Greetings guys, gals, and non-binary pals and welcome back to another video!
I hope that you are well and I hope that you are fighting because there is a lot to be fighting for.
As usual, there'll be a link in the description to the page on my website with a bunch of petitions, donations, emails are sent to MPs, etc, etc.
So the other day I went on to instagram, @TheQueerKiwi, and asked you what you wanted to see from me,
Because I like to do what you want to see. I want to know what you want and I am happy to oblige.
And a few people recommended going through this Instagram called The Joyful Patriarchy Wife.
And the bio reads:
So you know that it's gonna be good.
Just two older women teaching younger women that they are property, and why they are property.
So that's always fun.
Uh, yeah, let's talk about it.
Let's look through it. Let's see what they have to say.
Let's- Let's- Let's see.
Who raised the feminist mother though? That's what I want to know.
Feminism is breaking out of what you're taught. It's unlearning.
It's realising that the system is not equal and you want to break out from that and you want to be equal.
You want to make your own decisions. You want to be your own independent person and be treated as such.
And so you raise your children to be the same, to be whoever they want to be.
And so, maybe yeah.
A submissive male is raised by a feminist mother because they're told by their mother that it's okay to be who they want to be, and they want to be a more submissive man.
Whereas if you're being forced to be overly masculine, then chances are you're being raised by misogynistic parents.
Because you're being forced into a gender box that you don't necessarily want to be confined to.
So yeah, sure. The submissive male is raised by a feminist mother.
But why is that a bad thing?
You can have masculine men raised by feminist mothers.
You can have feminine women raised by feminist mothers, and masculine women.
Everyone can be raised by feminist mothers.
We should all be feminists. We should all want equality.
That's all feminism is, and you're saying that as though it's a bad thing.
Like, "My child- These- These men are growing up to be whatever they want! They're being the people that they want to be!"
"Disgusting! Stupid feminists ruining men."
"Telling them they can be whoever they want and be accepted!"
I like how she thinks that those are the reasons people need two incomes.
I like that she's in such a like, privileged state of being, that she thinks every single person has two cars, and eats out three days a week, and has four cell phones, and has cable tv.
Like, she- she completely disregards anyone in like the lower class.
Firstly, a lot of people don't have all of those things.
And secondly, rent.
You're not-
Like, I know you like a bigger home, but like smaller homes apartments and sh_t in cities?
So phenomenally expensive.
They are very, very hard to get on a single income.
Oops.
The price of living has increased exponentially faster than wages have.
So you need two incomes to be able to afford rent.
And also, what is it about this thing of like, people who don't make that much money, like people in the lower class aren't allowed nice things?
Because how dare you want to enjoy things!
You should survive! You don't deserve to live and enjoy things!
You should be doing nothing but working, and sleeping, and eating, and that's it!
You aren't allowed a life. You have to- You exist solely for capitalism and solely for us to benefit off of you.
How dare you enjoy anything?
Let people have things.
Let people who struggle financially have nice things, and go out for dinner sometimes.
Let them save up for those small things because they bring them joy in a situation where they don't have very many things that do because they have to fight to survive.
So yeah.
You do need two incomes and you can still have those extra things.
But those extra things aren't the reason people need two incomes. That's not it.
You live in a very privileged little bubble there.
Two incomes are quite necessary for a lot of people.
Not everyone! Not everyone needs two incomes.
Some people do just want to work and they want to be able to buy nicer things, because you should be allowed nice things.
You can want to buy nice things.
If you want to go on three vacations a year, then go on three vacations a year.
If you want a nice phone, then get a phone.
It doesn't matter.
Let people live their lives however they want.
Stop dictating what people can and can't do with their money.
Who is getting jailed for telling the truth?
Like, even coming from your standpoint of this is like just being anti-trans, like saying there are only two genders.
Who's getting jailed for that?
You're not getting jailed for saying there are only two genders, you're getting jailed if you commit like a hate crime against people because they're trans.
In which case, that's not "speaking the truth".
That's not speaking that's committing a hate crime.
You're saying toxic masculinity is good because it invaded a country,
Murdered thousands upon thousands upon thousands of people,
Kidnapped people from their homes and enslaved them,
And just,
And that's a good thing?
"Yes! That's positive!
"Toxic masculinity built America! It did all those horrible horrible, horrible things. Isn't it so great?"
I think you really need to rethink your point there.
Remember that like, The US, America, existed before there were white people there.
And then white people came along and killed everyone.
I'm not calling that a positive. That's not a positive.
I'm- I'm saying this proves the point that toxic masculinity is bad.
If you're saying that it was toxic masculinity that did that, then toxic masculinity, as we know, terrible awful thing.
