Shapiro: I don't understand for the life of me,
I don't understand for the life of me
why we are telling women that their best
and greatest superpower, creating another human
from their own body, is less important than working
as an associate law clerk.
Working 2,100 billable hours, checking footnotes,
is somehow more important than raising the next generation
of human beings that you made with your own body
and then bringing them up.
Radical feminism hasn't just impacted marriage
in negative ways, it's also impacted,
in really severe negative ways, motherhood and childbearing.
The death of marriage wasn't just bad for women and men,
it was really, really terrible for children.
Disconnecting marriage from children didn't stop kids
from being born, it just meant the kids didn't have dads.
Single motherhood is the single greatest barrier
to intergenerational economic growth in the United States.
It is not close.
On average, single motherhood damages children
in irreparable ways,
controlling for socioeconomic factors.
The strongest predictor
of doing prison time is single parenthood.
Children from single parent families account
for 63 percent of all youth suicide,
70 percent of all teenage pregnancy,
71 percent of all adolescent substance abuse,
90 percent of homeless and runaway children.
While it may have been fun not to get married
to that guy, it's not quite as fun
when he's not around to help raise the kid.
But this is
what the radical feminist movement was proposing, remember,
woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle,
unless it turns out that there are little fish,
then you might need another fish around
to help take care of things.
Single motherhood means that women themselves are trapped
in poverty all too often. It's just bad for women.
The poorest coterie in the United States
of women are single moms.
Now, radical feminists have a solution to this. They say,
just teach women not to have babies.
That'll solve everything, right?
Then you're not going to have to worry
about single motherhood,
just teach them that they don't have to have babies.
This is what Simone de Beauvoir, author of "The Second Sex"
and existentialist partner of Sartre,
actually said. Quote,
"No woman should be authorized to stay at home
to raise her children."
She says the government should ban people
from staying at home to raise their kids.
"Society should be totally different,
women should not have that choice."
You should take away the choice. Why?
"Because if there is such a choice,
too many women will make that choice."
You have radical feminists actually arguing
that women should be restricted in their choices
because radical feminists want women to act a certain way.
I'm not saying that because I'm an actual feminist.
I want women to be able to choose what they want to do.
Radical feminists are saying we have
to encourage women not to make their own choices.
We have to discourage
them from making choices we don't like, such
as staying home with their kids more often.
Except, it turns out, that women actually kind
of like having babies.
This notion
that women don't want to have babies is so bizarre.
Has anyone ever met a 35-year-old, single woman?
There are some who choose not
to be married, that's fine.
The vast majority of women who are 35 and single
are not supremely happy about being 35 and single
and not having kids.
Radical feminists then say that the priority,
even if you have kids, is career.
What you should do is you should have a baby,
and then you should go work someplace,
and you should some money,
and then you should pay some other lady
to take care of your kid.
That's the goal,
and that's how it works in California where I am from.
In California, the reason
that illegal immigrant labor is so prevalent
in suburbia is specifically
because of this. You basically hire an illegal immigrant
from a different country to come and mother your child
while you go to work.
You're making 50 grand a year, and you're paying
that 50 grand to another person to take care of your kid.
Really, this is what's happening.
Now, this is not actually what a lot of women want.
This is why people talk
about the gender gap. The reason the gender gap exists
in terms of income is because women choose to have babies
and spend more time at home.
This is the main driver of the gender gap,
and that's not a bad thing.
I don't understand for the life of me,
why we are telling women that their best
and greatest superpower, creating another human
from their own body, is less important than working
as an associate law clerk.
Working 2,100 billable hours, checking footnotes,
is somehow more important than raising the next generation
of human beings that you made with your own body
and then bringing them up.
Now, some people may choose that. Fine.
For the 1000th time, that's fine, do what you want.
It's a free country.
But if you're going to indoctrinate women to believe
that happiness comes from working as an accountant,
but not from spending more time with your children,
there's not a single person who on their deathbed said,
"I wish I had done one more doc review," not one.