It's 2021, and this is still one of my favorite videos ever. Jpmetz, if you see this, just know that support and loved you showed me back in 2011 has greatly influenced how I've lived my life since. I had been diagnosed with MS in 2011, and your videos really kept me going. I appreciate your existence. I miss you.
Today was my first day at college, I've been touchy this whole day and just finished bawling my eyes out because I talked to my parents. You, Justine, made me smile for the first time throughout this whole day. Thank you.
Mary Daly’s critique of “The Giving Tree” From her book “Gyn/Ecology” (Page 90) “Children’s books provide chilling evidence of mind control through dismembering myths. Fairy tales are particularly gruesome examples. An apparently genteel contemporary type of disguised mind-dismembering myth for children is exemplified in “The Giving Tree” by Shel Silverstein. It is the story of a tree-consistently referred to by the pronoun she-who gives absolutely everything she has to a boy. This begins innocently enough, with her shade, leaves and fruit. But the boy grows up and cuts off her branches and then her trunk. Finally in his old age, he uses her stump as a seat. “As a result of all this non-reciprocated giving, the tree is “happy.” The jacket blurb of this book, published in 1964 but still a big seller, describes it as “a tender story. . . a moving parable for readers of all ages.” “The story, in fact, is on of female rape and dismemberment. It draws upon sources in the Background of female identity, taking the Tree of Life-who is the Goddess-and making her a willing participant in her own mutilation which makes her “happy.” Her degradation is total, for the ”Giving Tree” wallows in self-destruction. Here is a model of masochism for female readers of all ages, and of sadism for boys of all ages. “This chilling children’s tale is an extension of Christian myth. It is a super-refined, invasive and deceptive offspring of self-satisfied secularists secure in their superiority to christian crudity. The saccharine sweet story of a little boy who “loves” a tree-a young Apollo who crowns himself with her leaves-has “healthier” appeal than overt S and M biblical tales of a dead godman crowned with thorns. Thus the post-christian (that is prechristian) parable has deceptive acceptability, extending its tentacles into unaware minds guiding them to a more primal Fatherland, inhabited by paradigms of patriarchal matricide. It thus brings its parental purchasers and readers into unwitting compliance with primary programming for Gynocide. “Whether or not the authors, illustrators, and promoters of such books “understand” that they are communicating gynocidal messages is beside the point. Since self-deception is of the essence of doublethink, they undoubtedly would respond with incredulity/amusement/indignation to such an analysis. For they themselves have been programmed not to recognize gynocidal reversals. “Within the massive public relations business of patriarchy, the promotion of rape and dismemberment has top priority, and it is essential that the promoters make the fact invisible to everyone, especially to themselves. As George Orwell wrote of his character, Winston Smith, in “1984” “For the first time, he perceived that if you want to keep a secret you must also hide it from yourself.”
Dogyphil Oh Oh Oh I have imagination i can come up with a story let's see Once upon a time there was a lonely tree girl named ******* and she loved a human boy named *******and *******would always give her a rose and he would open his heart to *******and expressed how he felt about her and *******was so happy and they spent a great amount of time together but when *******left for the night *******was sad and lonely and cold but whenever he came back to see her again she was so happy and she was filled with joy that she at last was able to see her human crush again.
my 8th grade math teacher read that book in the middle of class one day. he got so into the story that he started crying because the book was "so beautiful and inspiring". that was five years ago and i don't even go to that school anymore, but i'm considering breaking into his classroom just to carve "JPMETZ" into his desk.
I watch your storybook review videos everynight to listen to your soothing voice to put me to sleep. So far it's been more successful than Ambien and every other sleeping pill narcotic. Congrats.
I was too scared to sleep after seeing the guy's face on the back of the book, and the only way I could calm myself was thinking of the sound of your beautiful voice and the glitter of your eyes!
During the process of taking a nap, i found myself lost in a very beautiful world. I was walking through a meadow of flowers, mostly roses and tulips (Similar to the appearanece and probable smell of Jpmetz.) I found a beautifully crafted marble sculpture of her....frowning. When i got home i modified my room so that only the statue and my bed could fit in there (Like any true jpmetz fan would). As you can see this was the best thing that could have happened that night. *sighs*
I watched your "Whats in my purse video," and saw you pull bronzer out of your purse. And once I saw that, something happened. For the first time, for a split second, I was actually proud to be from New Jersey.
