Why Are Men STILL Invading Women’s Spaces? | Episode 59

The internet is in a full-fledged meltdown over some of the new NFL cheerleaders, and unsurprisingly, per usual, I have a lot of thoughts.

So, here you have it.

Here is one of the newest cheerleaders on the Patriots.

This is a man swinging that thing around with his pom-poms.

We also have one here on the Minnesota Vikings, and I have to say, I watched that video and I thought, I mean, that makes sense.

It's Tim Walls' state.

Of course, there wouldn't be a man running around doing jazz hands on a football field because obviously we all saw Tim Walls at the Kamala Harris rallies running out like this.

He's inspiring men on the football fields of the Minnesota Vikings.

Anyway, sorry, I just had to make that joke.

So NFL season is about to start.

If there is a man in your life, if you're a woman who likes football, then I am sure you know this.

Men are preparing to spend Mondays, Thursdays, Saturdays, Sundays.

I don't know if I'm missing a day, I can't even remember, but they are preparing to spend those days watching football.

They should be excited.

But because of the men on the football field that you just saw, they are instead online debating men in pom-poms.

And that is the controversy that we need to dive in today.

The men in those two videos in particular have just completely taken over my social media for the last couple of weeks and have caused this huge debate online.

And a lot of people are outraged over the fact that we now have male cheerleading dancers.

I always get confused because I know that they are cheerleaders, but like when I was watching the Dallas Cowboys like documentary, the series that is on Netflix, which by the way is excellent.

If you've not watched it, you should watch it.

It's very fun.

There are no male dancers, but they call themselves like dancers instead of cheerleaders.

Anyway.

That was just an aside that I had there.

Maybe that's just pregnancy brain talking.

Anyway, people are outraged over the fact that there are now men taking these spots that they are acting as cheerleaders.

And a huge debate has broken out online of people saying this is completely inappropriate.

But the other side is pointing out the fact that there have always been male cheerleaders.

However, the other side's point is, well, they haven't always been this gay.

to basically just put it bluntly.

And this, these people are not wrong because male cheerleaders have been part of the sport, have been part of this activity for basically as long as it has existed.

And in fact, men being on NFL teams is nothing new.

I have it written down here.

11 teams actually have male cheerleaders, but I think people are more so pointing out the fact that this right here in this next video is what we are used to when we think of male cheerleaders.

Let's roll the clip.

So it is big, strong men lifting, twirling, throwing girls in the air, being the support systems.

Like that is what we think of when we visualize male cheerleaders or men on a cheerleading team.

We do not visualize men running around, twerking, and shaking their butts on a football field.

And so yes, compared to those men, the new male cheerleaders in the NFL are very gay.

But what I want to talk about is in the grand scheme of this culture war that we have been living in, that we have been fighting in for the last five plus years, are these boys specifically really the issue or is it actually an issue with the bigger institution like the NFL?

But before we get into it, make sure that you are following our podcast page.

And if you are enjoying the show, please make sure to rate it.

That helps us out so much in the algorithm the decision to have these male dancers just simply does not make sense for the nfl just like and just based on the outrage it genuinely feels like a bad business decision now i don't know if this is as bad of a dis uh oh my god i can't even speak now i don't know if this is as bad of a business decision as say dylan mulvaney and bud light i don't know if it is as bad as completely rebranding and destroying cracker barrel if you've spent any time on social media over the last couple of days, I'm sure that you've seen the outrage over that, which is

also very understandable and is certifiably insane.

Anyway, I don't know if this business decision is as bad as those, but it certainly seems misguided.

Now, the NFL and their teams might argue that, you know, by hiring these men, by hiring everybody's cute little gay best friends, they're just trying to be inclusive for the entire NFL and football audience, which to be fair, is composed of 42% females, which I will say did surprise surprise me.

So we have this here.

In terms of gender representation, 42% of NFL viewers in the U.S.

are women.

And then they talk about where people are subscribing and how they are watching.

But in my mind, I think of the NFL as being like completely male-dominated.

Like men would blow women out of the water, but it almost is 50-50.

However, When you then get into the stats, you go even deeper, casual viewers aside, women like me who probably, like if I was polled, I would say, yeah, I watch football.

Yeah, I watch NFL.

Do I know anything about it?

Not at all.

Do I particularly care?

No, but I'm married to a man who does.

