Trad Wife FIGHT | Fiery Debate with Michael Knowles
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Summary
In this episode, we discuss the growing problem of stay-at-home dads and why it s not just a mommy's problem, it's a whole generation's problem. Plus, we have a special guest on the show to help us make sense of it all.
Transcript
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If you're just going to sit and live with mom and dad all your life
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until Prince Charming comes and saves you, that may not happen.
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Every single thing you say is literally appealing to men.
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Well, I think the advice you give to women is awful.
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I just looked at two seconds and I was like, oh, that's a gay man.
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When I was a boy, I was told there would never be a war between the sexes
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Somehow men and women are not sleeping together.
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I guess that's good if they're not married, but they're also not getting married
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There seems to be a spike in men hating women, a spike in women hating men,
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an abundance of dating apps, and yet a dearth of dating.
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So to help me, an old man, make sense of this, I have invited on three hip, cool,
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That would be Melanie Mack, Emily Wilson, and Savannah Stone.
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So my friend Tommy Lauren has gone viral for talking about this problem
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and placing the blame at the feet of stay-at-home boys.
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Leave it to Gen Z to rebrand laziness and social awkwardness as something cutesy,
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They did much the same thing with quiet quitting, where you can go to work and do less.
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And if you call it quiet quitting, it's somehow better.
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But Laura, I got to tell you, this is also a big problem when it comes to,
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I think, declining birth rates, people not getting married and having children.
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Well, look at what young women have to choose from.
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I'm not saying that there's not blame across the board.
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I don't even think it's a men hating women, women hating men.
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I think it's everyone hating each other problem right now,
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because I see it women against women, men against men.
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They stay at home until they're literally in their late 30s.
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And there's guys who walk around and they're TikTokers.
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So if you had to place the blame, you know, you say it's not 100%.
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So then you don't, then it's not primarily the boys.
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You know, I would say both, but I have a little bit of a different perspective,
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And I would say where I live, it's actually mainly the women.
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And I'm going to contribute that to modern feminism.
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Just the fact that they don't want to be traditional.
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But they're struggling to find traditional women because modern feminism has told women
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that their career is more important than having a family.
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So you're placing the blame more at the girls' feet.
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But I also have to say that if you live, so I live in Texas.
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And here in Texas, there's not this stay-at-home mommy-boy epidemic going on,
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for the most part, at least in the Bible Belt where I'm at.
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And the women are feminine out here, for the most part.
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So I think if you really want to get away from all of that, all of these,
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everybody want to be a TikToker, everybody want to be a Kardashian,
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because this is on both sides, then move somewhere that has good biblical values.
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You don't, none of you want to place the blame at the girls' or the boys' feet.
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Okay, fair enough, very diplomatic, very nice, very complimentary,
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and you've got the girls acting sort of vacuous and promiscuous,
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then how do you, how are the two going to meet?
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I think the reason why society has gone so chaotic like this,
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and society has steered away from these values.
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They normalized hookup culture, which is not good.
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This is why a lot of the youth aren't dating anymore,
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because that there's just, that's not healthy at all.
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And then you've also got a very selfish culture.
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Everybody wants to feel like they're the prize.
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And the problem with feeling like you're the prize
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when you're seeking a relationship is you're looking for a servant
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instead of an equal partnership where you're both putting in 100%.
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but what would you say to the men who are stay-at-home boys,
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I don't think online is necessarily a place for men.
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which some people can agree with, some people don't.
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there is going to be some aspect of embracing normal,
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I think maybe if men were out working and not on TikTok,
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I don't have a definite answer for any of these things.
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And you still feel like you're at the poverty line out here.
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I haven't dated since before dating apps existed,
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And I didn't have to deal with a lot of modern dating,
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that really should only exist between a husband and a wife?
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I guess that's kind of getting to the point here,
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But then don't we need to raise the expectations
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Yeah, you got to raise it on both ends, though,
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Like, yeah, is it great for every woman out here
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and they're like, yeah, yeah, I want a good girl.