Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Why are good men so hard to find?
The Toronto Globe and Mail ^ | September 23, 2017 | Margaret Wente

Posted on 09/24/2017 3:31:11 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks

click here to read article


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-20 ... 41-6061-8081-100 ... 221 next last
To: sparklite2

Yep cheap and easy isn’t a big selling point.


61 posted on 09/24/2017 4:27:19 PM PDT by Vaduz (women and children to be impacted the most.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 4 | View Replies]

To: JohnyBoy
Marrying a woman in her 30s is a pointless thing to do.

I hear Melania Trump is over thirty. You just may be insane.

62 posted on 09/24/2017 4:28:20 PM PDT by bagster (Mama tried to raise me better.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 55 | View Replies]

To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Article is tone deaf.

Dating in my early 30s as Amman is among the most traumatic things I’ve experienced. Women my age are poisonous, and all the good ones are being monopolized by all the wealthy or otherwise above average men (80/20 rule. 80% of the good women are competing for 20% of the top men).

For more average joes like me that left the poisonous and toxic for us to pick from. It also leaves most women single and childless by their mid 30s but by then, the remaining pool of men has either decided on their mates or said “to hell with it” and thus those ladies are left in the cold.

This is the sort of process that goes on in primitive tribal societies. It shouldn’t happen in a civilized society where marriage is a stable institution.

IE, marriage is dead in the West. The form of it continues but in truth it’s done and over with.


63 posted on 09/24/2017 4:28:45 PM PDT by JamesP81 (The DNC poses a greater threat to my liberty than terrorists, China, and Russia. Combined.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: newfreep

That is why I, who served in ministry in two denominations, am now alone and churchless.

I could write a book.

Maybe I will.


64 posted on 09/24/2017 4:28:57 PM PDT by YogicCowboy ("I am not entirely on anyone's side, because no one is entirely on mine." - JRRT)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 33 | View Replies]

To: YogicCowboy

You sound like an awesome guy. Can’t imagine why chicks weren’t into you. /s


65 posted on 09/24/2017 4:31:10 PM PDT by bagster (Mama tried to raise me better.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 58 | View Replies]

To: trisham
Don’t most men cook? Mine does.

I can cook cereal and hot dogs. Is that good?

66 posted on 09/24/2017 4:33:22 PM PDT by bagster (Mama tried to raise me better.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 59 | View Replies]

To: bagster

I hope so, for your sake.


67 posted on 09/24/2017 4:34:08 PM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 66 | View Replies]

To: Vaduz
Yep cheap and easy isn’t a big selling point.

I dunno. Kraft mac 'n cheese is pretty tasty. Oh, were you talking about women? Never mind then.

68 posted on 09/24/2017 4:35:58 PM PDT by bagster (Mama tried to raise me better.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 61 | View Replies]

To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
When you live with a guy you take yourself off the market to all but the jerks.

After you've lived with several and nothing ever worked out, your judgement and emotional stability come into question. And the jerks continue being attracted to you.

69 posted on 09/24/2017 4:37:12 PM PDT by fso301
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

The reality is that young women are choosing to be promiscuous throughout their twenties and then they think they can just order a perfect husband when they are thirty. The online dating world involves a large number of women having casual sex with a small number of men, not at all like what this women suggests, that all men are being satiated by easy sex with a few bad girls who put out for any guy. More like the opposite.

Women in this age group today are incredibly immature and degenerate. Most are overweight, unfeminine and try to compete with men. These are the people who watch the Kardashians. A huge proportion come with some combination of the following baggage: Bastard kids, drug and alcohol problems, STD’s, massive debts, extreme feminism.


70 posted on 09/24/2017 4:37:36 PM PDT by WatchungEagle
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Fido969
because women don't expect much in return for access.

And it turns women into sluts.

Same statement.

71 posted on 09/24/2017 4:37:44 PM PDT by arthurus
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 6 | View Replies]

To: ViLaLuz

Thanks for your kind words.

Even though my faith is even stronger and has helped me persevere thru life’s many challenges, there are daze when it’s really tough to continue...but I’m still here.


72 posted on 09/24/2017 4:38:21 PM PDT by newfreep ("INSIDE EVERY PROGRESSIVE IS A TOTALITARIAN SCREAMING TO GET OUT" @HOROWITZ39, DAVID HOROWITZ)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 51 | View Replies]

To: trisham
I hope so, for your sake.

It keeps me prosperous and on the straight and narrow. Like that other guy, I'm awesome. But in my case, chicks dig me. I recommend the diet.

73 posted on 09/24/2017 4:38:34 PM PDT by bagster (Mama tried to raise me better.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 67 | View Replies]

To: fso301
When you live with a guy you take yourself off the market to all but the jerks.

Are you telling me my live in sammich-maker is messin' around on me with THE JERKS?????

