Pearl - November 12, 2025


Dailywire Has Declared War On The Redpill

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divorce debate sexlessness in marriage divorce rate estimates
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L. Matt Walsh Brad Wilcox Pierce Brosnan Hillary Crowder Michael Knowles Steven Crowder Jeremy Boring Pearl Davis Ben Shapiro Peter Welling Andrew Branca James Bond Tradcon TradCon Keeley Vegas
Ben Shapiro Is More Triggered Than Modern Women Modern Women Describe What Their Perfect Man Is

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Brad Wilcox is a dishonest marriage propagandist with a stupid haircut who works at the Institute for Family Studies. He thinks that women should marry younger, have more kids, and have as many kids as possible. He also thinks that divorce rates are higher than they actually are.

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00:00:00.000 Now, one of these influencers is a woman named Pearl Davis, who has garnered a relatively large 1.00
00:00:03.920 following on YouTube and various social media platforms. She's in her mid-20s, single and
00:00:08.340 childless, and yet full of opinions about modern marriage and family life, a subject that she has
00:00:13.600 no personal insight into whatsoever. But I'll see guys that take you guys' advice,
00:00:19.680 and sometimes, you know, it ruins their life. What would men do if they begged you for advice?
00:00:24.980 Again, I'm not in the business of telling men what to do, you know. But I think you kind of are.
00:00:29.340 Well, what percent of women do you think are marriageable? 1.00
00:00:31.760 I think you're screwing the issue.
00:00:33.240 I mean, again, I know you don't like to use personal examples. You kind of make these broad
00:00:37.800 brush generalizations. But, you know, there absolutely are statistically many people getting
00:00:43.280 married. There are millions of married people in this country. So I don't know where you're going 0.99
00:00:47.840 with the point.
00:00:48.880 Now, a couple of the things that I want to make sure I mention. If you're a young person here
00:00:52.520 and you say, boy, you know, what do I want to do for my life? Honestly, you should get married as
00:00:58.100 young as possible and have as many kids as possible. Period. Reject the siren song of
00:01:06.240 modernity.
00:01:07.220 Yeah, get married and have a ton of kids. I mean, get married when you're too young,
00:01:10.880 have more kids than you can afford, take a job you're not qualified for, live boldly,
00:01:14.900 stop getting high, stop doing anything that blurs your vision or makes time go faster.
00:01:19.780 You're going to die before you know it.
00:01:21.060 So I was on X the other day when I noticed a post about me made by Brad Wilcox, 1.00
00:01:25.900 a dishonest marriage propagandist with a stupid haircut who works at the heavily biased Institute 0.99
00:01:31.500 for Family Studies. The post read, no, the divorce rate is not 75%, pearly things. It's not even 50%, 1.00
00:01:38.640 as Matt Walsh notes here. And there's a screen cap of the Walsh video. Wilcox continues,
00:01:43.660 it's about 40% according to the latest Family Studies estimate. Wow, he really called me out,
00:01:49.380 didn't he? Except I have never claimed that the divorce rate was 75%, as Matt Walsh specifies in
00:01:55.440 the exact same video. Would you ever sign a contract that fails 75% of the time where your business
00:02:00.520 partner is paid to break the contract? Why would you encourage men to sign that contract until the
00:02:05.140 terms are fixed? Now, you may be surprised to learn that marriages fail at a rate of 75%.
00:02:10.100 Either Brad Wilcox didn't actually watch the video, or he's being deliberately dishonest in
00:02:15.980 an attempt to deceive the public, which as a full-time marriage hustler would not be the first
00:02:20.820 time. In fact, deceiving is what he does to young men almost every single day of his life.
00:02:26.020 Anyways, Brad Wilcox was dead wrong about his facts, as per usual, and so I was tempted to just
00:02:31.700 brush it off. But the post intrigued me. Sure, Brad Wilcox was insufferably smug. That's nothing new.
