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July 21, 2025 - Freedomain Radio - Stefan Molyneux
05:53
Toxic Masculinity
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Educationally, women are earning close to 60% of bachelor's degrees in the U.S., similar numbers in Canada.
Boys face higher rates of K to 12 disciplinary action, suspensions two to three times higher for boys than girls.
This derails some academic progress.
And of course, school has been rejigged to benefit the girls.
This is like very much out in the open.
Girl power, education has to be better for girls than it is for boys.
So what happens?
Well, significant verbal skills, which girls develop earlier because of, you know, a lot of conversations, boys are out there building forts and girls are talking about things generally.
So verbal skills and, oh, the collaborative learning, the collaborative stuff that goes on, oh, everyone get together.
Everyone's going to contribute.
This drives boys mental and drives girls into states of delirious estrogen joy, which is incomprehensible largely to the male mind.
There have been, of course, studies, as you know, wherein papers that are handed in or tests that are handed in with girls' names, the same tests, are marked better than if they're handed in with boys' names, which shows that there is a significant sexist bigotry, not against men, which is bad enough, but against boys, against little boys.
These harpies are attacking the minds of our boys, not all.
Of course, but it's pretty substantial.
So young men are told that women are looking for men who are superior to them, right?
I want a man who's taller than me.
I'd love a man who makes more money than me.
I'd love a man who's better than me in some way.
But if you then come across a superior, it's referred to as, yes, we all know, let's do the chant together, toxic masculinity.
Although, boy, the number of female pedophiles in schools these days should at least awaken some people to the idea that there might be female toxicity.
But anyway, toxic masculinity.
So what are you supposed to do?
Well, when you see that women online rate men, the vast majority of men as unattractive, right?
You've seen that okay Cupid 2018 bell curve with the women all saying that the men are ugos and the men all saying, yeah, it's pretty reasonably spaced.
So online dating seems to suck because women get massive amounts of attention and men don't, unless you happen to be some god-looking profile of a man with, you know, chiseled jaw and perfect hair and abs and so on.
In which case, there have been experiments where these really great-looking guys, they take great-looking guys' pictures and they put them up and say, yeah, I just got out of jail for domestic abuse.
And the women were like, oh, that's cool.
I don't even bathe.
Well, you must be musky.
I don't brush my teeth.
And, you know, it doesn't matter.
They're still, oh, well, you know, everyone makes mistakes.
So maybe then you're supposed to go to talk to girls in person.
God help you.
God help you.
Ever since the Me Too era, 61% of young men in 2019, you gov paul said that they're cautious about approaching women.
I don't want to intrude.
I don't want to bother them.
I don't want to get in their face.
I don't want anyone to put me on blast on social media.
I don't want anyone to take a picture.
God forbid my wandering eye hits on a woman's lycra encased butt in a gym and Joey Swole isn't around and you're toast.
Just can't even talk to girls.
They're going to roll their eyes.
They're going to scorn you.
They're going to mock you.
They're going to humiliate you.
They're going to put you on blast on social media.
They're going to take a picture of you and say, ah, this loser.
And then what?
Ooh, that's not fun.
That's not fun.
So what are you supposed to do?
Young men are facing severe mental health crises.
Men are 75% of fewer suicides.
I think Trump actually mentioned this as like the first politician in the history of the freaking planet to mention this male suicide issue.
Women attempt it more, men succeed more often.
I'm not going to put any jokes in there.
You get it.
Rates peak among young men at the ages of 20 to 34 at 27 per 100,000.
Only 25% of men seek therapy compared to 40% of women.
This is for an American Psychological Association study from 2021.
So this is another reason why, oh, there's so many women with diagnosed mental disorders.
Well, part of that, not all of it, but part of it, is because women go for help more, get diagnosed more, and so on, right?
Again, I'm not saying that's all of it, but it's part of it, right?
Male fragility, male insecurity.
Men aren't allowed to have standards.
If you have a standard as a man, maybe don't go to boozy, drunken, half-stripper nightclubs with the girls when you're in a steady relationship with a man.
Oh, you're so insecure, so controlling.
That's so terrible.
Don't you trust me?
Whereas if you want to go to a strip club, oh, that's so inappropriate.
So all male standards are oppressive, insecure, controlling, psycho.
Whereas women having standards is empowering, elevated, refusing to settle, a giant plus.
This is mad.
Dating market imbalance is mad.
Of course, as everybody knows, women have a near infinite cavalcade of conveyor belt ball sacks roaming into their DMs on a regular basis.
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