Bitchy History - June 26, 2023


Episode 12： Bitchy History Reacts： ＂Why Does 40% Of Gen Z Identify as LGBT？＂ by Matt Walsh


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00:00:00.060 Welcome to Bitchy History, the American History podcast that would like you to know that despite the name of this show being Bitchy History and the fact that the host, myself, calls myself a bitch on a regular occasion, doesn't actually mean that you can get away with calling me a condescending bitch and claim that it was a compliment. 0.92
00:00:18.120 hi guys professor meredith here from bitchy history let me explain that potentially slightly
00:00:29.420 confusing intro i just gave you uh last week i decided to make some content on youtube not just
00:00:36.680 uploading the podcast like i usually do i actually decided i was going to make some video content
00:00:43.380 For those of you who already watched it, you know that I made a video response to a really, really, really dumb video that Matt Walsh from The Daily Wire had made.
00:00:53.920 And I put it out there. Worthy internet to see, which was probably a bad idea because YouTube was a mistake.
00:01:01.860 It turns out that Matt Walsh's fans are a little bit rabid and very, very unhinged.
00:01:08.580 Just a note to Matt, if you have the kind of fans that are going to defend your work by quoting the Unabomber, you may need to reconsider some of your life choices.
00:01:19.960 What am I saying? You probably love that you have fans who quote the Unabomber. Never mind, I rescind my advice. Not that you would have taken it from a queer woman anyway.
00:01:27.700 And yes, as you guys may have gathered, one of the people in the comments did call me a condescending bitch 0.98
00:01:33.220 And when I called him out on it, said, no, no, I meant that as a compliment 0.96
00:01:36.540 No, you didn't
00:01:38.320 No, no, you didn't 1.00
00:01:39.960 And you don't get to call me a bitch, even if I call myself a bitch 0.99
00:01:43.220 That's how reclaiming slurs works, buddy 0.99
00:01:46.260 And then we have this winning comment that starts off with a sentence
00:01:49.800 Having read Ted Kaczynski's essay on the industrial society and its consequences
00:01:54.700 Immediately, no
00:01:56.720 immediately know if the only person you can find to cite as a source to back up your claim is Ted
00:02:03.200 Kaczynski you have issues and as I said on TikTok a couple of weeks ago there's a reason why I don't
00:02:09.880 make reaction content or you know correction content very much on the internet despite the
00:02:15.840 fact that it's actually pretty popular on the algorithm and that's for this exact reason the
00:02:21.800 fans that men have on the internet are concerning, highly concerning, and I just don't have the
00:02:29.120 bandwidth to deal with them. All of this is just a roundabout way of introducing this episode
00:02:33.860 because this episode isn't actually the content that I promised you last Thursday. Last Thursday
00:02:39.120 at the end of the episode, I told you that you were getting an episode on the history of the
00:02:43.300 early 1700s in America. That is not what today's episode is. Today's episode is actually just the
00:02:50.060 audio version of the Matt Walsh video, because damned if I'm gonna let a few unhinged Unabomber 0.65
00:02:56.360 fans stop me from roasting Matt Walsh. It's one of my favorite things to do. And so today I'm 0.86
00:03:02.640 starting off this episode with a little bit of a content warning, because if Matt Walsh's voice
00:03:07.200 and ideology triggers a form of nausea and uncontrollable rage in you the way it does in me,
00:03:13.780 I really don't want you to be listening to this episode while you're driving a car. I don't need
00:03:18.080 that on my conscience. And of course, if you already watched the episode on YouTube, you may
00:03:23.100 not be very interested in listening to me roast Matt Walsh again, and I completely understand that.
00:03:29.820 And not only will I not judge you for not listening to the episode again if you've already watched it
00:03:34.500 on YouTube, I'll also go ahead and give you the show updates now so you don't miss anything at
00:03:39.320 the end. As a reminder, the show is transitioning to a once-a-week format starting, well, now,
00:03:45.320 which means that the next episode will not be out until July 3rd.
00:03:49.240 The show just takes too much time to produce for me to do two episodes a week right now,
00:03:53.900 mostly because the show doesn't pay me.
00:03:56.420 On that note, the show also now has a Patreon, so you might want to check that out.
00:04:02.140 Go take a look and see if you'd like to subscribe to the Patreon
00:04:05.560 and help support my mission to increase historical education in the United States through my podcast.
00:04:12.680 It would be much appreciated.
00:04:14.720 And that's it for show updates. Let's get on to the roasting.
00:04:18.840 This is Professor Meredith with Bitchy History. 1.00
00:04:21.560 I'm going to be experimenting with some new forms of content, which obviously, for you guys watching this on YouTube,
00:04:28.340 you are not used to seeing my face when I actually do my Bitchy History content.
00:04:33.960 So this will be something a little bit new.
00:04:36.360 And the reason why I want to do this is because I want to make some long-form content
00:04:41.960 in which I am reacting and critiquing other people's videos, right?
00:04:48.180 And I am mostly going to stick to videos that I think are, you know, historically misinformed
00:04:54.160 or historically illiterate.
