<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/celebrities">Jewel</a> is not confirming or denying that she’s in a relationship with <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/kevin-costner">Kevin Costner</a>.
The 49-year-old <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/entertainment">singer-songwriter</a> dodged the question during an <a href="https://www.elle.com/culture/music/a60446644/jewel-interview-2024/">interview</a> with Elle published Wednesday. When asked about their rumored romance, Jewel said, &#8220;He&#8217;s a great person.&#8221;
The interviewer noted that she was blushing when she said, &#8220;The public fascination is intense for sure.&#8221;
Jewel and Costner have been a rumored couple ever since they were spotted together at a charity event in the British Virgin Islands in December 2023, according to <a href="https://people.com/jewel-plays-coy-when-asked-about-romance-with-kevin-costner-8630520">People</a>. 
Costner recently went through a very public divorce with Christine Baumgartner. The former couple filed for divorce in May 2023 after almost 20 years of marriage.
The 69-year-old actor, who shares three teenage children with his ex, said he was “shook up” from the divorce. Costner elaborated on those feelings after winning a court battle about child support payments.
“So, there’s a few things I have to do with this seismic change,” Costner <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/kevin-costner-wins-court-battle-against-estranged-wife-after-judge-sides-with-him-on-child-support-payments">told</a> Fox News in September. “There’s a few responsibilities I can’t run away from. Mostly what I have to do is figure out how to spend more time with the children and help walk them through this … spend a little time with myself.”
Jewel is also divorced. The Grammy-Award-winning singer was married to rodeo competitor Ty Murray from 2008 until 2015 and shares a 12-year-old son, Kase, with him. 
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The singer <a href="https://people.com/parents/jewel-teaching-son-kase-independence-motherhood/">told</a> People of their split in 2017, “I don’t think any parent goes into a relationship and a marriage and having a child thinking of a divorce one day.”
&#8220;I don’t know if that’s a regret. One of the reasons I got divorced, though, is when I looked at my child, I realized I wasn’t the woman I wanted him to know. I had to change some things about myself,&#8221; she continued.
Rumors were circulating in November that Costner might be dating actress Reese Witherspoon, but she <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/reese-witherspoon-has-something-to-say-about-those-kevin-costner-dating-rumors">denied</a> them outright. 
“This story is completely fabricated and not true,” a representative for the “Legally Blonde” star told Page Six at the time.
Costner is currently working on a four-part Western-themed movie series, representing his first big project since his exit from Paramount Network’s hit series, “Yellowstone.”

Kevin Costner and Jewel

Jewel Stays Vague On Romance Rumors With Kevin Costner: ‘He’s A Great Person’

Jewel Stays Vague On Romance Rumors With Kevin Costner: 'He's A Great Person'

Celebrities

Entertainment

Kevin Costner

Relationships

A couple years ago, I produced a few segments in which I answered viewers’ questions about dating. Rightly so; it’s a hot-button topic. I have <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/how-do-you-know-theyre-the-one-candace-owens-answers-questions-on-dating" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said it before</a> and I will say it again: Dating does not have to be as difficult as people make it out to be if you know what you are looking for in a significant other. So, I am revisiting some questions I have received over time to answer and give my thoughts.
<h4>Q: What are your thoughts on saving kissing for marriage?</h4>
My husband and I did not kiss until after we were engaged; however, that was mainly because of logistics and how quickly we got engaged. I don’t think kissing before marriage is a problem, and I don’t think it’s wrong to kiss someone before you get married. Ultimately, I would never expect someone to save kissing for marriage.
<h4>Q: What are your suggestions for a relationship in a rut with a lot of frustrations?</h4>
Some of the greatest words of wisdom I ever heard about being in a relationship was: When you’re dating someone, that is as good as it’s ever going to get. Many people believe if your relationship gets in a rut, marriage will be the solution to get out of that rut. They think <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/an-important-message-to-women-everywhere" target="_blank" rel="noopener">once you get married</a> and once you have children, the relationship will magically turn into “happily ever after.” (Women in particular hold this perspective, thinking that as soon as they get the ring, things will get better.) But that’s just not true. When you’re dating, you experience an emotional high, the relationship is fairly smooth, and you’re genuinely excited. If you start to see that taper off before you’re married, pay attention to those signs. You may not have found the person you’re meant to do life with.
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<h4>Q: As <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-vulnerability-that-will-plague-generation-tiktoks-future">a Gen Zer</a>, I wonder where I can find masculine men?</h4>
This problem is in large part due to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/this-is-a-story-all-about-how-the-fresh-prince-did-not-become-a-king" target="_blank" rel="noopener">culture telling men</a> to be more effeminate — and I’m sure that’s super frustrating. <a href="https://store.dailywire.com/products/make-men-manly-again-t-shirt?_pos=1&amp;_sid=4ee384564&amp;_ss=r" target="_blank" rel="noopener">(Make men manly again.)</a> But what you will find is that the more effeminate men live in city bubbles, but when you move into the rest of America, you will run into farmers, rangers, men who are working with their hands, and masculine men. Masculine men do exist.
<h4>Q: Do you keep in touch with or follow any exes?</h4>
Absolutely not. I am incredibly conservative when it comes to this issue. If you are in a relationship with another man, it’s super disrespectful — especially in a marriage — to maintain a relationship with a previous partner. I have never gone along with the “it used to be more but now we’re just friends” bit either. This is a definite no for me.
<h4>Q: I seem to be more mature than guys my age which makes it hard to date and find someone who will commit. Any tips?</h4>
This is fairly common. Men take a bit longer to mature than women, but, on average, they seem to mature somewhere in their mid-twenties. There are always exceptions, but as a general rule, younger men just tend to be a little more immature than younger women. There are likely some biological aspects to this because, for example, women likely mature quicker because we have to carry children on a biological clock’s dictations. But even little girls like playing with dolls while little boys like to rough house. Men do, however, eventually grow into being ready to commit and in a serious relationship.
<h4>Q: What is the best place to meet <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/three-new-years-resolutions-for-women-on-the-internet" target="_blank" rel="noopener">quality women</a> who aren’t fickle?</h4>
This answer is short and simple: church.
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<h4>Q: I have been with the same man for eight years. I called off our engagement because he’s still not ready, but we can’t seem to leave each other. Advice?</h4>
Leave. I knew two girls who went through a similar situation (relationships of about ten years each), and they both ended poorly. These women gave these men their best years. Meanwhile, men tend to age like fine wine — plus, they don’t have to worry so much about their reproductive vitality. That’s not the case for women. So, if you are giving someone years to make a decision and his decision is still “I don’t want to make a decision,” you are, unfortunately, a placeholder. He will likely meet another girl, get engaged quickly, and you will be left wondering what happened to the last decade of your life. I feel so terrible for women who have gone through this. But in both cases with the two women I knew, they knew they should have left earlier, but they didn’t muster the strength to do it. Have the strength to do it. Leave. Don’t be someone else’s placeholder.
<h4>Q: There is a girl I like, but I’m nervous to ask her on a date. How should I ask?</h4>
Just ask her. The worst thing that can happen is that she says no. And while you’ll have a bruised ego for a couple of days, you will have done something manly in the long run. Girls are missing men asking them on dates — men who hold doors and have the confidence to ask women on dates rather than <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/why-everyone-hates-online-dating" target="_blank" rel="noopener">hiding behind apps</a> of Instagram DMs. Ask her to grab lunch or see a movie. If she says no, you’ll move on and find someone else to ask out.
<h4>Q: What is a good at-home date night idea?</h4>
I think cooking together is fun. My husband is also a good cook, so we enjoy doing that together. We also love to watch shows together. Granted, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/kids-entertainment-out-with-the-old-in-with-the-new" target="_blank" rel="noopener">we have children</a> so we stay in more these days, but we love a good at-home dinner-date night.

