Today on the Matt Walsh Show, Kristi Noem, the governor of South Dakota, has become the latest conservative to surrender on the women sports issue. Today we’ll talk about why this is a hill worth dying on. Also Five Headlines including one woke company releasing an add that promotes transgenderism in children, and another woke company pulling their ads from the Daily Wire because one leftist with a Twitter account and five followers told it to. And in our Daily Cancellation, we’ll deal with the latest celebrity to come out in support of fat acceptance.
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Today on the Matt Wall Show, Kristi Noem, the governor of South Dakota, has become the latest conservative to surrender, seemingly surrender, on the women's sports issue.
Today we'll talk about why that's a bad idea.
This is a hill worth dying on, and we'll talk about why.
Also, five headlines, including one woke company releases an ad that promotes transgenderism in children, and another woke company pulls their ads from the Daily Wire because one leftist with a Twitter account and five followers told it to.
And our daily cancellation will deal with the latest celebrity to come out in support of fat acceptance.
That and much more today on the Matt Wall Show.
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As a conservative, I'm often told that whatever opinion I happen to be
expressing at any given moment is, quote, not the hill to die on.
No matter what the opinion is, no matter the issue being discussed, I am sure to hear from a hundred members of the peanut gallery who will all warn in ominous tones that by expressing this point of view, whatever it is, I am not only dying on a hill, but to make matters worse, it's the wrong hill.
You sure you want to die on this hill, they ask?
The question is rhetorical.
They've already decided that I should not want to die on it, but I will if I keep talking.
Now, the thing about these people and their dire warnings about untimely deaths on wrong hills is that they never give any suggestions as to the right hill.
Now, they're sure that this issue, whatever the issue happens to be, is not worth this kind of fight, but they won't indicate which issue is worth this kind of fight.
It's become apparent to me that the don't-die-on-this-hill crowd, especially those who call themselves conservatives, ...are so confident that every hill is the wrong hill precisely because they've decided that no hill is the right hill.
They're prepared to surrender every hill, accept defeat on every issue, one at a time, one after another, until there are no more hills left to defend.
Then they can turn around in triumphant defeat, shrug their shoulders and say, well, looks like all the hills have been taken, and then go home to their couch and their Netflix account and live the rest of their lives in the comfort of subjugation.
Now, my strategy is quite the opposite of this.
I would rather die on every hill, no matter how great or small.
Doesn't require any real bravery to take this position, you know, as dying on a hill means not really dying, but really just enduring mean comments from people on the internet.
I've died on a million hills, and yet, yet I live.
Because death on a metaphorical hill is nothing like death on a physical one, it turns out.
But while the ever-growing contingent of Cowards and defeat fetishes on the right continue to surrender hill after hill in succession, abandoning their posts faster than the Minneapolis PD abandoned their precinct to BLM arsonists.
It's important to identify, I think, the most important hills for the rest of us to defend.
As much as I, as I said, I would love to die on all of them, and I do choose all of them, from emojis all the way up, okay, in terms of the severity of the issue.
But even so, I think it's important to figure out what are the most important issues, the most important hills.
And I would say that one of them, a central hill, perhaps the central hill, is certainly the issue of gender.
Now, to acquiesce to the left's agenda on this front, to submit to their attempted erasure of biological reality, is to give up on logic, truth, morality, and science.
In a word, it is to give up on everything.
Everything that matters.
It is to abandon the last hill.
Governor Kristi Noem of South Dakota, to the surprise of many, not to the surprise of me because I'm never surprised to see this from a Republican, I don't care who it is, but she is one Republican willing and ready to do just that, to abandon the last hill.
After excitedly encouraging her state legislature to pass a bill banning males from female sports, she suddenly at the last minute changed her mind.
Upon receiving the bill on her desk, the bill that she said she would sign, a bill which would put, you know, put a halt to the march of gender madness, at least in South Dakota and at least in the realm of sports, after receiving it, Noem flinched.
She announced that actually she couldn't sign it as is, mostly because she doesn't want the ban to extend to the collegiate level.
Her reason is that banning males from women's sports in college might make the NCAA mad, and they might try to, quote, punish South Dakota for it.
Now, I'm not exaggerating.
I'm not being reductive here.
That's really her reason.
That's what she said.
She doesn't want to make them mad because they might punish her.
