Deliver pizzas, wife tells laid-off hubby, or "[we] won't make it"

Submitted by anthony on Fri, 2009-01-23 02:58

Article here. Excerpt:

'(CNN) -- Donna LeBlanc gave her husband, a former restaurant manager, the stark ultimatum: become a pizza delivery man or their family "wouldn't make it."

The Lafayette, Louisiana, family of six was struggling with $45,000 of mounting medical debt from Donna LeBlanc's unexpected case of pneumonia and tonsillitis a year earlier. The family savings account had dwindled to $100.

"It's embarrassing for my husband to take a job he is overqualified for, and I know he feels ashamed at times," says Donna LeBlanc, a 35-year-old mother with four children. "But this is what we have to do and we're going to make the best out of it."

She watched her husband, Rob LeBlanc, 35, load Domino's pizza boxes into their family car and deliver orders until near dawn for $10 an hour.'

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Ed. comment: Let's see a similar story where a man tells his wife to deliver pizzas or else they won't make it as a family get touted all over the press without editorial criticism.

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We can sit and complain about misandry and cultural bias against men until we are blue in the face. But we have to remember to emphasize how men, disempowered by the misandric culture, still retain the prerogative to exercise their own independent judgment. We never talk about that; instead, as MRAs we fixate on how the world is aligned against us. Rather than shaming the world into being fair, it might be more effective tactically to remind men that following their personal judgment is what makes them men.

In this story, the husband could have simply told his wife that she must also seek work, or that she should be the sole breadwinner instead of him. Instead, he's delivering pizzas and that is his choice. He made a judgment call and decided that this was best for him and those important to him.

The media refuse to question the expectation that men provide and protect. But why should they, when (in this case) the man chose to do so? As long as men make such choices out of a sense of judgment rather than fear of shame, in my view there's not really a problem. What we can do -- as MRAs -- is to provide support to men who are assuming too great a load on their shoulders. We can remind them that using personal independent judgment transcends shame and misandry.

Now what would have been a GREAT story is to hear about a man who told his wife "no," and then to watch journalists and pundits whine and gasp about it.

John Dias
Founder, DontMakeHerMad.com
"Stopping False Allegations with Surveillance Technology"

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Submitted by johndias on Fri, 2009-01-23 17:58

...but I'm on a theme.

Another man, another slave. Gee, who woulda thought that society, women and the media all see men as disposable slaves?

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Submitted by RandomMan on Sat, 2009-01-24 22:13