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A Q&A On Dating: Stop Making It So Difficult

Candace Owens

Dating

Gen Z

Marriage

Readers Pass

Social Issues

Women

Keke Palmer and Darius Jackson’s relationship has been in the news since July 2023. It resurfaced in November of last year with more information, and now, in February 2024, there are still more rumblings coming from these two. My assessment is and always has been that this was an incredibly toxic relationship. But regardless of its toxicity, there are some actions that will never be acceptable in any relationship.
The private life of Palmer and Jackson started to become public in July 2023 when Palmer went to a concert in Las Vegas and was pulled on stage to dance with Usher. Her then-boyfriend, Jackson, took to X to declare his disapproval of her provocative behavior and revealing outfit. By this point, the two already shared a child, and she had given birth just a few months prior.
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Then, in November, a month after separating, Palmer released shocking surveillance camera footage of who appears to be her ex, Jackson, beating her in her own home. At the time of the footage release, she was seeking a restraining order and full custody of their then eight-month-old son. Jackson reportedly trespassed into Palmer’s home without her knowledge nor her consent. This is still working its way through the court process, but the behavior she reported of him is beyond despicable.
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She shared stills of the footage from her filings in court at the time. In them, Jackson first looks to be forcing her in a certain direction against her will, then has his hand in the air as she loses her balance and falls over the couch, putting her hands up in a defenseless position.
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In the court <a href="https://www.today.com/parents/keke-palmer-custody-son-darius-jackson-rcna124585" target="_blank" rel="noopener">filings</a>, she states, “The abuse during our relationship was not just physical, but emotional and manipulative. Darius would ‘love bomb’ me and make me feel like I was the most important woman in the world, only to get extremely distant and cold over a perceived insult to him.” Palmer has repeated that Jackson was very jealous throughout their entire relationship. While this was obviously an incredibly toxic relationship, this abuse was certainly not Keke Palmer’s fault. 
Then, at the beginning of this month, Jackson took to X again, this time, with a message to all the dads who have given up custody: 
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In another post, he continued, giving advice to make sure God is the center of your relationship:
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If you separated these words from the situation he has currently found himself in — having beaten Keke Palmer — I would affirm that this is amazing advice. But you do not get to suddenly become a pastor after we have all seen evidence of horrific footage of you. Even in households of atheists, men know not to put their hands on women. To claim you were beating your significant other because you were not following the Good Book and the Lord? There is no excuse — ever. Let’s not hide behind God. Let’s not turn into a pastor who suddenly has sage words for other men.
I am a firm believer that it is important to weigh in when something goes against your values — so it is important to state this is wrong. This is a situation that should be discussed, not because anyone is prying into the private lives of people (this is information that has been made public), but because it’s important to take a moral position with actual values. This situation includes two people who clearly did not respect each other, nor did they understand who the other was. Toxicity seeped into their relationship, and they never should have been matched in the first place. But no woman should ever go through this, and no woman should suffer abuse. It is never the fault of any person when they are abused.
There is never a circumstance when it is acceptable for a man to put his hands on a woman. Never. Only a coward would ever do that.

