Misunderstood No. 44 dissects Shania Twain’s Netflix doc, where she overcame abuse to embrace femininity, contrasting it with accusations against American Girl for promoting puberty blockers in a book aimed at three-year-olds. The hosts mock AOC’s Met Gala hair/makeup gifts and Chloe Kardashian’s 100-pound deadlift, framing them as hypocritical or trivial, while attacking Tampax’s "woke" tampon tweet as misguided. They warn parents to reject gender-transitioning books, tying it to "grooming," and end by pushing their show’s merch and platform—Rebel News Plus—while dismissing TikTok’s China links. [Automatically generated summary]
You know that you can never fully become a woman if you're so good at science because sorry, honey, but the science is pretty solid there.
Unless something just completely changes in the next year, you're going to be a man forever.
Unfortunately, sorry.
That's some fighting words.
I know.
I think that's illegal.
I don't care.
Arrest me.
Take her away.
Take me away.
Guys, she's in here.
Take care away.
And welcome to Misunderstood, the show for the culturally and politically misunderstood lady, gent, etc.
We are your hosts.
I'm Nat, and I'm Kat.
And today we're going to be talking about annoying women, just a few of them, and then some cool women, and then another woman who's not a woman at all.
It's a man.
Very annoying one.
It's Dylan Mulvaney.
Yes.
It's Dylan Mulvaney.
Spoiler alert.
Yeah.
But we're going to kick it off with talking about one of the most annoying women ever.
Yeah.
I think that's fair to say.
Potentially.
Yeah.
You guys should let us know who you think is the most annoying of the women we discussed today.
Is it Nat?
Yeah.
Just kidding.
My husband writes in, it's Nat.
We'll kill him.
Okay.
We will not kill anyone.
We will not kill him.
No violence.
Okay.
We love.
Annoying Women?00:05:31
Speaking of violence, this dress that AOC wore.
AOC is the woman.
The woman.
AOC, as you know, is Alexandra Orcasio-Cortez, who is known by her initials AOC.
She's an American politician and activist and far left, far-left communist socialist.
I don't even know.
But she's a Congresswoman.
She's a rich, though.
Well, yeah, she somehow is able to afford a Tesla.
I can't afford a Tesla.
No.
But anyway, as you maybe know, last year in 2021, the Met Gala happened and she was invited.
How lovely.
First of all, it's like 35 grand, I think, to attend, and she was invited.
The gown, which apparently was lent to her.
And for those of you who don't know, all of those gowns are lent to all of them.
Yeah.
I think some of them get them customer.
I'm not even sure.
I haven't been invited yet, so I can't really.
We'll let you know next year.
Yeah, we'll let you know because we did recently get an invitation to be the ushers.
You know, the people in the back with the masks on.
That'll be us.
That's going to be.
So be sure to say hello if you're there.
Anyway, AOC wore this white gown and in red text.
It said tax the rich on it, which is hilarious.
Not her, though.
Well, and also who is she hanging out with?
Yeah.
Literally the richest, wealthiest people in the world.
Yeah.
So there was some, I think it might have been in this article, but there were some really funny tweets about it.
And one of them was like, and obviously the obvious take is like who, how hypocritical, obviously.
And then this one guy was like, what she did was she wanted to go to a fancy event and wear a fancy dress.
And then in order to offset all that, she just slapped tax the wrist, the rich on it.
Yeah, it's clever.
It's like super lazy, but it's like clever.
Like, it's no more than that.
Yeah.
It's like, you don't have to look very far into it.
She just wanted to go to the party.
The dress kind of looked like couldn't be seen there without making a scene.
No, of course.
And she loves to be the center of attention.
I mean, we've seen that countless times.
Yeah.
I mean, I'm not hating her for that.
No.
But the dress was also really ugly.
I thought.
Well, it's just like a wedding dress.
Yeah.
It's weird that she'd wear a wedding dress to the Met Gala.
Yeah.
I don't know.
What's your, what's the, I don't know.
Anyway, well, that's not why we're talking about her.
And that's not the only reason why she's annoying.
So apparently she's being investigated by House Ethics Committee for her $35,000 Met Gala tickets while having the audacity to wear the Tax the Rich designer dress at the event.
So there's this statement here.
Well, it's not a statement.
It's from the article.
It says Representative Orcasio-Cortez may have violated the House gift rule by accepting free admission for herself and boyfriend to the Met Gala event and receiving related gifts before, during, or after the event, including the use of custom design dress, limousine service, the use of the Carlisle Hotel, professional hair and makeup services, and any other related good or service is what the complaint against her said.
The U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Ethics has stated that they say, they put out a statement saying the committee notes that the mere fact of a referral or an extension of the mandatory disclosure of such an extension, blah, blah, blah, name, blah, blah, blah, does not in itself indicate any violation has occurred.
Basically, they're like, she's innocent until proven guilty.
And she thinks that is, well, she thinks she's innocent as well.
She thinks that the case will be dismissed against her.
But she also, she's a pretty confident lady.
So, I mean.
Obviously, conservatives are like, ha ha.
Yeah.
But it's really not because she's going to get away with it because they always do.
She's a member of the squad.
You know, she's got a lot of support, it seems, from the Democrat Party.
Although, yeah, I don't even know.
She's just, she's so cringe.
She's cringe.
She's really cringe.
A lot of bad tastes.
Just like she could have put out one of her like little snarky TikToks and been like, hey, guys, just want to let you know that like I was invited to this event and I decided to donate the money that I would have received to planned parenthood.
