Posted on 06/18/2016 11:57:16 AM PDT by nickcarraway
If a man is alone in a forest and his wife is not around to hear him, is he still wrong?
Okay: You get today’s prize.
You misunderstand the concepts of love , respect, and integrity.
No woman who would do this has an ounce of even one of the three.
None of the trashy whores who engage in this are ladies. All of the are living embodiments of the change in women that has brought about a culture where the lyrics of hip-hop songs are conceded even by the church to be well and thoroughly earned by the females to which they are applied.
Just as men need to clean up their acts and be gentlemen, women need to become ladies.
Classy. /s
This is one of my pet peeves. I had to stop going out with a group of women when every get-together turned into a nastyfest about their spouses. I wasn’t going to fall into that pit with them. Why act as though you chose a total schlub as your life’s companion? I knew these men and they were great guys and had only nice things to say about their wives. They showed in so many ways how deeply they cared about these women. When I pictured the looks on their faces if they knew what their wives were saying behind their backs, it nearly broke my heart.
I now hang out with people who have found enough interesting and troubling events in today’s world to talk about, and don’t feel the need to trash the one person they should be building up.
That’s right! I don’t think he meant anything by it but it was not the right moment to say it to me. lol
Not sheep.
Human however.
Why run that risk?
I learned that lesson in Jr. high.
In the cultural context of a piece like this, I realize how far the pendulum has swung from the strong male that was common in my childhood. From the Westerns to the Medical to the Lawyers, the TV, Literature and Cinema had a plethora of competent males, handling life and doing their best. Even the sometime clowns like the “Honeymooners” still had Ralph working and trying to do his hopeful best.
Now, outside of superheroes and other fantasy types, there seem to be few exemplars of what was so common in that earlier day. Now we have the strong woman, capable of effortless put-downs on hapless males, ignoring hormonal storms while watching the first female major-party candidate ready to lay a whipping upon that dunderheaded Donald!
Is it much to wonder about that gatherings of females (are they still called hen parties?) would bring out such disparagement of the male gender? Is this not a societal norm of the time? At least authors of an article like this have some insight and desire for restraint of this trend, BUT it will take a lot more for this to change!
As I stated in an earlier post, I don’t usually say much about my husband. What other women do is up to them.
Undermines the marriage, and whether they are aware of it or not, constant focus on the less than perfect aspects of the spouse will warp your opinion and destroy, not grow, a loving relationship.
Ah, shut the hell up, woman and MAKE ME A SAMMICH! ;-)
I’ll note, from my own experience anyways, that widow ladies engage in non ending ‘my husband was best’ contests.
Well said, mrs. a.
I don’t know what kind of men you hang with. I have a few male friends — not many. None of them has ever slagged off the woman in his life. I wouldn’t be friends with anyone who did. The men you describe sound like disgusting cads.
I’m just thankful that I am not in their place.
Ya, me too.
If I outlive hubby I’ll see about female friends then.
Or....Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house....it’s the same thing.
Men get together with male friends to just be one of the guys again, watch a sporting event, play golf, have a couple of beers. Family stuff is seldom discussed other than passing milestones, noteworthy events. If there are any issues with their marriage, it’s not aired with the group. If discussed with a male friend at all, it’s expected to be kept in confidence.
But treating him like dirt is a good way to encourage him to trade up to a less whiny model.
A woman who tears down her husband is fouling her own nest.
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