Mormon Family Vloggers Knorpp & South Say Feminism is ANTI-FAMILY!

[@onceuponamelody]

Does she realize without feminism she would not be allowed to have her short hair, wear pants or talk on a public forum expressing her opinions as she is?! Feminism has given so many people so much. And as someone who has been through birth trauma, it only makes me fight for birthing rights even MORE. Thanks, guys, for bringing truth to this subject. These two seem super toxic and awful.

[@lindywakeling6789]

@@ELM-ee8bt And women only worked during WWII because of feminism... and feminism enabled all women, including those who weren't rich and white to have prominent voices. I'm not sure what your point is

[@SjofnBM1989]

No, she's basically Serena Joy from the Handmaids Tale

[@kittmiller2212]

Great Point!

[@azurastarfire]

Exactly they are just so uneducated on what feminism even is... KZbinrs-Don't speak on a topic you know nothing about

[@azurastarfire]

@@ELM-ee8bt We didn't have voices when we weren't allowed to vote, own land, have a bank account, get divorced, go to university, serve in the military

[@SjofnBM1989]

"None of those people wanted to say hi to me because of my tee-shirt!" or maybe they just wanted to go on a nice quiet walk and not be bothered by some insane blonde lady on the trail.

[@weisnerfamily]

Right! If I'm walking I want peace and quiet!

[@JordanandMcKay]

LMAO

[@amybrock2592]

I don't as a rule stare at people's chests when I'm out for a walk, so I probably wouldn't have noticed the shirt. :) If someone makes eye contact with my I usually say: "good morning" and that's sort of the general social rule where I live. This sounds like someone looking for evidence of PERSECUTION! Gasp!

[@bluester7177]

@@amybrock2592 Also, some people are anxious with strangers or are just not paying attention, I can walk past my own mother on the street and ignore her because I'm just not paying that much attention to people, I'm often thinking or listening to music.

[@amybrock2592]

@@bluester7177 absolutely! Sorry to imply that the "social contract" was the way to go. If I'm out on the main road I wear headphones myself, but I'm paranoid on the path and I can't wear them. That's how my anxiety manifests.

[@n.t.3521]

I'm SO irked by her calling women in their twenties "girls". We are... adults.

[@sisuguillam5109]

It's because accepting that women are adult people frightens the poop out if them: 'oh, person that isn't cis-male'. Better make sure they know we do not think of them being autonomous adults.

[@timnewman1172]

Honey, I'm old enough to remember the 1960's & 70's when women couldn't even rent a car without a man's "permission"... saying that women do not know how "good" they had it back then REEKS of patriarchy!!!

[@barbaral743]

It was 1974 when a woman could have a bank account without her husband's permission

[@queenmotherhane4374]

In the early ‘70s, I couldn’t get a credit card without my husband’s name on it, even though I had a job.

[@samanthacross3523]

Or any surgery that might affect child bearing the man had to give consent (uk)

[@sisuguillam5109]

Women needed their husband's permission to be able to work till 1977. Until then a husband could force you to quit work if his needs were not met (Germany).

[@charlotte50224]

@@queenmotherhane4374 Yes, and even worse, when I was still single, I had three, and kept them and always paid them off monthly. Then I got married and a few years later we built a house, with BOTH our names on the mortgage. About 6 months later, I wanted a credit card, for the service station brand near us, because back then you could only use that company's card to get gas. But, I receive a letter from them informing me that I was denied, because I "had no credit rating"! I called them and said what are talking about! We have a mortgage on our house, and have always paid it on time, what do you mean I have no credit rating?? And the lady on the other end informs me, that that mortgage only helps my husband's credit rating! I said what??? My name is on the account, too!! And we got it from the credit union that I belonged to as a teacher!! What do you mean my name being on it means nothing for me?? She informs me that's just how it is. I said well what about the other three credit cards I have in my name?? And they were based on MY income?? We go back and forth like that a while more, until she finally says, well hold on a minute, I'll be back. When she comes back, she informs me they're issuing me a card! No explanation of why. So I didn't question it. But when I hung up, I was so angry and shocked that I'd just been told that because I was married I now had fewer rights as a person, than I did when I was single! I'm 72 now, and I think I was 28 then, and even retelling that story, I still feel the anger and shock I felt being told I'd lost my identity and economic autonomy, because I had gotten married!! Thank God, things have changed, but we know without feminism nothing would have changed for us! 😥

[@yooperskeptic]

I am 59, a feminist, no children, and yet I'M NOT RICH!! What's wrong with me??!!

[@Naafidy]

This woman is so self involved. "If those young women don't say hi it means they HATE FAMILY." Jesus christ lady, way to make an innocuous situation about you.

[@martyhudson3901]

Guess you haven't watched this nasty cow enough to realize that the world revolves around her. She's hasn't been dubbed "MEegan" for nothing! 😂

[@AncestralDestructionPot]

At the end of the day it's just a greeting, if someone doesn't reply it doesn't matter.

[@juliecallahan5180]

She is very narcissistic

[@LeahDyson-kq4bd]

We had this woman from ex east Germany early 90s that stayed with us because she was gonna work for my dad's company and she had the exact haircut this woman has but she was a communist and a feminist lol

[@Tait2468]

I know a older lady, 70, who always says "I've never gotten the whole "feminism" thing, I've just quietly gone and done what I've wanted" And I'm like DUDE you wouldn't have been able to "quietly" do what you wanted without feminism, do you not get that?

[@queenmotherhane4374]

I’m an “older lady” who will soon be 70. I was a conservative Catholic teenager until I started college and my worldview expanded.