And therefore, during football season, I would say, yes, I do watch football.

So viewers like me aside, casual viewers aside, the core audience, people like my husband Alex and all of his friends, are straight adult males.

73% of the score fan base, by the way, are men that are 50 years and older.

Fans engage with the most intensity skew older and male.

Of the 58% of Americans that do engage on a weekly basis, 73% are male aged 50 plus.

So my point in bringing all of this up is that the girls who, you know, watch RuPaul might like theater, they want to see gay dancers, they want their gay best friend to be on the football field, they are not the NFL's core demographic.

So again, it just seems like a dumb decision.

Maybe they were saying, oh, you know, it's 50-50.

Women will love this.

All of the crazy liberal women who are the most liberal base in all of history, they're going to love this.

Well, they are not your core fan base.

And your core fan base right now is absolutely enraged over this decision.

Now, in regards to wokeness and the culture war and what this decision, what hiring these men means for that, I have to say, I feel like I have a hierarchy of outrage.

Like there are things that really tick me off.

You guys have seen that on the channel.

There are also things that I'll just kind of be like, oh, like I really don't care about that.

And in my mind, when I first came across these videos and I saw them on my feed, like gay guys finding a place to dance, in my opinion, was a significantly smaller problem than a man demanding that everybody call him a woman and believe him a woman and then taking a roster spot from a female athlete.

It feels, in my mind, when I first stumbled upon these videos, when they first popped up, they felt like two separate issues.

And I'll be honest, that's probably because of my background.

Like I'm probably biased because I grew up in theater and I was a dancer for so many years.

I was around a ton of male dancers and gay men.

That was very normal for my childhood and my teen years and my upbringing.

However, as I sat with it and, you know, reevaluated my biases, I did see that there still is a deeper problem.

And Alex and I actually got into a huge debate over this because I was saying, you know, what does it matter?

Like there have always been male cheerleaders.

I was arguing on that side.

I was like, I really don't care.

He's not in a wig.

He's not trying to be in a dress.

He's not chopping off his genitals.

And Alex was like, no, it is the principle of the thing.

And he's the one who brought up.

you know, the male audience and the core demographic saying, who, who is this actually for?

And so that debate with him made me really reevaluate everything.

So I'm grateful for him.

That's one of the reasons why I love him because he always makes me reevaluate things and think through everything.

And when I got down to the issue, I realized that in a lot of ways, he was right.

Because while, yes, this is not a trans woman making everybody call him a girl and taking a spot.

This still is a man invading historically women's spaces.

And this girl in this TikTok sums up everything perfectly.

Just watch.

The historic purpose of male cheerleaders has been to throw and catch flyers so they don't brain themselves on the floor.

These guys couldn't throw a water balloon.

These are guys posing as girls.

These are dudes who are shaking curves that they don't have the way that a woman would.

And once again, these are males taking a female spot on a cheerleading squad because apparently the left believes that there is absolutely nothing that women should not have to sacrifice to men.

Now look, I know I'm not a cheer squad's target demographic here, so correct me if I'm wrong, but I cannot imagine that male NFL fans find anything appealing about a skinny little queer dude flapping his pom-poms in the breeze.

Exactly.

I think that she completely hit the nail on the head here because the left genuinely believes that there is nothing that women should not have to sacrifice to men.

And women around the country, around the world, and Western cultures have convinced themselves that allowing men into their spaces is peak feminism, that that actually is equality that everything we have fought for, getting ourselves private spaces, having safe spaces just for women, having gendered spaces, that we can throw all of that out of the water because there is somebody else who is more of a victim than we are.

I was just talking about my outrage hierarchy, but on the left, there is a victim hierarchy.

And this is what we are seeing in action.

Now, that could be, you know, slots on a sports roster, roster, spots on a women's dance team, private locker rooms, dorms, et cetera.

All of that, we are expected to just hand over and graciously offer to men, regardless of whether they wear a wig and a dress or whether they are just gay.

And

whether or not a man believes that he is a woman, it is still a man infringing upon a woman's female space.

Now, thankfully, none of this is anything that you would have to deal with if you attended Grand Canyon University.

Now, Grand Grand Canyon University is a private Christian university in beautiful Phoenix, Arizona, and they believe that the American dream starts with a purpose, and they are here to help you find yours in a common sense environment.

