Daily Wire host suggests women should not be allowed to be in military combat or fighting fires
Michael Knowles: “The moment that you say I think men and women can do exactly the same things. And, of course, women should be in military combat ... women should be fighting fires and carrying people out over their backs. And, of course — hold on. No.”
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From the February 26, 2025, edition of The Daily Wire's The Michael Knowles Show
MICHAEL KNOWLES (HOST): That is only amazing, that is only surprising if you don't understand that men and women are different. And men and women have different strengths, and men and women have different inclinations. When I was living as a bachelor with roommates, we probably didn't have a a knife block set. If we did, it was — someone probably gave it to us, and it was probably missing, like, half the knives. And we probably didn't clean up that well, and we had laundry hanging around, and we ate pizza all the time. And, yeah, that's true. Because we didn't have a woman in the apartment. If we had a woman in the apartment, it probably would look nicer. We probably would have pictures on the walls. Laundry probably would've gotten done a little bit. That's true. Sometimes people on the left, they make fun of me. There was a clip of me that went viral where I said, I don't know how to use my washing machine in my home, and I don't. I barely know how to turn the thing on and off. But why should I?
She says, I'm amazed. I — it never ceases to amaze me how so many men don't know how to keep a basic home without a woman helping them. Sure. But you could just as equally say, it never ceases to amaze me how so many women don't know how to negotiate a contract. Which is why women actually make less money than men is because they don't know how to negotiate a raise. Or why women don't know how to negotiate to buy a car, they don't know how to get the right deal. It never ceases to amaze me how women don't even know how to check their own oil. It never ceases to amaze me how women don't know how to kill a spider in the bathroom without screaming. It never — I don't know. That actually — none of that amazes me because men and women are different.
You know, we talk about what is a woman and gender dysphoria and the confusion of men and women. But, look, a lot of people talk a good game on the right even and on this center-left, but they don't wanna take it all the way. They don't wanna recognize that the gender dysphoria — my friend Tim Gordon was making this point the other day. The gender dysphoria sets in the moment that you entertain any kind of feminism. So you don't have to be chopping your body parts off to be engaging in gender dysphoria. The moment that you say, I think men and women can do exactly the same things. And, of course, women should be in military combat. And, yeah, of course, women should be fighting fires and carrying people out over their backs. And, of course — hold on. No. And, of course, men should be, like, baking pies and doing the laundry all the time. I don't — I just don't think — sometimes — but I don't think men are inclined that way.
Men and women are different. The apartments of men and women living alone are gonna be are gonna look different. Yeah. And it's OK. It's OK for the guy to go out there and bring home the bacon and negotiate the contract and change the oil. And it's okay for the woman to bake a pie and do the laundry and make your home look really nice and put the nice pictures on the wall. It's okay. If you do you really believe men and women are different? Then you should not be amazed by these things. Doesn't take a degree in psychology and brain science to know that.