00:02:37.300 You get used to it. Tradcon advocates can't help themselves. They have to pretend like they've got
00:02:41.680 life all figured out. Then you find out they're secretly gay or addicted to cuck porn, or you catch 1.00
00:02:46.800 them sneaking off to Vegas to have some transformer prostitute to mess around with. But what intrigued 1.00
00:02:52.840 me about this post is that Matt Walsh's video, Attacking Me and Others Who Recommended Caution to
00:02:58.600 Young Men About Marriage, it originally came out two years ago. I looked and I saw that Matt Walsh
00:03:03.940 recently reposted the video to his YouTube channel for some reason. I assume it's in response to my
00:03:09.800 recent essay video called How Conservatives Trick You Into Marrying Modern Women, which I tore tradcons a
00:03:15.980 new one, exposed their motives for deceiving young men, and unpacked some of the misleading statistics
00:03:20.900 and arguments they used to do so. Or maybe it has nothing to do with me at all. Maybe Matt is just
00:03:26.040 regurgitating old content because he knows he peaked after the one-trick pony move of repeatedly asking 0.70
00:03:32.460 mentally ill libtards what a woman is. Or maybe Matt's wife's boyfriend won't let him use the 1.00
00:03:37.940 computer unsupervised anymore. I don't know. But Brad Wilcox's post and Matt Walsh's video did get
00:03:43.900 me thinking about the business of marriage pimping and convincing young men to walk blindly into the
00:03:49.820 worst deal they could ever take in their lives. Wilcox is referencing an ex-post I made in 2023,
00:03:56.180 shaming the Daily Wire's leading idiot Jeremy Boring for pushing men towards marriage. Despite the 0.90
00:04:00.800 potentially devastating consequences to their lives, finances, and mental health, instead of
00:04:05.400 campaigning vigorously for divorce court reform. This was part of a blizzard of tweets that were
00:04:11.320 sent back and forth between the Daily Wire staff and me and others over the course of several days
00:04:15.800 that, quite frankly, had the simps of the Daily Wire taking a huge L. Matt Walsh then attempted to
00:04:20.960 leap to the rescue to do a characteristically condescending video without much substance on the
00:04:25.900 subject. He picked one tweet out of several dozen of mine where I said, the virtue signaling needs to
00:04:31.800 stop. For an organization that talks about facts, let's ask the question, would you ever sign a
00:04:37.400 contract that fails 75% of the time and where your business partner is paid to break the contract?
00:04:42.920 Why would you encourage men to sign that contract until the terms are fixed? Would you ever sign a
00:04:48.580 contract that fails 75% of the time where your business partner is paid to break the contract? This
00:04:53.980 debate on social media brought out the rest of the marriage skeptical crowd on the right. A bunch of
00:04:58.200 these red pill influencers decided to hop on an emergency Zoom call and spend two hours talking
00:05:04.320 about me and the rest of the Daily Wire crew and our reckless promotion of society's most fundamental
00:05:09.360 institution. Note that I did not say marriages end in divorce 75% of the time. I said they fail 75%
00:05:17.260 of the time. That figure is based on rough estimates provided to me by attorney Andrew Branca of the
00:05:23.280 numbers of marriages where people stay together despite one or both of them being miserable.
00:05:27.900 Matt Walsh clarifies this in his video before the three minute mark. It's not 50-50. That only
00:05:32.360 accounts for divorces. Another 25% on the negative side for miserable men trapped and cheaper to keep
00:05:38.580 her marriages unwilling to risk financial destruction and loss of their children. 75% chance of a devastatingly
00:05:45.080 bad outcome is just a bad plan. No sane person would enter into a commercial contract on such terms.
00:05:51.400 Which makes me wonder if Brad Wilcox's employers at UVA know that he is bad at basic research.
