Freedomain Radio - Stefan Molyneux - What Does a Good Man Want?
Aired: 2024-12-24
Duration: 06:30


=== What Good Men Want (01:28) ===

[00:00:00]  You'd be the same if you were an attractive woman.
[00:00:01]  Come on.
[00:00:02]  Nothing magical about this.
[00:00:05]  So, the curse that is hitting modern women is one thing and one thing only.
[00:00:19]  So, the curse is they do not ask what good men want.
[00:00:28]  Now, I know what guys like.
[00:00:30]  I know what boys want.
[00:00:32]  Gay boys like me.
[00:00:34]  The Waitress is a pretty bad song, kind of hypnotic, a bit of a brain rot.
[00:00:38]  But yeah, so men want sex.
[00:00:40]  I mean, that's pretty obvious.
[00:00:41]  Men lust after women.
[00:00:43]  And again, that's a beautiful part of life, but it needs to be sort of focused in its proper area and element.
[00:00:48]  But men want sex.
[00:00:50]  That's biologically programmed.
[00:00:51]  What do good men want?
[00:00:55]  What do good men want?
[00:00:57]  If women were to organize their lives around what good men want, they'd be happy.
[00:01:05]  But when you see a woman who's, say, 40 +, desperately to settle down, a quality man looks at her and says, Are you stupid?
[00:01:21]  Like, you know women's fertility window is much shorter than men's.
[00:01:25]  You know that 35 is geriatric pregnancy.

=== Why Money Matters in Motherhood (04:39) ===

[00:01:28]  Are you stupid?
[00:01:29]  Did you not know this?
[00:01:31]  And did you not have any other women in your life who would tell you this?
[00:01:38]  Are you surrounded by women who just don't tell you basic facts about how men age, right?
[00:01:43]  So if a woman says to herself, what does a good man want?
[00:01:48]  Well, he wants a woman who's not promiscuous.
[00:01:50]  He wants a woman who's loyal, who's moral, who has integrity, who's hardworking, and so on, and who wants kids.
[00:01:57]  And who wants kids.
[00:01:58]  Because to withhold the gift of life that's been a chain for four billion years straight to you, to withhold it from the next people because you want a new fucking video card, is trash thinking almost beyond words, almost beyond redemption.
[00:02:12]  Almost.
[00:02:14]  What does a good man want?
[00:02:16]  And if a woman says, okay, well, a good man, does he want my money?
[00:02:19]  Does a good man want my money?
[00:02:21]  Does he care if I make a lot of money?
[00:02:26]  Does a man...
[00:02:27]  And let me ask you this.
[00:02:28]  Lots of guys here.
[00:02:29]  Lots of guys here.
[00:02:34]  Have you ever cared about a woman's income if you want to have a wife and kids?
[00:02:43]  As a man, right?
[00:02:45]  Have you ever cared about a woman's income if you want a wife and kids?
[00:02:50]  I mean, to ask the question is to answer it.
[00:02:53]  Of course you don't care about a woman's income if you want a wife and kids.
[00:02:58]  Why not?
[00:02:59]  Why not, you selfish bastards?
[00:03:01]  Why don't you care about a woman's income if you want to have a wife and kids?
[00:03:07]  Why would it not matter to you?
[00:03:13]  Somebody says, no, they don't care.
[00:03:15]  The less she makes, the better.
[00:03:17]  She won't settle down if she makes too much.
[00:03:19]  And that's part of it, for sure.
[00:03:20]  For sure.
[00:03:24]  I care about her debt, if any.
[00:03:25]  Yeah, for sure.
[00:03:26]  For sure.
[00:03:27]  Yeah, it makes sense.
[00:03:27]  But that's part of her income, right?
[00:03:29]  If she makes $100,000, but she's a couple of hundred thousand dollars in debt, then she's not making any money, right?
[00:03:37]  It's a nice positive during the interim before she has kids, but no.
[00:03:42]  Right.
[00:03:43]  So the more money a woman makes, again, there's exceptions.
[00:03:47]  This is a general trend.
[00:03:48]  The more money a woman makes, the less happy she's going to be as a mother because she's always going to sit there and say, because, you know, there's times when being a parent is kind of dull, right?
[00:03:56]  No question, right?
[00:03:58]  Babies, toddlers, I mean, they're a lot of fun, but, you know, it's a little repetitive.
[00:04:01]  And so if she was some high-powered lawyer and then she's wiping the fifth diaper of the day, is she going to be content and happy?
[00:04:08]  No.
[00:04:09]  Because she's going to sit there and say, I used to do legal briefs and I used to argue in front of the senior courts and now I'm just wiping butts and singing Baby Shark all day.
[00:04:21]  she's going to be discontented.
[00:04:23]  And she's going to think of all the money she's not making.
[00:04:25]  And it's going to be very tough for her to take time off because she's invested so much in becoming a high-powered XYZ accountant, doctor, executive, lawyer, whatever.
[00:04:38]  She's put so much time and effort into that, that if she quits, she's going to feel ridiculous.
[00:04:42]  Which is why, I mean, I'm telling you, man, this is going to be absolutely shocking for women who haven't really thought about this stuff, and I'm sure most of you guys have.
[00:04:49]  It's actually going to be shocking for women that when I was a young, successful man, and tell me if you haven't experienced this, It's going to blow people's minds.
[00:04:58]  When I was a young, successful man, I decided to make some decent coin in the software field.
[00:05:03]  Did I care?
[00:05:04]  Did I care if the woman was just a barista at a coffee shop?
[00:05:10]  Did I care if the woman was a cashier at a supermarket?
[00:05:13]  If she seemed young, positive, pleasant, and attractive, did I care?
[00:05:19]  Did I care?
[00:05:20]  It's kind of almost incomprehensible for women.
[00:05:24]  It's almost incomprehensible for women that we don't care.
[00:05:27]  We don't care.
[00:05:28]  If you see that woman, you get that particular click, right?
[00:05:30]  You see that woman.
[00:05:34]  And you get that thunderbolt, that lightning, that click, that chemistry, whatever you want to call it, you don't care.
[00:05:41]  You don't care.
[00:05:45]  Again, a little incomprehensible to women, but when you're a young man, successful young man, you don't have to be successful, but let's just say reasonably successful, you make enough to maybe start a family, right?
[00:05:56]  To a young man, you look at that really pretty young woman behind the counter and you say, ooh, If I take her away from all this, it's kind of a dead-end job.

=== A Young Man's Click (00:23) ===

[00:06:07]  I take her away from all of this.
[00:06:08]  It's kind of a dead-end job.
[00:06:09]  I take her away from all of this.
[00:06:10]  I set her up in a nice house.
[00:06:12]  I fill her up with babies.
[00:06:13]  Give her a purpose.
[00:06:14]  She's going to be thrilled.
[00:06:15]  She's going to be thrilled.
[00:06:23]  Because what is a man saying to a woman?
[00:06:25]  A man is saying to a woman, you're going to have to give all this up.
[00:06:27]  You're going to have to give all this up because I want you to fill you up with babies.