Matt Gaetz
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My LinkedIn is fire.
I do five spinning classes a week.
I look good.
And, you know, every man that I find either is on the dating apps and they have so much optionality that there's not really an incentive to anchor your life with someone or they're losers.
And, you know, they can be losers who've inherited money and just have no desire to build something beyond that.
You had marriage as this thing that gave people financial security, right?
In the 40s and 50s, people were getting married.
And then you're bound to someone economically and built a life together.
You got married in your 20s and did your thing.
And then when we did no-fault divorce, then marriage really became a contract, like more than anything else.
And just like any other contract, when you're out of the contract, there are certain obligations that you still have to fill financially and otherwise.
And then the obvious next step is, well, if marriage is a contract, like kind of so is dating in a weird way.
Yes, of course.
will provide and what I'll provide.
And if at the end of it, there are women who say like, yeah, if I'm going to spend my time to go on a date, I want you to pay for it.
I think that's where we are.
And I don't mind.
When I hear women say that they go out and the guy wants to split the check, to me, there's something...
There's nothing chivalrous or interesting about that.
Well, it's awful.