00:05:57.920 Now 75% of marriages either ending in divorce or unhappiness is an extremely crude figure that I used
00:06:04.720 in one tweet amongst dozens over the course of a pretty intense multi-day debate. In reality it's
00:06:10.100 interesting though. It's pretty difficult to form a clear idea of how many marriages that stay together
00:06:15.020 are happy or miserable. First of all you cannot trust self-reporting. People trapped in loveless
00:06:20.960 marriages are prone to lie to keep up appearances. And even if they are asked privately and anonymously
00:06:27.400 they also might be lying to themselves. After all happy in your marriage well relative to what?
00:06:33.980 Lying dead in a ditch?
00:06:34.980 Religious people like Matt Walsh and Brad Wilcox are also likely to exaggerate the health of their
00:06:54.320 marriages because they've got that extra pressure to show off how wonderful their lives are in order
00:07:01.500 to make converts. And if they admitted trouble well they might face the stigma of their own church
00:07:08.020 congregation. So you can't go by first-hand testimonials. Instead you've got to look at
00:07:12.800 external signs of unhappiness which is not easy to do. Sexlessness in marriage is one option.
00:07:18.820 According to a 2022 data aggregation from sources like the General Social Survey and the Kinsney
00:07:24.820 Institute about one-third of long-term marriages are sexless. But this number does fluctuate from study
00:07:30.780 to study. Some sexlessness is a function of age. Sometimes a married person who reports no sex in
00:07:36.240 the past year at the time of the survey can resume sex with their spouse afterwards. Another
00:07:40.820 comprehensive study of 18,000 adults published in 2017 in the academic journal Archives of Sexual
00:07:47.200 Behavior estimated that sexlessness in marriage is about 16%. As far as I can tell from various studies
00:07:53.880 on the subject, 16% rests closer to those having zero sexual encounters per year. Whereas the larger
00:08:00.500 number, 33%, is a better representation of couples who have 10 sexual encounters or less per year.
00:08:07.220 That's less than one a month. But regardless of whether you call it one-third or one-sixth,
00:08:11.840 after subtracting the 40 to 45% of marriages that end up in divorce, it already places the number of
00:08:17.920 modern marriages that are happy in the minority. Not all marriages are sexless because of age,
00:08:22.480 of course. Viagra is a thing. And most of these studies set age limits as to not let physical
00:08:28.220 infirmity skew the data. Instead, sometimes sexlessness results from young or middle-aged wives 0.99
00:08:34.260 sexually rejecting their husband, which has disastrous effects on a man's mental health and
00:08:39.800 self-esteem. I am in the midst of a 24-year sexless relationship with a woman that I'm deeply, deeply
00:08:47.840 in love with. The crux of the question is whether she can't address this issue or she won't. That's not a
00:08:56.280 question I can answer, brother. When you've asked her that question, what does she say? It's not that we have
00:09:00.220 not discussed this, but she continually asks for space and she needs time. Yeah, you gave her a quarter century. 0.96
00:09:05.500 Yeah. She's probably going to leave you. Um, if it's been 10 though, she probably already left. 0.94
00:09:16.280 It's pretty cruel when you think about it. Men don't ask for much in marriage and yet they strive
00:09:20.760 to provide quite a bit. But the lack of reciprocity from modern women in relationships should not come 0.99
00:09:27.300 as a surprise to anyone who's been watching this channel. Other wives grow morbidly obese and repulsive 1.00
00:09:32.140 after marriage resulting in sexlessness. If you got married and gained weight after, I want you to 0.89
00:09:37.020 raise your hand. I need a count of hands, please.
00:09:52.180 Perhaps you might even hear the stitches tear on the wedding dress on the way back down the aisle.
00:09:57.300 Sometimes women wield sex like a weapon using it to coerce their husbands or torment them. 1.00
00:10:01.680 There's a lot of ugly ways sexlessness can emerge in a marriage. And I think it's fair to call those
00:10:06.340 toxic ones, whatever percentage that may compromise utter failures. Another external sign of a marriage
00:10:12.540 failing one might look for is the percentage of couples who go to marriage counselors or God forbid
00:10:17.540 the left-wing crazies who call themselves sex therapists. According to a 2023 study of 1,106 U.S.
