I'm traveling, I'm living the life I'm living. I'm living my best life. In case you guys didn't know, Of case, you guys aren't influenced, because we're totally hep. The men have had their balls chopped off in a lot of different ways. She did you expeol She had a female explain him. Don't give me your lip, mat don't man explain to me. So I thought we could have a conversation about political correctness and how it's basically
destroying the entire fabric of our entire culture. It is kind of a cancer. Yeah, a cancer is a great way to put it. And you know, when we wrote a book, what was that twenty thirty, Well, we were writing it in twenty thirteen. He came out in twenty fourteen. Yeah, so we were writing at the end of twenty thirteen and it was already such a big deal. And it's gotten so much worse, oh my god, much worse. But it's it's it's putting all of our energy
in the wrong direction because it's teaching the kids get to cope bingo. It's taking energy that you could be putting elsewhere into the absolute wrong thing. Like words are just like the whole band Bossy campaign. Do you remember BOSSI campaign? Yes? Yeah, the chick from Facebook, Cheryl sand Sandberg Sandberg, Yeah, and she was so intent on we can't have the word bossy and little girls shouldn't be called bossy. And it's like, why, why is
that so hurtful? I mean, I have a nine year old girl, and if she was called bossy, it's so what, Yeah, who cares? It's not going to ruin her life? And that's this is the ploy, right, This is a total attempt to take over language in a way that is completely backfiring to me because it makes people, It makes kids feel like they're supposed to be outraged. They're supposed to be offended, they're supposed to be insulted and victimized by words. Yeah, because why are we doing
this? Because I remember when we were growing up it with sticks and stones. Yeah, sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me. And that was a great lesson. Yeah, it was a great lesson. Why why is that no longer the lesson? I don't there's so many things that are no longer the lesson. But when we were on the playground and somebody would call you something bad. It was you know, I don't care whatever, Yeah what sticks and stones? Right? People would
you would say that bad? Yea? How about you bite me? I mean that's that's how I was raised, and we're and we're okay exact. Kids would call us names, and people called me names all the time, and that's and maybe that's why I say bite me a lot now. But I mean people would call me names and I would get over it. And that's what all kids used to do. Kids used to be able to cope with sort of this day to day picking on each other on the playground. And now it's like, oh my god, I'm being bullied. Yeah,
and they're freaking cutting at twelve years old. You're right, I mean, what is going on. What's going on is we have a whole generation of kids who are severely troubled. Yeah, severely troubled. And it's because I think a lot of them are so incredibly insulated. And we're the problem. We are the problem. We are the problem. Parents are the problem. Is because they have insulated these kids and they said, you're you're a victor, You're a victim of words. If they're a victim of words and a
victim because of all the political correctness that we've put on them. Then imagine how it's going to be for them in the real world. Oh my god, it's going to be devastating. Well, and they are already causing so much trouble, right, I mean kids now, Like I mean you hear you joke. We joke about millennials all the time, but kids who are entering the workforce now and the demands and expectations that they have of what a
workforce is supposed to be, like, it's completely warped. And what's worse is that companies are starting to adapt, which is terrifying because it sets up our entire culture to be weak. And why do we want that? Why are we encouraging that? Because they continue with the coddling. Yeah, they continue with that, and that's bad. That's bad because these are supposed to
be our future leaders. It's totally it's what ends up with. This is how we get mayor Pete's right, this is how we get people like Pete. I'm not going to say his last name. You say it, you say it for me, because I can't stand to say it. It's edge edge. But this is this is a mayor of South Bend, a presidential candidate who I don't think could lead us out of a paper bag. Yeah,
the guy is just weak. Agreed. Agreed, And then you get in the whole conversation of women, you know, and how women are treated, and then we get into the me too stuff. Oh my god, it's like the it's it's like political correctness run a muck, right, I mean, because you you look at you know, like a feminist. So
we saw a feminist the other day who tweeted. He was like, you know about some guy tried to take her her overhead baggage out of the overhead compartment on an airplane to be nice, right, right, he was trying to be nice to her, and she tweeted about how you know, it was like a hashtag resist moment where she was fighting the patriarchy and that was she was somehow brave and speaking out against that on Twitter like, oh no, thanks, I got it, is what she said to him. Of
course I'm paraphrasing the tweet. But this is what this is what feminists are doing, right. This is the age of political correctness where men feel scared to do nice things for women now because we are so crazy. This is the age of political correctness where women are being mean to men because men are doing nice things for them. It's just kindness. And now they've got a name for it. Now they call it benevolent sexism. What It's sexist to
open a door for a woman. It's sexist to help her, you know, carry a heavy box. It's sexist to drive long distances. Yeah, I mean, it's absolute nonsense, and it totally ruins the culture for those of us who still appreciate that kind of chivalry. Yeah, it's like, we can't be empowered. We can't own businesses. We can't you know,
be successful entrepreneurs, successful career women. We can't be you know, or just choose what we want to do, right, We can't be empowered women at all if we have men doing things for us, what are we to do that. I love it when my husband does that stuff. I love it when he carries you know, big shopping bags. I love it when he opens the door for me. I love it when he drives long distances. I love it when he does all of those things. You know.
