The following is adapted from my opening statement in my debate with Pearl Davis.

A lot of people in the so-called Red Pill community claim that marriage is a bad deal for men.

They use false statistics and fallacious arguments to get men to reject marriage, but in today's

episode I'm going to show what's wrong with their case. And usually it boils down to one of the following

fallacies or errors and reasoning. First, there's the wrong target

fallacy. This happens when a critic focuses on a bad thing related to marriage, but

concludes that this proves only marriage is bad.

For example, anti-marriage advocates often talk about how marriage is a bad deal

because men are sometimes mistreated in child custody cases.

But that's not unique to marriage. If you cohabit or even just hook up with a woman, you can still father a child and deal with custody issues. However, marriage makes a man the presumed father of the child with natural rights that

unmarried men don't have.

Even though unmarried fathers can still be liable to pay child support.

The children of unmarried men are ten times more likely to be

aborted and if the child does survive the pregnancy he's three to six times more

likely to live in poverty. Another wrong target is women themselves. Marriage

skeptics often say that marriage is a bad deal for men because modern women are

worse than previous generations of women. These critics say that there just aren't any women worth marrying, but once again

this argument says nothing about the goodness or badness of marriage. For many red pillars, women

are good enough for hookups that can result in child custody issues, or

cohabiting relationships that superficially feel like marriage but are far more likely to

fail.

But for some reason, women aren't good enough for marriage, which as we'll see benefits

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