00:10:25.820 adults, 37% of couples have sought counseling at some point. Other studies place the stat
00:10:31.520 even higher at 40 or 50%. But I don't find them credible since they were either conducted by
00:10:36.960 marriage counselors or specialists closely affiliated with them. Essentially, they're
00:10:41.520 advertising and trying to normalize the practice. And also, for the sake of fairness, we'll go with
00:10:46.320 the lower figure of 37%. Meanwhile, in 2020, Kinsey Institute data revealed that 5 to 10% of couples
00:10:53.180 have gone to some kind of sex therapy. The number potentially adds up to nearly half again, 42 to
00:11:00.380 47%. The problem with using counseling or therapy as an indicator for troubled marriages is that if
00:11:06.460 you're already in counseling or sex therapy, you're pretty much divorced already. But a 2018 article by
00:11:12.460 divorce attorney Peter Van Alen indicates that 38% of people who seek such help wind up divorced. That
00:11:19.580 leaves the remaining 26 to 29% of all married couples who had sought counseling had stayed together.
00:11:26.220 And there is a problem that we don't know. We don't know if the counseling helped them turn the
00:11:30.060 corner and be happy or how many of those married couples just gritted their teeth and endured an
00:11:35.340 unhappy union. But one thing is clear. The fact that nearly one third of people who stayed married
00:11:40.360 needed counseling in the first place indicates that even if as a man you manage to avoid divorce,
00:11:45.860 there's still a big chance your marriage is not going to be a happy one. And let's face it,
00:11:51.220 which spouse is the one usually that demands counseling? Usually it's the wife. Another 1.00
00:11:56.160 external sign of an unhappy marriage might be how often couples argue. A 2022 YouGov poll asked people
00:12:03.720 how often they have serious arguments with their partner. 8% reported having serious arguments daily.
00:12:09.820 30% argued at least once a week and 28% argued at least once a month. 32% argued at least
00:12:15.860 once a year and 2% claimed they never argued. The last group is otherwise known as bold-faced liars. 0.83
00:12:23.020 Now, none of this is definitive, but it helps you understand attorney Branca's rough estimate that
00:12:27.900 only 25% of marriages are happy ones, while the remaining 75% end up in divorce or some kind of
00:12:34.100 cheaper-to-keeper daily health. And as always with these statistics, I encourage young men to be
00:12:38.740 cautious when approaching the idea of marriage rather than pushing you into it like a shameless
00:12:43.080 marriage propagandist like Matt Walsh and Brad Wilcox do. If anything, their position just shows
00:12:48.300 they don't really give a damn about you or what might happen to you. They're perfectly happy to
00:12:52.680 sacrifice you for their ideal. Walsh and Wilcox are the same sort of conservatives who a couple
00:12:58.100 generations ago would have happily sent young men off to Vietnam to die while they sat comfortably at 1.00
00:13:03.360 home. But at any rate, if you do meet a decent girl and you want to roll the dice, for the love
00:13:07.260 of God, please get a prenup and get it well in advance of the wedding and have witnesses or text
00:13:12.340 evidence to as much of these discussions as humanly possible. So she can't later claim to a judge that
00:13:18.520 she felt coerced. So no, contrary to Brad Wilcox's ignorant statement or outright lie, I did not claim
00:13:23.980 the divorce rate was 75%. Interestingly, Wilcox cites a divorce rate of 40%. In my previous video on the
00:13:31.060 subject, I ran with an estimate of 40 to 45%. It used to be 50 to 55%. In the first two decades following
00:13:39.260 the introduction of no fault divorce. And of course, the marriage rate has been cut in half since then.
