?
	Um, yours.
	I knew it!
	Bloody socialist.
	I've got a commie in the room right here.
	No, I mean, obviously it's my fault if I'm the one who lobbied the government to ban all of those other fishermen, but if I didn't actually lobby them, it's not my fault.
	And so, like, the Guardian throwing out, it's just evil, greedy businessmen?
	Yes.
	I knew that was the answer you wanted.
	That's the sole reason I gave the other answer.
	I know, I know.
	Ever the contrarian, aren't you?
	That northern energy in here is too rife.
	Too many northerners.
	Can't agree on anything, can we?
	You a Liverpool or Manchester man?
	Well, I'm a Man United fan and my mum's from Bury, so we were born into it.
	I just meant which city do you prefer, not football?
	Oh, Manchester.
	Fair.
	Alright, good.
	We've agreed.
	I lived there for a bit, but Liverpool does look nicer.
	And there are some upcoming dates that you should be aware of in the UK, and this is going to serve more as a little public service announcement right now, which is that the energy price cap, because of the massive increase of cost of living, which is definitely just the evil company's fault and nothing to do with government sanctions...
	The latest cap, which is for England the energy price that they are allowed to charge up to, will be raised on the 1st of October, according to the regulator Ofgem.
	But because electricity and gas prices are going up at the moment, the cap is set to go up too, as it says.
	This means on average, the annual bill can go up to as much as £3,554 at this point, according to Commonwealth Insight.
	This is two and a half times what people paid on average in October 2021.
	And people have also said that, well, you can't entirely blame all of the sanctions and such because Russia was starting to...
	Choke out gas distribution in Europe a little bit in the months leading up to the invasion of Ukraine.
	And that's fair.
	That's completely true.
	The prices were probably going to go up as a result of that anyway.
	I'm not justifying Russia doing that because it seemed to have been an obvious preemptive move before they went to invade Ukraine.
	But still, all of the sanctions that we've added on top of that have not helped.
	Have not helped with the situation that was already developing over here.
	It will be a gut punch for households across the UK, says Peter Smith from the National Energy Action, simply unaffordable and is going to push many more people into fuel poverty.
	And this means misery, cold homes, debt, and unsafe coping tactics.
	And this is where I draw the line when it comes to supporting Ukraine and such, because it's one thing that it's all awful stuff happening over there, obviously terrible, but it means us supporting them means that awful stuff has to happen over here as well.
	For a lot of people.
	You are going to see a certain fatigue on that.
	Have you seen where people who took in Ukrainian refugees...
	The Daily Mail article.
	Yeah, I saw that.
	They're getting rid of them and they're saying they regretted it.
	Was it a quarter of got rid of them or regretted it or something like that?
	That's no surprise to me.
	It's one thing to say that you're going to do something good for somebody else and obviously it's generally speaking...
	Doing good things, going out of your way to be charitable to other people can be a good thing, but there is a limit.
	Like you say, there is a personal and practical limit.
	Sorry, they're citing the cost of living as one of the reasons.
	So even if you want to help Ukrainian people, the cost of living is preventing you from helping Ukrainian people.
	So as always, government programs go in circles, chasing their own tails and achieving nothing.
	British Gas, as well, has actually boosted support to help cut energy costs.
	They're going to donate 10% of their record profits to help customers cope with soaring bills for the duration of the energy crisis.
	British Gas customers in fuel poverty with less than £1,000 in savings are eligible.
	A household is considered to be in fuel poverty if it has to spend 10% or more of its income on energy.
	The firm has said that thousands of households will get grants of £250 to £750.
	They are We are trying to offset it a little bit and they're even using their own newly acquired profits to do so as well.
	And this is kind of interesting because it's the way that private industry can work whereas a lot of other people are saying that we need to offset all of these new costs by just taxing people more.
	If you tax the people more, that will give the government more money to give back to them so they won't be as poor as they would be otherwise.
	Yes.
	Do you see the logic in this?
	We got into that because of lockdown, didn't we?