00:04:57.800 But sometimes it's going to be delving into some political issues as well.
00:05:01.240 I used to work in politics.
00:05:03.120 And, of course, history and politics are kind of incredibly linked.
00:05:07.440 And, yes, that's a cat meowing.
00:05:10.200 She picks the worst times.
00:05:11.380 Anyway, so today we're kind of starting off with an older video.
00:05:16.060 I'm just testing out the waters a little bit on this, and I'm going to be responding to
00:05:21.860 a video which I've already talked about a little bit in a previous episode of my podcast,
00:05:27.000 episode 10 of Bitchy History.
00:05:29.040 I talked a little bit about this episode of Matt Walsh's show.
00:05:33.940 He made this video about a year ago in which he was talking about the percentage of Gen
00:05:39.860 that considers themselves to be members of the LGBTQ community,
00:05:43.520 and his takes are bad, unsurprisingly. 0.51
00:05:49.200 So I'm going to kind of break this down.
00:05:51.300 I'm probably not going to respond to every second of his 11-minute video
00:05:56.240 because, frankly, I don't have the patience for that,
00:05:59.240 but just some of his worst claims in this entire thing.
00:06:06.000 And when the researchers broke out the youngest of the group,
00:06:09.860 ages 18 to 24, which is really Gen Z, they found 39% call themselves LGBTQ. Okay, so we're talking
00:06:19.460 40%, nearly 40% identifying as LGBT. Now, if this is true, if these numbers are anywhere close to
00:06:28.060 accurate, then we are witnessing not even just a seismic shift in human sexuality, but a full-on
00:06:34.660 transformation unlike anything the world has ever seen before. Stop you right there, Matt,
00:06:39.180 Because there is no way that we can find the historical data to back up that claim 1.00
00:06:44.940 That at no time in human history has there ever been this high a percentage of people who were queer
00:06:50.140 First of all, obviously being queer does not mean you're open about it
00:06:55.660 So there's not a lot of records about people who were out of the closet
00:06:59.640 Because generally speaking, in society, 100, 200, 300, 1,000 years ago
00:07:06.240 It was not considered socially acceptable
00:07:08.660 so many people who were bisexual hey they get to choose to marry someone of the opposite sex
00:07:16.060 that they're attracted to and no problem they don't have to deal with the fact that they're
00:07:21.760 not actually attracted to the person they married women who were lesbians many of them still got
00:07:26.920 married though many also you know didn't they went off and joined convents and things like that if
00:07:31.880 they didn't want to get married and then of course up into the 1800s we start seeing things like
00:07:37.680 Boston marriages and things like that. Gay men often married women, regardless of the fact that
00:07:43.520 they didn't want to, because it was what society demanded of them. People who were transgender 0.89
00:07:49.620 were not going to be able to transition. Or if they did, they kept it very, very secret, right? 1.00
00:07:56.660 And so it's not like we have a whole bunch of people waving rainbow flags throughout history
00:08:01.360 for us to be able to do an adequate scientific study of what percentage of the population was
00:08:09.380 queer. So no, you cannot unilaterally make the statement that at no time in human history
00:08:15.300 has a percentage this high existed. That's just completely ridiculous and absolutely ahistorical. 0.94
00:08:25.000 Many people, though, on both sides of the ideological divide, for different reasons, 0.92
00:08:29.280 don't want to believe or admit that such a transformation is actually happening.
00:08:34.560 So they have a few ways of trying to deny or mitigate results like this. On the left,
00:08:39.700 they'll say that this doesn't reflect a change at all. They'll claim that there have always been
00:08:44.100 this many LGBT people in society, but they just didn't feel comfortable revealing themselves
00:08:49.520 until now. That's what they'll say. I said exactly what you said I was going to say,
00:08:56.480 Because that's accurate, right? We can look at the history of different cultures and say, hey, they didn't exactly support people being different or having different sexualities. Maybe that might have something to do with why very few people were open about their sexualities. It's got nothing to do with politics. It's just that's the way historical inquiry works.
00:09:23.400 This is not credible because older generations have also been surveyed in our current day and age where everybody is very accepting and tolerant and all of that.
00:09:34.280 Everyone, Matt, everyone is all accepting and tolerant and everything.
00:09:40.520 I kind of feel like your existence as a person disproves that statement.
00:09:47.420 And, you know, people like Michael Knowles saying things like we need to eradicate transgenderism kind of kind of argues against your point there.
00:09:56.800 But sure, let's let's let you finish this thought and see if it goes anywhere useful.
00:10:03.100 Older generations are also surveyed, and their numbers are much, much lower.
00:10:08.060 So the left's theory kind of waves a magic wand over millions of Americans
00:10:12.280 and declares that they're all closeted gays, with no evidence at all for such an assertion. 0.93
00:10:17.420 He has asked a completely reasonable question.
00:10:19.360 If it is the case that people have always been more queer than the percentages say,
00:10:25.920 why is it that in this day and age they aren't admitting to that on studies and in polling?
