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Originally Posted by Theliberalvoice
Speaking as someone who is a woman, I am sick and tired of being blamed for everything (as the link I provided you). Women were being blamed for "obesity" and "ruining sacredness of marriage". I am sick and tired of women getting paid less than men and I am sick and tired of hearing that women were better off as being baby producers. I am sick and tired of being looked down upon because I want my freedom and career over children. And then there are men who somehow think they should get to vote on abortion rights and control MY body. Can you imagine what men would do if women said that they should all get a vasectomy. It would be "SHE has NO RIGHT to tell me what to do."
My neighbors husband died. She has a little girl with him. She moved into a beautiful home and her and her daughter live there. She was sad for a while (of course) about her husbands death but now lives happily in a BEAUTIFUL home. Do you have any idea what the neighbors say about her? Her dead husbands family asks how come she is happy and how she can afford a nice home. Imagine if she was man. No one would be saying anything. They'd be praising him for taking care of the daughter without a mother.
Men have it way better than women. WAY better. They can sleep with whoever that want and it is ok. Boys will be boys but women are whores if they do that. They get paid more and are taken more seriously. They are considered the leaders of the family, etc etc.
So if Oprah makes ONE remark it is not the end of the world for the men. You all still have it much better than women ever will. But at the same time, my point was that there are some women who are sexist and some men too. It does not make it right.
I personally would pay a man and a woman the same salary if they both did the same work. I do not care who a woman sleeps with. If a man can do it, so can a woman. Don't take what Oprah says to heart.
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Why would someone resent you over your decision to stay away from traditional marriages, that including children?
To me - as a male -(and to more and more males), marriage is as dead as the sand in Egypt is yellow. Co- habitation, in the same likeness. I enjoy my freedom. I've reached a point of my life that sees me without any stress, drama, complications, responsibilities, obligations etc that comes with a serious relationship.
babies. Well, I don't find them to be cute. Unlike most women I've met. I commend every person out there, willing to have children. Kudos to you all.
Many females have called me "teenager" for I do not follow the so walked over path, the usual milestones of adulthood. A house, a wife, a family.
Instead, I spend my days painting(or trying to), writing, listening to music and lastly(the Ultimate sign of male immaturity!)playing video games.
What I witness is a double - standard here. If a woman decides to stay away from marriage and children; she's independent. A strong, powerful woman who owes nothing.
On the other hand, if a man decides to dedicate his time and life onto those "things" he loves: he's a man - child. A fake adult. Despite the fact that these same guys have jobs, good education, pay taxes etc etc.
It doesn't help when I see these same females, who are interested in building a career, having fun(whatever a particular individual might define as 'fun'), and as soon as they reach the age of 30 or something, they instantly want to find a guy to get married and have children.
That's another double standard.
I'm from Europe. In this little country by the sea, Abortion is legal and paid by the taxpayers, er, I mean, the hospital/clinic, pays it

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It's not exact a pleasant feeling. This one, of knowing that my hard earned money is being spent on taking "care" of something a woman/man wasn't/weren't mature enough to avoid.
Putting aside the subject of rape, I see abortion as an operation that should be paid by the woman/coupled is interested in doing it.
Gals, if you can't take care of it, or aren't willing to do it, don't spread your legs. I say the same thing for the guys. Don't pull it out. Don't flaunt at me. You know" The preacher follows what he preaches?"
Yep.
The preacher found relationships or even casual dating(unless the odd natural D cup comes along) too much work for very little reward.
I concentrate my energy on what matters the most to me: My art, my gift, my uttermost passion.
Indeed, I am completely into it and every single woman who I meet, young, middle age or "old", will shame me for not chasing after women, having relationships or having babies.
I've gone from, being called, asexual, to coward, to gay, to childish.
Of course, these same females are the ones who get married - or have babies without being married -then get bored, divorce the guy and take him to the cleaners; either with the boring line or "I love him, but I don't love him."
Seriously? men put up with this?
Guys. Sex is pleasant.. but not THAT pleasant

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So, truthfully, I'm getting tired of women trying to shame me into chasing them over. I've even heard women(ex - girlfriends)complain that guys aren't paying them attention. Where's the "empowered, 21th century woman" at?
If you'll are old/strong/mature enough to be on your own, you're strong enough to not care about male attention as in feeding your ego and self - esteem.
I'm seriously getting tired of being thought as a beast of work(strength), a provider(being the breadwinner) the shrink(friend) the provider of sperm(babies) the life style supporter(alimony) and, the guy who picks her up from work etc(boyfriend).
Come on. Can't you women simply take me as a friend. A real, true friend, not this nonsense I see around me; girls and women "infiltrating" groups of males, befriend them, to get male attention. oh, and the drama, modern female "friends" make, just to be sure I care for them.
Look, a friend to me, is what I have in common with the other person.
I like sports. I am deeply in love with the arts. I worship astronomy, Ancient History, Literature, Poetry and so forth.
Please. Only befriend me if you are interested in the same subjects. Do not come to me, just because I am sensitive, romantic, caring, and try to get out of me, endless attention and time.
I am not your daddy, nor your shrink. Shrinks are paid for. I don't make people deal with my issues; therefore, I don't deal with people's issues.
I have one female in my life who I consider my best friend. Not even my ex - girlfriends I allowed to stay in my life. Why? They began with the drama. What is this? I must deal with a spoiled, rich(or when she's not rich) female to have a relationship? I've dated average to beautiful; they all share the same instructions of operations towards boyfriends. I ain't Freud, honey. Gone with the wind I am.
As I was saying. I deal with this female because she's down - to - earth minded. Has her head straight on, deals with her issues. I know that when she wants to talk it's something important not, like, the rest of the females I seem to meet(and that age range goes from 18 to 40); the boyfriend ain't treating them right, the customers at work are oogling her(of course she's loving it but won't say it. Doesn't want to look easy).
This woman is my equal. I respect her. if only more women were like her, I could have more female friends. Unfortunately, I'm surrounded by attractively looking females(that, my friends, is all that my male compatriots need to be happy), thinking that they're participating in that "idols" show.
So, I'm getting pretty damn tired of being called a "woman - hater", due to my modern mentality. I want pleasant, enriching(lighten up what's already in light)people in my life. I find more men to be more pleasant and in accordance to my beliefs, situation, hobbies etc.
Again, while most guys will think and talk about sex and women 24/7, women will talk about relationships, who's dating who, boyfriends, husbands, divorces and babies.
As I shun women like this, I also shun men.
That, does not make me a woman - hater. Stop, trying to shame me.
Speaking of traditional marriages. My father and mother, my grandpa and grandma had/have a traditional marriage. My father is the provider while the mother was the child -raiser. Same goes for my Grandpa. My dad worked his entire life, stressed out, many past normal labor work hours, went to school, graduated, got a more stressful job.
My father put up with my mother's kid brother. A guy who had a ton of potential but alas, great potential is not key for greatness. My dad had to pay my uncle's bills for many years. Why he did this? For love; for my mother.
Call me cold, call me coward. I ain't following my dad's path.
I do love my father(and my mother), and everything he did for me. But I would never do what he did. The moment I can, I will get a vasectomy done. Right now I can't because the legal age over here to have a vasectomy effectuated is 35. I am not sure whether I can do it in a private clinic but that'd be expensive. I cannot afford that right now.
Here's a guy taking responsibility. Who's coming with me?
Or am I going to be shamed, again, for wanting to sterilize myself?
Geez, nice place you live at.
Several males - young males - living near me have died. Their widows weren't repressed, talked of badly. Some of those widows are already going out with guys. Do I care about it?
Nope, nor does any other guy over here. At the very least, they might talk about x and y widow, but inside the privacy of their homes; without it spilling into the wild.
Now this is logic. Nothing politically, romantically, utopia like about it.
If a woman wants to abort, that's fine. But here's the thing. A man has no rights when the woman gets pregnant. The woman wants to abort? he has no saying.
A woman has the kid when he doesn't want to?
Guess what, buddy? 18 years of child support.
Pretty clear. Men don't have any rights when the issue is this one.... Hence, do as an angry woman would tell you to do: keep it inside your pants! and ladies, close your legs.
Basically, if I get a woman pregnant(impossible but hypothetically speaking) , and she aborts without me having any input: I sue her.
That's my genetic material you have inside of you. That material can either trap me into 18 years of child support or can make me immortal through his acts. Quite a dilemma isn't it?
No, not really. Men don't have it better. It's a myth. Like Zeus and Apollo.
Men can only retire when they reach the age of 65, if I recall it correctly. Women can retire several years earlier.
A law was passed(or is being prepared to be passed: haven't checked) in the UK that, when applied, will translate into: if you are a woman living with a man, when the relationship ends, you get to keep his house. Doesn't matter if he bought it and paid for it without any help.
I mean, men aren't getting married. The govt. gotta get another source of income

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As a man, if you get a woman pregnant, you are "stuck". either pay 18 years(I've heard of guys being made to pay college), be willing to have some other guy raise your kids(in case of divorce etc).
As a man, if you get married/live with a woman, have kids with her and she decides to stop working to stay home, there's nothing you can do about it.
As a man, you have to pay taxes for all those single mothers on welfare/dole.
As a man, you risk getting a life - long STD(more and more women and men are sexually promiscuous.
Most people will catch HPV. HPV is not only harmful to women. It's been linked to genital warts, throat cancer and God knows what else.
Condoms don't protect from stds; they simply lower the chances of getting a std.
Would you board a plane that has(lets trow numbers) a 50% chance of falling down?
No?
So why should I board it?

