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March 14, 2023 - Dennis Prager Show
12:25
Pursuing a Man
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Women have always been a problem to me, Dr. Fussband.
Are you listening, Doctor?
Yes, yes, yes.
Go on, go on.
You know, that would be an interesting subject for a male-female hour.
When he says, women have always been a problem to me.
And I'm sure that that's true for many men, but I don't know how many.
I have no idea.
And vice versa, you know, a woman saying, you know, men have always been a problem to me.
I think we should do a show on that.
When I hear that, I do what I think most people do.
We always, we hear something and then we put it into our own life.
Very natural and good to do.
And I feel blessed that I never would have said that.
I didn't have women as a problem in my life.
I feel blessed when I hear that.
It's funny.
I, as you know, I always gamble with the openness about myself, but I think it was a good gamble I took from the beginning of my radio career.
Do you think you're the majority or the majority?
Well, that's a great question.
That's why I want to do it as a subject once.
So Sean asks, do I think I'm in the majority or minority of men?
I have no idea.
That's one of the reasons I'd like to do it.
But it's clear, just the fact that it's said in the movie, that he represents a lot of men.
I just don't know what percentage.
And I feel lucky.
I'm Dennis Prager.
This is the Male Female Hour.
And the Male Female Hour might be, I think it is, the most honest talk about men and women in the American media.
It's A, because I am very open and want you to be open.
B, because I have no agenda other than learning about the sexes.
And enabling them to get along better.
As I say almost every week, I am not a man fan and I am not a woman fan.
There are terrific men and terrific women and disgusting men and disgusting women.
And that's as simple as that.
So today's topic was actually raised in a personal discussion over a cigar.
By the way, the cigar you fell in love with, the living martyr does not smoke cigars on his own, but sometimes we get together at a cigar lounge after some work at Prager U because Prager U was very near a cigar lounge.
This was God's will.
There's no doubt in my mind.
If anybody ever says that God intervened in your life, yes, he put a cigar lounge on the same block as Prager U. Anyway, we were just talking, and we were talking about some young women we know, and he made an interesting point, which I'm going to have him articulate in a moment, because he could articulate his own point better than I can articulate his own point.
Oh, probably not.
That's typical living martyr talk.
I promise you can articulate it better.
But in any event, it's about young women.
And it's related to the issue, it's not the issue, but it is related to the issue of young women not pursuing getting married.
So that I have covered, and I will cover it again.
It is one of the tragedies, I mean, and I don't use the word easily, it is a tragedy that young women are not yearning to get married.
They yearn for a great career.
Which is fine, but not a great idea.
You don't come home to a career.
You come home to a partner, to a spouse, hopefully kids.
Anyway, he was noting that something that had been done...
At least in America and probably other Western countries, maybe elsewhere, but we know the West best.
Women, if they were interested in a man, would let him know that and would make him feel special, which men want to feel in the eyes of a woman.
And especially with men who are not...
Particularly aggressive or even, you know, somewhat shy with women.
That's a very effective way of getting a man.
Hey, I'm interested in you.
So that was it.
I thought it was a very intelligent point.
So now I'll let you make it and why it arose to begin with.
So here's Alan, The Living Murder.
So...
Just to draw a finer distinction, the issue here is not, as you noted, that women now are not so interested in pursuing marriage as opposed to, let's say, pursuing their career.
What we're talking about now are women who yearn to get married but don't know how to pursue a man.
And you just said it very well.
The key is that sometimes, I mean, obviously it's a case-by-case basis, but sometimes, and I think in previous generations women knew this, the woman has to, in essence, be the pursuer.
And men, and this will sound odd, but I think it's true, are actually...
For the most part, easy targets.
And it can be up to the woman to identify the target and pursue the target in a way that the man, probably a young man in this case, is made to feel that the woman thinks he is special.
And that to a man is very attractive.
And I think young women don't understand this fully.
They don't use it to their advantage.
And the problem is if they wait too long, they move into a zone where it gets harder and harder.
To find a man, partly because, as you have noted, the good men, and we're talking about character here, tend to be gone.
So let me give you a...
Because they're married.
Yeah.
I'll give you a specific example on what makes me think of this.
So there were three kids in my father's family.
Obviously my father and two, he had two sisters.
My father, ironically, was the best-looking of the three.
He was a good-looking young man.
His two sisters were not.
They were very plain women.
They both got married early and they both did it by locking onto a target, locking onto a man that they found attractive.
They liked this guy.
And they made sure that he knew it.
And they got married, and they had families, and they lived their life.
But at that time, we're now talking about really the late 40s, early 50s.
It was a job.
It was their job to do that.
They knew it.
They didn't want to spend their life alone.
They wanted to get married, and they took care of the problem.
It doesn't sound romantic, I admit it, but we're not talking about the romantic aspect of this.
There were elements of romance that I heard and that happened naturally, but this notion of pursuing a man as a major part of one's life, Something that needs to be done and that you have to take responsibility for on the part of the woman has just been lost.
This was great.
This was great.
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This topic I owe to my intrepid producer and friend, Alan Estrin, a.k.a.
The Living Martyr.
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