Men seem to believe they are more rational than women, but men overreact emotionally, too.
This thread is an example - nearly 300 comments, just because a single mom dared to say she wants to marry and have more children.
There are many factors at play in the current dating market. Too many men are non-virtuous, too, but nothing is ever their fault, is it?
The girls call them man-whores.
Men seem to believe they are more rational than women, but men overreact emotionally, too. This thread is an example - nearly 300 comments [...]
I, personally, account for a big fraction of those comments - but I would hardly characterize my participation as due to an "emotional overreaction."
I believe that you'll agree that my structured, nuanced analysis, subtle parsing, and concisely formulated refutations are anything but "knee-jerk" responses motivated by a "wounded ego."
I know that "Eigenlob stinkt" = "Self-flattery stinks," but I must insist that my postings have been unfailingly calm and measured. I assert that any "emotional" responses which you may have encountered from other FReepers were because the (on the face of it) relatively harmless sounding thesis statement - "As a consequence of becoming a single mother, I have raised my standards" - is, in most cases, merely a rationalization for the petulant, selfish demand that "I'm older, less fertile, more worn-down, deeper in debt, and have more 'baggage,' but now require any future partner to accept my depreciated value and shoulder those additional burdens - things I didn't require of the baby-daddy!"
Nothing in this woman's demeanor suggest that she is sincerely unselfish in this claimed change in attitude. It still reeks of entitlement.
But if any of my postings have been tinged with fervor, it's because the epidemic of single motherhood is the Number One symptom cause of the spiritual and political demise of America. In comparison, LBGQT activism, Islamic terrorism, the alleged "Climate Catastrophe," the Corona Craze, BLM rioting, the tearing-down of Confederate statues, etc. are all seen as peripheral issues.
As Mr. Kevin Samuels was frequently wont to point out: Single motherhood - vulgo: rampant illegitimacy and its glorification - has accomplished what chattel slavery and the Jim Crow era failed to do: It has destroyed the Black family.
Indeed, if American families were still largely intact, many of the aforementioned issues would be orders of magnitude less evident.
The acute crisis of self-doubt and even self-loathing which America has undergone since the 1950s is, in my estimation, due largely to feminism and concomitant general licentiousness, broken families, and loss of faith.
The fact that even you, a staunch conservative, can countenance the effrontery of this woman is the single most-compelling argument I can muster for the Overton window.
Many conservatives yearn for the 1950s. I'm sure that you, too, can imagine yourself living back in the 1950s, and being for the most part "in tune" and "in harmony" with the general zeitgeist.
Of course, you would be an outlier insofar as you would definitely not approve of racial discrimination. But other than that, you would undoubtedly feel quite at home.
Now imagine yourself sitting in front of your t.v. in the 1950s, watching a program in which this single mother insouciantly announces to the world that her "standards are now higher." How she shamelessly demands that her future boyfriend "be better!" YOU WOULD BE APPALLED.
But today, you advocate for her!
Regards,
Too many men are non-virtuous, too, but nothing is ever their fault, is it?
"Women control sex. Men control commitment."
- Mr. Kevin Samuels
The disordered and spiritually destructive state of the modern dating scene is the fault of those who possess the power - not of the disenfranchised.
The top 90% of all women (in the relevant age bracket) and the top 10% of all men have all the power. They establish the "rules of the game." They determine who gets to play.
When the appeal of so-called "dating" (= serial polygamy) fades for modern women and they begin to want to "settle down," the damage has already been done; they have already been ruined, their pair-bonding synapses have been blown, and the bottom 90% of all men - the ones who had, until now, been more or less forced to stand on the sidelines and watch - no longer feel any compulsion to "step up" and "save" them.
Regards,