RILEY GAINES: Call Her Daddy's advice is a dangerous recipe for lifelong regret

In a viral exchange this week, Call Her Daddy host Alex Cooper and actress Sophia Bush offered young women a familiar piece of relationship advice: If you're questioning whether to leave your marriage because you fear you won't find someone better, the answer is always yes.Bush went further, suggesting that the fear of being too old or unreasonable for wanting more is a product of the patriarchy.Cooper built her brand largely by celebrating sexual experimentation, including encouraging young women to engage in highly explicit sexual experimentation early in dating.This is the same podcast Kamala Harris joined prior to the 2024 election, but I digress.RILEY GAINES FIRES BACK AT ALEX COOPER’S GRAPHIC DATING ADVICE: ‘IT IS NOT EMPOWERMENT.

IT IS POISON’Bush is now on her third marriage, with the first one lasting 5 months, the second lasting about a year, and the third to a woman.These are the voices our culture elevates as influential guides for young women.But enough about the who.

Let's examine the what.The exchange reveals a worldview in which something better is always waiting.That personal and fleeting dissatisfaction is sufficient reason to abandon a commitment, and that the pursuit of more is interchangeable with empowerment.More what, exactly?More excitement? More affirmation? More freedom? Another relationship that will inevitably encounter the same imperfections as the last?At what point do we consider whether the relentless pursuit of more is precisely what leaves us feeling we have less?AMERICAN WOMEN HAVE BEEN LIED TO ABOUT MOTHERHOOD AND IT’S TIME TO FIX ITFor decades, women have been sold a particular vision of liberation.

Prioritize your career.Maximize your independence.

Explore your sexuality without consequence.Reject marriage, delay motherhood, and never compromise your ambitions for someone else's needs.

Above all, put yourself first."Call Her Daddy" host Alex Cooper.(Michael M.

Santiago/Getty Images)We were assured that freedom from...