00:10:32.400 it's a good question there are several answers for it uh based mostly on understanding society
00:10:40.360 and people and history which are probably not areas that Matt is very good at um sorry maybe
00:10:49.200 I'm roasting it a little too hard I really don't like Matt Walsh right I don't but here's the thing
00:10:54.160 right uh there may be people who are 60 70 80 right and they're not interested in coming out
00:10:59.460 of the closet now. It's been their whole life. They waited their whole life to do this, and
00:11:04.760 they've lived their life, they've gotten married, they've had kids, and they just don't feel like
00:11:08.920 rocking the boat and coming out of the closet. Now, of course, those people might still admit
00:11:12.900 on a study, right, a scientific study, that yes, they're a little bent, right? But there is another
00:11:20.660 cause for this, and that is that not everybody has had the mental space and reflection to
00:11:29.440 actually realize they're queer, right? I was a pretty late bloomer. I didn't figure out I was
00:11:35.620 a lesbian until, like, I was 19. I went through a lot of phases where I thought I was bisexual
00:11:42.300 because of compulsory heterosexuality. There's a lot. There was a lot going on with me, and that
00:11:48.420 was in, you know, the modern era. People who grew up, my parents' generation, even Gen X, when being
00:11:56.560 gay was, you know, something shameful, uh, they may have never even considered it, right? Especially 0.55
00:12:03.880 if they're bisexual. Uh, I've known several people who have come out as bisexual to their parents
00:12:09.020 in recent years and had one or both of their parents respond by saying, you know, oh no,
00:12:16.640 you're not bisexual. Everyone's a little attracted to the same sex. It's just a phase. It's not a
00:12:23.240 really big deal. Everybody goes through this, you know. I, you know, kissed my girlfriends a little
00:12:28.760 bit when I was in high school. It was just, you know, practicing kissing. It was just, you know,
00:12:33.820 they were very pretty. They smelled nice. It wasn't really being bisexual. Or men saying,
00:12:39.740 you know, yeah, I had some stuff with my buddies. It wasn't really gay. Well, it wasn't gay,
00:12:45.480 but it was certainly queer. Yeah, you were a little bisexual, at least a little bit. 1.00
00:12:53.240 there for a while because straight people don't have sexual attraction to the same sex. 0.93
00:13:00.060 If you are a straight person, you're not going to want to make out with your girlfriends
00:13:04.040 at a sleepover. I learned that the hard way growing up. I did. Straight friends do not
00:13:12.660 want to make out with you at sleepovers. It's not a thing. But moving on to the history side
00:13:21.720 of things, huh? I wonder why it might be that today, in our oh-so-accepting society, there might
00:13:29.560 be fewer people from previous generations around to say, hey, I'm gay. Can you think of something?
00:13:38.160 Can you think of maybe one thing that might be the reason why there are fewer gay people
00:13:42.680 to be polled today than there would have been in the 1970s or 1950s, I have something.
00:13:53.820 It's called the AIDS epidemic, right? The elders of the queer generation of today all 1.00
00:14:00.660 pretty much died of AIDS, right? That was a thing that happened. It's a pretty major, 1.00
00:14:05.360 major part of queer history. So, you know, when it comes down to it, I think we know
00:14:11.820 why there are fewer people uh to answer those questions honestly today uh and it's not just
00:14:19.080 the generation that died of AIDS right there's also an entire generation prior to that my parents
00:14:24.520 generation uh and even the greatest generation who in many cases lost their lives either to suicide
00:14:32.640 or gay bashing uh long before they could get old enough to reach a open accepting society
00:14:41.160 that allowed them to be open and admit to being gay. 0.91
00:14:45.540 So yeah, you're going to see a smaller percentage of gay people
00:14:49.880 showing up in Gen X and the Boomers and the Greatest Generation
00:14:55.020 when you poll them today,
00:14:57.020 because there are fewer gay people left from those generations. 0.96
00:15:01.240 A lot of them died.
00:15:03.800 And if they're dead, they can't answer polling questions, strangely enough.
00:15:08.880 also if we're looking at this from a purely biological and evolutionary perspective
00:15:15.900 it doesn't make any scientific sense that 40 or 50 percent or more of a species would be
00:15:21.640 non-heterosexual now the left claims that homosexuality is biological right
00:15:27.580 um then if that's true then a 40 or 50 figure simply could not happen for evolutionary reasons
00:15:37.800 Unless you want to argue that evolution isn't true
00:15:40.620 Matt, I did not know that you had an advanced degree in biology
00:15:44.680 I did not know, I could have sworn that you didn't go to college at all, actually
00:15:48.800 Oh wait, that's because you didn't go to college at all
00:15:52.000 And yet you continue to try to insist that you're like an expert at biology
00:15:56.980 And you understand the basics or even complexities of evolutionary science
00:16:03.040 guess what? Being queer has nothing to do with your ability to procreate, right? Evolutionarily 0.94
00:16:12.280 speaking, it has nothing to do with the propagation of the species. I am a queer woman. I'm a lesbian.
