All I know about Jane Austen is that reading her books in HS English class was torture.
well all the men gotta do is
Have a job
Stay zipped up and faithful
be drug and alcohol free
don’t hit
It ain’t that big a challenge.
So how come so many can’t perform?
If you act with sense and sensibility, you can take pride without prejudice.....................
I read a LOT of Austen in college having majored in English. Her works are very romantic but not saccharine. I knew several dyed-in-the-wool feminists who softened themselves a bit after reading Austen’s works.
That being said, it sounds like they still want to balance this neo-feminism with old-world femininity. I don’t completely disagree, but there are some points of modern-day feminism that are completely incompatible with Victorian-era love. Modern-day feminists believe that pre-feminist-movement women were repressed, for instance.
I do very much like the idea that modern women should focus more on elegance than sexiness. That’s really the big elephant in the room. Sexuality isn’t best when overt. Sex is meant to be shared by a man and a woman who truly, madly, deeply love one another. Elegance, I believe, needs to make a comeback.
The good men are in the "friend zone", where young, single women have put them.
Should I buy this for my 27 year old daughter who is having trouble finding the right man? She is especially having a hard time finding a conservative, christian man, that is a tall order these days.
FWIW, all the young women I know are looking for jobs, not mates.
Mark Twain said, ‘any library is a good library that doesn’t contain a volume by Jane Austin, even if it contains no other book’.
The main problem AMERICAN women have finding a man is themself. They are products of the American Feminist teaching and doomed to failure in finding a man.
Any young man that marries an “Americanized” woman is an idiot. It will cost him dearly.
“What is it that Jane Austen heroines do (that we’re not doing) that makes really satisfying happy endings possible for them, and not so likely for us?”
I stand speechless before the incomprehensible stupidity of that question.
Men will always be men.... for good or ill.
When you are easy to please, anything pleases you.
Women need to have more self-respect and discernment; because women control their own destinies in this society.
Too many females are looking for guys that look like Clark Gable, have money like Gates, party, party, party. They need to look at the real world, get off of this dream world of theirs and look for qualities in a man. Look for the most ambitious, hard working, common sense, best ditch digger so be it and someone who has faith in God and you will be happy. Most females are too phony to know what they could be happy with.
Too many females are looking for guys that look like Clark Gable, have money like Gates, party, party, party. They need to look at the real world, get off of this dream world of theirs and look for qualities in a man. Look for the most ambitious, hard working, common sense, best ditch digger so be it and someone who has faith in God and you will be happy. Most females are too phony to know what they could be happy with.
Modern "overbearing" men (and that's all of us, ya know), can easily see the life lessons, ethics and morals in her works are equally valuable to men, but we can't get through the shrill nasal whining to tell the gals so.
So it's off to Hooters for wings.
Humphf - hellava lot of good this will do when more and more relationships seem to be between members of the same sex!
We’ve been developing the perfect companions for thousands of years. At some point in the future, happiness for women will be a man with the brain DNA of a cat, and for men, women with the brain DNA of a dog.
As a 22 year old senior at a major research University, I can vouch for the accuracy of this article. The VAST majority of girls on campus are complete sloots and will screw anyone who buys them a drink, especially the sorority girls. Trust me on this, I’ve been to quite a few fraternity parties considering I was in one and the sorority girls present...yeah...
However, I was lucky to find a woman who hates this feminism crap. Case in point, she cooks me dinner, has a high libido, doesn’t nag, lets me work/watch tv/play games, and looks great! 4 years into the relationship and the above still applies.
I also have to tell all of you fathers with your daughters in college; What they say to you and what they do are two completely different things. I know that she’s your “little girl” and “doesn’t sleep around” but, based on my experience, 80%+ of girls on campus exhibit slootish behavior when not around parents. Want to see for yourself? Walk onto any college campus around 11am-12pm and find the “main” gathering spot. When you see the wardrobe of choice, you’ll begin to understand.
No offense meant and I’m sure that the majority of you raised your daughters with proper morals and virtue but sometimes ignorance is bliss.
Again, I speak from my 4-year experience in University. It is nigh impossible to find a woman who hasn’t been the village bicycle.