Exactly.
Like have like stand by your convictions.
Yeah.
But they don't have to.
Like that's that's the thing.
This is why she's so annoying.
She gets to practice, like she doesn't practice what she preaches.
None of these people do.
And yet people still support her.
I don't understand that aspect of it.
Yet she somehow still is able to win.
You know, she's the representative for New York's 14th congressional district since 2019.
That's like, we're going on five years.
She's very popular.
She's very popular.
She has like millions of social media followers.
Of course, some of them are haters.
You know, I used to hate follow her.
Yeah.
I hate follow Justin Trudeau.
Yeah, me too.
Yeah.
Well, I think you should follow the leader of your country on the most.
Oh, I agree.
Like, if you're not doing that, then it's like you're closing your eyes.
But anyways, that's a side note.
So it's just, it's just interesting.
Her team, her office, put out a statement saying the congresswoman has always taken ethics incredibly seriously, refusing any donations from lobbyists, corporations, or other special interests.
Sure, maybe.
I doubt it, but I have no proof to the contrary.
It's just, she seems like a sketchy bee.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Especially, well, the thing is, anyone who likes to, you know, throw stones at the wealthy people, then hang out with them and get be all chummy in their presence wearing an expensive gown at a $35,000 like event.
That's just the ticket price.
Yeah, exactly.
Like they said, the hair and the makeup.
Plus, I wonder if the vehicle she used to get there was a gas guzzling view.
Oh, because I'm pretty sure she's pretty keen on her environmentalism, Ms. Tesla driver.
Why Chloe Complains00:15:04
Although maybe she got rid of returned or Tesla, right?
Or got rid of it, allegedly, because she hates free speech or something.
Right.
Okay.
But whatever.
She's annoying, but I don't know.
Maybe she's not the most annoying.
We got another one for you guys.
Yeah.
So Chloe Kardashian was like, this is barely news, but she's just so annoying.
She's so annoying.
She's like, guys, I'm 123 pounds and I was like pulling over 100 pounds.
And it's like, I looked into it.
Apparently, that's not that crazy.
Like, really?
So it says to optimize your health, the health of your body, you should be able to squat and deadlift 1.5 times your body weight.
Yeah, I mean, I do that all the time.
Well, like, it's, so she was pulling it.
Like, that's, it's really not that big a deal.
And that daily mail is such a rag.
I, I'm, I'm a huge daily mail fan myself.
I report on everything.
Um, quite literally everything.
My issue with it is like, I don't care how many pounds you weigh, and also you're like super tall.
It's so easy for really tall people to be like, I weigh one pound.
It's like, yeah, okay.
Some of us are, you know, a little bit challenged in the height area.
I mean, I'll never, I don't know.
You know what I mean?
Well, I think if you're taller, you'd weigh more.
I don't know because you're more weight's distributed more distributed.
You're going to weigh more if you're taller.
Yeah.
More bones.
No, I get that, but I just mean it's easier to look slender.
Oh, yeah.
You know what I mean?
Because your weight is more evenly spread out throughout your body.
My thing here is like, why does the Daily Mail write so many articles about the Kardashians?
Because they know it generates clicks.
So that's the thing.
I looked into it.
And apparently there are two main theories.
One is that the Daily Mail gets paid by the Kardashians to write these articles.
And then other people are saying it's because the Kardashians produce clicks.
But my question is, if that was the reason, why would all the articles be so positive?
Like, they're the worst.
They write terrible things about Megan Markle, who, yeah, is also annoying, very annoying.
But it's just so weird.
I know this is going off topic a little bit, but I'm just like, why do they get so much positive attention from the Daily Mail?
Like, there can be like five articles in a day about that family.
And it's like, like, Kim Kardashian glows in her sleeve.
Well, they are also the most famous family in the world, arguably.
I know, but, but wouldn't there be negative articles too?
I find that there can be sometimes.
Really?
But I don't know.
Maybe I just don't pay attention to it.
It is a good point.
It is a good point.
My issue with this, though, is that Chloe always complains on her show, The Kardashians, how she's so anxious on social media and all the haters, and she hates being in the spotlight and she hates attention.
Then it's like, you're clearly posting this for attention.
Like, I don't give a shit how much you weigh, Chloe.
You're a mom.
Like, I want to hear about how much you love your kid or something.
I don't even want to hear from you at all, frankly.
But if I have to, I would love it to be about, you know, maybe parenting or like something fruitful.
Maybe some of the cool work you're doing with your clothing brand, you know, I don't know.
Something.
She's like, I'm so skinny, but like so strong.
It's like, shut up.
I don't care.
You know, you know how easy it is for rich people like you to be skinny?
You literally have 24-hour help.
You don't even have to raise your kid technically.
Well, clearly you can't because of those nails.
Right.
Their nails are like this long.
And they're like, you're changing a baby, an infant baby diaper with those.
I love you, honey.
Edward scissor hands on your face.
Time for your first haircut.
But it's just, it's so annoying.
I deem her annoying.
I think so too.
She's pretty annoying.
And also, if she's so strong, don't you gain more weight technically when you have more muscle mass?
Oh my God, she's even skinnier because muscle is more than fat.
It's just so annoying.
The whole thing is so annoying.
It's just super annoying.
And you set such a terrible example for women, including your own daughter.
My daughter.
Your own daughter.
She doesn't care how much you weigh.
She just cares that you're around, Chloe.
Yeah.
Annoying.
