Amanda Marcotte discusses the Marriage Strike

[bachelor tom]

I didn't see Amanda address the legal issues for men re marriage. Feminists always ignore this, and go for the maternalistic shaming: "you silly boys, what's the big deal? Momma knows best"

I'm so sick of women telling me what's wrong with me and how they have the answer. This is the purest misandry: taking away men's voices and feelings, and replacing them with condescending female psychobabble.

[christianj]

""He’s angry because he thinks that young women are dishonest, self-involved, slutty, manipulative, shallow, controlling, and gold-digging. He’s angry because he thinks that the culture disses all things male. He’s angry because he thinks that marriage these days is a raw deal for men.""

That's about the only true statement she has ever made and I agree and so do most men, I imagine..

Merely stating fact..

[ingrate]

I didn't see Amanda address the legal issues for men re marriage. Feminists always ignore this, and go for the maternalistic shaming: "you silly boys, what's the big deal? Momma knows best"

I'm so sick of women telling me what's wrong with me and how they have the answer. This is the purest misandry: taking away men's voices and feelings, and replacing them with condescending female psychobabble.

Amen

[ingrate]

Bachelor Tom you are so right that they never talk about the legal issues regarding marriage.

Lets see... If she becomes pregnant, don't jump the gun thinking you'll have a son or a daughter, you see she'll have to talk to her Mom and her friends so that they can decide whether or not to have an abortion. Yeah Dad, you have no voice in this.

Oh, and don't get an attitude about your second class status because even though she doesn't want to, she will call the police, and you will be considered guilty until you're proven guilty.

But this isn't going to happen because she's going to have the baby and then one more for insurance. Then, through the miracle of no fault divorce she'll take the house the kids and the child support. You will be able to see the kids if her Mom and her friends think you should. Please don't make a scene because she will have to call the police, and remember, you're guilty until you're proven guilty.

Oh yeah, lets not forget the whole rape incident. You remember that night when she wasn't in the mood? Well anyway she's been talking to her Mom and her friends and they've decided that was probably rape.

Can't imagine why these young men don't want to get married. Just because it happened to Dad doesn't mean it will happen to them.

[CaptDMO]

Hmmm.., The original "essay" (as it was disingenuously referred to by one(1) commenteer)
was easily dismissable as any of Miss Marcott's "work".
What's always interesting is the drifting analysis, meandering goalposts, straw men constructs, instant assault on the messengers of dissenting opinion, criticism, and counterpoint, by "gate keeper" lemmings of scripted vocabulary- apparentlyon call as it were. Some thing's NEVER change.

Apparently, some do.
I didn't see any reported "comment deleted" entries, as was popular the last time I cruising Pandagon (5 years ago, or so). Maybe Pandagon is maturing. I'll check again in five more years.

[Zuberi]

I'm for the marriage strike!
The more men say no to marriage, the more feminism will decay!

[haahoo]

I'm for the marriage strike!
The more men say no to marriage, the more feminism will decay!

But what about a mans natural inclination to seek out a fine woman to be his loyal companion through life and the bearer of his children?

[TheOldOligarch]

But what about a mans natural inclination to seek out a fine woman to be his loyal companion through life and the bearer of his children?

Well, nothing is stopping you from living with a woman as if you were married. Hell, if it's that important to you the option always exists to have a religious ceremony. Just never, ever, under any circumstances sign on the dotted line, you're just setting yourself up to be fucked over

[haahoo]

Well, nothing is stopping you from living with a woman as if you were married. Hell, if it's that important to you the option always exists to have a religious ceremony. Just never, ever, under any circumstances sign on the dotted line, you're just setting yourself up to be fucked over

Indeed, that is a possibility.. The problem will come when the feminazis (as they already do in many ways) regards the arrangement as being the same as a marraige.. (To the detriment of the master of the house..)

[MadShangi]

I didn't see Amanda address the legal issues for men re marriage. Feminists always ignore this, and go for the maternalistic shaming: "you silly boys, what's the big deal? Momma knows best"

I'm so sick of women telling me what's wrong with me and how they have the answer. This is the purest misandry: taking away men's voices and feelings, and replacing them with condescending female psychobabble.

Fuckin' eh!!!

[Exposing Feminism]

Well, nothing is stopping you from living with a woman as if you were married. Hell, if it's that important to you the option always exists to have a religious ceremony. Just never, ever, under any circumstances sign on the dotted line, you're just setting yourself up to be fucked over

Wait, aren't there plans to make cohabitation equal to marriage in the eyes of the law of the 'family' courts in UK?

[haahoo]

Wait, aren't there plans to make cohabitation equal to marriage in the eyes of the law of the 'family' courts in UK?

Yes, dirty tricks abound!!

[Exposing Feminism]

It looks like men in the UK had better avoid women all together!

'You won't marry? We'll make sure that we can still divorce you anyway!'

[CaptDMO]

Wait, aren't there plans to make cohabitation equal to marriage in the eyes of the law of the 'family' courts in UK?

Funny you should bring that up.
The US had a legal "fad" called palimony. I'm not sure if it's been dismissed as
the logic of retarded whores or not.
It was a State of California thing, popular amongst female "star fuckers" with no other apparent means of staying off the progressive welfare rosters.
I believe its "popularity", as well as its clear logic, was quashed after a few males made the same claims, based on EXACTLY the same criteria.

"Family" courts, and alleged "DV" blame assumptions, blossomed immediately after that.

[CaptDMO]

Vox Day et al at Vox Popoli weigh in on the enigma of gold diggers.

they're all talking about a piece from HERE
of all places (the Telegraph)
Just ONE of the ..um....anecdotal cases reported

Another case is Sasha who, for the past few months, had been gloating about the £3.4 million chalet in Verbier her husband was about to exchange on, how she'd managed to hire a high-society interior decorator to do it up for a song (''more an anthem, actually", she'd giggled) and how much she was looking forward to a white, snowy Christmas there.

At the last minute, Husband pulled out of the deal. Never mind that he had lost his lucrative job in the City, she felt he had deliberately traumatized her and is suing him for divorce on the grounds of mental cruelty. '

'She's got the personality of an overindulged infant,'' he sighed, ''a spoilt brat who starts screaming the moment a toy is taken away.''

Oh, there's more..

There seems to be enough anecdotal cases to finally define a trend.
Why is The Telegraph just now "reporting" truisms that relatively rich men have known since
Lillith first contracted penis envy, and lessor mortals have been "discovering" since "The Seven Year Itch" was demoted to four year-no fault divorce-ASSUMPTION of future assets-"family" court

I need to hear MORE of what those, as similarly deluded as Miss Marcott, FEEL about
why men are angry, cautious, and refuse to play anymore. I have yet to see many
previously delusional tantrum feminist, or socialist dupes' essays on Unintended Consequences, or The Cost of Doing Business.

My eye is on the notoriously 'overturned" judges of California, currently expecting to opine on ...and their allies" cases, to see if they agree with AFL-CIO Union Labor administrators, that Democracy needs to formally eliminated from the lives of American citizens.