[@sprink88]

lol you cant call an old lady DUDE. I mean, you CAN, but you dhouldn't.

[@KaraNolting]

When you said "disabled people don't work" I choked on my coffee laughing - as I watch this with cerebral palsy WHILE WORKING IN A SPREADSHEET. haha Love you both so much.

[@marleneflanagan7137]

Did you have a cat and a glass of wine? If not, you're not a feminist!

[@KaraNolting]

@@marleneflanagan7137 I'm working so it was coffee BUT my dog was nearby to keep my sad lonely childless heart full 😂

[@marleneflanagan7137]

@@KaraNolting I think that would be acceptable!! Carry on!

[@brittlebricks10]

ew a SPREADSHEET, there is no fulfillment in SPREADSHEET, Kara

[@debbiebuttars5598]

Haha! I love this comment!❤

[@CritThinkng]

Also, I just want to add a stay-at-home mom perspective. I've spent my 20 adult years dedicated to my children aside from a 6 year stint I spent building my career as a single mom, got remarried and went into the S.A.H. gig again. It's not about money or power, or an office job. I MISS working because it was where I had an identity again as an autonomous human beyond the expectations defined by a 24/7 role in my family. I was reminded that I, too, had a name beyond "Babe" and "Mom", and thoughts and things to say. I find I'm losing that person again after 6 years away. The thing isn't a "JOB". It's realizing that you don't interact with the world around you AT ALL. That if you suddenly dropped dead, the only person outside the walls of your home that would notice might be the checkout lady at Walmart. Money and power my ass. It's about being human.

[@rachelk4805]

That's it, right? This woman with a name and a computer and a job wants you to subsume your entire personhood into the other people in your family and stop existing as anything other than a tool to bring them greater happiness. And any loving mom wants their family to be happy, but YOU deserve happiness too. You are fully a person, without a man or children to validate your existence.

[@Sarah-re7cg]

This. I love this comment so much because it perfectly captures and expresses exactly what we’re doing to women with these expectations and trapping them into such a confined space that it’s erasing their identity as human beings. Moms don’t exist to be consumed by their family. They’re people with thoughts, ideas, feelings, wants, desires, dreams. They have an identity that isn’t enmeshed with their family, ffs. I hope you’re doing okay and retain that time, space and mental energy that is yours and yours only.

[@caseyjude5472]

In my youth, very very few men were as feminist as McKay. You two & the way you’re raising your son give me so much hope for the future. I won’t be here to see much of it, but I’m going to help you build until I’m in a box in the ground.

[@Sarah-re7cg]

McKay is out here being bae, I freaking love the dynamic between these 2. You can tell they’re both such loving parents. I’m so happy they found each other ❤ and that they’ve decided to host their own KZbin channel. We need more people like Jordan and McKay!!!

[@Starving_Phoenix]

I'm actively trying to become a mom right now which, of course, means I will now be abandoning my sociology degree and all the sinful time I've spent protesting for body autonomy and other feminist issues. Obviously you can't be a mom and a feminist and raise feminist children. It is clearly impossible.

[@dogmom7712]

Obviously lol

[@h0rriphic]

Yes. You are to immediately report to the Pregnancy Center for you lobotomy.

[@h0rriphic]

@homo sexual feminine mal6 whistleblower confession why is your pfp a close up of a man’s crotch in women’s underwear?

[@marissali61]

@homosexualeffeminatebiomale3your profile is very interesting

[@Alienaddikt]

​@@marissali61their channel.got deleted, what did they post????

[@ContextualRelations]

“Raw-dogging nature,” 😂 and, “You can be childless by choice and not have to justify your reason to anyone.” 🙌🏻

[@casebeth]

We , the community, prefer the term childfree :)

[@rosegilligan3349]

hearing her talk about how working for a boss is as unempowering as housewifery is like, they are so close to having an epiphany. it's a pity that people like this only talk about economic inequality when they want to make feminism sound bad

[@kyerin]

Hmmm, I saw a Mormon insta mommy recently whining about 'losing our son' - who it turns out was a foster child reunited with his family(!) - and said some really awful things about Native tribes too. I resisted dm'ing it to you but now I think maybe I should have!

[@monstertoy4620]

Oh my Goodness, that's such a disgusting, rasicist, colonisers mind set. I worry about the mental and physical risk the child was exposed to. This is so hypocritical

[@brittlebricks10]

that is AWFUL

[@bluester7177]

Megan seems to not understand what feminism is outside what terminally online conservative people think it is, she's also conflating lots of the pressures of capitalism with it, and she seems to be very privileged, most of the feminist women I know are just normal people doing the best they can and wanting to have the same rights and be treated like humans while they work and take care of their families, they are not thinking about exterminating men because they have fathers, husbands, sons, men they care about.

[@monus782]

As a guy I can say that one of my advisors back in college was also the head of the Women's Studies department (the very major that conservatives love to mock as "useless", I used to do so as well) while I was in my hardline Catholic phase, ironically the campus feminists treated me better as a person than my fellow fundie Catholics ever did because I was also hanging out in alt-right spaces with internalized racism and to this day I'm grateful I came across her even though at one point I almost switched majors all because my classes were giving me info I didn't want to hear. Only misandry I've seen so far from anyone claiming to be a feminist are from the same people who really dislike trans people and sex workers and the TERF rabbit hole I found one time on Tumblr was the most surreal one I ever looked at, otherwise I've been treated with support and understanding while trying to deconstruct not just the remaining stuff I used to believe in but also the gender norms I grew up with and used to ardently defend.