2023 Atlanta Film Festival – “Big Boss” Closing Night Screening

An Unjustifiable Act In Any Relationship

Domestic Violence

Hollywood

A debate has arisen on the Right about the value of marriage. There are people on the so-called “red-pilled” Right who have now suggested that marriage is bad for men, that men should not get married.
The case they’re making is not the liberal feminist case that basically men are useless and terrible, that a woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle. The case they are making is that the stakes of marriage have been changed by no-fault divorce, custody arrangements, child support payments, spousal support, and the like.
I agree with the critique of all of those policies. I think no-fault divorce is a disaster area. I think the child custody arrangements that basically always go to the mom no matter what are a serious problem.
But the “red-pilled” Right have taken it one step further. They’re telling young men you should not get married. It’s too dangerous to get married. Don’t get married.
That’s foolish.
Pearl Davis is an anti-feminist. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FbuQWb1r-Io" target="_blank" rel="noopener">She states</a>, “A man has no way to have children and those kids be actually his. They’re always hers because the courts give the women custody 90% of the time. And rich men are really the only ones that have the money to fight it and the time.”
She then criticizes people who agree the laws should be changed and women face repercussions of their own for marital failures — but also says men should find a girl who prays and then get married.
“I had this thought, too, until I found a Muslim girl that did the same thing,” she said. “I found a Christian girl that did the same thing; I found a Catholic girl. It’s happening all over, whether you want to believe it or not, it is happening. I don’t care about your religion. I don’t care about your church. This happens everywhere.”
The argument she’s making against all these marital policies is correct. Nobody is disregarding the pain of men who have been wrongfully victimized under these circumstances, where the incentive structure is completely stacked against them. That is true.
But the benefits of marriage are still unbelievable. It does matter who you marry. To pretend there is no difference in the kind of person you marry is not true. You can mitigate the risk of divorce; the person who you marry is the chief mitigation.
Throwing the baby out with the bathwater is not the solution. Instead, revise the system of laws but also urge men to find a spouse and get married to her.
If that requires shifting away from the state-mandated law and toward a contract arrangement, fine; I agree with many of the critiques of current marriage law. The problem is when you say that the solution for men is to not get married; you’ve created a second-order effect where unmarried men become actual menaces.
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The reality is that men channel their aggressive drives toward building or they channel it toward destroying. A system in which women are unmarried and men are unmarried is what the Left wants. If you acquiesce in that, you end up destroying the very fundamental basis of society that allows for the growing and building of a society beyond leftist principles.
Marriage is a risk. Of course it is. And that risk is disproportionately borne by men at this point. That is also true. But is the reward worth the risk?
The answer in a huge majority of circumstances where both people are committed and have shared values is yes.
With the red pill movement, the diagnosis is often correct and the solution is wrong.
It turns out that there is actually a formula to a successful marriage. It includes being conservative, religious, and highly educated. Seventy-seven percent of college-educated conservative parents are still in their first marriage.
In the community where I live — an Orthodox Jewish community — there are very low divorce rates. Why? Because everyone is religiously committed, because everybody goes into marriage believing it is a sacred bond that actually matters, and because people don’t date for sex. People actually date looking forward to the day when they will have kids together.
Marriage is a risk. But is it a coin flip?
No. It’s a decision you have to make: What kind of person do you wish to date? What kind of relationship do you wish to build? How seriously do you take that commitment in the first place?
Do the laws need to change?
Absolutely.
Should men get married?
Absolutely.
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The Red-Pilled Right Says Men Shouldn’t Get Married. They’re Wrong. 

Ben Shapiro

divorce

It seems like every single person in the world is talking about Taylor Swift’s new — and annoying — “romance” with Kansas City Chiefs’ tight end Travis Kelce. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/taylor-swift-has-the-maturity-of-a-15-year-old-girl" target="_blank" rel="noopener">I recently weighed in on Taylor Swift</a>, reminding people why I will never be a Swifty: She is a manipulative, conniving young lady — and by “young,” I mean that she engages in petty behavior even though she is an adult woman who will turn 34 in December. Despite what the marketing machine tries to convince people of, she is not a nice girl. Just a couple weeks ago she was spotted out with Sophie Turner, who married Joe Jonas, Swift’s ex-boyfriend from 15 years ago. 
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While you would think she would be over that breakup and would not do anything vindictive since he long ago moved on with his life, Swift is not that person. She, instead, decided to embrace Turner, becoming her instant best friend. The whole thing is incredibly immature. Jonas and Turner were married, they are in the middle of a divorce, and they have two young children. This is a real relationship — not some five-minute flash-in-the-pan relationship like Swift is famous for. But none of that matters because for Swift, getting back at her ex was just too irresistible. She not only opened her arms to Turner, she opened her home to her, so Jonas could really feel the burn. The paparazzi have, of course, been following them around, and his and Turner’s daughter was recently spotted leaving his ex-girlfriend’s apartment — his ex-girlfriend of over a decade ago. 
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But people ignore this side of Swift. They pretend she’s a nice girl because she makes music that appeals to angsty teenagers so everyone just thinks of her as an angsty 15-year-old, completely ignoring the fact that she’s a 34-year-old adult woman who has a very odd dating pattern. If she is so wonderful and great and sweet, why hasn’t anyone stepped up to the plate to marry her? Why didn’t Joe Alwyn want to marry her after six years of dating her? Maybe it’s because Taylor Swift has a lot of personalities. Her fans, however, seem to think that’s cute and fun. Girls dress up as one of Swift’s personalities to go to her performance on the Eras tour, but I just think it’s odd. I think her behavior is really cringeworthy, including her recent fling and all the publicity coming with it. 
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While no one seems to know the whole story, Travis Kelce went to Swift’s Eras tour, along with a lot of other Chiefs players because the concert was in their stadium. As with all her concerts, audience members received friendship bracelets because, again, she’s still really leaning into this 15-year-old persona at the ripe age of 34. Apparently, Kelce wrote his number on the back of his bracelet and supposedly Swift never received it. 
This news broke in the press, and my guess is that Swift’s excellent million-dollar marketing team sat down behind the scenes and told her Kelce wanted to go on a date with her, they thought this would be a good relationship for her, and this would help her brand after calculating how many songs she could write and how much money she could make by stepping into an area she’s never been in before. This could be a new personality. It is the dawn of a new Taylor era. 
I think this marketing team said this would be a good decision. Kelce doesn’t have too bad of a history like Matt Healy, who her team no doubt told her to break up with immediately. I think this is what actually goes on behind the scenes. So Swift decided she would go to the Chiefs’ game and completely adapt her personality because while she used to be the girl  who was in the marching band (as she showed everyone in her first album), it was now time for her to be the cheerleader in the stands. 
But this relationship is honestly just creepy to begin with. First and foremost, Swift has a bad habit of becoming friends with the mom of whoever she’s dating way too soon. She did this with 1975’s Matt Healy’s mom. (Healy is her former two-week fling.) “Oh, I love moms! Yay! I’m 15 and moms are great!” Amazing.
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The same can be said of Swift with Kelce’s mom; she sat with Kelce’s mom at the first game she attended. So far as I know, Swift doesn’t even follow football. In fact, I feel quite comfortable saying Swift does not follow football. But, wow, did she follow football the two Sundays she has been rooting on the Chiefs, looking like the most dedicated Kansas City Chiefs’ fan that has ever lived. She looked like she might pass out if they didn’t complete a pass. It was so fake, so plastic, so manufactured, and so very inauthentic. But that has always been my assessment of Swift.
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If I were a part of her marketing team, I would advise her to stick with this relationship, at least through football season, and if you’re really smart, for the next two years. I would tell her that no one has any idea how calculated you are, and you will have time to write an entire album about this. A new version of Taylor Swift, this time being the person who is dating someone on a football team as the cheerleader. 
Not everyone has missed this though. TikTok’s @willkingmusic did not miss the opportunity to predict just what sort of songs she might write after her breakup with Kelce with lyrics like, “Wish I could go back when we met that day and throw a flag on the play.” 
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I wrote Taylor Swifts next single after the breakup <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/taylorswift?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#taylorswift</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/traviskelce?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#traviskelce</a>
COME SEE ME ON TOUR:<a href="https://t.co/qYMwVhwKpo">https://t.co/qYMwVhwKpo</a> <a href="https://t.co/1lO9gf1r7l">pic.twitter.com/1lO9gf1r7l</a>
&mdash; Will King (@willkingmusic) <a href="https://twitter.com/willkingmusic/status/1707467248724484589?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 28, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Another TikTok trend that’s made its way through people’s algorithms is one from the real football fans. The real ones aren’t falling for this. Wives have been pranking their husbands by saying Taylor Swift put Travis Kelce on the map — and the husbands are not having any of it.
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This trend has us ROLLING😂😭
[via kelleylorraine_/TikTok] <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/traviskelce?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#traviskelce</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/taylorswift?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#taylorswift</a> <a href="https://t.co/pzqtzHn42y">pic.twitter.com/pzqtzHn42y</a>
&mdash; MuchMusic (@Much) <a href="https://twitter.com/Much/status/1706885362147041535?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 27, 2023</a></blockquote>
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The fandom of Taylor Swift is bizarre. It is just bizarre. If you are a young person and can’t see that she’s calculated, manipulative, and definitely not a nice girl, fine. But if you are an adult human being and you cannot see this for what it is, just wait a few months for when she and Kelce break up — so I can tell you I was right.
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Flag On The Play: Swift And Kelce’s Annoying Relationship