Here she is explaining it at a press conference yesterday.
Listen.
I want to be very palms up with each and every one of you here today.
These legal scholars think that South Dakota's chances of winning a lawsuit against the NCAA are very low.
The NCAA is a private association.
That means they can do what they want to do.
And even though I fundamentally disagree with them when it comes to this issue, if South Dakota passes a law that's against their policy, they will likely take punitive action against us.
That means they could pull their tournaments from the state of South Dakota.
They could pull their home games.
They could even prevent our athletes from playing in their league.
That's their prerogative.
So a fight that doesn't truly protect women's sports and doesn't allow women to compete ultimately is going to hurt South Dakota families.
And if the NCAA did take action against the state of South Dakota, we could sue them.
I know we could do that.
But these respected legal scholars inform me that we would likely lose at that level facing the court circumstances that we have in front of us.
So we could pass a law, then we could get punished, then we could face expensive litigation at taxpayer expense, and then we could lose.
Well, there it is.
Now, Noam was on with Tucker later that night to further explain her position, and it was more of what you just heard there.
She's concerned that imposing sanity and fairness at the college level may spark a fight with the NCAA that she doesn't think that they can win.
She thinks she's going to lose.
Now this is, I think we could say, the most quintessentially Republican line of reasoning that you'll ever hear.
To surrender a fight preemptively based on the fear that you might lose it.
Well, we're gonna lose this fight, so let's just lose it on purpose.
We're gonna lose it anyway.
And she's also worried that Amazon might be mad and might abandon the state as well, we should know.
Now, to me, you know, these seem like profoundly unthreatening threats.
This is one of those things where is that a promise or a threat kind of situation?
The NCAA might flee from your state.
Amazon might go with them.
Good.
Let them go.
Who cares?
Why is that a problem?
That seems to me to be more of a perk, if anything.
But whether it should make us sad or not, If the NCAA and Amazon doesn't want to be our friend, the fact is that the consequences are worth suffering.
Let's pretend that those really are dire, terrible consequences.
So what?
I mean, quite literally, any consequence would be worth suffering for this.
And I really mean that.
Any consequence.
And a lawsuit, certainly.
A lawsuit that you're going to lose, that's a consequence worth suffering.
Because this is not just about women's sports.
Let's be clear about this.
This is not merely a matter of devising some practical plan to make sure that the girls of South Dakota can play volleyball unencumbered.
It's not just what this is about.
As the left has pointed out, there haven't been many biological males attempting to intrude into female sports in that state.
It's been a problem in other states, and it's going to increasingly be a problem But in South Dakota, it has so far not been a significant problem, and it may never be a significant problem in South Dakota.
The problem may never reach epidemic levels there.
That's true.
But that's not the point.
At least that's not the whole point.
The point is to make a statement, to draw a line, to defend what is sane and reasonable because it is sane and reasonable.
It shouldn't be necessary, but it is.
Laws are not just laws.
They are messages.
Society communicates its values, communicates what it finds acceptable through laws.
Now, the left knows this and they act upon it.
They use the law.
They use it to help shape public opinion, to help shape what society sees as acceptable, what it sees as wrong and right.
And it works.
Now the right, one of its many problems, still doesn't understand this.
It used to understand this, but it doesn't anymore.
Many on the right still want to pretend that the fight over women's sports is motivated purely and only by our concern over our daughters having a fair opportunity to be captain of the track team.
Yes, that's part of the concern, but that's not the whole thing.
If it was just about your daughter on the track team, then I would say, you know, it's actually not that big of a deal.
But that's not it.
You know, we all know that's not the biggest issue here.
The biggest issue is that the left is attacking reality itself on the most fundamental level.
That's the issue.
And women's sports is just one arena for that fight.
But it's an important arena, and it's an arena that everybody is looking at now and focused on.
That's what makes it important.
The consequences of surrendering it, of losing in this arena, would have ramifications that go far beyond your daughter's track team.
The consequences ultimately are, again, that we give up on reality, that we live in a society that simply, fundamentally does not recognize reality and truth anymore at all.
That seems like a big consequence to me.
That seems like a fight worth having.
I don't know what fight is worth having if that's not.
I don't know how we can have any fights if we don't all live in reality, if we're not defending reality and truth.
