Thread: Marry a "Princess" or a "GLUM" at Your Own Risk How to avoid marital freeloader By Dr. Shauna H. Springer If a woman ever says, "I want you to treat me like a Princess," pay attention and be very careful in your asses

Not a bad piece all in all, coming from a high-profile media academic and a woman. Certainly the denunciation of princessness in itself, combined with the sequence of Bad Girl before Bad Boy in emphasis, is worthy of some regard, if we were to create our own scale of say, Media Misandrist Mental Manipulation.

BUT:

From a personal perspective I am a little suspicious of any obvious over-achiever passing on her own self-congratulating values as a measure of basic decency in other people. These individuals tend to work like slaves in order to subsidize their own royal court of demanding spouses, spoiled children, ultra-dependent in-laws, and poor relations (quite possibly the hidden agenda, by the presumably married or hooked-up Good Doctor, for writing this). There is a self-aggrandizement in this article that pulsates out from between the syllables that I find not so much sexist (and a welcome relief that is), but middle-class-intelligentsia elitist (no relief in sight there, and not confined to one gender, sigh...)

People achieve, or don't, and also take on non-achieving dependents, for their own reasons, and I suspect Ms. Springer (any relation to Jerry, one wonders?) has her own share of inferiors in her circle whom she finds it emotionally rewarding to feel herself as being above, in ways of her own hifalutin, quasi-academic, guaranteed-to-get-her-value-judgments-published-in-a-major-magazine choosing.

Myself, I haven't turned out to be a big fan of achievements in the career, success, prestige, blingish ways that are considered ends in themselves in an utterly unsustainable way of life, one that sells contradictory messages of slavery to objectives combined with gratuitous self-reward, all underwritten by insane amounts of consumer credit. I think everyone would do a lot better to spend more time on their ass for their own reasons, instead of in a cubicle pretending to be "sacrificing" for others, who are inevitably poised just outside their impossibly high standards waiting for the crumbs to fall their way, and thanking Her Highness (sorry, Her MAJESTY) for her beneficence.

But then that's just the opinion of one GOLALA (Getting-older, less-achieving, lazy asshole).

I don't think this thread got the attention it deserves. Anyone care to add more comments?

If she were a princess, she wouldn't be asking to be treated like one.

Marry one who is a princess, not one who wants to be.

So the statement alone isn't sufficient evidence that someone is a "Princess." It's critical to look at the overall behavioral pattern to determine whether a woman actually wants—and expects—to be treated like a Princess. If she does, then marry her at your own risk.

so butt head driven by inculcated delusions of reverence for this enterprising narcissist is to critically decipher what her true proclivities are -

aka to use him as a cat paw or to honour cherish and stick by him until death doth them part ! ahahahh yeah !, hmmmm !

I would rather suggest he uptake a less Herculean task than try and figure out her menopausal driven mood swings with his life's earnings as the ante in default of failing to guess right