Jpmetz you are one of the best satirists on youtube. I was thinking the exact same thing about the author portrait. I remember seeing that as a kid and being like "WTF!?"
It's a children's book! You can disect any story, song or film like that and the result is always the same - you sound like an unimaginative robot. I don't know what I'm more glad of - not thinking the way you do, or loving this book.
Dearest jpmetz, Your greatness and general disdain for children makes me not feel as bad for booing loudly everytime I see someone with a stroller in the street.
i have been watching your videos so much that i have started acting like you unintentionally. My friends think i have turned into a mean person, but they don't understand. Jpmetz-yness is next to godliness
Your quotes from the book: "The boy loves the tree.." "The boy talks to the tree..." Throughout the story the boy repeatedly "re-visits the tree" and blames it for all of HIS failures in life. This book is most certainly a metaphor for how one boys love of "tree" ruined his life... now lets all sing along "PUFF-THE-MAGIC-DRAAGON!"
No wonder why the world is screwed up if people can't tell when someone is being sarcastic the world is doomed
It's 2021, and this is still one of my favorite videos ever.
Jpmetz, if you see this, just know that support and loved you showed me back in 2011 has greatly influenced how I've lived my life since. I had been diagnosed with MS in 2011, and your videos really kept me going. I appreciate your existence. I miss you.
Today was my first day at college, I've been touchy this whole day and just finished bawling my eyes out because I talked to my parents. You, Justine, made me smile for the first time throughout this whole day. Thank you.
Who’s still watching in 2021
This will always be my favorite video I think ever
Mary Daly’s critique of “The Giving Tree”
From her book “Gyn/Ecology” (Page 90)
“Children’s books provide chilling evidence of mind control through dismembering myths. Fairy tales are particularly gruesome examples. An apparently genteel contemporary type of disguised mind-dismembering myth for children is exemplified in “The Giving Tree” by Shel Silverstein. It is the story of a tree-consistently referred to by the pronoun she-who gives absolutely everything she has to a boy. This begins innocently enough, with her shade, leaves and fruit. But the boy grows up and cuts off her branches and then her trunk. Finally in his old age, he uses her stump as a seat.
“As a result of all this non-reciprocated giving, the tree is “happy.” The jacket blurb of this book, published in 1964 but still a big seller, describes it as “a tender story. . . a moving parable for readers of all ages.”
“The story, in fact, is on of female rape and dismemberment. It draws upon sources in the Background of female identity, taking the Tree of Life-who is the Goddess-and making her a willing participant in her own mutilation which makes her “happy.” Her degradation is total, for the ”Giving Tree” wallows in self-destruction. Here is a model of masochism for female readers of all ages, and of sadism for boys of all ages.
“This chilling children’s tale is an extension of Christian myth. It is a super-refined, invasive and deceptive offspring of self-satisfied secularists secure in their superiority to christian crudity. The saccharine sweet story of a little boy who “loves” a tree-a young Apollo who crowns himself with her leaves-has “healthier” appeal than overt S and M biblical tales of a dead godman crowned with thorns. Thus the post-christian (that is prechristian) parable has deceptive acceptability, extending its tentacles into unaware minds guiding them to a more primal Fatherland, inhabited by paradigms of patriarchal matricide. It thus brings its parental purchasers and readers into unwitting compliance with primary programming for Gynocide.
“Whether or not the authors, illustrators, and promoters of such books “understand” that they are communicating gynocidal messages is beside the point. Since self-deception is of the essence of doublethink, they undoubtedly would respond with incredulity/amusement/indignation to such an analysis. For they themselves have been programmed not to recognize gynocidal reversals.
“Within the massive public relations business of patriarchy, the promotion of rape and dismemberment has top priority, and it is essential that the promoters make the fact invisible to everyone, especially to themselves. As George Orwell wrote of his character, Winston Smith, in “1984” “For the first time, he perceived that if you want to keep a secret you must also hide it from yourself.”
thank you that was very interesting.
i love how she just tears down every bit of beauty with her negativity so beautifully!
This woman seems about as close minded as a dead hamster. There's a magical word called "Imagination," but I don't think she has it.