	Lockdown is responsible for quite a lot of these things.
	Oh, of course.
	It certainly increased inflation and all these things.
	And then...
	Well, the maximum amount of money printing that went on during lockdowns.
	And then you end up needing to give out grants and things and windfall and all this kind of thing, don't you?
	So you're in that cycle then.
	Yeah, the government creates a problem.
	Then, to fix that problem, does something that will later on create more problems.
	The cycle goes on and on and on until you're in the Soviet Union.
	We did an article last night on Headliners on GB about the pubs asking for some sort of help because lockdown absolutely crippled pubs and hospitality.
	So once the government does that, then you need the government to bail you out again.
	Yeah, and at the same time, I don't blame these pubs for doing this sort of stuff because if the government's the one that put you in that situation in the first place, it would feel like a kick in the nuts...
	For the government to not do anything to help you afterwards when they're the ones that screwed you over.
	But the sad fact of the matter is that if we want things to improve in the economy, we just kind of need the government to step away from it altogether, as far as I'm concerned.
	Because, just a reminder as well, one of the other things that will be contributing to your energy bill this month and every month, and we always point this out, but it's always good to throw a reminder out.
	If you could scroll down for me, Michael.
	Just so we can see the graphic breakdown of the bills.
	Here we go.
	You can see a nice big chunk of that average estimated electricity bill is government obligation costs.
	What are those, you may ask?
	The government obligations are composed of environmental and social tariffs to support the decarbonisation of the electricity sector.
	Did you ask for these?
	Did you vote for these?
	I did not.
	Did I ask for these?
	Did I vote for these?
	No, if I had been given the choice to vote for these.
	Would I have?
	No.
	But that's why they don't give you the choice to vote for things like this, because people would probably vote for their best interests rather than the agenda, the net zero agenda.
	We'd vote to have more money and quality of life, and I'm actively against the environment as well.
	And who cares about my...
	Where's my position represented?
	I mean, warmer summers and warmer winters in England?
	Oh, fantastic.
	We already get terrible enough weather over here as it is.
	Let's improve that climate a little bit.
	And, of course, we have economists on The Guardian calling for government action to avert catastrophe.
	In the run of the announcement of the new energy price cap tomorrow, the Resolution Foundation think tank said radical policies such as price freezes, solidarity taxes, or lower social tariffs were needed to prevent the cost of living crisis worsening.
	And I will say I'm shocked that a lefty article from The Guardian about, I assume, a lefty organization resolution foundation suggested lower social tariffs.
	I'm shocked.
	These sorts of organisations never suggest cutting back anything from the government, except they also say taxes, price freezes, all of these things that will interfere with the market economy.
	And they also said that Liz Truss's tax-cutting plan completely misses the target.
	Once again...
	We can't let people keep a hold of all of their money because otherwise we won't have any money to give back to them.
	It's ridiculous, commie, redistributive wealth thinking.
	Once again...
	If a company like British Gas wants to do stuff to try and offset the extra costs, that's fine.
	The problem with the government doing it is they have to use my money that they've stolen from me through taxation to be able to push these sorts of things.
	So I'm not good with this sort of stuff.
	A letter from the BBC director to members of the government stated...
	Over 10% CPI inflation, that's consumer price index inflation, is at a 40-year high.
	Interest rates are seeing the largest increase in 27 years, and eye-watering energy bills have created the perfect storm of increasing costs.
	The impact of these challenges on consumers, businesses, and wider society cannot be overstated.
	And that's fair.
	That's a fair point.
	But I did just want to point this out to draw attention to the 10% inflation thing, because...
	Even though we're in the cost of living crisis and everybody recognizes we're in the cost of living crisis, that's still a wormy way of not addressing just how bad it is.
	Because do you feel like prices have only gone up 10% over the past few months?
	No, no.
	No, of course not.
	It's ridiculous and because of the fact that Consumer Price Index takes a blank look at everything, there are going to be prices that haven't gone up or that have actually reduced that will kind of offset the actual costs that people are facing.