GCU equips you to find your passions and use them to serve others in ways that promote human flourishing and create ripple effects of transformation for generations to come.

Because by honoring your career calling, You impact your family, your friends, and your community.

And whether your pursuit involves a bachelor's, a master's, or a doctoral degree, GCU has options for you.

They have on-campus hyper-learning environments, they have online learning environments, and they are designed to help you achieve your unique academic, personal, and professional goals.

With over 340 academic programs as of September 2024, GCU truly meets you where you are and they provide a path to help you fulfill your dreams.

The pursuit to serve others is yours, so let it flourish with GCU.

Find your purpose at Grand Canyon University today.

It is private, it's Christian, it's common sense, it's affordable.

Visit gcu.edu to learn more and get started today.

I always love doing ads for GCU because I can just slide them in wherever because there is so much insanity when it comes to young people and education and GCU cuts through all of it.

So I always appreciate being able to add them in.

Anyway, this idea that has been

printed on modern women's brains that we have to give everything up to men, it has completely turned our culture upside down.

I mean, like just yesterday, yesterday, Riley, she posted a screenshot from a sorority Instagram page.

I believe that this is from Loyola.

And they are now calling the sisterhood round of rush.

That's a part of Rushing for Sorority.

They are now calling it the siblinghood.

You can see sister slash siblinghood round.

Now, the only reason they're doing that is because sororities around the country aren't just for women anymore.

No, no, no, they can't be offensive by calling it the sisterhood because what if a man wants to join?

What if a a man puts on a dress and decides that he wants to rush for a sorority?

Well, then, of course, as women, we have to accept that and not only accept it, but we have to graciously open our arms and pretend like all of this is normal.

Now, I also want to say that this is not just a women's issue.

And this is why I said I don't think that it's just about these boys that are on the cheerleading teams.

I think that this is a much broader issue because men's spaces have been invaded too.

And I never want to ignore that.

I mean, think about the destruction of scouting.

What happened to the Boy Scouts, especially after women were invited in?

However, Girl Scouts remains intact.

We didn't just get rid of Girl Scouts and have a non-gendered scouting program.

No, Boy Scouts was what fell, and Girl Scouts remained.

The YMCA is opening up and allowing women to joins while the YWCA still exists around the country and only accept women.

While I say they only accept women, however, maybe not in 2025, you show up as a man in a dress, maybe they will let you in if you really want to be in the YWCA.

But the point stands the same.

Girls on boys' high school football teams, I remember doing an entire comment section episode about that, about how ridiculous that was, how unsafe it was, how important it was for men to have their own spaces.

There's also, um, there's also something happening in Australia right now.

I saw a lot of commenters pointing towards this in Australia, where there is a huge push to make the few remaining all-boys private schools into co-ed schools for equality.

And I believe that in the entire country of Australia, there are only, I think it's fewer than 300 all-boys schools remaining, and all of the other ones have been turned into co-ed schools.

Like this is ridiculous.

This is not just a women's issue.

I think we often talk about it as just a women's issue because obviously there is a safety element there for women.

We talk about Title IX a lot.

That becomes, you know, very amplified when you look at women's sports and the women that are being, you know, actively hurt by all of this.

But this also hurts men in a completely different way.

Men and women both need gendered spaces.

They need spaces where they can just go be with other men and other women and do female and male things like being on an all-girls cheerleading team.

And it's not just for safety or privacy, but it's for healthy socialization and development and just societal normalcy of having those gendered spaces.

Now, To go back to the NFL after that entire rant, my point of bringing that up, like I said, was that I definitely had a bias going into this story and I had to reevaluate that, which I think is really important, especially after I remembered that I had done that entire episode about a high school football team where a girl was on there.

And I was so outraged over that.

And I was like, why am I not keeping the same energy with this?

Which obviously was because I was a theater kid.

So I'm glad that I, you know, reevaluated that.

But to, you know, scale back and look at this from a bird's eye view, you know, back to the NFL.

The point is, in my opinion, here, the girls who are fawning over drag queens and their gay best friends, they are not watching the Minnesota Vikings.

They might see this on TikTok and go, oh my gosh, yes, snaps.

This is so amazing.

They are not tuning in to watch your football games.

They do not care.

It is their boyfriends who, even if they are Democrats, I assure you, even the most liberal male NFL fan, that man.

does not want to see a twerking man gyrating on their TV on the sidelines.

Like, keep that dancing for Beyoncé's backup dancers for a Taylor Swift tour.

That is totally fine.

That is permissible.

That is normal in that space.

Nobody would bat an eye.

But bringing it into a male-dominated space, onto a women's team, that is where things change.

Now, in my opinion, while we're talking about the NFL, I feel like I need to bring this up.

What is gayer than all of this is the fact that the NFL this year is now forcing teams to put social justice warrior taglines in their end zones.

And that is why I think that this is a bigger institutional problem with the NFL.

And it's not just about these individual guys.

Now, just read this tweet here.

This is from Breaking 911.

All 32 NFL teams will again this year be forced to stencil a social justice message in their end zones.

They must choose from the following options.

End racism.

Oh, yes.

Stop hate.

That's so profound.

Choose love.

Inspire change.

It takes all of us.

Guys, if you thought we had fully eradicated wokeness in 2024 when Donald Trump won, no, you would be sorely sorely mistaken.

I read this tweet and I literally feel like I am still in 2020.

Now, if I was a team, I was looking at this and I was reading all the comments.

I would be picking the most vague of these messages.

I think I would be doing inspire change and it takes all of us because what is it?

What are we trying to do?

What change are we inspiring?

It could be anything.

It could be anything at all.

So I cannot wait to see what these individual

teams choose to do.

And I will judge them based on what message they stencil into their end zones.

I I just want these teams to know that I will be judging you based on what you choose.

Now, this is not the teams deciding to do this on their own volition.

The NFL mandates these messages via its Inspire Change initiative.

And the decision makers include the commissioner, Roger Goodell, SVP, Anna Isaacson, and the joint committee.

So just know that everything that you are seeing in the NFL, if you are a man and you are going, what is happening to my favorite sport?

What is happening to this institution?

It all seems so backwards.

That is a top-down approach.

Matt Walsh has been a staunch defender of football.

If you go on his ex, he's always debating with people over sports.

There are a lot of people on the right who basically say that the right should give up on sports, that they should give up on football and walk away because it's all so woke.

It's so gay.

It's a ridiculous hobby.

We shouldn't care.

And Matt makes a really important argument to say, no, this is an integral part of American culture.

This is an integral part of men's lives.

This sport, playing this sport, loving this sport, you know, whether it's football or another one, that is integral to our culture and to men's lives.

And we should not just give up on that.

And another thing that Matt often points out that I think is really important is that yes, while the institution is so crazy and while the teams will do ridiculous things like hire a male cheerleader and have him gyrating on the field, most of the players that you see, like they are men of faith.

They are family men.

They are vocal about their faith.

I feel like I've done so many episodes over the past, you know, couple of years about incredible coaches, incredible football players who are incredible examples for our culture and for our society.

So I just want you guys to keep that in mind because while the NFL might be insane, there are still great things about football.

And if I could offer the NFL any advice, it would be that they should be mandating that everybody use Balance of Nature supplements because that would be far healthier than social justice warrior slogans in the end zones.

Now, as you guys know, I am always looking for new ways to stay on track of my wellness goals.

And Balance of Nature always makes it easy.

Their supplements are made with ingredients like whole apples, spinach, mango, and turmeric.

These are real foods that I actually recognize, that I eat, that I can pronounce, which is so important.

And I love how convenient it is to add more fruits, veggies, and spices into my routine without overthinking it.

Because let's be honest, I never actually have the time to eat all of the fruits and vegetables that I should be eating, that my body needs on a daily basis.

And that is where Balance of Nature is so helpful.

Just visit balanceofnature.com or call 1-800-246-8751 and use code BRET to get a free fiber and spice supplement, plus 35% off your first preferred order set with free shipping and a money-back guarantee.

Start your journey with Balance of Nature today.

Again, use code BRET at checkout.

Now, if you are in a tough spot financially, my friends over at PDS Debt are here to help you.

Hardworking Americans are drowning under crushing debt, trapped by high-interest credit cards, personal loans, and medical bills.

And the truth is, creditors profit from keeping people broke and controllable, but not PDS Debt.

PDS Debt does more than just help you manage your debt.

They empower you to take control over your life and your finances.

With their technology, they go beyond the numbers to understand your unique financial situation.

