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Feb. 17, 2025 - Freedomain Radio - Stefan Molyneux
08:30
The Gender Divide in Student Loans
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Now, did you notice this?
Did you notice this?
So, after a decade, men had paid off what percentage of their student loans?
After a decade, men had paid off what percentage of their student loans?
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Oh, Lord knows.
Lord knows.
70%, 13%, 80%, 25%.
Well, no, some of these loans are pretty big.
So, over a decade, men...
Had paid off about 30% of their loans a decade after graduation?
What percentage of their loans had women paid off?
Because we want equality, apparently.
You know, we just want equality as a whole.
So men had paid off about a third of their student loans, and what percentage?
Of their student loans.
I think this is in America.
That women paid off.
I shouldn't laugh.
I shouldn't laugh because it does kind of sort of kill the birth rate, but that is.
It seems important.
It seems important.
I will put it here.
So.
Women.
I had paid off about 3% of their loans after about a decade.
After about a decade, women had paid off about 3% of their loans 2009 to 2019, and men had paid off 30% of their student loans.
I shouldn't laugh, but dear, oh dear, what can you say?
What, what, what can you say?
I mean, I think for women as a whole, it just feels like, why would they, to pay off debt feels like they're unattractive, because if they're really attractive, then some man should swoop in and pay off all their debt, right?
30% in 10 years is still freaking depressing.
Yes, but less depressing than three.
That's, yeah.
It's crazy, man.
And this is like, student loan debt forgiveness is just another transfer for male taxpayers to irresponsible female degree holders.
I got a degree in communications slash political science slash health slash kinesiology, sports medicine.
Anything that could actually really add to the economy in any practical way?
Ah.
I'll get back to you on that.
Ugh.
*sigh* Thank you.
Well, on the plus side, though, not only are women horrifically in debt and therefore unmarriable, but also they have been trained to hate men, freedom, free speech, capitalism, the market, and small government.
So there's that, too.
They have been charged to become unmarriable.
I mean, I would never in a million years, and I wouldn't even go out on dates with women who had a lot of debt.
Like, the moment I found out about any kind of significant debt, peace out, baby.
Peace out.
I was not going to do it.
I do not get involved in paying.
You know, I remember talking about this one woman that I met.
Who is very pretty and seemed kind of smart, but then she was talking about how her last boyfriend had used her credit cards and left her $17,000 in debt.
And of course, in general, I don't want to sound jumpy, overly jumpy.
I don't want to sound overly jumpy, but I will say this, that when a woman can...
If you're a young, reasonably attractive man, right?
If a single woman, tell me if this is just me, right?
If this is just me.
If there is a woman, you're on a date, and there's a woman who's complaining about her money issues, why do you think she's complaining while wearing a low-cut top?
Why do you think she's complaining about her money issues?
Just out of curiosity, is it just me?
Maybe it's just me.
Maybe it's just me.
Because I grew up with my mom, but what's your perception as a man of why women complain about money issues on a date?
Because I'll tell you my perception, yeah, she wants you to pay it off.
Yes, that's right.
She's basically saying that one of the things that is going to be required to move forward with her is to take some ownership.
Off her debt.
And, of course, I had vowed from the very beginning of my dating life never, ever to dangle wealth in front of a woman.
Well, it was pretty easy at the beginning of my dating life because I was broke, but you know what I mean.
So here's another interesting thing.
This is from Ali on X. Educated women are getting married about as often as they always have.
While the red pill loves to pretend women going to college is the issue, they've got the problem almost exactly backwards.
Women who avoid college are less likely to marry.
Yeah, that's true.
So, a bachelor's degree or higher, women are marrying...
Well, this is women born 1930 to 1980. So, it started off almost 80%.
And women who are educated...
I'm getting married still at the rate of 71%.
It is the women who've gone down in a straight line who are not college educated.
They've gone down to 52%.
So, share of U.S. women married at age 45 by birth year and education level, and so it remains at 71% for bachelor's degree or higher.
Non-college has gone down.
Sorry, for non-college educated women, men are far easier to replace with the welfare state.
All right, let's see here.
All right, let's see.
How do you find the balance between not dangling your resources before women, but still showing them you're able to obtain resources?
Well, I mean, when I got a nice car, I had a company car and I had a nice car.
I would be happy to pick up women on a date.
It was a 98 Volvo S70 red, beautiful matchbox car of my youthful dreams.
And to me, it was all the car in the known universe.
And it was nice.
It was nice.
It was nice.
So, yeah, I mean, but I, in general...
I would pay for the first date if it wasn't too expensive.
I would pay for the first date.
But after that, I would see if she offered to pay.
Yeah, I wouldn't just keep paying.
That's humiliating.
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