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March 21, 2025 - Freedomain Radio - Stefan Molyneux
09:09
Women's Growing Unhappiness
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As if you're angry at the teacher.
Who gets to be angry and discontented is a power play.
It is a mark of power.
It is a mark of power.
And so, women have been given almost infinitely more than the original feminists could have possibly dreamed of.
I mean, just so you understand, I used to make this case about Marxism, right?
Marxism said, well, we need to transfer money to the poor so they're not poor anymore.
But the money that is transferred to the poor now is hundreds of times bigger than the entire world economy when Marxism was first created, like in the mid-19th century, right?
So the money that's transferred to the poor is hundreds of times bigger than the entire world economy when Marxism was created.
So.
So, if feminists, the early Mary Shelley Wollstonecraft Vindication of the Rights of Women, like 19th century feminists, were to look forward and time and see what had been achieved for women, they would say, holy crap,
that's almost infinitely more than we could possibly have dreamed of.
Because there's some stuff that they couldn't have dreamed of, for instance, all of the labor-saving devices, right?
And, as the old saying goes, I think this comes off Honey Badger Radio, but...
Men invented labor-saving devices for women before they invented life-saving devices for men.
In other words, they invented things like washing machines and refrigerators and so on before they even put air filters in coal mines because they just so much wanted women to be happy.
So, the early feminists just wanted bank accounts and the ability to sign contracts and go into debt and all of that, right?
And some access to some...
And now women are the majority of the voters.
They have old age pensions that outrageously benefit them compared to men.
They have the welfare state that outrageously benefits them compared to the men.
They have massive astroturfed careers called HR and DEI, equity hiring and all kinds of quota systems.
And they have heavily subsidized education and they have abortion on demand and they have free healthcare in most of the West.
Subsidized healthcare if they're poor, everywhere.
And so, and the vast majority of women in universities and there are professions where women are overwhelmingly represented and all of that.
There's infinitely more than the original feminists could possibly have imagined could be achieved, right?
I mean, women can get, can send their laundry out to be done and get groceries delivered to their house.
So, what has been achieved is, and I'm not kidding about this, it's infinitely more than first-wave feminists could have conceived of, or even second-wave feminists.
So, they would say, well, gee, we only aimed for this, we got infinitely higher.
Therefore, women must be massively happy, if not downright grateful.
However, of course, As women's, quote, equality has gone up and up and up, and women's over-representation in various fields and resources and environments has gone up and up and up, women have become progressively more unhappy.
Women are less happy now than the beginning of feminism.
So, clearly, we can't please.
I mean, the West has gone trillions of dollars into debt, tens of trillions of dollars into debt.
Largely to please women.
Right? Oh, and women are still exempt from the draft.
And women are still...
The vast majority of women want, you know, air-conditioned jobs that don't disturb their nails.
They're comfortable travel and...
So then we went to the rooftop cafe and got a latte.
Right? My daughter did a very funny impersonation of these do-nothing pretend workers in social media who do these day-in-the-life half.
Product manager!
Right? So, women are more unhappy, more discontented, more hostile to men, more aggressive, more contemptuous of men.
After 150 years of men doing just about everything they could, the West has gone into debt.
Tens of trillions of dollars has sold off the future of their society for the sake of trying to please women in the present.
And women have responded with increasing contempt, promiscuity, and childlessness.
Which means that trying to please women just kind of destroys the society.
And of course, this is the story of Adam and Eve, right?
They're trying to please Eve.
him out of paradise.
Chris says, obtaining the unearned typically results in less satisfaction and happiness.
Yeah, why don't fourth-wave feminists want equality in septic work, bricklaying, engineering, electric work, plumbing?
Yeah, for sure.
For sure.
I mean, I worked with some women up north, but guess who had to carry the heavy stuff?
So... I mean, privileged women, which is to say most women in the West, Live better than kings, male kings, when feminism started.
They live better.
They have access to more medicine, more labor-saving devices, cleaner water, cleaner conditions as a whole, air conditioning, right?
So the women of today have almost infinitely better lives and more comfort than the most aggressive Genghis-style type patriarch when feminism started, right?
And they're unhappy.
Now, I don't blame women for this foundationally.
Of course I blame people's belief in the state.
Of course I blame people's belief in the state.
So, using the state to appease women's unhappiness is generally a civilizational ending trend.
I mean, there might be virtually no Japanese people.
in 100 or 200 years if this continues, right?
Thank you.
So, it's just, it's very sad.
Because once men realize, and they will probably, and sadly, like hopefully without the state, right?
Without the state, that's fine, right?
But as long as the state is around women, you know, there's a documentary.
It's a pretty raunchy documentary.
It's a mockumentary.
It's a pretend documentary.
By Rob Reiner called Spinal Tap about a fictional heavy metal band.
And sort of Yoko Ono style, one of the girlfriends of the band members becomes the manager of the band and things just go to hell.
And then finally the male manager comes back.
One of the gloves I wanted to put on the album cover, I assure you.
And the guy finally comes back and puts the girlfriend in her place and then has like a cricket bat that he looks at her meaningfully and all of that.
Women will not be happy with appeasement.
I mean, they just won't.
They won't be happy with unjust privilege.
They won't be happy with the unearned.
They won't be happy with debt.
They won't be happy with astroturf pretend education and careers and all of this.
They just won't be happy.
And once men realize that, everybody will be a lot healthier.
Everybody will be a lot healthier when men finally begin to realize that it's about power.
It's not about discontent.
Discontent is the avenue to power.
It is not about getting the problem solved.
It's about domination and control.
Right? Like the abusive man.
We understand this with abusive men, right?
So, the abusive men in society, like if a woman is married to an abusive husband, he's going to have all of these standards and he's going to beat her up for not meaning, oh, my food is cold, or you didn't take the garbage out the right way, or there's a cup on the counter, or...
Whatever, you left the garage door open.
But all of these, quote, standards are just as an excuse to beat her up.
We understand that, right?
She can't please him.
She can only please him by failing his standards so that he can abuse her.
Because he's kind of sadistic, right?
It's the same kind of thing.
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