ariana grande & the failure of choice feminism

We've now figured out how to weaponize extremely strategic

and cynical social justice language

or feminist language to pretend

as if even acknowledging these problems

that to be clear affect all of us

as we watch them is somehow bigoted

or misogynist or at minimum insensitive.

That's a really crucial difference, right?

We not only now are watching people be sick in public,

we can't even say that they're sick.

Hi everyone.

Um it's me, Chelsea.

I am not in what may appear to be some sort of Moroccan spa.

I am indeed uh in the little studio where we are going to be

filming our final episodes of Just Getting Good in the morning.

My train literally just pulled into the station here an hour ago

and I had absolutely no intention of pulling out my camera

and filming a video,

but um in case you didn't see,

I made a short video about this subject yesterday

that has already caused some conversation here

and elsewhere,

but in addition to kind of expanding on

that and speaking about this subject in a more nuanced way

and responding to some of those comments,

I also want to This is just kind of an issue where I really

want to plant my flag in the ground

and and really speak on this topic

because I think that among all the problems

that we have right now in our country

and in the world,

one of them is

that I think we are in a very scary place

as it pertains to feminism

and specifically women's bodies,

how we talk about them, how we think about them.

And although, and this is to head off the comments,

we are primarily a financial channel.

We do talk about all kinds of socio-political issues including ones

that um may not be

as directly related to money

and this is one of them.

This is going to be much more about feminism and bodies.

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If not, no worries, but um I want to get into this topic.

I'm going to start with a big trigger warning

that we are going to be specifically speaking about disordered eating,

mental illness, addiction, um extreme thinness, body dysmorphia,

all of these topics that I know are very sensitive for people.

And if that is not a subject you feel comfortable hearing right now,

no worries at all, but this is not the video for you.

I'm going to speak about these things very, very candidly.

Yeah, I I really hope

that we can deal with this subject with some compassion

and nuance,

but also with a lot of honesty,

because I think it is specifically the honesty

that has been really missing in the way

that we talk about these things.

What specifically spurred on my video yesterday was some footage from the first concerts

of Ariana Grande's new tour,

um which were I'm just going to put a few stills here on screen.

These have not been edited.

These are just candids taken from people in the audience, um some you know,

candid videos of her, uh obviously looking really, really scary, extremely, severely underweight,

and also seemingly barely being able to uh do any kind of basic choreography,

being extremely low energy, just looking really on the verge of collapse.

And seeing those videos populate my social media accounts,

uh really pushed me to make the video that I made yesterday,

which I will just play in its entirety here,

because I don't want to These are very sensitive issues,

so I want to just quote myself exactly here.

So, I can tolerate a lot in terms of how our culture tends to

mishandle really serious issues,

but one thing I have always struggled with is having my intelligence insulted.

For 2 years straight, the entire Wicked press tour,

there was a never-ending cycle of conversation, wherein people would rightfully point out,

"Hey, something is really wrong here."

Not just in terms of physical appearance,

but also with all of the additional context we have from old social media

posts,

well-documented mental health issues, etc.

That not only do we as a society have a responsibility to not normalize,

let alone glamorize this,

we also have an increased responsibility to do

so when the target of this massive media empire is specifically young women

and girls.

Which is not to say we need to blame a sick person for being

sick,

but rather how we talk about that sickness as a society,

as with things like addiction, for example, really matters.

And every time those comments were met with, "You don't know.

She could be at her healthiest right now.

Don't talk about women's bodies."

Or even invoking cases like Chadwick Boseman

as if to imply

that anyone talking about this is insensitive

because it's equally likely

that she could be dying of cancer instead of suffering from the extremely well-documented

mental illness that she has already been on record

as having.

And to in any way address what is happening right in front of our

faces and being endlessly glamorized in the media,

because to be clear, whether now or on the Wicked tour,

we are still getting endless promotional photo shoots and interviews and highlight reels.

All somewhere between insensitive and outright misogynist.

So, the conversation was shut down because we can't talk about women's bodies,

no matter what is playing out directly in front of our faces.

So, the videos like the one I just stitched from her new tour to

me are not at all surprising.

In fact, they are the logical conclusion of a culture

that continues to reward this.

Or treats it as somehow less urgent of a life-threatening issue than,

for example, a star who is falling down on stage

because they are so intoxicated.

I personally feel at this point buying tickets to a tour like this is

a little unethical.

