Two speakers debate whether the push for women to become high-earning, independent "girl bosses" creates friction in dating. Speaker B argues that men struggle to adapt when women earn more or have higher status, leaving career-driven women facing unexpected relationship obstacles.
What's your take on the girl boss movement in general? I think there's more people waking up to the fact that maybe that's not such a good idea.
Women are still interested in going out there and having careers and being successful and making a lot of money and being self-sufficient. And I don't see any problem with that, but it does create difficulties in the sexual marketplace, especially around men who, for whatever reason, will not or cannot adapt to that.
Yeah. Why is that a problem for women dating in general?
Even though women tend to be very successful, they still tend to desire men who can improve their quality of life, which sounds pretty fair. But the better your life is, the harder it will be to find a man who can significantly do that. And those men are going to be desired by an inordinate amount of women. So the intersexual competition for those men is going to be absurd, and some of those men are just going to be happy enjoying their optionality with women. So those women are unlikely to secure commitment or exclusive commitment from those men.