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We are now not supposed to judge people as fully-fledged human beings, which is the natural outcome of a hedonistic society in which the only thing that matters is sex.
The way we used to date is that you didn’t take your clothes off until you were married. When that was the case, you had to fully appreciate the person sitting across the table from you as a fully-fledged human being with thoughts, values, and ideas. You only got to sex after marriage. Now, you get to the sex first and everything else is lost by the wayside. Some people are making the argument that marriage is bad because women are initiating most divorces due to no-fault divorce, which means it’s risky for men to get married.
My answer to that is: Not if you marry the right woman. The way you know you’re marrying the right woman is if you date in the right way. This is why it’s very important when you are dating to avoid what has become current: jumping in bed with each other and then seeing how it goes from there. Instead, it should be precisely as it was in terms of actually appreciating the other human being as a potential life partner. Here’s one reason why: Everything is going to droop and bag as you get older anyway, so you should marry somebody who shares your values.
Modern masculinity does have a problem. More men than ever are committing suicide, more men than ever are addicted to opioids, and more men than ever are not going to college. And there’s a lot of depression. The real reason for that is, men have been deprived of their traditional roles or have deprived themselves of their traditional roles. The original roles of a male were to provide for and protect a family, which meant get married, have kids, protect, defend, provide. That’s what men did. And it gave them purpose and meaning.
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Then we built an entire society around the idea that this was actively bad, that there was a serious problem with doing this. And thus society has fallen apart. Feminism argued in order for men to fulfill their traditional roles, women had to be tertiary or secondary or be treated as slaves, etc. But that was an idiotic assumption. Marriage was always good for women.
The New York Times has an entire article titled: <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/09/24/magazine/caitlin-moran-interview.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Modern Masculinity Is Broken. She Knows How to Fix It.</a> It is an interview with an author who is married with a couple of kids. She is a self-described feminist. The New York Times describes her as “one of her generation’s funniest and most fearless feminist voices.” I always love when people use the word “fearless,” because it usually just means they’re repeating nostrums the Left really, really likes. That’s what makes you “fearless.”
She implies men should just ditch masculinity, writing:
<blockquote>I can walk around leafy liberal North London and see boys in dresses with nail polish who are using mixed pronouns and go, “Look at the progress here.” On the other hand, as soon as I go back to my hometown, I am not seeing boys walking around in sarongs and using mixed pronouns. In those places you would be going straight in at the deep end by starting a conversation about masculinity by going, “Maybe gender shouldn’t exist.” </blockquote>
She’s wrong. The real solution for men is to live virtuously. The real solution for women is also to live virtuously.
Why are men so depressed? Because you’ve said that the only way they can be a real man is to not be a man at all.
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Ben Shapiro Editorial Series 09

NYT ‘Fearless’ Writer Advises Men To Ditch Masculinity. But That’s Why So Many Men Are Depressed.

NYT 'Fearless' Writer Advises Men To Ditch Masculinity. But That’s Why So Many Men Are Depressed.

