people who tend to fight wars are typically very patriotic,
very male people.
Yes, that's a perfectly normal sentence coming out of Ben Shapiro's mouth for
his incredible, intellectually driven podcast and
there he was going off on another basically decline of masculinity rant.
A. K A male people know where he's going with
this, but this time of course he's talking about the military somehow.
It's been very feminized.
Let's take a look at his full comments, Sorry to break it to you.
But this has been the truth about military warfare for literally all of human history
and the institution of traditional masculinity has been core to that idea,
but we're a society that doesn't believe in traditional masculinity.
Traditional masculinity is an opponent because traditional masculinity
requires roles.
It says that men are supposed to protect, that are supposed to defend and
are supposed to be strong.
Men are supposed to be fathers and husbands.
These are apparently very bad things now.
You're not supposed to say these things.
Yes, that is of course why the withdrawal from Afghanistan went so
poorly was the decline of american masculinity.
Obviously, the fact that there are women in the military.
My God.
You just you can't take Ben Shapiro seriously when talking about masculinity.
Not with that just helium filled,
personified wedgie voice that he has going on.
But of course, don't take it from me.
There's lots of other people who had wanted to weigh in tom Nichols from
the atlantic rights aside from not having a clue about what he's talking about.
There's a lot going on here, especially while the super masculine.
A Nwoko Russian military is getting its ass kicked.
Again, we've seen and talked about on, on this program.
How much the right is fawning over the Russian military,
that kind of quieted down when they attacked and invaded Ukraine.
But because there were no women in their ads, it was like, yeah, there's just so
masculine.
But then votevets who kind of, I would listen to more than Ben Shapiro says, hey,
Ben Shapiro are women warriors are among our best and bravest.
How dare someone who's never served talk like this?
Yeah.
What about this photo of him?
Look at this is not hard.
You know, I'm masculine, You're not tough.
Make marquette great.
I have no idea what that hat even means.
What is marquette masculine?
To know some of these referring to the college.
Okay, so I guess he was speaking at marquette.
But anyways, doesn't appear to be the picture of,
of masculinity as a right wing were painted by the way.
Not us, right?
But but it's okay Francesca because he made up for with the stubble.
Did you notice that you're going to give you gonna give a speech about masculinity.
You got to get a little stubble going in.
So you don't look like a 13 year old, six months to get there.
Yeah, it paid off that six months of growing out that stubble,
alright, because now masculinity about very male people.
Very male, that beard is very male, Okay.
He actually said very male.
That's hilarious.
Alright, now guys, Alright, so let's break this down.
So everybody's talking about the Russian military in response to this,
That makes sense because they're very proud that
Russian military is not woke as Francesca referred to.
And yes, talk across in many other right wing media outlets were like, yeah,
Russian military, that's how you doing, baby, you discriminate,
you don't worry about training or or any of the strategy or tactics,
you just make sure they're male and they're very male.
And then, oops, there's drones, we didn't think about that,
we were busy being very male and we didn't come in very prepared at all and
they got their ass handed to them.
And by the way, a lot of people who handed them their ass were Ukrainian civilians,
including little grandma's a lot of stories about that,
they were not at all male, Tiny little grandma's preparing molotov cocktails for
those very manly Russian soldiers.
How'd it work out for them?
Okay, But it's not just about the Russian military, it's interesting cause
Ben Shapiro apparently disrespects the Israeli military, he thinks they're weak.
You know why women serve in the Israel defense forces idea is filled with women.
So they're not very male.
Israel is so weak.
That's not my opinion.
That's been Shapiro's opinion, so apparently their military is ruined.
Now don't tell anybody in the region.
You're just encouraging folks.
But they say absurd things like this because that's what their audience wants.
Their audience wants.
Yeah, women suck man.
That was in the military.
But if you bring my fat ass into the military, I'm very male.
Trust me.
Trust me, I'm very male and I got this thing covered.
