I wish I could stop talking about Scott Galloway. But Scott Galloway keeps talking, which means we have to keep responding.
If he stayed in his lane: finance, startups, markets, the places where he actually has experience in, I would not care. But instead, he is on the internet weighing in on relationships, dating dynamics, and what he calls the “male loneliness epidemic.” I will never not put that in quotes, because it’s absurd. Everyone is lonely. Everyone is disconnected. We’re living through late-stage capitalism while the world is literally on fire. Men aren’t experiencing a special, isolated epidemic. They’re finally reckoning with the consequences of their own actions.
When Liz Plank had Galloway on her Boy Problems podcast, I watched hoping she’d challenge him. Mostly, she let him talk. And what he said revealed exactly why we need to stop giving him a platform.
A Case Study in Dating Down
Galloway read a letter from a woman who had been supporting an unemployed partner for over a year. She was pregnant, paying the bills, creating the plans, even drafting a Google Doc outlining what he was supposed to do. He ignored it all.
Galloway’s answer? That this man needed to “level up” as a protector and provider. But she was already doing everything. What he missed or refused to see is the truth about domestic labor and the mental load. Women don’t just pick up the financial slack, they also carry the planning, organizing, and strategizing. She did all the labor twice. He did nothing.
And here’s the bigger point: this is what happens when women are told to date down. Men conditioned to tie their worth to control and material status collapse when they can’t hold power. The solution isn’t to create more “providers.” It’s to dismantle the idea that human value equals productivity or wealth in a system designed to exploit all of us.
Misdirection Masquerading as Wisdom
For someone hailed as “smart,” Galloway repeats some of the shallowest talking points online. He frames kindness as the underleveraged trait men should cultivate, while also telling women to ignore red flags like unkindness to parents. He acknowledges women fear violence on dates, then pivots to claim men are more likely to hurt themselves as though the two cancel each other out.
This is the playbook of Red Pill logic in softer packaging:
- Position women’s safety as exaggerated.
- Suggest men are the real victims.
- Shift responsibility back onto women for being “too picky” or “too independent.”
It’s misogyny dressed up as common sense.
The Education “Crisis”
Galloway also argues that boys are falling behind in education because schools reward traits that are “girl coded.” But schools haven’t structurally changed in decades. Girls didn’t suddenly gain an advantage, they were socialized into behaviors like organization, discipline, and compliance, while boys are told not to value what women do.
Whenever women excel in a field, that field is suddenly devalued as “women’s work.” That’s not an educational crisis. It’s patriarchy repeating itself.
The Real Problem with Scott Galloway
At the core of his arguments is entitlement. He frames men’s lack of success in relationships as a punishment, but you only feel punished if you believe you were entitled to women in the first place.
Men built and still dominate the very systems they now complain about. Women have been pointing out for generations how these systems harm us, yet the response only becomes urgent when men feel the effects. Instead of challenging the system, Galloway defends it, insisting women should compromise their safety, autonomy, and standards to soothe fragile masculinity.
That’s why Scott Galloway is dangerous. He’s not a neutral commentator. He’s a Red Piller in sheep’s clothing, recycling misogynistic narratives under the guise of expertise he doesn’t have.
So, can we please stop listening to Scott Galloway talk about relationships, dating, and women? Unless you’re looking for tips on surviving capitalism, his advice is useless at best and harmful at worst. Confidence isn’t the same as credibility. And the sooner we stop mistaking one for the other, the better off we’ll be.
