Jan 13, 2026
Ana Makes Pearl Davis FREEZE During Debate
Ana Kasparian debated feminism with Pearl Davis, and it didn't go well for Pearl.
- 23 minutes
I actually did feel bad for Pearl.
You know, you've won a debate
when you're debating
on whether feminism is a good or bad.
And your opponent says, oh yeah,
I'm the feminist than you.
- Okay, I guess the debate is over.
- Then are you just making things up?
No no, no. No. Yesterday.
[00:00:21]
Pearl, what are you doing?
Like, seriously?
Next question.
Yeah. Look, I did not do good at all.
[00:00:38]
I don't understand how this woman
was able to basically verbally abuse me
with no recourse.
Sorry, I shouldn't say abuse
with the woman in me.
Anna, you talk for a living.
It's kind of rich for you to come at me.
What?
Bitch! What do you do for a living?
[00:00:57]
Well, I, had these very special experience
of debating Hannah Pearl Davis
at word war debate.
And it was it was something.
Now, she froze up
for a few minutes at a time.
She didn't have any citations
to, you know, back up her claims.
[00:01:15]
She was a she was kind of curbstomp
if stomped, if you ask me.
But maybe I'm reading things inaccurately.
What are your thoughts?
Yeah. No you're not.
That's what every commenter is saying.
Every right wing commenter,
every left wing commenter.
Everybody's saying the same thing.
It was a bloodbath,
politically and ideologically.
[00:01:32]
And so, she said, you know, she was
verbally abusing me during the debate.
Yeah, that's what a debate kind of is,
isn't it?
Was she supposed to hand you flowers?
And so, look, I'll give her
the tiniest piece of credit on this.
She's was clear afterwards
that she took the L, right?
[00:01:50]
She got she got slaughtered
in that debate.
And.
But, Anna, my favorite was the post-debate
analysis when the first person said,
you'd have to be the R word
to think that Anna didn't win.
And then even the conservative guy
was like.
Don't give too much away.
[00:02:06]
- Don't give too much away, because.
- You're going to love that part.
- You're gonna love that part.
- Yeah.
Okay.
So, look, we don't have time
to get to all the highlights,
and I want to say something.
I had no intention initially to,
like, draw attention to this debate
[00:02:22]
after the debate happened.
Obviously, I promoted it beforehand,
but I actually did feel bad for Pearl,
and I just I'm not looking to, you know,
have our audience make fun of her.
I'm not looking to make fun of her
on the show like she lost the debate.
[00:02:38]
It was embarrassing enough
I was going to move on.
But immediately after she shook my hand,
said, good debate and she appeared
to be a good sport about it.
She then went on to mock my husband,
because I talked about how feminism
allowed me the economic freedom
to marry a man for love,
[00:02:55]
and not because I'm looking for someone
to financially take care of me.
I started calling him a loser
and all this nonsense and like just
tons of various posts on X and I'm like,
oh, you want to keep playing?
All right, I'm down to play.
And so here are some highlights
from the debate.
[00:03:14]
- Do you believe in alimony?
- I believe in alimony.
In specific cases where the woman decided
to forego having a career and working,
decided to stay home and raise the kids.
In those cases,
I believe she deserves alimony.
Yes, but that's a privilege.
[00:03:30]
You're ridiculous. Anyway, next.
Move on.
You said it's. You said it's ridiculous.
- It's ridiculous.
- A privilege to stay home.
With coming from a girl
who grew up in an affluent situation
with incredibly wealthy parents.
You don't know anything about struggling
economically or financially.
[00:03:51]
So to tell a single mother
who decided to stay home
and raise her children instead of work,
that she doesn't deserve a penny
to raise her kids after a divorce is
the most privileged piece of thing to say.
[00:04:07]
This is this.
This is the type of nagging
that drives men to suicide.
Good.
But I'm married and you're not. So next.
- Jesus Christ.
- So I want to be clear about something.
[00:04:23]
I didn't hear the part where she says
nagging that drives men to suicide.