It feels to me more like going to a human zoo than seeing a

pop star at the top of their game.

Because you are watching an extremely sick person continue to act

as if everything is normal.

But at the end of the day, people can attend whatever they like,

celebrate whatever they like, continue to normalize whatever they like.

However, I personally will not have my intelligence insulted

and be told that I am not seeing what I am very clearly seeing,

or that it doesn't have massive implications for all of the young women

and girls who are looking up to this.

So, enjoy the show, I guess.

But, as you can see, my sort of larger thesis,

and this conversation goes very far beyond Ariana Grande,

although she is obviously one of the um most clear current examples of the

problem,

is not even so much the extreme thinness,

because I think we are at least able at this point to sort of

acknowledge as a culture

that thin is back in,

that extreme thinness is increasingly a problem, that many,

many of the celebrities and other figures in our public eye, especially women,

have suddenly gone from being, let's say,

on the slimmer side to being alarmingly thin right in front of our eyes.

Another example that I think of a lot

when I think of this is someone like Demi Moore,

um who we've seen recently on red carpets looking like this,

which isn't unusual in itself.

We're seeing a lot of this,

but does feel particularly ironic given her role in the movie The Substance,

which did feel so kind of prescient

and and thoughtful and critical of this exact kind of dynamic

that we're now seeing play out in

so far as women are under an immense,

immense pressure not only to look beautiful and young and timeless,

but also to be incredibly, incredibly thin.

And it's worth noting as a side note that especially as we age,

being incredibly thin and appearing very youthful are often kind of operating at cross-purposes.

So, even though it was never easy to fit into beauty standards,

this particular intersection of beauty standards is is really, really tough.

But, I say that to say

that Ariana Grande is by far not the only person

that we've seen exhibiting a deeply alarming level of thinness in the public eye.

It's just one that's very much top of people's minds right now,

not only because the images are coming out from her tour,

which are frankly quite alarming to see,

but also because we have the recent memory of,

as I mentioned in my video,

the 2-year-long Wicked press tour where many,

many people were kind of raising these alarm bells

and were being sort of dismissed

or told that to speculate on this in any way

or even to just name what they're seeing is a kind of misogyny.

Now, the reason for me that this feels this sort of cultural gaslighting,

this insistence that we not acknowledge what we are obviously seeing happen in front

of our eyes,

or framing it as something that it is obviously not,

to me that feels like a step beyond what I think we're already acknowledging,

which is that there are these insane unsustainable standards of thinness.

It's the extra layer of sort of obfuscating

that and pretending like it's not happening,

or at least putting social pressure to not acknowledge that it's happening,

that feels to me even more sinister than usual.

In preparing for this video,

I went back and watched some videos of Karen Carpenter,

who is a figure

that a lot of people will reference

when they're talking about cases like Ariana Grande

because you can sort of put images next to each other on screen

and see that Ariana Grande is very,

very similar in appearance, if not sometimes appearing even more thin,

than Karen Carpenter before she obviously tragically passed away of anorexia nervosa.

I went back and watched some interviews with her,

and what was very striking was in several of these interviews,

the interviewers were very bluntly, and in my opinion,

really sort of in a very tone-deaf, not compassionate way,

asking quite openly about her rumored struggles with disordered eating.

I don't, for the record,

think that the solution should be we need to be essentially ambushing these celebrities

on red carpets to ask them why they look the way they do

or whether or not they have an eating disorder.

I don't think that that's a better approach.

I think that that's actually really misunderstands the nature of the illness

because to ask someone a question like

that in an interview is is sort of pretending

as though you're dealing with a rational actor,

whereas someone who is in the throes of disordered eating is not going to

be able to admit

or in many cases doesn't even view themselves necessarily

as having a problem not dissimilar to things like addiction

or other mental health issues.

It did really stand out to me watching some of those interviews

because I thought about how unthinkable

that directness,

that acknowledgement would be in today's media and celebrity culture.

There's been a lot of discourse about sort of the death of the interview

and the fact that often now we have celebrities

and influencers interviewing other celebrities

and influencers,

which often sort of avoids anything even remotely approaching an uncomfortable

or even unexpected question

and sort of leaving the interview

as just a essentially a piece of PR for the celebrity.

And I've been thinking about

that and I think one of the things

that is worth noting there is

that sure,

sometimes that just makes for really boring

and flat interviews that don't really feel very interesting.