I don't want him to stop doing that, right, Well, and that's the fear, right is that you hear. I mean, we've heard from men who are literally terrified to just show what comes naturally to them, these acts of kindness that come naturally them because they were raised well. And so they go to open a door for a woman and this woman shoots him down and accuses them of being sexist. So then they stop doing it right,
And this is what we're encouraging exactly. I don't know when he did it, but Tucker Carlson did like a whole monologue about all the troubles that men are facing now as a result of our culture and how men are being unmanned. Essentially, they're like being emasculated in so many ways. And there's a whole bunch of stats that he gave that were really really troubling, so and I have those. So, for example, the average American man is going
to die five years before the average American woman. One of the reasons for that is addiction. They're also twice as likely to die of a drug od Seventy seven percent of suicides are committed by men. Over ninety percent of inmates are male. Boys are failing in school. Boys account for the overwhelming majority of school discipline cases. One in five American kids live with only their moms. They don't. We're looking at all these fatherless households and then wondering like
where all the good men have gone? Yeah, yeah, I think it's well, science is pretty scary. I mean when I was looking at some of those stats and thinking, nobody's looking into this, like if this was a woman thing, if all of a sudden estrogen levels were on the decline for decades, Yeah, and there were headlines that said so maybe freaking out, oh my god, there would be studies like crazy and maybe trying to
figure out why. Right. Yeah, I do think though that the sam Elliots are Once Sam Elliott is gone, there's not going to be a lot more sam Elliots after sam Elliott has gone. Right, It's just like when John Wayne died. It's like that's that was a dying breed. So it does make me kind of it makes me sad. Well, it's it's nerve wracking really. If you think about how much we hear about the patriarchy and
how toxic it is. That's that is all men are hearing now is how toxic they are, how toxic they're the patriarchy, is how awful they have made everything for women. Well, if listen, if you're men and you're listening to this, you're not toxic. You know, we don't think you're toxic, so you're not. It's a bunch of bull crap. It's all just a bunch of made up stuff. And they're even getting their hands slapped for opening doors, you know what I mean, Like, you can open
my door anytime. I know. I love that. I love it. You can open my door. You can call me darling. I'm fine with that too, because I'm from the South. You can make sure that I'm walking on the inside of the street, you know what I mean, Like on the sidewalk, make sure I'm away from traffic. Those I love those, I love that, all those things. You can wink at me. I'm fine with that. It's totally okay, it's totally fine. I'm just not buying into this. It's not toxic. Masculinity is not talk. It's
good. It's God given and it's wonderful. And by the way, apparently one of these other stats that I saw too, said that because there's so many fatherless, you know, so many single moms are raising their kids and there's so many fatherless households. It tends to be that serial killers come mostly from fatherless households, and bullies bullies mostly come from fatherless households. Isn't that interesting? We need men, We need them to be raising our kids with
us. I mean that, listen. I get that sometimes it can't always work out that way, but it is. It is weird when you start seeing a lot of women that are like, I'm just going to have a kid on my own, as if men are just totally expendable and not necessary, not important. They're not expendable. They're important and they're wonderful, and we love them, especially when they don't have man buns, right, we love them. So I just take disease. It's like an assault. It's
an assault on men. I mean, people have talked about the war on women forever, but it's that pingj has swung way too far. I totally agree. It is. It's time for some like resetting. Yeah, I mean yeah, and bring dudes back. I don't know what we do about the testosterone levels, but yeah, hashtag bring dudes back, bring the balls back. That's right, that's what we want. That's right. Okay. So I sent you an article the other day, it was Jillian Michaels.
