Ep. 1091 - Men Are Giving Up On Marriage And Family Life. Here's Why They Shouldn't.
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Summary
After our discussion yesterday about the masculinity crisis and Andrew Tate, I heard from many young men who told me that they have no choice but to give up on marriage and family and go their own way. But is this kind of surrender really the answer? No, definitely not. Also, the Daily Wire report reveals the program by the Anti-Defamation League that is being used to politically indoctrinate children in Florida schools. Prescriptions for puberty blockers have skyrocketed over the last two years. A prominent Native American activist in Wisconsin turns out to be a Native American in the same sense that Caitlyn Jenner is a woman. And in our Daily Curation, we ll deal with one of the newest trends on TikTok: Stay-at-home girlfriends.
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Today on the Matt Walsh Show, after our discussion yesterday about the masculinity crisis and Andrew Tate,
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I heard from many young men who told me that they have no choice but to give up on marriage and family and go their own way.
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But is this kind of surrender really the answer? No, definitely not. I'll explain why.
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Also, the Daily Wire report reveals the program by the Anti-Defamation League that's being used to politically indoctrinate children in Florida schools.
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Prescriptions for puberty blockers skyrocket over the last two years.
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A prominent Native American activist in Wisconsin turns out to be Native American in the same sense that Caitlyn Jenner is a woman.
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And in our Daily Cancellation, we'll deal with one of the newest trends on TikTok, stay-at-home girlfriends.
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All of that and more today on the Matt Walsh Show.
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We opened the show yesterday with a discussion about the crisis of masculinity and the rise of Andrew Tate.
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And to very briefly summarize the key points made in that conversation,
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boys are growing up in a culture that is openly hostile to masculinity,
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and many are forced to navigate the minefield without the benefits of strong male role models
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It grows exponentially because the young men with absentee fathers
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eventually become absentee fathers themselves, repeating the cycle indefinitely unto infinity.
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And into this field of confusion and man hatred steps guys like Andrew Tate and others,
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quickly earning an enormous following of young men who understandably flock to somebody
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who has a message that embraces masculinity rather than treating it like a disease.
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Andrew Tate, very often good at identifying the problems in our culture
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as they pertain to the situation that men face,
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and deserves credit for speaking up in defense of masculinity rather than denigrating it
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But in my view, he misses the mark when it comes to the remedy.
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but he doesn't have the right prescription for it, or at least the full prescription.
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Yes, men should reject the programming that our culture wants to subject them to,
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programming which seeks to neuter and feminize them.
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They should take care of their minds and their bodies.
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Yes, they should strive for success, including financial success.
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But a life of hedonism and materialism and luxurious wealth,
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remaining unmarried while sleeping with dozens of different women and so on,
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Rather, what men are called to and created for,
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and the only sort of life that will be truly happy,
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is a life of service as protector and provider.
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are called to be husbands and fathers, to be leaders of their families.
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Now, they may be called to lead in other ways too,
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If there's any saving our civilization at this point,
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It's not going to be saved by influencers who are sitting in front of cameras,
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whether the guy in front of the camera is Andrew Tate,
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It'll be saved through the formation and preservation
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of strong, intact, loving, and well-led families.
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If every man in the country starts going to the gym,
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and starts having sex with lots of attractive women,
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the happiness that they are able to derive in that lifestyle.
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They'll find that it's shallow, and it's fleeting,
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Remembered by no one, leaving no legacy behind.
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The feminized, and neutered, and effeminate man
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just to arrive together at essentially the same place.
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It's the family man, the devoted father and husband,
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whose different path actually leads to a different
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Now, I've, of course, been preaching this message
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for as long as I've had an audience to preach to,
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and I have found that there are like two or three basic responses
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or rebuttals, I guess, that I always hear from young men
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who may, for the most part, line up with me ideologically,
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but who doubt the wisdom of the get married and have kids prescription.
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And I was greeted with these same responses after the show yesterday
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What I'd like to do today is answer the objections,
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or at least what seems to be the one principal objection.
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but give up on the entire enterprise and go his own way.
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Just give up on this stuff and do something else.
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This argument was summarized in a comment from a listener named Joshua,
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which I'll read because I think it just is representative of this sort of mentality.
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Still sounds like Matt and most Tradcon's definition of what masculinity means
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is exclusively through the lens of women and children's wants and needs.
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Unfortunately, that ideal will no longer work in the modern world
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with birth control, hookup culture, social media,
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and court systems that favor women and the denigration of traditional masculinity.
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but it sure beats Matt's prescriptions for young men.
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Again, I've read a great many comments making the same kind of point.
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A private message from another listener has a similar theme.