And that's why we choose this hill to die on.
Any Republicans who would turn tail and run from it are of no use to us.
Totally useless.
If you can't get it right on this issue, you're useless.
And that certainly goes for Kristi Noem, too.
Now let's get to our five headlines.
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Okay, so, this is from the Daily Wire.
Says the hygiene company Harry's dropped advertising on the Daily Wire last week, apparently in response to an anonymous Twitter account with nearly no followers.
The Twitter account that had garnered five followers by Monday afternoon posted on March 7th a message to Harry's objecting to its advertising on the Daily Wire's The Michael Knowles Show, which you may have heard of that show before, for its allegedly homophobic and transphobic content.
Now this, again, just some random, I don't even think, it's one of those accounts, they don't even have an avatar, there's no profile photo.
It's just like a, it's just a random anonymous account from one person with five followers.
This is somebody with zero power and influence.
Like, does not matter what they think.
Easiest kind of person to ignore.
But Harry's, which is a multi-million dollar company, responds and they say, thanks for bringing this up.
We condemn the views in this video, referring to a video of Knowles talking about the transgender issue.
And it says, we condemn the views in this video, which are inexcusable and at odds with our longtime support of the LGBTQ plus community.
We've ended our relationship with this show and are looking into our sponsorships to prevent any values misalignment going forward.
So, you know, this, you see what it takes.
This is the kind of power on the left.
This is the kind of institutional power that those on the left have for all the talk about how, you know, if you're a white male, you have allegedly all this privilege and all this power.
I still have not seen it.
I don't know where to cash in.
I've been asking for years.
I'm not above cashing in.
If I can cash in on my white male privilege and get all kinds of perks, I'll do it.
Just tell me where.
But I haven't found it yet.
Now, being on the left, though, privilege is afforded according to ideology, not according purely to race.
What matters first and foremost, number one, is your ideology.
Because if you don't have the right ideology, there is zero privilege for you in the culture today.
So you've got to start with that.
And then once you have the quote right ideology, then from there you get even more privilege depending on what victim groups you belong to and so forth.
But think about this privilege.
You have so much privilege that from an anonymous account with five followers, You can demand that a multi-million dollar company change its marketing strategy, and they'll do it!
They'll just right away say, well, okay, if you say so.
See, on the right, we can't even, like, we can't, even us, even us dastardly white males, we can't even conceive of that kind of cultural power.
Because it would never happen.
Ever.
It would never, if you have a Twitter account with a few followers, and you Sent a message to any company and say, hey, I really don't like that advertisement.
It offended me.
It's going to ignore you.
And the thing here is that Harry's it's not it's not only that they dropped the advertising, which.
They're obviously free to do.
It's not just that.
But as the God King Jeremy Boring pointed out on Twitter, it it's that they on their way out the door, They also condemned the show that they were just advertising with.
And by extension, condemned the whole audience.
The people that they were just trying to sell their product to, on the way out, they condemned all of them.
As a bunch of transphobes and bigots.
This is more than that.
This is more than a company making a decision.
Of course they have the right.
No one's saying they don't have the right to do that.
But on the way out the door, like the kick in the butt on the way out the door, you were just working with this show.
Did you not know that it was a conservative show?
Did you really not know that?
Of course you did.
But on the way out, condemn the show, the audience, everyone.
That's the way it goes.
Now, here to kind of make my point, we'll move on to number two here.
So that's the woke company Harry's, which, by the way, look, Harry's, they can make decisions about who they advertise with.
They're free to do that in a free market.
And you and I can make decisions on what companies we choose to support.
And we on the right need to start being a lot more, we have to start making more considered decisions as far as that goes.
And as far as I, you know, I'm not a big fan of boycotts in principle.
But if a company is saying, we don't want your business, we hate you, we think you're a bunch of bigots, we don't want your business, then as a matter of basic self-respect, we don't have to call it a boycott, call it whatever you want, as a matter of basic self-respect, I think we have to say, well, okay then, I'm not going to give you my money.
We should not be Forcing our money into the hands of people who don't want it and are saying I don't want your money You're you're horrible people.
Well, I don't care take it.
Anyway, please take my money from me That's what Harry's is saying if you're going by Harry's remember and you're a conservative Remember they hate you and you're forcing your money on them.
