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Six Reasons Why Men Are Opting Out Of Marriage
Real Clear Politics ^ | July 9, 2013 | Dr. Helen Smith

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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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: culturewar; feminism; savethemales; wageslaves
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To: Straight Vermonter

this I need to save for later.. My wife met a “bro-nie” during her recent travels and she’ll love this..


61 posted on 07/09/2013 11:03:08 AM PDT by newnhdad (Our new motto: USA, it was fun while it lasted.)
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To: freedomlover

This is true. I worked with a guy whose psycho wife drove to where we worked in the middle of the day when there was no traffic. After 5:00 the Middlesex Turnpike becomes a parking lot. She beat him with the vacuum cleaner pipes when he got home.


62 posted on 07/09/2013 11:04:34 AM PDT by massgopguy (I owe everything to George Bailey)
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To: MeanWestTexan

That is why guys need to learn the concept of the “Trust”...


63 posted on 07/09/2013 11:05:07 AM PDT by Axenolith (Government blows, and that which governs least, blows least...)
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To: Gen.Blather

This happens to women too. I do feel for the poor guys that get stuck paying huge child support payments to children that are the product of their wife’s affair(s).


64 posted on 07/09/2013 11:05:18 AM PDT by Rusty0604
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To: jagusafr

What’s wrong with asking someone to lunch? Sheesh, we’ve gotten soft! I grew up in the 70s when a train conductor asked me for a date: “Wanna go to a motel and smoke some weed?” Now that’s clueless.


65 posted on 07/09/2013 11:05:33 AM PDT by miss marmelstein ( Richard Lives Yet!)
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To: Axenolith

Yep.

Self-granted Nevada trust, stripping out 90+% of assets, 180 days before marriage.

Include a couple shell companies owned by the trust, so growth stays seperate.

Almost no need for a pre-nup.


66 posted on 07/09/2013 11:07:12 AM PDT by MeanWestTexan (Beware Obama's Reichstag Fire.)
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To: umgud

Before I clicked your name I guessed “California”.

This is precisely why I advised my daughter to get married and my son not to.


67 posted on 07/09/2013 11:08:02 AM PDT by null and void (Republicans create the tools of oppression, and the democrats gleefully use them!)
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To: NotYourAverageDhimmi

Our 26 year old daughter has had many dates with males her calendar age but live and act the life of 16 year old boys still. Many of those acting more mature to her level are either gay or married.

She’s given up for now.


68 posted on 07/09/2013 11:08:25 AM PDT by llevrok (We are in a new Cold War. At home.)
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To: newnhdad
My wife met a “bro-nie” during her recent travels and she’ll love this..

I had to Google "bro-nie".... friggin' amazing the children who pose as chronological adults these days...

69 posted on 07/09/2013 11:08:49 AM PDT by ScottinVA ( Liberal is to patriotism as Kermit Gosnell is to neonatal care.)
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To: NotYourAverageDhimmi; a fool in paradise

This thread provides a lot of fresh material for country and western songs. Thanks guys!


70 posted on 07/09/2013 11:09:09 AM PDT by Revolting cat! (Bad things are wrong! Ice cream is delicious!)
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To: Straight Vermonter
Ponies Meet Literature
71 posted on 07/09/2013 11:09:14 AM PDT by Jeff Chandler (Harriet Meiers is looking pretty good right about now.)
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To: Rusty0604

“I do feel for the poor guys that get stuck paying huge child support payments to children that are the product of their wife’s affair(s).”

I know three men who I believe were nice men and caring husbands whose wives had affairs on them and then, despite attempts at counseling, left them. It’s something when the kids tell the judge they want to stay with the father and he raises them; as was the case here.


72 posted on 07/09/2013 11:09:16 AM PDT by Gen.Blather
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To: ScottinVA

What all moonbats look like on the inside.

What disturbing things the liberal “culture” has produced. Alien life forms.


73 posted on 07/09/2013 11:09:29 AM PDT by LostInBayport (When there are more people riding in the cart than there are pulling it, the cart stops moving...)
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To: fredhead

Hopefully she did not take your VW when she moved out, Fred (I recall your photos from other threads). Now THAT would be a capital worthy crime!


74 posted on 07/09/2013 11:10:31 AM PDT by llevrok (We are in a new Cold War. At home.)
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To: freedomlover

That is entirely too true, my ex accused me of having an affair when I got home 15 min late on what was normally a 45 minute commute. We had heavy traffic that day...


75 posted on 07/09/2013 11:10:59 AM PDT by null and void (Republicans create the tools of oppression, and the democrats gleefully use them!)
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To: NotYourAverageDhimmi

Yeah, I stayed single from my late 20’s until I was past my 30’s. Why...? Because during that time all the available women in that age group are either raising some other guys’ kids or had an ass the size of a barcalounger. And in Ohio, fast food capital of the world, it was usually both.


76 posted on 07/09/2013 11:12:14 AM PDT by Orangedog (An optimist is someone who tells you to 'cheer up' when things are going his way)
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To: Vigilanteman
First thing that popped into my head as well.

Free sex with little or no attached responsibility for the male is the legacy of 50 plus years of liberal politics and the resultant destruction of cultural mores.

No one has done more to degrade females, turn them into recreational sexual implements, and destroy their lives than democrats - that is where the real War On Women originated.


77 posted on 07/09/2013 11:12:37 AM PDT by Iron Munro (The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.)
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To: Straight Vermonter

This is horrifying.


78 posted on 07/09/2013 11:12:44 AM PDT by pabianice
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To: Iron Munro

With all the casual hook ups and friends with benefits these (immoral) days, there’s no need to buy the cow. Heck, there’s no reason to rent one, either.


79 posted on 07/09/2013 11:13:13 AM PDT by bgill (This reply was mined before it was posted.)
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To: NotYourAverageDhimmi
Young people today have been raised by helicopter parents (a curse of our generation).

Yet so few young people are capable of taking the controls of their own helicopters.

80 posted on 07/09/2013 11:14:24 AM PDT by llevrok (We are in a new Cold War. At home.)
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