Conservative activist Charlie Kirk tells 14-year-old girl her main reason for university should be to ‘find a husband’

Conservative activist Charlie Kirk has sparked outrage after telling a room of young women that their main reason for attending university should be to find a husband.

The founder of Turning Point USA was taking questions at his recent Young Women’s Leadership Summit in Dallas, Texas, when a 14-year-old high school student asked for his advice on her future university plans.

“What would you say the pros and cons are [about attending university] because I’m interested in political journalism. What would your advice be?” she asked Kirk.

Watch the video above.

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Instead of responding to the student’s question, Kirk, who briefly attended a community college before dropping out, addressed all the young women in the crowd as he advocated for the “MRS degree”.

“Let me also speak to some of the young ladies here in high school,” he began.

“Interestingly, I think there is an argument to bring back the MRS degree,” he continued which evoked some laughter among the crowd.

The concept of the ‘MRS degree’ refers to going to university for the express purpose of finding an educated man to marry.

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“No, seriously,” he continued. ”And just be clear – that’s why you’re going to college, right?

“Don’t lie to yourself like, ‘Oh I’m going, I’m studying sociology’. No you’re not, that’s not why you’re here and that’s OK, actually.”

Kirk continued to shock with his comments, adding: “College is a scam, but if you’re going to find your life partner that’s actually a really good reason to go to college.

“You have a bunch of people that are single, they’re at the prime of their… let’s just say attractiveness, the dating pool is as robust as you’ll ever find and they all live together over a four-year period.

“You don’t get much better than that OK, it doesn’t get better after college.”

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He continued by nonchalantly discouraging a young woman’s education.

“That actually was the reason why a lot of women went to college in the ’70s, ’80s and ’90s, and it worked,” he said.

Kirk did not address the young woman’s aspirations to pursue political journalism.

He also did not tout the benefit for men to go to university to find a wife or obtain a ‘MR degree’.

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Vision of Kirk’s commentary at the event for conservative young women has circled around the internet, sparking outrage among many.

American author and attorney Jill Filipovic shared the clip to her X account.

“This poor girl. She asks Charlie Kirk about her goal to be a political journalist and her tells her to get an Mrs degree,” she wrote alongside it.

”Awful… just awful,” one person added about Kirk’s sentiment in a social media comment.

“Women aren’t signing up for debt and getting science and math degrees to play 1950s housewife. Let’s aim a little higher than an ‘MRS degree’,” said another.

“Mr. Kirk thinks women are lesser than men,” another critic wrote on social media.

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