Yes, yeah, And I like, I think Jillian Michaels is fine. She seems pretty hardcore. I like her. I've seen her on TV. She seems like she's pretty cool. But and she also seems like she understands physical fitness. And one of those components of physical fitness is understanding that it's okay to say obesity is not healthy. It's not And she's saying that in an article. And I sent this to you and I'm like, listen, so she just wrote this article. What was she wrote it? Just what
like a week ago? I think, so it's pretty recent. Yeah, it's yeah, just last week. Yeah, December is December of two thousand nineteen is when she wrote this article. And so she was she was like, listen, it's not okay to glamorize obesity. And this whole body positivity thing is kind of whack. Yeah, and it's all part of this political correctness culture. Yeah, right, because they're gonna so afraid to say you're fat, right, you know, I mean to the point where doctors are
even afraid to say it for fear that of backlash. It used to be that you go to your doctor, and your doctor be like, listen, you gotta lose fifty pounds because you're gonna die if you don't lose fifty pounds. You're eventually you're gonna get diabetes, you're gonna get heart disease, you're gonna get all these awful things, and then eventually that those things can kill you. You may want to lose fifty pounds, honestly, and they would
not have any fear about saying that because that is their job. That is their job. Nowadays, doctors don't do that as much because of all this political correctness bull crap. It's nonsense, it is, And she's speaking to that. She's speaking to the political correctness society that we live in. And man thea from this article, and she is a personal traiter. She has
a physical fitness guru. She is like the person that people go they put her on television to train people to make fat people skinny, right or healthy? I'm sorry healthy, because that's the whole thing this is. It's called a body positivity movement. What are how? What is there? Why are we showing people to be positive about a body state that'll put you closer to death? Yeah? Why are we it's it's it's not something to encourage,
it really isn't. I mean if I saw that, like my daughter was was, you know, she's nine, and I saw that she was gaining weight and gaining weight and getting weight, I wouldn't shame her, but I would make sure I would be like, what am I doing wrong as a parent? You know that is is putting her in a state where she is becoming closer and closer to a place where one day she's going to die prematurely. Why would you do that? Why would you do that to your kids?
What would you to yourself? Why would you to anybody that you love? I just don't understand why people are trying to make this a positive. It's not positive. That's nagad. And again, it's not about these people. It's not about people who are overweight being of less value, or it's it's them being of value. That's what I'm just saying. It's like, you love those people, why wouldn't you want them to be here a very
long time? It's like, of course you want them to be here a long time because you do love them, Because they it's showing that you do value them and you value their body yes, and the Ais are the only ones who are going to get exactly God gave you one vessel. Man, It's like, you have this one vessel on earth. You got to treat it with kindness and respect. I mean, it's the way I look at
it. It's like I had that spinal fusion in twenty fifteen, and I listen, this may not have a lot to do with fat but I remember waking up in the hospital bed and it was sort of like a come to Jesus meeting because I woke up in that bed and I couldn't walk, okay, like it's and of course I knew, like in the back of my brain, I knew, all right, I'll be able to walk in like
three days, but I was I couldn't walk. I mean I physically, you know, when you have spinal surgery, you can't walk, and so you're basically, I want to say paralyzed, but you just physically can't get up. And I remember thinking, oh my god, what like you start panicking, You start panicking, and so you start not taking things for granted after days like that, right, And that's the thing, Like, after that, I was like, all right, I'm not gonna not work out
a couple of days a week. I'm not gonna not move my body. I'm not gonna I'm not gonna not take things for granted, you know. And so this is the thing is like you have one vessel. You got to treat it with respect. You know. That's the most positive thing you can do for your body. I mean, it's like, I'm never going to be a fitness model, but it's you know, just be nice to your body. Why would you not want to be nice to your body? And don't encourage obesity. This is a really dumb thing to encur. It
is really dumb. Love people who are obese, encourage them to get healthy. Right. That is the best body positivity you can have. And so Lillian and Michael's is right, and actually she's dead on. I think for people who are like, you're being some mean people. No, you're being mean to people by telling them that they should remain fat because you're basically saying I want you to die early. That's a yeah, I think that's kind of mean. I think that to me, And I think Jillian's the one