They don't want it You got to think about whether you really want to do that Now, it's easy for me to say, I obviously am not that into it.
I kind of think razors are overrated as it goes already, so maybe it's easy for me to say.
Okay, so that's Harry's.
That's one woke company.
And then number two here, we got another woke company, Pantene.
The makers of pretty much all the toiletry, all the companies are going woke, but especially in the toiletry realm.
That's where it's uber woke there.
It's a Pantene maker of, I believe, shampoo has become the latest corporation to jump on the trans indoctrination bandwagon.
And I'm going to play this ad for you, which is a really repulsive and grotesque ad on many, many levels.
And I guarantee you, if you're a conservative with an anonymous account and five followers, you can express your outrage over this ad to Pantene, and they're not going to give a damn.
They're not going to do anything in response to that.
Because they don't care.
About you.
But here's the, let's play this.
This is the ad for Pantene.
We're being told about a young boy who decided to become a girl, and is in the middle of this gender transition.
And is being helped along in that transition by his two mothers.
So two mothers... His two lesbian mothers end up with a boy who wants to be a girl.
What a coincidence!
It's gotta be, you know... How could we possibly draw any connection there at all?
We simply can't.
Let's watch the ad now.
Here it is.
So as for LGBTQ kids, hair is more than you think.
It's how you are seen.
Sawyer is an old soul.
She is our spunky and creative kiddo.
Sawyer also happens to be a transgender girl.
I remember the first time she was out in the community wearing the clothing she wanted in her hair, and she kind of was herself.
And that was the first day where I saw her.
No, he's not himself.
He's the opposite of himself.
She has always been super gender creative.
That doesn't mean anything.
That doesn't mean anything.
Gender creative, that doesn't mean anything.
Once she told us that she identified as a girl, she immediately wanted to grow her hair out.
That must mean he's a girl if he wanted to grow his hair out.
What other explanation could you possibly have?
My insides match my outsides.
This is a kid who knew who she was from such a young age.
No, he didn't.
Because no kid does.
Because they're a kid.
Your kids being loved and accepted.
So I'm always telling Sawyer to never hide who she is.
Always be herself.
Oh, no, no, no.
You're telling him exactly that.
To hide who he is.
That's exactly what you're helping him do.
You lunatic.
You abusive lunatic.
Everybody loves everybody no matter what path you follow.
It means I can be who I am no matter what.
It doesn't matter because everybody loves me.
My advice is just be yourself and don't let anybody tell you who you are.
Yeah.
That poor kid.
That poor kid.
I feel so bad for these kids.
What hope do they have?
Having parents like this.
Having these lunatic abusive parents.
I mean, that kid should be removed from the home.
And those parents should be in prison.
This is among the worst forms of abuse that you could possibly inflict on a child.
This is psychological and sexual abuse on such a deep level that you are warping everything about them.
them. Their sense of themselves, you are warping.
And it's being... And we're being told about it.
The abusive parents are sitting there.
Nice inspirational music in the background.
And they're using it to sell shampoo.
That's how accepted and normalized they want this to be.
Let me tell you something.
If you still go out and buy Pantene products, whoever, anyone listening, if you go out and buy Pantene products, you're pathetic.
If you would still go and buy their products after watching that.
This is a company that is using child abuse to sell their product.
Anyone who would watch that And still buy the product is a pitiful excuse for a person.
If that's not going to convince you, there should not be what... If you are a... Call yourself conservative, I don't care what you call yourself.
If you are a sane, normal person, you should never go near another Pantene product for the rest of your life based on that.
It is no different.
If this was an ad encouraging physical abuse of a child, and we were being told how that child is, you know, locked in a closet and beaten with sticks and stuff like that.
And they were telling us that with the inspirational music and saying how wonderful it is for the child.
Would anyone buy that product ever again?
We would be so horrified.
We'd say this is the worst company on Earth.
This is no different.
This is just as bad, if not worse.
That is a child is being ruined by those parents.
Ruined.
Listen to what he said.
He said, um, you know, when he, when he wears girls, clothes, girl clothes, his insides matches outsides.
Now that, that is a perfectly Expected and even reasonable thing to hear from a child who's been indoctrinated into this by his parents.
But as adults, we know that that doesn't make any sense.
What do you mean you have girl insides?
That doesn't mean anything.
