Opinion
In a now-viral video shared to Instagram last week, Australian podcaster Chris Griffin talked about what he sees to be an ideal relationship dynamic: men going off to work and making it big, while women stay at home and play house. Welcome to 2025, where everything old is new again.
According to Griffin, “a man that’s got a busy life, that’s chasing his dreams” needs a stay-at-home girlfriend or wife so he can truly succeed and reach his maximum potential; someone on hand to offer up “calm”, “harmony”, “peace and love” at the end of the day.
Host of The Pocket podcast Chris Griffin. Credit: Instagram
What they don’t need, Griffin says, is a woman “complaining about your day when we don’t need you to make money”. One reason for this is that while men benefit from experiencing challenges and learning to overcome hardships in their lives, women don’t need to do that in order “to be an amazing girl”.
I could write an entire thesis about what’s wrong with the many things Griffin said in this almost two-hour episode of his podcast, but in the interests of staying sane, I’ll stick to the financial assertions – namely, that if a man earns enough to suppor
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