Chapter 1: What does Ben Shapiro think about modern marriage advice on TikTok?
Emily, do you promise to love Stephen in sickness and health for as long as you both shall live? I do. Stephen, repeat after me. With this ring, I thee wed. With this ring, I thee wed. Now, Emily. with this ring. Alrighty, folks.
So we are now aware of TikToks that are talking about marriage and this can't be good. And so my producers have delved in and brought me the worst of the worst for me to critique.
I am not shitting on marriage. I am not shitting on anyone who has figured out how to make that thing work for them. Again, everything's not for everybody. Monogamy is for you. It's not for me. I realize this. I know this now. And it's like a weight lifted off my shoulders. I realized I spent so much time lying and trying to be somebody that I wasn't for the sake of somebody else.
Complete and utter time wasted when I could have just been exactly who I am, said exactly what I want, exactly how I'm rocking, exactly how I'm not. And then waited for those people to gravitate to me.
Yes, I mean, the worst thing in the world would be for you to, you know, put your desires aside on behalf of another person. That'd be just terrible. To become a better person on behalf of another person. You know, that would be just absolutely awful. By the way, I mean, interesting jewelry choices, the dude. And that's a hat. That's a hat.
I mean, like Kevin Costner in Yellowstone or Neo talking about polygamy. Who knows? He's not crapping on monogamy. He's just saying that there's nothing wrong with being a complete piece of crap who sleeps with multiple women at the same time. You know, when it comes to him being terrible, yes. Also, what's up with the wives?
What's wrong with you?
Can we put a spotlight on the women who agree to demean themselves this way?
I know the TikTok sheikhs are going to come for my neck, but I don't really believe in marriage. Not in modern day, at least, because I would say that the majority of the time, it doesn't work out. And even when it doesn't end in divorce... It ends in absolutely hating and resenting each other towards the end of life.
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Chapter 2: How does Shapiro critique the concept of monogamy?
So it is a series of commitments made by both parties. But the idea that women are happier if they're single, like I'm just waiting for any data, like one shred of data that demonstrates this is the case. Because that is not what the data show at all.
What comes with polygamy from what you've seen? The responsibility that comes with polygamy, right, is being the caretaker of two, three households. Having to manage three women's, multiple women's finances. Fully. Lifestyle, children. That's a lot of responsibility that I don't think when men talk about polygamy today or any type of poly, they're just thinking about their sexual pleasure.
And I don't think that people really understand the whole concept. Like, it's deeper than that. You got to be well off to even subscribe to that lifestyle. for it to make sense for you, at least. It's a rich man's sport. Yeah, a powerful man's sport, for sure.
This sort of very, shall we call it a traditionalist view of polygamy, in which you are the head of a household and you have multiple wives and they all live on your farm together. I'm going to say that that's not what most people are doing when they engage in quote-unquote polygamy. Because it's illegal and you will go to jail.
At some point, isn't it important for children to know that their father and their mother are the partners in their life and that there are no other partners who are sort of like hanging on to the side? You're going to be our side piece. Polygamy is not good, people. It does not work. Historically speaking, polygamy is tribally based. Polygamy is interpersonally vicious.
It does not tend to work out particularly well. I mean, when you read the Bible, it's funny. People are always like, oh, there's polygamy in the Bible. Yeah, and it works out horribly. Read the book of Genesis. Every polygamous situation works out horribly in the book of Genesis, like literally all of them. Marriage is a matrix programming. You don't own your partner.
The way we have known marriage is a damn matrix programming. Many people think that marriage equals ownership of someone. And this is exactly why most of humanity suffers. This is why we have so much toxicity in relationships. Because majority of people live under illusions, the illusion of control, the illusion of possession, the illusion that people belong to us. So let me break it down to you.
You don't own anybody, not your partner, not your kids, not your friends, not even your husband or wife. Every soul belongs to itself. Nobody is your possession and nobody is meant to control you either. That's matrix programming. That's patriarchal bullshit. You don't own shit and you're under an illusion. Now, two people can choose to be in a relationship beautiful.
If it's coming from integrity, love, harmony, amazing. But the second that you think you possess them, you're asleep and under the illusion of the matrix. And this is why marriage, the way it's been designed, is part of the matrix. Because...
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Chapter 3: What are the implications of marriage according to Shapiro?
Literally responded with, I'm sorry your lovers aren't home. And then of course said, poly people problems. While some couples are out here arguing over who liked their Instagram photo. So one of the things that you find in all of these videos is that no one ever discusses kids.
It's all about the sexual pleasure that you and your partner are having with multiple other partners and all the rest of it. So the question is why you bother having a relationship with that person at all, really. The purpose, again, of marriage is to build a household together.
That is the actual purpose of the thing, which is deeper than just whatever sexual relations you're having with your various lovers on the side. By the way, I'm going to go with the time arc on this relationship is not going to be particularly long. Because if you're 60 and you're still doing this, I have doubts. Let me put it that way. Serious, serious doubts.
I just really, I really wish women would stop getting married. And there's always a conversation that's being had around like SW and how like SW sets women back and how it feeds into the patriarchy. And just because a woman chooses to participate in it doesn't mean that it's not still harmful and doesn't mean that it's empowering. And that's a whole nother conversation. But
If we're going to say that about SW, I think this is my little opinion that's probably going to make you mad, but I feel like the same can be said for a marriage. Marriage is an antiquated idea that I believe oppresses women and unrefutably has a history and an origination in the oppression of women.
No. No.
We are trying to continue to get something to work that is so flawed from its inception, and it's not going to work.
Since you did not know the word irrefutably, then I'm probably going to take your advice. What is SW, producers? Clue me in. Yeah, SW, sex workers. Well, we're using acronyms now. I had no idea what that was. Okay, so saying sex workers is bad for society, which is true. Sex work is bad for society. It makes men worse. It means women. It devalues sex. It devalues relationships. It is bad.
Comparing that to marriage is insane. Meanwhile, the sort of ahistorical notion that marriage... is purely a cram down on women. It's a way to harm women. That is just wrong. It's not true. It's a way to preserve and protect women. That is what marriage was for. I know that we now live in a modern society in which women feel incredibly safe, which is great. That's wonderful.
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Chapter 4: How does the discussion shift to the responsibilities of polygamy?
And also, why don't you go talk to single men and see how happy they are? Are they really, really happy? That ain't what the stats show. We've talked a lot about single women in this particular video. Single men are not happy. Their stats are awful. They have higher rates of suicidality. They have higher rates of poverty. They have higher rates of drug and alcohol abuse.
They have higher rates of loneliness. It's as though we exist in a vacuum in which if marriage is not perfect, the alternative is the perfection of singledom. And that isn't true. The alternative is loneliness. The alternative for a huge majority of people is a sense of meaninglessness. Like, yes, you were built to need another human. That is true. And that's not a bad thing. It's a good thing.
Alrighty, so as always, don't listen to TikTok when it comes to your life advice because the people on TikTok are idiots. And you know that because they're posting on TikTok generally. Unless it's this TikTok.
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