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Over-50 Divorce Rate Soars
posted by Thomas on 05:38 PM December 7th, 2004
Divorce Ugh!

"Over the past five years the divorce rate among over-fifties has risen by 8.7%... Generous divorce settlements and the right of a wife to claim part of her husband’s pension are fuelling the rise." You can read the rest here.

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Financially Independent Women (Score:1)
by shawn on 06:51 PM December 7th, 2004 EST (#1)
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Experts attribute the rise to financially independent women [...] Generous divorce settlements and the right of a wife to claim part of her husband’s pension are fuelling the rise.

You got to love those financially independent women who leach off their ex-husbands.

I believe one of our prime responsibilities is to educate men and boys about the physical, mental, emotional, and financial dangers of marriage. While I realize that there are some happy and successful marriages, considerably more end up being nightmares for men. There are simply too many "financially independent women" out there.

Re:Financially Independent Women (Score:1)
by Clancy (long_ponytail@yahoo.com) on 08:38 PM December 7th, 2004 EST (#2)
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You got to love those financially independent women who leach off their ex-husbands.

HA! Well said. The signpost up ahead says: You're entering the Rant Zone.

Let's make this an amicable divorce. We'll split our assets down the middle. I'll take this entire pie and half of yours. Well, yes, I do have a good paying job AND a pension package but I figured I'd take some of yours because I'm a oppressed woman living in a partiarchy designed to keep women under the thumbs of men. Listen, I don't want to hear how you worked your ass into the ground just to keep me in trinkets, I mean, oppressed. You just don't excite me any more so I think you need to just keep on oppressing me but not in this house and without that bothersome piece of paper that said we were united in matrimony. That's just another form of male repression. I'm sorry you'll have to eat beans and live out of your soon to be repossessed car for the rest of my life but, that's what you get for being a man. And I? Well, I'm an independant woman, fully in charge of her life that doesn't need a man to depend on or to protect me or be a father to MY children. Just don't be late with the check or I'll flex my Grrrrl power muscles and have the arm of the feminazi gestapo throw you in jail and I won't even lift one of my french manicured fingers or displace one strand of my immaculately coifed hair. Oh, the pain, the pain. When OH when will we ever achieve equality with men???

If any woman living in America and Great Britain thinks she labors in a society of inequities, I gotta get me some a 'dat!!!

RANT MODE: OFF


Re:Financially Independent Women (Score:0)
by Anonymous User on 02:42 PM December 8th, 2004 EST (#5)
"I believe one of our prime responsibilities is to educate men and boys about the physical, mental, emotional, and financial dangers of marriage. While I realize that there are some happy and successful marriages, considerably more end up being nightmares for men. There are simply too many "financially independent women" out there."

I like wearing this at street fairs, book fairs, football games, what have you. It always gets a laugh, but even more often gets some serious response from men. Don't forget to have some NCFM flyers in your pocket to give to men when they talk to you. I'm not a real outgoing person, but I've had a lot of good conversations with very little effort. There are a lot of really decent people out there who are really getting screwed over, and welcome this profound but somewhat counter culture perspective. Curiously enough, most people who have a hurmph reaction seem to be content to just go hurmph, or give a dirty look.

Why Put Yourself At A Woman's Mercy - Why Marry?

Sincerely, Ray

Please do not scroll up the page of linked item(s). All the info I'm trying to convey is as the page initially comes up.


Some Men Just Don't Get It (Score:2)
by Luek on 08:53 PM December 7th, 2004 EST (#3)
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Generous divorce settlements and the right of a wife to claim part of her husband’s pension are fuelling the rise.

Go on men. Just keep getting married and then screwed over by a self serving judicial system that views your civil rights on the same level as a hogs.

If you don't listen and learn you will feel and learn what this marriage racket is really about. So do your self a real favor and get the damn wax out of your ears!
Look on the Bright side (Score:2)
by AngryMan (end_misandryNOSPAM@yahoo.co.uk) on 04:34 AM December 8th, 2004 EST (#4)
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Still, at least Germaine Greer will be happy...

Feminism will continue as long as there is money to be made from hating men.
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