00:13:44.460 Meanwhile, Matt Walsh in his video ignores plenty of credible estimates and good work done on divorce
00:13:50.140 rate to simply use the raw census data to claim the divorce rate is 35%. Probably our best guess is based on
00:13:57.300 U.S. census data, which according to the most recent figures says that about 35% of American
00:14:02.820 adults who have been married have been divorced. I've covered how trad cons sometimes like to low
00:14:07.600 ball the divorce rate in my video, how conservatives trick you into marrying modern women. Sometimes
00:14:12.480 they even have the nerve to drop it below 30%. In the same video, I debunked the claim the Daily Wire
00:14:17.660 likes to make that being religious reduces your chance of divorce to single digits. That is yet another lie.
00:14:23.440 In his video, Matt Walsh deliberately misconstrues another tweet of mine, in which I pointed out how
00:14:28.720 Walsh, Ben Shapiro, and Michael Knowles are still in their 30s at this time, which is a pretty young
00:14:33.560 age to be preaching to the public about the keys to a happy marriage. In one of her tweets, she wrote,
00:14:38.760 quote, the trad cons push marriage because they aren't old enough to know better. They don't know the 0.86
00:14:42.580 reality of what they're pushing. This is accompanied by a picture of myself, Ben Shapiro, Michael Knowles.
00:14:46.740 We aren't old enough to know better and don't know the reality of what we're pushing. Yet a woman who is 0.97
00:14:51.240 younger than us and single does know better and does understand this reality. Which Walsh goes on
00:14:56.400 to do multiple times in the same video. My point was that these three young guys might not even know
00:15:02.080 what they're advocating for until the ugly divorce happens to one of them. I personally don't find it
00:15:07.960 so easy to hand wave the absolute horror stories I've heard of men having to live their lives
00:15:12.820 devastated in divorce court. And need I point out what happened to Steven Crowder, about whom the Daily
00:15:18.340 Wire at the time maliciously pushed the falsehoods made up by Crowder's wife. There is literally
00:15:23.960 nothing Walsh, Shapiro, or Knowles could say to convince me that one day they won't find themselves
00:15:28.520 in Crowder's position. And if they do tell you otherwise, they're either lying or delusional.
00:15:33.380 Trad wives are all sundresses, ride or die, and cherry pie all day until they are trying to get 1.00
00:15:39.500 alimony, child custody, and child support in divorce court. Then they might as well be head shaved, 0.91
00:15:44.620 tatted up, purple haired feminists along with the rest of modern women. 1.00
00:15:48.240 And so I want to help you a bit.
00:15:50.240 And really, I want to help your wife because you essentially just used your platform. Millions of 0.99
00:15:54.700 people have access to your platform. She doesn't have the same to insult her. You picked the wrong
00:16:00.540 woman. Okay. So here's what I would like to do. I would like to invite Hillary Crowder onto my 1.00
00:16:06.180 platform because she doesn't have one. And because her ex-husband apparently just used his to insult 1.00
00:16:12.660 her to say that he picked the wrong woman. I find that to be really despicable. So Hillary Crowder, 1.00
00:16:18.120 if you are watching, you are more than welcome to come on my show and to talk about what's actually
00:16:23.460 going on. I have been interested in the Steven Crowder saga pertaining to his divorce because
00:16:29.060 he literally inserted me into his divorce a couple of days ago. And his wife and family are now speaking
00:16:36.000 out regarding that video in which he told people publicly that his wife was leaving him. You remember
00:16:42.540 this? He chose wrong. And he essentially made it sound as if he did not want his marriage to end,
00:16:48.740 but his wife simply wanted to leave. Well, she has responded by giving video. And I want to prep you.
00:16:55.620 I want you to know this is horrific video. It is very difficult to watch. It's especially difficult
00:16:59.460 to watch because in this footage, she is eight months pregnant. And the video essentially reveals
00:17:05.540 just how emotionally abusive he has been. And she is alleging that he has been emotionally abusive to her.
00:17:10.340 But all Walsh could muster was to sarcastically repeat what I had said in unflattering tones.
00:17:15.340 By the way, Matt, this is lazy without substance and you depend on it way too much in your videos.
00:17:20.840 Matt focuses on how I posted their ages rather than what this might signify.