[@Woodmancer]

I love that her ideas of how women were happier 70 years ago are from marketing and media images of the time.

[@phoebestone1694]

They want to gloss over the dangerous pills prescribed, deadly procedures, forced sterilization and your husband can legally rape and/or lock you up in a hospital.

[@Sarah-re7cg]

It really is terrifying the lack of critical thinking these people have. Like they genuinely look at media from 70 years ago and just have absolutely concept of putting it into context and going just like an inch deeper by seeing what some layer of reality by looking into laws that were passed, language that was used, where science stood at the time, how science as an institution even functioned, who was allowed in certain places and even able to write those laws and put out scientific publications. It’s just so physically painful to me to see people like the people Jordan and McKay cover having any kind of platform because they’re objectively stupid. I mean thank god Jordan and McKay exist with their own platform to push back against this shit people spew but I also wish the people spewing it would just like not exist in the first place lol

[@thenopedetective]

So wild! My understanding is that there was a huge media surge as suburbs were beginning to be created. So the traditional family home in the burbs didn't really exist until then. So they wanted to get people moving to the burbs and so they pushed out a branch of media.

[@LeahDyson-kq4bd]

They seemed to be happy in leave it to beaver so it must be true

[@jill4310]

Me or my daughter had no idea of this trending phrase! The t shirts wouldn’t have gotten any response from either of us! We are both feminists, and damn, I had kids! What now?

[@_Nat_A_]

No one gave a 💩 about her shirt. FYI: Social media needs to be educational, positive and offer something to your life. This family will be glad to know this feminist, stay at home wife, who Doesn’t work, find their attitude condescending. I assume you tithe,but do you go out and help families have needs met, since you are all about one income families.

[@becky4890]

Sorry, this is the woman who exploits stay at home moms by employing them in an mlm?? Let's talk about family values, Meg.

[@fionascheibel977]

Unless Meghan had been on her walk with a dog I'd probably have not spoken to her no matter what she was wearing. Saying hello to a dog is in my first communication and then I might say hello to the human.

[@Nikki-lodeon]

But also, please don't do that. Not every dog is comfortable with a stranger talking to them, some dogs are in training, some dogs get way too excited when a stranger talks to them... Please ask the human first. When in doubt, ignore the dog. Sincerely, someone who trains reactive dogs and also dislikes talking to strangers

[@ashkirk83]

I am a vegan, feminist, ex-mormon mama of two boys (who are also feminist!) and I work at home and raise them, we have a cat, I use a computer to do my web design every day and I definitely kick back and enjoy wine when the mood strikes. Jeez. Also, I work because there are bills to pay, mouths to feed, and it isn't just for the thrill of feminist funsies. Plus I am good and what I do. If I didn't work, I couldn't support my two amazing children. This lady makes my brain hurt. Ugh. Love your work Jordan and McKay, you make my days of sitting in front of a computer screen so, so much better.

[@IraLuxuria]

It does my head in to hear people leap from 'feminism fights for everyone's right and opportunity to do things beyond what their assigned gender at birth is stereotyped to do' to 'feminists want to make it illegal to be a traditional woman!!1!'. No. Just because you don't think you'd benefit from more options does not make those options useless or oppressive.

[@Moon_in_a_Hat]

This couple is more annoying to me because they look like a cool, hip couple from Portland and then when they speak they sound just like Michelle Duggar.

[@JordanandMcKay]

Incognito mode

[@christyspires1179]

I had a Christian friend who was heavy into toxic positivity and one of her big things was to brag about how God blessed her family enough that she could be a sahm. Meanwhile I'm working 2nd shift with a 3 year old and newborn in a call center. I was already depressed and dealing with mom guilt over it, and her rubbing it in my face constantly (we were neighbors and husbands were best friends so couldn't escape her) sent me spiraling into a depression that has taken me years to get over. She is still out there spreading her toxic love, but I got divorced so I don't have to deal with her anymore.

[@debbiebuttars5598]

Oh man. This type of “I’m so much better than that God blesses me” talk infuriates me. Toxic positivity to the max. I almost always worked when my kids were young. I had to for our family to survive. So I tried to find the good and was okay about it. Until the LDS church came down hard on working moms. Like, I have a job so I’m a bad person? Cut that crap!

[@kiterafrey]

Where did she get the word "alone" from "the future is female'?" It's like reading, "Please keep your voices low" in the library and thinks "They said I can NEVER speak again."

[@JordanandMcKay]

For real. Like just because we want all the ladies to get solos doesn’t mean that it has to be an all-women’s choir.

[@ShirogamiNoSeisai]

I think a huge thing that they miss in how work empowers women is also the autonomy that work provides women both financially and socially.

[@rachelk4805]

Well this is a woman who has never needed to support herself independently, so she is coming from a position of privilege that she is blind to. She is also a hypocrite because she is working on this video here. Women who have been in abusive or toxic relationships know that life is better when you don't financially depend on your partner.

[@homebrood9789]

I’m a working mom and it makes me crazy when women say, why don’t you want to stay home with your kids? Ugh, I’m a better mom because I work. I am happier and I am a more attentive mom because I work outside the home. I was miserable as a stay at home mom. My work completes me as a person. I need to not be “just” one thing. I can be a mom and an employee and rock it all! Not to mention in CO, where we live there is no way we could survive on 1 income.

[@BuffySummersWannabe]

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[@sisuguillam5109]

And kids need more people than just the family. Having people outside of family is essential to grow - and it creates a safety net. One of the reasons for home-schooling (in the american sense) being illegal in Germany is to make sure that children have teachers keeping an eye on their safety and providing support of poop hits the fan.

