00:54:29Brian Atlasdemonize typically men because you very rarely hear the term toxic femininity and it demonizes masculinity so my question is if toxic masculinity does
00:54:40Brian Atlasnot mean that masculinity is toxic if you can separate the toxicity from masculinity what would be left that's not a gender neutral
00:54:51Brian Atlastrait I still like this all just sounds like word solid I'm so confused by what you're saying I'm so sorry okay what is what is something that men do that is
00:55:01Racheltoxic that is exclusively something that just men do essentially I mean there's a lot I think that makes a lot of sense but okay okay um I know we were discussing this a
00:55:13Rachellittle bit before this but like for example if you go to like the biology of like human attraction it's like women do look for men that have resources and I
00:55:24Rachelguess you can also like tie this into toxic femininity is a lot of women will almost some some women will abuse men for their resources but some men
00:55:35Rachelwill kind of use that as like a weapon in a sense it's like what do you mean use what their resources as a weapon yes what they like will buy a girl a
00:55:49Rachelperson throw that or what are you talking about well there's also like sometimes you can like you know Guilt Trip people with that stuff or sometimes you can make someone so dependent on you like dependent on someone's resources I
00:56:01Brian Atlasfeel like this is getting really off topic I have no idea like well no but I'm trying the the conversation was about masculinity you referenced toxic masculinity so I'm
00:56:10Brian Atlastrying to get at what you what precisely you mean when you say toxic masculinity CU I'm arguing the position that I don't believe there's toxic masculinity you said whoo you had a big reaction you're like that's a hot take that there's not
00:56:24Brian Atlastoxic Mas so I'm asking you to provide evidence for the toxic masculinity that you assert exists okay
00:56:32Rachelgoing see I can't use a lot of what I can very well argue without it getting bleeped oh are you talking about delete
00:56:43Rachelpeople deleting themselves no um are you talking about sa for example I'll try to use soft terms here as far as mental health and stuff it's
00:56:56Rachelsometimes toxic masculinity doesn't so much I'm not referring
00:57:03Rachelto man I don't know how to say anything without like triggering things or who are you going to Tri who who's going to be triggered no words that we can't
00:57:14Brian Atlasyou okay okay all right fine I'm so sorry I mean that sounds like a cop out but okay um last I mean I guess another question for you questions for you on this um do you believe in like some of
00:57:26Rachelthese other terms like do you think mansplaining is a thing I mean I like to use that term all the time like I I get caught up in mansplaining to Men A lot of the times and I laugh at myself oh yeah it's just
00:57:39Rachellike the overe explanation it's also funny like when you tell a guy something and then they turn around and tell you exactly what you just told them but then they like break it down and it's like
00:57:49Rachelwell I I was the one that just told you that like very clearly okay understand do you do you let me ask you a question do you think toxic masculinity is a
00:57:59Brian Atlassexist term no do you think toxic whiteness would be a racist term no do you think toxic Blackness would be a racist thing to
00:58:12Brian Atlassay I don't know who Jesus Christ I clicked the wrong button do you do you think toxic asianist is would be a racist thing to
00:58:23Rachelsay I mean man okay I am not in a position to I've never heard those terms would it be but
00:58:35Brian Atlasdo you think it would be racist to say that there's toxic
00:58:41RachelBlackness well yeah I don't do you think it would be RAC do you think it' be hold on do you think it would be racist to say toxic whiteness well in all my arguments with
00:58:53Racheltoxic masculinity I feel like a lot of toxic whiteness kind of plays into that so I can't really say wait toxic whiteness Nick keep it on her please you
00:59:02Brian Atlasthink toxic whiteness plays into toxic masculinity is there toxic
00:59:12Brian Atlasheterosexual yes okay um you're like literally making me sweat like with this it's it's a little stuffy in here I mean the doors aren't open
00:59:25Brian Atlasspeaking of which Nick if you could let a little air in please um wait so okay metaphorical hot potatoes making me
00:59:34Brian Atlasfeel like a hot potato okay okay but so just to clarify uhhuh toxic whiteness uhhuh not
00:59:44Rachelracist actual thing toxic whiteness I is it okay to say like since I'm white I'm allowed to think that I don't think that's an AR argument I
00:59:55Racheldon't know um well just statistically in the United States there can I say that can you say oh so okay just to toxic mindness is
01:00:06Brian Atlasjust a us thing actually no I take that back you could like go through history the other Colonial powers like yeah you know what that's I don't even know where you're asking great word was it a good word to throw in the colonial
01:00:19Brian Atlascolonialism yes thank you okay yeah I just gave you a layup there yeah see this is you're welcome yes thank you I'm bad with words that was needed okay so
01:00:28Brian Atlasthere's there's toxic whiteness yes but and that's not racist no but toxic Blackness is that
01:00:41Brian Atlasracist no I think that's just like not a a thing I don't know what about toxic
01:00:50RachelLatino no I don't toxic Asian no I don't know I'm looking at this like okay okay okay all right all right what are you getting
01:01:05Rachelat that's like triggering it's bringing me back to like Middle School like Middle School yeah when you were go to like have to learn how to type and like the little Labs I was so bad at that I'm sorry the
01:01:16Brian Atlaswindows oh the noise thing okay I triggered you with my windows reboot sound yes okay good time okay um so
01:01:26Brian Atlasman's is mansplaining sexist it's funny man's plaining is funny um is woman splaining sexist would that be a sexist thing to say what are your woman splaining right
