re: "Dear Men, Appreciate the Women in Your Lives"

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1. Our society still expects man to propose, and the majority expect it to be with an expensive ring. You eventually get married. There is no expectation to change your last name, though it is the norm. Unless his last name sucks, who cares?

2. So he doesn't change his home either? Plenty of men move into their woman's house once marriage comes if she has the better of the two places. Or.. the couple "changes their home" by moving to a new place TOGETHER. OR.. she might move in with him, but his home has still changed as well because there is now another person in it. I don't see where the hell they gathered that only a woman changes her home.

3. Hopefully, she was going to "leave her family" anyway because she is an adult. Again, I would like the see the data proving that women are the only ones who move away from family for whatever reason. Hell, I can think of 3 friends off the top of my head who moved across the country because their intelligent girlfriends/wives got job offers they couldn't refuse.

4. Again, how is the burden of moving in together only on her? Last time I checked, it affects two peoples lives when you move in together. And really, why is this on the list like it is a negative thing? That should be a source of happiness. If moving in together is a burden, you probably shouldn't do it.

5. Both partners do this.

6. Unless she's a weak-minded battered woman, getting pregnant was something she ALSO wanted.

7. I'm sure pregnancy does a number on your body, but I doubt your man put a gun to your head and made you get pregnant.

8. Every woman who has a baby is fat?!

9. No comment.

10. Why does this matter?

Don't even get me started on the junk below their bullet points.

If she is so "persecuted", she can leave. And then guess what? She gets the kids, possibly the house and at least one of the cars, and child support and maybe even alimony.

They should change the Heading to "Ugly Woman". Every time my wife and I fight I tell her I'm going to divorce her and marry a fat chick. Today's woman doesn't do half of that stuff.

MAN
- Puts up with Woman

Game Over

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Don't even get me started on the junk below their bullet points.

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If she is so "persecuted", she can leave. And then guess what? She gets the kids, possibly the house and at least one of the cars, and child support and maybe even alimony.

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You are the most intelligent woman in the world.

What a load of crap.

Changes her name - Because she wants to be married and that's how it works.

Changes her home - Same, and because it's cheaper.

Leaves her family - Same, and why would she want to live with her family. Also doesn't really apply anymore.

Moves in with you - So? No more paying rent/mortgage/dealing with family. Good deal for em.

Builds a home with you - aka lets you build a home according to her wishes. Nice try.

Gets pregnant for you - Ha! Riiiight. For herself.

Pregnancy changes her body - Duh. What does this have to do with anything?

She gets fat - That's her fault. Doesn't have to. Better not stay that way.

Almost gives up in the labour room due to the unbearable pain of childbirth - 1) Epidural. 2) Gives up? It's a bit late in the game, at that point. It's coming out one way or another. There is no giving up.

Even the kids she delivers bear your name - Again, so? That's how it works, and it's not set in stone.

Cooking - I've never dated a woman who's a better or more eager cook than I am.

Cleaning your house - If she has OCD, that's her issue. Cleaning because she likes stuff to be clean is about her, not me. Besides, this usually amounts to b*tching about it, not actually doing anything.

Taking care of your parents - Rare. Currently more likely to advocate putting them in a home, and if she doesn't, it's because she'd rather receive more inheritance than spend it on one.

Bringing up your children - Bringing up *her* children, ya mean? No credit here.

Earning - Earning what, exactly? She's either "earning" or "bringing up your (her) children", not both. If she's doing both, both are getting done poorly/inefficiently.

advising you - Again, mostly b*tching. I haven't met many who were qualified to give me any reasonable advice that I hadn't already figured out on my own.

ensuring you can be relaxed - HAHAHAHAHA!!! Maybe in 1955, as with most of this. Hell, *she* can't even be relaxed, and wil drag you into her nonsense as a way of getting attention.

maintaining all family relations - dragging you into unwanted family drama

everything that benefit you - except grammar, apparently...and no. Evertthing that benefits her...and if it benefits you too, then that's fine.

sometimes at the cost of her own health, hobbies, and beauty - Why would anyone want an unhealthy, boring, ugly wife? This sounds like an easy excuse to get unhealthy, boring, and ugly.

She's doing herself a favour...as is any chump dumb enough to marry her useless a$$.

Dear men, appreciate the *men and women* who deserve to be appreciated on merit...not because they happened to be born with a hole between their legs and an unearned sense of entitlement.

I love women to death.


Just don't want to be around them more than a couple hours a day.

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I agree

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Beta.

So you're are saying that the females on the TV show the Bachelor are not women because they will not do all of that. They just want 15 minutes of fame

Good Housekeeping 1955. So relevant.

Called it. 1955.

My wife does all that, sure. But other than the name change and giving birth, so do I. I do a lot that she doesn't as well. It all balances out. Stupid post.