New York Times

I have never been a Swifty, and I never will be. Taylor Swift has the maturity of a 15-year-old girl. Despite the fact that she’s about to turn 34 in December (my age), she acts like she is 15. Yet the media continue to applaud her bad behavior. As she ages, she has become more and more vicious. Swift is being used by the Left — and she is going to continue to be used by the Left.
Despite being nearly 34 years old, Taylor Swift is still vicious toward her exes. It doesn’t even matter which one of them it is. She always has some ax to grind. One of the best examples of such an ax is an ex-boyfriend from a very long time ago. In 2008, Joe Jonas (Joe of the Jonas Brothers) broke up with Swift in a 27-second call — and she still has not let it go. Jonas, who is now 31 and a fully grown adult, is now in the middle of a very messy public divorce. His soon-to-be ex and mother of his children is Sophie Turner, who acted in “Game of Thrones.” They are a real couple. They have real children. And in the middle of this divorce, they are feuding over where their children are going to live: in America, where Jonas lives, or in the U.K., where Turner is from. This has gotten nasty in the press.
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Enter, Taylor Swift. Out of nowhere, Swift and Turner become besties overnight amidst Turner’s divorce. From Turner’s perspective, if you want to get back at your soon-to-be ex-husband, you might just reach back out to one of his exes who you know will engage in petty public behavior. From Swift’s perspective, if you want to get back at one of your ex-boyfriends who burned you when you were a teenager, what better way to do it than to hang out with his almost ex-wife who he is separated from and going through a messy divorce. How unbelievably petty.
The two were spotted leaving New York City’s Hotel Barrière Fouquet&#8217;s New York last week, willingly getting photographed. They openly walked out of the restaurant together. After all, Swift isn’t seen unless she wants to be seen. But this is the petty sort of behavior Swift engages in. I do not understand why people don’t say this is wrong.
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This is a marriage. There are children involved. Not to mention this has been over 15 years. She should move on from her bad break-up from Joe Jonas. When your agent calls and asks if you want to hang out with Sophie Turner,  you should say no because she is in the middle of a divorce with one of your exes. The answer should be no because you are a 33-year-old woman and because Turner has children. You should say you understand why Turner is engaging in petty behavior — because her feelings are involved — but since you don’t have those same feelings, you say no because you don’t want to get involved in someone else’s divorce.
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When it comes to men and being petty, there seems to be no bottom to Taylor Swift’s behavior. She recently dated Joe Alwyn for six years, and after they broke up, she coordinated with her girlfriends so they would all unfollow him on the same day on Instagram. Why? Because she has the maturity of a 15-year-old. These are middle school antics. To have all your friends en masse unfollow him on social media to prove their loyalty? That is not how a 33-year-old woman should act. Unfollowing someone on the same day to prove a point — “These are my friends, not yours!” — is bratty. That type of behavior should be beneath her. But this is why she has a legion of 15-year-old fans who will go to bat for her. (They will do it in my comments.) But she has never grown up from engaging in 15-year-old behavior. In fact, I might actually even say younger.
This friendship is one developed out of spite. And it’s yet another reason I will never be a Swifty. She is a brat who has an underdeveloped brain because she found fame when she was too young. No one will ever convince me otherwise.
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Taylor Swift Has The Maturity Of A 15-Year-Old Girl

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Opinion

<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/selena-gomez" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Selena Gomez</a> described some standards she has for dating and explained why there aren’t any “sad” songs on her newest <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/music" target="_blank" rel="noopener">album</a>.
The 31-year-old <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/celebrities" target="_blank" rel="noopener">singer</a> discussed her approach to relationships during an appearance on SiriusXM Hits 1 LA with Tony Fly and Symon on August 31, per <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/selena-gomez-reveals-standards-dates" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Fox News</a>. 
“I think I have standards, and I think I live in a world right now where boys confuse standards with high maintenance,&#8221; Gomez said. The hosts had mentioned a line from her song “Single Soon,” in which she said she’s, &#8220;a little bit high maintenance, but I&#8217;m worth a try.&#8221;
&#8220;It really isn&#8217;t [the same thing],&#8221; the “Calm Down” singer went on. &#8220;But the line was really fun because I&#8217;m not ashamed to say, &#8216;I actually require X, Y, and Z for you to be with me.&#8217; So, in a way, it was just meant to be for the attitude of the song. And that&#8217;s genuinely how I feel.&#8221;
As for what she’s looking for in a romantic partner, Gomez insisted she only needs the basics, which involves being “cool.”
“Not cool in the sense that people think you&#8217;re cool,&#8221; she said. &#8220;You just gotta be nice and, like, please make me laugh and also just be good to my family and people around you.&#8221;
&#8220;That&#8217;s a good X, Y, Z,&#8221; co-host Fly said, to which Gomez responded, &#8220;Yeah, I think so. We&#8217;ll see.&#8221;
The pop star, who previously dated Nick Jonas, Justin Bieber, and The Weeknd, also discussed how she’s content with being single. 
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“I think everybody goes through the phase of, &#8216;Oh, it&#8217;d be nice to like have someone,&#8217; and I get that,&#8221; Gomez said. 
&#8220;But, you know, I&#8217;m just enjoying where I&#8217;m at and I, I just want to be happy with who I am so that whenever that person comes into my life, I can just have them add on to me instead of being this insecure, you know, person that I normally used to be.&#8221;
The “Only Murders in the Building” actress further noted that there isn’t “one sad song” on her new album. 
&#8220;I genuinely don&#8217;t feel like I have anything in me to write something negative. It just doesn&#8217;t match with where I am anymore,&#8221; Gomez said. &#8220;And I live in sad girl music world. I love that. And I&#8217;ll write that music all the time, but I, I just felt like this album shouldn&#8217;t be that.&#8221;

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Selena Gomez Discusses Her ‘Standards’ For Dating: ‘You Just Gotta Be Nice’

Selena Gomez Discusses Her 'Standards' For Dating: 'You Just Gotta Be Nice'

U.S.

