Podcast host Joe Rogan recently explained in “sexist terms” how women want a man to be the provider in their relationship while speaking with UFC fighter Sean O’Malley. A topic during their discussion included how social media impacts modern relationships.
Rogan and O’Malley criticized how platforms like Instagram devalue the dating experience, while Rogan added how much more complicated a woman can have to find a stable partner. Rogan said, “To be sexist and to talk in sexist terms, women, they go to a man as a provider. She’s going to want a guy who can keep it together, right? You’re going to want a guy you’re going to have children.”
He continued, “You’re going to want a guy who’s going to keep it together, financially stable, be disciplined, do all the things that he’s going to do, not fall apart, not become a drug addict, not do something stupid like lose his job and not give up because of that and then everybody gets on welfare. You have to count on someone unless you want to work yourself. There’s like this evolutionary aspect.”
Rogan added that, in contrast, men don’t care whether a woman can provide for them. He joked, “No one cares. Are you nice? Are you cool? Are you fun to be with? Do I enjoy spending time with you? Then, who cares? But a woman like Taylor Swift is not going to marry a bartender. I sell out stadiums; what do you do? You make drinks?” Earlier in the discussion, Rogan referenced a clip he saw that described Instagram as an “infidelity accelerating machine.” He agreed with the description based on the pages of some wives “sticking their buttocks out.”
The podcast host commented, “You know they’re getting bombed on the DMs constantly, and if something goes wrong in the marriage, they have so many options. Pro-athletes are DM’ing them; who knows?” Rogan added, “How much are you going to be invested in trying to figure somebody out if you got like 100 people that you swiped on that are also ready to go? And you can just leave, like, ‘this date sucks.’”
In a recent Fox News Digital interview, University of Virginia sociologist and professor Brad Wilcox urged men to become “more intentional” about their relationships to be good potential partners for women. He said, “One of the things that I encounter here at the University of Virginia is that a lot of young women feel like they don’t have good prospects for dating, that there aren’t guys out there who are worthy of marriage, or worthy of investing in a serious relationship. And so I think encouraging men to take high school, take college, take their early jobs more seriously, and to become more intentional about their relationships as well, would be part of the answer here.”
Societal standards have dictated that men are supposed to be the providers in the relationship, so naturally, that’s what women will seek in men. However, some couples prefer to split expenses, so it truly depends on what works for your relationship.
