Candace Owens — Feminism Is the Number One Attack on Family
Candace Owens in "Feminism Is the Number One Attack on Family". Full transcript below, with the movement's reading and the gaps we could not close.
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What do you think the biggest issue in America today is? Gosh, the white supremacy. They're never going to let it go. They're never gonna let it go. I think I've testified twice in on hearings where they are trying to tell you that white supremacy is the biggest issue. And you were at the hate crime hearing where you just ruined everybody. You fact checked everybody in real time. Jerry Nadler. Everybody was like, oh, you had everybody stung, which was amazing.
People haven't seen it. Go check. And that's infuriating because I remember I said in my congressional testimony, if I had to make a list of 100 things that were impacting Americans, white supremacy, wouldn't make a list. And I mean that seriously. Um, gosh, what would be first? That's a very good question. I can I can give you a few things that are ranked very importantly, but I don't want to say what I would say is first, but the family unit being destroyed is is, if it's not one, it's two.
Um, what's happening with families and, you know, the governments creeping into our homes in regards to, you know, making people believe that marriage is not aspirational, that only happens in a society that's heading towards Marxist ideologies. And that is literally the Karl Marx doctrine, right? That if the government wants full omnipotence, it has to break down the family unit because the family unit stands in opposition to government omnipotence.
So I would probably say every ill that we're seeing in society, right now that what you might think are unrelated, are actually all related to destroying the family unit. So sometimes you say, you know, why are they on this climate change thing? And then you go, why are they fighting trans bathroom signs? And what's with this LGBTQ stuff? If you look at, examine all these issues and you realize what they have in common.
It's that they are attacking families. So climate change, they're telling children don't have kids, don't have kids. It's irresponsible, the planet's not going to be here for 10 years. Megan and Harry got an award because they agreed to only have 2 kids. It's about the shrinking of the family unit, which is it's totally bizarre. The LGBTQ stuff. If kids are chopping off their parts. They're not going to build that productive family.
You know, there's no nuclear family unit. It's 2 lesbians or 2 gay people, more power to the government, you've got to turn to the government to even have a child, which is now coming down the pipeline with all of those things. And so yeah, when I examine every issue that we're fighting, you can see that what the government is actually doing is trying to interrupt the family unit. So I would say that that's the number one issue.
And friend Larry Elder said the exact same thing. You put that at number one. He put number one, right? And then he, I mean, obviously a guy like that said very nice. I want to see what else she's going to say. Let me see what else she's going to say. What else would you say? Well, so I was saying, like, I would put family issues 1st because every other societal ill follows it, you know, so when we're even when I'm talking about the education system, right?
And what's going on and kids are getting systematically dumber across Baltimore, they can't find a single child that's proficient in reading and writing, but talk to the kid about BLM and they're going to be like, oh, yeah, no, absolutely. They're training little Marxists. The kids actually know nothing. They're essentially toddlers. Like when you see a toddler throwing a temper tantrum. They don't understand why. And so they just blame rich people, right?
It must be because of rich people that I failed in life. No, it's because you literally couldn't pass a basic reading exam. And your life was cut off for you before you even graduated. And but when you look at that, again, it brings you back to the family unit. Culture is a major problem. Hollywood and culture is definitely up there, but they're again reinforcing the breakdown of family, the overt sexualization, the perversion.
I mean, that's what I'm saying about not importing American values. That is one of the most, I would say that is the most disgusting thing right now that's happening in America is this the oversexualization of our culture. And I look at other countries and I'm like, no, I'd much, I'd much rather be importing those values, right? What are we exporting right now when you look at what celebrities are endorsing. And the overt sexuality, obviously, you brought up that I did the whatever podcast, you broke my heart to sit across from a 22 year old who sleeps with 10 men a night.
And her answer is, well, I make money, you know? I make I make $100,000 a year. You're 22 years old and you look like you're possessed by a demon because you are. Our culture is demonic. Where would you put feminism on this? Because that's essentially what it comes down to. The monetization and the sexualization and the commodization. That is the number one attack on family, right? I mean, what are they telling women?
Men ain't shit. You know, you don't get your bag, girl. You don't need your bag. Yeah, that kind of, that's disgusting. You shouldn't be having children. There's a whole culture called dinks on TikTok, dual income, no kids. Yeah, you know, they're getting 1000000s, 10000s of views. My life is so great. I don't have, this is literally the simulation right now that women are existing under and believing that they shouldn't be, that men are crap.