A lot has shifted over the last few decades, marriage being one of the bigger shifts. In this day and age, marriage has become quite fickle. Maybe this is due to social media or just the sheer fact of how flippantly people change their minds, but when it comes to marriage, they’re changing them left and right. Marriage used to represent a union that meant forever, whereas now marriage has become a trend. I think for some people, it only means pretty pictures in a white dress on Instagram and Facebook with subsequent posts of a “my forever date” caption. Then, when they have to actually look at the foundation of their relationship, they decide they just don’t want to deal with it.
This was unfortunately confirmed when I came across <a href="https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/4716953-what-was-your-this-is-over-moment-in-your-marriage" target="_blank" rel="noopener">a post</a> not too long ago on <a href="https://www.mumsnet.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Mumsnet</a>, which is much like a British Reddit for moms. (It’s actually a really great resource. I’m pregnant right now, and I’ll ask specific questions about pregnancy and parenting on there.) In this particular post, a woman wrote about her “aha moment” when she knew her marriage was over and led to her divorce. The subject of the post read, “What was your ‘this is over’ moment in your marriage,” so I perused through it. This woman wanted to hear other people talk about the moments they realized their marriage was over.
According to her post, she did not want to paint her husband in a bad light. But she goes on saying, “However, I can’t stop thinking about something he said to me, and at that moment, I knew it was it, that I wanted more.” She had a meeting at work one morning but was 20 minutes late. Her work accidentally called her husband (her emergency contact), meaning to call her. They explained the mistake in calling him, she got to work, and everyone went about their day. But when she got home, she asked why he didn’t contact her to make sure she was alright. After some back and forth, he said he knew the police would have called him if she’d been in an accident. That was her eureka moment because, according to her, “he did not care, not one little bit.”
Reading this, I could not believe this was grounds for divorce for her. The first thing I thought about was the poor employee who accidentally called her husband. Then, her husband answered, said no problem on the mix-up call, and no one thought anything of it. But she somehow twisted this in her head to ask, “What if I had been in an accident?” She was basically implying: What if I was dead? Why weren’t you hysterical? Shouldn’t you be? This woman was 20 minutes late — not two hours late. There was no reason to be that concerned. It makes sense someone from work would call when, as the post states, the person she was meeting with was waiting for her to arrive. It makes entirely no sense she would be upset with her husband for not making up some ludicrous scenario in his mind that she’s been in a terrible accident.
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She was so upset with him that she was willing to divorce him. This is stunning. The fact that she shared this says she thought we would all just understand. She expected we would understand why she knew right then and there that he did not care one little bit. And she knew she wanted “more”? What is the “more” she wanted? Drama? This passage starts by acknowledging him as “a good man, hardworking, loyal.” So outside this incident — the incident in which he forgot to pretend she had been in a car accident and hysterically ring a false alarm — he was a good man. She allowed this little seed to fester and grow into a full-blown scenario she couldn’t get over.
So she divorced a good, hardworking, loyal man. I would say she will absolutely regret this divorce because if she thinks she is going to find a man who is so upstanding he will know how to react to the figments of her imagination, she’s out of her mind. In fact, if she finds a man who will be that over the top in a similar situation, she will think he’s too theatrical and doesn’t know how to relax: She can’t even run 20 minutes late without him calling the police? Who would want to be married to that drama?
We continue to see examples like this in the media, on television, and in shows about relationships where people have the wrong idea of what it means to be married. Part of the reason that’s the case is because it’s too easy to get divorced. People don’t want to work through anything. They don’t even want to work through a 20-minute delay getting to work. So, they just leave in search of the perfect partner. But there is no such thing as a perfect partner who is not going to make any mistakes so your life is absolutely perfect.
We must stop being so fickle. We must learn how to focus. Too many people have relationship ADHD, and that has to change. We must get serious and recognize this is the reason there are so many ills in our society.
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Relationship ADHD, The Leading Cause Of Divorce