	And the way to point this out...
	Binary Surfer, a friend of the show, tagged me, and a few others, in this.
	And he said, remember when everyone thought I was doomsaying for saying in quarter one 2020 that inflation could hit 30% from the damage done by a money printer going brr?
	And this is pre-Ukraine and farmers.
	He did an exercise here where he took, he just, very simple, took his Aldi receipt that he still had from July 2021 and compared it to June 2022 to see what the price was.
	And inflation...
	Overall was 43%, just in terms of general prices.
	And that's averaged out because eggs for 15 pieces were £1.18, now £1.95, 65% increase.
	Salmon, 32% increase.
	Spaghetti, 69% increase.
	And obviously, when you're actually looking at the numbers, they all seem like quite small increases as opposed to the percentage.
	But this all really does add up.
	It really does add up when all of a sudden your weekly shop has gone up by almost 50%.
	Tough times for Jack Monroe and people like that.
	Have you seen Jack Monroe?
	Oh.
	No.
	She does this whole, well, it's all, it claims to be poor, but some people say it isn't.
	You've got to be very careful because she likes to sue.
	But anyway.
	Oh, okay.
	So you're going to keep your mouth shut then.
	Alright.
	And obviously, once again, as I pointed out, a lot of this is to do with the sanctions that we've put on Russia.
	A lot of the general price increases have been because of all the money printing.
	But a lot of the energy prices have been due to sanctions on Russia.
	But don't worry, Boris Johnson is there to let you know that whether you want it or not, it's absolutely vital for us to continue paying for Ukraine.
	Because we, over here in England, are getting so many benefits.
	Is it sensible to pay for British taxpayers to support freedom in Ukraine?
	I say it is absolutely vital.
	And we've got to continue to do it.
	Do we get a say in this?
	I don't recall that referendum.
	No, I don't either, but I suppose that's just democracy for you.
	Democracy doing its job as usual, giving power in the hands of the people.
	And in America, they have the exact same problem where, for instance, the GOP and the Republicans have been complaining a lot about Democrats calling for student loan relief.
	Where they just forgive all of the student debt from the universities.
	Whereas people like Petro Alcanzarez doing the base thing and pointing out it's kind of hypocritical for Republicans to say such a thing when they're also sending $60 billion in aid to Ukraine for the last six months and do a lot of stuff to support the military-industrial complex over there.
	Have you noticed though the general Ukraine clamour I mean, like I said, people are saying we regret taking in the refugees, but the general rhetoric of I support the current thing started down a bit, hasn't it?
	I mean, Uzyk won the Ukrainian boxer in that fight against Joshua the other night.
	But again, we didn't really hear anything about Ukraine, maybe because these type of people don't watch boxing.
	But the rhetoric has dialed down a bit, hasn't it?
	The rhetoric has dialed down, but at the same time, the funding continues.
	We're still getting screwed over here in the West, purely so that our politicians can virtue signal and let everybody know that Boris Johnson probably sees himself as Winston Churchill reborn.
	I'm fighting up against this evil fascist opponent of Vladimir Putin.
	How?
	By impoverishing my own country.
	But anyway, that's all that.
	Let's go on to the video comment.
	Hello gentlemen, since you guys done the genealogy of morality and Dostoevsky's notes from the underground recently I was just wondering if there is any plans to do crime and punishment with Dostoevsky because I think that especially it comes down to the questions of morality and the questions of crime and punishment of the crime,
	pun intended, that Dostoevsky raises the same points that Nietzsche raises but he's done it better in a more interesting way and in a narrative form so in other words more accessible to most Yeah, very interesting.
	I've not read Dostoevsky, so...
	I have read Crime and Punishment many years ago.
	The only downside about doing that as a book club means reading it again, and it's very long.
	So we did know it's from the ground, because it's a quick re-read.
	Yeah, Dostoevsky, from what I've seen, his novels are proper door-stoppers.
	They are, and The Idiot is even long, which I've also read, but...