This woman is not annoying to me.
No, me either.
But the article is annoying because it's so.
This is from the New York Post.
Oh, sorry.
I love them.
We do read them a lot.
Kate Winslet says, my agent was asked about my weight when I was young.
So this, I mean, I don't have much to say on this other than the fact that when she was young, her agent would constantly get calls from producers asking like, what, what is her weight?
And it's like, shut up.
The people that are annoying are the producers.
Shut up.
She's beautiful and talented.
She's so beautiful.
Shut up.
I mean, I agree.
To kind of just to be the devil's advocate.
You can disagree with it.
It's not.
It's okay.
I'll beat you later.
No, so the thing is, the thing she does, she beats me behind the scenes.
She's going to be a really good mom.
That's a joke.
That's a joke.
It is a joke.
No, it's a joke.
She's a great mom.
Anyway, okay, we're getting silly here today.
But technically, when you're an actor, you are like, they do have a right to know your weight.
Like, they need to know what you weigh.
First of all, it's like getting on a small aircraft.
Right.
It's like when you, how do you look next to someone?
How do clothes fit you?
I don't know.
There's so many things for them to consider.
The camera does add 10 pounds.
Kat and I are so much skinnier in real life than we are on the show, you guys.
Yeah, I'm not even pregnant.
Yeah.
But I do, I do appreciate her kind of coming out because she has been one of those women in Hollywood where she's never really conformed to that like anorexic skinny.
And I've always, I've always appreciated that about her.
And that's the thing about this is why it's so sad.
And we'll talk about this in terms of like Hillary Duff and other people.
Yeah.
And Jennifer Lawrence.
I think we should skip to the Jennifer Lawrence one next.
Yeah, I agree.
It's kind of relevant.
Yeah.
But it's like the fact that that's news, like, oh my God, I didn't, I wasn't a bone rack.
I know.
When not everyone can be as skinny as me.
Yeah.
Not all of us are built like that.
Yeah.
It's okay.
It's not your fault that you're not as skinny as us, Kate Winslet.
Exactly.
It shouldn't be news.
No, and yet it is.
And that's annoying.
Well, it's true.
And I also think it's important for people to just start recognizing that everybody has a different body.
Like, you can't be skinny like somebody else.
You have your own figure, your own structure, and that's fine.
Like, just try to be the healthiest version of you.
Yeah.
And you're not talking about being Lizzo.
No.
Like, no, that, that is, that is not, that is not God-given.
That is not that.
That is self-inflicted.
That's no.
That's a disease.
She could lose weight.
Yeah.
She should lose weight.
Yeah.
And speaking of which, we have this article from BuzzFeed about Jennifer Lawrence said her weight was the biggest conversation when she was cast in Hunger Games and explained why she refused to diet for the part.
So at first, I was like, yeah, like you tell him, girl.
But then I read it.
And it was like, with such a focus on how Katniss would look on screen, Jennifer recalled discussions about her body and whether it would be necessary for her to lose weight in order to play a character who had been, who had grown up fighting starvation.
Yeah.
So maybe I also agree with her, I think.
So I get what you mean because she is supposed to be starving, but also it's a book series for children.
It's a series for kids, and the fact that she was...
That's a good point.
The fact that she was like, no, I want to, like, she has, there's a quote here.
Let me find it.
Sorry.
Give me one sec.
We'll give her a second.
And while she's doing that, I'm just going to point out, though, that actors lose weight for roles all the time.
They do.
And I think that that's something that should not continue in Hollywood.
I'm kind of against it.
But if it, no, but if it's part of the story.
Yeah.
Like, Siliconus and Natalie Portman in The Black Swan.
Yeah, if you have cancer in, like, if your character has cancer, or if you're Corsica Bale in The Machinist lost 63 pounds of weight, right, or Matthew McConaughey in Dallas Wyers Club, she had AIDS, stuff like that.
And Hathaway for Les Miz, she was starving to death.
Yeah.
So it makes sense.
But I hear what you say.
You say, tell us the quote.
Okay, so she said, The Hunger Games was an awesome responsibility.
I mean, those books were huge, and I knew the audience was children, and there were so many different opinions on what this action figure for children was going to look like.
So despite facing pressure from executives to lose weight, Jennifer emphasized that dieting simply wasn't something she was willing to do, if not for her sake, then for the benefit of her young fan base.
I think that's very responsible.
So that's a fair point because it is a movie for children.
Like Les Miz is not.
No, and I would just like to say, as someone who suffers from like body dysmorphia to an extent, when I was young, I was a teenager when this came out.
And I remember seeing her because I wanted to be an actor at the time.
And I thought it was very powerful that she, like, she is a beautiful woman.
She's a beautiful figure.
She is skinny, but she looks strong.
Yeah, yeah.
No, I agree with you.
I felt the exact same way.
I was like, wow, like she's so beautiful, but also looks like a human being.
Yeah, like she has curves.
She has a female figure.
Yeah.
You know, and I appreciate it.
I totally agree with you.
And I hate when there's these super, super skinny women who are playing like action heroes.
Yeah, and it's like you can't even lift a cup full of water.
Exactly.
You're so malnourished.
And just for those who don't know, Hunger Games is like a gay, it's a book series where basically it's very dystopian and they choose kids, choose their names out of a hat and they have to go and kill each other and then someone wins.
Anyway, Katniss ends up winning.
But how could I believe that Katniss was able to win the Hunger Games and kill big, strong men and other people if she's this weak little duck?