For a long time, the media have treated American men as an afterthought. In fact, anybody who spoke to American men writ large was considered bad.
My friend Jordan Peterson speaks to men all over the world, specifically young men who feel lost. And the media hate him for it. They treat him as though he’s a very bad person for speaking to audiences of young men.
But suddenly the media have realized young men represent 50% of the American population — and men are falling behind by every single metric. Men are falling behind women when it comes to college degrees. Men are falling behind women when it comes to job performance. Men are falling behind women when it comes to life satisfaction in some measures. These are all areas in which men are falling behind.
This has raised the question: What exactly is happening to American men now? That question cannot be answered in a vacuum without explaining what has happened to American women.
The Bible has a lot of wisdom embedded in it. One of these pieces of wisdom in Genesis, chapter two, tells about the formation of women. God says man should not be alone; he needs a “helpmeet.” In Hebrew the word for “helpmeet” means “our needs are connected,” which literally means a “helper against him.” In other words, men and women are two halves of the same whole. That’s also expressed in that same chapter with the statement that a man shall leave his father and mother and join his wife; he shall cleave to her and they shall become one flesh. The basic idea here is that men are incomplete without women and women are incomplete without men.
So when explaining the shortcomings of modern American men, you also have to link that with their roles versus the roles of the women, because they do not exist in a vacuum.
There’s a whole issue in <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/07/14/josh-hawley-masculinity-crisis-00105436" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Politico</a> about what’s wrong with American men. Every single piece in that issue is written by a woman, which is a weird way to ask what’s wrong with American men; they should have a diversity of viewpoints about what exactly is happening with American men that should include some males.
Why is Politico beginning to notice something “wrong with American men”?
Because men are turning away from the Democratic Party — in droves. Many people in the media are suddenly realizing that when American men fall off the train, that is very bad for America.
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Traditionally speaking, the role of men was pretty simple. The role of men was: You protect your family; you defend your country, your values, your community; you provide for your family. These were the roles of men: protect and defend and provide. Men are still expected to provide and defend our families. That is still true for large swathes of the American population.
But there are a bunch of men who no longer do this — because our culture shames them for it. The culture has decided not to treat men and women as two potential halves of a greater whole that is united in marriage. Instead, we’re supposed to treat men atomistically and women atomistically and then celebrate the atomism. We’re supposed to celebrate the falling apart, which is presumably why there is a piece in The Wall Street Journal titled, “<a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/divorce-parties-registries-marriage-1ed745b9" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Divorce Parties Are a New Hot Invite</a>.” The article says:
<blockquote>Now, a culture shift is under way. The U.S. divorce rate has been dipping, but those who get them feel freer to trumpet their breakups. The number of American adults who consider divorce to be morally acceptable has hit historic highs, according to Gallup polls. ‘Divorce used to be something to be ashamed of due to societal pressures and stereotypes. … But today, people have decided to nip that societal shame and instead embrace being divorced as another stage of life that some of us experience.’</blockquote>
Now, is that a good thing or is that a bad thing? I would argue it’s a very bad thing. A divorce is a tragedy. It means that a marriage has ended. It means that potential fulfillment of male and female in monogamous marriage has been broken up, that the basic predicate and foundation for the formation of a family, which is the building block of society, has fallen apart. Men lose themselves when they are not part of this institution; women lose themselves when they’re not part of this institution because they are the countervailing part of what men are supposed to do.
Removing one half of a whole means the other half is going to seem insufficient. That’s particularly true of men when they are deprived of their goals, when they are deprived of their duty, when their aggressive instincts are not channeled in the most positive possible direction. What you end up with is true toxic masculinity because men in the wild are terrible: rapacious, violent, aggressive, territorial.
But when all of those instincts are channeled to protect, defend, and provide, then those instincts can be sublimated to a higher goal. When the higher goal goes away, men end up being incredibly destructive, either to others or to themselves. That’s exactly what we are seeing right now.
But the media refuse to acknowledge that because what they like is the moral status they have built in which we are supposed to pretend all acts of sexual union are equally morally praiseworthy and societally useful. We’re supposed to pretend everybody’s individual decision-making with regard to relationships is equally good and equally valid. We’re supposed to pretend the liberated woman who is no longer expected to get married is somehow better off than the woman who got married at 20, had kids with a husband, maybe had a part-time job, and then maybe had a full-time job.
We valorize people for making decisions that are contra the traditional patterns of life, even though the traditional patterns of life provide the actual framework for success for both men and women. This doesn’t mean that every marriage from 1930 is better than every marriage from 2020 — nothing like that. But it does mean that a society that expects men and women to become complementary parts of a fuller whole is a better society and a more healthy society than one that says they’re completely apathetic about this.
Because here’s the truth: When you say you are apathetic about a moral standard, what you really mean is that you are against the moral standard — because the standard makes demands of you. If you oppose the demands, that’s not apathy; that’s opposition.
The opposite of the traditional moral standard is not apathy. It is absolute chaos.
And that’s what we are seeing right now. We refuse to acknowledge the complete restructuring of society, so men and women have been broken into groups like two separate groups that were not expected to come together over marriage. They’ve now become reactionary and oppositional.
When any two groups become so reactionary and oppositional that they never look inward to ask “what can I do to fix the problem?” but instead look outward at the other person to say “I’ll do the precise opposite,” you get a recipe for a complete breakdown. You end up with both toxic femininity and toxic masculinity: the valorization of a lifestyle that says abortion is an act of good for women and a valorization on the other side that says men should treat women like pieces of meat and the true mark of a man’s success is how toxically aggressive he is.
Get rid of the institution of marriage and people go back to their basest instincts, especially those that have been shielded from biology. You end up with people indulging their basest instincts and being unhappier.
I’m convinced that men are in crisis, and I strongly suspect that ending it will require a positive vision of what masculinity entails that is particular, neither neutral nor interchangeable with femininity. There’s no one script for how to be a woman or a man. But despite a push by some advocates to make everything from bathrooms to birthing gender-neutral, most people don’t actually want a completely androgynous society.
We must find new ways to valorize the traditional role of men, to tell a story that’s appealing to young men and socially beneficial rather than sitting around listening to people who would warp a perceived difference into something ugly and destructive.
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Ben Shapiro 7