And, and by the way, there's a response to that, which we can talk about. I talk a lot about masculinity and a decline of masculinity because feminists have been bashing men over the head about being men and how men don't have a lot of leaders and people that they can rely on. And so we're just now kind of seeing a response to the hyper feminization of culture, which is what we are suffering from right now. We are living in a matriarchy.
The illusion is that it's patriarchy. It is, in fact, a matriarchy. Everything that we are dealing with right now is because people are emotional. Women have power, women are positions of power, and they're women, we are more emotional than men. Most women are more emotional. What about someone like Chelsea Handler? So I do another show when I'm not doing PBD that discusses this exact same topic, right? And Chelsea Handler, like attacked me.
I went back at her. We went back and forth and, you know, she's like, this is what an alpha. But, you know, I think it's flirting. I think it was hardcore flirting lot. You know, I'm into those 50-year-old... alcoholic drug addicts. You're not married yet. But I thought that was step one. You've gone to, you've been not so kind, and you went to war with Sarah Silverman, the Chelsea Handler, these almost 50-year-old women who could have had any guy they wanted in their 20s, beautiful, smart, intelligent, what have you.
You obviously chose a totally different path. You started snorting feminism. 100%. And you consider yourself a TRAD wife, I would assume. Yeah. You somehow have this balance of being, you know, beautiful but also intelligent, but also a mom and also a career woman. Like, so essentially, what's your message for women out there? Can you actually have it all? Do you kind of have to pick the TRAD wife or the career wife?
We need to prioritize. Yeah, you need to prioritize. And I think the answer for most women is it prioritize your family. No question. No question. You know, there are some women that I would say, I've met this girl and she probably shouldn't be a mom, right? But the truth is, is that your greatest superpower that you will ever tap into the, like, I have never been more confident in who I am, more sure of myself than since I became a mother, you know, getting married and becoming a mother.
Yeah. Can I give you a little maybe pushback? If you had to choose one. Meaning mother, 3 kids, Candace Owens, political punk, Daily Wire. You'd give it all up just to be a mother. Why don't women understand that exact same topic? Because it's not talked about culturally because I'm considered counterculture, right? That's not mainstream. How are you saying that? How dare you say that? Women are being told that they should be like men?
By the way, we're getting the worst end of the deal. I don't know who sat down and had the feminist meeting in the beginning and was like, hey, so here's how we're really going to make men lose. First, we're just going to keep sleeping with them with no commitment, right? We're going to just, we're going to be codes, right? Yeah. Oh, men are really gonna hate that. And then we're going to be naked. the internet all the time.
We're just gonna put our boobs out there. fight to free the nipple. Men are really gonna hate that. We're also going to work our asses off just like men. Yeah. And then we're going to say, we're going to work just like you, and we're going to bring in the same, men are really going to, I don't know this is the worst deal ever. I'm like, wait, wait, wait. Do you mean to tell me that there was a time where we got to just be at home and cook and hang out with other women and raise our kids and somebody ruin that?
Bring me that woman. Do you think, you know, like, and on top of that, men get to compete in your sport. And that's okay. That's a noble. That's noble. And who supported that? Women. Yeah, feminist. You know how they say, like, progressives. You can't stop something as it's progressing. Is this the one issue that you think can regress? Like women will be like, you know, I don't know how many women are like, that's it.
going back to the home. I'm putting my apron on. be a good wife. Do you actually think that's realistic though? I do. I think it's happening because what we're getting to now is the end of that overt sexualization period. And I always say to people, I'm like, examine the women that are telling you that this is gonna bring you happiness. Who are the women that are out there that have told you that this is the way to go?
Where are their lives right now? Are they are they are they married? Nope. multiple partners? Yes. By the time they get to Chelsea Handler's age, why I always use her as an example is because I was a huge fan of Chelsea Handler when I was younger. I thought she was so funny. I always watched Chelsea lately and I bought all of her books and, you know, obviously, she wrote extensively, she actually wrote about her multiple abortions, things of that nature.