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Young men follow Andrew Tate because his lifestyle is the ideal,
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Wealth, fame, status, beautiful women were biologically programmed to want those things.
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The only solution in modern society is to reject the life of service,
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it's nothing less than a full, unconditional surrender to the culture.
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It's true that the culture has increasingly made it difficult for both men and women
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to form and maintain strong, intact, lasting families.
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And that's because the elites who run our society don't want you to live that kind of life.
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They prefer that you focus on your individual wants,
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on fulfilling your own needs and satisfying your own desires.
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A self-focused life is precisely the sort of life they wish for you.
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I mean, if you're just out there focused on yourself,
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you know, being a consumer, buying lots of things for yourself,
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All of the things mentioned by Joshua in his comment,
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all of those things represent a conspiracy against the family.
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To give the conspirators exactly what they want?
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To reward them for their efforts by turning your back
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on the very thing they've been assaulting for decades?
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The family is the fortress that they have been attacking.
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then at least be honest about what you're doing.
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It is certainly not the strong or masculine response
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to stop fighting because the fight is too difficult.
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To give up on the family is to give up on human civilization,
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seeing as how there cannot be a human civilization
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So what's plan B after you've given up on civilization?
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You are surrendering your future and your past.
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nibbu wakamigque nibbu wakamigque okay that's the
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and this is you know a white person has no real
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times it's actually interesting because in this
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Wisconsin news outlet they still refer to Kayla
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Claire as they so they respect the they pronoun
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because you know she identifies as two-spirit which
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supposedly is the indigenous or Native American
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version of trans or non-binary which as I've told
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you before it's not that's a that's a two-spirit is a
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term invented by gay activists in 1990 okay it's not
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it's not something that goes back into the ancient past all
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right it's not like it's not like the the Mayans were
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identifying themselves as two-spirit but so they're
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still this is the funny thing about it they're still
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respecting that so it's clear that she lied about her
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whole identity she's she's come up with multiple false
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identities she's Cuban woman she's Jewish to next she's
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indigenous this she belongs to this tribe that tribe and
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all that is fake but they're still respecting the gender
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identity and refer because that couldn't possibly be fake
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right and so they're still going to refer to her as they
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but you know it's it's the same story we've seen so many
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times that's why you could guess the ending before we even
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got there uh people white white people and it's it's you
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know it is interesting that it's so often white women in
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particular it's not that men never do this but it's it is
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very often white women who um invent this minority
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identification for themselves which is very fascinating
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because if we indeed of course lived in a society with
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systemic racism and systemic uh oppression of these various
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groups then why would you have so many people who are in the
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group in power clamoring to get to to be identified with the
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persecuted group there is no precedent for that in history
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there's plenty of precedent for actually persecuted groups in a
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society but what you find is that if you go back to you know any
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historical precedent of a of a persecuted group you don't have
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people in the in the powerful group trying to falsely identify
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themselves as members of the persecuted group it usually goes the
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other way where people in the persecuted group are trying to claim
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identity outside of that group so they aren't persecuted the fact that
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this is happening is pretty good evidence that the persecution is all uh is
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all fake finally you know i can't neglect to to mention that today is
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jeffrey epstein's clients do uh right and that's and that's a perfectly good and valid
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point and i've heard a lot of people bringing that up and for good reason because i mean
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well well whether andrew tate is arrested or not um the the it's it remains outrageous
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that um that you know they arrested and then allegedly had this uh you know global sex
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sex trafficker who was you know uh associated with all these very prominent people uh kill
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himself even though he didn't really kill himself and yet and that's the end of it like we haven't
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heard anything else about what what what about all these people that he was was associated with
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so apparently it's very it's very interesting that he's a global sex trafficker pedophile
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pimp uh jeffrey epstein and yet he had apparently had no clients
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millions and millions of dollars and there were and but he didn't had there was nobody
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um and as far as andrew tate goes as i said i i have no idea if he's innocent or guilty that's
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that's something that has to be proven in a court of law and if they prove it they prove it
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harry lagman says fantastic i was confident you'd get it right about andrew tate both the good sides
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the less good and the reasons men like him are the unsurprising product of a society that is hostile to