Like she had to be strong enough to kill someone.
Yeah.
She doesn't actually ever physically kill them.
She's a spoiler.
She's an archer.
So she goes, but you gotta be strong.
You gotta be strong to be an archer because we actually did it.
Yeah, it's hard.
It's so hard.
Killed a bullseye.
Yes, I did.
I did not.
I'm very strong, though.
Not everyone has this strength.
She's tiny but mighty.
Yes.
Thank you so much.
Okay.
Anyway, yeah.
That's Jennifer Lawrence.
What else do we got?
Should we talk about Hillary Duff?
Yeah, let's talk about Hillary Duff.
Hill Duff.
So she's just so beautiful.
Yeah, so there's this really annoying thing that happened where.
So Hillary Duff is 35 now, formerly.
Oh, God.
Send her to the morgue.
Exactly.
And people are like, so she was on the cover of something recently.
Yeah, it was like Australian Health.
Yeah.
Yeah, Australian Health or something.
There's this picture of her, and she's looking fit and healthy.
And people are like, oh, my God, she looks so good for 35.
And as a 33-year-old, I was extremely triggered by this because, like, what are we dead?
Yeah.
You reach 29 and you're dead.
After 30, women don't exist anymore.
Yeah, pretty much.
And it just, with all this stuff with Balenciaga and like pedophilia, it's like, no wonder.
No wonder everyone's a freaking pedo because we're literally putting women out to pasture who are still gorgeous and fertile.
Like, well, and I mean, no wonder people like Ariana Grande are infantilizing themselves running around looking like babies like little babies.
Because otherwise, you look like you're considered an old hag.
Exactly.
And no wonder everyone's plasticking their face and getting faceless and because it's like even Kim Kardashian, who's 42, it's like she's trying to look 18.
Yeah.
The way she dresses and the way she carries herself, it's like you can't, because I get it.
Because people are like, oh my God, there's so much pressure.
35 and she still looks good and strong.
She can still walk without a cane.
No, exactly.
And although men do face pressure in Hollywood too, and we have an episode coming out where we talk about this in the coming months, so just stay tuned for that.
Right, exactly.
It's different for women.
There's so much more pressure.
I mean, Hillary Duff's an old hag, but Brad Pitt is still smoking holly.
The sexiest man alive.
So men are allowed to parade around with a bunch of gray hair.
They're naturally age.
Yeah, exactly.
And they're still considered the hottest people on the planet.
But if you're a woman, oh, no, we need to always constantly look for the next hot new young thing.
Exactly.
It's really unfair.
It's unfair.
It's disgusting.
And I hate it.
And it's annoying.
It is.
And I really appreciate that Hillary Duff is someone who's kind of also not fitting the norm of what women are supposed to look like in Hollywood in terms of her figure too.
She's all about being strong.
And she's a mom.
Moms need to be able to carry their kids.
They need to be able to keep up with their kids.
They need to be strong.
Like, they can't just be, sorry.
They can't just be these like weak little things that don't.
Do you need to have help for that?
I'm sure she does have help for that, but even so.
Yes.
You know, I just appreciate that she's setting a good example, especially because growing up, she did suffer from an eating disorder.
Because she, again, she had a human body.
Yeah.
And people always called her fat.
I remember.
Yeah, when she was on Lizzie Maguire.
Yeah.
Like, sorry, she's not underweight.
Like, not everyone is going to have, again, a tiny, tiny, skinny frame.
Yeah, it's called bones.
You can't, you can't be smaller than your bones.
Like, she was never obese or fat.
No.
It's just disgusting.
So, you know what?
Good for you, Hilary Duff.
You're not annoying.
Yeah.
Oh, also, too, just on that, though, she's 35, whatever.
You're 33.
33.
She, these women, like her and Chloe Kardashian and Jennifer Lawrence and all these women who are like, they look great for their age.
They also have so much help.
Hilary Duff is super rich.
She's probably as nannies.
Yeah.
And a trainer.
Exactly.
She's like a trainer.
Exactly.
Her life is very easy.
It's very easy for these women to look like that at 35.
Wow.
I know.
I know.
That makes it double annoying.
Yeah.
Because they're like, wow, she looks so good at 35.
It's like, that's not old.
And she has help.
Yeah.
Double so much help.
So I'll check back when I'm 35 and I look like I'm 55 from the stress of living under Justin Trudeau.
Okay.
So check back in a few years.
You'll be fine.
You'll be great.
We'll see.
Okay.
What else do we got?
This is annoying.
Well, there's that article about lip filler.
Yeah, we can talk about that quickly.
Just touch on it.
Just we'll just touch on it.
There's this article from Evie magazine.
Do men find lip filler attractive?
I asked guys in my life, here's what they said.
It really didn't get to the point.
No, it didn't.
So I thought we could just talk about what we think about this instead.
Because first of all, I don't really care if a man thinks a lip filler is attractive.
I'm doing it for me if I want to do it.
Like, I think that there, I understand wanting to look attractive for the opposite sex.
I mean, I'm married now, so I totally want to look attractive for my husband.
But if that's something that makes me content with myself, whatever.
I should be allowed to do it and I shouldn't do it for a man.
No offense, guys.
No controversy.
But the thing is, is a lot of the things that we do are to look attractive.
And maybe it's not just for men, but it's also for other women.
It's true.
I dress in a way that only appeals to women.
Yes.
I dress so that I'm an optical illusion and you can't tell how fat I am.
That's my new thing now.
Where is she?
You don't know.
