Sell Me Marriage

blinderzoff · 2012-10-30T01:20:20+00:00

Wow does this make it clear it is all about women's desires and fears.

Never want kids?

Translation: I want kids and I want to have them within the context of marriage. I'm no "Baby Mama"!

How about love?

Translation: If it is "True Love", the couple will get married. And I can't be happy and fulfilled without "True Love".

Stability, someone you can count on?

Translation: I want stability and someone I can count on (once I'm done having fun but can still get a guy to commit; see below).

Someone to talk to, someone to spend your life with

Translation: Once my youth (beauty) starts to fade I'll be treated like I treat guys I'm not sexually interested in and don't have anything I want: Invisible. At best.

How about just not dying alone?

Translation: I am afraid of being alone and unloved, and especially of dying alone and unmourned.

Time was when men were willing to enter this deal to satisfy women's desires and allay their fears for one reason: To have continued meaningful contact with children they were certain were their own.

Eliminate that and there is no quid pro quo. And then men stop marrying. It isn't instantaneous because of cultural inertia and magic dick syndrome: "She wouldn't take the kids and leave me - that only happens to assholes who marry gold diggers!"

Memento_Mori_Comitis · 2012-10-30T16:05:08+00:00

The irony here is that the character George Clooney is playing only speaks towards gender-neutral arguments. Meaning, even if we were to forget the tomes of reasons why it's a particularly statistically/fiscally/legally poor decision for a male, and are only to look at marriage from a completely gender oblivious perspective: it still doesn't make sense.

aykau777 · 2012-10-30T01:02:17+00:00

What's the name of the movie?

Title	Sell Me Marriage
Author	MRMRising
Upvotes	12
Comments	5
Date	October 29, 2012 10:14 PM UTC (13 years ago)
Subreddit	Posted in /r/MensRights
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