[@eb7903]

Imagine being so self absorbed that someone not greeting you makes you think a stranger cares about your shirt. Then, you talk about it for an hour on a podcast.

[@amytheshihtzumom]

I have so much respect for you, Jordan and McKay. You’re doing a lot of good by making these videos and fighting back against logical fallacies, misinformation, and bigotry. Thanks for another great video.

[@aurorasunset16]

As a young women, going walking I am suspicious of every stranger. Being friendly can lead to being taken advantage of. I just want to go on my walk and not interact.

[@rachelcarolyn]

It seems like such a reach to assume feminists would be offended by “the future is family.” Doesn’t seem particularly polarizing. The people glaring at me in the grocery store for wearing my “I Stand With Planned Parenthood” t-shirt, a little easier to assume what they were thinking. 🤷🏻‍♀️

[@rachelk4805]

I always vote for the Working Family party when I can. They are super liberal though, turns out that helping women benefits the family as a whole, whodathunkit.

[@swblanc]

I'm disappointed you didn't get to the part where Megan said she stopped obsessing about equality and worrying about being treated fairly and instead asked herself how she can "quiet the selfish parts" of her.😲

[@JordanandMcKay]

There's so much we didnt get to! She's so problematic!

[@petermj]

as a preschool teacher, on my death bed i can almost guarantee that i will be thinking about my job. this woman really thinks that just because SHE didn’t get fulfillment from working, NO ONE can. also gotta say, it’s very ironic that she was talking about whatever “study” she made up in her mind with the housewives because she is essentially doing the same exact thing here. anyway! thank y’all, as always, for taking something so frustrating and making it palatable with your great commentary!

[@taylor3342]

She didn't even try, college drop out after getting married junior year. Both things are perfectly ok to do, but she shouldn't pretend to be a reliable source on where to find fulfillment when she has only lived one way. I bet you're an awesome preschool teacher, thank you for what you do!

[@petermj]

@@taylor3342 thank you! definitely love what i do even if some days can be challenging! every child i’ve ever had in my care has made an impact on my life and that is most definitely fulfilling.

[@hollieb0]

I’m so glad that you’re doing a video on them. They are SO toxic

[@b0bthedestr0yer68]

the "this is your brain on feminism" by McKay SENT ME AHHAHA I was not prepared and laughed so hard omg

[@kellimshaver]

She's 100% self-absorbed, also OMG her husband is the biggest doormat I think I've ever seen.

[@Diamondelight92]

As someone who owns a t-shirt that says "MEN AREN'T FUNNY" I can promise you that when people hate your t-shirt, they let you know by screaming profanities at you, not by ignoring you when you say good morning.

[@profoundcake]

Omg I need that shirt tho It'll go well with my bumper sticker that says "eat a di*k" in the style of those coexist stickers

[@Chelseabee55]

‘On your death bed your won’t give a rats bottom about your job’ ma’am, I write novels and it’s my life’s work and passion. I hope when I’m on my death bed they have a shelf of dozens of novels I’ve poured my soul in to, while I’m surrounded by family who love me and will treasure my work for long after I’m gone.

[@sisuguillam5109]

Look at the reaction to the death of Hilary Mantel! Loved and respected for her work. Loved and respected as a person. Are these two saying that Mantel was less because she didn't have kids/could bot have kids?

[@Maria-hs2yq]

I think it’s concerning how she describes young women in their early twenties as “young girls”. The infantilization is so bad in so many ways, with so many different consequences (which are far too nuanced to go through outside of a thesis).

[@pppamelis]

Look at how she treats her two youngest adopted - one is 8 or 9 years old and illiterate and the other is almost a teenager and just because she has DS this woman feels the need to treat her like she's still 4 yrs old.

[@Sarah-re7cg]

I caught that too. The subtext of her tone makes me want to punch her in the face. She’s belittling and smug and she treats women who aren’t religious cult freaks like her like they’re naive and don’t understand the real world which might be the most ironic dynamic because she’s a religious Mormon woman lmaooo

[@josiee1120]

When I’m walking, I can count on one hand the amount of times I have ready someone’s shirt and thought anything about it. But I also don’t say hi to every single person I walk past, especially on a trail… she’s reading way more into this than there really is. Also, the definition of a woman is very very simple: a woman is a person who identifies themselves as a woman. The end.

[@sisuguillam5109]

If she thinks I would spend time on looking at her shirt rather then looking at my feet or the landscape she has a thing coming.

[@slashleylew]

watching this video a little late but! i started at byu today and after two years of watching exmo content and months of yours i finally decided to discontinue and transfer 🥳🥳 thank you for everything y’all have done for me!! you have helped me and literally saved my life multiple times with your content!!! as a queer byu student it truly kept me going last year and inspired me to finally choose my own happiness :) thank you

[@Ceibhfhionn]

Congratulations on. your new direction in life. I hope it has gone well since you made the comment.

[@kh1386]

Currently they are living in an RV park with 5 kids packed into one bedroom, a 11 year old boy and 15 yr old girl sharing the same bed!! No schooling or help for the disabled girl. I can't believe they get away with this!

