Sounds like you've read this:
Posted on 08/15/2014 3:47:26 PM PDT by Drew68
Meh. P*ssies talking to p*ssies about p*ssies.
Patriarchy and matriarchy both have power. Different, but equal, and thus has always been the case. To diminish one is to diminish the other, and neither sex realizes their full potential. Women, in insisting an equal role and participation in patriarchy have lost the power of the matriarch. And men, chasing after these very women, have ceded the power of the patriarch. Now, there is neither, but only the hapless duality of the androgen... or the meaningless sufficiency of the hermaphrodite.
What an unfortunate waste.
Apparently the author of the article disagrees with you.
No doubt she would have at least touched on your "laundry list" if it had any bearing on her thesis.
I’ll never marry again.
No doubt she would have at least touched on your "laundry list" if it had any bearing on her thesis.
Well, just open your eyes and look around at what passes for middle-aged men these days. Too many of them are fat, flabby, unfit and physically lazy. A lot of them could wear bras. They are not like their grandfathers. They cannot take care of themselves physically.
Why shouldn't their wives find them to be repulsive?
Sounds like you've read this:
Yep.
My Wife is a strong willed woman. No other would be as interesting. However, her attempts at gentrifying me to modern, effeminate, standards have failed.
I’m unabashedly Male and will remain so. Anyone else’s approval is not required.
Coming up on 18 years happily married next month.
Good grief.
Words fail me.
I did: to read the article.
You are injecting an issue not present in the article, presumably to give "women" a stronger justification than the author presents.
It's all very predictable, and it's called "chauvinism."
I don’t know about you, but I see far more obese women (both young and middle-aged) than I do men. What’s worse is that lot them wear clothes that they shouldn’t.
And I’m not a guy.
No doubt? Really? I can give you one big reason why she wouldn't have touched on it and that is because it didn't fit the point she wanted to make, that women are ditching their husbands just because.
And "laundry list"? You make my points sound like trivial complaints. Continuing to try to please your mate, not getting fat, being clean and smelling good are HUGE, for both men and women. When one side quits trying, the other side will inevitably quit caring.
Call me old-fashioned, but I think it’s nice when the wife needs a bra more than the husband. Romance is important.
No thanks - I’m a “millennial” and I like my men strong and manly... A “man’s man” as they call it in this article. My husband is in the military and has a very interesting job.. I’m very proud and he makes me feel safe.
I work and am college educated, I could try to be an equal - but I enjoy being the woman, and being married to a MAN. None of these wimps that emasculate themselves or inflate their wives’ egos. I see it far too often with my friends and it makes me worry for their future children..
I read your link. No counter number was supplied, just a great deal of speculation on the source of the number. I went to the CDC site (http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/marriage-divorce.htm) and it shows a 53% divorce rate as of 2011.
But fair is fair: I have to concede they gave up on me first.
Perhaps you are a FReeper atheist?
It sickens me. In the last two days I have gotten man-bashing emails. I don’t send them on. Why does this have to continue?
Opposites attract. BFD.
No doubt, but you seem to object to her point, and so contrive your own to make her observations more palatable to you.
Why do you feel the need to conflate her observations with your own?
And "laundry list"? You make my points sound like trivial complaints.
No more so than your list sounds resentful.
I'm always amused at how easily women trade in hypotheticals and unflattering generalizations about men, yet rise up in righteous indignation when one is even implied (as in this article) about women.
Please define "romance."
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