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Recently on Oprah, a gew women admitted that they had had affairs with married men. Some were aware that the men were married and didn't care while others didn't find ouit until after they "had fallen in love" with the brute. The second part of the show starcased wives who had been cheated on. One wife admitted that she had knocked out her ex-husband's front tooth during her tirade against him. The audience, almost all female and clearly upscale, cheered and clapped.
Women have felt powerless in their stations as wives, mothers and co-supporters. Unfortunately our culture makes it "okay" for women to physically attack if they feel that they have been wronged while other women will stand and cheer her actions.
Until women confront and deal honestly with their submerged angers and frustrations against men and themselves, then women will continue to excuse their violent outbursts while villyfying men for the same actions against them. Until women are honest with themselves about why many women force their men out of their homea and into affairs while condoning and relishing their own dalliances, then divide that exists between men and women will continue to expand.
