Posted on 07/09/2013 10:25:31 AM PDT by NotYourAverageDhimmi
Dr. Helen Smith: American society has become anti-male. Men are sensing the backlash and are consciously and unconsciously going "on strike." They are dropping out of college, leaving the workforce and avoiding marriage and fatherhood at alarming rates. The trend is so pronounced that a number of books have been written about this "man-child" phenomenon, concluding that men have taken a vacation from responsibility simply because they can. But why should men participate in a system that seems to be increasingly stacked against them?
As Men on Strike demonstrates, men aren't dropping out because they are stuck in arrested development. They are instead acting rationally in response to the lack of incentives society offers them to be responsible fathers, husbands and providers. In addition, men are going on strike, either consciously or unconsciously, because they do not want to be injured by the myriad of laws, attitudes and hostility against them for the crime of happening to be male in the twenty-first century. Men are starting to fight back against the backlash. Men on Strike explains their battle cry.
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I guess I just got lucky.
We are not only husband and wife but are still friends after all these years.
I can not imagine life without my partner by my side, and she feels the same way. Yet we know as we get older one of us is going to be left (temporarily) behind.
Now THAT is harsh.
Re: “Free Abortion on Demand” .... Why would she - EVER - need to worry about such a thing?
It's California, we were married over 20 years, she has no education and is on SS disability (due to stupidity, laziness, kniving and drugs). I only give her $20 grand/year and she will live to be one day older than me. If I'd shot her when I first wanted to, I'd have been out by now.
In her case, I’m tempted to pay for it out of my own pocket.
"Let's walk down this hill and f*** ALL them cows"
One flows from the other.
A guy brings his best buddy home for dinner.
His wife screams, "You a@@hole! My hair & makeup aren't done; the house is a mess; the dishes aren't done; I'm still in my pajamas and I can't be bothered with cooking tonight!
Why the f*** did you bring him home?"
"Cause he's thinking of getting married..."
Not true. Married for 15 years in CA. Stopped paying alimony after 8 more.
Bookmarking bump. One of those threads that I followed all day.
There ended up being a lot of good insights and some hilarious personal experiences in this thread. God, I love Free Republic.
I said that libs killed it, but the truth is that libs only administered the coup de grace. Marriage was actually defined out of legal existence by "conservatives," especially the majority of couples using artificial contraception and Republicans like Governor Ronald Reagan who signed "no fault divorce" into law 45 years ago.
Writers like C.S. Lewis and Aldous Huxley saw this coming when the Anglicans allowed contraception for married couples in 1928. Pope Paul VI warned about it forty years later in 1968.
Sorry, folks, but there it is. Conservatives can't claim the moral high ground on this. Marriage is dead and conservatives, especially us Christian conservatives, killed it because we (and I include myself) didn't heed the words of our prophets.
Let's get honest here and stop blaming others for our mess.
I have a sneaking suspicion that everyone’s getting screwed by the mistrust and latent anger that’s developed between the sexes these days.
We are going to learn what turd world political, economic and social regression is all about. Our society is breaking down in every way. The Left, bleeding hearts and psychopaths have been working like termites for decades and I think we have reached our tipping point. Every institution is totally dysfunctional.
People who have strong families are very fortunate right now. People who know themselves, have intimate friendships and social skills and hobbies beyond technology and career obsessions are fortunate as well. What a weird time we live in.
Amen. Well stated. I posted something similar on another thread a few days ago, but your explanation above is far more clear.
Then the law has changed.
Consider yourself lucky. I felt that way about my husband of 12 years. He passed away almost 10 years ago. I’m 49 and have been on a couple of dates since he passed. One guy I really liked was getting his business degree. Once he graduated, he said he was going to apply for disability. I dumped him. He could fish everyday, but not work? Been single and haven’t dated since then. Oh well...
49 is still young, don’t give up on marriage yet.
Haven’t given up, just kind of lost interest. Seems like a lot of single men out there now want the woman to do all the pursuing. That gets old too. I hate feeling like I’m being pushy or too forward. I wasn’t raised like that. Rough being single at this age.
Especially when the cows are surly and unpleasant feminists, liberals, and just plain big-mouths.
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