00:16:19.240 I have no intention of having children, but only because I don't want them. Not because I don't
00:16:25.120 have a functioning reproductive system. All the plumbing is still there and still works, 0.67
00:16:30.880 which sometimes I wish it didn't because it's no picnic having a female reproductive system 1.00
00:16:36.200 that is currently in in good nick it's still still running um not not fun actually gay men 0.98
00:16:44.180 also have all the requisite plumbing all of it they they can also get someone pregnant whether 0.83
00:16:51.040 they do it naturally or through in vitro um pregnancy still happens right also I don't know
00:16:59.280 if you know this, but being not heterosexual does not mean that you aren't possibly going to be in
00:17:08.120 a relationship with the opposite sex, right? Lesbians are attracted to women. Gay men are 1.00
00:17:15.640 attracted to men. Bisexuals are attracted to both genders. So they do occasionally, they do
00:17:23.220 occasionally have sex with the opposite sex and occasionally have kids uh lesbians also 0.98
00:17:29.040 occasionally have children in vitro uh gay men also propagate the species through you know 0.98
00:17:36.820 having kids with surrogates uh transgender people still on the spectrum they can still have kids 0.84
00:17:43.960 uh you know non-binary people they can still have kids they've all got working plumbing just as much
00:17:50.100 as anybody else in the world. So this has absolutely nothing to do with evolution at all.
00:17:59.080 Gay people aren't sterile. Keep in mind, the left loves to claim also that homosexual activity 0.92
00:18:05.300 exists in the animal kingdom, right? You hear this all the time. Well, find me a species where
00:18:10.580 nearly half are homosexual. At this point, I'm starting to feel kind of embarrassed for you, 1.00
00:18:18.940 actually because dude there are definitely examples of that um this just proves that
00:18:26.640 before you started recording this episode you didn't even do five seconds of research on google
00:18:33.660 that is not terribly surprising to me given everything else i've seen of yours but this is
00:18:41.360 a new low. Literally. Five seconds. Five seconds on Google. I'll be right back. Two seconds
00:18:50.460 later. This took an embarrassingly short amount of time to find the answer to. I'm saying
00:18:55.920 embarrassingly short. You need to learn to read things before on your videos, Matt. That's
00:19:05.700 all I'm saying. Just briefly check your facts. Unlike Matt, I'm going to preface everything I'm
00:19:11.540 about to say with, I am not a biologist, not an expert in animal sexuality. I'm a historian.
00:19:17.740 I teach history. That's what I do. But that being said, that means that none of the research I did
00:19:22.800 is something that's so high level or behind a paywall that Matt couldn't have done it himself,
00:19:28.740 right? Which says to me that he doesn't really care about factual information. He just cares
00:19:33.920 about making up facts in his head that support his bigoted idea of the day and spewing them out
00:19:39.460 to an audience who he thinks will not fact check anything he says. Probably an accurate statement 0.59
00:19:44.880 about the people who watch his show predominantly, but let's get to it, right? He made a challenge.
00:19:50.540 He challenged us to find one, one example of an animal that has almost half engaging in non-heterosexual
00:19:58.320 activity. And again, non-heterosexual, Matt, does not mean lesbian or gay. It means LGBTQ+,
00:20:07.500 right? Which means that there's bisexuals in there as well. And that's really where this
00:20:14.560 comes in. The bonobo is a fully bisexual animal. About 60% of all sexual activity for the bonobo 1.00
00:20:22.820 occurs between two or more females no males involved right uh and there is of course male 0.64
00:20:28.160 on male homosexual behavior as well predominantly for the bonobo sex is not about procreation
00:20:34.700 sex is about sex uh so whether they do that with the opposite sex or the same sex doesn't really
00:20:41.900 matter it's also very interesting that the bonobo is one of the ape species that is the closest to
00:20:49.040 humans genetically. So it actually kind of makes sense, evolutionarily, biologically speaking,
00:20:55.540 that's the terms you're obsessed with there, that they are fully bisexual and humans also have a lot
00:21:03.840 of fluidity as far as their sexual orientation is concerned, right? Actually, this makes a lot of
00:21:10.560 sense scientifically. But it's not just the bonobo. No, no, no. It's not just the bonobo.
00:21:16.280 So, giraffes also see quite a large amount of homosexual behavior within their animal grouping.
00:21:24.300 About 30 to 75% of giraffes engage in same-sex activities.
00:21:33.360 It's a thing that happens quite a bit. 0.99
00:21:36.120 Elephants. Elephants, both African and Asian, engage in same-sex activities between males, but also females.
00:21:45.340 of that particular group. Same-sex relations are quite common and frequent in both genders,
00:21:52.220 and also, interestingly enough, male elephants who engage in homosexual behavior usually have
00:22:02.020 long-lasting, like, lifelong bonds, whereas the heterosexual relations are usually fleeting in
00:22:09.640 nature just for procreation. So these relationships last longer between the same sex than they do with 0.51
00:22:19.620 opposite sex pairings. And in Asiatic elephants, the ones in captivity engage in 45% of their
00:22:27.420 sexual activity being same sex, which of course that is in captivity and has nothing really to do
00:22:32.860 with their natural habits, but it's interesting, right? It's very interesting.
