Posted on 03/09/2018 4:08:27 PM PST by Pollster1
Eight years into our marriage, sitting in a therapist’s office with my husband, I mustered all my courage and said my deepest, darkest truth: “When we have sex, I feel like I’m being violated.” The unwanted sex at times made me sick: Once I had to run straight from bed to the bathroom, where I retched into the toilet. I spared him and the therapist that detail.
My husband shrugged and, staring ahead with more indifference than disdain, replied, “She’s always so melodramatic.”
. . .
I acquiesced. At the time, it didn’t feel like a choice; it felt inevitable. I lived every evening dreading the signals of my husband’s desire. I bargained my way out of sex as often as I could. I gloried in being sick enough to have the right to refuse.
On the nights when I couldn’t get out of it, we used a method that I had taught myself to tolerate and that he, astoundingly, tolerated as well: I read a book to distract myself for as long as I could while he did the thing he needed to do. I did not let him kiss me for the last several years of our marriage. That was the rule . . . and I don’t have to pretend to like it. This satisfied him.
. . .
I am a humanities professor who teaches feminist theory, models feminist behavior for my students and my own children, and has achieved success in a male-dominated field. Last year, my teenage son and I chanted in support of women’s reproductive rights at the Women’s March in Washington . . .
(Excerpt) Read more at vox.com ...
She is not well. Probably abuse as a child led to mental illness. Husband probably tried to keep better/worse vow.
Just exactly who is included in “We” and why?
Ya, perfect hah.
Dude....run.
“A significant percentage of American women are man haters.”
You got that right. I was at an office function yesterday, and the two chief feminists of the place brought a penis cake and penis balloons because a man was leaving the company. Then they practiced saying the word penis in as many sentences as they could, giggling and acting like fools.
If anyone even used a scientific term for a female body part, all hell would break loose with these shrews. Feminists are big time bullies and haters.
She should find another nasty woman and settle down. I’ll bet she would be trilled the spend the rest of her days with hillary.
“I rarely post articles, but this illustrates the culture wars better than almost anything I’ve read in years.”
This also illustrates that both of them might be mentally ill. Then again, Liberalism is a mental illness.
Surprised she didn’t come right out and report her husband to the authorities as a rapist - that would have improved her academic credentials significantly.....
Agreed.
She is. What is sad there are a lot like her out there.
If the story is really true. I would not be surprised to learn that there is not a shred of truth in this entire article.
In her article she stated that divorce was too hard because it is much harder than calling Uber.
“I am a humanities professor who teaches feminist theory, models feminist behavior for my students and my own children, and has achieved success in a male-dominated field. Last year, my teenage son and I chanted in support of women’s reproductive rights at the Women’s March in Washington . . .”
What can you say? The guy F’d up in picking this whack job.
There is something much worse going on with that man. If he actually enters her while she is reading a book or trying to stop throwing up he has some serious issues. Even trying to keep an erection knowing she can't stand him shows his complete lack of self-respect.
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