00:17:25.560 He then takes great delight in saying how a woman in her 20s who's single, I'm not,
00:17:29.940 but thanks, Matt. Now, one of these influencers is a woman named Pearl Davis, 0.99
00:17:33.220 who has garnered a relatively large following on YouTube and various social media platforms.
00:17:37.140 She's in her mid-20s, single and childless, and yet full of opinions about modern marriage
00:17:42.280 and family life, a subject that she has no personal insight into whatsoever.
00:17:47.000 An unmarried doesn't know much about marriage as a Bible thumper in his 30s, 1.00
00:17:51.300 who has so far not yet felt the sting of divorce. Here's the thing, Matt. You don't have to jump
00:17:57.600 onto the manure pile to know that it stinks or to stretch the metaphor that around 75% of them do.
00:18:04.140 One can look at the statistics, one can listen to the horror stories, and one can advocate for
00:18:10.060 caution and reform. And that's exactly what I've advocated for. Not that it stopped Matt Walsh at
00:18:15.540 the beginning of his video claiming that like the feminists, people on my side of the debate
00:18:19.560 quote unquote hate marriage.
00:18:21.280 Some right-wing influencers with legions of young, mostly male fans have decided that men
00:18:27.420 should abandon marriage and family life and go their own way. And these influencers,
00:18:32.560 many of whom consider themselves a part of the so-called red pill movement, pretend to despise
00:18:37.920 feminists and yet have essentially arrived at the same conclusion as feminists, which is that 0.99
00:18:42.340 we should give up on the family.
00:18:43.960 No, I advocate caution. And the men in my space are majority conservative and would like to get
00:18:49.540 married, but realistically are weary of modern results. But saying quote unquote red pillars are 0.74
00:18:55.500 just like the feminists was an over-frequent shaming and scare tactic Daily Wire was repeating over and 1.00
00:19:01.120 over at the time. I wonder what the corporate boardroom meeting at the fake Tradcon headquarters
00:19:06.480 was like when they thought of that one and what the email from Jeremy Boring to all of his little
00:19:11.300 employees said that looked like. Anyways, there's so many differences between men weary of marriage
00:19:16.640 and feminists that the comparison is utterly absurd and barely worth criticizing. But that's some of the 1.00
00:19:22.680 quality work you can expect from the Daily Wire, I guess. More two-dimensional, socially irrelevant
00:19:28.120 garbage. It is, however, illuminating that in the comments on the Matt Walsh repost of the video, 0.93
00:19:33.480 along with every single other Daily Wire video on the subject line in the past three years,
00:19:38.060 has been full of men agreeing with me and people like me. Top comments consistently every single
00:19:44.140 time. Among their own audience, it just goes to show how when push comes to shove, Daily Wire are
00:19:49.180 perfectly happy to portray their own supporters. By the way, guys, how's Brett Cooper doing? Oh yeah,
00:19:54.260 that's right. The final tweet of mine that Walsh brings up in his video is the one that featured
00:19:59.580 before and after photos of Pierce Brosnan and his wife, Keeley. Essentially, the wife of an ultra 0.78
00:20:05.280 handsome rich movie star went from being a hot chick in their early relationship to being pretty fat.
00:20:11.820 And don't tell me that Pierce Boersman doesn't have the money to hire a trainer or a dietician,
00:20:17.000 if his wife was even remotely inclined to stay good looking for him. So I simply asked the question,
00:20:22.900 quote, does this count for men as a successful marriage? Would this be a W for men everywhere?
00:20:29.440 Again, men ask for very little in marriage, peace, affection, respect, loyalty, and if possible for
00:20:35.300 their wife to try to look her best. And it's pretty easy to not let things slide so far that you become
00:20:40.660 a blimp. It's possible that Pierce Brosnan's wife just doesn't give a shit enough to try. But I don't 0.99
00:20:46.200 know, maybe she has a medical condition. Maybe he has a secret chubby chaser fetish. Maybe they have
00:20:51.600 embraced left-wing, healthy-at-any-size propaganda. All I did in a single tweet was to ask a question.
