Letters to the Editor
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Please forbid it
My god. If this woman knew how much most guys loathed the whole traditional "bachelor party" scene she'd actually feel sorry for the poor gal who has to tag along, instead of resenting her.
The bachelor party -- in its traditional stag party incarnation (like the one her husband is being forced to attend) -- is a contrived farce for most of the modern world. An anachronism that a handful of misogynists and misanthropes can't let go of; their one excuse from time to time to leer at nekkid ladies.
For myself and most men that I know, the "bachelor party" is now merely a night out for dinner and a few drinks with the boys without having to apply or pay for a "hall pass" from our loving wives or significant others. (For those men who insist that they always get to do whatever they want, whenever they want, their wives be damned: really?)
Frankly, were I to get invited to the kind of bachelor party this reader's husband is in for, I'd beg my wife to forbid me from going so I had a good excuse to skip it.