I've Had It With "I've Had It"

I started listening to the podcast "I've Had It" hosted by Oklahomans Jennifer Welch (right) and Angie Sullivan, known for comedically complaining about petty grievances, because the two women were beginning to skewer Trump.  And their observations about Trump are pretty spot-on.  But some of their other political grievances smack of moral superiority  and misandry.

Misandry?  Well, it's not because Welch, an interior designer, constantly airs her husband's faults in public to a fault in and of itself.  It's because the two of them can't seem to find much nice to say about the male sex.  After they rightly lampoon toxic masculinity and dismiss "alpha males" for having too much testosterone, they then ridicule "beta males" for not having enough of it.  What other males are left?

I think it was their constant needling of the Roman Catholic Church, which I just began recommitting myself to.  Sullivan, a lawyer who was raised evangelical but has since dissociated herself from her church, and Welch routinely go after evangelicals for their obvious hypocrisy and sexism, and I'm sure they celebrated James Dobson's death (as did I; I celebrated by cackling).   But they have an animosity toward Catholicism that is unpalatably smug.  When Welch, an atheist, begins a podcast video with the sentence "We're no fans of the Catholics," it's obvious that I've Had It is a party to which Catholics are not invited.  Welch also dismissed Pope Leo XIV despite his anti-war stance, his concern for artificial intelligence, and his contempt for Trump because - big surprise - he's against abortion.  The pope is against abortion, gee, who'd have thought.  I understand that Welch is pro-choice, and that's fine, and you can be personally against abortion while being in favor of a woman's right to decide to have one, but many Catholics are in fact against abortion while still being pro-choice, because they understand that Roman Catholicism is not the state religion and they shouldn't impose their beliefs on others.  In other words, Welch has contempt for anyone who's even personally against abortion, and that includes the pope.

Welch and Sullivan are only a few podcasts away from defending the similarly patriarchal Islamic faith to show how "tolerant" they are. 

Welch and Sullivan are no more than self-righteous progressive purists (with Okie accents), and no one likes a purist.  It was because of that smug self-righteousness.  And that's why I stopped listening to them.  I've had it with "I've Had It."