[@IamTheMom]

I am Swedish and we have been socialy distancing the past 200 years at least 🙈😂 if a random person talks to you or say hello if you do’nt know them they are concidered a crazy psychopath 😂 let’s not even look at eachother kind of mentality

[@yooperskeptic]

Haha American tourists must seem insane to you 😜

[@IamTheMom]

@@yooperskeptic no I am very ”un-Swedish” and used to live in canada and i find Swedes very cold and boring 😂🤷🏼‍♀️

[@Agatharose457]

I feel like Megan is someone who still orders “freedom fries”

[@justanotheranonymousaccoun6365]

I hate how they act like they’ve had some big “gotcha” moment, when they’re actually just being obtuse. The point of “doing spreadsheets in an office” is that having a job means having a way to make your own money, and not be financially dependent on someone else. The empowerment comes from having the ability to be independent, not from the act of filling out spreadsheets. Also...”we don’t even want to define what a woman is”. Um, Girl Defined sure wants to try.

[@MaidMirawyn]

“Not being financially dependent on someone else.” Looking at it from within their framework, working means that a woman who is widowed CAN STILL TAKE CARE OF HER KIDS! If her husband is disabled, SHE CAN STILL TAKE CARE OF HER KIDS. Also, from within their framework, what about the women who provide traditionally female services they like-salon workers, teachers, nurses. What about female doctors, so they don’t have to expose their bodies to a male gaze? Even WITHIN their framework, there are tons of reasons to be glad other women can work and be treated well!

[@_Nat_A_]

I stopped watching years ago when I felt that it was watching someone have manic/ depressive episodes. It was concerning and not entertaining. I’m watching the episode. And everyone has a right to their opinion. That said, they both aren’t feminists, yet say both are equal. But beware. If you critique them at all. Mike is sent in on a video to explain how Meghan is not Manic and he loves living the manic life. Best thing to do… don’t watch don’t feed a channel that is toxic.

[@jordanblack8015]

I stopped watching years ago too!!! I agree they were so boring and I always felt bad for their kids being moved 24/7 and in a tiny space for tons of kids

[@jolikemarch76]

I’m continuously baffled by this lady because like feminism means you have the right to CHOOSE if you want to stay at home with kids or have a job or even both. Not every feminist is an angry lesbian coming to steal every woman from men. It’s actually just me that’s coming to do that. Watch out Knorp kids, im gonna be your new father.

[@truecrimenwine489]

Guys. Breaking news. When people who didn't know they were being exploited, treated unfairly, or indoctrinated, find out that they have been, guess what happened. THEY LOVED IT. joking. Not surprisingly they got upset about it... you can't be sad about things you don't know!!! 🙄🙄🙄

[@SarcasticShrubbery]

Came here to say the same thing, only you said it more eloquently! OF COURSE her female ancestors didn't write in their journals "I wish I had birth control and the vote"!! Those things weren't even an option. And of course those housewives in that supposed study felt worse after they were told what they were entitled to but didn't have. I can't believe that's so hard to understand for her.

[@sisuguillam5109]

@@SarcasticShrubbery quite a lot of women did write that in their journals, letters, talked about it. That's how we got Feminism. And women practices birth-control. Women in the US performed abortions on themselves and had abortions performed on them then. Until late in the 19th century legaly in the US. Abortificants were advertised in newspapers. They were readily sold. The good old times were the times when women talked to other women on how to have abortions, hiw many they had, when it was too late to safely have one etc pp. These people have no idea about the history of the country they live in nor the history of other places.

[@rachelk4805]

You know what bummed me out? Finding out about slavery. Not surprising that these kinds of people think the solution is teaching a false, white-washed version of history. Let's just stop talking about all the inequality and then the people who benefit from it can keep perpetuating inequality and nobody will be bummed out except the people cruahed in the machinery of an unequal society who CAN'T ignore their own suffering.

[@theoriginalpandanon]

I’m a feminist and currently pregnant with my second planned child. I have always wanted to be a mom even as a teenager. Their worldview is so incredibly skewed.

[@ninjakatherine]

I currently live in Colorado and am the weirdest person on trails because I do the eyebrow thing instead of talking to people. I'm sorry, I'm trying to breathe and I don't want to talk to you. 😆

[@pamelatd]

These people. 😂 I'm empowered by having choices! And I choose to live in sin, in an RV, with my boyfriend. We've lived in 3 different states and visited 2 countries and 5 states in the last 2.5 years! And I choose not to have children. It's so annoying to hear that the only way to be fulfilled is by staying home with children. Different people are fulfilled by different things!

[@queencelestyna]

Oh no! I enjoy sitting at the computer drinking wine with my cat! I better tell my husband that I'm not really a woman...

[@sarahb4104]

I have been watching them casually for years. Completely in the dark. Not really thinking to look deeper than surface at this family. There were things I found odd about the parents but just kinda pushed it to the back of my mind. I watched this podcast you’re talking about that they did and it’s like all of sudden I had an epiphany. I decided to look on their twitter (which I had never done before) and I saw the things they like and reply to. Wow. Just wow. It’s like a missing puzzle piece came together and I could see the whole picture that is knorpp and south. I knew they had right wing beliefs but I didn’t know it was like far far right. It’s like everything that I’ve ever raised my eyebrows at with them now has a different meaning. I have unsubscribed and will now educate myself better on the content I’m absorbing. I never cared they were Mormon, to each their own and I’m not a religious person at all I just enjoyed the fact they had so much freedom to travel and enjoy life. Which is absolutely all an illusion but I digress. I hope more people, like me, who have been in the dark finally saw the light after this podcast.

[@pppamelis]

The first rule I follow for filtering youtube creators is "Are these people exploiting minors?" and it basically gets rid of family vloggers. Based on the rapidly deleted negative comments in that video, I think there are a lot of people like you that finally see how awful these two people are.

