Marriage Rates are DROPPING In the U.S. Because Women Aren’t Settling For Losers
Erin is joined by Liz Plank to chat about a new report that signals less men aren’t getting married.
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@RoseNZieg
May 26, 2026 at 3:08 pm
Government support for single women does exist. The main problem with kids of black single parents are from peer pressure to join the hood culture. That's why charities are made to keep them from the streets. There is a need for social change for this issue.
@RoseNZieg
May 26, 2026 at 3:08 pm
Hoarding money? Say you're a communist without saying you're a communist. Redistribution means everyone are equally poor.
@RoseNZieg
May 26, 2026 at 3:08 pm
People who think that back in the good old days women don't work outside of being a homemaker are wrong. They don't know their History.
@mastpg
May 26, 2026 at 3:08 pm
Uhhh, it's really weird that although most everyone (ie the vast majority of the non-37%, both women AND men) knows that JD Vance is a top 0.0001% weirdo, nearly every comment on this video is how "men" should want this or "men" should do that or everything is the fault of "men".
Please stop trying to cast every man in the tragedy you lived with your ex or just in your mind or WHATEVER and PLEASE realize that there are no main characters in a community, least if all you. It makes everything harder on us if the attitudes and actions of the 0.0001% weirdo class are presumed from the jump.
@dayoft6helords
May 26, 2026 at 3:08 pm
I love this conversation, but what I find missing from these topics is that the nuclear family is a revolutionary idea that materalised in industrial, post-industrial shift in the economy, ie capitilism. Pre-industrialism, mulitiple generations of families lived together, all taking part in raising children and taking care of elders. If you slso look at indigenous cultures, entire villages take part in the rearing of children. Mothers would also have sex with multiple partners in hopes that that man's talent is passed onto the child, or at the very least, that man is invested to teach a skill set to the child. The history of humanity is one of experimentation in sociopolitucal organizing, something the modern era severly lacks. Honestly, I think we have this all wrong. Modernity, patriarchy, and capitilism are destroying us.
@LeePNLB
May 26, 2026 at 3:08 pm
At the end there, you're sounding like Todd Atkins.
@leptonsoup337
May 26, 2026 at 3:08 pm
Thank you for addressing the material dimension here; I feel like this is often overlooked.
@Illiteratechimp
May 26, 2026 at 3:08 pm
I dont have much hope for my fellow mem either, though I try to subtly mentor the few young men around me.
@blablablasomeguy
May 26, 2026 at 3:08 pm
Everything comes down to economics. Even love and children.
Women aren't coupling with men as easily because they don't have to, economically.
People aren't having children as much because having children has become a luxury experience, no longer an economic necessity.
Men vs women. Women vs men thinking is destructive and wrong.
The rich are the enemy.
@blablablasomeguy
May 26, 2026 at 3:08 pm
Mainstream women say they want 666, and that's it. Society is falling apart for many reason, this is a big one. Sorry…. Most folks don't fit that. I guess if we don't fit that standard we should either go away, go to work then get discarded, or go to die in a pointless war.
6 ft tall
6 figure income
6 in d minimal
Men and women need to find a way to coexist and love each other. There is no society if we cannot.
@PlayfulJoyful
May 26, 2026 at 3:08 pm
6:23 romantic love does not care for children for 30 years until they can live on their own in this capitalistic hellscape
@alcidesfy
May 26, 2026 at 3:08 pm
Working-class men are "unmarriageable" according to women not their class. If you are working class, you are a "loser". Those two misandrists then draw an explicit and abrupt link between not being rich enough, and being an abuser. How dare you abuse me with your lower paycheck, jerk! Lower class men should be held "not accountable but responsible", whatever that means, for the increased disparity in income among men. But we've already established that men who dare not have a high paycheck are losers and abusers, and it's their fault? Talk about catty!!! Pick a lane. You are objectively blaming lower class men for their struggles. This reeks of pandering (meow) to the highest grossing dudes, because they are NOT "losersabusers" because they have MONEY, so why not kick the working-class men in hope higher-ups notice you? This isn't progressive and this isn't feminism, it's femcel narcissism.
(EDIT : I'm a 40 year old gay may with higher education and I was gagging the whole video through, have unsubscribed from the channel, I'm not about consuming incel content, whatever the gender — oh but men don't have gender, silly weewee me.)
Bonus round : men are so useless women who can't find a mate have a baby by themselves (definition of a femcel), but then it's about SOCIETY having to assume responsibility for their hardships, because as it turns out, you can't do it alone and even a stay at home babysitting father isn't just deadweight. Who would have thought there is value to a human being beyond a paycheck? But middle-class girlboss moneygurl don't share THOSE humanist values. I also barfed at the double standard of "men being a byproduct of neglect/poor upbringing who fall prey to Tate, but careful not to demonize single mothers. It's always men's fault, women are saints. We get it. Man = bad.