In the case of things like a political figure,

it totally lets them off the hook for what should be really serious issues.

But in the case of celebrities where they are clearly I mean very very

sick in front of our eyes.

I use the term human zoo in my video to describe what I feel

to be the dynamic of purchasing a ticket to go see someone perform who

is at that level of visible sickness.

And I don't use the term lightly.

I believe that it is a deeply ethically compromised to essentially go

and cheer on someone who is in the throes of a profound serious illness.

But, even leaving aside the sort of fan relationship

and now as we have it,

the sort of stan relationship where rooting for a celebrity is akin to kind

of like rooting for a sports team

and there's not really any sort of nuance

or or thoughtful criticism in how we relate to people

that we like,

which is in many ways I think kind of the flip side of {quote}

cancel culture,

which is the {quote} completely uh sort of uncritical,

unwilling to interrogate culture of just embracing everything a celebrity does no matter how

uh questionable or problematic

or harmful to even themselves

because you've deemed them someone you like.

I think this can be said, for example,

about like people's hesitation to be critical of a Taylor Swift, for example,

despite I I think our knowledge on some level

that no one is an ethical billionaire.

It becomes a lot harder to have that sort of thoughtful,

measured criticism when it's someone for whom you're a fan.

But, when we're thinking about the media's relationship to someone who is deeply sick,

which I think is not only a different dynamic,

but a different level of responsibility than just a fan buying a ticket to

the show,

which again, I still think is very,

very ethically compromised when someone has reached the level of sickness

that we're currently at.

And we've seen this with other celebrities, right?

Celebrities who could barely stand up

or perform on stage

because they were so intoxicated.

I would also think that it is very, sort of, let's say,

sideshow adjacent to go see that as if it were normal.

Um so, I I do automatically really side eye that at this point.

But, when it comes to the media,

I think part of the reason why our current sort of skinny apocalypse has

been able to reach the amplitude

that it has is

because we do not have a critical

or even direct relationship with celebrity anymore even

as the media.

So, again, when we think about who is interviewing celebrities,

what questions are we putting forth to them, how are we receiving them?

If you go back and look at the Wicked press tour,

it would be absolutely unthinkable for one of the people interviewing these celebrities to

say,

"You know, there's been a lot of conversation about you two both looking really,

really thin and in fact many of the stars of this film franchise looking

really,

really thin.

Can you speak to that?"

Or something of the like.

And by the way,

if there were people asking them those questions on the media tour,

please link them below.

I have not seen them.

Perhaps they exist, but suffice to say, it is very, very,

very rare to hear those kinds of questions in any kind of media

or sort of press appearance.

And so, I do think that on the one hand,

we have this kind of cultural awareness that people, especially women,

are suddenly looking extremely thin, it's extremely worrisome.

In the case of someone like an Ariana Grande for whom there is ample,

ample documented history of disordered behavior, mental health issues,

and every reason to suspect

that this is someone in the potentially terminal stages of the deadliest mental illness.

We can acknowledge that this is happening, we can write think pieces about it,

we can make videos about it,

we can sort of talk about it as a general cultural phenomenon,

but when it comes to the actual human beings themselves,

there is still an enormous taboo around acknowledging it directly,

around naming it for what it is, around saying, "This isn't healthy,

this isn't normal."

And that pushback that I mentioned in my video of don't comment on women's

bodies or she could be healthy

and we wouldn't know

or we don't know anything about how she eats,

I think is actually much more cynical

and sinister than we give it credit for.

I am not comfortable saying

that everyone who invokes

that language when talking about someone who is very visibly sick is doing

so to protect their own disordered habits.

I don't think that's universally true,

but I do think it is very convenient for people who do not want

to acknowledge their own unhealthy habits

or who do not generally want more cultural scrutiny on the issue of someone

looking that way.

I think it serves that very cynical purpose.

I think it's also in the case of someone like an Ariana Grande who

is a multi-billion dollar industry unto herself,

very lucrative and let's just say keeps a lot of people employed to intentionally

look the other way

and not acknowledge it,

to pretend like it's not happening.

Anyone who's seen, for example,

the Amy Winehouse documentary knows

that they were throwing her up on

that stage until literally the day she died.

And when you watch the last performances that she did,

it is so clear

that anyone in her life who truly cared about her would have pulled her

off that stage.

And yes, I'm looking at some of her family members there.

But it was frankly way too profitable to not acknowledge that.