01:01:38Rachelnow well when I refer to myself mansplaining I've had men refer to it it's like no actually you're woman splaining so I'm just like I don't know but is woman splaining sexist like do you think that' be sexist thing I just consider it like an urban dictionary
01:01:51Rachelterm okay is that allow is white what about white splaining is that racist I've I've never heard this before also I feel like comparing masculinity and race is just like so
01:02:06Brian Atlascompletely I I yeah look I I what I'm trying to get at is I like to use the hate speech test and if you replace the second word with other groups and if
01:02:17Brian Atlasit's either racist or sexist then it's probably not appropriate to say about by the way Nick that was just a temporary thing um so for example if toxic like if you replace that second word so toxic
01:02:29Brian Atlasblank and you replace it with another group and you determine that it's either racist or sexist or anything it's probably not appropriate to say about men or white people
01:02:40TTS Readeryou dinner but on another note him pretty sure the septum piercing girl monkey with symbols playing on repeat in her head not a thought no she's doing good guys guys be nice thank you Robin
01:02:52Brian Atlasappreciate it do you have a response to Robin you sounds like my dad Robin's your dad do you want to ro you can roast him back like if they roast you feel free to roast back like it's cool you know my dad told me the other day he's
01:03:04Rachellike the human brain's 8 PBS and I told him mine was 10 and he's like yeah with just all that hollow space b your dad and me would probably get along yeah your dad's Legend hey you know what
01:03:16Violetthere's there's thoughts there that's a good example of like mascul not like masculinity but like you know Chaos and Order they're both necessary so like femininity and masculinity you know men are just going to like be more
01:03:28Violetstraightforward than women are exactly also oh yeah yeah but it's necessary like you we need that like straightforwardness in life but we also need like the comforting of a woman so I
01:03:40Rachelthink that's why I said masculinity is necessary also it like reminds me a lot of like negative and positive empathy I guess that's a good example of maybe perhaps toxic masculinity is like in
01:03:51Rachelrelationships you need both negative and and positive empathy and they say that positive empathy is more important word but I feel like potentially men seek out
01:04:01Rachelmore positive empathy than negative empathy and then assume that females need more negative empathy than positive empathy does that count h Huh I kind of
01:04:13Brian Atlasget that yeah can somebody translate that for me I have okay cool because a woman is always going to more be more who here believes in who who here believes in toxic
01:04:25Brian Atlasmasculinity it's okay it's all right I I don't hate you for if you do Becca she doesn't want to argue okay all right there you have it folks uh I got some you guys were so kind as to provide
01:04:37Brian Atlassome pre-show notes for us so I'm going to go over some of those pre-show notes so let's see we have uh who do we start with we'll start with Becca you wanted
01:04:48Brian Atlasto talk about situationships in the male female Dynamic and dating hot take you can be high feminist independent woman but still need to have a man take the
01:05:00Beccalead yeah so do you consider yourself highly feminist and an independent woman um I
01:05:08Beccawould definitely say I am pretty independent highly independent um feminist I'm not sure how feminist I am
01:05:20BeccaI guess compared to sorry you make fun of me just looking up the you're just okay that's how I think I look up there I do that too I do that too I just had
01:05:28Beccato roast a little bit okay um yeah I guess in terms of feminist um I guess now you're going to be self-conscious I know I'm um so I will look right here um
01:05:41Beccaright at the microphone I guess when it comes to feminists like are you a feminist I would say yes hardcore feminist I would say no radical feminist no not radical
01:05:52Brian Atlasfem are you a turf I don't I don't know what that is Turf trans exclusionary trans exclusionary radical feminist oh I
01:06:03BeccaI don't know um that's a doozy that's a doo that's a doozy I didn't take enough classes in college on that um so you do you consider yourself highly feminist um cuz you say hot take you can be highly feminist independent woman but still
01:06:16Brian Atlasneed to have a man take the lead so you're highly feminist yes how you consider yourself a independent woman yes okay but still need to have a man take the lead when you say have the man
01:06:28Beccatake the lead what do you mean by that I mean like I think for a guy to be in his like masculine energy like there does
01:06:38Beccaneed to be that um he kind of takes the lead and and you know whatever that looks like you know what does that well you tell us
01:06:49Beccawhat does that look like I will tell you um do ITF I will tell you now right now okay whenever you're ready okay I will you're so ready I'm so ready I came
01:06:59Brian Atlasprepared um take taking the lead would be like him making the first move um wait can I help out here a little bit okay approaching sending the first message
01:07:12Brian Atlascarrying leading the conversation soliciting a first date soliciting your number setting up the date carrying leading the conversation on the date paying for the paying for the date soliciting a change of venue perhaps
01:07:23Brian Atlassolic subsequent dates in the setup and financial responsibility for said dates moving things forward physically closing the distance Gap going for the first kiss and moving things forward even further from there physically and
01:07:36Beccasexually speaking yeah can you send me that list do you want to send it to one of your guide friends sure so they can get on it
01:07:45Beccayeah okay no yeah that that all sounds like the guy taking the the lead so yes um so I think probably the easiest
01:07:57Brian Atlasconversational thread that we can go on this you say you're a highly feminist independent woman who do you think on the first date should
01:08:08Brian Atlaspay I would say the man okay we'll go around the table on this we'll start uh we'll start with you then we'll go around go ahead Rachel whoever asked the other person out on the date whoever
01:08:18Brian Atlasasks should pay okay what about you the man the man okay Violet the man the man should pay okay Manan the man the man so
01:08:31Brian Atlasjust to address your thing really quick whoever ask should pay um I want to go around the table on this again more often than not are you asking guys out or are guys asking you out go
01:08:44Brian Atlasahead have you ever asked a guy out on date oh yeah oh yeah more often than not though is it more so the guy asking you or you asking the guy I mean I don't remember the last time I've asked the guy guy out on a date so like I would
01:08:55Rachelsay now it's more highly concentrated with men doing it okay what about you definitely them they ask what about you the man asks have you ever asked a guy out no yeah I'm trying to think if I've
01:09:07Brian Atlasever asked a guy out no I have not how many First Dates do you think you've been on um ballpark it yeah just
01:09:22Brian Atlasrange 60 I was run I was running the numbers 60 60 okay beautiful 60 first AES all
01:09:32Brian Atlasthe 61st AIDS they asked you is that correct correct maybe there was one you kind of suggest okay Violet what about
01:09:42Brian Atlasyou oh my gosh I'm blanking what question yeah uh more more often than not are who's asking who on the first date is it the guy or you the guy yeah have you ever
01:09:53Brian Atlasasked a guy guy out on a date uh in fourth grade well come to think of it actually Violet okay never mind we don't have to go there um Madison what about
01:10:03Madisonyou I've only ever been on two proper first dates but I asked the first one and then my second first proper date it was the man asking well let's remove the
01:10:14Brian Atlasproper dates from this and let's include like uh just more casual Hangouts who's initiating the Casual hangout the guy or you the guy more so but I would too
01:10:26Brian Atlasright so on the whole like whoever asks should pay it's conveniently ignores the fact that men are overwhelmingly initiators so if your standard is okay
01:10:38Brian Atlaswhoever asked should pay for the first date well you might as well just say men because men overwhelmingly are the ones asking for first dates so that that like this whole idea
01:10:51Brian Atlasof like well whoever asked should pay would make kind of sense if there was some degree of equality when it came to initiative but there isn't equality when it comes to
01:11:03Rachelwho takes more initiative when it comes to dating I can say the advice my dad gave me in fifth grade which are please tell us men are pathetic and have low
01:11:14Rachelself-esteem and as a female if you ask them out or give them a compliment like it it you're making wonders for them it makes well yeah
01:11:26Brian Atlasthat's true because most men never have the experience of a woman asking them out so they'll probably remember that like if you ask an average guy out on date that will probably he'll remember that for the rest of his life
01:11:37Rachelwhereas most women you get I mean some women get out asked out so frequently they don't even remember it later that day mhm it makes them feel special and everyone wants to feel special it's like that's also why females like when men
01:11:50Rachelapproach and they don't necessarily want to approach men it's cuz like it feels good and also asking someone out is like extremely terrifying for a lot of people especially men it's like not just especially actually no so what you're
01:12:02Brian Atlassaying is that women are privileged uh no I would say of course they are okay well yes but you're in the privileged position of never having to
01:12:13Brian Atlasget off your ass to put in any effort into the beginning of a relationship I mean yeah that's true you just allow men to approach you you get to pick amongst all the men that show initiative I mean
01:12:26Brian Atlasyeah that's true I've had a lot of guys complain you don't risk rejection yeah really um so I don't know why I brought
01:12:35Brian Atlasit there but uh so okay we're okay this was the fir uh who pays oh I was just addressing the well whoever I should pay but it yes conveniently ignores the fact
01:12:48Brian Atlasthat men by default are initiators de facto are initiators so um conven venient uh you said that the guy should pay but you said that you're a highly
01:12:59Brian Atlasfeminist independent woman so how do you reconcile being a feminist claiming to be an independent woman but still needing to have the man take the lead
01:13:09Beccaand pay for the first date that's yeah that's a good question
01:13:16Beccaum I think you can or for me um feel like I think it kind of comes down
01:13:27Beccato the guy I feel like most guys on average
01:13:32Beccawant to be the one to pay or to feel in control and or have that ability to
01:13:42Brian Atlasprovide so sure you're you're not wrong like I think U there is a large proportion of men that are prepared to pay for the first date they're going to
01:13:51Brian Atlaspay for it they're happy to do it um but that doesn't really answer my question because would you if a guy let's say you
01:14:01Brian Atlasgo on a date with a guy okay and uh the waiter comes do you guys want anything else and he's like no no we're good can you get two checks please would you have would you object to the guy
01:14:12Beccaasking for two checks I that I would be kind of confused and I
01:14:21Beccamean maybe if I'm not being confrontational I would pay my pay the tab and then there probably wouldn't be a second date why wouldn't there be a
01:14:33Beccasecond date would you lose ATT traction for him or yeah yeah I think I would kind of be off put by that and and
01:14:45Beccanot maybe I would ask him about it later be like why did you want to split the tab and see what he
01:14:54Brian Atlassays but so if if it came down to it you guys end up splitting the bill MH is that that's a
01:15:03Brian Atlaspretty that's a strong negative for you yeah just because in the past I've I've had guys go out of their way to make sure like even before like I never
01:15:16Beccaeven see the bill come to the table like they make sure it's paid for ahead of time so I've had that treatment and enjoyed that so I
01:15:25Brian Atlasthink I don't know maybe I've been spoiled well I mean it's it's a holdover of chivalrous
01:15:36Brian Atlastraditional male behavior when it comes to male men paying for the first dates I guess my whole qualm with men paying for the first date is you ought to only pay
01:15:47Brian Atlasfor a woman if she also adheres to or believes in Tradition she consid traditional because to me
01:15:57Brian Atlasit's like you can't be feminist until the check comes like if you believe in gender equality then you shouldn't like and
01:16:07Brian Atlasbecause if we're talking about how do I explain you cannot recoil at the very idea of gender roles but then expect men to pay because men
01:16:19Brian Atlaspaying is a gender role so you can't just throw out and discard all the gender roles that have to do with you but then expect the man to still abide
01:16:30Brian Atlasby every gender Ro that applies to him no yeah no I see your point so if you want to be like you said a highly feminist independent woman enlightened
01:16:41BeccaProgressive feminist woman who doesn't believe in gender roles and that men and women are exactly the same then shouldn't you pay for your own meal yeah that is fair I
01:16:55BeccaI guess it comes down well yeah because I do believe in gender roles and then I guess with feminine or uh being a feminist it's wanting that equality with
01:17:07Beccagender roles so but then at the end of the day I I with the logic of me wanting the guy
01:17:15Brian Atlasto pay that would be me wanting gender roles why so do you um do you believe in the patriarchy is the patriarchy a thing and Rachel can chime in on this
01:17:34Beccaum I believe that for history sake um that the world has been typically dominated
01:17:46Beccaby men in um place of of in areas of control and
01:17:57Brian AtlasLeadership but there are cultures that are more matriarch matriarchal okay sure um well I guess my question is why do you support a
01:18:08Brian Atlaspatriarchal traditional belief of men paying for a woman's time yeah like isn't that kind of the patriarchy like aren't you reinforcing the patriarchy by holding men to this very
01:18:21Brian Atlastraditional gender role but you're a highly feminist independent woman yeah um yeah I
01:18:32Beccaguess I mean I've been in situations where I did offer to pay the bill in this were you just not interested in the guy though no I was the one instance I'm thinking of I was very interested in the
01:18:45Brian Atlasguy but you said you've had like what 50 60 dates mhm First Dates yes with so okay with different men um yes so there's one time that you offered to pay
01:18:55Beccathe bill but you're a strong independent feminist woman yeah okay um
01:19:04BeccaI was I think I I didn't I was lacking in self-confidence and didn't feel like I
01:19:13Beccawanted him to feel the pressure of to buy the meal for me but you were lacking in self-confidence it was when I was like I don't know 19 young you were 19
01:19:24Brian Atlaswas young okay so but it sounds pretty clear to me if a guy asked to split the bill let me ask if okay before the date yeah I feel
01:19:37Brian Atlaslike this wouldn't be an organic way to go about it but if a guy was like hey are you cool with splitting the bill and he was asking you to go to dinner I feel like that that would be kind of cringe a little bit
01:19:48Brian Atlasbut um would you just say never mind on the date for the date when you otherwise were interested in going yeah [Music] um shoot um I guess I would I guess I
01:20:01Madisonwould still go on the date and and pay the tab split split yeah do you like expect
01:20:12Madisonmen to pay for every date say you get went on a date with one guy and you kept seeing him after do you expect him to pay for every single date so you really really liked him mhm that's a good question Madison so beyond the first
01:20:24Beccadate would you like a guy to continue paying for dates I guess it would the first few dates and then few dates and then after that we could have the
01:20:35Beccaconversation of like hey there would be a conversation yeah if I saw it you know going somewhere and we wanted to keep dating because I I guess I I don't want
01:20:46Brian Atlasthat pressure of the being the financial provider hold on but we're talking about splitting the bill yes so why you're not being the financial provider you're just
01:20:56Madisonequally contributing to the start of the relationship the provider would be I'm paying for the whole thing mhm yeah okay so I feel like I've been like if you really did really like the
01:21:09Madisonguy like I feel like I've been in multiple situations where it's like oh like hey do you mind paying for your I'll just pay for myself and I feel like it's something that you can easily look past especially if you're super duper interested in this guy unless you expect
01:21:22Madisonhim to pay every single time you're just seeking for financial or seeking for money and for him to provide for you all the time but like are you really all
01:21:32Brian Atlasthat independent if that's what's all that you're looking for in a guy yeah okay so you said you want the guy to pay for at least the first few dates how many
01:21:43Brian Atlaswhen you say first few you mean two three four two three yeah two to three three to four and then you would want to have a conversation about moving forward
01:21:54Brian Atlasmhm is that is that a conversation you would bring up or he let me ask you're you said your longest relationship was 2 years correct
01:22:04Brian Atlasyes in that 2-year relationship was it did it become 50/50 at any point or did were you guys living together what was the uh we weren't living together we we did get to a point
01:22:17Beccaafter like I'd say like four or five dates where I'm pretty sure I brought it up like hey like I
01:22:26Beccacan I can pay for a date and then you could pay for a date and then it kind of became so what's that called like trading off or whatever yeah that way
01:22:36Beccait's not like we got to split the bill every time and keep track of every penny well okay but So eventually in
01:22:45Brian Atlasyour two-year relationship it was like switching turns taking turns yeah how long did it take to get to that point was he was he for the guy you dated for 2 years was he paying for the
01:22:59Brian Atlasfirst dates first couple of dates yeah how long until how many dates did you go on until it's switched I would say four four okay and then is something he
01:23:10Brian Atlasbrought up or you brought up I believe I brought it up because I and you begr did you begrudgingly be like I guess I kind of
01:23:20Beccalike you do you want me to start paying um I don't think it was begrudgingly I wanted to be with him and I I guess I
01:23:30Madisondidn't want him to think I was only in it for to be paid for what do you think it changes about a man if he uh starts paying for the first couple dates then you guys split things
01:23:42Madisonor just split things initially um I do you think it really changes anything about the way you see them hm
01:24:05BeccaI I would like to have the conversation with them and
01:24:14Madisonum gosh um I would just say like if it doesn't change anything about them then what's the point of starting off starting off
01:24:26Beccathem paying for everything versus splitting the tab um I guess it wouldn't make that much of a difference if I'm really interested in them yeah and they like
01:24:38Brian Atlaslet's say they really can't like pay for the whole meal or whatever but okay so you said that you're a highly feminist independent woman yet you expect men to
01:24:49Brian Atlasnot only pay for the first date but pay for two three I assume you'd probably prefer you'd prefer if the guy just continued providing indefinitely I assume that'd
01:25:01Brian Atlasbe preferable yes okay so I just how do you reconcile being a feminist being independent cuz that word means something yes but having like a very
01:25:14Brian Atlasvery strong preference to the point where if a guy didn't pay for you on the first date he asked to split you would not want to have a second date how do you reconcile
01:25:24Beccathat um I I guess I just would think that
01:25:36Beccait's at the end of the day I would want him to I guess that's the the trade-off with considering myself a feminist
01:25:47Beccaindependent woman is that I still believe there are gender roles in that that I want the guy to feel like
01:25:55Beccahe's in like he's still in his masculine energy so I don't know mental
01:26:06Brian Atlasgymnastics I mean that's what it sounds like that's what it sounds like but uh I mean it sounds to me like you want equality only when it benefits
01:26:18Brian Atlasyou I mean the guy paying for the first date the guy holding let me ask you when do you want to get married yes eventually would you be do uh will you
01:26:28Beccatake your husband's last name O um keep
01:26:35Beccait I I I do the hyphen thing okay um who has final say when it comes to household
01:26:46Beccadecisions who's the head of the household ooh shoot yeah and I I would love it for to
01:26:57Brian Atlasbe both of us but this is exactly what I'm talking about equality only when it benefits you so you want to you want a guy to adhere to his traditional gender roles lead pay for the first date but
01:27:09Brian Atlasyou don't want to adhere to your what would be a very traditional thing tradition taking the Man's last name in the case of marriage that is traditionally what women do yeah I don't have an issue with
01:27:21Brian Atlashyphenation but you best pay for your own way on a first date if you're about that hyphenation you should pay for your you should pay you should try to initiate at comparable levels that's my
01:27:33Brian Atlasthing okay you you want all the benefits of traditional treatment from men but you yourself you don't want to be a traditional woman so we got a lot of women who are feminist who love traditional treatment from men because
01:27:45Brian Atlastraditional treatment benefits women but you guys don't want to be traditional women m because I suppose in some ways not being
01:27:56Brian Atlastraditional comes to your benefit don't you think that's a bit
01:28:08Brian Atlasselfish do you have a response or should I move on you can or are you thinking I'll give you more time to think if you'd like
01:28:18Beccaum I guess in a way it is me being selfish if I'm if I am not taking or if I'm expecting these things of men and claiming to be wanting gender equality
01:28:31Brian Atlasbut then I don't want it when it's on my side so but you want traditional treatment but you you don't want to take your husband's last name I didn't say you don't want him you but what's funny
01:28:41Brian Atlasis forget the who should pay that's kind of small you said that you want a man to be a leader right but you don't want a man to be head of household that's a big deal to me you want a man
01:28:55Brian Atlasto lead but you don't want to be a follower is that correct yeah yeah yeah I got to send the
01:29:04Brian Atlasasteroid on that one holy okay I guess that you cannot this this is the big thing like forget the ho pay women want men and are attracted to men
01:29:16Brian Atlaswho are leaders and who are masculine and who are dominant but women have been there's this mind virus of feminism which tells like on a biological and
01:29:27Brian Atlasattraction level I would say most women want men to be leaders pay for pay for the first date take initiative make the first move do all these things right but you also simultaneously you want men to
01:29:38Brian Atlasbe leaders but you don't want to be followers and that's the breakdown I think in most relationships is you have women who desperately want men to be strong to be masculine to be leaders but
01:29:49Brian Atlasyou're not prepared to be followers you cannot be a leader with a mutinous is that the word is that is that mutinous with a mutinous non-f follower I cannot
01:30:01Brian Atlaslead somebody that's not prepared to follow me you can it's like a dance someone's the lead someone's the if both try to lead it's a disaster if both try to follow it's a disaster someone has to
01:30:14Brian Atlaslead someone has to follow and that's the problem I you're you're shaking your head you disagree I think if you look if you want to be as a woman you want to be more masculine you want to be more dominant you want to be
01:30:27Brian Atlastake take more of the lead in the relationship that's your call but if you're a woman and you want a guy to be the leader you ought to be the follower that's the only way it
01:30:37Brian Atlasworks to in order to lead like let's just look at this logically in order to lead someone has to follow right can everybody let's talk
01:30:49Brian Atlasabout let's talk about businesses in an organization can everybody be the leader in an organization no somebody has to be the shot caller somebody has to
01:31:00Beccalead yeah I guess it comes down to trust and maybe I haven't had that like trust in a relationship where I feel like oh like yeah I really want to follow this
01:31:12Brian Atlasguy maybe it's just like this tension I've had within me too I think too I that's because you've been injected you've been in Ed with the feminist mind virus she isn't looking
01:31:24Brian Atlasfor a leader then she's not looking for what the end maybe if it's no but she wants a guy to pay for the first date she would not go on the second date with a guy if he didn't pay for the first date which is some like gut instinct
01:31:36Brian Atlaslike because oh this guy's not a provider that's not leading as a guy I suppose you could say you want a guy to lead you want a guy to initiate you want a guy to do all these
01:31:48Brian Atlasthings but when it comes time for you to hold up your end of the bar when it comes to your traditional gender expectations you're like I don't like those never mind we're going to hyphenate our last names I'm going to
01:32:00Brian Atlashave you're not going to be the head of the household M I'm not going to grant you your ability to use your masculine instincts to make
01:32:11Brian Atlasthe best decisions for this family mhm hey that and that's within your right but what I guess what I'm getting at is
01:32:18Brian Atlasgo date like a guy who's down to split the bill and is gonna when you ask he's not gonna be uh decisive about what he wants to eat and he's not going to be
01:32:31Brian Atlasdecisive when he's going to have plans MH he's going to be like whatever you want babe you pick do you want that maybe she does I don't know can I
01:32:41Brian Atlasask a question go ahead um because by the way I just want to say you know other girls can if you have something you want to say please if you have something you want to say to what I say
01:32:52Arielsomebody you can come in go ahead um so the whole feminist movement really just confuses me because it's like doubl minded um so I have a question for the
01:33:01Arielboth of you guys since you guys seem to be um feminists and you seem to be also traditional as well at the same time where do you guys both draw the line between being a feminist and then being
01:33:14Arieltraditional like where do you draw the line at where you can be feminist in this aspect or more so like no just where you draw the line I don't want to get yeah
01:33:23Madisonyeah I feel like that's mostly just like what you consider yourself in like what you consider a feminist and what you believe in I guess for
01:33:35Beccafeminists but I don't know yeah
01:33:43Beccaum I would say yeah it is hard cuz I do I do want that
01:33:52Beccathat gender like equality when it comes to women getting equal pay and work and things like that but then there is this other part of me I mean I was raised in
01:34:04Beccaa very traditional home where like my dad was the Sole Provider and my mom was a stay-at-home mom so I do have that part of me that still wants that but
01:34:14Beccathen there's this also part of me that wants my own life and or I guess like I want that control in terms of like oh
01:34:25ArielI'm I'm a providing for myself and I'm making the rules in my own world so it's so are you willing to compromise like let's say you meet the right guy
01:34:36Arieland he's like traditional and he meets like all your you know checks the boxes right are you willing to put aside the feminist identity that you kind of have a little bit and then jump to being a
01:34:48Beccatrans transitional woman yeah traditional woman yeah I yeah I mean at the end of the day it's I want
01:35:00Beccato have that I have what what you want have the I I mean if it came down to it I do want the more
01:35:11Beccatraditional relationship so that would have to be me reevaluating like what does it mean for me to be feminist and independent if I do want the man to be
01:35:20Brian Atlasproviding for me and if I do want these things let me ask you a question yes do you think that a traditional man MH who's going to be a provider who's going to take care do you want um you want
01:35:33Brian Atlaskids right yes do you know how many kids you want um I wanted three but now with financials probably two when you start having kids are you going to want to pull back from work a little bit do you
01:35:46Brian Atlasthink you'll want to take extended time off of work probably yes how how much time do you do you plan to go get back to work quickly after you have kids or would you would you do you want to be a
01:35:57Beccastay-at-home mom so I I was just saying that I grew up you know in a very traditional home my dad was the Sole Provider and my mom was stay-at home mom um I think for me I want to be a
01:36:09Beccastay-at-home mom up until a certain age for my kids maybe till they hit like kindergarten both so like so five years yeah five six years and then if you have
01:36:18Brian Atlastwo kids so like seven six seven years want to take 6 to seven years off so yeah no that's not wrong I don't think that's
01:36:28Brian Atlaswell it's not it's not wrong for you to want that but I'm trying to reconcile it with your feminist independent woman
01:36:36Brian Atlasposition um yeah so I during that 7-year period you want your hus you want to stay at home take care of the kids you
