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News: Fox News: "The war on men has begun."
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Fox News: "The war on men has begun."
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The battle of the sexes is alive and well. According to Pew Research Center, the share of women ages eighteen to thirty-four that say having a successful marriage is one of the most important things in their lives rose nine percentage points since 1997 – from 28 percent to 37 percent. For men, the opposite occurred. The share voicing this opinion dropped, from 35 percent to 29 percent.
Believe it or not, modern women want to get married. Trouble is, men don’t.
The so-called dearth of good men (read: marriageable men) has been a hot subject in the media as of late. Much of the coverage has been in response to the fact that for the first time in history, women have become the majority of the U.S. workforce. They’re also getting most of the college degrees. The problem? This new phenomenon has changed the dance between men and women.
As the author of three books on the American family and its intersection with pop culture, I’ve spent thirteen years examining social agendas as they pertain to sex, parenting, and gender roles. During this time, I’ve spoken with hundreds, if not thousands, of men and women. And in doing so, I’ve accidentally stumbled upon a subculture of men who’ve told me, in no uncertain terms, that they’re never getting married. When I ask them why, the answer is always the same.
Women aren’t women anymore.
To say gender relations have changed dramatically is an understatement. Ever since the sexual revolution, there has been a profound overhaul in the way men and women interact. Men haven’t changed much – they had no revolution that demanded it – but women have changed dramatically.
In a nutshell, women are angry. They’re also defensive, though often unknowingly. That’s because they’ve been raised to think of men as the enemy. Armed with this new attitude, women pushed men off their pedestal (women had their own pedestal, but feminists convinced them otherwise) and climbed up to take what they were taught to believe was rightfully theirs.
Now the men have nowhere to go.
It is precisely this dynamic – women good/men bad – that has destroyed the relationship between the sexes. Yet somehow, men are still to blame when love goes awry. Heck, men have been to blame since feminists first took to the streets in the 1970s.
But what if the dearth of good men, and ongoing battle of the sexes, is – hold on to your seats – women’s fault?
You’ll never hear that in the media. All the articles and books (and television programs, for that matter) put women front and center, while men and children sit in the back seat. But after decades of browbeating the American male, men are tired. Tired of being told there’s something fundamentally wrong with them. Tired of being told that if women aren’t happy, it’s men’s fault.
Contrary to what feminists like Hanna Rosin, author of The End of Men, say, the so-called rise of women has not threatened men. It has pissed them off. It has also undermined their ability to become self-sufficient in the hopes of someday supporting a family. Men want to love women, not compete with them. They want to provide for and protect their families – it’s in their DNA. But modern women won’t let them.
It’s all so unfortunate – for women, not men. Feminism serves men very well: they can have sex at hello and even live with their girlfriends with no responsibilities whatsoever.
It’s the women who lose. Not only are they saddled with the consequences of sex, by dismissing male nature they’re forever seeking a balanced life. The fact is, women need men’s linear career goals – they need men to pick up the slack at the office – in order to live the balanced life they seek.
So if men today are slackers, and if they’re retreating from marriage en masse, women should look in the mirror and ask themselves what role they’ve played to bring about this transformation.
Fortunately, there is good news: women have the power to turn everything around. All they have to do is surrender to their nature – their femininity – and let men surrender to theirs.
If they do, marriageable men will come out of the woodwork.
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http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2012/11/24/war-on-men/
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Is Fox insinuating that females need a male in their lives to live a balanced, successful life?
Is Fox insinuating that men see women as some sort of beast that needs to be tamed and naturally submissive to their "superior" qualities?
Fox advocating medieval social structures and gender roles here  .
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Originally posted by Ties
Is Fox insinuating that females need a male in their lives to live a balanced, successful life?
Is Fox insinuating that men see women as some sort of beast that needs to be tamed and naturally submissive to their "superior" qualities?
Fox advocating medieval social structures and gender roles here . |
Well said. 
This article is ass-backwards, and written by a woman no less. Unfortunate.
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This was an interesting read. I completely agree.
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While a bit over the top, there is some truth in this.
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A woman writing this. Just because she is content being a housewife doesn't mean all women should be housewives. It's all about FREEDOM and choosing to live your life the way you want to.
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I wil NEVER take Faux "News" seriously.Too much looniness from one news organization.
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Women aren’t women anymore.
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ll they have to do is surrender to their nature – their femininity – and let men surrender to theirs.
If they do, marriageable men will come out of the woodwork.
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Dafuq?
As if I wouldn't marry the women I love because she's standing on her own
She better dig herself a ****ing hole and never come out of it again 
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Originally posted by Kworb
A woman writing this. Just because she is content being a housewife doesn't mean all women should be housewives. It's all about FREEDOM and choosing to live your life the way you want to. |
I feel free! I feel freedom!!
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LOL. The Republican Party is going to start disassociating itself from Fox News if they keep doing this.
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What? So they're basically saying that because women want to become independent and hold their own, men don't want to marry them? 
I'm confused honstly. Are women supposed to just give in and surrender themselves to their husbands in order to keep a man? Just because this particular woman wants to be a housewife and sit under her man's testicles all day has nothing to do with the otherS.
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Originally posted by Ties
Is Fox insinuating that females need a male in their lives to live a balanced, successful life?
Is Fox insinuating that men see women as some sort of beast that needs to be tamed and naturally submissive to their "superior" qualities?
Fox advocating medieval social structures and gender roles here . |
This.  Wow.
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LOL. The Republican Party is going to start disassociating itself from Fox News if they keep doing this.
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They wouldn't do that, because Republicans have strong beliefs on traditional families (Dad is the breadwinner, Mom takes care of little Jimmy and Sally). It's no secret that most men would actually prefer a less educated, pretty woman over a very intelligent, less attractive one, including myself.
But some of you are taking this column too literally. What this woman is simply saying is, women are having a harder time finding husbands because many men today feel deprived of their nature to want to be the protector and provider for their families. This is not necessarily an issue of feelings of inadequacy, a hunger for power, or asking for women to remain uneducated, wholly dependent and surrender themselves to the kitchen.
In every successful relationship there is always someone who is a little more dominant than the other. Even in gay marriages.
Dominant ≠ Oppressive
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I agree
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People agreeing with this are joking, right?
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This is patent nonsense.
Though one can't blame the troglodytes at Fox News for forgetting that Homo Sapiens Sapiens is around 100,000 years old as a species and that the ORIGINAL men and women lived generally nomadic lives where the very conception of an arrangement like "traditional" marriage did not exist.
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@ my professor sending out an email saying we're going to be discussing this article in class today. ATRL helping me with my homework nnnnnn fffff
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