Daily Wire's Matt Walsh: “Men are generally not attracted to ambitious career-driven women”
Walsh: “I think a woman's first priority should be the children and the home, but that doesn't mean she can't do other things and pursue other vocations alongside that”
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From the April 7, 2025, edition of The Daily Wire's The Matt Walsh Show
MATT WALSH (HOST): So Megyn says that young men these days don't wanna marry a career woman, and she says this is a real problem. She says that these young men are not attracted to working women, but, obviously, she thinks they should be. That these men are believing the, you know, anti-feminist propaganda. They've been duped, says Megyn Kelly. It's very sad. She says it's sad. In other words, it seems that the one putting up guardrails and judging other people for what they want in life is Megyn Kelly. Megyn doesn't seem to understand these young men. She says that I don't understand women, she says, and I probably understand women more than she thinks I do, but I admit I don't understand them perfectly. I'm not a woman after all. I've been married to a woman for almost fifteen years. I'm raising two girls. I have a mom and four sisters. I'm not clueless on the subject, but I'm not an expert on the inner life of women, and I've never claimed to be. Likewise, Megyn is not an expert on men. In fact, she seems to be rather flummoxed by them. And her confusion is, I think, shared by all of the feminist voices in our culture, and those voices are a lot louder and have a lot more power than the voices of the young men that she is criticizing here. This is the message that young men have heard their entire lives from every corner of the culture, and that's why it's worth responding to her in some detail. So, I'd like to make a few points.
First of all, Megyn is correct about about her fundamental observation that men are generally not attracted to ambitious career-driven women. Now it doesn't necessarily mean that men will not marry those kinds of women. And I'm not saying that wives should never have jobs. In many households, both parents work out of financial necessity. I understand that. There are also many different kinds of jobs that a woman might take on, which don't always require going to an office full time. My own wife is right now working on organizing a fundraising gala for a Catholic homeschool hybrid academy. She enjoys it. She's good at it. It's a service that she's able to provide to support quality Catholic education, and she can do it at home. And I am caricatured by people like Megyn as believing that women should only ever do the dishes and laundry and nothing else, but that's not actually my view. I think a woman's first priority should be the children and the home, but that doesn't mean she can't do other things and pursue other vocations alongside that. And as I said, in many cases, a family might feel that they need two full-time incomes in order to survive. I understand all of that, but this conversation is about ideals and about attraction.
What is the ideal that men strive for? What qualities do they find attractive in a woman? So most men ideally would like to earn an income that would allow them to be the sole breadwinner in the home. Most men like the idea of being the provider. That ideal will not always become a reality, but it is the ideal. And as for attraction, men are not generally attracted to a woman's professional ambitions. And that is — that's just not the quality that attracts a man to a woman. Now that isn't to say that men are never attracted to women with careers. What I'm saying is that the fact that a woman has a career will rarely be the thing or even one of the things that men find attractive about her. OK?
When a man is talking to his friends about a woman he's dating, he is almost certainly not going to say any version of this — dude, she's great. She takes her career really seriously. She's super ambitious. She has so much earning potential.
Now that's the kind of thing that a woman might say to her friends, maybe using different words, but that's the kind of idea that a woman might communicate to her friends about the man that she's dating.
A man is not going to say that about a woman. As a man, I have never heard another man say anything approaching that about a woman that he's dating or married to. I've never heard that because men and women are different. They they are looking for different things.