Posted on 01/20/2010 10:45:14 AM PST by Kaslin
Objectively better off, but subjectively worse off? Hmm, maybe the “objective” measures we’ve invented aren’t quite as accurate as we’d hoped?
But nevermind. You WILL be happy, or else!
aka The grass isn’t always greener..
Yeah, 'cause every guy I know is just begging his girlfriend to get married.
Marriage is a pro-women institution. Just look at polygamist societies and how women fare there.
What has changed over the decades is that women are comparing their own improving lifestyles to those outlandish ones portrayed in the media, and feeling deprived because of it. They sense that everyone else is living the high life while they’re being left behind.
It’s preposterous, but it wouldn’t be the first time that reality has escaped people.
CZJ seems happy not so much Maureen Dowd!
How do you define benefits? By what standard?
“I never really considered the fact that a wedding dress is an expression of latent heterosexism.”
You do realize of course that 'heterosexism' is a word made up by Marxist professors and that it has no real application outside of a College campus. If you were to use that word in a business environment you'd be laughed out of the place.
“I never really considered the impact of large expensive weddings on the workers who, for example, make wedding dresses. I had never known about the wedding industrial complex as a form of capitalist exploitation.”
Do you think it would be better for the dressmakers to starve because they have no job?
I'll bet you dollars to donuts that the 'professor' involved in this conversation is a butt ugly butched up bulldyke man hating lesbian.
It’s a man’s world. We just live in it. Women get the short end of the stick in everything. Women stop having children at 40 or 50. A man can dump the old wife, get a new younger wife, and have more children. I could go on & on.
Interesting article. I wonder, can one be happier but angrier? The reason I ask that is the Mike Adams states that blacks are happier than in the 70’s but my experience has been that they are definitely a lot angrier than it seems they were back then. Of course women seem both less happy and more angry so that at least makes sense to me.
Personal experience tells me that women could care less about marriage until that old biological clock starts ringing. Of course by then who wants them? They’ve been passed around so much that the baggage they carry into a marriage buries it.
“Yeah, ‘cause every guy I know is just begging his girlfriend to get married.”
Not to mention, to spend 3-6 months salary on a shiny rock, and many months and tens of thousands of dollars on planning and implementing a wedding and reception so that she can live out her “Princess” fantasies. See, I always thought the point of getting married was to be married and (hopefully) happy, not as an excuse to have a huge, expensive, stress-inducing wedding.
IMHO TOO MANY WOMEN ARE LOOKING IN ALL THE WRONG PLACES FOR HAPPINESS. THE DECLINE OF HAPPINESS AMONG WOMEN IS THAT THEY HAVE STRAYED FROM THEIR INTENDED PURPOSE IN LIFE; THAT OF NOURISHING THEIR CHILDREN AND AND PROVIDING SUPPORT FOR THEIR MEN. RATHER THEY HAVE LONGED TO REPLACE MEN IN THE WORKPLACE, AND ARE TAUGHT TO LOOK DOWN UPON MOTHERING, COOKING, KEEPING A CLEAN HOUSE FOR THEIR PROVIDERS. THIS IS LARGELY ENGINEERED BY THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS. RATHER THAN PROVIDING WORKSHOP FOR YOUNG MEN, AND HOME ECONOMICS FOR YOUNG WOMEN, THEY HAVE BLURRED THE DIFFERENCES, INTRODUCED SEX ED, MODIFIED BY IMMORAL TELEVISION AT A TAIME IN THEIR LIVES WHEN SPORTS OR SOCIAL ACTIVITY WERE MEANT TO EXHAUST THAT ENERGY. AS LONG AS THIS CONTINUES, AND GOD IS KEPT OUT OF THE CLASSROOM, WOMEN WILL BE UNHAPPY. ALL THE ANSWERS ARE IN THE BIBLE. GOD LOVES EACH ONE OF US. JESUS PATIENTLY AWAITS AN INVITATION INTO OUR HEARTS. HE OFFERS HIS AMAZING PEACE AND PROTECTION TO ALL WHO WILL LOVE HIM. HE IS THE ONLY TRUE SOURCE OF TRUE HAPPINESS.
IMHO TOO MANY WOMEN ARE LOOKING IN ALL THE WRONG PLACES FOR HAPPINESS. THE DECLINE OF HAPPINESS AMONG WOMEN IS THAT THEY HAVE STRAYED FROM THEIR INTENDED PURPOSE IN LIFE; THAT OF NOURISHING THEIR CHILDREN AND AND PROVIDING SUPPORT FOR THEIR MEN. RATHER THEY HAVE LONGED TO REPLACE MEN IN THE WORKPLACE, AND ARE TAUGHT TO LOOK DOWN UPON MOTHERING, COOKING, KEEPING A CLEAN HOUSE FOR THEIR PROVIDERS. THIS IS LARGELY ENGINEERED BY THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS. RATHER THAN PROVIDING WORKSHOP FOR YOUNG MEN, AND HOME ECONOMICS FOR YOUNG WOMEN, THEY HAVE BLURRED THE DIFFERENCES, INTRODUCED SEX ED, MODIFIED BY IMMORAL TELEVISION AT A TAIME IN THEIR LIVES WHEN SPORTS OR SOCIAL ACTIVITY WERE MEANT TO EXHAUST THAT ENERGY. AS LONG AS THIS CONTINUES, AND GOD IS KEPT OUT OF THE CLASSROOM, WOMEN WILL BE UNHAPPY. ALL THE ANSWERS ARE IN THE BIBLE. GOD LOVES EACH ONE OF US. JESUS PATIENTLY AWAITS AN INVITATION INTO OUR HEARTS. HE OFFERS HIS AMAZING PEACE AND PROTECTION TO ALL WHO WILL LOVE HIM. HE IS THE ONLY TRUE SOURCE OF TRUE HAPPINESS.
I totally agree with you. In my feminist days of trying to be a man, I was terribly unhappy because a woman can only be a second rate man at best. I finally gave all that crap up and realized that the things that made me happy were my children, husband, home and just being a girl. Pretending to be a man was just too hard. I am so content and happy now. My husband is so thankful too!
I have a golf buddy, mid-50's with his last kid in college. He's a GREAT kid, college athletic star, but he's playing for free, because he's making such good grades the college has him on a nearly full-ride academic scholarship. His athletic talents aren't costing the school a nickel.
I suggested he have another child a couple of years ago - he's done such a fabulous job of parenting, I thought he should "take another victory lap", so to speak.
I thought we were going to get into a fist fight. I haven't raised the idea since!!
GOD BLESS YOU. WHAT A WONDERFUL WITNESS YOU ARE! I AM SO HAPPY FOR YOU.
Wow, you mean workers actually have to make these dresses? You mean they don't, like, grow them on a farm or something? That's just awful, all that exploitation of those poor workers! Why it's like one big industrial wedding complex, like another Halliburton, and I bet George Bush and Dick Cheney are making lots of money off of it...
(Sorry, just doing my best impression of a "dumb blonde" here.)
In the past, men who did such things were shamed. But the liberals decided back in the sixties that the idea of shame caused much unhappiness. If we could get rid of it, we'd all be happier. Hasn't worked out that way.
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