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Step 1: Rid vocabulary of the word "but." Step 2: Always agree with your husband.
  • Not looking for a fight...

    ...I just have a question that I would like to ask the Broadsheet regulars.

    Now, I'm no fan of the Submissive Wife stuff, in fact I'm of the opinion that if I have to suffer through the soul deadening work-a-day world of late stage capitalism, then so should you. So this isn't so much about the article as the response. I do wonder if you ladies see any sort of platform in which it is okay for men to criticize women.

    Granted often that criticism does come in the form of the troll posters, and they are rightly vilified, but it seems as if...when legitimate questioning of the article is sent in by a man who isn't on the party line...that man is usually shouted down by cries of "Troll" "Misogynist" or "Patriarchy".

    So seriously, I'd just like to know...is there a way or a space in which men can disagree or offer a differing viewpoint on a subject, or is it honestly your position that since we pretty much did have the power since the caveman days we are to be silent partners in the building of this new world?

    That doesn't exactly strike me as the most equitable of solutions.