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True. The point is we're not going to be living in the 1950s anymore and if any man thinks his wife to be is going to put up with an arrangement where he makes the rules and she has to go along with it, he'll be waiting forever for a woman to agree to return to the old patriarchy. Life is not about living in the past and conservatism is about the right values rather an an obsession with a particular era's mores.

(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)

"The point is we're not going to be living in the 1950s anymore and if any man thinks his wife to be is going to put up with an arrangement where he makes the rules and she has to go along with it, he'll be waiting forever for a woman to agree to return to the old patriarchy."

I see. So the idea is that the family - an exclusive, private institution - is supposed to be democratic. Why? No one knows. It just seems more "moral" that way.

And as to how men and women are "equal," no one can provide an example of that, either. Again, it just seems more "moral" to say that it's simply true.

It's little wonder, then, that the institution of marriage is generally worthless today. After all, the egalitarianism of men and women, not to mention the family, evidently has no basis in reality.

Actually you'd be surprised. There are more than a few women out there tired of being men-women (careers, life decisions, single-parenthood).