What's up y'all? Welcome to Relatable. My name is Ali Stucky. This is a podcast by CRTV.

If you don't already subscribe to CRTV.com, you definitely should because then you can watch this

rather than just listen to it. This is episode 45, which means we've been doing this

for kind of a long time now. It started out once a week and then you guys were listening

so much and so passionately that I decided to give you a twice a week podcast. So thank you so

much for listening and for following along. I get messages from you guys every day with suggestions,

with feedback, with encouragement and I just really, really appreciate your voice. I might not be

able to answer every single message that I receive, but I try to read all of them and just know

that it means a lot to me when you guys interact with me online and care enough about this podcast

that you take the time to give me your thoughts whether they are positive or critical. I just

want you to know that I really appreciate it. So today I want to talk about women and how women

are perceived and also leveraged in the political sphere. Obviously within this whole

Kavanaugh drama that we've experienced for the past few weeks, women have really been at the

forefront. On the left, the mantra was believe women, this insane idea that we need to believe people

based on their gender based on their anatomy rather than based on the truth and credibility.

And I've talked about in the past that's been the trajectory of the Me Too movement,

something that started out probably positive in some way, at least I think so. The idea of

listen to her, let's hear this woman out, let's hear this victim, let's hear her story,

that I was on board with, but we went from listen to her to believe her. And that's what I'm not on

board with because when you believe someone simply based on the fact that she's a woman,

you are saying that facts are irrelevant, that credibility is irrelevant and that truth and

justice are irrelevant. And that's not the world that I want to live in. Unfortunately, that's what

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