Feminism doesn’t extend to finances

Submitted by Mastodon on Wed, 2013-08-14 18:09

Article here. Excerpt:

'According to the paper, 84 per cent of men and 58 per cent of women reported that men pay for most expenses, even after dating for a while. While more than 57 per cent of women claimed they offered to help pay, 39 per cent confessed they hoped men would reject their offers to pay, and 44 per cent of women were bothered when men expected women to help pay.

Nearly two-thirds of the men believed that women should contribute to dating expenses, and many nearly half of the men said they would stop dating a woman who never pays.

Ah, feminism; It’s great to see how women whip it out when it comes to job and pay equality, but when it comes time to forking over some cash to contribute to dinner, suddenly that old feminism thing just slips the mind.

In a way it’s understandable. Honestly, who doesn’t like a free meal? But it’s downright sexist to expect a man to pay for dating expenses. Funny how some women don’t mind sexism as long as it benefits them.'

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The feminist writer is trying to take the sting off the truth that many women are exploitative gold-diggers, taking from men whatever they can legally get away with. With this intent, the author says things like "who doesn't like a free meal?" and "men are just as bad when it comes to the expense paying stereotype" [the latter being entirely unsubstantiated hog-tripe]. She doesn't want to face the fact that many women are just milking the system as long as they can. Men have got to say "no," to this exploitative behavior. Then it will stop.

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Submitted by redwoodwriter on Thu, 2013-08-15 00:43

Dating? Who gives a damn about what people do and don't do on dates? If you are dating at all then you are firmly embedded into the matrix.

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Submitted by MrWombat on Thu, 2013-08-15 07:40