It makes zero sense.
As adults, we know that.
You can't expect a child to know it, unless you tell them.
Because children don't know anything, unless you tell them.
A young boy, as I've said a million times, a young boy does not know who he is.
You have to help him figure that out.
And when he says, I'm a girl, he doesn't know what that statement means.
He doesn't understand what he's saying.
And if you don't believe me, whenever you hear a boy say that, all you have to ask him, all you have to ask him is, what do you mean?
Hey Sawyer, when you say you're a girl, what do you mean by that?
What do you mean?
I ask my kids that kind of question all the time when they say things.
Because they often make statements that don't make any sense, because they're kids.
Don't make any sense to me anyway.
So I often have to say, well, what do you mean?
And then as they started to describe it, I was like, okay, so this is what you mean.
See, because they're going to use words that don't line up with what they actually are trying to express, because they don't have the words yet, because their vocabulary is limited, and they also don't understand their own emotions yet.
Because they're psychologically limited, and neurologically limited, and their brains aren't fully developed yet.
And so as a parent, my job so often is to figure out what they actually think and believe and want and feel, and to help them to realize that about themselves, and to help them to express it.
When you sit a kid down at a restaurant to pick a meal, they don't even know what they want to eat.
They'll point to something on the menu and you'll have to say as the parent, no, no, you don't really want that.
I know you don't want it because I've gotten you that meal six other times and you didn't eat it.
I know you think you want it, but you don't actually want it.
I'm going to order you the meal that you're actually going to eat.
We as parents do that all the time because kids don't know what they want.
This is, this is not some academic discussion.
This is, This is basic child raising stuff.
This is basic stuff about child psychology.
And to deny it to that extent is horrific abuse.
Please don't ever buy Pantene ever again.
Alright, so we went on that for a little bit.
Let's move on to this.
Here's another video I wanted to play.
A teacher did a remote Field trip with his class.
He went to the zoo.
I'm not sure where this was, where this took place, but he, he, uh, they're, they're still wherever, wherever he is, they're still doing zoom classes.
And so this video went viral, people talking about what a wonderful guy this guy is and what a wonderful teacher is.
And he has a great teacher.
I had no criticism of him.
So he took his, uh, he had his laptop and he's on his zoom class and he went to the zoo, uh, to kind of take the kids on a remote field trip.
And let's watch that here.
Here it is.
Why not still go to the zoo and you guys can come with?
So let's keep going.
You got it!
What is this?
Let's be great readers.
Okay, so he's taking the kids around with the laptop and just showing them all the different... What do we have now, class?
All the animals.
A rhino!
A rhino, that's right!
And then the rhino runs away.
Okay, this is in Washington State.
Here's my point with this.
I watch this video and I think, well, that's a great teacher.
As critical as I can be of teachers, I don't deny that there are some great ones out there.
So, it's good he's doing that for the kids, but I watch that and I can't watch it and see it as some sort of inspiring video.
It's not cute to me, really.
It's deeply sad, is what it is.
There's no reason... This teacher's doing everything he can, but there's no reason why these kids can't go to the zoo themselves.
And there's no reason why they can't be in the classroom.
The zoo is open!
That's how he's there.
The zoo is open, there are people walking around.
Wherever this is happening, you can have... The zoo can be open, people can go to the zoo, but they can't sit in a classroom?
What's more important, having the zoo open or classroom?
That's the first thing I think when I see that.
I mean, these poor kids have been locked in their homes, and now they're reduced to going on a zoo field trip through Zoom.
And you hear the, I don't know how it came through in the audio, but you could hear the comments from these kids saying, oh, this is the greatest field trip ever and everything.
Which again is great that they were given that, but it's also sad that they're so desperate
for interaction to be out in public that they're excited to look at animals on Zoom.
I find that to be pretty sad.
So one other thing to mention here, this is from ESPN.
It says, "A 14th lawsuit alleging sexual assault and inappropriate conduct was filed against
Deshaun Watson by a woman who says that she believes the Houston, Texas quarterback is
a serial predator."
The lawsuit, which was filed Monday night and appeared on the Harris County District Clerk's website Tuesday morning, alleges that Watson assaulted and harassed the plaintiff by exposing himself to her And touching her with his penis.
