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January 8, 2012
Women are betting it ALL on a continued long run of prosperity, safety, security, and comfort.
Marriage does not work for women now, because they assume the stability and power of the West is eternal.Never threatened, always "boring." This is a poor bet, and likely to work out disastrously in fairly short order. Food, oil, and other resources are tight globally, and an external shock (and there is ALWAYS an external shock) in the global system will push everything over. -- Whiskey's Place: The Modern View of Marriage
Posted by gerardvanderleun at January 8, 2012 1:34 PM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.
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Factually wrong, overly sensational. Did a woman didn't write this?
Posted by: RedCarolina at January 9, 2012 4:47 AM
"Did a woman write this?" Or "Are you sure a woman didn't write this?"
Posted by: RedCarolina at January 9, 2012 4:49 AM
Hmm. Not to mention the Citibank commercial he uses to illustrate his point doesn't seem to say anything against marriage; preferring to spend money on something healthy (going rock climbing) instead of some material object that has no use unless you need to cut a message into a piece of glass (a diamond ring) doesn't mean the young woman doesn't want to marry her boyfriend. Whiskey just seems upset that young women today are (supposedly) into different things than the "traditional" (as in, what we've been told by movies is tradition) accouterments of marriage/female roles/etc. Women are supposed to accept the diamond ring that the men offer them on bended knee and then get married and stay home producing darling offspring, sparkling clean homes, and nutritious, flavorful meals, all while wearing high heels and makeup, for the man who brings home the money, or Western civilization is doomed.
Posted by: Andrea Harris at January 9, 2012 9:15 AM
You should read the entire piece, Andrea. Some good points but credibility was damaged from the start.
In fact, I just want to know the ad didn't feature her boyfriend. And if it was in lieu of an engagement ring she should've held out for Everest.
Posted by: RedCarolina at January 9, 2012 1:13 PM
I tried to read it all but frankly got bored. There is only so much moaning about how civilization is doomed -- DOOMED! -- that I can read before I lose interest. And it's not the only post he's written complaining about how it's all women's faults. I hear, not so faintly, the baying of "we need you ladies to sivilize us brutish men" nonsense.
Also, he keeps linking to articles in the Daily Mail for his proof. Say no more.
Posted by: Andrea Harris at January 9, 2012 9:33 PM
Andrea does have a point. It is one of the continuously ridden hobbyhorses.
Posted by: vanderleun at January 9, 2012 11:08 PM
A woman needs a civilization like a fish needs a bicycle. Maybe one of those slacker man-boys the single-moms raised will get off the couch and save the world.
Posted by: Scott M at January 10, 2012 2:39 AM
Women who want their lives to be like a Harlequin novel are the counterpart of men who want their lives to be like a beer commercial.
That our USA is so safe, prosperous, and cozy that anyone can seriously try to live like that is another thing altogether.
Posted by: Mikey NTH at January 10, 2012 7:35 AM