[robowombat]

Read this then read 'America Unmade' in today's 'Newsmax' and tremble for the future of your society and nation.

[ricpic]

I get tired just thinking about "have it all" women; never mind dating them!

[LiteKeeper]

Sociological SITREP

[Maximilian]

This woman really knows how to hit the nail on the head.

[netmilsmom]

I wish every young woman would read this.
Have the babies when you are in your 20s then have the career later on.
I know two young men. One is a friend of my nephew and one is his brother-in-law. Sweet young men that are only meeting shallow women. I wish I was 20 years younger to set them up with nice ladies and I wish the ladies would learn that cash goes but brains are forever. Dummies.

[sarasota]

I read them both. The downward spiral appears to be picking up speed. I *do* tremble for the future.

[martin gibson]

A rat is a dog is a pig is a feminist (with profound apologies to rats, dogs and pigs)...

[independentmind]

Good men don't like to admit it – for fear of being pegged as wimpy – but off the record many express deep resentment at having to struggle to build sexual intimacy with women who have been sexually plundered by so many past partners.

I think this is about half-right. Women, in general, are much better at establishing intimacy than men are. Multiple sexual partners destroy the tendency for women to bond emotionally with men.

When women are no longer capable of doing so, men suffer. Most men, though, are unable to determine that intimacy is the missing ingredient in their failed relationships. For anyone who doubts this, I suggest they read the never ending gripes posted by men on this very site.

Virginity-- a subject that even most women will recoil from today--perhaps should be reconsidered not so much in terms of purity as in terms of wholeness.

[society-by-contract]

individualist feminism:

http://www.ifeminists.net/index.php

[RipSawyer]

I can't find America Unmade in Newsmax. How do you locate it?

[RipSawyer]

Never mind, I found it, you should have mentioned Diane Alden, she is one of my favorite writers.

[taxed2death]

One word: Globalization.

There are millions of women around the world who never bought into the femi-nazi hype, who can appreciate a hard working, average looking guy for what he is......lotsa women out there who are not trying to run around trying to be a lite version of a man.....not trying to "have it all". We all know, or will learn quickly enough, that no one "has it all". I'm lucky enough to have found a woman who looks, dresses, and acts feminine. She does not see femininity as a weakness, as femi-nazis preach.

....flame on.

[FITZ]

If you're a 35 to 40-year-old corporate spinster, it's time to give up on Brad Pitt, honey. If you want a hubby bad enough, you'll just have to settle for a...(gag!)...average mortal man. Sorry.

It's interesting how many of the corporate spinsters still insist on "marrying up". They can be very feminist, very into equality but still believe only men making more money than they are worth their time.

[spodefly]

'Who says you can't have it all, shallow feminist' Bump.

[Salvation]

**My great interest is in the churches (Catholic and Evangelical alike) where it's an even sadder story in singles groups, where innocent, bookish, never-married men like my brothers who have been in the church since their teens, are perversely brought together with cynical, used-up, divorce-battered women**

A bump for all Christian men! I have witnessed the scenario above. Sickening.

[Coleus]

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[wardaddy]

Free Republic?

[goodieD]

it is just unfathomable to me how low my friends aim...one is hooked up with a convicted sex offender and the other with an incarcerated fellow originally convicted of selling drugs. I would never in a million years think of writing to or dating someone with current or former jail time (unless he was in jail for blocking abortion clinics, but that's a different thing)....before I married my husband, I had a pretty basic laundry list (that my friends considered "aiming too high") such as honesty, a strong work ethic, good moral and spiritual values, a desire to work together to raise a family and no addictions or jail time.. and yet I was told repeatedly that I'd never find someone like that.... my own gender confounds me.

[quebecois]

"The cost isn't just financial in terms of ready-made dads drafted to foot the bill for two or three of another man's kids"

The other day I happened to hear a group of these gals chatting among themselves. They were all divorced with kids. They were absolutely white-hot indignant that they were meeting single guys who bolted when they found out that the women had kids. These gals had an attitude of "how dare you not want to take responsibility for me and the kids I had with my previous bad-boy husband?"

[SamAdams76]

Interesting article. I thought it was written by a man until I started seeing the replies.

Women that wait until 35-40 years old to find a mate and have children have waited too long. Of course there are "no good men left." They've already been taken. And for those that are left, they are looking for women who are much younger.

My wife and I are entering our early 40s and our kids are just about grown up. I am very happy that we made the decision to get married and have kids relatively early in life. We are still young enough to accelerate our careers and to spend a lot of time traveling together or just going out to eat together (and now we have the money to do it). I know people who are having kids in their mid-to-late 30s for the first time. They are going to be almost 60 when the kids are grown up. I don't envy them in the least bit. I think raising kids is a job best suited for younger people, but that's just my opinion.

There are a lot of people who seeingly "have it all" that are truly miserable and unhappy people. Having a big house, a large stock portfolio and a couple of SUV's in the driveway is not the key to happiness. Some of the happiest people I know live relatively simple lives. They might live in a small ranch, drive around used cars and live pretty much paycheck to paycheck. But they are happy and because they don't always have their noses to the grindstone working 90-hour+ weeks, they have lots of time to spend with their families. These are the families you see on camping trips on weekends and hanging out on the front porch on hot summer nights, sipping iced tea and watching the fireflies. Not a bad life.