Where's my shotgun?!?

74 posted on 09/24/2017 4:41:31 PM PDT by bagster (Mama tried to raise me better.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 69 | View Replies]

To: WatchungEagle

Join a church. Stick around at least 5 years. That is where the good women are. And folk who can tell you their history.


75 posted on 09/24/2017 4:41:59 PM PDT by Bethaneidh
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 70 | View Replies]

To: trisham

I think there is more to this than meets the eye. When women became more empowered, they started looking for their ideal man. That turned into, 6 figure income, great looks, tight body, good pedigree, graduated from a top college and available. What they soon found out was, Richard Gere from Pretty Woman is not as common as women thought. I addition, women started to turn “bi” and spend more time with their girlfriends than us guys. Also, the guys they were all looking for turned out to be gay. They dressed sharp, worked out, were well coiffed, but when the night ended it was Adam and Steve, not Adam and Eve.

In the mid 80’s, I hung out in the bars in NYC, went to the clubs where people liked to be seen and had a group of friends that all earned well. Women would look at us and stick their noses in the air. Apparently our clothing wasn’t high end enough for style points and as I was told one rainy evening by some hottie from the upper east side, “I wasn’t refined, as my hair cut made me look like I came from the beach and not Wall Street.” It never occurred to her that I did in fact live one block from the beach in LBI NJ, made a good living on Wall Street and was staying at the apartment a friend and I shared in the city.

Needless to say, in the late 80’s I met a nice Jewish girl at a dance club in Jersey. I was dressed in jeans and a button down, nothing fancy. I bought a rose from some lady selling roses at the club, sent this lovely raven haired beauty a rose and told her I was a rabbi who wanted to bless her. She laughed, called me an a$$hole, but gave me her number anyway. The first time she saw my car she just about left me. I had a 1969 Chevy Nova which wasn’t built for looks, but for the street. On the first visit to her house, her dad asked me what my potential was. Her mother told me I wasn’t good enough for their baby, despite being Jewish also.

The girl I met that night at the dance club and I have been married for 28 years, have two kids out of college and love each other more each day. To those women who went looking for something that didn’t exist, I offer these words of wisdom. Open the package and see what’s inside before deciding if you want to keep the gift. And for those who still think it’s the wrapping paper that makes the gift, go feed your cat, put on your eating clothes and wallow in your own stupidity.


76 posted on 09/24/2017 4:42:15 PM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (“The fundamental question of our time is whether the West has the will to survive.” - DJT)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 36 | View Replies]

To: YogicCowboy
The institutionalized church does nothing to approbate virtuous men, nor to admonish foolish women.

You sound like a good man. I pray that you will find a worthy woman soon.

You're right about the (institutionalized) church's failure to correct its members. "Live a chaste life" isn't the sort of thing that tickles people's ears or fills pews. Many churches would rather ignore sexual sin and not encourage couples towards Christian marriage. It's a shame.

77 posted on 09/24/2017 4:43:09 PM PDT by thecodont
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 58 | View Replies]

To: 2ndDivisionVet

It’s epidemic among young men. Porn addiction is off the charts.

Women spend their time agonizing over “Why won’t he propose?” After all, they’ve been living together for six years, have a house and two kids.

Tinder is meant to be more of a hook up site, less a dating/relationship site. Though people have formed relationships there.

Watching old movies gives you a glimpse of how it was before women got so angry.

I would *never* be willing to give up my professional ambitions for a man. So, I married a man who would support and encourage.

Of course, in the old days, men had too *much* power. They could get a recalcitrant wife locked up in a snake pit on their word alone.

Male-female relationships are not in a good place right now. And that is part of a grand design.


78 posted on 09/24/2017 4:44:03 PM PDT by jazminerose (Adorable Deplorable)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 12 | View Replies]

To: jazminerose
Porn addiction is off the charts.

Is that wrong? Should I not have done that?

79 posted on 09/24/2017 4:45:30 PM PDT by bagster (Mama tried to raise me better.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 78 | View Replies]

To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Like it or not, women have always been the gatekeepers for sex – not because they don't like sex, too, but because (no matter what you learned in gender studies) men's sex drive is innately higher. This means it's up to us to make the rules. "Why buy the cow when you can get the milk for free?" my father used to say. It drove me crazy when he said that. Now, it's dawned on me that he was right.

Time to get our act together, ladies. If we don't, they won't either.

Which is a real indictment of men.

It should not be women's responsibility to keep men in line or force them to act responsibly.

In a nutshell, men need to grow up and act like the adults they are supposed to be instead of looking for a free ride, housekeeping, food provided, and *privileges*.

80 posted on 09/24/2017 4:48:23 PM PDT by metmom ( ...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith..)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-20 ... 41-6061-8081-100 ... 221 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson