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Pseudo-Intellectual with Lauren Chen

Feminist Dating Is Even Sadder than You Think | 6/9/23

Pseudo-Intellectual with Lauren Chen

Lauren Chen

News Commentary, Society & Culture, News

4.31.1K Ratings

🗓️ 10 June 2023

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

A recent viral TikTok has created a bit of a controversy: A self-proclaimed liberal woman complained that the men she finds most attractive tend to have conservative leanings. Lauren explains why. Go to GoodRanchers.com and use code LAUREN Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Fellas, considering that the year is 2023 and let's face it, most women are progressives, ladies, I hate to say it, but it's true.

0:08.0

One would think that the best way to get a girl in this day and age would actually be to become a male feminist ally, right?

0:16.0

Because, I mean, all these ladies, they're super progressive, surely what they would want in a mate is someone who shares their political values, right?

0:24.0

Well, perhaps not, at least according to one woman whose TikTok is going viral because she, as a liberal feminist, claims to mostly want to date conservative men because they're more masculine.

0:37.0

Do you want to know one of the saddest realizations I recently had was that as a liberal woman, it is really hard to find a man who's willing to play the more traditional masculine role in the relationship in today's damage.

0:52.0

Who is not a conservative? A man who wants to pay on the first date, who wants to open your door, who has that want and desire to take care of you and to provide? Who is not a conservative?

1:03.0

And by the way, this is by no means the first liberal woman that we've seen express a preference for conservative or more masculine men, but let's analyze what she says here.

1:11.0

She says that as a liberal, it's hard to find a man who is more traditionally masculine.

1:16.0

Why do you think that is? Because we've talked about the attack on masculinity before, but from the left, we always see, oh, that's not true. There's no war on men. We're only talking about critiquing toxic masculinity, not men in general.

1:27.0

Well, here we have a liberal who herself says it's hard to find progressive men, liberal men who are themselves masculine.

1:33.0

If progressive politics don't attack masculinity, then why is that? Then why is there such a dearth of masculine progressive men? Because there definitely is.

1:41.0

It's not just this lady who notices. The second thing I want to ask is that why as a liberal woman is she even interested in a man who is more, let's say, benevolently sexist, right?

1:51.0

He wants to be a caregiver for her. He wants to pay for her on the first date. If you are a liberal woman who is strong and empowered, why is that even attractive to you at all?

2:01.0

I mean, as a strong and dependent woman who's really no different than a man at all, just as capable, why would you even seek out those gender roles in a relationship?

2:09.0

It doesn't make sense. Perhaps, though, perhaps it is because men and women are innately different and it only makes sense for a woman to seek out those types of masculine inherently masculine qualities in a partner.

2:21.0

But here's the catch. If you are a lady who is looking for a traditionally masculine or conservative man because you want them to take on that caregiver or provider role, guess what odds are that this conservative men might also have traditional gender roles in mind for you.

2:35.0

I know it's really hard for a woman to hear nowadays, but yeah, men are allowed their own standards and preferences as well.

2:40.0

But, unsurprisingly, it doesn't seem like this liberal woman wants to hold herself accountable for any of that.

2:45.0

And obviously, as a liberal woman, I do want to be respected from my independent, and I do want to have my own autonomy in the relationship and not be confined or conform to the traditional, female, homemaker, child-bearing role.

3:00.0

And most of the men that I've dated, we do have that more natural provider masculinity about them are normally conservative.

3:07.0

So, I don't really know what to do because I don't want to compromise my morals and values just to find a man.

3:13.0

But am I asking to have my cake and eat it too?

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