No more cookie-cutter solutions, just a clear path to financial freedom that fits your lifestyle.

And the best part is, there is no minimum credit score required.

So whether your credit is bad or fair or great, I've been there.

I've had it be terrible.

So this is a great thing.

They're here to help you save more and pay off your debt faster and start putting money back where it belongs, which is in your savings account.

Getting started is easy.

Just go to pdsdebt.com slash brett for your free debt assessment and see what your options are.

Anyone with enough eligible debt qualifies.

Get started with your free.

Get started with your free debt analysis in just 30 seconds at pdsdebt.com slash brett.

Again, that is pdsdebt.com slash brett.

Now, since this episode has been all about the gays thus far, I thought we could take it a step further and talk about a show that I just watched on Netflix.

Now, I took one for the team.

I just want you guys to know this because this show is insane.

And I watched The Hunting Wives on Netflix so that you guys don't have to.

Now, if you don't know what The Hunting Wives are or is, it is a show on Netflix.

I think it is still in the top 10.

It came out last month.

And I first heard about it on The Toast, which is a podcast that I love.

It's like a women's pop culture podcast.

And they were talking about it.

And I love,

I love like rich lady murder mystery type shows.

I don't know if that's because I grew up reading Agatha Christie and Agatha Christie was one of my favorite authors for years.

So maybe that's why I like murder mystery.

But I saw the description of this show and I was like, oh my gosh, yes, I would absolutely love this.

And then I got into it and I was absolutely gobsmacked.

horrified like it was nothing like i expected it to be and i was debating whether to actually include this in the show because i felt like we could have an interesting conversation about it because this involves a lot of you know hollywood takes on conservatives and what they think of us but after watching it i was like there is no way that my audience actually sat through this show that you guys kept watching it after the first extremely graphic lesbian sex scene, because that is what made up a large portion of this TV show.

So you can tell me in the comments if you guys actually watched it, if you made it through.

Also, the police chief, if you know, you know, there are just so many insane, horrifying things that occurred in this show.

If you don't know, I'm happy for you and I will tell you why this is important and why you don't actually need to watch it.

And I'll tell you the important things that people are actually debating online.

Anyway, the reason why I am bringing this up a month after it aired is because I started seeing a bunch of headlines like this: The Hunting Wives, Malin Ackerman, that's one of the actresses, reveals that Melania Trump inspired her controversial character.

And, guys, after watching the show and seeing that headline, I read it and I thought, how freaking dare they?

Like, this is the lowest of the lows.

Like, have we not put Melania through enough?

You are going to drag her through the mud and bring her into this TV show that is literally just

an explosion of degeneracy and insanity.

Now, there are spoiler alerts coming if you have not finished the show or if you want to watch it.

If you don't, keep on going.

Anyway,

so you can skip forward if you don't want to hear the spoilers.

But in the show, The Hunting Wives, Margot, who is Malin Ackerman's character, she is an escort who eventually married a man who is very wealthy and he eventually wanted to run for office, which is a large part of the show.

And she's worried that her past as an expert,

as an escort, sorry, is going to come up.

And that is the character that they compared to Melania Trump, which just on the surface seems like an insane, shocking, and risky move.

Because if you don't remember, back in 2016, Melania literally sued the Daily Mail after they published an article suggesting that she had worked as an escort in the 1990s and she won.

Rightfully so, because that is an insane thing to say.

But again, they're always trying to drag her name through the mud.

There have also been talks that she might sue Hunter Biden over claiming that Jeffrey Epstein introduced her to Donald Trump, but they are always trying to twist her past to make her into somebody who is overtly sexual, that has this torrid past to try to corrupt Trump, whatever it is.

They are always dragging her through the mud.

But Melania does not play about her reputation, her integrity, understandably show she is ready to fight for that.

So again, this just seems shocking that they would compare her to this character that is incredibly flawed and kind of deranged at times.

However, once I got over being shocked by that headline and I actually read the article, which is a very important thing to do.

Do not just read the headlines, I saw a bit of a different story.

So this is what that actress Malon actually said in the interview.

We can pull this up here.

She said, this show moves pretty quick.

It's not a slow pace or like, I hope they kiss by episode, whatever.

We are diving right in there.

That is putting it mildly.

If you watched the first episode, it was literally insane.

Anyway.

