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Hello and welcome back to Normally, the show with normalish takes for when the news gets weird.

I am Carol Markowitz.

Mary Catherine Hamm is on vacation today and filling in for her is my very good friend, Gates Garcia.

Gates is a contributor at Daily Wire and The Blaze and the host of We the People with Gates

Garcia on YouTube and all audio programs. It's so nice to have you on Gates.

Carol, I prefer to be with you on the beach or at the boat, but this is a close second. Yeah, this is second best. We're going to have to just take it. So I feel a lot of affinity with you for a lot of reasons, but I like that you focus on culture. I think that that's what I do as well. You have a piece up on the Blaze site today. Can you preview that for our listeners? Yeah, so, I mean, I'm a dad of three soon to be four, baby girl coming on Christmas,

which we're really excited about, as you know. And I just, you know, in the last 10 years,

because my oldest is 10, I just see the world through the eyes of a father. It's changed my

whole perspective on culture. It's one thing for, you know, the world

to attack me when it starts attacking my kids, I get pissed off. Uh, Ulta beauty has stripped me of a

right of passage that every mother and father should share with their kids. And that is, uh,

one that you're afraid of. It's that old birds and the Bees conversation, but I never, and I've been preparing for that. And I don't know when that day's coming. It's probably closer than farther away. But one conversation, Carol, and we've talked about this that I didn't think I'd be having first, was talking to my 10-year-old daughter about boys wanting to be girls and girls wanted to be boys.

And she's just getting into makeup. So Ulta Beauty is like a stop for us at the mall and no longer

because I now had to explain their campaign ad about that. So I wrote an article about this because,

one, it stripped me of a moment that I was preparing for as a father and put one in front of it that I was caught off guard with. And two, I just have a hell of a lot of respect for women, especially badass women like you, like my wife, like a lot of others in our field. And it's totally disrespectful to them. Makeup is supposed to help women be seen. And a makeup company has chosen to use an ad campaign that erases women. So I think it's

laughable, and I think the proof's already in the pudding with lost customer, stock price,

and all that. Yeah. You know, it's such an interesting point because I think that there, obviously,

the erasure of women point has been made, but I have not heard anybody make the point that you don't

want to have to explain certain things to young children and that you don't want to kind of get

ahead of yourself about what the world is like and what they're going to see in the world.

And you want to maintain their innocence for a little while and don't want to plant ideas

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