So the suicide part I didn't hear,
but I said good to her
complaining about me nagging.
I mean, these people, this woman
is just she lives in la la land.
And the idea that women like,
because she promotes this whole notion
[00:04:41]
of the so-called tradwife,
you stay home and you raise the kids well,
you're putting yourself
at a significant economic risk
if that marriage doesn't work out.
So the argument that I'm making is,
yeah, alimony should be paid to mothers
who were stay at home mothers.
[00:04:57]
And if the divorce happens,
I mean, what are they supposed to do?
And her argument is,
oh, they should just go to work.
They should get a job.
They should get a job.
Okay.
So no responsibility,
no financial responsibility from the male
in the marriage or, you know,
now divorce in raising the children.
[00:05:14]
By the way, people think that alimony
is the outcome of divorce or something.
It's not even the outcome.
In 50% of divorces, only 10% of divorces
end with an alimony settlement.
You want to know why?
Because feminism allowed women
to be go getters, go out there, get a job,
[00:05:31]
start a career, and earn their own money.
So alimony doesn't make sense
if you're earning your own money
and you can take care of yourself.
But I was curious
about your thoughts on that.
Yeah.
So, look, the reason why it was such a
blowout, if you watch the whole thing
is because, of a couple of factors.
[00:05:46]
One was the obvious where you would state
facts and statistics and she'd go back to,
well, I ran into this, bro.
And that bro was really mad.
So I must be right.
That's not evidence, right?
And so there'd be a little long,
awkward silences.
[00:06:03]
She didn't know how to respond
when you asked her for facts.
So it was, like evident on its face.
And I think that the reason for that
is she's got this little niche.
Everybody now these days have their little
niches of and and in her case, and in
a lot of cases they're grievance niches.
[00:06:19]
Right.
So she does grievance content
for guys who are mad at women.
And if you're a woman doing that,
that's even better right.
Oh, you guys are right.
Women suck and x, Y and Z, right?
But she's not used to actually
going out in the real world
[00:06:35]
and having a conversation
from someone outside that niche.
And so when she runs into the real world
and runs into you,
that's running into a buzz saw.
She didn't expect, right?
Where everyone's
not validating her opinions.
So but the second part of it
is because You did a lot of research, and
[00:06:54]
it was obvious in the debate, and you had
looked into what she had said in the past.
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But she tells them not to get married.
But wait that's kind of against
the right wing talking points.
[00:08:16]
So she's then caught in a conundrum.
But it doesn't feel like she's
bright enough
to realize that she's in a conundrum.
And then.
And then you did it again when you talked
about, well, don't you want moms
to stay at home and take care of the kids?
That's the tradwife ideology.
[00:08:33]
But now you're saying if they did that
and their husband promised to take care
of them, if their husband gets a
new girlfriend and dumps him, and betrays
that core promise, she's saying, so what?
Wives, go get a job, figure it out,
create a new career out of nothing.
[00:08:50]
Look, I'm not saying that
that should never happen, but it's at odds
with her overall so-called philosophy.
So you put her in a box
she couldn't get out of
because her philosophy makes no sense.
And and it was exposed there.
[00:09:06]
That's why I think that it's so universal
in this case, not just left wing,
but every part of the political spectrum
was like, yeah, that was a slaughterhouse.
And so that's why she's so mad afterwards
and taking shots at you, taking shots
at your husband, as usual these days.
And talking about laying hands on you,
which then, ironically, would have
[00:09:24]
to lead you to some pearl clutching.
That's hilarious.
Now, look, the worst part, in my opinion,
of the debate for Pearl, of course,
was when she was supposed to interrogate
me like there were these interrogation
[00:09:41]
segments and, well, let's just say
it didn't go as planned for Pearl.
Let's take a look.
I get it, I get it.
Bring it on.
[00:09:56]
A little harder to debate someone
who's not an only fans girl, right?
- I. Never.
- I don't need to.
[00:10:11]
Not that I'm judging.
