Refreshing- "Behind Every Great Woman Is a Great Man"

2014-01-21T20:44:42+00:00

http://dalrock.wordpress.com/2011/08/19/alpha-women-beta-men/

I know this is boilerplate feminist martyrdom, but I have to admit I have a weakness for the classics. Those who have children know they are prone to think that they received the short end of the stick on any deal. The way around this is to offer to reverse the terms. Let them have your half, and you take their half. If the deal was unfair, they should be delighted. If they are just being childish, they will still feel cheated. Shortly after reading her comment I came across Alpha Women, Beta Men in New York Magazine. It opens with two women discussing an embarrassing secret. They are the sole breadwinners in their families, and support their stay at home husbands. One of the women compares it to the shame of being married to an alcoholic:

It’s like one of those things,” she says, “where you realize you’re married to people who drink.”

... these women wanted to trade places with men. They wanted wives, and they got them. But of course feminism is about being in a perpetual state of unhappiness. If women aren’t oppressed, how can they fight their oppression? And if they are happy, how can they know they are oppressed? Now that they have what they wanted, they of course aren’t happy. These husbands earning less than their wives are freeloaders! We learn about a public relations executive named Anna, and her husband:

He’d pay for groceries. He was running up credit-card debt to make it appear he had more money.

Can you imagine if a husband treated his wife that way? She kept her income to herself and her husband had to borrow money just to buy groceries! The line to shame a man who treated his wife like that would stretch around the block. You would have to take a number and wait your turn.

It also turns out that women aren’t wired to find men in a supporting role sexually attractive.

“Sex was not a problem for him,” she goes on. “It was a problem for me. When someone seems like a child, it’s not that attractive…”

Predictably, this is all caused by our patriarchal culture, since women are really just men who sit down to pee:

…as hip and open-minded as they like to think they are, they were, after all, raised on the same fairy tale as the rest of us—the one where Prince Charming comes to the rescue of Sleeping Beauty.

Title	Refreshing- "Behind Every Great Woman Is a Great Man"
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Date	January 21, 2014 8:29 PM UTC (12 years ago)
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