00:20:57.880 Instead, Matt Walsh characterized it as, quote, apparently, even if the two are happy and remain
00:21:02.940 married for two decades, they still might fall into that 75% divorce rate because they both have
00:21:08.980 not remained in supermodel conditions. Like, he always is white knighting for these hoes. Always. 1.00
00:21:14.040 Anyways, you notice how most of a Matt Walsh video is just him repeating a straw man version of an
00:21:19.420 argument rather than coming up with anything of his own. How much does he earn a year again? And
00:21:24.160 indeed, he has to say not both because Pierce Brosnan still looks pretty damn good despite being
00:21:31.780 10 years older than his wife. And also, Matt, that's not what I said. And you also presume they're happy.
00:21:37.280 You have no way of knowing that more than I do. All I ask, if being the former James Bond and having
00:21:42.960 your pick of the litter, you choose a wife who doesn't stay in shape, would that be a sign of a 1.00
00:21:47.820 successful marriage, I'm going to go out on a limb and say that most men wouldn't be very pleased by
00:21:53.600 the wedding dress tearing on the way back down the aisle. In fact, when you think about it,
00:21:57.780 letting yourself go once you've nabbed your man and gotten your ring seems pretty disrespectful to
00:22:02.440 your man. But again, all I did was ask a question, a valid one. And interestingly, in the past few
00:22:07.660 weeks, it's come out that Brosnan's wife, Keely, has started a weight loss journey, which suggests that
00:22:13.580 perhaps Pierce Brosnan wasn't pleased when she got fat. And it begs the question, why didn't she start
00:22:19.300 this earlier in their two decades long marriage? Anyways, Matt Walsh's grade school attempt at a
00:22:24.520 rebuttal to my position pretty much consisted of his reading those three tweets, not exactly quality
00:22:31.240 work there, Matt. Then he goes on to give sage advice on marriage. He starts with a grandiose
00:22:36.660 declaration that we're all individuals and to ignore statistics. I am saying that you shouldn't
00:22:42.420 on the other extreme, see yourself as passive debris floating helplessly on the tide of statistical
00:22:49.300 likelihoods because you are an individual. Your marriage is an individual thing and its chances of
00:22:55.460 failure are not set by society at large. Yes, Matt, we are all individuals and statistics are made up
00:23:03.140 of a collection of individuals. They mean something when you're trying to evaluate the odds of a poor
00:23:08.160 outcome. But Matt's brilliant advice is to ignore the probabilities and just don't make the choices
00:23:14.020 that lead to divorce. He then absurdly compares divorce to obesity. The obesity rate in the United
00:23:20.040 States is over 40 percent. Does that mean that your own chances of becoming obese are 40 percent? No,
00:23:26.420 it doesn't. Your chances might be five percent. They might be practically zero or they might be quite a
00:23:31.840 bit higher than 40 percent. That's because obesity is the result of behavior and choices. If you do not
00:23:38.220 engage in the behavior or make the choices that lead to obesity, you will not become obese. The fact that
00:23:44.020 40 percent of people around you are fat does not mean that you automatically have a 40 percent
00:23:49.920 obesity risk. You make bad choices which make you fat, so don't make those choices. Of course, that ignores the
00:23:55.820 fact that only one person controls what they put in their mouth. Well, there are two people in a marriage 0.91
00:24:00.560 and women are the ones who leave the majority of the time. Matt then pivots to a car accident
00:24:05.980 analogy. Again, he says if you're a safe driver, you reduce your risks of having an accident.
00:24:11.560 Again, ignoring the fact that there are idiots on the road who will just run into you no matter how 1.00
00:24:17.400 safe you drive. Now, imagine if the other drivers on the road were legally entitled to half of your house 1.00
00:24:23.140 and a monthly stipend if they ran into you. Something tells me that the accident rate would be much higher
00:24:29.340 than it already is. This is the state of modern marriage for men. And such is Matt's brilliant
00:24:35.320 advice that if you don't want to get divorced, don't make decisions that lead to divorce.
