All Episodes
Feb. 26, 2025 - Freedomain Radio - Stefan Molyneux
03:59
Pearl Davis on the Patriarchy
| Copy link to current segment

Time Text
All right.
Freedomain.com slash donate to help out the show.
I really would appreciate that.
I think we got the entirety of sexual market dynamics with abortion and alpha widows done in less than 40 minutes.
I think it's pretty good.
I think that's pretty good.
All right.
She's bitter.
Then she's bitter to even look at you.
You're on a speed date or a blind date.
Yeah.
Well, and again, is this true of women?
Maybe a little bit more.
But the idea that...
A woman, when she's in her 30s and she can't get the attention of the top tier of men, that she would sit there and say, well, I guess I have a sexual addiction to physically attractive or high status men.
I have a sexual addiction to high status men and I broke a lot of hearts along the way because I rejected men on my level and went after these alphas and subsidized things with sex, which is a terrible thing to do.
It's my fault.
No.
No, I mean, there was a debate with some woman, a med student, I think, or someone who was aiming to be a doctor, some woman, and Pearl, pearly things, H. Pearl Davis.
And Pearl Davis was talking about, like, okay, well, what about the miner, like some coal miner and so on, right?
And the other woman was like, well, but who set up that system?
You know, like some coal miner in Liverpool.
In the, you know, 18th century, set up the system where he's stuck being a coal miner, right?
So, for women, you know, this, and this is a fairly common observation, but for women, the reason they think that there's a patriarchy that all men are involved in is they only look at the top 10% of men who do actually have some power and authority, and they don't even notice everyone else.
So, this woman who debated with Pearl, She genuinely seems to think that the poor, broke, half-served coal miner who's going to die of black lung at the age of 45 set up the system because she only looks at the top tier of men who do have some influence on the system and thinks that's all men.
So the reason that women believe in the patriarchy is they only look at the top 5 or 10% of men in terms of power, authority, wealth, and status, and the other men don't even exist to them, so they think that all men are privileged because the men who aren't privileged, who aren't in the top, 90% of men don't even exist in their minds.
And this is the woman who said, the woman who's debating, I don't remember her name, she was talking about how, like, I like to see nuance, and I like to do this and that and the other.
And then, when she's talking about, when the coal miner comes up, like the guy who's dying a black lung and stuck down a coal mine for 14 hours a day, or 16 hours a day, and the woman's just like, why don't you just get another job?
That's all the nuance they could handle.
Just get another job.
All right.
Steph, do you think it's likely to have a successful relationship with a lady if there's a noticeable difference of IQ, but she's conscientious and virtuous?
Well, the problem is you're really rolling the dice in terms of the kid's intelligence, right?
So siblings can have an 8 to 10 IQ point difference on average.
So even with two smart parents, there can be quite a variety in IQ as a whole.
And frankly, I think wisdom is even wider.
The problem is, if you have a bunch of kids with, let's say, a woman who's not particularly intelligent, let's say you have an IQ of 130 and she's like 90, your kid's going to be scattered around, so it's going to be kind of unfair because some of the kids are going to be way closer to her and kind of not comprehensible to you because they're not very intelligent.
Some of the other kids, the mother won't understand or be able to appreciate and they'll be much closer to you, so it's really going to separate the siblings as a whole because you're taking that general roll-of-the-die sibling stuff.
And adding in a two-plus standard deviation.
So I would say probably not.
Plus, you know, I mean, marriage is just conversation, conversation, conversation, conversation.
Export Selection