Pearl - June 22, 2025


TradCons Are Failing Men By Redefining Masculinity Into Control @ItsComplicatedChannel

Mentioned
Michael Knowles
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Episode Stats


Length

1 minute

Words per minute

207.51

Word count

223

Sentence count

8


Summary

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On this episode of the podcast, I sit down with my good friend and podcast co-host, John Rocha. We talk about how the patriarchy views masculinity and how they view marriage. We also talk about what it means to be a good man.

Transcript

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00:00:00.000 When I've seen you call out the trad cons, usually you'll call it like, I love the interview that you did with Michael Knowles.
00:00:06.500 We've talked about, you know, marriage and it not being, you know, a good deal for men.
00:00:10.580 And in my last episode about the dowry, I actually used a clip of that where he basically said, you know, that if you get a prenup, it invalidates the sacrament and all that other stuff.
00:00:18.580 but not only do we talk about how the trad cons view marriage and you know they're not really
00:00:24.520 doing enough as we would all like to see them kind of you know reform the laws and the family
00:00:30.180 courts and remove the liabilities when it comes to a marriage but also just how they view masculinity
00:00:35.420 how you know being a man is all about protect provide sacrifice serve don't complain and so
00:00:44.920 the way that masculinity is being defined, I think is a big problem. And, you know, one of
00:00:50.640 the questions that I want to ask at some point coming up is, do you think men are smart enough
00:00:54.580 to realize that masculinity is the first thing that anyone will attack when they want to control
00:00:59.300 men? That's a real, I just did it. That's a really good question. It's complicated. Yeah.