Do you think that men should have
the right to opt out of fatherhood,
since women have the right
to opt out of motherhood?
No. I put a condom on.
[00:10:29]
You don't want to have children,
put a condom on.
Or require him to wear a condom.
That's equal.
Yeah, that that choice
is equally irresponsible.
He's the one with the Johnson.
He gets to decide what he does with it.
[00:10:44]
I think I'm more of a feminist than you.
Sure.
Great. Congratulations.
[00:11:02]
This is the longest 30 minutes of my life.
It was. It was bad for her, obviously.
So in the beginning,
when you're interrogating her,
you got fact after fact, and she's got no
response other than I ran into a dude.
Right?
[00:11:17]
And then she's supposed
to interrogate you, and she's got nothing.
She had these things that she.
And the reason I mentioned OnlyFans is
because she's a bunch of OnlyFans girls,
and she she, like,
does this performative thing.
She finds someone who knows nothing
about politics and really hasn't thought
[00:11:34]
about politics ever.
Right.
And then she asked these questions like,
oh yeah, should the man have a right
to terminate the pregnancy?
And they're like, I don't know.
I've never thought about it.
When Annas thought about it, she's like,
oh yeah, that was a good answer.
I don't know what else to say.
Right. Like.
[00:11:49]
And then you, ironically, again,
you put her in a position
where you're kind of, you're pro-choice,
but you're arguing a position
that a lot of pro-life people agree with.
Right.
That and then she had to argue
against the pro-life position.
And, you know, you and the moderator
had to step in a bunch of times
[00:12:07]
because she just had she
literally wouldn't say anything.
So the moderator is like,
I guess I'll ask a question.
Right.
And then and then at the end, you know,
you've won a debate when you're debating
on whether feminism is a good or bad.
[00:12:22]
And your opponent says, oh, yeah,
I'm the bigger feminist than you.
Okay. I guess it debates over then.
So what's so ironic about all of this is,
look, I believe in equality.
I genuinely believe in equality.
I don't consider myself a feminist.
[00:12:37]
And in the debate, I explained why.
It's not because
I'm against women's rights, but because I
think that there have been some excesses,
that like came out of modern feminism
that are unfair and wrong.
You know, I give the example of,
you know, let's say the MeToo movement.
[00:12:56]
It started off with legitimate grievances,
of people who were actually being abused
and taken advantage of in the workplace.
And then it devolved into Aziz Ansari
being treated like a predator
just because he had a bad date.
You know what I mean?
So, like, I believe in equality.
[00:13:13]
I believe in women's rights,
but I also believe in men's rights.
I don't want men to be treated unfairly.
So it was like this weird,
topsy turvy world in which I'm the one on
the stage talking about the importance of
family values because she discourages men
from getting married.
And my argument is, no,
you absolutely should get married, right?
[00:13:30]
There's nothing better when you find
someone you want to build a life with.
Like she's giving these guys
such terrible advice that's going
to ensure that they're going to be lonely
and sad for the rest of their lives.
And I really hope
they don't take her seriously.
[00:13:45]
Now, when it came time for me
to interrogate, I did ask a question.
What was really fascinating
is how everyone reacted to it.
Because, remember, her whole shtick is,
oh, our judicial system.
The courts are so unfair to men,
so unfair, so unfair.
[00:14:03]
So I brought an example of the judicial
system being incredibly unfair to women.
And everyone thought,
no, this is the third rail.
Take a look.
Do you think it's fair
that all of the young women who were
preyed upon as minors by Jeffrey Epstein
are now experiencing yet another
[00:14:24]
administration engaging in a cover up?
Oh, no. No, no.
Or was it the female's fault for being
preyed upon by a disgusting pedophile?
- I'm just curious.
- What kind of question is that?
[00:14:41]
I think it's a pretty straightforward one
because you're talking about the
unfairness of our court system, especially
as it pertains as it pertains to divorces.
But we're talking about a guy who got a
sweetheart deal after raping minor girls.
