Prager is right.
And one way women demean men is in advertising.....every white dude on a commercial is a dolt - unless he’s a feminized lib hipster type.
For women, love and admiration go together. Men understand that a woman cannot love a man she does not admire.
For a man, when a woman belittles him in front of others, what she's really communicating, whether she realizes it or not, is that it's time for him to move on.
A woman like myself finds it difficult to stomach what feminism had done not only to men, but to women. I can’t stand it when I see good men being treated poorly. Feminism discounts love, honor, and respect for your husband because you don’t need a man for anything
Women rightfully did not like it when men demeaned them individually or collectively. It was always in a patronizing sort of way for the most part. More of the “Poor dear just can’t handle man work...” sort of thing.
These women today, now that they have gotten to parity, are vicious harpy bitches not content use to a little eye rolling “Men!” type commentary but are hateful, spiteful and mean: they very thing they accused men of being for so many years.
Pity my grandson who has to deal with it.
“Are you a woman who wants to poach another woman’s husband? Try telling him this: If you were my husband I would never let you do the laundry.”
Nonsense. Just tell him you will treat him with respect, acknowledge that he’s a man and never publicly mock him. No need to even bring up the laundry.
I would advise any young man in the USA to be very careful about marriage. The culture that most American women have been brought up in is a horror show, and the legal system is sure as hell not on your side.
See if you can find a nice church-going girl far from the big urban centers.
Sounds like he’s describing my first marriage.
Another part of this humiliation comes from just about every new comedian and sadly, every new preacher. Seems they always resort to the cliched wife is always right - husband always wrong - blah blah blah predictable stuff.
It’s everywhere. It reinforces itself. I am blessed that this is not the case in our house. Heck, in our house, the rule is “if daddy ain’t happy, ain’t nobody happy.”
As it should be.
This is the worst. Reducing a man to nothing more than a punching bag or a scapegoat. An object on which to heap abuse.
Dogs get better treatment. Indeed if one verbally punished a dog every time it walked in a room, the dog would learn to cower and run away. I wonder if perhaps this just might be one of the reasons divorce rates are now 50%.
Women mock their husbands and the people mock their government.
1) Men can't cook. Any attempt will result in a culinary disaster and leave the kitchen looking like a tsunami swept through;
2) Men are either pushover ninnies or drill-sergeant tyrants when it comes to raising kids. In any case, they're incompetent;
3) Men are bungling boobs when it comes to home repairs, lawn care, and other traditionally male duties around the house;
4) Men are barely competent in bed, and most must be guided with a firm but loving hand in the arts of the caress;
5) Men drop their dirty socks everywhere, spill potato chips and Cheez-Whiz on the couch while watching football games with their boorish buddies, and don't put the toilet seat down;
6) Without a maternal superwoman at his side, the average American male could not dress himself, feed himself, get off to work on time, or function in polite society without either humping the hostess' leg or peeing on the parlor rug.
But at least there's no sexist stereotyping going on ...
so true, contempt is a sure sign it’s over. The second I see it pop up in someone elses relationship, I know it’s over.
I’m 51 and have seen this phenomenon three times in my life. In each case, the man was a good husband and father, but a wimp who married the first girl he dated (practically). In each case, a divorce ensued to the relief of his family and friends - and remarried, very happily...and, in each case, the shrew women fell completely to pieces. Each ‘wimp’ eventually grew a pair!
The nagging, belittling, controlling woman was around long before feminism. Read some Anthony Trollope novels from the 1800s and you’ll find her all over the place.
I was raised - and, largely in my current household as well - to believe that "If you don't like the way I take care of something, then you can do it your dammed self."
With exceptions, of course. And always, polite ones. For instance, Mrs WBill says, "I would appreciate it, WBill, if you would pick the laundry up and put it in the basket, rather than leaving it in a pile on the floor for me to trip on." Problem solved, and it's much easier than her stewing over it and whining to her girlfriends: "MY HUSBAND just is SO CLUELESS about the laundry. He NEVER etc etc etc". That won't ever address the issue, unless I'm sitting there at the table, or one of the girlfriends calls to let me know. :-)
Respect. That's all it is.
I’ve advised my oldest son that there is only one woman that will every really love him: his mother, and that most women don’t love a MAN, they love what a man can DO for them (until they divorce them).
Another way I put it is, if there was a door and someone told you there was a 50% chance of getting free chocolate cake on the other side, and a 50% chance someone would hit you in the face with a baseball bat, would you try to go through that door?
Divorce being around 50%...
I don’t want my husband to do dishes, laundry or house chores. I don’t go to his job and start getting all in it. I don’t want him all in mine. The house is my job, including the lawn.
There’s no talk or fuss about this and no nasty comments being made by either of us. It works for us.
The Biblical admonitions are:
1) Husband, love your wife.
2) Wife, respect your husband.
Result? Happy marriage.
Seems to me respect is what is missing here. Should be both respect each other and model this for the kids. There were eight kids when I grew up long ago very poor. But parents taught us soap is cheap, respect for them and each other, and we were to always look out for each other. Wish America was like that again.
Immature women try to humiliate their husbands as they have inferiority complexes that immaturity brings. They usually find themselves divorced.