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• Friday, May 19, 2006 06:07 PM

  I agree with Laurel

  I have for a long time thought this obsession we Americans have with encouraging excessive princess-thinking in our girls is part of what leads to disappointment in young women out of their live and marriages.

  It is as if we encouraged our young men to fantasize and fetishize beautiful young women as the only acceptable women to like.

  Granted, boys and girls both will dream their dreams, but pushing those dreams to unrealistic levels is where the problem lies.

  I like the line someone said, that marriage is a choice to love and work with the other person, not something to bail out on at the first sign of trouble.

  I sure would feel a lot more secure about the idea of marriage if I thought there was any plausible reason to believe women are willing to work on marriage. I see a lot of people instead giving up way too easily.

  I love romance, I love to treat women well, but lately it seems I am with the wrong women or something, they use me for the romance and do not feel the need to reciprocate back (and I am not talking about just sex!). It is as if the women EXPECT princess treatment just because they are women, as if they are only there to take things. No wonder I give up on women and treating them well. With that kind of BS, it only makes sense to treat women badly, like the sort of guys that women actually sem to gravitate towards.

  —brightstar65
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