She's invisible.
Yes.
But I think the funniest part about all this, like lip filler, how do men feel about it?
Is I saw like what's her name?
The Brittany Martinez or Evie magazine.
Brittany Martinez owns Evie Magazine.
Why We Look Attractive00:02:04
It was either her account or Evie's account on Twitter.
They posted this and asked, do men find lip filler attractive?
And like most all the comments were like, no, natural is better.
Natural is better.
But I'm like, you guys wouldn't be able to pick out a good lip.
Like, you don't know.
You don't notice good lip fillers.
They could only tell if it's bad.
Exactly.
Yeah.
Do you want her to look botched?
No, she probably doesn't want to look botched either.
Some girls have, again, body dysmorphia or they want to look like sex dolls or whatever.
That's a whole other category.
We're not even talking about them.
Like, obviously, that looks freakish.
No one's arguing that.
Yeah.
But good lip filler, good Botox.
You cannot tell.
Yeah.
So men are.
Let alone a man.
I know.
A man's not going to notice that.
Like this.
Sebastian doesn't even notice when I get my hair done.
No.
My husband, I told you this earlier.
I was like, I'm going to get my hair dyed.
He's like, isn't your hair already dyed?
It's like, yeah.
You got to keep doing it.
How do you tell me?
Yeah, you got to keep going back.
Sweet kid.
The point is, is like, you don't notice good.
So all these guys could be dating women with lip filler and Botox and be like, oh, she's all natural, bro.
And it's like, you don't know.
You're stupid.
You're cute, but you're stupid.
Yeah, it's true.
So that's that.
That's and I don't know what's annoying about that.
It just is.
I don't know.
It's just annoying because sometimes Evie writes annoying articles.
Yeah.
Even though I love them so much.
I do love them.
I just, but it's like, who cares?
Yeah, it really doesn't matter.
But we should be more concerned about why women are so insecure.
They think they need lip fillers.
I don't know.
Maybe that's more of a better angle.
Maybe talk about why it's not okay to have regular size lips.
Yeah.
Like, let's normalize thin lips, please, for the love of God.
There's all sorts of shapes and sizes of faces.
Different noses, different eyes.
Different eyebrows.
The eyebrows.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Not everyone has thick, bushy eyebrows and big lips and a different.
I think we should just stop making things trendy when it comes to physical appearances.
Exactly.
Like maybe gloss or matte.
Gloss is coming back.
Remember when gloss was out forever?
It's true.
And now gloss is back.
And they're like, love it.
You know, it's dewy polish.
Dewy skin.
I mean, I like that one because I have oily skin.
So I want to glaze doughnuts in.
Why Normalizing Lips Matters00:15:07
I'll take it.
Exactly.
You know?
When it's like, oh, big butts, little noses.
It's like, you can't change that unless you have a ton of money.
And you shouldn't be doing that because it's bad for you.
And you'll see that in the episode that we talk about also.
Yes.
We have a lot of exciting episodes coming up, y'all.
So stay tuned for the new year.
Anyway, moving on to something sad.
Yeah.
So, Shania Twain, many of you know Shaniai Twain.
She's beloved.
Beloved.
Boo.
So apparently.
She's a national treasure.
She's a national treasure, but she.
She lives in Switzerland.
Yes.
Well, we got it.
We'd all hope we could.
Yeah, I would too.
Anyway, so she didn't always feel like a woman, and she recalls the abuse that made her uncomfortable being a girl.
So in a recent interview with The Times, promoting her new Netflix documentary, Shaniai Twain, Not Just a Girl, opened up about how growing up she was terrified to be a girl and that she had has had to fight, has had the fight of her life to even be a woman at all.
So she was abused sexually by her stepfather growing up.
Yeah, I didn't know that.
And sexually and physically.
Yeah.
And she was super poor.
Yeah, and I guess her parents died in a car crash and then she had to take care of her family.
So, whoa.
Yeah.
So she had to grow up really fast.
And one of the things I found most disturbing from that interview was they said when she was eight, her mother would take her to sing on stage in bars, which she couldn't legally do until they stopped serving alcohol at midnight.
So she was eight years old.
And then she'd have to go to school the next day.
And she was singing in smoky bars with gross men gawking at her.
Exactly.
So that added to stuff.
And then when she was 14, she started working at McDonald's so that she, because she wasn't paid for any of that singing that she got.
Maybe her mom was, who knows?
But any, I don't know, but her mother doesn't sound like a friggin peach for putting her eight-year-old daughter at the bar, like waking her up in the middle of the night to go sing.
Come, honey, let's go.
Let's go dance.
Music.
I know.
I'm surprised.
I'm so surprised.
Anyways, when she was 14, she started working at McDonald's and she was happy to have a little extra cash.
And she said she was happy to have a, she could eat a double quarter pounder regularly because she, their family was so poor, they didn't have a lot of food.
Yeah.
And then she goes home and gets sexually and physically abused by her stepdad.
Yeah, and then she ended up even going as far as to binding her chest because she didn't, she was super uncomfortable with her breasts, which sounds super familiar, guys.
It sounds like a lot of women, young teenage girls who are going through puberty who are uncomfortable with their body.
And interestingly enough, a lot of people who have detransitioned, so they transitioned to be a boy and then detransition back to being a girl have talked about how they were uncomfortable with their changing bodies, with their developing bodies when they were kids.
And that's part of the reason because they didn't, that's part of the reason why they transitioned because they were sick of being sexualized or stared at or, you know, just assaulted by men with their eyes or even physically.