Thank you for proving our point.
Toxic masculinity will make you murder hundreds of thousands of people.
So it's bad, right? I'm glad we agree.
This is literally just characters saying their pronouns.
Like, that's what we do. We- We do that. You know, right?
Like, you know, I have she/her in my bio because those are my pronouns.
Just like this mother is saying "I'm a mother and my pronouns are she/her."
I thought you didn't-
I thought you didn't like when people say their pronouns?
I thought that that would make you mad?
You're saying that we're mad? This is what we're asking for.
We're asking you to say your pronouns.
I just think that it's really funny. Like this is- This is what we do.
This is what we say we should be doing and normalising, is talk about pronouns. Say what your pronouns are.
Good.
You're the ones who get mad about it. Not us.
Why are you trying to make fun of us in this situation? This is what you look like.
Your wife isn't your enemy either. Stop treating her like one.
You're a team, you're a partnership.
You should love and respect each other.
No one should hate anyone. Everyone should respect everyone.
That's- That's how marriages should work. That's how partnerships should work.
No one is anyone's enemy. I'm glad that we agree.
Stop treating each other- If you treat each other like enemies, don't be married.
No!
The reason many women in the feminist movement experience depression, anxiety, and feelings of loneliness, is because we have empathy.
We have empathy and we see that people are in situations that are hurting them.
We see many things that are wrong and things that are upsetting and hurting people and that hurts us,
Even if we are affected less than other people based on certain privileges than we have.
We can see that other people are hurting and we hurt.
We are far more aware of the world around us.
It's called emotional intelligence.
And we see things outside of ourselves and our own experiences.
I work for myself, right?
So I don't face sexism in the workplace, so that's not a problem for me. That doesn't affect me.
But I'm still very aware that that is an issue outside of myself and I see other people experiencing that, and I see how that hurts and affects other people.
So then I'm sad, and I'm angry, and I'm frustrated because I see how other people are hurting and how other women are affected by sexism in the workplace.
And I want to help make that not happen.
And it's infuriating that there is very little I can do, that things don't change and that is upsetting.
And of course people are going to be upset, and people are going to be depressed, whether it directly affects you or not.
We're able to understand and see and empathise.
And it's upsetting, and it hurts.
When you see that there's so much wrong, you're going to hurt.
It's going to be depressing.
If you lack empathy and you lack knowledge of the world outside of yourself, and you choose to ignore things that are happening to other people,
Of course you're going to be happier.
Because you don't care about the consequences of your actions, you don't care about what's happening to people around you because it doesn't impact you.
If you're really self-obsessed and self-focused and don't care about anything or anyone else, of course you're going to be happier.
Ignorance is bliss.
They say that for a reason.
But I would rather be depressed and have an understanding of those around me and be able to help make a difference and help make people feel happier and better,
And try to change the way things work, than be just lost in my own world and ignore the problems around me.
Like what you do.
Surely, if we trained our children to pick up after themselves, we'd be training our sons to pick up after themselves, right?
So that would imply that men are very aware of how to pick up after themselves, because as children they were scolded by their parents for not doing so.
So do they just unlearn?
Because they're like, "I don't need to know how to do that because, now I have a wife who can do that for me. I will revert back to being a child."
So you're saying that children don't know how to clean up after themselves, and neither does your husband, but your husband isn't a child.
You're not making any sense.
People older that children should learn children should know but your husband doesn't need to so therefore he is not a child.
But he is a child, because children don't know and your husband also doesn't know.
Make it make sense.
I don't know why you're saying, "If you're Christian, you will be hated."
Bro?!
You're in America!!
65% of the US are Christian.
65.
That is bigger than majority are Christian.
And you're like, "if you're christian, you'll be hated. You're the minority."
Shut up!
You literally are the majority of the country.
65% Christian?!
But, no, you're oppressed, you're a minority. What?!
Get your head out of your ass.
Christians aren't hated. Christians literally like took over the entire world and forced their religion on a bunch of people.
So I feel like it's valid for people to have a dislike of Christians, considering Christians spend-
Not all Christians!
Uh but the history of Christianity, there's a lot of awful sh_t there, you know?
Like invading countries, and killing hundreds of thousands of people, and torturing people, and shoving their religion down people's throats. Because, I don't know why.
Power, I guess?
Not a fan. Uh.
They're oppressors. Christians are oppressors, not the oppressed.
If you maybe keep your religion to yourself, then it's fine, but if you're like shoving it down people's throats, like you are.
Shut up.
I cannot relate to that.
Oh, okay. Um, I think that I'm gonna leave this one here.
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