	But crime punishment is a good call.
	Me and Connor should consider that because, as he says there, it's the philosophical themes that are similar to people like Nietzsche, but it's better because it's in narrative form, which I've always felt I prefer fiction to philosophy personally.
	I know that's not everyone here, but we'll definitely consider it.
	Thank you.
	I've kind of fallen off of reading fiction for a while now.
	I think the last fiction book I read was...
	Have you ever read Invisible Man?
	Ralph Ellison, of course.
	Yes, Ralph Ellison.
	Yeah, I've read everything.
	Oh my goodness.
	Yeah, I read that last year, and I think that might be the last fictional novel that I read.
	And even then, that's kind of semi-autobiographical on his part.
	But that was an interesting book.
	Since then, I've just been basically reading political philosophy.
	Oh, I don't read fiction anymore, but I read so much at a certain period of my life that I don't need to read anymore for life now.
	But I do to revisit these book clubs.
	So we'll definitely think about Crime and Punishment if we can be bothered reading it.
	I'm sure you'll find the time.
	You'll find the time eventually.
	Anyway, on to the written comments.
	So Edward of Woodstock says, Broke debating Liverpool or Manchester as good cities.
	Woke staying relatively close to small towns like Keswick as all cities are S. Keswick.
	Keswick.
	Oh, I'm sorry.
	Well, I have to correct you because I'm from down the road from Keswick.
	I used to go there.
	It's a short drive from where I'm from.
	And so that is very based.
	Unfortunately, I can't live there now because there's nothing there except fields and I need to make money.
	But yeah, absolutely.
	Stay in Cumbria.
	Yeah, stay in the countryside, that's what I say.
	I even did a segment on it yesterday.
	But yeah, I'm not debating that Liverpool or Manchester are good places.
	I'm just seeing which one's better, which doesn't necessarily suggest that either of them are great.
	Fighting against trans ideology.
	So, FreeWill2112 says, Here's a novel idea.
	Instead of teachers encouraging bullied pupils to go down the path of radical life-changing surgery, how about stopping the bullying and getting the student to help with their issues?
	Yeah, that would be a good idea, wouldn't it?
	But sadly, that wouldn't push the agenda.
	Defiantly Flippant says, Constructivism.
	It has a set of ideological presuppositions and dictates how they should be interpreted.
	This makes it a religion, not a philosophy.
	How do we separate the new church from the state?
	Well, you legislate against it, basically, like Ron DeSantis has been doing, and like some of those school boards have been doing, and like Texas has been doing.
	Unlike what England has been doing, where we've got it sacrosanct in the school guidelines that they mandate you have to teach this stuff, basically.
	You can't encourage kids to transition, but you can basically give them all of the intellectual tools to know what to do.
	And how to manipulate people into believing their transition.
	So, absolutely.
	It's ridiculous.
	Free Will again says, Yes, but Mark Hamill can't read, so sucks.
	Baron Von Warhawk says, you decided to call me out on my lie, so now I'm going to silence you, kick you out of class, and put this on your record.
	This is all your fault.
	You should have just sat down and shut up.
	You chose to do so.
	Crazy Scottish teacher.
	Yeah, pretty much.
	Yeah, that Scottish teacher is just typical of a sort of, I don't even want to say midwit, but a very low-level brain who just immediately adopts the new ideology.
	This is one of the biggest problems we have.
	The police, teachers, people who, you know, they're not necessarily smart enough.
	The guy looked like he was in his 40s at least.
	You would hope someone had built up wisdom.
	They don't.
	They're not smart enough to see that it's an ideology you're pushing.
	It's not just being nice.
	This stuff's perpetuating.
	Obviously, there's the evil people who think of the ideas and the food codes or whoever it is in the universities now.
	But then there's the useful idiots, basically, in the police and wherever.
	Yeah, I think a lot of it has been sold to people, like you say, by, oh, it's just being nice.
	But then, to support that structure of just being nice, you have to be awful human beings to those who are just asking a question, or stating an obvious fact.