There's also the super duper feminist notion that men are in short supply and are being "stolen" : 1:40 ""Right. Yeah, but actually women who have gone to college are reaching down and stealing the men." //whistle// the cognitive dissonance rabbit hole goes deep.
I think you're doing better as an insult artist, but this kind of slip shows it doesn't all come from a sense of humor and social justice.
@karabeaner2145
May 26, 2026 at 3:08 pm
“Abortion is evolutionarily progressive” is a wild take lady. A starving body physically unable to carry a pregnancy, or a female animal hormonally caused to miscarry as being the same thing as a person intentionally going in to kill their fetus is a gymnastics level stretch.
I’m guessing she’d argue infanticide is also evolutionarily progressive since it also happens quite a bit in the animal kingdom? By both fathers and mothers or just plain old rivals. Pedo-murders just filling in their role of being evolutionarily progressing the species lady?
@cclockwise_ll3
May 26, 2026 at 3:08 pm
WOAH feminist biology!!
@MrGabox345
May 26, 2026 at 3:08 pm
Lovely conversation, I agree with some of it and disagree with some of it. But what really impressed me is how both of you seem to think that poor men are abusers and will hurt you physically and that somehow is related to their wealth. There are abusers on both sides.
@Syayid
May 26, 2026 at 3:08 pm
The solution is: "Don't demand for Perfection in Marriage. You both work together with the man you marry. Always give your Forgiveness to your Spouse. Man is actually clear and simple. They want to be trusted and put them in front of you and you lead from behind. If that's what you do, they will not seeking around anymore. Also, always assume that marriage is not one size fits all, but across the board, both sexes need to learn to respect one another and not be selfish. Marriage is also a journey. If you expect perfection from your Husband, then it's also your Husband's rights to demand perfection, and that perfection at all is a myth as humans. As long as you can keep going together and raise kids, you both are fine"
Owh, yes, in Islam, Women HAVE RIGHTS to choose the man she wants to marry and if she says, "NO!", Islam accepts it. The permission of a woman is asked behind the scene by the her father or a man she can trust to represent her. Be careful with the "culture", sometimes, what you see from the news is not representing what Islam is.
@mwwhited
May 26, 2026 at 3:08 pm
Oh of the most abused groups of people at work are the unmarried people without children.. probably more so women but I even saw it as a man. It was always expected that I could cancel vacations and work nights and weekends to make shit happen as those with families and children had to get home and do stuff but I was expected to have “nothing going on”.
I’ve heard even worse from my spouse before we go married as well as other women in my life. There just seems to be an expectation that our lives were less important because we choose to not have children.
@mathboy8188
May 26, 2026 at 3:08 pm
That was unexpected. At it's core, that was essentially indistinguishable from man'o'sphere red-pill content.
@TXSAGE2388
May 26, 2026 at 3:08 pm
15:11 like the men need to show up in all ways, not just with money and to be another body in the house. Contribute as much as the woman is.
@billdonahue1688
May 26, 2026 at 3:08 pm
For the record, there are a whole lot of employed, married men who are also what I consider to be dead-beat dads, in that they do almost nothing at home and their wives have to take care of them like they're one of the kids.
Maybe half of the married guys I know seem to have lapsed into the "traditional" role of only doing token work at home, while their wives who also work handle most of the childcare, cleaning, cooking, shopping, and organizing. Meanwhile, they guys do some yard work, maybe play with the kids periodically, and spend a lot of their time exercising, trashtalking their buddies on textchains or social media, watching sports on TV, and wasting time on the internet. These are the guys who think BBQing burgers or a steak means they did the cooking, ignoring that their wives did the salad, veggies, potatoes, set the table, and cleaned up after, including the BBQing mess. For the life of me, I don't understand why their wives put up with their lazy asses.
Also, I'm going to propose to you, Erin, that your Gen X hubby doesn't have a "Millenial attitude". He's got a GenX attitude and approach, because he was in the last generation that didn't involve helicopter parenting, and the first generation in which half of the kids grew up in broken homes, decided that shitty marriages like their parents' weren't going to cut it for them, and left school in the middle of the worst recession in a generation so took longer to get careers, get married, buy a house and have kids. Put simply, GenX If anything, I'd say your GenX hubby has a more traditionally woman's attitude and approach, as part of the "Stop complaining and just get the shit done" generation. So it doesn't surprise me that your husband helps out a lot and supports you. My guess he's seen a lot of the opposite, and decided that's not what he wanted for his own life.
Personally, as a GenX guy, I can't understand why anyone would want to be married to a "traditional" man (a.k.a. "lazy asshole") or a "trad wife". It would be my personal nightmare.
@FranzMacan
May 26, 2026 at 3:08 pm
as long as there is garbage to take out and Ikea furniture to assemble, men will have value.
@johnruhd5917
May 26, 2026 at 3:08 pm
It really is mostly down to guys being pretty shit mentally. As for me, the difference between who I am and who I attract is a balance greatly in my favor in large cities and greatly not where I actually live.
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