Pearl - January 13, 2026


The Horror Stories of Men After Divorce


Episode Stats

Length

3 minutes

Words per Minute

174.82394

Word Count

662

Sentence Count

29

Misogynist Sentences

7

Hate Speech Sentences

5


Summary

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On this episode of the podcast, I sit down with author, speaker, and mental health advocate, Dr. Aaron Sorkin, to discuss the issue of suicide in the U.S. and why it's a problem that affects both sexes.

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00:00:00.080 Because of your platform, you speak to a lot of those people.
00:00:03.920 How much is that informing where you're coming from in this debate
00:00:07.180 is the real stories of people who have been hurt by this stuff?
00:00:11.340 I mean, I've interviewed a thousand people.
00:00:13.140 I interviewed a guy who had his kid transitioned
00:00:14.840 and there was nothing he could do about it.
00:00:16.640 I interviewed another guy and he spent $300,000
00:00:19.260 trying to get his kid back.
00:00:21.660 He actually went overseas to Ukraine during the war
00:00:24.400 just trying to be in his kid's life.
00:00:27.000 so yeah it impacts it a lot
00:00:30.080 I've interviewed so many
00:00:32.120 men that want nothing more than to
00:00:34.020 just be a dad and see their kid they don't even care about
00:00:36.020 the money they just want to see their
00:00:37.940 children and
00:00:39.980 if you ask Anna it doesn't exist but
00:00:42.000 if you ask
00:00:43.060 any man
00:00:45.780 like everybody knows somebody that it's
00:00:47.860 happened to and commentators
00:00:49.900 can you know they can try to minimize it
00:00:51.660 they can talk from their ivory towers
00:00:53.640 and pretend it's not happening but there's a genocide
00:00:56.080 of millions of men that's going on in this country.
00:00:59.040 A genocide?
00:01:01.160 1.6 million men commit suicide.
00:01:05.460 Have committed suicide since 1970.
00:01:08.960 Similar rates of women also attempt suicide but fail
00:01:13.540 because they usually don't resort to more violent means
00:01:17.180 of ending their own lives.
00:01:19.220 So they'll take pills.
00:01:20.080 Why is it that every time we bring up men,
00:01:24.260 you have to bring up women?
00:01:25.260 Because we're doing a comparative analysis here. You can't just throw out statistics without comparing it to what the rates are among women.
00:01:32.760 What I'm pointing out is, I just pointed out that by 2050, more men will have committed suicide than all of the world wars combined.
00:01:40.040 And your first response was, well, women commit suicide too.
00:01:43.120 Because it is a problem that is inflicting both sexes in this country. It is a tragedy and should be taken seriously, rather than this weird sex war.
00:01:54.240 but it's not going to be taken seriously when you pretend it's not going on it is going on are you
00:01:59.300 kidding me i mean how many of our soldiers our veterans come back to the united states after
00:02:04.720 multiple deployments do not get treatment or help with ptsd and other mental issues as a result of
00:02:13.420 being deployed multiple times like that's a real problem how come you don't talk about that yeah
00:02:17.840 but you can they come on marriage and divorce instead because those soldiers come home to an
00:02:22.080 empty house. You think that divorce is the reason for most of these suicides? Men are nine times
00:02:32.080 more likely to commit suicide after a divorce. How many more times likely are women to commit
00:02:36.140 suicide after a divorce? What about the women? You don't know the number, right? Because you
00:02:41.060 didn't even care to look into it. What about the women, though? That's always what you go to.
00:02:47.260 And that's kind of what I'm trying to point out is feminists don't care about male issues.
00:02:52.300 They don't.
00:02:53.000 They do not care about equality.
00:02:54.820 Because whenever you ask them for real equality...
00:02:58.500 Pearl, my point is that suicide is not just a male issue.
00:03:04.100 It is a huge problem in this country.
00:03:07.180 Women who try to end their own lives are less successful because, again,
00:03:11.500 they're less likely to use a gun, for instance, or hang themselves.
00:03:15.620 they'll take pills it'll fail it's just a tragic thing all around but if you actually care about
00:03:23.540 suicide rates then you would want to know what's causing the suicide rates or the attempts at
00:03:29.060 suicide what can we do as a society to help people to prevent that from happening and you
00:03:35.160 wouldn't make it specifically and solely an issue that inflicts one sex over the other again i mean
00:03:42.580 you're just proving my point because we talk about male issues and keep bringing it back
00:03:46.700 to the women.