Fox & Friends to Study Author on Marriage Decline: ‘Do You Blame Feminists?’

Fox & Friends was quite fascinated Tuesday morning by a British study purporting to show that women are repelling men from the institution of marriage, covering the story in at least two hours of the three-hour program. When they finally got the study’s author on the horn, they posed with the most pressing question of all.

“Do you blame feminism?” Steve Doocy asked.

“I think there is a certain strand of feminism which has prioritized the safe-guarding of women over men, even though we’re supposed to be equal,” Peter Lloyd said. “We live in a society where we’re told men can’t view women as sex only objects, but women can view men as success object, and that needs to change.”

Radio host and developmental psychologist Cooper Lawrence said Lloyd was controlling for the wrong variables and that it was just that young people were pushing marriage off for a variety of reasons. But Lloyd returned to feminism, which he said screwed men in divorce.

“This is after 50 years of so-called equality drive from feminism,” Lloyd claimed, perhaps misunderstanding the situation. “If feminism was such an equality movement — and don’t get me wrong, it’s done some wonderful things — why would it allow fathers to be disenfranchised from families? Why would they allow the existence of alimony which is such an old fashioned concept. I’m sorry, the very basis of equality is men don’t need to subsidize women because they’re independent.”

On that, everyone found agreement. Watch below and delete your account via Fox News:

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