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• Friday, November 21, 2008 11:38 AM

  bullshit

  "...and feminism has failed to provide men with a guidebook for navigating courtship."

  Feminism has failed? Feminism has failed to do something else and more for MEN? Oh I knew it would be a woman's fault why a man acts like an clown ass. Yeah, Geraldine, the devil made him do it.

  I'm not sure that young women today really understand what feminism is all about. It's not about stepping all over men - it never was. It's about following your own dreams and realizing your own potential is just as worthy as the next guy's potential. How that fits into this warped idea about "dating Darwinism" is beyond me. Sounds like some intellectual pothead was at it again one late night in the dorm.

  The best determining factor for compatibility is values-based compatibility. Then there is the recognition that you might be able to have it all, just not all at the same time. People who share the same values, including marriage, career goals, economic futures, children, whatever, will find each other because they want to find each other. Young adults who have good family ties, regardless of socio-economic background, will generally be more successful in finding an equal than those who reject their family backgrounds (and maybe for good reason, too!).

  I'm not so sure that anyone should be married before the age of 30. After all, the only frame of reference up to age 20 is that of being a child, usually in the confines and control of one's parent/guardian. Everyone should have atleast 10 years being an adult, gaining greater insight into themselves, figuring out what their goals are, and understanding the world and themselves in it a little bit better.

  This is just more intellectual rubbish.

  —Bluedog1276 Read Bluedog1276's other letters
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