Posted on 05/20/2016 7:34:08 AM PDT by C19fan
Never in my wildest dreams did I imagine I’d earn the ire of a character named Turd Flinging Monkey, the nom de plume of a popular online activist. A leader in the Men Going Their Own Way (MGTOW) movement, which encourages men to avoid romantic relationships with women, Monkey did not take kindly to my new Prager University video talking up the benefits of marriage for men.
In the video, I noted, among other things, that married men work harder (about 400 more hours), smarter (they’re less likely to quit without having found another job), and more successfully (they make about $16,000 more per year) than their single peers. I described these as features, not bugs, of married life for men.
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I think a lot of parents of girls are going to know the joy of bouncing their daughter’s checkbook on their knee.
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Well said!
Unless of course they’re bipolar and refuse treatment. Then it’s only worse and starts sooner and never ends.
Love? Get a dog. /s
Your comment doesn't address what happens if the marriage ends.
So, you’ve met Mrs. USConservative then?
One of the pieces of advice I have have given to my is to be careful where he lays his seed.
Sorry, man.
Yes, well I like intelligent women — but they are always too smart to get involved with me.
Everything you said is right on the mark. But I must add to it.
Re: ... women’s abandonment as keepers of the home as wives and mothers....
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This abandonment began when women started agreeing with men’s description of full-time homemaking as “not working”.
No, but I had to deal with that scenario. Then the drug overdoses and the honking around with guys half her age, run ins with the law.
It gets better from there!
It will take me years to economically dig out, but at least I’m still alive. (she solicited my murder during the divorce but the law wouldn’t prosecute)
^^^^ Your Thoughts Megan?
Notice she just obliquely declined to address the obvious point of your post...that many women, herself included, use demeaning language and ridicule in an attempt to belittle men who don't play by their rules.
Sounds like John Entwistle in "My Wife"
But he was raised with that I am sure.
Boys you age were taught that by their fathers.
What did men our age say when they found out you had married an Older Successful Man?
Personally, I think “Eat, Pray, Love” should be read by all men as a cautionary tale as to why to avoid marrying American women.
I’m not going to re-marry with a foreign woman either, even one from a more traditional values culture, because it would always be in the back of my mind that she is just marrying me for the money and to get into the US.
What do you get When you fall in love?
You only get lies And pain and sorrow
So far at least Until tomorrow
I'll never fall in love again
In today’s world, marriage is a risky business venture. As someone who practices family law, I can tell you all of the war stories, but the problem lies with the no fault divorce.
Prior to the no fault regime, if you wanted a divorce you had to prove a “cause” such as adultery, insanity, incarceration, physical abuse, etc. Also, there was an action for alienation of affection. That meant that if you screwed around, the jilted spouse could bring a civil action against you for breaking up the family. Additionally, there was the social stigma of divorce. When you combine all of this, you get a strong incentive to maintain the marriage.
In the current world, people simply get tired of each other. They go to court on the grounds of irreconcilable differences, and boom, divorce is granted. Of course, there are arguments about custody and property, but it is pretty cut and dry: the community property will be divided, the kids go to mom, and the dad will pay child support at a predetermined statutory rate. It really is that simple.
I can tell you personally that in my practice, I have noticed that women are much more likely to file for divorce than men. Men might be unhappy or disappointed, but they fight like hell to keep the family together, even after catching the woman in an affair. Women on the other had have ever economic advantage to the divorce. They’ll get maintenance, child support, half of the property, and most likely qualify for every government program under the sun.
But then, once the woman is on their own, they realize that even with the man paying child support and uncle same footing part of the bill, its still not enough to get by. This is when the woman will usually, ape to the lowest common denominator and shack up with the first man that offers her the opportunity. This is where it get dangerous for the kids because the woman is willing to overlook character flaws in the man in the name of economic security (think drunk, physical/verbal abuser, sexual pervert, etc I’ve seen it all).
So, you wonder why men are ticked at women when their ex-wife takes half of their property, 1/3 of their paycheck, the kids, and shacks up with some drunk loser that slaps his kids around? You wonder why the younger generation that grew in that environment or have been exposed to it have a grudge against women and marriage?
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