00:22:41.140 In addition to this, studies on the domestic sheep have shown that around 8% of rams, 8 to 10%
00:22:48.220 of all rams are exclusively homosexual, and that around 18 to 22% of rams are bisexual. So again, 0.57
00:22:56.840 And that's not more than 50%, but it is, it's approaching, it's approaching 50% when you add 0.99
00:23:03.380 together the bisexual and homosexual elements of the domestic sheep. And my personal favorite, 0.99
00:23:10.760 my absolute personal favorite is that there are several species of whiptail lizards that are
00:23:16.800 entirely female. This raises the question of how they, you know, procreate. They reproduce through 1.00
00:23:24.120 parthenogenesis. I don't understand the science behind that whatsoever, but my point being that
00:23:30.620 they don't need to engage in sex in order to procreate and reproduce, obviously. Parthenogenesis
00:23:36.940 does not require that. However, these female-only lizards still engage in sexual stimulation. 0.80
00:23:45.500 So they are a 100% lesbian species of lizard, and I love that for them. I really do. 0.87
00:23:54.120 Sometimes I wish that I could reproduce through parthenogenesis and not have to deal with men.
00:24:01.060 And men like Matt Walsh only make that wish so much stronger.
00:24:06.520 Anyway, now you know.
00:24:09.980 Obviously, there are examples of this, Matt.
00:24:13.200 That doesn't exist. It can't exist.
00:24:15.840 Because such a species would go extinct.
00:24:18.200 So this theory doesn't work.
00:24:21.100 Hey, Matt, I'm going to explain this to you one more time.
00:24:23.140 very, very slowly. So even if the only two settings that came on human sexuality were
00:24:30.180 homosexual and heterosexual, it still wouldn't have anything to do with our ability to reproduce.
00:24:36.520 My plumbing works. I can still procreate. I have a functioning uterus, functioning womb.
00:24:45.760 I can still reproduce. Gay men are not shooting blanks. We are not sterile, right? And 0.99
00:24:52.900 again, you're ignoring the fact that 40% of Gen Z saying that they are LGBTQ does not mean that
00:25:00.120 40% of Gen Z are saying that they are 100% homosexual, right? That covers a lot of room.
00:25:09.500 There is bisexuality, there is transgenderism, there is a whole cornucopia of settings between
00:25:17.380 straight and gay that you can be. And again, none of it has to do with whether or not we can conceive
00:25:25.880 or have children. That's not how being gay works. 0.77
00:25:34.000 But you'll have people on the right who deny it as well, you know, simply because they don't want 0.55
00:25:37.880 to believe that the LGBT brainwashing of kids has really been this tremendously successful.
00:25:44.580 They just don't want to believe it. 1.00
00:25:47.520 It's something that they can't wrap their heads around.
00:25:49.820 And so they say, no, there's no way.
00:25:51.880 And they'll say the numbers here are wrong.
00:25:54.160 Yet the problem for them is that these results are just the latest in a long line of research
00:25:58.100 conducted both by right-leaning and left-leaning organizations.
00:26:01.840 And they all come to the same sort of conclusion.
00:26:04.420 Gallup, as mentioned by Newsweek, they did a major poll several months ago.
00:26:08.460 They didn't find that 30 or 40 percent of Gen Z identify as LGBT,
00:26:11.220 But they did find that 15 percent identified that way and another five percent had no opinion about their own sexuality.
00:26:18.360 OK, so what I'm actually getting from this is that neither Gallup nor Arizona Christian University know how to conduct trustworthy polling. 0.76
00:26:28.340 Right. Or at least one of them doesn't know how to conduct trustworthy polling, because that's a big difference.
00:26:35.540 40% and 15%
00:26:37.460 that's a massive difference
00:26:39.840 Matt there's something wrong
00:26:41.480 there's something screwy with the studies
00:26:43.080 at that point
00:26:44.240 that's what we should be trying to understand
00:26:46.980 is going on here
00:26:48.200 not assuming
00:26:50.800 that they're both right
00:26:53.260 somehow and that there's some sort of
00:26:55.720 conspiracy to brainwash 0.99
00:26:57.560 Gen Z into being gay 0.99
00:26:59.120 that is a very wild jump 0.84
00:27:01.640 to make from those two claims
00:27:03.120 so that's 20 percent not identifying as heterosexual smaller portion but still 10 times
00:27:12.640 their parents generation and 20 times their grandparents generation so whether it's 20
00:27:18.860 percent or 30 or 40 it's almost splitting hairs i wouldn't say that it's splitting hairs i wouldn't
00:27:24.200 say that at all i would say that clearly we need to look at the methodology of these studies and
00:27:30.280 figure out where we're fucking up in figuring out this percentage. Because maybe the studies are
00:27:38.620 using wildly divergent methods. Maybe they are talking to different groups of people. Maybe
00:27:44.860 there's something going on, though, because the studies shouldn't be 15% and 40%.