[@imajamiefangirl]

I did the same thing. I watched because I was interested in the homeschooling/unschooling and the full time travel lifestyle. I eventually had to stop watching because it was clear that they don't respect their children, or their wishes, and are super right wing. It seems like Megan does whatever she wants and expects the rest of the family to just go along with it. I worry about the 4 youngest kids, as I don't think any of them (particularly their kid with DS) got/are getting any kind of real education.

[@tashakent5280]

I find these people so frustrating on so many levels. I absolutely despise it when people refer to working in an office as somehow less than. Yeah, I love me some spreadsheets and I love me some pay security. If the lady with no name I can remember wants to be a mum who stays at home that's great. I want to be the mum who does cool stuff with spreadsheets.

[@queenmotherhane4374]

Retired tech writer here: Amen! And there’s the plus of that sweet, sweet paycheck that put a roof over my head and my child through college-and gave me a comfortable retirement.

[@oceanstaiga5928]

I low-key feel bad for their two older adopted children that went/are going on a mission and both were given mandarin speaking ones in USA/Canada. I bet you the church is real happy to have some native mandarin speakers, they both did not get their wish for where they wanted to go. Meanwhile the non adopted son got to Japan after speaking for it for ages lol.

[@laurenssss]

I wouldn't have talked to her because she instantly comes off as attention-seeking and obnoxious to me. I don't care what her shirt says, as much as she desperately wants me to.

[@thatblvckhippie1911]

I am dying laughing at the end because im sitting here with my laptop, dog and a joint. I'm a stay at home mom though 🤣🤣

[@Risosi1515]

I hated being a stay at home mom. Absolutely broke me mentally, physically, emotionally, etc etc. My husband has been in charge of our finances and was very controlling of my spending. He wanted me to be a stay at home because it would save us money, but after 4 years of doing that, at what cost was that even worth it? But I got absolutely tired of everything, his lack of support with one kid, his lack of empathy, someone who was more focus on other things except for building and working on our relationship, so I finally asked for a divorce. Add to that I’m deconstructing my faith, he still believes. He was able to move up so many times while I was stuck at home but for what? I don’t want another kid, I had no village and will not have a village to support me. So I’m happy to start freeing my heart, mind and soul from all the Mormon shit I grew up with. Thank you guys for all you do! Love your content ☺️

[@fructifer4502]

I hope you're doing well! Not to invalidate your experience, but it doesn't seem like your shitty ex husband actually "broke" you: you sound pretty bad ass to me!

[@Ceibhfhionn]

Congratulations on your liberation., I know you left the comment a while ago and hope you're off to great start.

[@Agatharose457]

Why is it a thing in the US to have to acknowledge another person you randomly pass or stand near?

[@SewRena]

The US is a huge place with a lot of different cultural norms. This is a very general question but it all boils down to culture. There are 50 different states all with different local governments and customs.

[@archaichermit3566]

More common in rural places and small towns- in cities people don’t often do this

[@meimei51793]

don’t apologize for pausing frequently we are here for what you have to say :) any one who wants to watch the video without your commentary can go watch it if it’s a problem lol

[@duckydoes]

I think it’s funny that she read so much into how people react to her saying hi to them… when I’m on a walk I never interact with people beyond the “friendly cat smile”, but that’s because I’ve read one too many true crime stories and I don’t want to get unalived 😬

[@stephaniewoods6332]

Thank you for this video! I watched some of their early travel videos before I was so disturbed by the lack of services and education for their daughter with Downs. This just as disturbing.

[@heinzhair]

Hahahaha the hiking hello made me lmao!! It’s the same in WA, everyone says hello

[@medicinalplantsteacher]

Knorpp & South are like if a Mormon vlogger couple were a character set in Portlandia

[@JordanandMcKay]

ABSOLUTELY

[@emh.1178]

When you yelled "I see you sitting there, drinking your wine with your cat!!" it was kind of spooky- sitting here, my cat on my lap, drinking some choccy milkXD

[@landonmiracle4389]

people who proclaim they are “former Feminists/Democrats/Satanists” were usually never that, but is just branding themselves or are trying to lend more credibility to themselves

[@MyPumpkinSpicedChaos]

When Spencer Cox was the lieutenant governor, he was assigned to do public outreach at the schools of Utah to find out what issues our legislature could help with and during that he met with a lot of LGBT students, including transgender students, and actually listened to their problems and their fears. He has been a big ally to those kids ever since. Transgender kids need every single adult ally that can raise their voice to help protect them, especially here in Utah. Even if I don't agree with him politically on every issue, I'm glad that he is trying to help and speak out against hate. I say this as a mother of a transgender student in Salt Lake. When my kid came out at her school, she was severely bullied and beaten up nearly every day. Her teacher would keep dead naming her and telling her she needed to go back to being a boy and the bullying would stop. The principal told me to my face that there was zero they would do to protect her or stop the abuse and that maybe she should just go back to being a boy. She also said that the reason the kids were beating her up was that their parents kept telling them to do so and since they cannot stop the parents then she's just gonna have to get used to it. I had to go to the district to get them to intervene, and it was the district that informed me that there are a lot of transgender kids in the school system and they have policies in place to prevent that kind of behavior. They came and and protected my kid for the rest of the school year, then transferred her into a different school under her preferred name and gender so that no one would know she was transgender and she could just live as a girl. The principal was transferred somewhere else and the teacher was forced into retirement as well. It's a terrible feeling sending her to school every single day because if the wrong person finds out, she could go back to being physically assaulted. And if this is what happened to my kid, then I'm also terrified for every single other transgender kid in this state. They need every single voice they can get because the only way to stop this is to be loud about it.

