Posted on 02/09/2020 5:03:10 PM PST by Ozguy1945
Male unhappiness is the key to acheiving a stable domestic life.
Dockamentary film maker Jim Cousens explains how male misery with high levels of suicide is essential for social cohesion in Australia.
N.B. this is Aussie comedy.
Is the meaning clear or would subtitles help?
The wife of a good friend of mine from college days is the worst left-wing harridan a man can ever know. She loathes me because I am a conservative. Her husband, although also a liberal, thinks of me as a friend and sees my views as carefully considered. Having known me for years, he does not think of me as a villainous caricature as most of the left views conservatives today.
Over the years since graduation I’ve visited my friend at his home from time to time, at his request. It grows every more difficult and I don’t think I’ll be going back.
At the last visit in the summer of 2018, I made an off-hand remark about how publishers of fiction do not seem to be interested in stories about men, only stories about women. I brought this up in a response to a question from my college friend about how things were going for me in my career as a writer. I said that everything was going well for my nonfiction writing but fiction writing was a very different matter and then told him (I was not speaking to her) about the prejudice I encountered.
Upon hearing my remark, she began frothing at the mouth and practically scream, “It’s about time!”
She ranted on that only books that make women the super hero should be published. Then changed her mind and said only books that make black women the super hero should be published.
I said there is a black woman in my novel.
“Is she the heroine” she hissed.
“She is the hero in the chapter in which she appears,” I replied, trying not to upset anyone and ruin my visit. (The statement is true about this character on the novel.)
She had no comeback to that but glowered. My friend looked relieved.
I explained to the harridan that the role of characters in fiction should be natural and fit logically within a story and cannot be superimposed for reasons that do not relate to the story and the characters in the novel.
(I was thinking but didn’t say a book that sets out with a political agenda of making a favored victim group the hero is propaganda, not literature).
Afterwards, I couldn’t shake this harridan’s abominable reaction from my mind and eventually I found the perfect literary character to capture the kind of nasty person she is — Madame DeFarge from a Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens. This novel takes place during the French Revolution in France.
Madame DeFarge is consumed by revenge and wants to have innocent people guillotined because two aristocratic brothers had raped her sister many years earlier, leading to her death, the death of her child and the death of her husband. She is a bloodthirsty mad Leftist poisoned by the tragic and brutal experience her family had endured.
This real-life Madame DeFarge (my friend’s wife) never had any such experience to at least give some level of justification for her venom, which makes it all the more horrifying. If ever given any power, she would have us all rounded up put in concentration camps and eventually exterminated.
Yep. That’s about it.
Oh, and guns. Don’t forget guns. Fortunately Mrs. L understands men.
L
Thanks for your thoughtful response to my post.
I can certainly tell you are a professional wordsmith. I was one myself for 25 years, mainly as business editor for some third-tier newspapers around the South.
It wasn’t much of a career, but I still got to see things and meet people I never would have encountered in any other line of work.
I’ve done a lot of reading about the French Revolution, but oddly enough “A Tale of Two Cities” isn’t anywhere near my favorite Dickens novel. Actually, I’m more of an Anthony Trollope fan, especially “The Warden,” which should be required reading in journalism curricula.
Heh heh... my father said, he married my mother because her mother could cook (grandma had been a hell of a cook in her day).
She's nuts, there have always been tons of female writers. Now, most of them write love stories, and aren't taken very seriously, but that's what women tend to write about.
To Alcohol! The cause of... and solution to... all of life’s problems.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUVwR0rw5fk
To think these pomme bastards would not let be emigrate to Adelaide, god only knows what they are up to in alice springs.
It’s all about HER
IF YER SMART
Not worth it, in the least. I'd rather live alone the rest of my worldly life than to accept that as a fate. Lordy.
Not universal.
Single guys who understand women and don’t get involved with them are the happiest guys in the world. They wishvthey could tell the blue pilled guys but they aren’t at a place in their lives they can understand it.
I’m sorry to hear that brother.
I sincerely hope things are better now for you.
My married son and I had this discussion today. LOL
We have four choices, leave, argue, dominate, or give in. The key to a happy marriage is to give in. I love my wife but we would do many things gs a different way from each other. So 75% of the time, it’s all hers.
As the saying goes, “If mama isn’t happy, then nobody is happy.”
Your friend’s wife obviously has no concept of liberty.
I’m fine now,
Thanks.
.
I think how things
Might have been.
It’s our way of showing how much we love our wife and wayward children....
"May you put up with each other".
My brother had my wedding.
“So here’s a toast to your marriage. Marriage is a fine institution.
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.
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But who the heck wants to live in an Institution!?”
lol
Rodney was THE best!!!
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