01:36:46Brian Atlaswant your husband to be Soul bread winner for a seven-year period I'm not saying that's wrong I'm just asking if that's what you want it would be I I'll bring you in in just a sec go
01:36:57Beccaahead um it's hard cuz I think in my mind in this like Ideal World like I would be stay-at-home mom while also still bringing in some kind of income from
01:37:07Beccalike a side hustle or something and then a side hustle yeah I don't know what blogging about kids who knows blogging about kids I don't that sounds like a waste of money not going to lie blogs
01:37:20Brian Atlasdoes that do people even I don't know vlogging vlogging about kids I'm just I'm just bringing in a hypothetical so while your husband is a so bread winner and you just had two kids and you have household expenses and
01:37:31Brian Atlaschild expenses you you're going to want your husband to go like Drop $1,000 on like camera equipment and like editing and yeah no I know it is a big
01:37:43Beccacommitment okay I'm just trying to think of other ways I could help bring in money at the time of raising kids so you basically want to provide for yourself
01:37:53Madisonup until the time you're married and are ready to have children and then you're willing to put all your efforts into being a traditional wife
01:38:04Brian Atlascorrect I would say yes okay so the question you have to ask yourself is is you might want that treatment from a man but because of your mindset and
01:38:16Brian Atlasbecause you consider yourself feminist and independent you don't want to take your husband's name you want but you want him to be Soul Breadwinner for a
01:38:25Brian Atlasperiod of seven years mhm do you think a traditional man wants you do you think like tra first off do you think traditional men are feminists do you think traditional men tend to be
01:38:37Brian Atlasliberal men um not really I assume you're liberal right I'm liberal to moderate yeah okay so you have the other part of the equation is does the man you want
01:38:49Brian Atlaswant you you have a of like Progressive liberal women who want actually there's a Nick I I'll find it but there's this video that went viral a couple months
01:39:01Brian Atlasago I think it's in one of the Dropbox folders um we reacted to it it was a woman in a car and she was saying how she's super liberal and Progressive but
01:39:12Brian Atlasshe still wants the traditional treatment um I'm going to see if I can find the video cuz that's kind of topical okay but do you think a
01:39:21Brian Atlastraditional guy who is going to be okay with you not taking his last name and you being a feminist like do you think most traditional men want
01:39:32Brian Atlasthat [Music] um I don't you don't know think so but so don't you think you should
01:39:45Beccasorry sorry I didn't mean to cut you off continue the last name thing is funny because I just really like my last name if it was like a lame name then I'd be like okay but but I know I know it it
01:39:58Beccacomes down to like it shouldn't matter if you know if I had a cool last name or not it's it's more of the principle of
01:40:05Beccait I guess so anyways that's a side note but um yeah okay I guess yeah I'd have
01:40:15Rachelto do here you had something soul searching yes my whole thing is is like I think you can be a feminist and still want those things because like biologically like you want a man with resources it's like you're talking about
01:40:27Rachelhaving a kid someday wanting to support it like that's a biological part of us and like biologically you want a man that's going to protect you it's like you're going to want someone that's going to be able to provide for you cuz it's like hey pregnancy and having
01:40:39Rachelchildren is hard and like yeah I think men do see it that way I think part of feminism is like it not being necessarily completely transactional it's like you don't necessarily want to
01:40:50Rachelfeel like you're bought also I don't think a leader is necessarily a provider because yeah you can have a provider but you could like boss that around like you can get what you mean and like I think that's the same as like going on
01:41:02Rachela first date is like initially you want to see that that person is going to put it in and also it's like that courting like that courtship like you could look at flowers for example like a bouquet of flowers it's like people buy them now
01:41:13Rachelbut back in the day people used to pick them and it was like a proof of their ability to forage it's like look at all these qualities I can provide for you keep going keep going go ahead and
01:41:26Rachellike it's nice like I'm not gonna lie like one time some guy like hit me up at like 1:00 a.m. like as a booty call and I was like no you have to go out and like literally pick me flowers like pick me a bouquet and like maybe maybe I'll
01:41:37Brian Atlascome over it's like it's that sense of like effort have you ever had a booty call though oh a lot yeah okay like two standards this is
01:41:48Brian Atlaslike what's I mean so okay you have you objected you like almost were offended how dare he ask for a
01:41:58Rachelbooty call yet you've had plenty of booty calls yeah I've had so many booty calls that I was like you know what I want to feel like someone actually like
01:42:09Rachelwants to work for it you know it was just like a hey you know what I want can I so did he work for it yeah he he picked the flowers he let me ask you a
01:42:20Brian Atlasquestion so while he did all this work for it he went out and actually he legit picked flowers yes a whole bouquet he even got
01:42:30Brian Atlasa variety he walked two blocks for it it was nice um while how long did you make him wait before hooking up or whatever until he finished picking his flowers I thought it was funny oh so you
01:42:42Brian Atlasy'all hooked up on the first date it was not a date it was a booty call or the oh he so so it was still a booty call but he had to go get some flowers yeah
01:42:52Brian Atlasthat's so arbit I mean it's funny it's very arbitrary though um mhm and what what's so funny is like women have so much power in relationships I
01:43:03Brian Atlascan't imagine a guy being able to say to a woman like go get some flowers and then maybe I'll give you some dick