[@sisuguillam5109]

I am so happy you stood up for your kid and found help and resources. Well done!

[@MyPumpkinSpicedChaos]

@@sisuguillam5109 thank you 😁

[@sisuguillam5109]

@@MyPumpkinSpicedChaos 🙂

[@trisanatandler]

Strange I always thought feminism is having rights, having the right to do what you want with your life, having the right to make decisions for your own body. But noooo Mrs whatever - manhater 🙄🙄🙄

[@cassie274]

God I love you guys 🤣🤣 “the only sheets you should be spreading are the ones on your husbands bed!!!” I am screaming 🤣🤣

[@NinjaFalllow]

My husband had a kitchen playset growing up and I'm sooooo glad his parents did that. Well, my father in law tried to do the whole "lololol that's for girls" but my mother in law shut that down pretty quick. I FUCKING LOVE HAVING A HUSBAND THAT COOKS. Most of my coworkers in their 50s and 60s have to cook for their husbands all the time and that just sounds like a pain. It's sooooo great to have a partner that's a good cook and will share the load in the kitchen! Honestly, he probably does the lion's share of the cooking and I should take initiative more often...

[@planetarymind8085]

1:04:40 ish, I was just watching "dine in psychology" last night, her video on "spiritual bypassing". I was so glad to finally have a term for that. I think it can be related to the "thought stopping" you guys are mentioning.

[@AnnaNoelleXOXO]

I’m a 27 year old woman and I rarely go on a walk by myself. If I am by myself, I’m wearing headphones. If someone says hello I either say hi or do the awkward forced smile and keep moving. I was taught stranger danger when I was young, so I really don’t just make conversation with people on trails and stuff I don’t know. I also think it’s hilarious that she’s so offended by feminism. Like you said, feminists can have a family. Feminism isn’t family erasure🤨 God forbid we want women to respected and valued! They love being oppressed so fucking much! Thanks for another great video. I loved the roast of that commenter in the beginning, I’m here for the petty😌

[@smashylittlerat3218]

The "future is female" was trendy....in 2015....like the gals didn't say hi because they think you are old and weird.

[@pppamelis]

Seriously. What 20 somethings randomly say hi to 40 something strangers? That's creepy.

[@leslienope]

Unrelated to this video, but I wanted to let y'all know I was reading a book over the weekend that had a character who was banished from their church and it never specifically stated what the religion was but from hints they dropped and stuff I've learned from your channel I figured out it was an FLDS commune

[@_Nat_A_]

One more quick question, was there a church meeting where people were called to push “family first”, stay at home mom rule, working moms are unhappy, and feminism is the devil.

[@BrigitteDiessl]

I think she was talking about suburban neurosis which was a thing that was talked about in the 1960s. It was connected to the incidence of depression in women in the home and the use of medications like Valium. If you think about it, it might have had something to do with the fact that women ran the world during World War 2 while men were away fighting in the war and then, when the men came back, they were given their jobs back and the women were put back in the home "where they truly belong." Think about it, Megan! Or whatever your name is.

[@sisuguillam5109]

Oh, Valium and other meds known as 'Mother's little helper'. And alcohol. So many house wifes were high as kites then and drank like fish.

[@Naafidy]

17:15 I go on walks frequently in parks and never say hi to anyone. If I did I wouldn't be able to stop my mouth moving. I enjoy the parks and the music from my ear buds.

[@lynnemcnab1500]

Geezus if they look down on women working in an office, what they must think of women working at McDonald's. Smh

[@JordanandMcKay]

If they avoided that, they wouldn’t eat anywhere b

[@robynhale2340]

Hey, I LOVE your reaction videos! I wanted to mention a documentary by Stacey Dooly. She's a British Documentary Creator, where she spends a weekend with the weird and wonderful to no surprise... she stayed with a British Mormon family. (Which I did not even know existed). She also stayed with a Trad-Wife, and Jordon, watching YOU rip her apart, would be so funny! Josh from @dadchallendpodact, covered a reaction video to one where she stayed with British Family Volggers. You guys are both amazing, keep it up. - not trying to have a say on your content, as I love whatever content topics you put out, so thank you - sending good vibes! PS. I am obviously British, and I take much amusement from other countries ripping us, and taking the piss out of us, plus it's interesting to find out others perspectives.

[@Agatharose457]

I’m in the US and I’ve been on a channel 4 binge lately. I cannot get over how much everyone over there knows about the US and how we know so little about what’s going on over there. Well other than what the royal family is doing and how we have no idea of what brexit is 😂😂😂

[@robynhale2340]

@Bat Mann.... no one here still knows what Brexit is. The people that voted for it, have likely passed away, in a home or away enjoying their retirement, so "us, youth" do not have anyone to pass on the knowledge on what the f*** it was all about and the reasoning behind the dumbest decision the UK has made in recent years...... This includes choosing Boris Johnson as Priminster 😂🙄 And yes, we are all obsessed with American politics and just all the madness. I think the being able to owns guns, and just the absurdity. (NOT SAYING BRITS ARENT JUST AS BIZARRE). But fuck me, the US documentaries I regularly watch, make my jaw hit the floor

[@queenmotherhane4374]

Check out the Zelph on a Shelf KZbin channel. One of the team is an England-born former Mormon. (She converted as a teen and noped out at 22.)

