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June 17, 2021 - Dennis Prager Show
09:23
Would You Rather Have a Great Marriage or a Great Career?
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hour on the Dennis Prager show.
Every Wednesday, the second hour of the program is devoted to honest talk about men and women.
I think it's the most honest talk in the media.
Yeah.
But if I'm wrong, I'm not unhappy.
I'm rooting for more honest talk.
And one more point that I make regularly is...
That the point of the hour is that men and women understand each other better and I'm sort of a referee or umpire because I am not a fan of either sex.
I'm a fan of good people of either sex.
Okie doke!
Today is about your daughters.
That's the subject.
So if you are a, even if you're a young person, what would you say to a young woman today?
For example, I have the question that I pose to young women wherever I meet them.
Airplanes, standing in line, Starbucks, waitresses.
I have no shame.
I ask people questions.
And I've mentioned this in the past.
I ask them, first I say, may I ask you a question?
Of course, they've never gotten a no.
And it is, if you could be given one guarantee of two, doesn't mean you, and I always emphasize, doesn't mean you cannot have the other.
Would you want to...
Guaranteed great marriage or the guarantee of a great career?
And again, it doesn't mean you can't have the other, but only one is guaranteed.
And the answers have gone 50-50.
How many years have I been doing that?
It's a good question.
Living martyr, how many years have I been doing it?
About five years?
I'd say about five years.
Yeah.
Before that, I would say, can I ask you a question?
They go, yeah.
So, who do you root for in baseball?
That was my question before that.
Are you a Cubs fan?
It changed about five years ago.
So, what would you say to a young woman today?
Which guarantee should they have?
Should they take?
That's what I would ask you to call in on.
There's an article in today's New York Times, why American women everywhere are delaying motherhood.
So, for example, would you say that to a young woman?
Delay motherhood.
Delay getting married.
Work on a career.
Which...
Which do you think is the greater route to happiness?
And for that matter, a question nobody asks.
I take that back.
Few people ask.
What's better for society?
Let me ask you a question that I promise you have not heard in any medium.
What would be better for America?
If all of its young women said, you know, I was given a good mind and ability.
I am going to pursue career.
And if a guy comes along, yeah, that's fine.
But that's not my priority.
Or if all the young women of America said, I'm going to use my abilities to raise wonderful children.
I will work on expanding their mind in literature and in music.
I will work on making a happy home.
That is where I will use my talents first.
Which do you think would make a better America?
I'm not asking you which would make a happier woman.
That's a very fair question.
Which would make a better country?
Question that is never asked.
Yet, that was the pattern until the 1960s.
Very talented women.
And I am absolutely...
I know this as I know mathematical questions like how much is two and two.
That the female brain is as good as the male brain.
There is no brain differential.
Okay?
So, the question is, what do you do with it?
There are other major differences between men and women, but the brain ability is not one of them.
1-8-Prager-776-877-243-7776 So I'm asking you, what?
A few questions.
What would be better for the country?
What would be better for women?
And what would you tell, or what do you tell a young woman in this regard?
Virtually every woman that I meet, every young woman that I meet, when I say, so are you hoping to get married?
It's sort of, the answer is sort of, yeah, no, no, you know.
If the right man comes along.
And by the way, men say very similar things.
But the crisis is because women are not wanting to get married as much.
It's a crisis about men.
I've talked about men, the issue of men, masculinity, and the like very often.
But I'm talking about women today.
What the message you would give to a young woman, what you give to your daughter.
There's another question related to this.
If a talented and bright young woman said to her parents, you know, I eventually would like something in the work arena, but I first and foremost want to make a family.
Find a good man and make a family.
Would you be happy, or would you think that she had listened to the Dennis Prager show too often?
That's a legit question.
And would she be happier?
So let's say she marries at 25, actually finds a good guy, which is easier at 25 than at 35. As I have often put it, good men do not grow on trees.
In fact, It's harder and harder to find them because we have given them no masculine roles in life.
In fact, masculinity has been labeled toxic.
But women generally would like that in men.
They want masculine men.
Do you remember years ago I had this liberal left woman on the...
She came in studio.
She was shocked she fell in love with a conservative man and then described the constant cognitive dissonance in which she was living.
Everything I hold is on the left and I fell in love with this conservative man and in part I fell in love with him because he's conservative.
I actually liked the strength that he evinced versus these guys on the left.
I wonder whatever happened to her.
If she's listening, I'd like to have you back.
1-8 Prager 776, what do we tell them?
But you know, before the break, I just want to repeat, we never ask the question, what's better for society?
In the age of narcissism in which we live, that should be a very important consideration.
It's better for society if people get married.
It's better for society if they make a good home.
It's better for society if some parent supervises their upbringing.
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