I forgot I made this comment. "Closed minded as a dead hamster," what the hell does that even mean lol
lol
Dogyphil Oh Oh Oh I have imagination i can come up with a story let's see
Once upon a time there was a lonely tree girl named ******* and she loved a human boy named *******and *******would always give her a rose and he would open his heart to *******and expressed how he felt about her and *******was so happy and they spent a great amount of time together but when *******left for the night *******was sad and lonely and cold but whenever he came back to see her again she was so happy and she was filled with joy that she at last was able to see her human crush again.
my 8th grade math teacher read that book in the middle of class one day. he got so into the story that he started crying because the book was "so beautiful and inspiring". that was five years ago and i don't even go to that school anymore, but i'm considering breaking into his classroom just to carve "JPMETZ" into his desk.
No, it's a beautiful book.
A tree really isnt an inanimate object. It grows, it breaths, it responds, it dies.
I've stopped living life. I now live JPMETZ and it's pure perfection.
When I have nothing to listen too, I listen to JPMETZ, because her voice is the most beautiful song in the world
Today is my birthday, and all I wished for was to see jpmetz's beautiful face and hear her tear another children's book to shreds.
I dropped out of school to watch jpmetz all day, I learn much more from her.
I watch your storybook review videos everynight to listen to your soothing voice to put me to sleep. So far it's been more successful than Ambien and every other sleeping pill narcotic. Congrats.
I've learned more from Jpmetz in my lifetime than my parent has taught me.
I watched this instead of doing my homework. JPMETZ IS MY EDUCATION.
i love watching your videos so much, i'm willing to wait until the commercial is over.
I was too scared to sleep after seeing the guy's face on the back of the book, and the only way I could calm myself was thinking of the sound of your beautiful voice and the glitter of your eyes!
I wish I'd had someone like jpmetz to read me books when I was little. I'm sure life would make much more sense.
This is still one of my favorite videos on the internet
During the process of taking a nap, i found myself lost in a very beautiful world. I was walking through a meadow of flowers, mostly roses and tulips (Similar to the appearanece and probable smell of Jpmetz.) I found a beautifully crafted marble sculpture of her....frowning. When i got home i modified my room so that only the statue and my bed could fit in there (Like any true jpmetz fan would). As you can see this was the best thing that could have happened that night.
*sighs*
Laptop=600 dollars
Internet=30 dollars
Seeing JPMETZ on RUclips=Priceless
Thank you so much for uploading a video. I've missed your melodious voice, sparkling eyes, and can do attitude.
jpmetz's face should be on the cover of all child books,it would make the world a better place.
Just looking at Jpmetz talk makes me feel loved. :)
JPMetz is so amazing, whenever she walks in a room, she brings her own epic background music.
Im glad we still have people like you with common sense on this earth
Who needs a home and a wife and a boat when you have a JPmetz video?
This is still one of my favorite videos
Even trees fall in love with JPMETZ.
I paused this video before it started, just to prepare for the wave of awesomeness that is guaranteed to hit me.
this video crushed my soul, but no one could of done it in a more beautiful way.....
I’m late but I used to have nightmares every night cause of this guy
i have a giving tree in my back yard and he gave me the best thing ever, a new jpmetz video :D
i had to wait 25 minutes for this video to load...it was worth it.
Jpmetz doesn't need a dislike button on her videos.
i'm in love.
Lmao how random to run into Tyler Oakley
What even is that decor to the left holy shit it looks like spikes coming from the ground that's brutal as fuck
watching your videos after a long, sad day is like drinking hot cocoa on a cold winter night; perfect.
I'm dependent on jpmetz videos. I just keep coming back for more. : )
I watched your "Whats in my purse video," and saw you pull bronzer out of your purse.
And once I saw that, something happened.
For the first time, for a split second, I was actually proud to be from New Jersey.
Jpmetz you are one of the best satirists on youtube. I was thinking the exact same thing about the author portrait. I remember seeing that as a kid and being like "WTF!?"
jpmetz is worth so much more than a talking tree.
when my internet went out i was suffering from withdrawal of jpmetz. :)
Damn, I did this exact video a couple months ago, then Justine comes along and makes it so much better. Why you gotta be so good at this stuff?
Originally I loved The Giving Tree but jpmetz has opened my eyes.
"was written by this guy which is just terrifying i'm sorry." I DIED.