She goes on and she says that the creative team described Marco as a bit like Lania Trump, somebody who, quote, came into a marriage to this rich man as one woman and then finds the expectations for her have shifted once he becomes politically ambitious.

That was the only reference, really.

Other than that, it is just high society.

I've mingled with aristocrats and high society people.

I've seen the games that go into it.

For lack of a better word, I wouldn't say authenticity is how these people lead.

So I don't know if this was baited in the interview, if somebody was like, oh, is this like Melania Trump or whatever?

But she is very clearly saying, like, that was the only reference.

Like, that was it.

It was not about her being an escort or anything like that.

So, it actually was not as salacious as the headlines made it out to be.

It was not about her being an escort.

And I think that that is a worthy comparison.

The comparison that they made about a woman marrying a man, you know, who is a real estate mogul who has one life and then suddenly he's running for office and your past is being brought up.

Now he's running for office again.

Now he is being almost assassinated.

Like your life turns on a dime.

The expectations of you do change.

So I think that makes sense.

And we did see this in this TV show.

But here is where it really gets interesting and this involves more of the culture war because whether this show was actually about Melania or not, liberal viewers clearly think that the entire show is a scathing expose

about just conservatives.

And unfortunately for them, that is just not the truth.

And I'm going to tell you why in a second.

But first of all, just watch this TikTok.

and I'll let you see what she thinks.

That I find fascinating about the show is that the message is very, very clear.

Because when you first start watching the show, it's just a very fun, campy romp, and you're like, wow, it kind of feels like they're really glamorizing this, like, certain type of lifestyle.

But in actuality, it is such a scathing review of the hypocrisy of the nuclear family, God-fearing Republicans.

But that important message, the call, is so entangled in this murder mystery with, of course, like rich, wealthy, attractive white women, that it is disguised through absurd scenes like sex with a minor, loads of cheating, secret relationships, gay and straight, types of storylines that keep us all hooked.

That is what is so great about the show.

It is all about the hypocrisy of the uber wealthy, the uber white, god-fearing, alt-right people who claim to have this moral high ground and then in actuality have nothing of the sort.

Now, I feel like I need to respond directly to this woman on behalf of me and all of my friends and all of the female viewers of the show, because most of us are not like that.

The Hunting Wives has an insane cast of characters.

It is very satirical.

We, normal right-wing women, we are not like that.

Maybe you spent too much time reading about Ring Gate on X last week, reading about those insane women.

But most right-leaning, conservative, you know, God-fearing, more traditional wives and mothers are completely normal.

And I guarantee you, we are not having orgies and gay love affairs behind the scenes.

Like that is just not real.

Most of us.

try to live in accordance with our values and be good, normal, moral people.

You are taking your own perversions, your belief of what conservatives are, because you never even speak to us.

You don't want to actually be in our communities or get to know us, and you're flipping it around and projecting it on us as so many people in her comment section were doing.

This is what some of the comments were saying.

This lady said, it is essentially outing all of the worst behavior of the pearl-clutching Republicans.

It is calling out the hypocrisy, and I love it.

Somebody else said, there is sadly no way those folks are going to admit that this is what they're like.

They don't even understand or care how cruel voting right really is.

Okay, we won't admit it because most of us are not like that.

Because this was an extreme depiction of something, because it was satirical.

Most of us, I promise you, are not like that.

That is why we are not going to admit that.

However, the reason why I bring all of this up is because, unfortunately for them, the joke is on them because the showrunner said that the point of the entire show was to call out people on both sides for their hypocrisy.

This show, even though it featured a lot of Republican women, that was like the core of the show was this Republican man running for office, even though that was the basis of the plot, it was not just about conservatives.

And in one article, the showrunner said.

that she wanted to play with paradoxes, towing the line of satiricizing conservative culture of the hunting wives without full-on vilifying the characters, a plight somehow achieved even when they're murdering people.

Cutter points to Sophie as a resident liberal breaking her own moral code to be with Margo.

That's one of the conservative characters.

She's not exactly somebody who's standing up for what she believes in either.

So there's hypocrisy and bad behavior on both sides.

Now, in another article, she commented and said, I also thought that there is such an opportunity to do something that feels really modern.

And right now, if we don't shy away from the culture war stuff, I honestly was scared that a bigger deal was going to be made of the politics and that it would overshadow what the show actually is.

Overshadowing what the show actually is.