00:27:51.060 That's an unreasonable gap for you to call splitting hairs. But then again, why am I
00:27:58.680 surprised you guys still think that donald trump won the election numbers are not your forte i i
00:28:04.940 shouldn't even be shocked by this the point is that there is a trend here a very dramatic trend
00:28:10.060 and it's a trend against spanning generations which rules out the other dismissive claim which
00:28:15.460 you still hear from some on the right that this is all a fad right does it though does it disprove
00:28:21.640 the argument that it's a fad not that i think it's a fad i just think that your assumption that it
00:28:27.340 disproves that it's a fad is wildly specious. But then again, that is not shocking. You just
00:28:34.740 make stuff up. You just say stuff. Why do you just say stuff? That doesn't make any sense.
00:28:41.500 LGBT identification for the kids today, it's like what emo or goth was when I was a kid.
00:28:47.180 But we know it's not just a fad of that sort because you find this trend, again,
00:28:51.600 spanning generations. Starting with my grandparents going all the way down to my
00:28:55.600 kids' generation, LGBT identification has risen by large portions each step of the way until today.
00:29:02.220 We also know that it's not just a fad because fads, when we were kids, were treated like fads. 0.57
00:29:09.480 Adults would tell you, you know, if you were a goth, an adult would say to you, this is a fad.
00:29:15.120 You're going to look back on this and be embarrassed. What they didn't say to the goth
00:29:20.120 kid is this is your truest identity. You should define yourself by your gothness. This is the 0.83
00:29:26.420 most important thing about you. Here, I made you this flag. March through the street with it.
00:29:30.020 Gay has nothing to do with our personality. It's not anybody's entire personality. The only reason
00:29:36.400 you think it is is because the only thing you think about with gay people is who they have sex 1.00
00:29:40.120 with. Like that's that's a you problem right there. But also parents do take interest in their 1.00
00:29:47.300 kids interests right at least good parents do they might say hey this is your aesthetic right
00:29:53.880 now you're really into heavy metal music you're really into black clothes you're really into
00:29:58.080 I don't know dog collars and getting your ears pierced a bunch of times and you know what
00:30:03.000 I respect that that is your interest right now I may not get it I don't understand it but I'm
00:30:08.280 going to take you shopping at Hot Topic and I am going to buy you the stuff to wear that makes you
00:30:14.440 feel like you instead of trying to force you into khakis and polos every day. That would be what a
00:30:20.700 good parent does. So actually, a good parent would validate their children's interests and allow them
00:30:27.700 to experience those interests going forward as they grow into adulthood. You sound like you may
00:30:35.440 have had a very negative experience with your parents as far as it concerns your interests as
00:30:41.360 a teenager. And I'm really sorry for you about that. But you should not put that on everybody
00:30:46.500 because a lot of parents do take interest in what their kids like and encourage those interests.
00:30:54.600 Let everybody know, this is who you are and will always be. If adults had said that,
00:31:00.740 then there would still be a lot of people in my generation today walking around with dyed hair
00:31:04.560 and makeup. Well, in fact, there are a lot of people in my generation walking around that way,
00:31:08.880 but not because they identify as goth and that's the point i'm sorry i'm sitting here cackling 0.95
00:31:13.420 because of the way that you like started that argument out realized oh shit there are lots of 0.90
00:31:19.360 people walking around with piercings and crazy clothes and dyed hair uh obviously my argument 0.99
00:31:25.080 is bullshit how can i walk this back so being goth right is about expressing yourself in a way 0.97
00:31:33.160 that is counterculture uh you know dark hair dark makeup crazy jewelry crazy clothes 0.99
00:31:40.120 and people still do that today now a lot of people might not be necessarily goth uh for whatever
00:31:48.100 reason though the goth subculture does still exist but as adults goth people do kind of tone down
00:31:53.620 the way they dress right they they still express it maybe uh in some way but they do have to tone
00:32:02.180 it down in order to be socially acceptable in order to get a job which kind of takes us all
00:32:06.800 the way back to this discussion we were having about the fact that there weren't as many gay
00:32:11.700 people openly gay uh in past generations because it wasn't socially acceptable so when you see
00:32:20.440 people who were goth when they were teenagers who don't appear to be goth now that may not be
00:32:27.240 because they don't like the aesthetic anymore. It may just be because it's hard to get a job as an
00:32:33.780 accountant when you're wearing black nail polish and giant gauges in your ears. Not because there's
00:32:41.240 anything wrong with that, but because society has said that that's not acceptable. And so we are
00:32:46.420 bending to the will of society by toning down the way we dress and act in public. But still,
00:32:53.280 you already made your point, right? There are still people who are expressing themselves in
00:32:57.980 counterculture ways well into adulthood. So actually, just because they're not goth doesn't
00:33:04.640 mean that they aren't still following that urge to be counterculture and experiment with their