So she had a chance at family and she chose against it because she decided that she was going to be young and beautiful forever and she isn't and wasn't going to be young and beautiful forever, right? And so Chelsea Ham was a perfect example because when you play with feminism for too long and you can't go backwards, it inevitably ends with Xanax and wine and prescriptions and misery. And now Chelsea Handler is realizing that biology is always going to trump sociology in the end.
In the end, biology sits back and it wins, right? Father time is undefeated. Right. Right. It's literally it wins. And so now she's got nothing to nurture. And what happens is those women then start looking for a social philosophy, a social justice movement that they can try to turn into the son and daughter that they don't have, right? I'm like, do you do and does anybody really think Chelsea Handler cares about like Dylan Mulvaney being allowed to go into the right bat?
No, of course she doesn't. Nobody could care that much about Dylan Mobain. I mean, when I heard her crying on her podcast, I was like, you need a child so bad. Yeah, Adam get... I'm like, babysit. She can't have kids anymore. Candace, last question on this topic, where do you draw the line? Meaning, all right, so women should go to high school. Obviously, women should go to college. You went to college. Okay, you go to college for what reason to get a return on your investment, to get a job.
Okay, I get a job. I'm making money You said you paid back 150 grand in student loans. You've made something your career. made a mistake. You made a career. Should have waited. But like, are you telling are you saying that women shouldn't go to college? Like, I interviewed this guy, Nick Fuentes, if you know who he was, communications director for Kanye, which I'm sure we could talk about, but he said women should not go to college.
They shouldn't even finish high school, basically. Just state your ass. Most people should not go to college. Okay. I was trying to make that very true. Not women or men. what are you going to college for? I went to college because there was a peer pressure campaign in high school. you don't go to college, you're going to be a failure. I think that that's the reason most people go to college is because the idea of being the kid that goes to community college is not, it means that you're the kid that's a loser and failed.
So everybody signs up for loans with money that they don't have, which marries you further to the state, you know, Sally May loans are the ones that I took out, which were egregious. I didn't understand anything I was signing because I didn't come from a wealthy family. I was 1st generation college kid. I was completely taken advantage of And started my life in mass debt for a journalism degree is does that sound like something that any person should be doing?
It's completely irrational. I actually think there needs to be a collapse of the scam of college. You know, you people should be getting internships out of high school to figure out what the heck they want to do before they waste a bunch of money on a meaningless degree. The majority of people are wasting their money. I don't know many people that are using their actual degree in the real world, right? The girls go and they sign up and they do fashion and marketing design, you know, and the guys, if you're doing a, you want to be a doctor and you know for sure that's what I want to do.
Yeah, sure, go to college. If you have that vision and you're sure of yourself. But right now the whole college scam is what needs to collapse. Well, you did a video called college is a scam. So it's, um, you have no idea how many girls that I talk to an interview. They go to college, they graduate, and they become bartenders for servers in there, and I'm like, I'm like, why the hell did you even go to college? Like, I don't know, it was supposed to.
But you did a video college as a scam? But you're, uh, you want your kids to go to college? Your girls are going to college. Like, how do you guys as parents grapple with what she's saying? I've answered this question a couple times, and I've talked about STEM, and I'm very clear of my girls. It says All Fund STEM, all fund skills that are going to be applicable with an appropriate ROI. And, you know, we have set aside the funds for their college education and up the amount twice in the last 10 years so that we could have enough getting there.
And I think the price is a little crazy, but all fun stem, absolutely fun stem. You know, hey, I want to go with my boyfriend, Philippe, to the Sorbonne and study art history. Well, I hope as often parents are wealthy, you can cover you, because I will not be. So I'll go that route. And also, you know, I think, you know, cardiologists, physicians, nuclear physicists, I think none of that should be self-taught in the garage, specifically nuclear physicists, and that there's a reason for STEM.
There's a reason for STEM, but also Anne culture. You'll probably know about this, made a great point. She said, if someone was graduating high school, she said, and the plumber is sitting there and his best and only suit that he has proudly looking at his son graduating and says, my son's coming to work for me as a plumber. And he says, why? And the kid says, because I make 60 bucks an hour, working with my dad's company, and everybody goes, a plumber makes 60 bucks an hour.
They have kids don't have any idea about trades. This is where I think in terms of gap years, Israel gets it right, because you have service of country and you have disciplines that come out of that. And they all don't stay in the military, but they sure as hell come out with disciplines and appreciation. No question about that. right. No question about it. absolutely.
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