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A 'Marriage Strike' Emerges As Men Decide Not To Risk Loss
The Philadelphia Inquirer ^
| July 5, 2002
| Glenn Sacks and Dianna Thompson
Posted on 07/06/2002 5:00:19 AM PDT by buccaneer81
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To: Hostage
Where did you get the common law marriage points you posted?
To: All
When I read articles like this my heart breaks. Unfortunately people do too much complaining and whining and not enough praying. I prayed for a husband for five years, and he too, since he was eight years old. We're going on five years strong. Of course I am a rookie with little experience but I think if people would just pray about all their needs, leave it in the Lord's hands, trust, when the prayer is answered to continue to ask for his assistance, go to marriage seminars, seek counsel from happily married older couples, read relationship books and treat your marriage as if it is the most important thing under God in your life, you can make it. Please forgive me if I have stepped on toes or appear preachy. I just love my husband more than the world and this is what has worked for us. All I can say is pray,pray, pray.
To: edstet
In order for the multinationals to flourish they must get you to buy stuff you dont need. Family structures mitigate this consumption pressure hence they have been successfully destroyed Ah, dammit, you told 'em. Well, now that the cat's out of the bag, I might as well 'fess up. I used to sit on board of Amalgamated General, and yes, we used to sit around planning the destruction of the American family so we could sell more fried bananas. We figured the more divorces there were, the more unmarried men there would be living alone in apartments; and that's who eats fried bananas. It was us who made Bill Clinton president. We wanted those soccer moms to swoon. They'd get dissatisfied with their measly doctor and lawyer husbands, and presto -- some cleaned-out men and more fried banana sales. Und how long have you been haffink zees dreams? |
To: TJFLSTRAT
LOL ... and true ...
To: Nick Danger
Und how long have you been haffink zees dreams? More like this: Is it safe? AAAAAGGGH! Is it safe?
To: Dark Mirage
Why don't you just go forth and kill all the women and make the world perfect? This isn't about you. Not everything is about you. This is about government.
To: Nick Danger
As for the reaction of the men in this article, simple algebra tells us that as 'repent' increases, the amount of time which constitutes 'haste' must also increase. For sufficiently high values of repent, haste becomes longer than the typical human lifespan.
Is that algebra, or economics?
When the risk of divorce unreasonably raises the potential cost of marriage for men, there will be fewer buyers.
To: Tennessee_Bob
What I always found laughable was the young women at school that were dating some absolute a##holes - guys that were verbally and physically abusive, guys that were dating more than one woman - and making a point of letting everyone know - and the women complaining about it. Women think these a##holes are "exciting." They do not see the correllation between the "exciting guy" and their "miserable marraige." Meanwhile, many perfectly fine men acquire the "boring" label. The women also do not see the correllation between "boring" and a "peaceful" stable marraige.
It appears that women want to find a guy - any guy - then marry, and change him into someone she wants. Why do you suppose she doesn't look for someone she wants in the first place?
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posted on
07/06/2002 11:40:13 AM PDT
by
bimbo
To: wardaddy
the modern man has sold his principals for the allure of sex and a good time...anytime in my life I have ever put my passions above my principal I have ended up with unfulfilled passion and paid the price of compromised principal. As Far as young women go these days the word SLUT has become a badge of honnor.
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posted on
07/06/2002 11:47:28 AM PDT
by
rkrtgw
To: buccaneer81
This isn't THE HALF of it. Even IF married couples stay together the other no win situation is your kids. They are being raised by their peer group you know. Oh, I know, you think you are GOOD parents. Your family is going to be different. Right. MTV has more influence over your kids than you do. Even if you don't let them watch it ... all their friends DO.
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posted on
07/06/2002 11:49:02 AM PDT
by
mercy
To: Nick Danger
We are probably going to find out in not too many years whether you are right, and I suspect that we are going to find out that men's pre-marital sexual behavior has zero to do with whether government seeks to remove adult males from those human families they do manage to form. We don't need to wait a few years. Most children in single family homes were born out of wedlock. None of them would have been born without pre-marital sex.
You are suggesting that men take this a step further and go on a "conception strike," thus placing the continuation of the society itself in peril.
I'm only calling on men to face the reality that their concept of proving their manhood by nailing any willing woman is being used against them, but men are too obsessed with getting some to see it.
I believe government's response would be to begin supporting the children of single mothers via the tax system. There would always be loser men out there who had nothing to extract in terms of child support who would be willing to serve as society's studs. All you'd have is bunch of frustrated, celibate males who got dinged anyway in the form of higher taxation.
So men would provide the stud service, and then men in government would provide the support via tax dollars. Are men really that pathetic?
To: buccaneer81
"Why should I get married and have kids when I could lose those kids and most of what I've worked for at a moment's notice?" asks Dan, a 31-year-old power plant technician who says he will never marry.
You know, he's got a good point.
Just like people used to re-arange their entire lives around the tax code and the (moment of silence in respect) "Credit card interest deduction" now people are arranging their lives around the laws governing the marriage contract.
Whoever said "Life immitates art" was an idiot.
Because in reality, life immitates law.
(that's what they have done, legislated marriage right out the door. The kept weighting it and beating on it till they killed it. And now they blame the victim, so typical..)
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posted on
07/06/2002 11:54:57 AM PDT
by
Jhoffa_
To: buccaneer81
This post is worth a second bump..
I am glad you put this up.
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posted on
07/06/2002 11:55:36 AM PDT
by
Jhoffa_
To: Balto_Boy
Don't marry! Just practice cohabitation!
To: narses
Wow! Are you living in a dream world! Women have absolutely no sense of fairness when it comes to these matters.
"Hell hath no fury..."
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posted on
07/06/2002 11:58:45 AM PDT
by
matrix
To: Sabertooth
When the risk of divorce unreasonably raises the potential cost of marriage for men, there will be fewer buyers. Well said. Caveat Emptor, let the man beware...
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posted on
07/06/2002 12:00:14 PM PDT
by
meyer
To: Nick Danger
You forgot a big one: what is her relationship with her father? If she doesn't think her father walks on water, beware. If she says her father was a jerk, or a drunkard, or any other sort of miscreant, head for the hills immediately and do not look back. You will never do better than her father.My dad is somewhat of a jerk. He has a drinking problem and anger issues. I love him to death, but I am not going to say he is a saint when he surely is not.
To: Jhoffa_
We can talk all we want about the sorry state of many women and our courts, but most men have to get married if there going they are going to grow to full human maturity - to love heartily. To gain eternal life.
To: buccaneer81
I certainly do not have any ill feelings towards my boyfriend, or any past boyfriends. I must worship and idolize my ever angry father or else I'm not a "good" woman? LOL
To: happytobealive
Well then one might think we would be encouraging this.
We're not.
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posted on
07/06/2002 12:03:30 PM PDT
by
Jhoffa_
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