Sargon of Akkad - Carl Benjamin - How Feminism Set Men Free
Aired: 2015-09-10
Duration: 02:39


=== Men No Longer Needed (02:38) ===

[00:00:00]  I think one of the first most important things to do is understand that feminism is about empowering everyone.
[00:00:09]  I'm going to hold you to that later on in this talk when you're really not talking about empowering everyone.
[00:00:17]  The great irony of feminism, of course, is actually that it did free men from the burden of being the head of the household.
[00:00:24]  And now you get loads of articles like this wondering why so many professional millennial women are unable to find dateable men.
[00:00:32]  And to answer the hundreds of articles written by women asking why I can't find a man, there are obviously hundreds of articles written by women trying to explain why they can't find a man.
[00:00:43]  And you know, maybe there is a small nugget of truth to each one of these articles.
[00:00:47]  Like for example with this one, it's not that he's just not that into you, it's that there aren't enough of him, as in him being well-educated men with well-paying careers, better than the women who are looking to date.
[00:01:00]  Because fundamentally, women don't seem to understand that men are not attracted to the same things women are attracted to.
[00:01:08]  For example, here where the question is, who's a man more likely to go for?
[00:01:12]  Is it a woman who's smart, independent, and together, or a woman who doesn't seem to have that much going on and seems to need a man and a relationship?
[00:01:21]  The answer, of course, is B. Because, believe it or not, men are not robots and actually need to be needed.
[00:01:29]  This was in fact the raison d'être of men.
[00:01:32]  This was what men were for.
[00:01:34]  To be needed by women.
[00:01:36]  And now women have said, well, we don't need you.
[00:01:39]  Okay, that's fine.
[00:01:41]  And that's fine, but don't be surprised when men start living for themselves.
[00:01:45]  And don't be surprised when living for themselves means being men of modest means.
[00:01:50]  Men who aren't that bothered about being incredibly highly educated, they're not that bothered about making a whole lot of money because they don't have anyone to support but themselves.
[00:01:59]  So they get their minimum wage job, minimal hours a week, they get their beer and their Xbox and they hang out with their buddies and they're happy.
[00:02:07]  But they're not the kind of men that women want to date long term.
[00:02:11]  These men are the true egalitarians who have gotten over their need to be needed.
[00:02:17]  However, women's biological instincts still exist and the men required to fulfil those instincts are existing in fewer and fewer numbers and it's not their problem.
[00:02:29]  This isn't great for women and it's not great for children, but this is the future that feminists chose.
[00:02:35]  They decided that men shouldn't be necessary.