So actually the show isn't really about politics or one specific political side.

Sorry, TikTokers.

It actually is just about human beings.

The most insane, extreme human beings, extreme displays of hypocrisy and degeneracy and weird, lustful desires and murderous things.

Like it is a satire.

That is what she was trying to convey.

And oh boy.

Her saying all of this publicly has pissed off people on the left because they so desperately just wanted this to be about conservatives, especially the author of one particular Rolling Stone article.

And this author said, all of the characters' public lives contradict their private ones.

All of them, even the liberals.

It feels like the entire season has one driving goal.

Republicans bad.

Democrats also bad.

Now let's watch them kiss.

Open marriages are for liberals, Margot quips.

That's one of the characters.

Jed and I have an arrangement.

The conservative elites in this show are proud that they have built a public persona and a political apparatus that can allow them to take away their neighbors' rights while enjoying all the material comforts they desire.

A characterization that mirrors how many right-wing big wits act in real life.

She's not hiding her biases at all.

But the satire doesn't work because the Republicans are afforded a nuance never given to Sophie and her idiot Democrat husband.

So she's very upset.

While the Texans in the show refuse to be cowed for whatever lies, slander, or cold-blooded murder they commit, the audience's stand-in and foil, Sophie, is shown to be just incredibly, ridiculously stupid.

The right-leaning characters struggle with their public perceptions, acknowledging that their beliefs do not match the pretty speeches they're giving on daytime TV.

But Sophie and Graham, those are the Democrats, practically shed their voting records and convictions the second they see a house with an in-ground pool and a nice kitchen backsplash.

Half of the show's plot and murder mystery revolves around the fact that Sophie, a new gun owner, has no inkling how to store gun safety.

She calls a group of Republican wives hicks for being armed and then has the audacity to hide a weapon directly next to a box of ammo in her underwear drawer.

Oh my god, the horror.

She had a kid in the home.

Oh my god, horror.

That is gun ownership 101.

She brought a Tesla to Texas backwoods.

Where the F did she even charge it?

So

what she's trying to say here is that she is so angry that the Democrat character also had flaws, that she also wasn't the brightest bulb, that she also dealt with her own hypocrisy, that she also was complex and was not a perfect person.

So yes, Rolling Stone author, I am so sorry that they did not make the liberal characters as amazing and pure and virtuous as you see yourself and your peers to be.

And I hate to break it to you, but you're really not.

We're all human.

We all have issues.

We all screw up.

Nobody's perfect.

And in a satire TV show, the goal is to show these extremes in the most outlandish ways, to put all of this on display so that we have a mirror that we can look in and go, oh crap, maybe we need to change course.

Maybe I need to be a little bit better.

Because guess what?

No Republican or Democrat, conservative or liberal, is perfect.

In the show, with its satire, with these extreme depictions of hypocrisy and corruptions, it seems to be more about general just humans and humanity across party lines and the hypocrisy and corruption that we all deal with.

And I think what sets conservatives apart from Democrats, mostly those on the far left, if I'm going to be specific, is that most of us do have a value system that keeps us from doing the horrendous things that are projected onto us in the show that are depicted.

And so most of us are going to look at this and go, okay, yeah, that's insane.

We don't go that far.

Like, yes, we might deal with our own hypocrisy.

We might have our own issues, but obviously that is not happening.

I think that is the real difference between the two parties that we're seeing.

And that is the

tension that I saw on the show.

And while a lack of integrity and hypocrisy is unfortunately normal for all human beings, again, regardless of what, how you vote or what party you are in, it is a moral compass that is supposed to keep us in check even in crazy times.

It is common sense that, you know, keeps us from bending to every insane social issue and compromising our values like men twerking on a football field.

So what I would hope that you take away from this episode, what I would hope that you would take away from Hunting Wives, if you do watch it, is that your values and having integrity with yourself is so important.

And you can look at these TV shows and not be offended.

You can look at these TV shows and the art out in the world.

You can read news stories and they should be a mirror with which you look at yourself and go, How am I doing?

Am I actually upholding my values?

Am I living a life in accordance with my morals and what I believe to be good?

Because at the end of the day, nothing else matters.

You don't have to get offended over everything.

And if you are uncomfortable with the way that your party is being depicted in a TV show, maybe that's more of a you problem than a conservative problem.

Just saying.