01:43:16Brian Atlasain't no girl going to be like okay let me get right on it start picking some flow so I can get some di like bro that shit's okay it's also different when you have to ask them to
01:43:29Brian Atlasdo that you know what I mean they should naturally do that but we had this this was a long time ago we had we went around the table with these some girls and a girl said she told a guy like a a
01:43:40Brian Atlasguy who was pleasant asked her out and she was like uh she's kind of a fenit she's like uh I don't know um prove uh tell me why I should go out with you prove to me or some
01:43:51Brian Atlaslike that and like all the girls laughed oh ha and I was like let me ask if a guy if you were interested in a guy and he was like prove to me why I should go out
01:44:01Brian Atlaswith you all the girls were like I'd just be like who who the does this guy think he is this guy he's got a big ego on to the next boom um
01:44:13Rachelbut okay so the guy you so okay it was a booty call you said no to the booty call but then heed you flowers and then you said yes to the booty call yeah and then I guess once the booty was over
01:44:25TTS Readerit was it was just interesting but that's like completely besides the point we're like getting off track en donated $99 toxic feminist is about wanting
01:44:36TTS Readereverything in females favor but expects guys to be traditional while being a non-traditional hose it's like having eight bodies and forcing her simp boyfriend to be okay that his girl got
01:44:47Brian Atlasran through shout out to number nine you wish you were number nine uhoh uh yo LP thank you very much for that comment man uh appreciate it yeah I
01:44:58Brian Atlasmean it's I think that's kind of how dating is you have a bunch of you basically there's an expectation on men that we adhere to our traditional gender
01:45:08Brian Atlasrules with non-traditional women they want they want all the benefits of equality and all the benefits of traditionalism doesn't make it make sense I don't really get it oh Nick the
01:45:21Brian Atlasvideo that we were talking about it's what's her name uh it was a new there's a New York Post article I can't find it in the folder so you're going to have to Google it it's
01:45:31Brian AtlasProgressive woman wants men to pay for dates that should probably trigger like find it for us um okay I don't know what what were we
01:45:42Madisonwe talking about I don't know paying for dates Bo calls you're talking about her feminist Independence
01:45:54Brian Atlasyeah um it's just look I you oh you were saying that it's normal like that's what women want like it's normal for women to want a guy
01:46:07Rachelwho's like provider protector leader etc etc cuz that's like biological yeah like I don't know if you've ever heard of bus but he's done a lot of like David bus I don't know his first name oh just his
01:46:18Rachellast name yeah but he's a lot of like research with that they like did a study across like 37 countries and outside of like one of them because of like culture Norms like that was the overall take and
01:46:29Brian Atlassure it it makes sense um let me see here Nick do you have it I'm looking for here I'm going to read this while I'm going to read this while I remember
01:46:41Brian Atlasseeing Violet on IUN and other social media several years ago glad to see she's still relevant I wish her much success and happiness moving forward F hey thank you man appreciate it um sorry Rachel what were you saying huh
01:46:54Brian Atlaswhat were you saying something I don't know I was just saying research I think I finished my okay Nick he said you have it I is it is it this
01:47:02Brian Atlasone oh dude add block rip um no that's not it uh do add Tik Tok to the search term can you pull it over to this screen
01:47:12Brian Atlasso I can see it yeah um just so we can try to find it um
01:47:21Brian Atlasgo back um no it doesn't trigger just uh Progressive women Tik Tok men should
01:47:30Brian Atlaspay sorry guys we're uh yeah that one hopefully the ad block please don't ad block it is uh just turn off ad block on that
01:47:42Brian Atlaspage do you know how to do it okay very top by the search bar Top by search bar there's a hand sign nope sorry guys give us just a sec click that
01:47:53Brian Atlasuh pause on the site always is fine just always okay refresh cool cool cool all right if you can pull that up when you can sorry guys we're just getting this article pulled up
01:48:07Brian Atlashere uh okay I'm a liberal it's hard to find masculine men to date who aren't conservative can you scroll down just a little bit uh I think let's watch the actual scroll down scroll down I think is this the actual video
01:48:21Brian Atlasno that's just a screenshot scroll down a bit more usually they link that's screenshot there we go uh pause it audio full
01:48:30Brian Atlasscreen what the you want to know PA pause pause pause pause pause full screen please okay start it go ahead I guess do
01:48:41TTS/Clipyou want to know pause pause pause pause pause video tab please go ahead realizations I recently had was that as a liberal woman it is really
01:48:53TTS/Cliphard to find a man who is willing to play the more traditional masculine role in the relationship in today's day and age who is not a conservative a man who wants to pay on the first state who
01:49:05TTS/Clipwants to open your door who has that want and desire to take care of you and to provide who is not a conservative and obviously as a liberal woman I do want to be respected for my Independence and
01:49:16TTS/ClipI do want to have my own autonomy in the relationship and not be comined or conform to the traditional female Homemaker childbearing role and most of
01:49:28TTS/Clipthe men that I've dated who do have that more natural provider masculinity about them are normally conservative so I don't really know what to do because I don't want to compromise my morals and
01:49:38Brian Atlasvalues just to find a man but am I asking to have my cake and eat it too yes yes you are okay so does that uh
01:49:50Brian Atlasum does that video kind of capture a little bit of how you feel yeah i' I'd say yeah okay