	Like, by the way, there's only two genders?
	It's really weird that you're saying that there's more than that?
	Yeah, and that same idiot guy in the video would have thought that most of his life.
	Yeah, I mean, ten years ago, when it would have just been Tumblr saying these things, he would have laughed it off, and now he's supporting it.
	Ben Vander Plait says, It's completely ridiculous that these teachers and counsellors are allowed to display any flags, especially political ones, unless the teacher is teaching...
	My eyes went a bit fuzzy then.
	Teaching government and has flags to show all the political allegiances.
	You get the one flag you swear loyalty, the Spar Spangled Banner.
	Yeah, and that's reasonably speaking.
	Absolutely.
	Spartan Lycurgus says, Perhaps.
	And Harry the Martial Arts Nerd number 7856 says, So they are literally targeting normal tomboys and trying to groom them.
	Yes.
	Yes, that's been the tactic for a while now.
	Oh, you like sport and want to try your hardest to be tough?
	Get on the table and get under the knife.
	sterilization time.
	How this is not a crime against their rights.
	I know people make jokes about me, about me liking tomboys, but no, really this has a few legal problems.
	Also, we're accepting of this until they revealed the LGBT plus, the plus meaning Pino, Pido and groomers.
	Now they will be forced to leave those kids alone.
	Sorry?
	No, nothing.
	It struck me during that section.
	I was thinking about it recently.
	I was watching that Turing film, remember?
	With the Alan Turing?
	Yeah, yeah.
	Is it Benedict Cumberbatch?
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	Imitation game, isn't it?
	And you remember this war hero, and then they make him, you know, according to the movie at least, he's sort of chemically castrated because he's gay, and you just think, God, that's awful.
	And you see now, now it's happening...
	And we're supposed to celebrate it as a great thing.
	It's stunning and brave.
	And also the manipulation of the idea that, oh, you like boys' sports, you like boys' interests, this makes you a boy.
	This also goes against one of the principles that they hold, which is that, you know, it's kind of a boomer point to bring up, but it's the whole like, oh, you know...
	Men aren't just one thing.
	Girls aren't just one thing.
	We need to push aside the stereotypes, yada, yada, yada.
	But, you know, to a certain extent, yeah, that's true.
	I've met masculine women who haven't been influenced or pushed that way.
	They just end up that way.
	And I've met very, very feminine men.
	I went to university, so yes, I have met plenty of feminine men.
	Yeah, and you're from the North, so obviously you've met masculine women.
	Yes.
	Do you want to do my ones?
	Yeah, do you want to read it all?
	Yeah, I'll do.
	So, slow death of feminism, my little section today.
	Casey Darling says, Nick's my favourite guest host.
	It always makes my day when he's on the show.
	Best comment ever.
	And by the way, their name is Casey Darling.
	I'm not calling them Darling because they wrote such a great comment.
	Oh, Casey Darling.
	And hopefully I wasn't...
	I'm very tired today and I wasn't as funny as you, but thank you, Casey.
	It's also a little bit sweaty in the studio for some reason.
	We're struggling, but...
	But thank you very much for that.
	It's the northern heat.
	It keeps me going.
	Lord, never again.
	Always a top commenter.
	Really, the slow death of feminism will be the decline of the people who follow it.
	It's not as if feminists are known for having lots of children, at least not that they allow to survive the pregnancy-based.
	And more and more children are raised in based households.
	Let's hope it was a blip and not a warning shot.
	Interesting.
	I hope so.
	That's one of the things.
	I can only hope that more based and conservative types just outbreed.
	Yeah, there is that, isn't there?
	If we just outbreed them.
	Because most, like they said, they're not having kids.
	They're not letting the kids that they do have survive to childbirth.
	So, you know, get married, have five children.
	The problem might sort itself.
	But then you've got to worry about the schools.
	Yeah, plus in the West, overall, our birth rates are ridiculously low in general, of course.
	Yeah, this is why you just need to have more children.