[@Sprklngglassslipper]

I have social anxiety, I don’t say hello to ANYONE I don’t know when I’m out and about. And when a person that I don’t know says hello to me, it makes me so ridiculously uncomfortable and feel unsafe. I don’t even grocery shop without headphone in (sometimes with sound playing, sometimes without, but always to send the message to please not talk to me). Also, I usually go on my exercise walks in either my shirt that says, “I’ve got 99 problems and the white-cis heteronormative patriarchy is basically all of them,” or my “Bobby Hill Self-Defense Dojo” shirt where Bobby is yelling, “That’s my purse! I don’t know you!” after kicking a guy in their privates. So she wouldn’t want to say hi to me either.

[@bri6064]

Just starting the video, but our newest Model Mormon better get the word “queers” out of their mouth (keyboard?), cuz they clearly don’t say or think of it with the same intentions as us actual members of the Queer/LGBT+ community…

[@sarahmckenzie769]

Me: wearing a t-shirt that says "I'd rather drink wine and pet my cat" while sitting in front of my laptop working on becoming a bad ass physician with my cat around my shoulders and my dog on my lap, drinking a glass of pinot noir... Also me: "I don't know that sounds pretty great to me" 😂😂😂

[@vc5213]

Can we also talk about how she refers to 20-something women as “young girls”?!?

[@cupcakesonrainydays]

The thing is Megan don't hold any background of special education to have a good solid workable opinion based on years of study and deep research in these topics she throws out in her podcasts or her ramblings in their channel's videos. Me, and I think the whole of the human race out there, have so many things on our minds while walking for exercise but if we pass Megan Knorp, heaven forbids us if we don't acknowledge her greeting or read her T-shirt. How self-absorbed can you be!! And this gives Megan Knorp the right to think that it's because of her stupid T-Shirt 👕. Meantime some of us goes in our minds..... Don't laugh now but here comes that lady with the crazy haircut trying to match her four boys! I try to be a good person but I can't stand this woman.

[@MichelleJacobcik]

As a teenager and young adult I lived in Utah and was harassed by the Mormons. Even though I was at a vulnerable place in my life, I was anot sucked into the lies because I saw the way women were treated in their "church", including my aunt and cousins.

[@KrystalPancakes]

Sorry I have been so behind! I have been dropping my baby at college while also working insane amounts of OT lately. Anyways, plan on bingeing y'all this weekend!! Sending LOVE!!! ♥♥♥

[@laurenlambert3201]

Little late to the party but I could listen to yall talk for DAYS

[@LynxieDove]

A Modern Woman is whomever she wants to be, even if that changes from day to day!

[@sebastianissocool]

As a man who holds a master's in women and gender studies, these two have convinced me better than any of the dozens of books I read that Feminism is Bad ™️ (Sarcasm)

[@sisuguillam5109]

😄 aren't you happy now? Tell me you are happy now? And do not forgett to greet everyone on your walk and to read every part of their clothing - or you will no longer be happy! 😉

[@tenny810]

Have you heard of the KZbin channel’ saints in the south’? Just watched a mini video called family home evening where they’re playing dodgeball and the oldest son hits a little girl as hard as he can. My childhood trauma just got triggered.

[@shelleyshelley6923]

I used to watch this family, but she got too weird. Aside from the whole Mormon thing, my theory is that she is closeted, and bi-polar. He is a Labrador, people pleaser. The poor kids are being dragged along as if their life is normal and right, especially the adopted kids who get treated worse than their bio kids. Is it wrong to want a whole heap of women to hit on her until she realises and dashes for freedom?

[@CritThinkng]

"It's not all about chasing after money and power..." "Like the church does?" 😲😆 Oh SNAP! I felt that burn all the way in NC... nice one 👍

[@butterfly_314]

I've I've never heard of this family but im sure ready to hear yalls opinions bc they're always good!! 🙌💜

[@BritStamey]

Had to comment because of her assertions about gender differences in kids. These assumptions directly played into why I wasn't diagnosed as autistic until I was an adult. My mom tried repeatedly to get a diagnosis for me as a kid and was turned away because I was a girl and verbal and social (even though I was just masking all that and acting like my peers to my constant exhaustion). The ableism in their video has me cringing. Thank y'all for bringing some sense and levity.

[@Saratrooper]

Lmaoooo, I raw-dog nature all the time while taking walks or trail walks; it gives my brain some quiet time to turn off and give it a break from overthinking literally everything. 😂

[@JordanandMcKay]

We are so estranged from silence that we are afraid of it.

[@Rodal0210]

funny how they attack employment, when neither of them are actually employed (refferring to the knorpps)

[@theartfuldodger5326]

My youngest daughter was shocked to learn that I could cook dinner! 🤣🤣 because as far as she knew, only daddy cooked!!

[@ohjonash]

“Just raw dogging nature” absolutely sent me 😂

[@adrianrainer2864]

It is always so telling when people refer to fully-grown adults as “young girls”. When she said she saw “young girls” on the trail I thought she was gonna say they were ages 9-12ish. Nope, early 20’s. Guarantee you had it been an early 20’s man she would never have said “young boy.”

[@JordanandMcKay]

Right??

[@AshatHome]

I actively avoid social interactions when I'm out because I have things to do. I was even more socially awkward as a 20 something. I am a feminist and also have a family who are my priority in life. I've seen a few of their thrifting videos but stopped watching because their family always seems to be "on" like faux happy all the time. I have teenagers and I know it is not normal for them to always be in the same mood.

[@zozo624]

Let's be completely honest here, her story was probably not real and she just wanted to share about how she's not a feminist. She and her hubby sat down one night and said "we should talk about feminism! but how?" and boom.