and believe me, by the end she had earned every penny.

Can clothing be promiscuous?

This can't be true, can it?

And if it is, some men are toxic, too.

Um, think before you act, people!

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Parlour, Mills-McCartney,....

The difference between toxic wives and toxic bachelors is that the wives have the legal system on their side financially raping their ex-husbands and abusing their children so as to extract the maximum revenue from their targets.

If you're involved with a "toxic bachelor" just walk away.

When joint custody legislation is passed and "alimony" abolished then there will be no more toxic wives.

Perhaps no one should get married to someone unless they've dated for at least a couple of years. Shallow money grubbing shits personality to come out at some point!

I also agree in a way with P. Jim, joint custody should be automatic unless it is proven someone is abusive, criminal or on a butt load of illegal or addictive prescription drugs, or does not want any custody.

I enjoyed reading this item right up until the last couple of paragraphs. Correct me if I'm wrong but were someone to make the statement that since "most people" don't slap their spouses we shouldn't get too exercised about wife beaters, womens' groups would justifiably howl. And the following mitigating statement that the are just as guilty would not be well received either.

Further, the last paragraph indicating that the victim is somehow responsible due to bad judgement is just flat wrong. If you don't believe me just try applying it to the "sexy woman that gets raped" scenario and see if it doesn't sound familiar.

Anyone that uses sex for coercion or abuse should be exposed and denounced, regardless of gender. Woman don't get a pass on that one.

Do these men try talking to the women before marrying them? Vapid asses (of both sexes) tend to give themselves away when forced into conversation...

Not to be pedantic, but, I don't believe clothing can be promicuous. Anyone feel differently?

but I have noticed recently, as I go through listing all the women I know, that the ones who are most in favor of feminism, always talking about women's rights and how women should continue to have more of them than men, are the ones who are also the LAZIEST.

To wit- two notable examples of many I know: my brother's mother in law and her sister are rabid, foam at the mouth, witch coven feminists who both lament that they cannot find a guy who, by their admission, could then help them monetarily in their retirement years. these women were never responsible for their lives and for working towards a point where they have some savings to live from. Instead they worked low paying jobs, occasionally- and these are college educated women (!).

Conversely, the women I know who think feminists are a sad sick joke foisted upon men are hard working and responsible people who save their money and make the best of their (much better than the above mentioned feminists') situations. Ironically, most of THESE women are happily married to men who appreciate them, and most of them are not even working in jobs because they do not have to because their husbands earn so much money (though they could choose to work if they wanted to).

So, the moral of the story is, men are not as stupid as you women seem to think. Many of us apparently seem to see rabid, mouth breathing feminists for the selfish, lazy people that you are.

Are there counter examples? I am certain there are, but in my circles this rule seems to hold pretty consistently.

Someone should really do a study to report on this in more detail.

that if people talked to their prospective spouses more, they might dogde some bullets. Some people are wifebeaters, some people are gold-digging vapid asses. As women gain more economic power, gold-grubbing men will come about as well.

but I try not to say "I told you so" to my guy friends who get sucked in and burned by these women. I usually don't have to and I do actually recognize that my lack of attraction to women makes the situation much more clear to me than to my friends. It sucks that there are people (not women, people) like this in the world. But it is also annoying to continually be passed over by guys and then have to hear them whine about being hurt (again) when I just want to hit them over the head and tell them that maybe, just maybe, the problem is them and their priorities. After all, if you put physical good looks above everything else on your list then you shouldn't whine that you don't get the rest of the package (i.e. brains, ambition, good personality, kindness, etc) every time. How many people are that total package after all, and how many of those women are still single?

All bitterness aside, here's a clue that a woman may (may, not will) turn out to be this way....If you are attracted to the way she bats her eyelashes and makes you feel all manly for taking care of her, if you find yourself doing things for her that you would never do for your unattractive or male friends, or if you thinks it's so cute that she just doesn't "get" a relatively simple concept like compound interest, she is probably going to end up being some level of needy, selfish, or controlling. If all the women you are attracted to eventually end up fitting the description of the "toxic wife" maybe the problem is with what you are attracted to. If people would expand their horizons just a little more, I don't think nearly as many women would find it so easy or desirable to be a "kept" woman. Or to put it another way, if men stopped rewarding that behaviour and started opening their eyes to genuinely kind women, I think the "toxic wife" stereotype would almost disappear. I'm on your side, guys. I just don't think there is anything I, as a woman, can do to change the way other women behave in relationships with men. The most I can do is be determined never to treat a man that way and hope someday that one of them figures that out about me.