00:33:11.820 hair, their makeup, their clothes. Anybody who was goth as a kid is probably still experimenting
00:33:18.160 with that kind of stuff now uh we just do it in a different way now because we have different
00:33:24.120 aesthetics as adults than we did as 15 year olds um yeah that was a really really sad argument you
00:33:34.500 just made there and then you tried to walk it back not not going well for you here buddy 0.56
00:33:41.480 so if this is not a fad which it isn't that you didn't and if it is not a natural biological
00:33:53.020 occurrence which is only today finding its true expression which it also isn't
00:33:58.540 you didn't even come close to proving that not even close then what's going on honestly cannot
00:34:05.820 wait for you to tell me what you think is going on i am certain it is going to be hysterical
00:34:09.820 well what's going on is social contagion a kind of mass hysteria a group hallucination
00:34:15.980 in effect but one that is constructed constructed by who and for what reason
00:34:24.680 i i am perplexed let let's continue and see what you have to say
00:34:30.500 fabricated okay oh this is all intentional it is social engineering on a scale and at
00:34:38.160 a level previously unknown to mankind we've seen brainwashing before but never like this
00:34:45.700 and never has it started so young um who who is brainwashing and for what purpose
00:34:53.880 the the brainwashing is to what
00:34:57.620 make kids not heterosexual i don't understand what the purpose of that would be
00:35:05.180 as a gay woman i am sitting here trying to think what would the purpose of that be
00:35:11.340 i i don't i don't understand
00:35:17.000 i really don't i am deeply confused let's continue maybe you will explain next portion of the video
00:35:28.280 matt shares a video from tiktok of a daughter playing with her mother uh and talking about
00:35:34.380 the fact that the little girl is a girl and not a boy,
00:35:37.720 wearing a cute little pink dress, wearing makeup.
00:35:41.480 It's very adorable.
00:35:43.240 However, Matt says some very unkind, very cruel things during that,
00:35:48.880 and I don't really want to give any part of that video
00:35:52.720 any more platform than it's already gotten,
00:35:55.100 because it's just cruel and unnecessary.
00:35:57.320 So I'm going to skip that,
00:35:58.500 and we're going to go on to commenting on what he says after that.
00:36:02.020 But that way, you know what's missing,
00:36:04.080 and you can go and, you know, look at the original video
00:36:07.280 if you really, really want to see what he had to say about that.
00:36:10.520 You notice the incoherent, arbitrary line the mother draws.
00:36:13.600 She'll respect the boy's, she will respect the boy's self-identification,
00:36:17.780 his alleged self-identification as a girl,
00:36:20.320 but not his self-identification as seven years old, and why not?
00:36:24.580 Age is more fluid and changing than sex, which doesn't change at all.
00:36:29.400 Age is also relative.
00:36:30.620 Matt.
00:36:34.080 I don't think saying phrases like age is all relative is a good place for you to be considering some of the things you've been called out for saying in the past, you know, about what age girls are most fertile.
00:36:52.560 I just I think maybe it might be a bad look for you.
00:36:55.540 That's all I'm going to say about that.
00:36:58.380 and notice how the boy who is uh supposedly a girl now and you can't see this if you're just
00:37:04.920 listening to the audio but they're outside and um and as he's talking about the fact that he's a
00:37:10.400 girl he's trying to climb on the wall while while talking about how he's a girl now climbing on
00:37:17.300 walls is a boy activity i have two of them that's what they do we have the wall smudges to prove it 1.00
00:37:23.640 Apparently, girls never try to climb things. 0.70
00:37:27.960 Apparently, I'm a boy because of all the skinned knees and scars that I have from, you know, climbing trees, jumping out of trees, trying to fly off the roof like Mary Poppins that one time.
00:37:44.560 All of that, all of that is boy activity. 0.89
00:37:48.140 Girls never do that. 1.00
00:37:50.060 Girls, you know, they only like to sit demurely and have little tea parties with their Barbies. 1.00
00:37:55.780 They have never, ever, ever done anything physical like trying to climb walls. 0.95
00:38:00.760 Ever.
00:38:01.400 In the history of the world. 1.00
00:38:03.520 Girls don't do physical activities. 1.00
00:38:07.980 Joan of Arc is an exception. 1.00
00:38:10.420 Totally, totally not.
00:38:13.620 Amelia Earhart's also an exception. 0.93
00:38:17.160 And Deborah Samson.
00:38:19.660 The woman who impersonated a man to join the American Revolution.
00:38:25.140 And the women who spied during World War II.
00:38:30.460 And I'm beginning to feel like maybe, maybe climbing walls isn't just a boy activity. 1.00
00:38:37.500 This is the stupidest thing you've ever said, Matt. 1.00
00:38:39.960 And that, that is a high bar to climb over. 1.00
00:38:44.260 So this is a boy acting like a boy in every way.
00:38:47.760 It's just that he's been dressed this way by his mother.
00:38:49.660 and the boy isn't old enough to sort through this incoherence and sadly he may never be able to see
00:38:55.760 it for what it is even when he's older because his brain is being rewired his entire conception
00:39:01.660 of himself is being altered let me get this right you think that sexuality and gender are so fluid
00:39:12.900 that everyone in the world, every child in the world,
00:39:18.420 is just one Lady Gaga music video
00:39:22.100 away from having their brain rewritten 0.99
00:39:25.980 to being gay or being a different gender.
