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Have been of this opinion for some time; it's just too risky. Just don't do it.
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Yeah, I tend to sympathize with those who warn men away from marriage these days. The deck does seem to be stacked against men.
What about those who point to evidence showing that people who stay in long term committed marriages are better off financially, physically and emotionally than single people (including singles in co-habiting relationships) and divorced people who've had a string of failed marriages.
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What about those who point to evidence showing that people who stay in long term committed marriages are better off financially, physically and emotionally than single people (including singles in co-habiting relationships) and divorced people who've had a string of failed marriages.
Ask them what per centage of marriages are long-term committed marriages, and if the proportion has been increasing or decreasing over the last few decades.
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There really oughta be a high school class for boys called "Marriage Realities 101."
It would cover statistics on divorce, the legal implications of the marriage contract as regards the wife's immediate entitlements to property, income, etc; marital rape and DV laws; child support obligations, and various other "downside of matrimony" topics.
Of course, it could also examine the credible social science about what makes a good marriage, how to deal with relationship issues, etc.
Since the pop media continues to peddle the bourgeois romantic mythology about wedded bliss, the schools should be encouraged to provide a more realistic perspective for our adolescents of both (all?) genders.
Of course, given the divorce rate in this country, most teen-agers are already getting some type of exposure to the "hidden curriculum" of marital politics via either their own families or those of friends.
Talk with any 20-something guy and he'll have several true-life stories that have made him real gun-shy where marriage is concerned.
"It's a terrible thing ... living in fear."
- Roy: hunted replicant, Blade Runner
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Marriage, thanks to the feminist bowel movement, have become redefined as a political social institution. The objective of course is to control and eventually make men superfluous. Marriage was once a sacrament ordained by God which the state was very reluctant except under the most extreme situations to become involved in. Then around the 1940's marriage evolved into a contractual arrangement with state defined limits and responsibilities of the couple. Now, for all practical purposes the traditional marriage has been effectively abolished and replaced with a temporary contractual arrangement with the state being the actual head of the family and the man being the most junior partner after women then children in that order. In other words, the pseudo-marriage hierarchy we have today is STATE on top, then the woman, then the children and last and the least the woe begotten male. This is the harvest of what feminism has sown. A new dark age of state tyranny has descended upon us!
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by Anonymous User on Tuesday September 30, @10:13PM EST (#6)
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If 50% of marraiges end in divorce, than 50% do not. Not good odds, but not hopeless.
I realize that this is a very ugly place to be, but by turning your back on marraige you are playing right into the feminist plans of abolishing the family. I do not pretend to know the answers, but bitterly hating all of the opposite sex doesn't seem like a very good solution for either party. If you replaced the gender specific words with he/men instead of she/women, the feminists could have written this. Is this where you want to be?
Perhaps if more young people started looking for partners in places like churches, libraries, or museums instead of bars or parties, they wouldn't end up dating idiots.
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Perhaps if more young people started looking for partners in places like churches, libraries, or museums instead of bars or parties, they wouldn't end up dating idiots.
I thought I'd found a wife at church, but it turns out she's a better Christian than me.
I stopped by the library to continue my quest, but "mon cherie" was fawning over a book by someone who was an inspiration to radical feminists everywhere.
Nonplussed, I thought I might find a wife at the museum, but all the dames were admiring an exhibit that proved to me that they were, in fact, unsuitable for marriage. (Shakespeare was a dreamer: there is no Taming of the Shrew. Never was, never will be.)
I'm sorry, Anonymous, but there is no escape. The family is, in Western civilization anyway, quite doomed. Fred was right - don't marry a Western woman of any color.
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