Feminism, toxic masculinity, red pill bros, how on earth are people supposed to find a partner and find love in this insane dating landscape?

I've talked about this a lot. We have talked about the Gen Z mental health crisis, which in my opinion is just a loneliness epidemic. We are so lonely. We have literally been dubbed the loneliest

generation. I know that we're trying to work on that, obviously. But even though that loneliness

has been fostered through social media and COVID and all of these things, I think that the

dating divide and the ideological divide has played a huge role. Wendy Walsh, who is a psychology

professor at California State University Channel Islands, and an ambassador

for dating advice.com, told Newsweek recently that, quote, in the last few years, males have become

increasingly conservative and the most liberal and progressive group in America is young females.

The political polarization is already creating problems in the dating scene. People in their

20s are either not dating at all or competing for a very

small group of people who match their political views. And guys, as I am sure you are well aware by

just being young people and humans in this weird culture, I'm sure you are aware that this divide

did not happen overnight. And so we need to look back over the political landscape in the 21st century

to see how we got here. And most importantly, what solutions we can employ to actually fix the situation. But before we do, make sure that you are following our podcast page. And please rate the show if you are enjoying it. It helps us out so much in the algorithm. And if you want to stay up to date on all things, Brett Cooper in live events and fun things that we're doing, make sure to head on over to bret cooper.com. That is where we house all of that information. Now, back to the show, I think that the easiest place that we can start is with men. And we talk about this all the time I have been talking about this, basically as long as I have been on the internet. And anyone who follows politics even remotely can see the way and

understand the way that our culture has alienated men massively over the last decade to 25 years or so.

And most recently, in my opinion, it has been the Me Too movement and the lasting impacts of

that that were the unfairly generalized men as predators, which led to massive, massive

reputational damage, innocent until

proven guilty was basically thrown out in the courts of social media, in the actual courts

of law. Like, that has just not been a thing anymore. There was and still is this attack on toxic

masculinity, which stereotyped, you know, normal male traits like soicism or assertiveness as being inherently

harmful. And they even went so far as to say that things like football and hunting and just

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