	Have more children and homeschool them.
	Yeah, interesting.
	I mean, there's a certain kudos amongst men for that, perhaps.
	I think when you're younger, when I was like 18, a lot of my friends liked to brag about how many women they were sleeping with, but the older I've gotten, the more I just think, well, that's just a bit sad, isn't it?
	I remember watching Love Island once, and she sort of asked the guy how many girls he slept with us, and he said something like 136, and she said, okay.
	Because of the culture, she has to pretend like she's cool with it.
	Alright, but she knows on some level it's homophobic.
	She's broken inside a little bit.
	Robert Longshore, trying to bleep the pain away is a trap you can fall into whether you're a male or female.
	If you're an even somewhat attractive female, it can happen very easily simply because men will bleep almost anything with a pulse.
	I'm surprised we need to bleep them if we're on the website, but they've been crossed out, so I'm assuming I should.
	But I'm used to my TV training anyway.
	It's kind of true.
	Yeah.
	Colin P. Interestingly, I've recently been watching a lot of Carl's older videos about why people hate feminism.
	Oh good, I need to check those out as well.
	Sophie Liv Peterson, I just have to say, make men like you...
	Sorry, make men like you is the easiest thing in the world.
	You just have to be nice to them, appreciate them, say thank you, listen to them.
	Absolutely.
	Honestly, so many men are just desperate to have a woman be nice to them and take time to listen to them.
	It's honestly sad because this happens...
	Because this happens exactly because the kind of woman is in short supply, which is just awful.
	I've got so many male friends, I didn't have sex with any of them, and I know they would do anything for me.
	Why?
	Because I've taken time to listen and talk to every one of them.
	We kind of joke that I'm cheaper than a therapist.
	Not that way cheap.
	Easy, guys.
	But yeah, this is a long message.
	But...
	Be nice, appreciate men, say thank you, show them you actually care about them, allow yourself to be a woman and let the man take care of you, then say thank you and return the favour by caring.
	Maybe cook him dinner.
	I love cooking dinner for my male friends and, well, they'll do anything for you because men are nice and just want to be appreciated.
	Thank you.
	Oh my goodness.
	Could be the comment of the day apart from the one that said I was great.
	Men are nice.
	We're just good people.
	We're just good people.
	Yeah, we just want, sometimes we just want a sympathetic ear.
	I've had a long day at work, and sometimes you just want to talk about, oh, it was really stressful.
	What is it the late, great Kevin Samuel said?
	Fit, feminine, and friendly.
	Is that that hard?
	Eric Nickerson.
	Beauty is an inherent power.
	You've done nothing to earn it.
	Love and genuine desire is an earned power.
	You have to put in effort to cultivate those things from another person.
	We'll be talking about that in our Patrice O'Neill section with Connor.
	He talks about how men have to Earn all this stuff and women just show up.
	Yeah, but then again, you've got the beauty, so you've still got it, so look after it.
	If anything, women in those sorts of positions, they do have to earn respect, but it's more by restraining themselves.
	Yeah, exactly, as we discussed.
	I'll be quirky, feminism.
	Ever since the pill and the sexual revolution, I've always considered them as the biggest scams that women all over bought into, hook, line, and sinker.
	Prior to this movement, men had to work to have sex.
	Women...
	Oh, with women, I think you missed that.
	We men had to pay for dates, movies, dinners, drinks, flowers, many times over before even getting a kiss.
	Now women throw themselves at men.
	Women are sexual gatekeepers, but too many have thrown open the gates.
	The power they had, they willingly gave up.
	Yeah, they were tricked.
	They were tricked by the sexual revolution, and it's worked out for, as we say, the Tinder Bros.
	Connor and I are actually thinking about reading that book that she was referring to, Louise Perry's Case Against the Sex Revolution.
	So we'll see if there's a book club or anything like that on the website soon.
	We're considering reading a book by a woman, but we're not sure if we discussed it.
	I don't know.
	We need to clear it with Carl.
	Callum's against.
