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March 6, 2025 - Freedomain Radio - Stefan Molyneux
04:10
Women Are Choosing a Job Over Their Own Children
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Being so, this woman, this sort of fairly popular tweets, this one 544,000, the next one 3.3 million, and this woman wrote, women are choosing a job over their own children, but men are working hard for their families.
This is sexism.
This is sexism.
You know, it's a really tough thing when you're starting to talk about the same standards for men and for women.
So, women are choosing a job over their own children, men are working hard for their families.
Okay, who's going to raise the kids?
This sort of comes down to a fundamental question in life.
Okay, who is going to raise the children?
And if it's going to be men that are raising the children, then women are going to have to work hard.
I don't know how breastfeeding is going to happen.
I don't know.
Have recovery from cesarean sections, childbirth as a whole, episiotomies, frightening to find out about, but apparently a necessary part of birth for some women, so who's going to raise their children?
And that's fine.
Now, if the women want to be the primary breadwinners, then they have to select men, to some degree, for low ambition and a certain amount of It's hard to say passivity.
A certain amount of reactivity is probably the best.
So when you're in a business career, when you're running your career, you have to be kind of proactive, right?
You have to seek out your mentors, and you have to study outside of just your job, and you have to push for your raises, and you have to push for your promotions, you have to compete with other people.
So you have to be really, really proactive.
Now, parenting, a lot of times, is reactive.
And so, if you want to be the primary breadwinner, then you have to be proactive to a large degree, and whoever is going to be raising your children has to be more reactive, right?
Because you really can't plan your day when it comes to having, let's say, you have a bunch of kids under the age of six.
I mean, obviously, there's some things that you can do to plan, but a lot of it has to do with, did they sleep well?
Are they under the weather?
What is their mood like?
And what is your mood like?
Did you get any sleep?
You're just kind of managing.
You're not really proactively pursuing a major goal because you're just in control of far fewer of the variables, right?
When you are a primary caregiver to children, and I say this having had a very assertive, if not downright aggressive career over the course of my life and also having been a stay-at-home dad, you are in control of far fewer variables when you are A primary caregiver to children.
I say this, of course.
I mean, I sort of mentioned this story years ago, but The Last Starfighter is a movie I've never seen.
I've only seen bits of it.
I wanted to see it, because, you know, it's video games, science fiction stuff.
But what happened was, when I was working at a daycare, I worked there for the whole summer, we took the kids all over the place, and it was a great deal of fun.
Really, really loved those kids.
And we went to go and see the movie The Last Starfighter.
And so naturally, naturally, I told the children ahead of time, hey, anybody who needs to go to the washroom, let's go to the washroom right now.
Make sure you go to the washroom, because, you know, otherwise you're going to miss parts of the movie.
Which I meant was, I'm going to miss parts of the movie.
So I planned to watch the movie, and I watched almost none of the movie.
Why?
Because I got this tug on the sleeve.
So-and-so needs to go to the bathroom.
Okay, they're taken to the bathroom.
Anybody else need to go?
Oh, no, no, we don't need to go to the bathroom.
We can come back.
Ten minutes later, so-and-so needs to go to the bathroom.
So, it was just a constant not.
So, I planned to see a movie.
Couldn't see a movie, right?
So, that is just the reality of being a caregiver.
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