00:24:39.920 Implicit in this advice is the idea that if your wife leaves you and skins you alive in divorce court, 0.96
00:24:45.640 it's your own damn fault anyway. Matt Walsh has the convenience of turning up his nose at men whose 0.97
00:24:51.260 wives leave them and destroy them financially. That is, until one day he has it done to himself.
00:24:57.020 Matt then launches into a rambling list of how to significantly reduce your chances of divorce.
00:25:02.340 So I hope you're listening, folks. One, be religious. I've already discussed how this does
00:25:07.480 not significantly reduce your chances of divorce in my video, How Conservatives Trick You Into Marrying
00:25:12.900 Modern Women. Essentially, unless you're a religious fanatic who attends church every day, 1.00
00:25:17.880 it's really not going to move the needle. Second, agree with your wife that you don't,
00:25:22.200 quote unquote, believe in divorce. And maybe she'll say it to you. It doesn't mean she won't
00:25:27.120 turn on a dime and take advantage of the legal system and wield it like a bludgeon against you.
00:25:32.520 By the way, ruling out divorce as an option doesn't mean your marriage is a success, Matt.
00:25:36.920 Staying trapped in an unhappy marriage because you don't believe in divorce would fall into the 75%
00:25:41.760 of failed marriages. In fact, now I'm wondering. Matt Walsh obviously doesn't believe in divorce.
00:25:46.820 Presumably, neither does his wife. So what side of the 75% does he fall on?
00:25:51.720 You can continue to date, even or especially as your lives get busier and you start having kids
00:25:56.160 and so on. You can make a strong effort to be patient with and grateful to each other.
00:25:59.640 Third, Matt says you should do a date night once in a while. For years now, I've exhaustingly
00:26:04.540 covered how date nights aren't really about pair bonding. They're demands a wife makes for extra 0.79
00:26:09.980 pampering and entertainment with the veiled threat that if you don't do date nights,
00:26:14.160 she's going to be more and more unpleasant to live with. 1.00
00:26:17.880 Fourth, Matt says you should be patient and honest. Well, that's nothing. I mean,
00:26:21.500 who's out here saying a good marriage strategy is to be grumpy and to lie? But bear in mind,
00:26:26.040 folks, this is low IQ advice on marriage from a man who is encouraging you to leap into it regardless
00:26:31.600 of potential risk. Five, Matt says you should take care of your body and appearance. What,
00:26:36.080 like Pierce Brosman's wife did? You just finished shaming the idea that a wife turning fat 1.00
00:26:41.760 might indicate a marital discord. You hypocrite. You did your strawmanning sarcastic voice and 1.00
00:26:47.360 everything. You know, the thing that you do for 80% of your videos as a piss poor argument. 0.60
00:26:53.580 Anyways, bear in mind that these two things are highlighted by Matt in the exact same video.
00:26:58.200 And that's it. That's Matt's brilliant advice as you walk into a horrible deal.
00:27:02.280 In this light, it's hardly surprising that the conservative movement at large does not trust
00:27:06.960 or respect the Daily Wire. They call it the fake TradCon headquarters. People have all sorts of
00:27:11.980 suspicions about special interests, controlled oppositions, and a rigid, cutthroat, money-grubbing
00:27:17.420 business ethic or lack thereof. There certainly have been way too many scandals over business
00:27:22.500 contracts at the Daily Wire to ignore. And these are the people asking you as men to trust their
00:27:28.140 advice. Throw caution into the wind and just man up and get married. Well, folks, this is very much
00:27:33.860 an instance where you'd be very wise to examine the source. Buyer beware. Don't risk the destruction
00:27:39.340 of your life and finances just because some cuck losers at the Daily Wire insisted it was a good 0.95
00:27:44.240 idea. Thanks for watching. And if you liked this video, leave a comment and let me know your experience. 0.94