This video made my entire day.
Idk y but this had me laughing SO HARD the first time I watched it XD hahaha
My math teacher seriously looks just like you. Math has never been more fun.
I watched the greatest book revier ever at 12:01 in the morning...my day has already fulfilled its purpose.
24 people clearly cannot comprehend the definition of amazing....
I don't care that you ruined the book for me, you entertained me with this video SOOO much more than the book ever did.
This was always my favorite book, now I am rethinking it, I have rethought many of my life choices after watching your videos.
19 people fail to see jpmetz' beauty
........
shame on them!
I wish I had you as a mom so that while growing up I could hear bedtime stories like THIS
one day i saw a jpmetz video, the next day i quit smoking.
JPMETZ doesn't make my world go 'round. She makes THE world go 'round. Wait, hell no. She spins the planets around the sun.
When a child can understand this book more than people like you says more about you than you think
You brighten my friggin day the hell.
This video randomly appeared in my sub box.
BEST. RANDOM. EVENT. EVER.
She's sooooo eeeeeeviilllll! I couldn't stop laughing, that is until she said "trees are inanimate objects." My cheeks hurt.
I think jpmetz's words just impregneted me.
I wrote the word "jpmetz" on my history test and got an A+.
It's a children's book! You can disect any story, song or film like that and the result is always the same - you sound like an unimaginative robot. I don't know what I'm more glad of - not thinking the way you do, or loving this book.
I showed this to my grandmother.
After the video ended, she asked,
'Is she a celebrity?'
(true story....)
I wish there was a JPMetz tree that would grow JPMetz videos.
Write your own childrens book Jpmetz, one that is realistic and awesome.
I'm usually a really lazy person but i actually created an account just to subscribe to jpmetz. This is my first youtube account ever.
Dearest jpmetz, Your greatness and general disdain for children makes me not feel as bad for booing loudly everytime I see someone with a stroller in the street.
This is my favorite/most amusing video I've ever seen.
must buy shirt. must save puppy. must love JPMETZ.
this is your best ever video
i dont know why it doesnt have as many views as the others i really dont
while watching jpmetz, my dog started to bark.
it no longer can bark. or pass anything down it's throat.
stunning, classy, elegant, etc
Forget Geico, I saved money on my car insurance by switch to JPMETZ.
I learned about my parents divorce on friday.
But after watching your videos I feel better.
Maybe my mom will marry someone like you.
aww dont diss SHEL SIVERSTEIN!! he was the man who kept my childhood ALIVE! lol
there is no such thing as the giving tree... only "the amazing JPMetz" by JPMETZ!!!
i have been watching your videos so much that i have started acting like you unintentionally. My friends think i have turned into a mean person, but they don't understand. Jpmetz-yness is next to godliness
OMG I was so wishing for one of your vids today. My wish came true, and it's better than I had imagined.
you just saved me from being groggy all day after taking 2 ambiens.
5minutes is not nearly enough JPmetz time in my day ::frown::
If everyone had the same sense of humor as JPMETZ, the world would be too funny, and everyone would die.
The end.
Justine, you should do this for a living. You always get it!
I saw a girl that looked like you the other day. I nearly died of happiness.
@EntrailSaunders
Jpmetz didn't ruin your childhood, your childhood ruined you for not liking jpmetz
''thats plenty of timber to make a house with, are you kidding me?'' LMAO this video is to funny.
Your quotes from the book: "The boy loves the tree.." "The boy talks to the tree..." Throughout the story the boy repeatedly "re-visits the tree" and blames it for all of HIS failures in life. This book is most certainly a metaphor for how one boys love of "tree" ruined his life... now lets all sing along "PUFF-THE-MAGIC-DRAAGON!"
"What's he gonna' make, a TIPI?!"
I laughed. So hard.
I would be all for a jpmetz "Book of the Month" club.
i don't think i would laugh this hard if someone else made this video.
I don't want anyone sitting on my face lol
WOOPS! I just went and slipped my mouse onto your ads again.
This lady is like grumpy cat in real life! :)
XD yes
If I were a tree, JPMetz, you could chop me down, burn me, and punch my trunk. I would give you everything.
They should have put a picture of jpmetz on the cover of the book. That would have made it instantly perfect.
when all else fails, men and boys always return to their wood for comfort.