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boys and men telling them to be more like women as you say it's not just the lack of role models much
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that uh gives boys and men strength that is attacked i'm thinking specifically of patriotism
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the identity with one with with one's country and the wish to excel at any job sport or skill
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but also the role as a father fathers have been undermined to a disastrous extent by the law
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any father if he doesn't know it already discovers this sooner or later sometimes very painfully
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and uh it's not getting any better yeah i agree with you as we said in the opening
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that the deck legally the deck is stacked against husbands and fathers stacked against men and family
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court and all the rest of it um that's true but as i said if we if we respond to that by just
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abandoning ship then we have given the other side everything they want there's a re that's the
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whole reason that they rig it in this way is that they want us to give up on the family
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because you have to remember that the cultural elites and the left generally they consider the
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family especially a so-called quote-unquote traditional family led by a man a father and a
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husband they consider that the enemy and so if you abandon it then you are doing exactly what they
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want you to do they see every man says going his own way and is giving up on this and they say
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yep thank you it's exactly what we want uh hoosier flatty says are you willing to reassess your
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worldview that the earth is a moving oblate spheroid i'd have to know what oblate spheroid
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means to reassess it but if you mean that i'm willing to reassess my worldview that the world itself
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is round uh the answer is is sure yeah they present the evidence to me if you could actually present
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real evidence that the earth is actually flat it's been everything i think about the world is wrong
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um i'd be fascinated just go ahead tell me what the evidence is it's just that it doesn't exist so
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that's the only problem um not look i'm willing to read evidence on about anything now if you have
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actual evidence that the entire that we're living in a simulation and nothing of none of this is real
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and we're all just like brains in a vat hooked up by wires to some matrix like thing if you have
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evidence of that i'd be i'd be fascinated to know and it'd be great to know because then i could tell
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everyone on my podcast and that would get a lot of views in the simulation um another comment says
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it's frustrating to see someone like matt point out that the world is on men and then have him on some
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of the men in children's lives lump on a log without bothering to point out the direct cause of these
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issues the mother i'm so sick of the discussion around men and who and what they should be tiptoeing
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around the disastrous choices that the women in their lives be it a mother girlfriend wife or peer
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make stop blaming men okay well you seem to be suggesting that i agree that we shouldn't blame
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men for everything and we shouldn't just only blame men in other words like our message to men
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should not be one solely of blame we agree on that but you're going to the extreme other end of this
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and saying that we should never blame men for anything which of course is ridiculous what you're
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actually claiming here is a i i mentioned that there are absentee fathers and there are also plenty
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of fathers who are physically present in the home but are lumps on a log they're not they're not present
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in any other way they're not actually leading their families that is a real thing that exists and what
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you're saying is that in every single one of those cases it's not the man's fault it's actually the
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woman's fault do you understand how childish and ludicrous that is yeah we don't want to blame men but
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don't infantilize them either nothing is our fault i'm a victim of everything so even if you're a man
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who chooses to just sit on your ass and play video games all day and do nothing and you have kids and
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you let your wife do everything and you do nothing that's not it's not my fault as you're playing the
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video game i can't help it oh please you know what infantilizing men in that way is even worse than
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blaming them okay heaping scorn and blame on men is really really bad even worse is infantilizing them
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because at least if if you if you point a finger of blame at men and you say like at least that
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might motivate there are plenty of men who that's they end up being demoralized and all the rest of
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it by it but uh it could also go the other way see for me when i hear that message from society it's
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motivating it doesn't motivate me in the way that society wants to motivate me but yeah it makes me
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kind of angry and that anger sort of like fuels me to to succeed all the more so it can have that
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effect but infantilization that's just that that it would if if men listen to that they just become
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helpless babies victims okay you never want to be a victim even when you are a victim you shouldn't
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see yourself as a victim 2022 was an incredible year filled with many accomplishments including
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the release of my smash hit documentary what is a woman the rally to end child mutilation which
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resulted in vanderbilt university medical center pausing their gender affirming surgeries on minor
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so-called and i even became 2022's transphobe of the year and uh that was a great honor and all this is
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favorite was on marriage as we drift further away from traditional values it's no secret that we're
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becoming more and more lost as we drift away from traditional values a lot of this has to do with
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men refusing to grow up and people refusing to enter into marriages like we've talked about
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so often on this show jordan does a fantastic job of explaining why marriage is not only preferable
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get to our daily cancellation over the last few months yet another popular new trend has been gaining
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steam on tiktok though i didn't hear about it until yesterday when i saw an interesting video that
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conservative commentator lauren chen had made on the subject now it's strange that i would be so behind
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the curve on this because as you all know i'm usually very plugged in i'm very with it up to
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date on all the trends i think i'm known that way in any case this fashionable new trend is called the