is dead on, right, that's exactly. So that's that. Okay, Well, now I'm just not gonna eat cake. Yes today, that's not true. You can eat the cake in moderation, and then I totally eat the cake. I eat all the cake. I just told you, move your bikey. There's like you have to do. You have to do all the things like you do things in moderation. I think you can do all those things. You can eat the cake and then you just walk a mile right right, that is exactly do or take two flights of stairs. I
can do that briskly. I can't do it here at work because the stairwells are all locked. Yeah, but I will do that. Yeah, exactly. You can do all those things. It's totally fine. There you go, right. Not only have wedding proposals gotten out of control. Prom proposals have gotten out of control. There's no home homecoming, homecoming proposals or out of every Everything is a production right now for social media. Yeah, can we just reverse this trend because that I feel like this is way too much
pressure for dudes. It's way too much pressure for parents to be It's just too much. It's too much. It's like, look at me, me, me, And it makes me sad that it's trickled down to kids in middle school, because now we have Matt's kid who's being told by his little girlfriend, Hey, by the way, you asked me to homecoming yesterday, which is great and I want to go, But the way you're really supposed to ask me is this way. Here's a list of things you're supposed to
do. That is a big crock of crap right there. I just can't believe that he's having to do that. He's having to jump through hoops and do all these things that I never dreamed of of any boy doing for me when I was in middle school or high school. We just went, you know what I mean, we just we were asked in hallways right right. We were asking cars. When we're asking you had a really sweet note past, Yeah, exactly. I mean, it just wasn't a big deal.
We just did these things and then we went and that was life, and it was you know, it was very sweet, yeah, and it was more intimate and it was there's I just I love that time. I know, it was an innocent, wonderful time, and I missed that. And this really is about the advent of social media, right with a question, because otherwise, what's I don't think people would be going so over the top if they didn't think, oh, this is going to be a viral moment.
Either either it's going to be a viral moment or I am the star of my own, my own social media. Everybody, look at me, look a look at me. Look at what this person did. It's not about the you know about I guess about that little girl going to the dance with Matt's son, and how and how that is just a wonderful thing on its own. It's about the event itself. It's about what it looks like to everybody else. Well that is the key, what it looks like to
everybody else, and that's what matters. Now. Yeah, and that sucks because it should be about you two going together and having a good time and not about what it looks like. And now, I mean, think about all the one upping that's going to be taking place, right So, like this guy started a forest fire and they're gonna be like, oh, you only killed this many trees. Yeah, Well, at my gender Revealed party,
we took care of the entire Amazon jump. I mean, you know, it's gonna get to the point where nothing is going to be good enough because everything's already been done, and listen, I know that we probably will even do a podcast on this in the future. But I've said that about about weddings forever. Oh yeah, because listen, my wedding was like six hundred dollars and we had a reception at our house. So I'm like not want to talk about when it comes to over the top weddings. So I'm
just not an over the top wedding kind of girl. But when it comes to like all the pomp and circumstance and the craziness and the doing things for other people, I just feel like a lot of a lot of weddings, a lot of things that people do nowadays, they do it for other people, and it's like it's never about like the marriage, you know what I mean, Yeah, it's it's about it's about the show and it's and it's like eventually you're gonna have you're it's gonna be the two of you, Like
eventually, like Matt's boy and that little girl are gonna be alone at that dance and then we're gonna have to have a conversation and then what Yeah, then what's gonna happen? And same thing with all these these people. You know, they're gonna have the kids, they're gonna it's real life is gonna happen, and then what Yeah, they got to be ready for the actual, real lit it. I mean, so she's not always pomp and circumstances and fanfare. No, it's not just you're living. There ain't no filters,
there's no Instagram filters. In real life, you gotta deal with with the stuff. So we need to get back to basics. All you young dudes out there who are getting ready to ask your uh, your little girlfriends to home coming and then coming up for prom, just you know, ask him in a car. Yeah, and if she's not down, then maybe
that's not the right girl. Yeah, Or if she don't should care about going to prom with you and not how you ask, or if she gives you a list of things that you need to do tomorrow because you didn't ask the right way. Ask somebody else, you know, ask somebody else. That's exactly right. I'm sure there's somebody who would be delighted to go with you. Yeah, all right, let's talk about mag aren't bride's a sign
of the patriarchy now, which is why people aren't getting married. Well, that's a great point, right, And there are lots and lots of changes with marriage. I saw swage saw some stats. Half of these are just interesting stats from Pew Research. You know how they do all the polling or the whatever the stats. So many status you get, So she's got all the status. I have so many stats, so give them, give them