[00:14:59]
And then even after that,
multiple administrations Democrat,
Republican doesn't matter,
engaged in a cover up, ensuring that those
victims would never get justice.
And this has to do with with this.
I mean, you want to talk about
the unfairness in the court system
[00:15:15]
and how terrible it is for men.
- What about how terrible it is for women.
- As an intelligence agent?
Look, that has nothing to do
with anything.
I think I think in fairness, you gotta
you gotta admit that's an anecdote, too,
in comparison to the overall statistic.
[00:15:32]
It's a pretty big anecdote.
Move off it, move off it, move off it.
Oh my God.
This is drawing attention
to Trump engaging in a cover up of the
Epstein files and the pedophilia involved.
Move off it, move off it, move off it
like it was hilarious.
That moment was so hilarious to me.
It really stood out.
[00:15:47]
- Jake, what do you think?
- Yeah.
Look, you could find 1 or 2 cases,
by the way, of the courts or laws being,
a little bit unfair to men
in some of the divorce cases, etc..
And there are those anecdotes.
And by the way,
our answer to that one is so simple.
[00:16:04]
And Anna said it during the debate too,
which is, okay, then let's fix those.
So you don't have to hate women
in order to fix those laws
that are not, perfectly fair.
If you found 1 or 2,
were very happy to fix them.
Right.
And so but the idea that overall,
like, men are getting screwed
[00:16:21]
by the US justice system, but women are
just flying through, you know, like every
time they go into court, they win.
Like single moms
can't stop winning in court, right?
Abused young girls to Anna's point.
Oh, my God, the courts just tripping
over themselves to help them.
[00:16:38]
No, no.
You know, we know
what the real issue with the courts are.
It's not about men or women.
It's about the powerful
versus the powerless.
The powerful can skate
through anything and kill people.
ET cetera. And get away with it.
And the powerless
are ground up by this system.
[00:16:54]
And then last thing for me,
before we get to the hilarious, awesome
post-debate analysis, is, look, these are
all words that people put meaning
into feminist, socialist, even MAGA.
[00:17:10]
Right?
So on, left and right. What is MAGA mean?
What is socialist mean?
Almost nobody ever defines it, right.
So what do we think?
Generally speaking, Anna and I were
relatively very similar on this topic.
Equality period. Not complicated.
[00:17:26]
Yes. Right.
Yes, yes.
We don't want men at a disadvantage.
We don't want women at a disadvantage.
We don't want anybody at a disadvantage.
Equal rights. Where's the question.
Exactly.
And the ideal situation where,
two totally fine parents.
[00:17:42]
They just didn't get along.
Irreconcilable differences.
Whatever the reason for their divorce,
as long as they're good parents.
I want the 50 over 50 custody.
Like the notion that, like,
oh, these devilish women,
they want the mom to have full custody,
and they want the man to be frozen out.
[00:17:59]
No, I don't want that.
I don't think that's good for the kids.
But she lives in this weird la la land
where she thinks women always get
everything they want and men get shafted.
And she also kind of fails to realize,
like, life is a lot more complicated.
[00:18:16]
It's not so black and white.
So you might have situations in which the
man is an alcoholic and he's very abusive,
like physically abusive with the kids.
Okay.
Then in that case,
you want 50 over 50 custody.
How does that make any sense?
It's not safe for the kids.
But anyway, let's move on to some of
the post-debate stuff, because things went
[00:18:34]
so poorly for Pearl that she apparently
considered physically assaulting me.
Let's take a look at that.
There was a point
where I did want to throw hands.
I'm not going to lie. She's like five one.
[00:18:55]
And I thought about it.
I thought about it. I'm like.
You can talk like this to men,
but I'm bigger than you.
I can body you. Do you know what I mean?
I'm like, yeah, I don't know.
She was a little ghetto, you know?
[00:19:14]
I know I was too polite.
I can't be a little ghetto.
I will, I will cosign on to that.
But I don't think I was
being ghetto on that stage.
