Dennis PragerFounder, PragerU · Founder of PragerU | NYT best-selling author

Are Women Superior to Men?

25 Jan 2026 · 3 min

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In this monologue, Dennis Prager argues that women fundamentally need men, presenting this as a cornerstone of civilization. He condemns the feminist movement as one of the most destructive forces for values and human happiness, claiming it promotes the false notion that men and women are identical and that women can thrive without male support. Prager draws on his Jewish upbringing to illustrate traditional religious views: men are obligated to all ritual laws, while women are exempt from time‑bound commandments, a distinction he interprets as evidence that women are inherently superior and do not require the same spiritual discipline. He also references the Genesis creation narrative, noting that woman was the last creation and therefore the culmination of creation, implying a special status. Throughout, Prager juxtaposes these religious and historical arguments with contemporary observations of women’s attitudes toward independence, concluding that the feminist agenda undermines true happiness and societal stability.

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Women need men. We shouldn't want to lose this essential truth. It's one of the basic building blocks of civilization. Yeah, I bet a lot of your daughters, if they went to college— maybe high school suffices— don't think they need a man. The feminist movement, truly one of the most destructive movements in terms of values and in terms of human happiness to have ever been created. And if you say, well, you don't believe in male-female equality, you think it took the feminist movement for people to know that men and women are equal? Do you think that my grandfather thought that men and women were not equal? He was a religious Jew. It was a given. In fact, in, in my religion, there is actually— and I don't think it's, it's unique— there was actually a fairly strong body of thought that women were superior. They didn't need to observe all the laws. That's true to this day. Men are obligated to all the ritual laws. Women are, are not obligated to any of the ritual laws that are time-bound. In other words, you have to pray at this hour. They're not obligated. The— and the— I learned as a kid one of the reasons was they didn't need them, that men were more in need of, of the— of these observances to control themselves. Also, the woman is the last thing God created in the Genesis creation story. And creation always goes from lower to higher. So arguably, the woman is the last thing to be created. The last being is the culmination of creation. You didn't need the feminist movement to tell people men and women are created equal. Anyway, that was not the emphasis of feminism. The emphasis of feminism was that men and women are the same, a truly destructive idea, and that women don't need men, and that the ideal life for a woman is one where you need no one, you're not dependent upon anybody. So that's a— that was a big— see how many happy women there are today, how many young women? Just radiating joie de vivre.