00:39:31.100 For you, it's extremely fluid
00:39:34.520 and very, very easy to change.
00:39:37.560 I gotta tell you, I don't think you realize
00:39:40.480 exactly how leftist that idea is actually um i certainly don't think you understand the argument
00:39:49.500 you're making here but you certainly seem to think that sexuality and gender are super super easy
00:39:58.020 uh to change actually this is uh this is surprising it really is and a version of this
00:40:05.780 to some degree or another is happening to an entire generation as it happened to much lesser
00:40:11.800 degrees the generations before them so this conspiracy has been ongoing for generations
00:40:21.720 is what you're saying you're saying that for hundreds possibly thousands of years
00:40:28.860 some conspiracy to shift the sexual orientation of humans has been occurring
00:40:36.820 and slowly getting more successful over time.
00:40:41.780 That's what you're claiming.
00:40:44.120 So I'm going to skip entirely over the why part of all of this
00:40:48.720 and go straight to the who,
00:40:51.180 because I really need to know who you think is doing this, Matt.
00:40:54.280 Is it the aliens? 0.76
00:40:56.020 Are the aliens making us gay? 0.99
00:40:58.460 Is that what's going on? 0.96
00:41:00.100 Because obviously, if it's been happening for generations, it's not just the liberals.
00:41:09.300 I just, I need to know who you think has been doing this for thousands of years.
00:41:15.960 And then I'd like to know why.
00:41:17.860 Because, frankly, I would really like to know what the purpose of that is.
00:41:21.620 But...
00:41:22.620 To generations of kids.
00:41:27.700 Being completely redefined, their identities redefined, as we all sit back and watch.
00:41:35.600 So, I don't know how much of what Matt Walsh says he actually believes.
00:41:43.660 I don't know how much of it is just fear-mongering, outrage-mongering, because he knows that's what his viewers like to hear.
00:41:50.580 They like to hear things that make them angry and make them scared, right?
00:41:54.760 and I guess I like to hear things that make me angry too 1.00
00:41:57.700 because I took the time to watch the whole stupid video 1.00
00:41:59.980 and make a response to it 0.99
00:42:01.320 I never said I was a perfect person
00:42:03.320 but I do think he believes some of it
00:42:06.040 and I have a theory
00:42:08.860 about why it is that people like Matt Walsh
00:42:11.900 are so obsessed with the idea
00:42:14.200 that Target Pride displays
00:42:17.060 and Marvel movies 0.89
00:42:18.900 are trying to brainwash people into being queer 0.98
00:42:23.720 And I think it's because they're a little queer, a little bisexual. 0.99
00:42:28.900 They've seen Henry Cavill. 0.94
00:42:30.800 You know, they've had the thoughts.
00:42:33.240 They've considered it for a millisecond.
00:42:35.980 And they were raised real religious, the kind of religion that I was raised in,
00:42:40.160 that told you constantly that having those urges, having those thoughts,
00:42:44.960 you're going to hell for that.
00:42:47.540 And the only way to deal with that is to say, those aren't my urges. 0.75
00:42:52.500 They aren't mine.
00:42:53.180 I'm not going to hell because those aren't my urges.
00:42:55.840 Somebody is forcing those urges onto me.
00:42:58.480 I'm being brainwashed into having those urges.
00:43:03.860 Anyway, that's just my theory.
00:43:05.760 Completely unsubstantiated.
00:43:09.200 But I think people like that need a lot of therapy.
00:43:12.720 To be honest, I think most of us need a lot of therapy. 0.59
00:43:15.700 It's too bad that the American healthcare system sucks and therapy is expensive.
00:43:19.800 i don't have an answer but anyway i hope that this was an informative and at least
00:43:27.680 mildly amusing experience to watch if any of you lasted this long if you did congratulations
00:43:34.760 you get a cookie that's all you get i'm not getting anything else sorry thank you so much
00:43:43.600 for tuning into episode 12 of bitchy history uh please let me know if this kind of content
00:43:48.800 is something that you would like to see more of, or I guess hear more of in this case. I'm not
00:43:54.180 entirely sold on the idea of making more video-based content, mostly because I like to
00:44:00.360 stay behind my microphone where I can record in my pajamas with no makeup on. But if video content
00:44:07.120 is something that people would like to see more of, I could be persuaded. I clean up nice and it
00:44:13.920 doesn't take that long to put on some lipstick. I'll see you guys back here on July 3rd for that
00:44:19.440 long-awaited episode on colonial life in the early 1700s and hopefully we are going to be having some
00:44:24.800 more guests on the show to talk about the Revolutionary War period very shortly because
00:44:30.000 we are coming up on that period of time in American history and while I fully admit that
00:44:34.380 the Revolutionary War is not my area of speciality I am very very lucky to have a variety of friends
00:44:41.600 who are focused on that period of time, and they will have a lot to say about it.