Emily Ratajkowski Says Men "Get Emasculated" When They're With A Strong Woman

Emily Ratajkowski hasn't had the best of luck with men lately. She married producer Sebastian Bear-McClard after only a couple weeks of dating, but after four years of marriage they broke up in July 2022. Their split was splattered all over the tabloids and there was talk of infidelity on his part. They share a one-year-old son together. Emily was recently linked to comedian Pete Davidson, who has a notorious reputation for dating the most beautiful women in Hollywood. Now she claims on her podcast that many men have become emasculated and can't handle a strong woman.

Emily Ratajkowski Complains About Attracting "Emasculated" Men After Breaking Up With Pete Davidson

On her podcast "High Low," Emily spoke to model Olivia Ponton about her romantic life and what men are like on the dating scene. "I feel like I attract the worst men," she admitted, just weeks after reportedly breaking up with Pete. Emily finds that many of the men who she ends up dating aren't as masculine as they should be.

“I have always felt like I’m a strong woman, but obviously as you get older, you really don’t need a man,” she said to Olivia. “And you’re like, okay, this is what everybody has told me. Men have said, ‘I like independent women. I want somebody who doesn’t need me."

"I feel like a lot of men who truly think they want a strong woman actually don’t know how to handle it and they don’t know what it means for their own identity," she continued. “The strength and the power is associated with the masculine, and once a woman has that, a man doesn’t know what else he has. But I’m like, ‘How about you just be better at expressing your emotions and being there emotionally? That would be great.’”

Emily says they slowly "get emasculated" and don't know how to handle their feelings. "And then they resent you and then they start to tear you down. And then you’re just back to square one,” she said.

She never mentions Pete's name but the conversation takes place shortly after they broke up, so it's safe to say that she's partly speaking about her experience with him. Emily has complained many times before about the patriarchy and the toxic masculinity of men; it's ironic that she is now expressing disappointment in the feminization of men, when she herself has supported the idea of women being stronger and adopting more traditionally masculine qualities. She's getting closer and closer—maybe what we actually need is for men and women to return to traditional feminine and masculine roles in order to create more harmony amongst couples.