Things You Are Not Allowed To Say Part Xxxix - Road to the Middle Class

NEARLY SIXTY years ago, feminist Simone de Beauvoir bemoaned that the female was the victim of the species. What she wanted was to become a real human being, with a life of the mind, creating, reading, and writing.

Don’t, advises Michael Noer in Forbes, marry a woman like that.

Guys: a word of advice. Marry pretty women or ugly ones. Short ones or tall ones. Blondes or brunettes. Just, whatever you do, don't marry a woman with a career.

Of course, the usual suspects are mortally offended at that. How dare Noer say that, they say, echoing the manipulative power of women down the ages. So Forbes got up Elizabeth Corcoran to pen a riposte.

Girlfriends: a word of advice. Ask your man the following question: When was the last time you learned something useful, either at home or work?

Er, what does that have to do with the big question that is nagging in the back of every young man’s mind? And what might that be?

It’s pretty simple. In today’s world, as a result of the feminist revolution and the cultural power of liberals, women can and do dump men for any reason (and two thirds of divorces are initiated by women). That usually means that they waltz off with the house and the kids and the husband/father gets stuck with the child-support payments.

So the question that any sensible guy would ask himself is: how do I work the odds on this unfavorable situation.

The obvious thing is: don’t marry a woman like Simone de Beauvoir or her followers. Don’t come within a country mile of Elizabeth Corcoran. Don’t marry a woman who has things on her mind other than home and children. If you are the marrying kind.

This shouldn’t be so shocking, after all. Men and women are completely different and in normal intercourse don’t have too much to say to each other. So unless they are embarked upon a shared life project—making a family, for example—then the chances are that after the sexual attraction has worn off a bit then the desire to stay together will wear off a bit. And your average feminized career women will soon be saying: shape up or ship out.

That is easy to say, but as every wise woman knows, it is a life time project to get a man to shape up and make a contribution that comes close to hers.

But this is America, land of the free and the brave, quivering under the knout of the social liberals. There are just certain things you are not allowed to say.

You are not allowed to say that career women are a problem. Didn’t you know? It’s right there in the First Amendment.

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Christopher Chantrill blogs at www.roadtothemiddleclass.com. His Road to the Middle Class is forthcoming.

Comments:

Posted by: Marc on 09/01/06 3:49am

This is a crock of sh*t...I read your posts regularly and usually find them interesting and on the mark. Not so here. There are myriad examples of relationships in which both the man and woman have careers and they both work on the family _together_. Just because she has a greater biological imperative when it comes to bearing and raising kids does not mean a woman should live in a gilded cage. Humankind was not given wings by god or nature...yet we fly.