The incident allegedly took place in California, just the second of the 14 allegations to take place outside the Houston area.
The traveling massage therapist alleges that when she arrived at the address Watson gave her, he led her to a room, locked the doors behind him.
After Watson allegedly forced plaintiff's hands onto his genitals during the massage, he allegedly told her, I will not have you sign an NDA, but don't ever talk about this.
Now this is, as it says there, this is the 14th lawsuit filed against Deshaun Watson, superstar quarterback.
14th.
There's 14 accusers, and these are people accusing him not merely of harassment, these are assault accusations.
And now the lawyer wants her to be a grand jury and is hoping for criminal charges as well, but 14 accusers.
And some of these accusers have brought receipts.
There was one that released text messages, allegedly from Deshaun Watson, and one of the text messages said something like, it was after the fact, and it said, you know, sorry if you were uncomfortable last time.
Now, that doesn't prove that he committed sexual assault, but if the text messages are from him, which would be easy to confirm if it's true, but assuming the text messages are from him, it does show that he was around this woman, something happened, and she was, quote, uncomfortable.
That's not, it's not proof, but it is, it's, it's more evidence than you normally have in these situations.
And then you add on top of that 14, 13 other accusers, that's significant.
And you know, I'm, I'm the last one to immediately believe any accusation that's thrown around.
Of course you have to go through innocent until proven guilty and all that, but, um, at least that's how it goes in the court of law and it should go.
But as far as us as, as, as people making reasonable, Guesses as to what might have happened?
Hard for me to believe that 14 women telling very similar sounding stories, some of whom have text messages that they can show, hard to believe that they're all lying.
And yet the interesting thing is that you're not hearing a lot about this story.
If you don't follow the NFL, I'd have to emphasize a superstar quarterback with 14 allegations of sexual assault.
And it's yeah, it's getting it.
Of course, it's going to get some attention.
It's getting some attention, but it's not if you go to ESPN.com right now, for example, it's not the number one story.
That's not being treated as headline news in mass media or even in sports media.
It's being treated as sort of an interesting side issue.
And you have to really wonder, you have to wonder, if this was a white quarterback, if this was, say, Tom Brady, with all these accusations, would ESPN be treating it with the same, you know, lack of interest?
And I would say probably not.
Okay, let's move now to reading the comments.
This is from Mary Irwin, says, I missed the videos from Matt's car.
One of the best parts was how annoyed people got that he wasn't in studio or something.
Also, I just imagined people passing through the Kroger parking lot, seeing him spouting angry truth to his dashboard.
Ha ha.
Yeah, that is actually exactly what would happen with those car videos.
I was some crazy lunatic in a car, shouting, just shouting at the dashboard.
And yeah, people would often pass by and stare in like, what is this guy doing?
The other thing about doing the car videos, you know, is that it would, I don't know if this came across, it probably did if I was dripping with sweat when I did those videos, because it got really hot in the summer.
That was one logistical problem.
I couldn't really have the windows rolled down because of the noise.
So I'd roll the windows up and it'd be like 600 degrees in there.
I was risking my life.
Hope you know that.
Cerebral Method says, it's a good point about Biden.
The men who crave power are best fitted to acquire it, and least fitted to exercise it, which is why having an unbiased media is so important.
Yeah, you always, and that is, that's the irony, that's the problem, that you're not gonna become president these days, or really any day, unless you desperately want to be president.
And Biden has desperately wanted to be president for decades.
So you're probably not going to become president unless you desperately want it.
But if you desperately want it, then you're kind of like the last person who should be president.
And we're seeing that now with Biden.
Steve Boyer says, they added bike lanes in my town.
They actually added them to the right sides of an already existing four lane road through town, causing the road to become narrower.
Now the cars are riding in narrower lanes and the ruts created prior to the bike lane cause our cars to attempt to stay in the lane while fighting the ruts.
Yeah, we make everything Everyone is less safe, but at least we've accommodated the cyclists and their recreational activity.
So, you know, if you get into a car accident, if you get into a head-on collision, because the lanes are too close together now, at least take solace in the fact that this happened so that a cyclist could have some recreation, get a little cardio in.
And Emily says, I was grocery shopping with my mask below my nose and some lady comes up to me and says that the masks don't work if I don't wear it properly.
I ignored her and then she followed me to the checkout and harassed me again.
