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Women's GREATEST ENEMY

Channel: Orion Taraban
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8M7dbhb1s5U

The speaker's core claim: the single biggest thing keeping women from the relationships they want is their own pride.

Key points

  • Pride is named as women's greatest enemy; everything a woman wants with men is said to be "on the other side" of it.
  • First way pride keeps women single: believing you are the prize intrinsically rather than relatively and temporarily.
  • Claim: at age 30 the average man's sexual marketplace value exceeds the average woman's for the first time, and the gap widens with age.
  • Short clip (~1 min); it sets up "three main ways" but only develops the first before ending.

Reception

  • Mostly agreement from the comment base, tying pride to a perceived inability to apologize and to a lack of accountability; one quotes "pride cometh before a fall."
  • A recurring pushback is on terminology: a highly liked comment argues "sexual marketplace value" is wrong and that "relationship market value" is the correct term, since women always have sexual options but their relationship value declines with age.
  • Several frame the message as one women will not hear, predicting it gets drowned out by online voices telling them they are amazing and should never settle.
  • Dissent is present: one woman commenter calls it smug and patronising and turns the age argument back on men; another argues women do not want those things "from the wrong guy," so pride is rational.
  • A debate thread forms over how the sexes apologize, with one claiming men apologize by correcting behavior and women by trying to make the wronged party feel better.