So I think that there's sort of a few things

that are coming together here

that are all kind of They don't necessarily have the same intentions,

but they are all equally served and benefited by us pretending that A,

we're not seeing what we're seeing or that B,

to comment on the body of someone who is actively wasting away in front

of us is similar to,

I don't know, for example,

making fun of a celebrity for having a minor bit of cellulite or having,

I don't know, breasts that aren't super perky or whatever the case may be.

And trust me, we do plenty of that.

But I think it's very disingenuous to not acknowledge

that these are completely different things.

And that if we are capable of being honest with ourselves

as a society about

and of using some critical thinking

and of separating things out into their rightful categories,

that there should be no issue in accurately addressing a not just personal illness,

but societal illness for what it is.

Because to be clear, disordered eating and thinness, in addition to being heavily,

heavily socially valorized, uh is also incredibly contagious and incredibly competitive.

This is the kind of thing that propagates itself amongst all of the people,

not just in their personal circles, like we saw in the Wicked tour,

but also the people watching them at home,

the people who are looking at those performances over and over,

studying them because it's their dream to look like

that and to have

so many people worried about them.

And I actually would argue that,

in terms of downplaying

and denying the responsibility

that we have to call this out

and to name it for what it is,

is even more dangerous in the case of something like disordered eating

that results in extreme thinness than,

for example, things like drug and alcohol addiction uh or other mental illness,

because unlike other mental health issues, including potentially deadly ones,

being really thin is heavily socially rewarded.

The women who are walking runways

and on the cover of fashion magazines only look slightly less underweight than some

of these celebrities do.

So, it is not just disingenuous to pretend

that it isn't an issue

that affects well beyond the person who is experiencing it,

especially if they're, you know, on a massive national or international stage,

but it's also disingenuous to pretend like this isn't the mental health issue

that is also the most rewarded by society

and therefore the most likely to be contagious

and to be competitive

and to spread amongst the people,

not just in their immediate circles, but around them.

But, I think though,

in addition to there being a real cynicism

and a quite sinister agenda in shutting down this conversation

or gaslighting people into thinking

that it's somehow misogynist to acknowledge a woman who's dying

or that it is no different than making fun of someone who you just

don't think is attractive enough

or whatever,

putting those all into the same category,

I think there's also a few other things

that absolutely need to be touched on,

in part because they came up in the comments of the video I made.

First being, "Oh, well, would you say this about fat person?

Now, in addition to what we've already acknowledged,

which is that being extremely thin is heavily socially encouraged,

so you can't really even compare those two.

To be underweight is celebrated.

To be even a little bit overweight, especially if you're a public figure,

is basically impossible.

I think we're all pretty familiar by now about how our culture treated Lena

Dunham for,

you know, committing the crime of being a size 10

or whatever on our on our television screens.

So, I don't even think those two things are comparable.

We are already constantly castigating overweight

and and obese people essentially 24/7 for daring to not be skinny.

Even leaving that aside, though,

would I say that to identify the problem we are seeing is comparable to,

I don't know, pointing and laughing at an overweight woman on the street?

Absolutely not.

Would I say it's comparable to, I don't know,

a show like My 600-lb Life,

which is an extremely popular television show that's been on for like a decade

plus,

where people who weigh 600 lbs

or more or are essentially paraded around on television,

again, not unlike a human zoo exhibit, and also repeatedly told,

both in the context of the show and by the viewing audience,

that they are about to die.

That is the entire premise of the show.

TLC as a channel is like largely founded on just pointing at extremely large

people and saying,

"Whoa, isn't that crazy?"

Like, we already do that constantly.

And I do think it's valid to say some of the people on shows

like My 600-lb Life are just

as much at risk

as someone like an Ariana Grande on those stages.

In fact, some of the people on those shows have since passed away.

Also, some of the celebrities who have similarly struggled with eating disorders have passed

away.

So, if you're going to compare apples to apples,

it's not fair to just say, "Oh, I don't know,

Lizzo or or pre-2023 Meghan Trainor,

whoever it is you want to talk about,

who constantly gets made fun of and criticized in the public eye."

I don't think that's the same

because I think that you're deliberately taking an extreme example

and comparing it to one

that is not extreme.

But, I understand why people do

that because they are just never ever going to miss an opportunity to shame

fat people.

