Today on the show, we'll talk about the poisonous effect that feminism has in a marriage.

Also, what are essential oils? Are they really essential?

Finally, the Huffington Post has noticed some really significant problems in the Rudolph the Red

Knows reindeer story. But I've noticed an even bigger problem with the story, and we're going to

talk about all of that now on the Met Wall Show. Yesterday, we discussed an article that has

been getting some attention online, mainly because feminists seem to really like it. The

article was written by a woman who complains about all the cooking that she did during her marriage,

and she would cook while her husband was at work, and it was very, it became very traumatizing for

her to have to do all this cooking because she decided that she didn't find it exciting anymore.

It wasn't fulfilling. So she boycotted, instead I'm not going to cook anymore, then her marriage

fell apart, and now she has vowed to never cook a meal for another man ever again. The whole

thing was, it was a very bitter, very angry, very self-centered melodramatic diatribe. Well, I got

a few emails in response to that discussion. I wanted to share one email that came in. This is

from Catherine. She says, Matt, your podcast today was very offensive to me. The woman you mocked

had legitimate concerns. One of the reasons my own marriage fell apart is because I was expected

to do all the cooking and all the cleaning. Women are tired of that. Feminism doesn't hurt a

marriage. You can't have a healthy marriage without feminism. Marriage is last if they are equal

all caps, period all caps. Okay, so you can't have a healthy marriage without feminism, and I'd

other emails that echoed basically that same sentiment. First of all, listen, I don't mean to be

cruel or anything like that, but I do wonder how someone who is divorced can make pronouncements

about what constitutes a healthy marriage. I find this a lot. Whenever I talk about marriage,

there are people who, they'll begin by admitting that they've been divorced at least once,

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