California Mandates GENDER-NEUTRAL Toy Sections — Transcript
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- 0:00people have decided that institutions
- 0:01don't matter because they're the only
- 0:02people on earth who matter you can see
- 0:05this philosophy carried out in policy
- 0:06not just in terms of social policy and
- 0:09sort of approach to social issues but
- 0:10the left-wing belief that exceptions
- 0:12ought to make the rules because after
- 0:14all the rules aren't great for everyone
- 0:16that belief system ends with some pretty
- 0:18pathetic ramifications for all of human
- 0:20society so for example california has
- 0:22now mandated that every big box store in
- 0:24california this kicked in in the new
- 0:26year every big toy store is required to
- 0:29create a gender-neutral toy section
- 0:31why
- 0:32why so the answer that people will give
- 0:34you is well you know we need a
- 0:35gender-neutral toy section for those
- 0:37kids who who are having trouble with
- 0:39their gender identity so what you're
- 0:41really saying is that gender doesn't
- 0:42exist and what you're really saying is
- 0:44there's no such thing as biological sex
- 0:46or human
- 0:48proclivities that are that are directed
- 0:50by biological sex or connected to it
- 0:52right that human tendencies are not
- 0:53connected to sex in any way we have to
- 0:55redefine sex across the biological
- 0:57spectrum to account for the fact that
- 0:59there are some people who feel
- 1:00uncomfortable a vast fast fast minority
- 1:02and this is not how you make socio
- 1:04societal rules right
- 1:07disassembling basic
- 1:09ideas of the reality of male and female
- 1:11that is not the way that you promote
- 1:13human happiness that is the way that you
- 1:14promote chaos
- 1:16and the the once again the left does not
- 1:18seem to care about the fact that male
- 1:19and female are pretty rigid categories
- 1:21biologically and say pretty i mean
- 1:23innately rigid categories
- 1:24and that human activities within those
- 1:26categories
- 1:28tend to fall along somewhat
- 1:29stereotypical lines and that that's not
- 1:31a bad thing that societally speaking
- 1:33that's quite a good thing that doesn't
- 1:35mean that there aren't exceptions to the
- 1:36rule we ought not treat those people
- 1:37with tolerance we should but that does
- 1:39not mean that you redefine gender
- 1:40entirely and yet this is seen as a
- 1:42positive good why because there are
- 1:43exceptions and we have to make sure that
- 1:45all of society is restructured in favor
- 1:47of this small group of people who have a
- 1:49problem with the societal institutions
- 1:51and there's a good thing by law again
- 1:54somebody fills the gap folks when you
- 1:55blow up the institutions something else
- 1:57fills the gap now it's compulsory
- 1:59government
- 2:00gender theory here we go there's a
- 2:02report from nbc news on the new
- 2:03california law
- 2:05this might seem like a silly piece of
- 2:07typical california politics but the
- 2:10truth is that big box toy stores across
- 2:12the country have been moving in this
- 2:13direction both walmart and target have
- 2:16done away with gendered toy sections and
- 2:19experts say that's good because gendered
- 2:22toys shape how children see themselves
- 2:24and each other
- 2:28yup
- 2:29who are these experts by the way are
- 2:30they experts who care about human
- 2:31flourishing absolutely not they're
- 2:33experts who don't care about the
- 2:34majority of children flourishing because
- 2:36it turns out that kids like gender roles
- 2:38okay this is by the way this is true in
- 2:40primates as well okay if you find it if
- 2:42you find female primates female primates
- 2:44will try to comfort and they'll turn
- 2:45random objects into dolls and they'll
- 2:47try to comfort them and male primates
- 2:48will turn everything into a weapon
- 2:50they will look for machines this is true
- 2:51for monkeys it's also true for human
- 2:53beings it turns out that gender roles
- 2:54are quite good for kids kids like rules
- 2:57kids like to be told that there are
- 2:59gender roles and that what they have are
- 3:02specifically created biological powers
- 3:04that merge with civilizational
- 3:06institutions that re-inculcate very
- 3:09important things about humanity that
- 3:10boys grow up to be men are supposed to
- 3:12be protectors and guardians and that
- 3:14girls grow up to be women are supposed
- 3:16to be creators and nurturers this does
- 3:17not mean that women can't also be
- 3:19protectors and guardians or that men
- 3:20can't also be nurturers it does mean
- 3:22that there are stereotypical attributes
- 3:24to masculinity and femininity which by
- 3:26the way even the trans community
- 3:27acknowledges which is why they attempt
- 3:29to adopt the stereotypical garb of the
- 3:31opposite sex in order to claim
- 3:32membership in it very often right have
- 3:34surgeries to effectuate that change
- 3:36the the
- 3:38but the experts say that the
- 3:39institutions are bad why are they bad i
- 3:41have a question why are they bad were
- 3:42there really a huge huge number of kids
- 3:45so deeply disaffected by societal
- 3:48institutions around gender like huge
- 3:50numbers of kids who walked into toy
- 3:51stores and just started weeping because
- 3:52the barbies were in the girls section
- 3:54and the guns the nerf guns were in the
- 3:55boys section were there like was it was
- 3:57this an overwhelming societal problem or
- 3:59was it that experts don't like the
- 4:01institutions because all institutions
- 4:03are militating factors in favor of
- 4:05civilizational
- 4:06things that are that are good and
- 4:09positive and they don't like the
- 4:10civilization itself
- 4:12and they want to remold the civilization
- 4:14itself who are these experts
- 4:15why why are they experts on kids what
- 4:17makes them an expert truly what what
- 4:20even makes them an expert on human
- 4:21happiness in order to direct policy you
- 4:22have to determine what is the good you
- 4:24are seeking with the policy for whom are
- 4:26you seeking this good it is pretty
- 4:28obvious here the good that they are
- 4:29seeking for society is tearing down
- 4:32rules because roles are inherently bad
- 4:33because we are all malleable widgets and
- 4:35if you get rid of societal roles you can
- 4:37remake humanity as essentially a piece
- 4:39of clay in the mold that you wish to
- 4:41remake it that is utopian nonsensical
- 4:43dream that always ends in tyranny always
- 4:45utopianism ends in tyranny
- 4:48there's a point that carl popper made
- 4:49and he happens to be correct
- 4:51it's not just with regard to things like
- 4:53gender
- 4:54and people why do you even care why
- 4:56the same reason you care the same reason
- 4:58you do you made a you made a law guys
- 5:01okay so you cared enough to make a law
- 5:02compelling toy stores to have gender
- 5:05neutral toy sections don't tell me i
- 5:06shouldn't care about that when you're
- 5:08openly saying you wish to remold society
- 5:09and destroy societal institutions
- 5:12who's got two thumbs and wants you to
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