Yeah.
I had the tiniest boobs, but I remember once I had a shirt that was tight and I wore it to school and like the boys who were my age and it wasn't pedoey, but everyone's like, oh, like look at cats boobs.
And I was like, this is horrible.
So uncomfortable.
This is horrible.
Yeah.
Never wearing this shirt again.
And it wasn't even like, none of it was sexual.
It was just like, had these tidy little boobies.
And it was like even that for me, being like a nerdy, gross little kid, like a lanky nerd, was still too much.
No, it was super uncomfortable when even my friends were talking, like, you got boobs.
And you're like, ah, you're like, kill me.
You're like, I want to die.
So, but it's just why this story is so powerful is not only that she was able to overcome, you know, the abuse and the sexual abuse and become such a strong figure in Canada and in the world.
And she's a great singer.
I love her music.
This just speaks to how kids change their minds.
They can overcome their body dysmorphia.
They can grow out of it with proper help or whatever it is.
I guess she was like, this is a miracle situation.
How lucky she clearly didn't get proper help.
No, but how lucky is she that she was able to come out unscathed by the evils of gender ideology?
Thank God.
We wouldn't have Shania Twain.
I know.
We wouldn't have her.
What?
Yeah.
The song would be man.
I feel like a man.
Yeah.
It's like, yeah, I guess you feel like a man, honey, but you'll never really be one.
And I think maybe a critic of ours would argue that, oh, well, it's just because they like gender ideology wasn't a thing back then.
And maybe if she was, you know, in affirmed, she would have, but it's like, but look at her now.
I don't think she's standing here now as a gorgeous woman living with her husband in Switzerland saying, oh, I wish I was a man.
I should have transitioned all those years ago.
Like, maybe I'm wrong on that.
I don't think so.
I think she's probably happy because she's gorgeous.
Yeah.
And successful.
And successful.
Like, she's one of the greatest country singers of all time.
Yeah.
So apparently she's one of the most successful musicians of all time.
Not even in any genre, not even country.
Exactly.
And it's so lovely for a woman to come out and say, hey, I love being a woman.
I'm so, like, embracing femininity is so important.
And I love that she's using her platform to talk about that too.
She even said something about this.
Oh, yes.
Thankfully, in her 20s, according to The Times, she found her confidence, adding that she hopes young girls can learn how to exude confidence.
I think she's such a good role model for young girls.
It's so great.
We talk about this endlessly on the show.
There's a clear attack on little girls in our society.
And it's great that someone with a platform like hers is speaking out about how she loves being a woman.
You know, when you said that, there's an attack on little girls.
It's like, you know how weak people pick on weaker people?
It's like, you people are picking on little girls.
Yeah.
Like how weak are people?
That's who you're so right.
It's so wicked.
It's disgusting.
Yeah.
Anyways, there's also another quote here about how fashion helped her find her confidence.
That's cool.
We love a little bit of fashion.
We do.
She said, I, on the topic of fashion, she said, I could speak and tell a story about myself by the way I moved, my body, the drape of the fabrics, the colors, where the focus was.
And I love that about fashion, the fun of it, the expression.
I was never an exhibitionist for the sake of it.
Like saying, you know, look at my tits.
It really, it was really me coming into myself.
It was a metamorphosis of sorts.
That's beautiful.
Yeah.
Love that.
I love that for her.
Me too.
And the pictures in that article from wherever were so gorgeous.
Yeah.
She's just the clothes and her style and her confidence.
She doesn't look forced.
She's just chilling.
I love it.
So you can grow up and be comfortable in the skin you were born in.
Yeah, but they don't want you to know that, especially people at American girl.
No.
No.
Why would American girl be pro-girl?
So, yeah, you guys, American Girls Accused of Gaslighting Children with a book about gender identity and transitioning.
And to your point, how can you call yourself American girl and then want your customers to transition to boys?
They're not going to buy your dolls anymore if they become little burrs.
No.
So some of the points from, there's another article from the Daily Mail that talks about this.
Some of the points are, yeah, so it says it's called A Smart Girl's Guide to Body Image and it gives advice to girls as young as three on how to change their gender by asking doctors for puberty blockers.
I think there's just a word for that.
Grooming.
I think it's grooming.
Are we allowed to say that word?
I don't know, but we're going to.
What if it's just, I'm just literally talking about it.
It's grooming.
It's just, we're brushing our hair for those of you listening to the podcast.
We always have hairbrushes on set with us.
You never know.
But I had a point.
Yes, so remember when they used to say gender is a construct?
So why the heck would you need puberty blockers to change a construct?
And they used to say sex and gender are different.
But now you call it male to female and female to male.
So they're the same.
Which means there's only two genders.
Exactly.
And then what's not a binary?
There's a binary because you're saying.
Well, cat, you're non-binary, so you're going to have to explain that to our audience.
I'm not sure.
How do you reconcile your existence?
I feel attacked and I feel unseen.
This is not a safe space.
Another thing to add to that is we're told constantly to grow when we grow up to love ourselves.
We're perfect as we are.
Yet, I'm supposed to change genders to love myself.
Yeah, exactly.
That's another thing I wrote.
It's like, oh, yeah.
So the passage in the book advises, if you haven't gone through puberty yet, the doctor might offer medicine to delay your body's changes.
But wait, I thought we were perfect as we are.
I thought you were my authentic self.
But hey, I was listening to Allie Bastucci, and she raised this really interesting point.
