Aside from publishing P.J. O’Rourke, what has “The Atlantic” ever contributed to regular people’s lives? I’m sorry that urban Yankee feminists aren’t happy, I suppose ... but they could move South, act like ladies, and go to church, if they wanted better potential outcomes.
I had a bachelor Uncle, who dated a lot of women. Never married because he was too selfish to share his life or his wealth with any woman. As he grew older he complained about every little illness or pain in his effort to get attention.
The more he complained the less anyone cared. With neither a wife or children he was a lonely old man. When he died no one really cared, except at the reading of his will.The last few years of his life he lived in a motel, he had sold his home when he could no longer care for it.
This woman has friends now who will die out on her, she has no kids and no one who really loves her, If she lives long enough she will be a lonely old woman.She has lived a selfish life and will die a lonely death.She is to be pitied.
Marriage in spite of what this woman believes is not all about sex, it’s about love. I have been married for 48 going on 49 years,the only thing that will end my marriage is death.
The narcissism that prevails today, the sense of sexual entitlement along with the me, me, me, ideation....absolutely precludes the idea of marriage, fidelity, children, sacrifice.
Not much of a surprise.
I don’t feel sorry for feminists when they complain about the intended consequences of their movement.
Money quote, right there! As an undergrad from 1998-2002, I can attest that the glut of women on a majority of college campuses means "open season" for horny boys. Unfortunately, I was just every girl's good friend.
That being said, women are now and have always been in complete control of their bodies. If they want to give up the goat without so much as a bat of the lashes and a hello, they can thank the feminist revolution for that. On the other hand, they can also thank the glut of "players" on the market on the feminist revolution as well.
I survived two bad marriages with women who wanted it both ways, their femenist perks and a dependable income to allow them to self-realize, and was able to rescue my son from the second one.
Now, I have a wife who likes being a woman and enjoys being a helpmate. I have a great deal of sympathy for these women who bought into the femenist culture, but they buttered their bread...now they can jam it.
Just got married in June and absolutely love it. Couldn’t be happier. Dated for 8 yrs (started when I was 16, and she was 14). Have a nice house, dog and cat and love every bit of it.
God is central in our marriage and that is what will hold us together through thick and thin.
Maybe I'm just hard-hearted, but I find it hard to develop much pity or sympathy for someone who would dump "an exceptional person, intelligent, good-looking, loyal, kind" after three years for reasons she can't even articulate.
A spoiled child ... she made her bed, now she can sleep in it. Alone.
Funny how the liberal mantra is that marriage makes people miserable... yet 20 years into the “divorce is cool/I’m never getting married” experiment and anti-depressant use is up 400%.
Fact is, despite the ups and downs of a traditional marriage, people are overall much happier in their natural state of marriage and family.
1. No one is good enough. Read: no one good enough found them attractive and gave them a tumble.
2. The modern "I can make it on my own" paradigm.
By the time some of these women figure out that both of these scenarios lead to loneliness and unfulfillment, it's too late.
I have a female friend who married after college. The guy was a philandering dolt and she divorced him. She wanted to be a career woman and worked hard eventually leaving her firm and becoming a consultant.
Now, consultancy has dried up. She is 53, has had to take an office job (bye-bye "career woman") and is past child-bearing age. Over the years, she dated lots of guys, but always was probing the upper echelons of income even though she was not a member of the gentry. These guys got what she had to give and dropped her, but she was still looking for the brass ring - Mr. Perfect with a high six-figure or even seven-figure salary, a fancy home, a vacation house, etc. She never found him even though she has finally pronounced herself ready to marry again.
So, now she is alone, childless, working to pay off debt and aging rapidly. She bought the lie of feminism: "You can have it all." No one has it all. We only get parts of it and have to make sacrifices to get those.
One day a couple of them were apparently having some of these "hey, I'm gonna die old and by myself" moments, and one of them loudly bemoaned their plight, uttering the well-used mantra "where have all the good men gone?"
I took a great deal of satisfaction in replying "Why, they're already married to all the good women"!
That one left them shocked and unable to respond...
I knew boatloads of guys during my first tour in the Marines who got themselves to the Philippines for just that purpose.
Generally, it was mission accomplished.
Just as Gramsci intended, and as implemented by the Frankfurt School communists Maslow, Fromm, and Marcuse.
Marriage is of God. I bet she is not a believer.
A store that sells husbands has recently opened in New York.
The store has become very popular, but there are a few simple rules:
Women may only enter the store ONCE to make a purchase. There are 6 floors, and the attributes of the men for sale on each floor are detailed outside. Although you can choose a man from any floor, once you have entered a particular floor you must make a purchase there. You cannot go back down, except when you exit the building.
So, a woman goes to the Husband Store to find a lifelong partner. On the first floor the sign outside reads: ‘Floor 1 - These men have jobs and love the Lord’. She moves on up.
On the next floor the sign reads: ‘Floor 2 - These men have jobs, love the Lord and love kids’. She keeps going.
The sign outside the third floor reads: ‘Floor 3 - These men have jobs, love the Lord, love kids and are extremely good-looking’. Still she moves on up.
Next she sees the sign: ‘Floor 4 - These men have jobs, love the Lord, love kids, are extremely good-looking and help with the housework’. Excited now, again she proceeds to the next floor.
The sign outside the fifth floor reads: ‘Floor 5 - These men have jobs, love the Lord, love kids, are extremely good-looking, help with the housework, and have a strong romantic streak’. Although tempted to make her purchase from this floor, she can’t wait to see what’s available on the sixth.
Reaching for the door-handle to enter the floor area, she notices the sign outside. ‘Floor 6 - You are visitor number 4,634,289 to this floor. There are no men on this floor. This floor exists simply to prove that women are impossible to please’.
Something was missing.....we all know what that is code for.
They need a man like a fish needs a bike, but if you insist, he better be hung like a moose.
Men marry to get sex, now they don’t need to. Why buy the cow, etc. A predictable result of slut culture.
Yikes! She could have been attractive, and I would think a professional photographer could have made these pictures beautiful given her figure and features, but somehow that didn't happen. No one would make fun of any poor guy stuck with her, but no one would envy him either. She looks like a walking case of frostbite.
Swell article, K. Thanks for posting.
w, s, marriage ping....
This was all predicted by George Gilder back in 1973. In quite some detail.
http://www.amazon.com/Sexual-suicide-George-F-Gilder/dp/0812903811