House of Eratosthenes

I cannot even bring myself to read that screed past the first paragraph.

Why does “wife” bring to mind “women bending over hot stoves” or some other stereotype? That’s the author’s own ideology projecting itself onto terms that are neutral in of themselves.

Gender roles are nowhere near as rigid as they used to be. Lots of men are stay at home dads with breadwinner wives, and many couples share responsibilities around the home, with many (if not all) tasks no longer gender-specific at all.

Lots of married couples are “making it work” in their own way, and a lot of them don’t even have kids. Sheesh.
- cylarz | 03/02/2010 @ 00:49
I tried to leave a comment at Cassy’s place, but my mind kept rebelling at what I had read and I found if difficult to post anything coherent. Of course, that means that the author of that drool-laced screed and I had something- briefly- in common.

You what’s funny? This “feminist” actually loved a man enough to want to marry him, but now despises herself for what she sees as weakness. So now she has to somehow justify this awful action of hers. Getting married to a man is wrong unless somehow, some way, she finds a way to pretend that they aren’t man and wife. This leads her to play retarded word games so that she can say to her friends, “See? I’m not married-married. It’s totally different!”
- Physics Geek | 03/02/2010 @ 06:51
OK… I read the whole thing over at Lemondrop or whatevah it’s called. And then I got to the bottom and read the photo credit:

Carrie Sloan is Lemondrop’s Editor in Chief. That’s her and her atypical husband above, on a romantic escape to Beirut.

I literally laughed out loud. I can envision a romantic escape FROM Beirut, but not “to.” Unless it was 1955 or sumthin’. That lil quote tells me more than the entire preceding screed did.
- bpenni | 03/02/2010 @ 10:41
Jesus wept.

The moronic shit that comes out of people’s mouths is near unbelievable. I say we rip that woman’s voting rights away post haste and bludgeon her into proper wifely submission.

I get so damn tired of women shitting on the role of being a good wife, mother, housekeeper, cook and lover. I happen to know that my job is one of the best and easiest in the world. I set my own schedule, am appreciated beyond measure by my husband and sons, never have a single worry about fidelity (because we have lots of sex), abuse, penury or loneliness (because I chose an excellent man), and I feel confident that my sons will be responsible, contributing members of society (one already is) who hold women in respect because of my model as wife.

I am a WIFE to my HUSBAND and I love the rings on my finger proclaiming that status.
- Daphne | 03/02/2010 @ 16:10
Daphne, you’re busted. Single handedly holding up a dying institution was not your theme last week at the Haven, but I knew you were good for it. And at it.
JW
- jamzw | 03/03/2010 @ 21:34
People are always trying to put me in a box. The two are not mutually exclusive, darlin’ man.
- Daphne | 03/04/2010 @ 04:43
A box has four sides, and I think a triangle might be sufficient to contain you on that subject. Sounds to me less like geometry and more like a woman’s prerogative.
- jamzw | 03/04/2010 @ 10:59
… never have a single worry about fidelity (because we have lots of sex)…

I wish more married women understood this, even those who insist on viewing sex as a drag and a chore. So many of them simply are too involved with their children and/or careers to care much about hubby’s physical needs. Then they act all surprised when he is caught with the neighbor lady, the babysitter, a hooker, or his wife’s best friend.

The kicker is that it’s not enough even to hand him a porn magazine and tell him to go take care of business. Believe it or not, men have emotional needs, too.

I know, I know. Deprivation doesn’t excuse infidelity. You know what? It doesn’t make straying easier to avoid, either.

As a Christian, one thing that frustrates me the most about my sisters in the Lord is this – the way so many of them are happy to throw the Biblical verses about sexual purity and/or fidelity in my face (and worse, find some feminized “minister” to pile on)…but then suddenly act disinterested when I point out the verses where she is told to A) respect me (fill in your own definition), and B) not deprive me.

Yeah. Suddenly, the Bible is an “archaic” book whose verses were intended and written for a culture that existed thousands of years ago on the far side of the Earth. Suddenly it’s no longer applicable to men and women living in 21st-century America.

Sorry for the rant and for dragging the Scriptures into it, but Daphne’s comment really hit home with me. I wish more women valued and cared for their men, the way she does hers.
- cylarz | 03/05/2010 @ 22:53
James, you ought to check yourself on that triangle. Garet Garret would heartily disagree with your nanny state premise.

cylarz, sex is a wonder, a gift, a sublime joy and safe place of ecstasy in the marital bed. Men need a ton of sex and if any woman worth her salt doesn’t enjoy banging the shit out of the man she promised the rest of her life to support, I’d say she’s got something wrong going on with her snatch.

Orgasms are good, the more the merry. Fidelity resides in a well sexed up marital bed.
- Daphne | 03/05/2010 @ 23:26
add in a who up there.

and any other bits I left out.

Cheers.
- Daphne | 03/05/2010 @ 23:31

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