Do you? And do I need to point out that of course
Ben Shapiro didn't serve in the military at all.
Just the phrase, very male is the height of fragility.
If you need to say that, like, are you your masculinity is clearly feeling
threatened, and that's what this all is.
You know, it's like we talk about toxic masculinity all the time, but if you have
to over focus on the fact that women are serving in the military and you're
freaking out about it, then that's on you, that's not on the military, that's on you.
And it has nothing to do with the performance and
you really want to talk about it.
I would argue that actually toxic masculinity and
too much masculinity is what hurts us foreign policy.
Not enough diplomacy.
Not enough discussion, not actually preventing war and
preventing people from dying, right?
That's what's hurting us.
Not actually not like we should we Yeah.
Hell yeah, we should have a feminized military.
I'm into that because it's not tied to gender man.
These are just traits.
These are just qualities and anyone can have them.
Again just like he sounds like an 11 year old girl going through puberty.
Look it's just a little feminine.
Anyhoo this obviously isn't the first time he's gone off about this, but
I don't want to play you anymore.
Let's we can.
Yeah, this.
But the guys, there's an important point in here too.
But before I get to that I like Francesca's point.
So I like any guy who walks into a room and
goes, I'm very male, are you?
Is that why you screamed it into the M.
S.
Okay, I'm sure you're not at all insecure about it, I'm positive.
Alright. Anyway, so
now the most important point here guys look at the trick that he does every
right winger in media does this and we just debated Dennis Prager.
He pointed out the number of times that he did it.
It's a sleight of hand.
They conflate the issues, They say most of the wars in the world have been fought
by males, first of all, congrats, you must be so proud.
Like guys we nailed it.
I mean name me war, that hasn't been incredible.
Yeah.
Just bang up job.
No, but they literally brag about how we started all the wars got millions
of people killed, were very male.
Very male.
Okay, alright, that's fine, that's fine.
It is what it is right?
But then he turns around and
it is true that historically unfortunately wars have been very male, right?
But then he turns around and
says that's why we shouldn't have women in the military.
Wait, those are two different things.
Yes. Wars have been traditionally
more of a male you know, thing to do.
But of course there's been women in the militaries of a lot of different countries
and there are today there have been women led armies,
there have been armies made up of women, but predominantly it has been men, but
that doesn't mean you should exclude women from combat, but
he makes it sound like, yeah, the wars are male and of course everything is male.
And so that's why, so historically that's a fact, it's a fact.
So obviously we should exclude women.
Wait, no, no, it's not at all obvious.
You just tricked everyone at the very end there by conflating the two issues and and
it's super easy for them to do it because they have a right wing audience.
So the right wing audiences doesn't care about things that are true.
They only care about things that suit their feelings.
That's why his slogan of facts, don't care about your feelings is the most ironic
slogan in all of media because his audience tunes in for nothing but
feelings.
They're like, wait, Israel is not at all week.
They have women in their military.
Yeah. Traditionally men have been in
charge of war and it's gone disastrously, but
that doesn't mean we can't have women in the military.
No, no one in Ben's audience would ever bother to do logic like that.
They just came for feelings like, yeah, me think men is good.
Women are bad.
Well he said, he said, I like it.
All the feelings make me feel so comfortable but
not in a gay way, not in a gay way because you know, we're raging homophobes.
So yeah, very, very male.
But not that male.
I'm really into masculine men.
But not like that.
But I'm really into masculine men.
But of course I would never go bake a cake for my friend, Dave Rubin.
Ever, ever, ever.
No, that's disgusting.
Gross ue ue but really masculine man.
Doesn't that make sense what Francesca.
So it's true.
I mean not only are they coming in the room yelling?
I am very male, right?
But they're coming into the room going, I want very males all around me.
I will not bake a cupcake for anyone but surround me with very males.
That's what I need.
I want to touch their muscles but I won't like it.
I won't like it.
I won't, I won't, Hey guys just go to therapy and work it out man and
leave the rest of us alone