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stay-at-home girlfriend there's a buzzfeed article explains what it's all about though perhaps it's
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rather self-explanatory this is what it says the day-to-day life of kendall k one of tiktok's maligned
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stay-at-home girlfriends appears in her viral videos to be well fairly dull we're jealous her glamorous
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non-employment doesn't seem to entail much more than journaling preparing healthy snacks and seeing
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an occasional butterfly on twitter people say that she seems like she has been lobotomized highly
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medicated or generally unfulfilled her meticulous self-care and fitness routines a symptom of the
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spreading that girl aesthetic have been compared to that of american psychos serial killer patrick
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bateman parody videos abound but her slow soft life resonated with many instead of criticizing her lack of a
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9 to 5 they related to the dream of one day being rich enough to have a do-nothing job we've long been
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on the verge of a hustle culture reckoning and k is one post away from leading the revolution is it
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possible some of these critics were just jealous too now there are apparently many videos on tiktok of
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these stay-at-home girlfriends showing what their sort of day-to-day life is like here's a sampling from
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the tiktoker mentioned in that article here it is this is my day in the life as a stay-at-home girlfriend
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i'm currently in vancouver so i'm in a new house which is so fun and the first thing i do is take my
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aloe shot i love having this on an empty stomach and i take my greens then i get straight to making
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luke's coffee because he's definitely a caffeine first thing in the morning kind of guy i am adding some
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honey and cream and i made these cookies yesterday so i'm gonna give him a couple of those to eat with
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his coffee then i sit down and do some journaling and some reading and then i get to making myself a
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matcha with some cinnamon and ground ginger and then i add some cashew milk on top yum then i do my skin
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skincare and my led mask and then some ice rolling just love doing the longest skincare routine in the
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morning then i love to open all the blinds in the house and get all the sunlight i can
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and make the bed of course to keep the house tidy and looking its best
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then it's time to make some breakfast i've been loving these oats lately well you probably get
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the idea they're actually her morning routine is a lot like mine um you know i stumble out of the
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out of uh my room and i'm like uh just barely awake and my kids try to talk to me and say don't don't
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talk to me until i have my aloe shot and greens and do my skincare routine the ice roller whatever that
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is uh no actually that doesn't happen but at least the part where she makes coffee i can relate to that
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the rest of it not so much but uh as the buzzfeed piece alluded to not everyone is on board with the
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stay-at-home girlfriends uh as is always the case with a tiktok trend there has arisen a competing trend
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of videos explaining why the other trend is deeply problematic problematic and critics are primarily
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concerned that stay-at-home girlfriends are living a terribly unfeminist life having deprived
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themselves of the empowerment and glamour of the cubicle in favor of living under the misogynistic
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tyranny of a boyfriend who provides for their every need according to these critics you know a woman is
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is supposed to put on a pantsuit and go to work and climb the corporate ladder a life that is so
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famously liberating and enriching to the soul she's certainly not meant to be at home meanwhile other
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critics have decided that it is of course racist to be a stay-at-home girlfriend here's user
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fazioli breadstick explaining this logic this just reminded me of a thread i saw on twitter the other
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day you can pause to read but this is from the cindy noir i've already made multiple videos about
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greek life but you should definitely pause and read her take on it once again i just want to reiterate
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that it's not my business or anybody else's for that matter what you choose to do whether you work
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or don't work and let me be very clear that when i'm talking about the stay-at-home girlfriend trend
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i'm not talking about how other cultures divide labor in the household rather i am talking about
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the very recent cultural phenomenon in which white women in particular romanticize the idea of opting
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out of labor that is otherwise delegated to lower income people and people of color what do videos
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like these tell you about a who gets to rest b who deserves rest and c how you get rest i find it
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interesting that in these videos nobody is calling these women lazy or gold diggers in fact most of them
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are concerned that they're being taken advantage of when you look at most social movements and political
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movements upper white middle class women are nowhere to be found because if they wanted to
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create meaningful social change they could they choose not to because it goes against their class
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interests there might drop by right no one is calling these women lazy or gold diggers except for
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all the thousands of people who are calling them exactly that this is very common on the left they'll
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often declare you know when white people do fill in the blank nobody criticizes them for it yet in
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reality everyone criticizes them for it including the person claiming they're not being criticized for it
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indeed the truth is the other way around usually if it was primarily black women making a stay-at-home
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girlfriend videos then you wouldn't be allowed to criticize it but in this case miss breadstick seems
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to be arguing that because so many racial minorities are not able to opt out of the labor force
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white women shouldn't opt out either they must be allies they must make their lifestyle decisions
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based on what other people are doing they're not allowed to be happy because that would be unfair to
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all of the racial minorities who miss breadstick assumes are not happy this is allyship and here
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allyship specifically means apparently getting a job in the service industry even if you don't need it
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or want it which only means that you'll be taking a position away from someone potentially a racial
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minority who does need it and want it so i don't think that miss breadstick has thought this all the
