Dennis Prager Show - Men and Women are Different
Aired: 2025-05-30
Duration: 05:34


=== Tension Between Sexes (02:05) ===

[00:00:00]  Let me just make very briefly the case that I started with, that men and women are basically different and why this is so important.
[00:00:08]  Ladies and gentlemen, I know this sounds odd to you.
[00:00:13]  This will sound odd to you, but I mean it from my heart.
[00:00:17]  I have, as any thinking, sensitive person has, I believe, my problems with God.
[00:00:24]  Life is tough.
[00:00:25]  God made an unfair world.
[00:00:27]  There's too much unjust suffering, etc., etc.
[00:00:31]  I have my problems.
[00:00:33]  And God did not make his existence obvious and incontrovertible.
[00:00:39]  There is a tension for any thinking person with regard to God, and I understand it.
[00:00:44]  Ironically, one of the arguments I posit on behalf of God's existence is male-female differences.
[00:00:52]  While it is true that male-female differences lead to inevitable tensions between the sexes, this is without question.
[00:01:01]  And by the way, it is very important to know that, and I'll talk about that later, tension between the sexes.
[00:01:06]  It is so interestingly constructed, male-female difference, that I am convinced it is not simply evolutionary.
[00:01:15]  It is a matter of design.
[00:01:18]  That men were designed in one way and women designed in another.
[00:01:22]  And while it is cause for problems, it is really the tension and the chemistry that make the other one necessary.
[00:01:31]  I am of the school that a man is not fully human without a woman, and a woman is not fully human without a man.
[00:01:40]  That is a deep belief of mine.
[00:01:42]  It does not run against the following.
[00:01:44]  Does that mean if you are widowed or could not find a mate or choose not to ever marry, that I think you are an inferior human being?

=== Opposite Sex Void (03:43) ===

[00:01:54]  No, I would never make such an audacious comment.
[00:01:58]  Saddam Hussein is married.
[00:02:00]  Okay?
[00:02:01]  Do I think the world of Saddam Hussein?
[00:02:04]  Obviously not.
[00:02:05]  And one of my dearest friends in life, two of my dearest friends in life, are single men whom I adore both as men and in their characters.
[00:02:18]  I understand that.
[00:02:20]  And having said all of that, I still believe that the opposite sex fills the human void that exists when the opposite sex is not in one's life.
[00:02:32]  But it doesn't mean that it's easy, and it doesn't mean that every marriage is made in heaven.
[00:02:37]  At least a fair number seem to be made in the other area.
[00:02:41]  All right?
[00:02:41]  This is also true, and it must be recognized.
[00:02:44]  And there is, while there is nothing as good as a good marriage, there is nothing quite as miserable as a bad marriage.
[00:02:52]  All right.
[00:02:53]  All that being said, why is it so important to recognize that men and women are basically different?
[00:03:01]  In the 60s, for those of you who are products, no, I take that back.
[00:03:06]  Those of you who were raised during the 60s, I hope you're not products of the 60s, but for those of you like me who were raised in the 60s, you will recall that there was a massive effort made to deny that men and women are basically different.
[00:03:21]  My challenge always to that claim, aside from common sense, but I had a different challenge.
[00:03:27]  If men and women aren't basically different, then what could they ever get from each other outside of sex?
[00:03:36]  One of the reasons that the 60s generation was known for its sexual profligacy, I am convinced, is as a result of the denial that men and women had anything other that was different.
[00:03:51]  The only thing that she had that I didn't have was a different body.
[00:03:55]  The only thing I had that her girlfriends didn't have was my different body.
[00:03:59]  Then clearly the only thing that you could get from the opposite sex that you couldn't get from your own was sex, or at least sex with the opposite sex.
[00:04:08]  That's the only thing.
[00:04:10]  I hope this is clear to you.
[00:04:12]  The moment you deny that men and women are basically different, then clearly the only difference they have is physical.
[00:04:18]  Well then, if that's the case, why not have the following arrangement?
[00:04:22]  Men should have men friends for everything and women just for sex.
[00:04:26]  And women should have women friends for everything and men just for sex.
[00:04:30]  And that's, by the way, to a certain extent, what is exactly what happened in the 60s.
[00:04:36]  Do you understand how the belief that men and women are not basically different undermines the desire to be with the other sex?
[00:04:44]  I have nothing to gain from a woman.
[00:04:45]  What do I need one for?
[00:04:47]  Outside of satisfying sexual needs for a woman, what does she have to give me that my dear male friends can't give me?
[00:04:55]  Nothing.
[00:04:57]  But it's only when you argue that there is something a female has that a male doesn't have outside of sexual organs, and there is something a man has that women don't have outside of his sexual organs, that you can begin to say we need each other.
[00:05:13]  We have something to give to the other.
[00:05:16]  Ironically, it was in the name of progress and love and humanism that people denied men and women's basic differences.
[00:05:24]  Ironically, I say, and yet it was the most dehumanizing anti-male-female relating idea that men and women are the same.