	No, no, I'm just lying.
	Do you want to go through all mine?
	We won't have any time for yours is the only problem.
	You can just go through a few more.
	I mean, let's go through one or two of mine in that case.
	So Casey Darling again says, if Trump could achieve energy independence for the U.S., why couldn't Boris incentivize new nuclear reactors, fracking, offshore drilling, and screw all this pie-in-the-sky wind and solar nonsense?
	Obviously, the U.S. is bigger, but also has vastly greater population.
	Couldn't the U.K. be energy self-sufficient?
	Very much possibly, but Boris has never been interested in that kind of stuff.
	But I think Boris's dad is a massive green nut as well, isn't he?
	Oh yeah.
	He's a massive depopulate everyone nut.
	Yeah, so it's no surprise that Boris doesn't actually support anything that would be even slightly useful in solving the problems that he likes to complain about.
	Callum Dayton, thanks to rising energy costs, I can't afford more Warhammer stuff for my expanding Horus heresy army.
	Never mind food or warm gloaming if we don't get a cold winter.
	Well, I mean, I'm horrified to hear that.
	I can hear Carl crying in the background literally right now.
	now he's shaking and crying.
	Freewill2112, I received a letter from my energy supplier saying the bills would rise by about £1,000 before the war in Ukraine started.
	Net zero policy is a big part of the bill rises.
	It absolutely is.
	Like I say, Russia I think was also trying to put a bit of a stranglehold on energy it was releasing into the EU before then, but there are many different factors.
	And none of them tend to be coming from just energy suppliers going, should we just be greedier?
	Should we just be greedier than we were before?
	You know, we could have earned more money than we were, but we just chose not to for some strange reason.
	Let's just bump up prices just because, eh, I feel like it.
	Stupid.
	Stupid explanation.
	Can I read one of these honorable mentions?
	Oh, yeah, yeah, go for it.
	This could be the last one.
	This could be the last one.
	Well, it says, General Hai Ping, Chinese Internet Battalion, says, I think Nick missed the whole rhetoric around the Uzik fight.
	Loads of pundits speculated that he was given the win because of the war going on in Ukraine.
	You had AJ mention the war in his weird self-masturbatory speech, and loads of the reporters mentioned the war when discussing the fight.
	So I just want to address it quickly.
	Yes, that was ludicrous, because obviously Uzik's just a much better boxer than AJ. But what I didn't see was all the Ukraine flag type people on Twitter going on about how great it was.
	That's the only thing I meant.
	But yes, you're right.
	There were people sort of stupidly saying, oh, it's fixed.
	And AJ did hilariously mention it.
	He got down on his knees with Uzyk.
	He draped himself in the Ukraine flag.
	Then he went on this mad speech because he'd lost his mind at the end of the fight.
	And he goes, yeah, there's bad stuff happening in Ukraine.
	Not sure what exactly, but it's bad.
	Suddenly he realised he didn't care at all about the war.
	Oh, it was brilliant.
	He was just going through the motions, because that's what you've got to do.
	You've got to dance like a monkey for the regime, is what it is.
	But on that, I think that's all we've got time for.
	No, I just want to say, follow me on Twitter, at NickDixonComic, that's all.
	Yeah, there you go.
	Follow Nick on Twitter at NickDixonComic.
	He occasionally shows up on Headliners on GB News.
	Do you show up on any other shows on GB News?
	Free Speech Nation on Sundays sometimes.
	There you go.
	So keep an eye out for him there.
	We will be doing a gold-tier Zoom call tomorrow at 3.30, me and Connor, so check that out.
	And I think me and Connor are doing the thing today, aren't we?
	It's not going to be live, though.
	So watch out for that video when it eventually comes out.
	You guys discussing...
	Betris O'Neill, the great comedian, and how he was Red Pill before Red Pill.
	Very interesting.
	Well...
	But other than all that, thank you very, very much for watching.
	Tune in tomorrow at one o'clock British Summer Time, where we'll be back then.
	Thank you for watching.

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