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A report from the Real Man Conference at a two-day international convention in Amsterdam on the art of seducing women.
"Men, not women, are to blame that young adults remain bachelors against their will. Women aren't perfect, but men have no idea how to treat women."
"Men are all too often rude and selfish - yet that only hides the fact that they are actually very insecure and have no idea what love and sex are really about."
This issue is far too complex to be subject to such all encompassing generalizations and stereotypes. The "against their will" is particularly inaccurate, since this kind of language is usually associated with 'unwanted intimacies' on the part of men. According to this author men are somehow now guilty of not making advances towards women! Both versions can not be correct.
Women as well as men are free to propose marriage, so it is very difficult to understand how men are required to propose marriage 'against their (men's) will and still live in a so-called 'Free' society.
How does the implied requirement of forced proposals apply to same-sex relationships? Should men also be required to propose marriage to other men, even if that is not their personal orientation? If not, then the author's critique might be seen as 'discriminatory' and dissing such relationships.
Finally, there is no statistically evidence offered here that provides any idea as to which women or men (by age group, perhaps) are actually seeking marriage, nor how narrowly they define the type of individual that they would be willing to marry. If men in general think they deserve a 'Barbie' and women in general think that they should have a 'Ken', then it should be little wonder that the chemistry of love does not have much of a chance in bringing two hearts together.
This blog belongs better to an op-ed column or Expatica's 'Discussion' section--not as an article.
also groups like the spice girls, created by men, to turn women against men are to blame, no sex education for boys, just girls, how are boys supposed to know anything, feminists, job quotas favour women,
Women? I dunno, how can you trust something that bleeds for 5 days and doesn't die?
Blame. Blame. Blame... will we ever tire of the blame game?
What an utterly pathetic article. You know who is responsible for extended bachelorhood?
A short list:
First and foremost, Society. Not men, not women. Society and the role of marriage, child rearing and relationships are also changing.
Second, marketing, advertising and consumerism for propagating the idea that we exist in some sort of opposition. The stereotypical bash the out of shape husband and the shrew like wife formula being revisited over and over in shows, commercials, advertising and most print media...
These coaches are the same as the self help gurus of the seventies and eighties, fleecing those lacking in confidence and not telling them a thing they didn't already know.
Thanks Expatica, for lending a patina of legitimacy to the same old snake oil salesman that have haunted society since commerce and trade were created.
"There's a sucker born every minute" - credited to P.T. Barnum (1810 – 1891)
One of the men I dated for a brief period was a chain smoking alcoholic journalist and a serial womanizer. He was attractive, but just drank too much. When I told him he didn't know how to treat women, he went into shock. He was really rude and I ended the relationship which was on a rebound anyway. I know he is still a bachelor at the age of 47.
In my experience researching relationships, there are a lot of ways in which men are unskilled in understanding the other side....this is the root issue. What is worst, is that they resort to cover up of their insecurities by dominating women and controlling them. This doesn't avoid women realizing their insecurities, and only adds another layer of contempt. Now she thinks: OK, I can deal with his insecurity, but when he yells at me to show that he is "the man in control" then I only can have pity of him...
Not a pretty sight. Read more here:
http://creativeconflicts.com/2009/07/emotional-abuse-hoping-to-have-a-healthier-marriage/
http://creativeconflicts.com/2009/07/emotional-abuse-hoping-to-have-a-healthier-marriage/
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