Posted on 04/18/2012 6:59:33 AM PDT by Kaslin
All I know about Jane Austen is that reading her books in HS English class was torture.
well all the men gotta do is
Have a job
Stay zipped up and faithful
be drug and alcohol free
don’t hit
It ain’t that big a challenge.
So how come so many can’t perform?
Ping
Not if you are a female.............lol
you single?
If you act with sense and sensibility, you can take pride without prejudice.....................
now work “Emma” into that lol
I read a LOT of Austen in college having majored in English. Her works are very romantic but not saccharine. I knew several dyed-in-the-wool feminists who softened themselves a bit after reading Austen’s works.
That being said, it sounds like they still want to balance this neo-feminism with old-world femininity. I don’t completely disagree, but there are some points of modern-day feminism that are completely incompatible with Victorian-era love. Modern-day feminists believe that pre-feminist-movement women were repressed, for instance.
I do very much like the idea that modern women should focus more on elegance than sexiness. That’s really the big elephant in the room. Sexuality isn’t best when overt. Sex is meant to be shared by a man and a woman who truly, madly, deeply love one another. Elegance, I believe, needs to make a comeback.
Unfortunately, that is definitely NOT all that men have to do, in spite of female protestations to the contrary.
alcohol free?
heaven forfend.
The good men are in the "friend zone", where young, single women have put them.
well I tell you what, it is about impossible to find a conservative single man, they have all sold out to “self-actualization”
Should I buy this for my 27 year old daughter who is having trouble finding the right man? She is especially having a hard time finding a conservative, christian man, that is a tall order these days.
You, like myself, were looking at them thru the eyes of a bored teenager. I recently read Pride & Predjudice, and enjoyed it thoroughly. 40 years can make a world of difference in one’s outlook.............
What I MOST hated, and still do, was the REQUIRED reading of Catcher in the Rye..................
FWIW, all the young women I know are looking for jobs, not mates.
Good point.
>>Not if you are a female.............lol<<
Oh My Stars and Garters, YES it was. Absolute torture.
Thank the Good Lord I never have to read one again.
Even my girls chose Sherlock Holmes over the fluffy girlie books.
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