stsinner
03-02-2010, 10:09 AM
Taking stupidity and feminism to a new level, this freak wants the term husband done away with because it's demeaning to women... Oh, LOL.... This is rich...
Carrie Sloan is a somewhat prominent NY magazine writer/editor, and she’s penned a piece about her recent marriage: Call Him My 'Wusband' -- Why I Vote We Abolish 'Husband' and 'Wife'
Her premise is that there’s something wrong with being a “wife.” It’s somehow demeaning, it lowers her social standing, something…well, she’s not quite sure.
For me, it conjures up centuries of well-worn stereotypes: Women in bonnets bent over hot stoves, and '60s Stepford-types handing over martinis with tight smiles -- nothing resembling the thoroughly-2010 relationship I have with the guy I love…
So, while I was Teflon-sure about my decision to marry him, it was society's expectations of what that meant that tied me up in knots. My fears worsened this Christmas, when after three months of marital bliss, I received no fewer than three aprons as gifts. To be fair, these weren't exactly Betty Crocker throwbacks: One was sequined and from Anthropologie, but ... still.
It turns out that one reason Carrie got aprons as gifts is because her friends know she happens to like to cook.
Meanwhile, she’s also apparently uncomfortable letting her husband strut around as, well, a husband. So since he lends a hand with housework (and what guy under the age of 70 doesn’t?), she’s declared him her wussband…er “wusband.”
The wuss here is Ms. Sloan (of course she kept her name. No patriarchal oppression for her!), who is so cowed by vague societal expectations that she has to conform her life to her fear of conforming to them.
Lady—grow a set. You want the convenience of a shared last name, then share it. You want to be married to a man? Then let him be a husband. It doesn’t mean he’ll spend the rest of your lives together in a wifebeater t-shirt watching WWE from his recliner. I promise.
This loon sounds like that jackass Hillary Clinton who said that she could have stayed home and baked cookies, but, instead, decided to do something with her life...
Michael Graham and the Natural Truth. (http://michaelgraham.com/)
Carrie Sloan is a somewhat prominent NY magazine writer/editor, and she’s penned a piece about her recent marriage: Call Him My 'Wusband' -- Why I Vote We Abolish 'Husband' and 'Wife'
Her premise is that there’s something wrong with being a “wife.” It’s somehow demeaning, it lowers her social standing, something…well, she’s not quite sure.
For me, it conjures up centuries of well-worn stereotypes: Women in bonnets bent over hot stoves, and '60s Stepford-types handing over martinis with tight smiles -- nothing resembling the thoroughly-2010 relationship I have with the guy I love…
So, while I was Teflon-sure about my decision to marry him, it was society's expectations of what that meant that tied me up in knots. My fears worsened this Christmas, when after three months of marital bliss, I received no fewer than three aprons as gifts. To be fair, these weren't exactly Betty Crocker throwbacks: One was sequined and from Anthropologie, but ... still.
It turns out that one reason Carrie got aprons as gifts is because her friends know she happens to like to cook.
Meanwhile, she’s also apparently uncomfortable letting her husband strut around as, well, a husband. So since he lends a hand with housework (and what guy under the age of 70 doesn’t?), she’s declared him her wussband…er “wusband.”
The wuss here is Ms. Sloan (of course she kept her name. No patriarchal oppression for her!), who is so cowed by vague societal expectations that she has to conform her life to her fear of conforming to them.
Lady—grow a set. You want the convenience of a shared last name, then share it. You want to be married to a man? Then let him be a husband. It doesn’t mean he’ll spend the rest of your lives together in a wifebeater t-shirt watching WWE from his recliner. I promise.
This loon sounds like that jackass Hillary Clinton who said that she could have stayed home and baked cookies, but, instead, decided to do something with her life...
Michael Graham and the Natural Truth. (http://michaelgraham.com/)