What kind of people in our society want certain individuals to stay mentally and physically younger?
Because puberty blockers stop you from developing.
What kind of exactly?
Pedophiles.
So not only are we, if a child decides to go on these puberty blockers, they are not only going to be medical customers for life, but they're also feeding a certain fetish.
Oh.
So interesting.
Oh, I never thought about that.
Yeah, it's really horrifying to think about.
My brain.
That's a fact.
But the fact that American Girl, which used to be a company that was about promote, it promoted girlhood.
It taught girls to love their bodies and it was educational and it was.
Yeah, but they have little books and stuff as well.
And it used to be really pro-girl.
The fact that they are now doing a 180 and trying to teach little girls that they can become boys for, like, why?
What's your goal here?
Do you just want to, do you just want to serve the pedo community?
I don't understand.
Write to us, American Girl, if you're not pedos.
Yeah, because it kind of seems like you are.
Allegedly.
Allegedly.
It's really gross.
And the person who wrote this is like a 20-year-old with a septum piercing and pronouns in their bio.
And it's like, are you just so miserable, chick?
I don't know the name of the author, but are you just so miserable that you want to ruin everyone else's life too?
You're a sick person.
I'm sorry.
Like, you're sick in the head.
It's disgusting.
It's disgusting.
And if you own an American Girl doll, throw it in the frickin' fire.
Yeah.
Or actually mail it back to them.
Yeah.
I don't know.
Apparently the book is 96 pages.
And I was like, well, thank God.
Because no one's going to read that.
Especially not a three-year-old.
Yeah.
So at least, I mean, maybe I'm just talking from personal experience.
At that age, there's no freaking way I would read a 96-page book.
I hope 50 of those pages are pictures.
Actually, I hope they're not.
Yeah, I hope.
I hope they're not.
I hope they're blank pages.
Hope they're blank pages.
Well, and it also provides a list of resources for organizations children can turn to if you don't have an adult you can trust.
What is that again?
What is that again when you isolate children from their parents?
What is it again?
Grooming.
Oh, yeah.
It's brushing your hair.
Right.
We're grooming again.
Yeah.
That's what that is.
And I'm pretty sure we have an episode that kind of goes through that.
So you guys should go back and listen to it.
I don't remember which one, one of the earlier ones, but we debunked a Twitter thread.
We did all of them.
Yeah, we went through a Twitter thread that talked about grooming.
Anyway, it's really wonderful stuff.
Yeah.
Also, on that exact same note about the list of resources for if you don't have an adult, you can trust me.
Your parents?
Pillar?
I understand.
Not all parents are good parents.
That's a fact.
No, it's true.
It doesn't, you don't need a license to have sex and have a child.
But chances are, chances are, your parent probably loves you.
Chances are, maybe not.
Maybe not.
But find me wrong about that.
Even the bad ones should at least be involved in the conversation.
Yes.
Because it's still their children.
They're still your guardian.
They're your legal guardian.
So the fact that they're grooming these children and saying, like, oh, you can talk to randos on the internet or in this center who are probably gender non-conforming themselves and have an agenda instead of your parents, like, maybe involve the parents in that conversation.
Because we've talked about this, give them the benefit of the doubt.
Right.
And we've talked about this before on the show.
Like, parents are going to be there to pick up the pieces of their kid after they go through the surgeries, after they go through the hormone replacement therapy, after they decide to detransition because, hey, maybe there's an underlying mental health condition that your kid has and they're not actually transgender at all.
They just, I don't know, have been abused or something else is going on up there that no one really wants to address or it's not even, I mean, yeah, in Shania Twain's situation, she was abused, but maybe it's just like someone like me.
Like I've mentioned this before.
Oh, my freaking hair.
I was a bit of a tomboy at like 11 and I wore cargo pants and loose shirts and played hockey and had really short hair and I was confused for a boy a couple times.
And if someone whispered in my ear and told me, like, oh, your parents aren't supporting you, like, you're really a boy.
Like, I could have been manipulated into transitioning.
And so grateful.
Your frontal lobe's not developing.
Exactly.
And like, look at an impressionable kid.
She's like a fertile woman.
Yeah, she's literally having a baby.
And I love being a woman.
And I'm so glad that I was allowed to be a woman and play sports and have short hair and love Curtis Jones.
And then grow up to be a woman.
Maybe.
Exactly.
You can do all of those things.
You all have to be.
Like, that's the thing.
I've said this before.
It's so homophobic to say, like, oh, you like sports, you don't like dolls.
You're a boy.
No.
Yeah.
No.
No.
I also like dolls.
I like both.
Yeah, I liked both too, though.
And that's the thing.
You don't even have to like dolls.
Like, you can, you can be totally masculine and still be what you can be a dyke.
You can be whatever kind of woman you want to be.
Yeah.
You can't be super feminine.
You can't put women in a box.
Don't put us in a box.
We're very dynamic creatures.
Yeah.
Okay.
Okay.
Speaking of dynamic creatures, trans activist Dylan Mulvaney defends Tampax, says it's pure intention to carry tampons around.
So for those of you who don't know, Dylan Mulvaney, I mean, you know who Dylan Mulvaney is.
Come on.
This person has spoken with Joe Biden at the White House about girlhood.
They have their series of TikToks where they have their diary hasn't even been a woman for a year.
It's called Days of Girlhood, actually.
So this person doesn't even identify as a woman.
They're not a bad Dylan.
They're a girl.
They're a girl.
Which is not creepy.
