The Matt Walsh Show - C is for Consent | Matt Walsh Reviews (Another) Woke Children's Book
Aired: 2021-06-05
Duration: 06:48


=== Woke Children's Book Analysis (04:35) ===

[00:00:00]  Okay, so now we're going to look at another woke children's book.
[00:00:02]  This one, on the surface, I mean literally reading the book by its cover, it seems maybe not as bad as some of the others that we've looked at, that we've reviewed, but you never know.
[00:00:13]  So we're going to read this whole thing, it's pretty short, and I'll read the whole thing and then I'll offer my review.
[00:00:19]  So let's get into it.
[00:00:20]  This is called C is for Consent.
[00:00:25]  And this is for ages 0 and plus, so if you have a 0-year-old child, they could read this.
[00:00:32]  I mean, you know it's a board book, it's short, so this is really for kids probably 2, 3, 4, 5 years old.
[00:00:39]  Alright.
[00:00:41]  It says, it's time for a party with family and friends.
[00:00:45]  And you see, of course, there we've got the interracial gay couple.
[00:00:49]  We've got the interracial disabled couple.
[00:00:52]  One member of the couple's disabled.
[00:00:53]  You got to get all the representation there.
[00:00:55]  And I don't see any furries.
[00:00:59]  I don't see anyone who's apparently transsexual or even transgender or pansexual.
[00:01:05]  So that's a problem.
[00:01:06]  But we'll keep going.
[00:01:07]  Grandma wants a hug, but Finn isn't in the mood.
[00:01:11]  That's OK, says Dad.
[00:01:12]  You don't have to give hugs if you don't want to.
[00:01:15]  Grandpa leans down to kiss Finn.
[00:01:18]  Mom says, please ask for consent first.
[00:01:21]  Grandpa asks, may I kiss you on the cheek?
[00:01:25]  Finn replies, hmm, yes you may.
[00:01:29]  Auntie and uncle want Finn to sit with them.
[00:01:32]  Come sit on my lap.
[00:01:33]  No, you have to sit on my lap.
[00:01:35]  Finn says, no thank you.
[00:01:37]  My parents say I don't have to sit on anyone's lap if I don't feel like it.
[00:01:41]  What a brat this kid is.
[00:01:44]  Mom's friends give Finn a present.
[00:01:46]  Does that mean he has to hug or kiss that person?
[00:01:48]  Only if he wants to.
[00:01:50]  Maybe Finn could high five or fist bump instead.
[00:01:53]  Or maybe he doesn't want to be touched at all.
[00:01:55]  It's his choice what happens to his body.
[00:01:59]  Finn is happy to see his best friend Rue.
[00:02:01]  He asks, may I hold your hand?
[00:02:03]  It is okay for you to say no.
[00:02:06]  Rue replies, yes, you may hold my hand.
[00:02:09]  Thank you for asking first.
[00:02:12]  And that's it.
[00:02:13]  That's the end of the whole story.
[00:02:14]  Okay.
[00:02:14]  Then there are discussion questions at the end, which we won't get into.
[00:02:18]  So that actually is, somewhat surprisingly, this is the worst one yet, I think.
[00:02:23]  This somehow manages to be more disturbing than, you know, books that are pushing transgenderism and bisexuality and all that kind of stuff.
[00:02:31]  Those books are bad too, but don't get me wrong, but this one disturbs me on a deeper level.
[00:02:39]  So let's count the ways.
[00:02:41]  To begin with, before we get to the major problems here, this kid is awful.
[00:02:46]  I mean, this is what happens when you have permissive, hippie parents.
[00:02:51]  I would not, I can't imagine if I was a little kid, if I was like six years old, and my grandmother came to visit and said, hey, give me a hug.
[00:02:58]  And I said, nah, I don't feel like it, granny.
[00:03:01]  I cannot imagine what my dad's reaction would have been.
[00:03:04]  It would not have been pleasant, I can tell you.
[00:03:06]  My reaction with my own kids wouldn't be pleasant.
[00:03:09]  Yes, I tell them.
[00:03:10]  Let me tell you something.
[00:03:13]  I violate my kids' consent all the time in the sense that I force them to do things they don't want to do.
[00:03:20]  Sit down and study!
[00:03:23]  Much of the day, in fact, involves them doing things that it's not their idea to do those things.
[00:03:29]  They don't really want to do those things.
[00:03:32]  I mean, clean their room.
[00:03:33]  Let's start with that.
[00:03:35]  Like, I don't get their consent for that?
[00:03:37]  What is that, forced labor?
[00:03:38]  Is that slavery?
[00:03:41]  My kids know that when a family member comes over to visit, you go and give them a hug.
[00:03:48]  It's not an option.
[00:03:50]  It's not a choice.
[00:03:51]  You are required to do that.
[00:03:52]  Well, don't look at me like I'm frickin' Frankenstein.
[00:03:55]  Give your father a hug.
[00:03:56]  Because that's polite.
[00:03:59]  But the major problem here is that the book explicitly sexualizes physical contact between family members.
[00:04:06]  I mean, this author, he is, well, he, who is it?
[00:04:10]  Eleanor Morrison.
[00:04:11]  He, his, her, whoever's, they're taking their own, I don't wanna misgender them, whoever it is, they're taking their own complex and projecting it onto everyone else.

