Cotton1 (02-05-2023)
Cotton1 (02-05-2023)
FindersKeepers (02-06-2023)
I suppose that would go both ways. A man who takes the "I don't need a woman" is also dishonest and stump stupid.
For decades, we've had a mindset among *some* men who believed--or at least said--that women were out to trap them. There's a poster here who posts along those lines but he doesn't post here often and his username escapes me right now.
For over a century, we've heard the expression that behind every great man, there is a woman. That's nice in a throw-her-a-bone sort of way, but what happens to that scrap of acknowledgement when the woman is the overachiever?
Like you, I'm a fan of the male/female duo, because I think it works well when it works.
But, that doesn't change what we're seeing in society, and I'm just observing here. Now we have a group of people called "incels," and they're typically males who are angry that women don't want them--won't date them. Some are angry to the point of calling for violence against women.
Our society's dynamics are changing. We can approve of those changes or disapprove, but we probably can't stop them.
""A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul" ~George Bernard Shaw
IMPress Polly (02-12-2023)
Realistically there are many women who don't need a man, as there are many men who don't need a woman, to settle down with unless they intend to procreate.
A woman doesn't need a man to be the breadwinner and nor does a man need a woman to be a homemaker. Society is changing and I'm not a fan of a lot of the changes but it is what it is.
I think too many young couples nowadays see it as a competition between the sexes when it shouldn't be. Partners should compliment each other rather than compete with each other no matter what role they assume. They also don't understand that bad times will always be part and parcel of a relationship and they just aren't willing to put in the effort to ride out the waves. Relationships take work as they evolve and change and you have to change with it if you want it to last. That's life.
HawkTheSlayer (02-06-2023),IMPress Polly (02-12-2023)
I would not argue that.
For decades, we've had a mindset among *some* men who believed--or at least said--that women were out to trap them. There's a poster here who posts along those lines but he doesn't post here often and his username escapes me right now.
For over a century, we've heard the expression that behind every great man, there is a woman. That's nice in a throw-her-a-bone sort of way, but what happens to that scrap of acknowledgement when the woman is the overachiever?
Like you, I'm a fan of the male/female duo, because I think it works well when it works.
But, that doesn't change what we're seeing in society, and I'm just observing here. Now we have a group of people called "incels," and they're typically males who are angry that women don't want them--won't date them. Some are angry to the point of calling for violence against women.
Our society's dynamics are changing. We can approve of those changes or disapprove, but we probably can't stop them.
The point I was trying to make was not that an individual woman necessarily needs a man in her life. What I was talking about is that our society was built by men. It is maintained by men. It is protected by men. It is men who are the welders and the ditch diggers and the coal miners and the firemen and the ones who stand on the wall to keep the wolves at bay.
“Extremism in defense of liberty is no vice. Moderation in pursuit of justice is no virtue.” - Barry Goldwater
FindersKeepers (02-06-2023)