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I Was Completely Wrong About Women. The Truth Is Worse Than I Imagined!

Channel: John Griffin (Life 2.0)
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eyshc2iJPtY

The speaker argues that the "sugar and spice" image of women he grew up with was a generational brainwashing, and that data and feminist culture now reveal women to be more self-interested and more hostile to the opposite sex than men are.

Key points

  • Frames a personal awakening: raised to believe women were good, fair, trustworthy, he now sees that as naive conditioning shared across his generation. Points to #MeToo's "always believe women" as the moment he started doubting.
  • Income/fertility study (Danish). Per a study he cites, each +5% income made a man 1% more likely to want a family but made a woman 4% less likely - which he reads as men being more generous/willing to invest in others while women lean toward autonomy and self-interest. Notes EU maternity protections rule out the job-loss explanation his daughter offered, so he attributes it to "greed and selfishness."
  • Men vs women aversion study. Claims questionnaires of thousands found ~7% of men have a strong aversion to a relationship with a woman vs 21% of women toward men - "three times as many women hate men as men hate women."
  • Evolutionary framing. Women evolved to seek protection and to signal vulnerability in groups; "social contagion" makes them conform to a dominant female leader for fear of exclusion (which once meant death). Social media now lets the loudest, most extreme women - often, he says, lesbians who drove early feminism - set anti-man norms the rest mimic.
  • Argues a double standard: a man leading a 21% woman-hating movement would be arrested/de-platformed, while women's hatred is shrugged off; advertisers happily run alongside it. Calls this "feminine fascism."
  • On "deceptive mating strategies": reframes the complaint as ghosting after sex, and counters that women control access to sex - holding out a couple of months filters out "f-boys" who won't wait.
  • Says women cling to victim identity despite out-earning, out-educating, and out-home-buying men, needing someone to blame. Ends hopefully: thinks much of the hostility is group-driven signaling that would dissolve if women felt safe with a good man, and that the ~79% neutral-to-positive women already prove it.

(Leans heavily on a "Danish study" and an unnamed men-vs-women survey for its central 4%, 7%/21% figures, none sourced; presents the evo-psych "social contagion" model as fact.)

Reception

  • Strongly agreeing, cynical-male room that largely amplifies the thesis - "Women are takers, not givers" tops the list (1000 likes); "Men SHARE, women TAKE" echoes it.
  • A common refinement: it's "not hatred towards women, it's hatred towards their behaviors" (633 likes) - commenters reframing the video as critique of conduct, not sex.
  • Heavy "stay single / monk mode = peace" sentiment, plus marriage-warning anecdotes (a 53-year-married man: "If you want hell on earth, get married"; a 13-year-married man resenting lost autonomy).
  • Validation of the "brainwashing" frame via the "sugar and spice / snakes and snails" nursery rhyme, and of feminism's effect: "Feminism has destroyed the way many men feel about women."
  • Recurring claims that there are no social penalties for bad female behavior and Johnny Depp / Amber Heard cited as proof #MeToo was a "power-tripping cult."