That's just sort of

that I don't know at this point I don't

and I do think by the way like my only other experiences I live

in France obviously and I will say

that if America is body negative,

France is Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome

and I've heard it on credible authority

that most other countries beyond America are even more hostile to overweight people.

So, I'm certainly not here to say that America is the worst offender,

but definitely America runs no shortage of castigating fat people, especially fat women,

especially if they're in the public eye.

So, I really even reject that framing and consider it if anything a distraction.

I do not think it's fair to compare a situation like Ariana Grande to

your average person who's like a size 16.

The other incredibly disingenuous distraction

that I think gets brought up in this conversation over

and over again is the GLP-1 issue.

I have said this a million times, I will say it again.

I have used in the past a GLP-1.

I went from basically my entire adult life being a size six roughly to

gaining a not small amount of weight in a relatively short period of time

through anxiety-induced binge eating.

I got up to about a size 10-ish.

I couldn't wear any of my clothes.

I felt like It was not a good time of my life.

I used a GLP-1.

It's one of the better decisions I think I've ever made for my health.

It kickstarted so many healthy habits for me

and even after going off of them for quite some time,

I found that I just like did not restart those bad habits.

Your mileage may vary.

I've made an entire full-length video about this

and also a video about it on my TikTok where I go into great

detail.

I, to be honest,

did not want to make those videos

because I understand that the second I am open about the fact

that I have used a GLP-1

that it invites all kinds of insane criticism.

Like the the number of times I've been called fat phobic

because I admitted to the fact

that I would rather not have to buy an entirely new wardrobe

and just try to wean myself off of my at the time horrible food

habits and get back into a body

that I personally felt comfortable

and active in is neither here nor there.

I was honest about it

because I believe in transparency

and I didn't want anyone to speculate on something

and wonder why things seemed maybe relatively easy for me

when it wasn't for them.

When not only do I generally believe in transparency,

but these are also subjects that we've covered multiple times on the channel.

So it would be very hypocritical of me not to be open about them

even though just like with talking about money

that means fielding some criticisms.

I honestly don't care what you think about my decision to use a GLP-1.

It really doesn't matter to me.

I'm just saying it for the sake of honesty and you know,

some sense of values in this constant hall of mirrors gaslighting nonsense

that is our relationship to you know,

appearance and weight and all of these things.

But I also, if we're going to talk about what we know to be

common sense versus what we can easily see to be gaslighting,

is that I actually don't think it is the same thing for,

I don't know, a person who has diabetes

or a person who's been heavily overweight their whole life

and wants help losing it.

Or a person like myself who went from one size to another size

and then back to the size she's always been,

has never even been close to underweight her entire life including

while using a GLP-1.

I don't think those are the same things

as someone intentionally using a GLP-1 to facilitate an eating disorder.

If anything, if we're really going to play the ED card,

I use mine to help stop disordered behavior because yes,

although it is often not thought of as such,

binge eating is also a form of disordered eating

and for many of us Uh understand

that compulsive eating especially for certain foods,

that it can be just

as debilitating and can really consume our mental health just like any other type

of more restrictive disorder can.

What I'm trying to say in this is

that throwing out the distraction of "Hey,

but GLP-1s as if those are not incredibly life-changing for the positive medication for

millions of people around the world

and are also perfectly able to be used in a healthy,

sustainable way and also help many people break out of disordered habits rather than

get into them,

to make that the culprit just because some people are abusing them,

I find to be deeply, deeply unfair and also, again, in my opinion,

rather cynical.

Because there are plenty of people who take mental health drugs

or pain medication or all kinds of other pills in a safe,

sustainable, healthy, doctor-recommended and followed way.

There are also plenty of people who abuse those prescription medications,

use them to get high, completely derail their life with those medications.

Does it mean that they should be completely forbidden or illegal?

I would argue no.

Does it also mean

that those medications are inherently unethical

because some people abuse them?

No.

As I've also said in other videos,

these disorders have existed well before the prevalence of GLP-1s and will exist,

I'm sure, long after them if they ever fall out of common use.

But whether it's what about fat people

or what about GLP-1s

or what about this,

that, and the other, all of these to me feel like extreme distractions.

Because as I said in the very beginning,

when I went back

and watched some of the conversation around Karen Carpenter at the time,

this is not to be like a boomer take of like, "Wow,

everything was so much better before.

We We just We had it so much more together as a society."

But I do think

that there was like a little bit less of the simultaneous hyper-awareness of all

of the problems of our society

and a complete inability to talk about them honestly.