to us. Mot here I go. Okay, half of Americans aged eighteen or older were married in twenty seventeen, which has been our stable number over the past recent years, but is down eight points since nineteen ninety. And that is because you may have noticed this. Americans are staying single for longer. Yeah, this is happening. People are waiting. Yeah for real, You got any more weird stats in there? You need to well? The good news I guess according to Peughs that love is still the top reason the
Americans want to get married. That's good. But I'm not sure what the alive is. But I mean it says nine and ten. That means one in ten Americans don't find love to be the main reason to get married. Okay, Like who is that? Who would that person be? That would be like an Anna Nicole Smith who did not marry for love, right, Well, I suppose you know, a companionship is another big one. To
me, those things go hand in hand. But there are people that say financial stability your legal rights and benefits, and you know, that's a whole other can of worms too. Is talking about how government is involved in marriage and really, why why is that a thing? Right? It used to just be you know, you wanted your marriage to be recognized by whatever your church is, but now it's like it's a tax thing and all that sort of stuff. But yes, the number of people that are cohabitating is very
much on the rise. Only let's see, in addition to the half of adults who are married, seven percent were cohabiting cohabitating in twenty sixteen, and now let's see it's up twenty nine percent since two thousand. That's a lot. It's a lot. And it goes back to what I said about faith.
You know, a lot of people there's a lack of religion now, Like if you look at the stats of people who used to be people of faith and then people who aren't now because man, so many people are like agnostic and atheists now and they're like, I don't care about God recognizing my relationship you know that that probably goes hand in hand with that, which is sad. That also makes me say, I know, the people just don't care. They just people just don't care anymore, and then why commit?
Right? Yeah, I mean marriage is great. It is great. I mean, besides the sex on tab it's great. It really there's I mean, it really is great. It's all of it has been great. I mean I listen, I was divorced, and there was probably like a two week span where I was like, I'm never gonna get married again, you know, because I was like, because you know, you go through that whole post divorce thing, you're like ah. But then after that, I
was like, you know I could, I could do this. And then when you meet the person that you're supposed to be with, you're like, of course, I'm all in. This is of course you want to do this. And I guess that's why I can't imagine why I don't understand why people don't get married, because that is that is precisely what I wanted to do. When I met my husband, I was like, oh my god, I want to marry this guy. Yeah, like don't you remember,
oh yeah? And it was really it was probably inappropriate on my part because I thought that within the first couple of nurs like you just like you know, like you just you're like, I love this guy so much, I have to be with them, Like even though this is so completely inconvenient, so inconvenient, Like there's step kids, there's all sorts of stuff. I mean, there's so much. I just but I love I just want to
be with this person. So I mean, I can't imagine not wanting to be married, yeah, and not wanting to do that in front of God and everybody and now, and not and not wanting someone that is really going to have your back through your whole life. Yeah, you know. That's to me, that's like the greatest comfort. And then having and having theirs yeah, yeah, and having someone else and knowing that your partners and you're in it for the long haul. I don't know why anybody would not want
that. Yeah, And I feel like that seals the deal. Yeah, that seals And maybe if you don't, maybe if you're in a situation where you are living with someone and you don't have that sense of wanting that, then that isn't the right person. Because I don't understand how you're I just don't understand not wanting that, yeah, or knowing that that person wants to do that with you. Yeah, I just I can't understand that either. I don't. I don't know. It's a different generation. It's a different
generation, different generation. And who knows, maybe in thirty years, like I said, maybe twenty thirty years from now, Pe will be like, yeah, these kids had it, right, Who knows. I don't know. I don't know. But I hope my kid gets married. Yeah, me too. I want to see him get married to you exactly right, I know, because that would be amazing, right, would be amazing, totally, totally, and it won't be a thirty five thousand dollars wedding.
That's all I'm saying. Right, that's going to be very simple, that's all. That's all I'm saying about that. Okay, all right, you guys, all right, So if you're out there and you're listening, get married, stay married, Yeah, that's our advice. And then go forth and pro create. Yes, do that. Do that, and also make sure to subscribe to this podcast if you're not doing so already, yes, and find us in all the places I'm at. Chicks on right on Instagram
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