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way through but these criticisms are all you know of course extremely stupid it may be unfeminist to
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become a stay-at-home girlfriend but there's nothing wrong with being unfeminist on the contrary
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that's the lane that any woman should want to be in considering that feminists are also resentful and
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miserable if you don't know which way you want to go in life and you're a woman you could do worse
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than simply just looking at whatever feminists are doing and heading in the exact opposite direction
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it's also obviously not racist to live your own life how you want to live it you're not morally
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required to conduct a racial inventory before making every decision in your life and even if
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you did conduct the inventory there's no point to it because according to the left it's racist for a
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white person to do things that black people aren't doing but it's also racist to do things that they
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are doing so there's no sense in playing a game that you can't win uh and and that's why all these
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criticisms are ridiculous but here's a criticism of the stay-at-home girlfriend trend that is not
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ridiculous the real problem with the stay-at-home girlfriend lifestyle is not the stay-at-home part
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it's the girlfriend part the problem of course is that these women aren't married that's the issue
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what this trend actually represents is a is a broader trend uh in a continued attempt by many people in our
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culture to figure out a way to enjoy the benefits of marriage without actually getting married
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so many young people and young couples they seek to take on the form of a married relationship
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mimic it but without the substance of the marriage they're playing house they're playing pretend
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and that's where this trend truly becomes to use the left's favorite term problematic
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that's what you actually see in that video it is it is a a woman who's just like it's it's house
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you're playing house it is a more sophisticated game of house the problems here are many but we
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will um briefly focus on just one you know both the stay-at-home girlfriend and the working boyfriend
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have made themselves incredibly vulnerable here and they've set themselves up for a nearly inevitable
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and inevitably messy and heartbreaking split because the girl is relying on the guy entirely to
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subsidize her lifestyle relying on him to bring home the bacon and bring home everything else too
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and yet the one thing she doesn't have from him the one thing he's not providing even if she seems to
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have everything else is any sort of meaningful commitment she is leaning on him completely but he can
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just step to the side at any moment and send her crashing to the floor he hasn't even promised not to do
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that he hasn't so much as promised not to step to the side indeed by not marrying her he has promised
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that eventually he will abandon because that's the whole reason why you refuse to get married to someone
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is because you want to leave your you want to leave that escape hatch in place a refusal to commit
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is a commitment of its own you are committing to breaking up down the line eventually and when that day
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comes you know the the breakup of this non-committed effectively meaningless relationship will be very
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messy and difficult much more messy and difficult than a breakup between boyfriend and girlfriend ought
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to be because normally dumping your girlfriend should require no more than one awkward conversation and
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that's it you go your separate ways and you never have to speak to each other again if you don't want
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to that's the way it should go if you're just dating someone that's the whole point of dating that's
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one of the things that's supposed to separate it from marriage is that you're not in really entangled
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in any way you just you're living your own lives you're dating and if you want to live one life
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together that's why you get married and the great thing is that if you're not if you're living
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separate lives and then you decide that okay we're not going to get married this isn't going to work
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out just go your separate ways that's it you'll be sad about it for a while but you'll get over it
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once you've added houses and mortgages into the mix then when you when you've taken on many of the
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obligations and shared roles of a marriage even though you aren't married you end up with a
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breakup that feels and looks an awful lot like a divorce so you never had the benefit of the marriage
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but you still get the crap storm of the divorce it's the worst of all worlds and then the guy in
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this arrangement is no better is in no better shape he's working every day and providing for a woman who
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has made no commitment to him he has taken on a dependent and yet still has no wife he is a man
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with no wife no children no marriage no family and yet still has a dependent that he's taking care of
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every day you know there's that crass expression often used to describe a man with a live-in girlfriend
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they say well you know he's getting the milk for free so why buy the cow but the truth is that he's the
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cow in this scenario he's being used by a woman who again has made no promises to him no commitment
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no oath of fealty she could be spending part of her ample free time every day in bed with some other
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guy she met at the gym or whatever and she wouldn't even be violating any vow by doing so because no vow
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was ever made the guy can't even say you broke your promise i never promised anything to you
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not officially we couldn't even call it an affair because they aren't married so it's not an affair
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she would be cheating yes but cheating what an ambiguous relationship where no official promises
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or commitments have ever been made so what this is why if you want to enjoy a relationship that looks
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and acts like a marriage there is no substitute for actually getting married no matter how desperately
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our culture looks for a substitute it's just not there and that is why even after defending the
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stay-at-home girlfriends from some of their especially stupid critics i must still say that
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the stay-at-home girlfriends are unfortunately canceled although they could just graduate to being
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stay-at-home wives and mothers and then that would be a whole other story entirely and that'll do it for
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