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Normies Are Realizing Marriage is Cool (Uh Oh!)
In this episode, Simone and Malcolm explore the surprising resurgence of traditional marriages and their benefits, contrasting it with the red pill philosophy advocating against marriage. Through statistics and insights from Brad Wilcox's article 'Why Marriage Survives,' they analyze trends in divorce rates, childbearing, and marriage stability since the 1980s. They discuss how societal shifts are changing perceptions of relationships among young adults, emphasized by Andrew Tate's controversial views on masculinity and marriage. Additionally, the episode touches on gender roles, economic stability in relationships, and the importance of mutual respect and attentiveness in modern marriages.
Malcolm Collins: [00:00:00] now it's radical monogamy, where monogamy. But like, I'm not a square or anything.
Simone Collins: Yeah. I, I love this concept of like, marriage. Have you thought of it?
Ooh, I don't know. No, no. I wanna get
Malcolm Collins: that dirty. Yeah. I'm gonna have a husband who I serve. What the food for? Oh my gosh. Oh my gosh.
Simone Collins: And I'm gonna get pregnant. We're legally bound to each other. What is this? The Omega verse?
This is kinky. Oh God. No. It's really come to that though.
Would you like to know more?
Malcolm Collins: Hello Simone. I'm excited to be here with you today. Today we are going to be going over the surprising increase in traditional marriages and traditional marriage structures and why they might be beneficial to people contrasting with the red pill ethos that will go into as well in this, where you get somebody who says, no, marriage is always bad.
It is just a trap for the man. It is just bad for the man. Which I'm sure [00:01:00] you've heard a hundred times on web PE sites.
Simone Collins: Okay. How do you define traditional marriage?
Malcolm Collins: And this is, well, you'll, you'll understand from the statistics that we're going over 'cause we're gonna be going over a lot of statistics in this episode.
And we're going to be doing it through the eyes of a piece by Brad Wilcox in The Atlantic called Why Marriage Survives.
Simone Collins: Nice. Brad Wilcox. Okay, let's do it. I'm excited.
Malcolm Collins: You're acting like we know him. Do we know him?
Simone Collins: We've met him a couple times at events.
Malcolm Collins: Oh, wild. Okay, cool. He's a prenatal list.
Simone Collins: Yeah. He, he's all about marriage.
His, his angle in the prenatal list movement is, I'm the marriage guy, so
Malcolm Collins: it would make sense that he's running. Sorry. By the way, Brad, if you, I met you. I'm just terrible with Ames. So, and faces, and I met you again. I'd be like, oh, you're that guy. You know, but sorry. Anyway so I'm gonna dive right in and I've cut out all of the fluff from this, and so we're just gonna go like stats heavy.
Okay.
Simone Collins: Awesome.
Malcolm Collins: First, the decline in the divorce rate was accelerating since the early 1980s. The divorce rate had now fallen by almost 40% and about half that decline happened in just the past 15 years. So I'm gonna [00:02:00] read that again. First, the decline in the divorce rate is accelerating, so fewer people are getting divorced and it's happening at an even faster rate as time goes on.
Simone Collins: But don't you think that's also a product of there being far fewer marriages?
Malcolm Collins: We'll get to that. Okay. Since, since the 1980s, the divorce rate has fallen by 40%. So when people get, wow. Since the 1980s, it's fallen by 40% and half that decline has happened in just the last
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