=== Everything Is Sexual (02:27) ===

[00:04:21]  I don't know what's going on with you, that you view a hug from an aunt or a grandfather as potentially sexual in nature, but it's something you should be talking to a therapist about.
[00:04:30]  You don't write it into a children's book, for God's sake.
[00:04:34]  This is what you get from the left, right?
[00:04:35]  They grew up on a diet of Freud, whether they know it or not, and now they see everything in sexual terms.
[00:04:41]  Everything is sexual.
[00:04:42]  They're incapable of conceptualizing any human interaction that might occur outside of a sexual framework.
[00:04:49]  Everything for them is sexual or potentially sexual, and they're weirdos, in other words, to summarize.
[00:04:54]  Losers, in other words.
[00:04:56]  I mean, let's take the family dynamic out of it for a second, just for a moment, because I don't want to dwell on that.
[00:05:01]  It's too disturbing.
[00:05:02]  And let's pretend that we're talking about just some dude and a girl and they're not related.
[00:05:10]  Even in that context, the idea that verbal consent should precede every physical interaction is asinine.
[00:05:19]  I mean, my wife would look at me like a maniac if we were walking somewhere down the sidewalk or something, and I said, excuse me, may I have consent?
[00:05:31]  You hold your hand, requesting permission to initiate physical interaction.
[00:05:36]  Permission granted.
[00:05:37]  You may maintain physical contact for 75 seconds.
[00:05:40]  Thank you, ma'am.
[00:05:41]  That's what they want.
[00:05:43]  Now we know why leftists are so angry all the time.
[00:05:45]  They're lonely.
[00:05:46]  Nobody wants to be around them because they act like some bizarre mix.
[00:05:50]  It's the weirdest mix of hedonistic sex fiend and robot.
[00:05:54]  You wouldn't know perversion if it put clamps on your testicles.
[00:05:58]  Leftist men in particular are just lonely.
[00:05:59]  There's no way any woman wants to be around this kind of thing if they carry on like this.
[00:06:05]  All of this hyper-consent stuff.
[00:06:06]  It makes sense among machines.
[00:06:10]  But for organic creatures, we need organic interactions.
[00:06:14]  We need things to develop naturally.
[00:06:16]  But this all, again, this is, I'm talking now about two adults who aren't related.
[00:06:20]  So I'm doing the book a favor by framing the conversation this way.
[00:06:23]  What the book is actually talking about, again, are little kids and their grandparents.
[00:06:29]  They want robotic consent requests, even in that context.
[00:06:34]  Excuse me, young one.
[00:06:35]  May I have consent to kiss you on the forehead?
[00:06:38]  And squeeze your cheeks and remark on how big you've gotten since I last saw you two months ago.
[00:06:42]  Permission denied.
[00:06:44]  Get lost, you old fart.
[00:06:46]  That is literally the future the left wants.