When it comes to the absolute epidemic of women being dangerously thin in the

public eye,

we're all able to say that this is a problem.

Yet, relatively few people will then go the extra step and say,

"And these are people who are deeply suffering from that problem,

and we should probably not support them financially

while they are actively putting their life at risk every day.

We should probably not normalize that.

We should probably not endorse that."

In my opinion, if we were more capable of directly confronting these issues,

including in things like interviews.

And again, no one needs to be doing it in the insanely tone-deaf way

of some of these Karen Carpenter interviews.

But if we could even acknowledge it up front, or like for example,

certain publications will say,

"We are not going to run an extremely dangerously underweight person in our magazine

or on our cover.

We're not going to have them on our show.

We're not going to promote their projects."

If that were more normalized, or if more people were to say,

"I'm actually not going to buy a ticket to the to the concert

or the show or the movie of someone who is,

again, not just genuinely and actively harming themselves,

but also making that harm seem more normal and aspirational to the countless,

especially young women and little girls who are watching it.

Like, if it were more acceptable to not just be honest about the problem,

but to be honest about when and where we see it happening.

In my view, the best outcome with this Ariana Grande situation would have been

that after the Wicked tour,

there would have been enough clear-eyed, honest cultural conversation about this,

enough pushback in the media, enough pushback from fans,

that we would not be putting this on stage

so that people can come

and watch an extremely sick person half-heartedly dance around for 2 hours.

We would not have even put this show on,

and this person would be probably an inpatient treatment in the hospital,

or at least with loved ones out of the public eye,

where they are not constantly making this seem normal and acceptable and even beautiful.

As I said at the beginning of this video,

I think that we are in a very,

very scary moment for feminism

because not only do we have the problems

that we've always had,

the impossible standards to live up to,

the extreme thinness coupled with the extreme youth culture,

all of these things

that have always existed

and probably will always exist to some extent

and or I don't know,

let's let's assume we'll maybe have some sort of like post-beauty standard utopia at

some point.

But either way, on top of all of the things

that have always been a problem,

we've now figured out how to weaponize extremely strategic

and cynical social justice language

or feminist language to pretend

as if even acknowledging these problems

that,

to be clear, affect all of us as we watch them,

is somehow bigoted or misogynist or at minimum insensitive.

That's a really crucial difference, right?

We not only now are watching people be sick in public,

we can't even say that they're sick because that makes us the bad person.

I personally reject this.

I also personally reject the distraction

that you can't be extremely critical of this being put on a world tour

for people to buy tickets to

and still think it's bad to make fun of random people's appearances

or that those are even the same things.

I I personally reject that framing.

I also reject the framing

that if you correctly identify

that some of these celebrities are actively killing themselves

that you should just

then go out and make fun of a random overweight person for being overweight.

reject the idea that just

because GLP-1s now are one of many things

that are being used to facilitate disordered eating

that that means all GLP-1s are bad

or anyone who's used them is part of disordered eating culture

or whatever the case may be,

I reject all of these things.

I don't know if

that makes me woke

or not woke or like where I fall on the spectrum.

I don't care anymore, frankly.

I don't actually care what the politically correct opinion to have on this issue

is.

I just know that

when I open my TikTok

and I see Ariana Grande looking frankly terrifying,

I say to myself,

I don't know how parents of daughters are doing it right now knowing

that their little girls are going to open up their phones

and see this.

Like, that is terrifying to me

that one of the biggest pop stars in the world who's on one of

probably going to be the biggest tours of the decade right now looks like

that,

is in that position.

Not only is no one in the media really directly talking about this,

but also we have found a way even amongst the everyday fans to shut

down any conversation about this

and to do it

while feeling morally superior.

That to me is an incredibly scary moment in our culture.

It's an incredibly scary moment for quote-unquote feminism, whatever's left of it.

And as I say in the video,

an incredibly scary moment for our collective intelligence.

I will not have my collective intelligence insulted.

I will not not acknowledge this for what it is.

Sorry if this offends,

but also not that sorry

because I do fear

that for a lot of you people will have to start dying for you

to wake up and even

then it won't be enough.

Even then it won't be enough.

You will still play these rhetorical games

and you will still hide behind this nonsense.

Not on this channel though.

All right, I got to get ready.

We're filming all day tomorrow.

See you around the channel.

Stay safe.

I'm sure these comments will be completely normal.

Bye.