I then responded to her, where is your second mask?
Clearly she was not an authority on the efficacy of masks as she was only wearing one.
Such a hypocrite.
Great response.
Yeah.
This is my, my policies.
Number one, if I go into a place, if I go into a private establishment of some kind,
business, home, whatever it is, and I don't own it, and someone who does own it or works there,
if they tell me, "Hey, we need you to wear the mask,"
I'll put it on because it's their place, their rules, and that's it.
I'll respect their place and their rules.
And also, the random employee at Walmart who's telling you to put the mask on.
It's not his rule.
He didn't make it up.
He doesn't want to enforce it.
He has to.
And if he fails to enforce it, he'll probably get fired.
I don't want to get that kid fired.
So I'll do that.
I'm not going to volunteer to wear the mask.
But if someone in a position of authority, and even if you work at Walmart, and you do have a position of authority, at least in the case you work for the employer, If someone like that asks me to, then I will.
I'm not going to volunteer.
But if someone who has no authority, just some other person, a fellow customer or someone, demands that I put it on, no, sorry.
Because I don't have to listen to you.
You have no authority.
You have as much authority here as I do, which is none.
And then also, I've never quite understood this.
Why do people care?
This whole time you've got these complaints about people who wear the mask wrong or have the mask pulled below the nose.
What do you care if someone has the mask pulled below the nose?
What does it matter to you?
If you think it puts them in more danger, that's none of your concern.
Do you really think if someone has the mask below the nose, which is how I wear mine, by the way, and not because I don't know how to wear it, I wear it that way because I want to breathe.
That's why I wear it that way.
So when you see people at this point with the mask below the nose, no, these aren't morons who don't know how masks work.
They're wearing it that way on purpose because it's more comfortable.
And it's none of your business.
What do you think is going to happen?
You think someone has a mask below the nose, they walk past you in the grocery aisle.
Do you think just from the air blowing out of their nostrils as they pass by you for a second, you think that's going to infect you when you're wearing a mask?
Let me tell you something, if that does happen, then the mask really was useless, and so what does it matter if they're wearing it or not?
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So yesterday, the word obesity was trending on Twitter.
Now, from what I can tell, the reason for this trend was, at least in part, the announcement from Krispy Kreme that they're going to give you free doughnuts.
Well, free doughnuts, actually, multiple free doughnuts, if you can produce proof that you were vaccinated for COVID.
And not just one doughnut.
They'll give you a free doughnut every day for the rest of the year.
Now, will anyone actually take them up on this?
I mean, will anyone bring their medical paperwork into a Krispy Kreme shop every day for a year to get a free donut?
Will anyone get the vaccine just for the free donuts?
I don't know, but if I know anything about Americans, the answer is certainly yes.
Now, keep one thing in mind, though.
Krispy Kreme is known for reneging on these kinds of promises.
There was a time, many moons ago, when you could go into a Krispy Kreme store anytime the Hot Now light was on, and you could get a free donut, if the sign said Hot Now.
And there was a time, many moons ago, when I would often take advantage of that perk.
But then, and I like to think this is thanks exclusively to my own gluttonous and greed, they stopped offering the free donuts.
At least, the Krispy Kremes around where I live, that was the case.
So now, um, hot now only means that the donuts are hot and fresh, which of course means that when the light isn't on, they aren't hot and fresh.
And that's a problem because Krispy Kreme donuts are exceptional in that they are the only food item which goes from being heavenly as soon as it emerges from the oven to inedible four minutes later.
The donuts are great when they're piping hot, but downright reprehensible at room temperature.
The second law of thermodynamics has not been kind to Krispy Kreme.
Anyway, I seem to have lost the plot somewhere.
The point is that Krispy Kreme is trying to help fight COVID by giving out donuts, and this is potentially doing more harm than good, seeing as obesity is one of the major COVID risk factors.
One of the reasons that COVID hit us so hard is that we have so many obese people in this country.
It doesn't seem like a great idea, in light of that fact, to encourage even more obesity.
And it is that word, obesity, which prompted this tweet from actress Jameela Jamil, known for her role in that one show, and also that other show.
And, oh yeah, did you ever see that thing about the person doing the thing?
She's in that too, I think.
Well, she, whoever she is, she tweeted this.
