Matt

You are mixing up our conservative influencers. Classically, Ashley St. Clair.

You are mixing up our conservative influencers. Classically, Ashley St. Clair.

Also, just like you can just claim that like anything you've been accused of as insofar as like sexual predation or anything like that. You could just claim that there's a witch hunt against you and that the media is out to get you and that you're a martyr for the right wing cause and cancel culture and like they'll rescue you out of the trenches with a podcasting deal.

Also, just like you can just claim that like anything you've been accused of as insofar as like sexual predation or anything like that. You could just claim that there's a witch hunt against you and that the media is out to get you and that you're a martyr for the right wing cause and cancel culture and like they'll rescue you out of the trenches with a podcasting deal.

Yes. Big win for the community there. So I have a couple of wrap-up questions here that will maybe help us tie this up with a bow. Maybe not. We'll see. But what I wrote is, if Republicans are no longer the party of traditional family values, which... I think anybody would be very hard pressed to say that they are. Then socially and culturally speaking, like, what are they the party of?

Yes. Big win for the community there. So I have a couple of wrap-up questions here that will maybe help us tie this up with a bow. Maybe not. We'll see. But what I wrote is, if Republicans are no longer the party of traditional family values, which... I think anybody would be very hard pressed to say that they are. Then socially and culturally speaking, like, what are they the party of?

And also, was the family values thing always a smokescreen and now they've just given up on it?

And also, was the family values thing always a smokescreen and now they've just given up on it?

I want to make my last little follow-up here. It's just that in the 2024 election, so many groups shifted more to the right with how they voted, and women, by and large, were among those groups. You described that the politics of sexual domination used to be stylized through this purity culture, where it's now being stylized through this, like, we must have as much sex as men want culture.

I want to make my last little follow-up here. It's just that in the 2024 election, so many groups shifted more to the right with how they voted, and women, by and large, were among those groups. You described that the politics of sexual domination used to be stylized through this purity culture, where it's now being stylized through this, like, we must have as much sex as men want culture.

And how maybe now that the purity culture has been stripped away, that women might feel more freed by that style change. But I always like to end this podcast on like, here's what you should take away and like, perhaps to a voting booth with you. I think you would argue that women have not been freed by this change. And perhaps Ashley St. Clair could be the tragic mascot of that.

And how maybe now that the purity culture has been stripped away, that women might feel more freed by that style change. But I always like to end this podcast on like, here's what you should take away and like, perhaps to a voting booth with you. I think you would argue that women have not been freed by this change. And perhaps Ashley St. Clair could be the tragic mascot of that.

No, 100%. I mean, it's like, I have a joke that's going to cheapen this so much.

No, 100%. I mean, it's like, I have a joke that's going to cheapen this so much.

But I always have to end on a chuckle. But it's like, you literally, no one is being freed by the insistence that you spit on that thing. We need to imagine a world where we have the choice to spit on that thing or not spit on that thing and be liberated by that choice.

But I always have to end on a chuckle. But it's like, you literally, no one is being freed by the insistence that you spit on that thing. We need to imagine a world where we have the choice to spit on that thing or not spit on that thing and be liberated by that choice.

I had sex for three and a half minutes, and all I got was this stupid T-shirt.

I had sex for three and a half minutes, and all I got was this stupid T-shirt.

You learned a lot? Oh, my God. The two of you are so brilliant. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you for being here. I choose these episode topics by just, you know, my little cultural fixations that oftentimes I feel like I can't answer. And so I go looking for people who have a better handle on at least how to think about answering those questions than I do. And The two of you are just brilliant.

You learned a lot? Oh, my God. The two of you are so brilliant. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you for being here. I choose these episode topics by just, you know, my little cultural fixations that oftentimes I feel like I can't answer. And so I go looking for people who have a better handle on at least how to think about answering those questions than I do. And The two of you are just brilliant.