Over the last 50 years, the divorce rate has grown exponentially in America.
But, who are the people filing for divorce???
Anybody with sociological knowledge, I implore you to do me a favor: tell me which percentage of those filing for divorce are women vs. [b]men[/b] in either America, throughout the world, or both! Is it 70-30, 50-50, 30-70, or what??? I want to know from which “side of the aisle” is our socio-moral institutions failing us…
Does anybody want to take any guesses / estimations before the results come back? (Is it men who are failing society or women?)
So far the data I’ve seen on the net shows women filing for divorce at a rate 2:1…
Yes, something is definitely wrong with this picture…
Imp, I don’t doubt you. Society now tells us (or women, apparently) that it’s ok to get fucked by the first penis in sight and the govt will take care of the rest. And if women want to go the extra distance, marry a guy with money and then divorce him the next week for “irreconcilable differences”, meaning that she’s willing to bail at the drop of a hat. Let’s face it, the man is only needed for the money & sperm. When he doesn’t have the former, well, then, the case should be obvious – he’s worthless – unless of course he’s been taught to wear a leash.
Where marriage is not needed as a means to survive, marriage becomes an ascetic choice for sake of tradition, and divorce rates are usually high. Who wants to put up with another’s shit, when one can do without? That’s why divorce rates in third world countries are low and in countries where a man or a woman can survive on their own is high.
Christians seem to think so by how much they rave about abortion, women filing for divorce, and gay marriage.
Personally, I don’t know how you can have a Republican form of government without a traditional decree of marriage & family norms. If there is no communal-setting, no extended families, even across the cultural divides, then people are not obligated to one another – and especially – not obligated to the state or law. If people can’t stand each other anymore, then why should we feel that human life is sanctified? I often get the feeling that these cultural powers have already been beaten down by amorality. I don’t see how or why people should even go back when we’re already going forward.
Marriage may have been an “ascetic” in our past, but it was still a necessity for the “civilized” people, those that separated themselves from being human against those “common animals”.
Maybe fundamentalist xtians. But I think that’s true of fundamentalists of many kinds. Who cares what those assholes think anyway? Aren’t they on the suicide path of ignorance anyway? It’s not like we have to attack them really, they’re doing a good job of failing on thier own.
That’s fine, but without them at the wheel, we don’t even know where the hell anybody is going anymore.
Somebody else has to grab a hold of it. Who’s the new captain going to be, a butch lesbian, a bi-emo boy? Whatever, at least that’d provoke an interesting reaction from the Christians & Muslims…
We’ve got to forget about the illusion of a wheel.
There’s nothing to control.
Everything is as it is, and to think of how it should be is a mistake.
There’s good feelings out there, however elusive or illusory they might be.
Finding them is all that’s worth doing.
Nothing ever really changes.
What if a person were a radical materialist, and also a strict determinist? They might say that control is an illusion. We see causes and effects because that’s how we happen to see. It’s like, a result of a lens that we can’t remove. So maybe we have a feeling of control, or lack thereof, but in reality there is no evidence that either is anything but an illusion. It’s just a bunch of emotional responses to confusion.
American pragmatics always one-ups the competition. If a philosopher is too out of control, then there’s always the “smack them in the face” approach. While I agree that ‘control’ is a hard concept to pinpoint, there’s no problem with taking things literally and practically. Under practical circumstances only 20-40 years ago, I’d say that men were typically the “heads of the households” and today I wouldn’t know whether to conclude that. Women grabbed us by the balls, squeezed as hard as they could, and stole their children away along with half of the liquid assets. (Yay, mommy’s our hero!)
Where does that leave men? I would like to know how things are applying to one another right now.
Why are women filing for divorce two-to-one over men? What does that have to do with anything? Does it correlate to say … I don’t know … perpetrators of domestic abuse cases being men? Take that about ten steps further. That’s where I want to go.
You might say that happier women=happier men. If they act like whores, there’s less guilt in us cheating on them and satisfying our desire to fuck multiple bitches. They may have some liquid assets, but empowered women, are more like men, and in that we can at least begin to respect them. It’s not like we gave them the shit because we thought they were weak, they took it because they knew we thought they were weak, and in a strong way took advantage of that knowledge. The fact is, that nowadays, if you play your cards right, you actually have the chance of being supported financially by a woman. 50 years ago that would have been inpossible. I’d love to send my wife to work, then fuck a younger, hotter chick while she’s gone, then have her take me out to dinner when she gets home. That’d be great.
Thank you; that’s exactly what I was getting at. If a man plays his cards right, then he doesn’t have to do shit!
Though typically, Average Joe becomes worth less than the dirt he walks on. Women are running from him.
(And men don’t like this; they get very, very rowdy because of it.)
I envision the day where women are going to be paying for the genetics of men rather than the opposite that used to occur. Other than that, we won’t have a purpose for living. It’s coming unless it’s already here. All signs point to “men (as we know ourselves) are fucked”. To me, it’s a little sad. I enjoyed admiring the physio-mental strength of alpha males, but I guess that’s just the way it’s gotta be…
Also, fucked because there’s no reason for living? I mean, I never thought that my reason for living was to control women or subjugate them in some way. I just saw that as the natural order of things. My purpose for living might just be to fuck as many as I can and get high to feel good. What’s wrong with that?
Nothing, I guess. It’s all good; it’s just surprisingly new.
I’ve always gotten the feeling that I can’t be myself because I’m me. If I’m a male, a man, then I can’t do whatever I want because I’ll be thrown into jail pretty quickly. May I shoot & kill Mr. Bob? No. May I bang everything I see? No. May I take without paying? No. May I wear no clothes in public? No. I probably can do these things and get away with them if I put a lot of mental effort into it. Being “evil” has its benefits, but that’s not the point. I’m supposed to play by the rules and I personally don’t enjoy being a hypocrite at the same time by doing so. This leaves me nowhere: depressed, lonely, friendless, distanced from my family, soon-to-be an alcoholic, and I like it! Honestly, I’ve never been happier in my life.
Thus, as stated, to “fuck as many as I can” restrains me to playing by the rules.
I don’t like playing by the rules. Too bad for me – unless I can figure out a way to fuck the whole system up.
You never know…
And returning to the topic at hand: if it’s so blatantly obvious that women are predominantly filing for divorce, then why is everybody still clueless as to “why?” this shit is happening? Isn’t it plain to see that men really aren’t the ones responsible for the “failing” of America’s morality? Women are changing the religion without being asked!
I think it’s funny – poor wittle’ Christian souls – Nihilists are a riot! (literally) Fun times…
The family has no father…