She said, quote, obesity trending opens the floodgates to a tsunami of ignorant and illogical abuse against the fat community, lacking context, nuance, and humanity.
Below is something I want you to understand.
And then there's a picture with even more text, presumably written by her, saying, quote, Obesity is trending.
On the subject of obesity and the amount of people who die allegedly from it, allegedly from it, I think it's important to keep reminding people that a lot of fat people die or become seriously ill because their symptoms of serious illness are ignored by doctors who blame everything on their weight and therefore don't investigate their health properly.
Cancer, cysts, respiratory, brain tumors, life-threatening gynecological issues, etc.
Okay.
Now, where to start?
by practitioners who are unable to see past their own fat phobia.
So until people who are larger than average are treated equally by doctors and not dismissed
and dehumanized so pervasively and frequently, we can't have an informed or fair conversation
about any death rates or health issues related to obesity.
Okay. Now where to start? Maybe with this.
She refers to the number of people who die allegedly from obesity.
For the record, as far as that number goes, 78% of people hospitalized with COVID in the U.S.
were overweight or obese.
Worldwide, according to the World Health Organization, 2.8 million people die from obesity-related causes each year, and that's pre-COVID.
Those are the pre-COVID numbers.
2.8 million worldwide.
It's only gotten worse, not better.
Jamil mentions that obese people die from cancer, cysts, respiratory issues, which are allegedly missed by the fat-phobic doctors.
Well, it turns out that obesity increases your risk of developing all of those things.
The doctors are not ignoring those health hazards by telling you to get your weight under control.
They're telling you to get your weight under control because of those hazards and countless others.
We see here the extent to which the words like equality and bigotry have lost their coherence.
The words quite literally don't mean anything anymore.
You may as well not say them because nobody will know what you mean when you do.
No, doctors should not treat obese people equal to other people because they're not equal.
If you're obese, you are less healthy, more at risk, more likely to die, and doctors absolutely ought to be taking that into account.
Asking for a doctor to treat fat people equally is like complaining when your allergist gives you an inhaler because people without asthma don't need inhalers.
So you're being treated unequally.
Well, you gave me an inhaler.
What about him?
Why don't you give him one?
Well, because he doesn't have asthma, you dope.
You are, as a person with asthma, you are unequal to non-asthma people.
Unequal as in not the same as.
You are different.
You have this risk factor, and they don't.
Is your doctor being asthma-phobic by giving you that inhaler?
I suppose so.
Yeah, he is.
He is rightly afraid of what asthma might do to you, and so he's trying to treat it.
In the same way, it is right to be afraid of what obesity might do to a person.
Fat-phobic?
Sure.
I'm fat-phobic.
I announce it proudly.
I am fat-phobic.
I don't want to be fat myself.
I don't want my loved ones to be fat.
I don't want anyone to be fat.
I am phobic of that.
I am phobic of people being fat.
The reason I don't want that for myself or for anyone else is that I don't want to die.
I don't want anyone else to die.
Being fat not only can kill you, but it will.
You will.
There's a reason why you rarely see morbidly obese 80-year-olds.
The reason is that obesity will shorten your lifespan.
You are straining your body and your internal organs by carrying around all that extra baggage.
Eventually, your body and your organs will be taxed to their limits.
This is the reality.
It's not pleasant, but that doesn't make it not real.
So for all these extraordinarily obvious reasons, the idea of fat acceptance, the idea that there, you know, even is such a thing as the fat community, which we must afford rights and equality to.
I mean, think about that, fat community.
It's utter and complete madness.
Yet it's predictable madness in a culture where self-love is not only the highest love, but indeed the only love we recognize.
We are encouraged to focus our sights inward, to value our emotional well-being above all else, to put ourselves before everything and everyone, to recognize no moral law but our own whims.
We've seen the catastrophic consequences of living in a civilization that operates that way, and we've seen in many forms the great irony.
Which is that the more we focus on ourselves, the more we demand acceptance of ourselves and of our vices, the more we love ourselves in this way, the more damage we do to ourselves.
We are loving ourselves to death, you might say.
Even death by Krispy Kreme and other assorted junk foods.
And for that reason, Jameela Jamil, whoever she is, and all the other apostles from the Church of Fat Acceptance, all must be Fourth with cancelled.
And we'll leave it there for today.
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