Which is not creepy for an adult.
Grown adult male.
Yeah.
So we have a clip from this person and we're just going to play it.
Just play it.
Day 271 of being a girl, or I'll say woman for this one because this video is for the women on Twitter who just really don't like me.
Hello, ladies.
Hello.
We got a lot to cover, but let's first talk tampons.
I haven't talked about tampons on here lately because I don't use them.
I'm a woman who doesn't have a uterus.
I know this.
And science was my strongest subject in high school.
I was also shockingly good at math, but I digress.
Why Some Don't Get It00:05:06
I just sometimes carry one in case anybody needs it.
And that seems to have just set the world on fire in some pretty nasty ways.
And this is a conversation that's been going on for months.
I just haven't chimed in because I'm so tired of sticking up for myself over something that was so pure intentioned.
But now Twitter is just ablaze.
And this week, there's some women that are now coming for Tampax and I want it to clear the air.
So I have some amazing news.
Are you ready?
I have never worked with Tampax before.
The most that happened was they sent me a few boxes of tampons back in April, just in case I bumped into anyone, including yourselves, and I gave them all away.
I've got a few left.
And this one's really going to blow your mind.
I have never made $1 off of feminine hygiene products.
So I hope that helps you sleep better at night knowing that.
And no need to bring Tampax into this.
Oh, we got to work through that.
Honestly, I kind of agree.
No, I have no issue with this person buying tampons and handing them out to girls.
Although if this person was in the same bathroom as me and they were like, girl, you need a tampon, I'd be like, I might be a little taken aback.
Yeah.
Especially with makeup like that.
Yeah.
Now all of a sudden I feel like I'm wearing no makeup.
I feel like I'm like bald and naked.
I know.
I just feel exposed.
Thanks for that, Dylan.
Thank you.
No, like, honestly, I did think that Tampax was paying Dylan.
And I do believe, like, I mean, it's kind of weird that he's like, well, don't come for Tampax.
It's like, why would you say that?
But if I'm going to take this person at face value and assume that they're not getting paid by Tampax, okay.
But Tampax has also been kind of cringe this past year.
Are they the ones that did that gross?
Yeah.
So they have, they had that tweet.
You're in their DMs.
We're in them.
We are not the same.
The tweet read referencing that tampons are inside women and are closer to those individuals than the men trying to hit on them, which is kind of gross because young girls do wear tampons.
So it's kind of bad, bad, bad.
That's bad.
That's a bad look.
That's a really bad look.
But my favorite part about this Dylan Mulvaney TikTok was when this person discussed how science was their favorite subject and their best subject in school.
It's like, so great.
You know that you can never fully become a woman if you're so good at science because sorry, honey, but the science is pretty solid there.
Unless something just completely changes in the next year, you're going to be a man forever, unfortunately.
Sorry.
That's some fighting words.
I know.
I think that's illegal.
I don't care.
Arrest me.
Take her away.
Take me away.
Guys, she's in here.
Take her away.
It's just biology.
I'm so scientist.
I'm non-binary, so I can't be accused of transphobia.
It's true.
Because you don't even know who you're accusing.
But I mean, I have a non-binary friend.
So doesn't that make me like extremely open-minded?
I'm not non-binary.
I'm an amorphous blob.
Well, this shows, this show's taking a lot of oppression points here and misunderstood.
Yeah.
Pretty interesting.
I'm a misunderstood, amorphous, non-binary blob.
Yeah.
That's, that's good.
Really?
You're going to miss me.
I'm going to miss her when she's gone.
In three weeks.
But anyway, I don't know.
Dylan, you're right.
Like, it's not really that controversial.
But again, it's annoying when people...
He's just annoying.
Well, yeah, and it's annoying when people in the spotlight like Chloe Kardashian and Dylan Mulvaney are like, oh my gosh, why do they hate me?
It's like, because you literally patronize us all.
Yeah.
You know, and you're minimizing womanhood to tampons.
We're more than just our periods, man.
Although they suck.
They do suck.
And you'll never experience it.
And I love how you're like, oh, it's day this of girlhood or womanhood.
It's like you haven't lived a day as a woman because you've never had a period.
And you've never, you didn't go through.
You've never been a woman.
You didn't go through that awkward phase where your boobs started to grow and everyone started looking at you.
Like you had your own troubles as a young boy.
Yeah.
And you could still, and arguably those affected you in a very profound way that you now parade yourself as a woman.
And we pray you get the help you need.
You do.
And honestly, Dylan, I have no problem with you wanting to dress like a girl or a woman and talk like a freak and ask people to call you a girl.
I have no problem with that.
But you, you're not going to, you'll never be a woman.
You're just not going to be a woman.
You're not allowed to say that.
Oh no.
Shit.
Sorry.
Not binary.
Yeah.
Godspeed, Dylan.
Godspeed.
We pray for you.
We pray for you.
Do we got anything else?
I think that's the sure.
All right, that's the sure.
Who do you think the most annoying woman was this week?
Well, that's a tough one.
I mean, probably American Girl is the most annoying.
American Girl, yeah.
Well, that's not a woman, but the author who wrote the book is a woman.
Then you win, miss.
You win.
You suck.
But I mean, Chloe Kardashian just is the worst.
She's just so annoying.
They're all so.
They're very annoying.
Dylan's super annoying, but Dylan's not a woman, so I guess he doesn't count.
Yeah.
You got off this time, Dylan.
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You caught off.
You're lucky.
You're very lucky.
All right.
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