Solving The Problem Of American Men

The online world of romance is <a href="https://mashable.com/article/tinder-future-of-dating-2023-gen-z" target="_blank" rel="noopener">changing</a> as young users demand more from their dating apps, but the question remains as to whether these changes will make a difference in the overall sense of isolation affecting young people. 
Young people have grown accustomed to using the internet to find love, and more recently, to discover friendships. Potential relationships are endlessly dangled in front of users, but this can prove altogether overwhelming. As it provides a constant, inescapable reminder of the countless possible connections at one’s fingertips, the internet can further deepen the feelings of loneliness hanging over this generation.
Over the course of the past several years, online dating has moved from a solitary practice sometimes met with stigma to a more common way to find a romantic partner. The number of people using online dating techniques has held steady in recent years. According to a Pew <a href="https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/02/02/key-findings-about-online-dating-in-the-u-s/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Research</a> survey from 2022, 30% of U.S. adults said they had “ever used a dating site or an app,” which was the same as three years prior. The most popular service was Tinder, with around 46% of respondents saying they had utilized it. The app recently released its Future of Dating Report, which <a href="https://www.tinderpressroom.com/2023-05-22-WELCOME-TO-A-RENAISSANCE-IN-DATING,-DRIVEN-BY-AUTHENTICITY" target="_blank" rel="noopener">showed</a> that people in Generation Z are more interested in making sure they are taking care of themselves when it comes to dating — and are interested in finding romantic partners <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/new-dating-app-for-young-conservatives-made-by-former-top-trump-aide" target="_blank" rel="noopener">who agree</a>. This demographic also puts certain characteristics on a pedestal, like loyalty and respect — coming in at 79% and 78%; and 61% of them put a high value on open-mindedness.
Tinder’s Global Relationship Insights Expert, Paul Brunson, sees promise in the new generation’s dating style. Brunson stated that “Gen Z will have the most successful marriages yet. Why? Because they’re investing in emotional well-being and clear communication.”
Yet despite the positive outlook and high rates of activity on these apps, users are not entirely satisfied with their results. A recent Currys <a href="https://www.currys.co.uk/techtalk/mobile/modernlove2023.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">study</a> out of the United Kingdom <a href="https://www.shinyshiny.tv/2023/02/are-dating-apps-on-their-way-out-new-study-reveals-success-rates-are-dropping.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">found</a> that Tinder had the highest rate of success out of 15 apps and sites. However, the notorious swipe-right/swipe-left app still had a lower success rate in 2022 than it did the year prior, a drop of about 5%. Almost every online dating venue showed a dip in reported successful relationships.
The low levels of success might be causing another movement as well. The younger generation is using dating sites for purposes other than finding romance — they are simply using them to <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2023/01/24/how-gen-z-is-turning-to-dating-apps-like-bumble-bff-to-make-friends.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">make</a> friends. Bumble <a href="https://bumble.com/en-us/the-buzz/what-exactly-is-bumble-bff" target="_blank" rel="noopener">BFF</a> is a new way the ladies-first dating app is helping users find friendship. Conversely, Gen Z is turning to social media sites like Instagram to romantically connect with people instead of dating apps like Tinder. According to a February <a href="https://www.ypulse.com/article/2023/02/09/gen-z-and-millennials-social-media-impacts-dating/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a> from YPulse, 39% of 13 to 39-year-olds had “met a romantic partner on social media.” In contrast, only 29% had found someone to date on a dating app.
Instagram’s 2023 Trend <a href="https://about.instagram.com/en-us/file/1276350079639305/TRENDREPORT_2022_fin-2.pdf/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Report</a> supported this, pointing out that social media can create a more comfortable environment for people to share their feelings and emotions than being in person. “More than half of Gen Z social media users feel more comfortable being vulnerable online and over text than in person. On Instagram, DMs and messaging continue to drive connection and conversation between friends and love interests,” the report noted.
Gen Z may be shifting the way they date online,  but the fact that online sources are needed to make friendly connections points to a deeper void in the social circles of young people. It could also be an indication of a change in culture: the rise of remote work and schooling has led to an inability for many people to easily find peers with whom they might connect. 
While Gen Z searches for meaningful connections, they have retreated from doing so in classic ways, such as through traditional religion. According to the<a href="https://www.americansurveycenter.org/research/generation-z-future-of-faith/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> American</a> Survey Center, “Generation Z is the least religious generation yet,” with 34% of them unaffiliated with a religion. Data from the Springtide Research Institute found that one out of three Gen Z adults said they believed in a higher power, which was an increase from 2021. However, many have <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/05/27/why-gen-z-is-more-spiritual-and-religious-than-millennials/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> that they are more interested in non-denominational and interdenominational practices rather than traditional religion. 
Even as they search for spiritual alignment and relationships over the web, this is still a generation awash in loneliness. The more connections people make over the internet does not appear to have a positive correlation with how connected they feel to those around them. In fact, the high amounts of time spent online might ultimately drag them down. According to Pew Research Center <a href="https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2020/05/14/on-the-cusp-of-adulthood-and-facing-an-uncertain-future-what-we-know-about-gen-z-so-far-2/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">data</a> from 2018, 45% of teenagers aged 13 to 17-years-old said that they were online almost constantly, with 44% saying they were on it several times a day. Almost a third of Gen Z and Millennials <a href="https://www.ypulse.com/article/2023/03/22/how-lonely-are-gen-z-and-millennials/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">say</a> they feel lonely often or all the time. 
Thanks to the internet, the opportunity for friendship and romance appears to be readily available at any time. The disheartening reality, however, is that not everyone can be reached. 
The younger generation is searching for connection — whether to a spiritual being or to one another. The internet can provide this initial spark, but it threatens to replace real interactions with a false sense of intimacy. It will ultimately be up to the users to decide if it will benefit their generation and generations to come — or not.

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&#8220;Rocky&#8221; star <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/new-pamela-anderson-claim-targets-sylvester-stallone-he-says-its-false-and-fabricated" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Sylvester Stallone</a>, 76, apparently has a hidden talent — according to his daughter Sistine, he authors the &#8220;breakup texts&#8221; she sends to boyfriends.
Sistine, 24, confessed the secret on a recent episode of <a href="https://shows.acast.com/giggly-squad/episodes/giggling-about-the-stallone-sisters-boyfriend-air-and-moving" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Giggly Squad</a> podcast, revealing to hosts Paige DeSorbo and Hannah Berner that her <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/sylvester-stallone-pleads-for-whats-left-of-my-rights-back-from-rocky-producer-after-decades-long-battle" target="_blank" rel="noopener">famous father</a> ghost-wrote texts to boyfriends who she was looking to leave.
&#8220;My dad is a savant when it comes to our dating lives — in so many areas,&#8221; Sistine explained. “In one area, he writes most of our breakup texts.&#8221;
Sophia Stallone, 26, seemed to confirm the revelation — and even went so far as to recommend that other women ask their fathers to do the same.
&#8220;I highly suggest girls should go up to their dad and have their dad write a breakup text because men know men. I’m telling you,&#8221; she said.
Sistine said that her exes had responded well to the texts, adding, &#8220;And they never get mad — they go &#8216;thank you for being honest.’”
The sisters went on to reveal that their dad had a habit of intimidating the men they brought home — and he did it by simply standing off to the side, quietly, often with a cigar in hand.
&#8220;We’re like, ‘Oh, this [guy] is a good egg. We’re gonna bring him home.’ And [our dad] is always standoffish. [He] stands in the corner, doesn’t say anything, we&#8217;re like, &#8216;Dad, come on&#8217; … he literally does this just to intimidate,&#8221; Sistine said, and Sophia noted that he always had a cigar.
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Sistine said that she had once asked the &#8220;Rambo&#8221; actor why he would stand off in a corner when they brought dates home, and his answer was simple: he wasn&#8217;t going to invest the time unless he thought it was going to work out.
&#8220;I asked him, I go, ‘Why do you do that?’ And he goes, ‘I can tell within the first four minutes of meeting [a boyfriend] if he’s going to last or not, and so I’m not going to waste my time.&#8217; And he was right every time,&#8221; Sistine said. &#8220;He was right, I go, &#8216;You don&#8217;t know&#8217; – and he was right every time.&#8221;

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