Men and Women Need to Learn to Like One Another Again

Source: Emmy Griffin, "Men and Women Need to Learn to Like One Another Again," The Patriot Post, 13 October 2025.

"We have often fretted about the devastatingly low U.S. birth rate and the fact that couples aren’t having many children. However, as podcaster Brett Cooper recently pointed out, the fundamental problem is really that men and women, especially younger ones, don’t really like one another. Women have slipped into a fantasy world wherein they don’t respect men (and yet men must do everything for them), and men have slipped into a fantasy world of pornography and Artificial Intelligence."

"Feminism has taught women that the most important thing in life is taking care of themselves materially. Actress Emma Watson said recently that the societal pressure to get married is “violence.” Ironically, most societal pressure is actually in the other direction. Later in her comments, Watson displayed a fundamentally broken view of marriage, saying, “I’m just so happy not to be divorced yet.” Divorce isn’t inevitable, and any societal pressure to get married and uphold the essential building block of civilization is a net good. Calling it “violence” is unhinged."

"A recent NBC poll bears this out. When asked about what they see as marks of individual success, most Gen Z women responded that having a fulfilling job and being financially independent were the most important attributes. For conservative Gen Z men, however, the story is very different. Their top measures of individual success are marriage and having children."

"Part of the problem is that young Gen Z women are living in a matriarchy. They have been told that they call all the shots and that they can be as picky as they want because men should be grateful for anything they can get."

"But it’s not just the women who are struggling. Young men are as well. They are struggling with loneliness. They have been told to value financial success before even thinking about marriage and a family. Some don’t value women, some have given up on women entirely, and some believe that they are women. There is a strong argument that man-to-woman transgenderism is the ultimate expression of woman-hatred."

"Men’s masculinity has been pathologized. Male strength has been reframed as toxic and predatory. Good men have been pushed to the margins, which has allowed men who claim to be ultra-masculine but who are really the epitome of male infantilization..."

"When did we stop living in the world of reality? When did we forget that relationships aren’t about finding perfection; rather, they’re about an imperfect person who is perfectly right for you? When did we stop seeing that masculinity, when properly channeled, is a net good, and femininity is a perfect counterpoint to that strength? We’ve been conditioned to scorn and dispose of one another, and it’s tearing our culture apart. We need to come back and face reality with courage."