Posted on 07/09/2013 10:25:31 AM PDT by NotYourAverageDhimmi
Dr. Helen Smith: American society has become anti-male. Men are sensing the backlash and are consciously and unconsciously going "on strike." They are dropping out of college, leaving the workforce and avoiding marriage and fatherhood at alarming rates. The trend is so pronounced that a number of books have been written about this "man-child" phenomenon, concluding that men have taken a vacation from responsibility simply because they can. But why should men participate in a system that seems to be increasingly stacked against them?
As Men on Strike demonstrates, men aren't dropping out because they are stuck in arrested development. They are instead acting rationally in response to the lack of incentives society offers them to be responsible fathers, husbands and providers. In addition, men are going on strike, either consciously or unconsciously, because they do not want to be injured by the myriad of laws, attitudes and hostility against them for the crime of happening to be male in the twenty-first century. Men are starting to fight back against the backlash. Men on Strike explains their battle cry.
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It sounds like you are in a win-win relationship. You should marry her.
There are also those men who grew up with their “liberated” career woman mommies bringing home the bacon and spoiling them to make up for their guilt about working instead of being home with the kids. Add a kicked-to-the-curb father plus ne’er-do-well revolving-door boyfriends, leaving the boy with no positive, responsible male role models. Life in mom’s basement...looks good to them!
Where did you meet my ex?
The NappyOne
Just bumping for a guy that will be in the market someday. Good stuff to know had the current and only wife since I was 22, going on 22 years so I’ve missed an entire lifetime of goings on. Need to pay attention to this stuff.
I don’t see the problem. It’s not like she left with him. And if they did go to lunch (at the proper time), so what? It is none of your business unless you specifically have a policy against employees dating clients.
Maybe I’m just too protective of my staff, but I don’t think my employees should have to put up with that. I’m frankly puzzled how that came across as a brag...
It’s a really bad idea for anybody at a law firm to date a client, though that didn’t even cross my mind. I guess I’m really in the minority in my position - oh, well, it’s a FRee country.
Eh, I think you win on clueless stories! The chivalry in me tends to raise its head when stuff like this happens to my employees in my workplace. How I was raised, I s’pose. Besides, she could be my daughter and he’s older than I am, which is just creepy.
Women have to learn early to deal with dopey men. Men will always be inappropriate with women - it’s something we all figure out by the time we are too old to get hit on anymore. Unless he actually says something totally inappropriate, I would let her handle it on her own. Just my opinion, of course.
Ever notice how the older you get, the sexier the box of Kleenex on your night stand gets?
Just how in the hell could she get pregnant?
I’ve learned my lesson... My honeymoon was the period between “I DO” and “YOU’D BETTER”..
However, it was the happiest time in our union together, the rest was a hockey stick curve down.. :)
It’s simple, it’s like this:
She said to me, “It was nice having you.”
I replied, “It was nice being had!”
Yeah, but on the really off chance the "chick" DID "need" an abortion, would you want to deny "her" the opportunity? Think of the spawn that would be released upon the Earth. The very existence of that "chick" reinforces her own arguments.
secular morality brings out the very worst in people. and that is the truth. certain religious structures do too, but when people are left up to themselves to detrmine right and wrong, your religion is rationalization and anything can be justified.
Look at what our culture justifies by rationalization today. Everything.
How in the hell do you have to pay alimony for 24 years?
When America finally unleashes the Bronies, Al Qaeda won’t have any idea what hit ‘em! :)
Marxist libtards want to destroy traditional marriage and family. That makes it easier for the state to raise children under conditions of equality of opportunity.
A very pretty woman is to men like a very muscular man is to women. Similarly a very voluptuous woman is to men like a very rich man is to women.
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