I mean, she's the one
who's on camera right now
talking about wanting to throw hands.
Like what?
[00:19:29]
- Yeah.
- No, no, I mean, that irony is hilarious.
I wanted to body her.
I wanted to throw her hands.
She's being ghetto, If you say so, Pearl.
I know.
And by the way, she also admitted that the
event and audience was pretty much stacked
[00:19:47]
against me and to her advantage.
Let's just take a quick look at that, and
then we'll go to the post-debate analysis.
And the worst part was we
the crowd was the best crowd.
I talked to them before.
They're all so nice.
They're they're there to see me win
the majority of the crowd.
I talked to him before.
It was mostly there for me.
[00:20:05]
Or at least, like, rooting for me.
What do you think tonight is your your
best hope for swaying people in the crowd
who might not be on your side?
I don't have a lot of hope,
to be honest with you.
[00:20:22]
So that last part was me acknowledging
that, yeah, the like the audience
was very much on Pearl's side.
So I was kind of in a difficult spot
because I, number one,
don't consider myself a feminist.
And then number two,
everyone in the audience is on her side.
[00:20:37]
But let's see
how the analysts thought I did.
Take a look.
I think whatever opinion you have on
the topic, that was an absolute bloodbath.
I thought Pearl did great. I think.
She won.
But you know what I noticed
going on over there?
[00:20:53]
Anna doesn't have kids.
Pearl has a kid, and Anna was doing this,
like, masculine thing
where she was being really aggressive,
vociferous and attacking.
Pearl
and Pearl had this sort of, like, calm.
Why are we infantilizing Pearl?
Women who've given birth
are better than women who haven't given.
[00:21:09]
- Have a child.
- Anna is aping male characteristics.
She's getting super aggressive and
attacking like a weird little pit bull.
That's that's mimicking male behavior.
Everyone knows that that was painful.
And the reality is it sucks for parole.
You know, it's tough coming out here
and trying to be a debater.
[00:21:26]
She's taking on, let's face it,
one of the Michael Jordan's of debating.
- Yeah.
- Damn right.
- I love that comment, I loved it.
- Me too.
Undefeated. Okay, so.
[00:21:43]
By the way, Pearl.
Pearl doesn't have kids.
Like.
And it doesn't even matter.
Pearl doesn't have kids.
I don't have kids.
Whether you have kids or not
means nothing.
- Gavin McInnes is a clown.
- Oh, that was Gavin McInnes.
Oh, I didn't even recognize him.
Oh. That's hilarious.
[00:21:59]
So, look, my last comments
are about those guys.
You were Anna.
Yeah, I mean, she won, but only because
she was aping male characteristics.
Whatever gets you
through the night, brother.
Okay. And and the crowd part.
[00:22:17]
That's a really interesting point.
So this is an old trick.
And by the way, honestly,
we've packed crowds before too.
Not as a trick, but just like we said,
hey, we're going to Politicon.
And then a whole bunch of people
bought tickets.
And then once people saw us doing that,
Ben Shapiro then did it
when we were debating, and he packed
the crowd with like 90% of his guys.
[00:22:34]
But even so, when we got to money
in politics and he's like,
well, money in politics is great
and the politicians should take money
from Israel or whatever, right?
He didn't say Israel in that case.
Even his own crowd was like, boo.
No, not at all.
Right. But you did that on steroids here.
[00:22:51]
I mean, that crowd was in a lot of ways.
They just started applauding you
at some points.
By the way, Ben Shapiro
also did that trick at TP, USA.
So he knew that Tucker was going
to come on and he was going to come on.
So they packed up
totally pro-Israel crowd.
So every time he's like,
we should cancel them,
[00:23:06]
people are like, yes, cancel for Israel.
Yes.
Everybody else is like,
who are these bozos?
So it's an old trick.
In this case, it didn't work at all.
Well, you know, I don't really have time
to pack anything
except for, as my dad would say, my brain.
[00:23:24]
- I pack my brain.
- Okay, so.
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