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As a man, I have to pay life - time alimony to a woman who won't spend the rest of my life with her. When the divorce comes through by her instigation. A very high chance of losing my house, a great quantity of my income etc.
As a man, I don't get to have easy, laid back jobs like secretary, hairdresser, stylist etc: I get to work construction, the sewers, the roads, truck driving etc.
As a man, I see a guy who is paralyzed. The guy who lives in front of me. Fell down when he was working. Again, I don't see women working construction. Don't come at me with "oh, but we'd be harassed."
Don't work as teachers, nurses and doctors. Last I heard, those college kids can be pretty easily sexually aroused.
As a man, I am expected to protect my classmates. I've been asked to escort my classmates to the parking lot because they don't feel "secure" when a male looks at her. Sorry lass, not every guy can be Brad Pitt - don't hold it against the guy who happened to look your way, when his intention was to see the result in the tellie.
As a man, I had, when I was a teenager, to stray away two older, far taller and stronger males because they were trying to hit on the girls I knew since birth.(the guys were thieves).
As a man, I had to sit next to the crazy girl/boy(crazy means mental problems) because I can smooth down a person.
As a man, I had to sleep in a smaller - than - your - thumb room, so my female cousin had a room when she came to visit us. Add 40 degrees celsius and a huge window from where the light of the sun comes through to hit your face and you have my pleasant summer of a long time ago.
As a man, I have to put up with all of these "cervix cancer" and "breast cancer" going on and on all the time, without anyone or any association, institution whatever, paying attention to male suicide(males rates of suicide are 7 times superior to the female rates), prostate cancer(I saw my grandpa die of that), and other male oriented problems.
Who cares, right? All throughout History, man has been going to war. Billions of young males died, but no one cares about that. American idol increasingly more important than that. I had one grandfather and one grand - father, each fighting aboard to make sure their families were safe.
Still, no one cares about that.
Thousands of years ago, in Sparta, males were taken from their mothers when they were 7 years old, to be trained, brutally. Their purpose in life was to go to war. While women stayed home, ruling over immense extensions of land, money and maids. Indeed, Men weren't allowed property.
A man had to get married. By the time he was 30, he was married or he was done for. A lifetime of military service meaning, no contact with a woman, resulted in the lack of capacity to harbor an erection for a woman.
His buddy would have to lend a land..
We hear all this talk about female circumcision, while I advocate protecting those females from such barbaric operations, why is it that male circumcision is so widely accepted?
Don't you understand? A foreskin is part of your sex organ. If you cut it off, you cut off the female equivalent of the penis: the clitoris.
For the record: a lot of nerves are located on the foreskin. A man is likely to receive more sexual pleasure when he's in one piece.
Men die younger. men don't get the social benefits that the single mothers get. Men die on the job spaciously more often than women.
The academic world is ruled by women. I can't think of a school year without a female teacher. In fact, when i was in the 4th grade I had two female teachers. Realizing this.. I only had one male teacher all of my life.
He wasn't married. Of course, he was thought of as "gay".
He took care of his elderly mother. To women, that means he's geek who can't "get sex".
Do you think it's fun to shove gravel? Or do you think men have it fair when a woman looks disgusted at him, any woman, because he's low status or he's not whatever makes the woman tick?
Do you think men "have it good" when most women will reject a man because he's not tall enough, because he's short or you have something against his height when his height is the same as yours; doesn't matter if you are, yourself, tall or short or regular size

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Do you think it's fair when men get bashed because they won't date this and that girl? I've been, and I've seen my friends get a voracious verbal beating for "rejecting" whoever it was.
Does a woman get a beat down - by her girlfriends of male guys - when a she rejects someone?
For anyone's information. Men have preferences, yes. For example, I am fairly attractive to the Swedish typical female. Her height is very alluring to me, because I love those long legs with a dress acting as a hat.. I love their purity of facial lines and the rest of the pack ain't bad looking, to be honest.
Now, if I tell a woman I am not interested in her because I have this particular set of likes... I'll get shamed to the moon. "you're superficial, you're an animal, she deserves to be happy."
Everyone deserves to be happy. But I wasn't given birth to to make someone happy.
Men might have tastes. Say one likes red haired females. I love dark haired females. If there are two dark haired females in front of me, i will go for the one who I mostly click with emotionally, romantically, financially, objectively and above all: the one who doesn't give me drama!
So will any other male. They won't hold out for the gorgeously endowed with D cup breasts Swedish female, unlike what most females seem to be doing - chasing the 6 feet + male, shrugging off whoever doesn't fill the bill. I've seen women as small as 4'11' dating 6'7' feet tall, claiming that REQUIREMENT to be based on some "protection" feeling the man gives her.
What's up with that? Where are you ladies living? In the savanna of 1 million years ago?
or the "a tall man makes me feel more feminine, so he must be at least 6'2' because I'm 5'2 and I look like I'm xx when I am with my xx inch heels"
Huh?
I don't feel more like a man when I'm next a shorter woman. I don't feel nurtured and warm if she has a big breasts. I'll date the short, flat chested female if we click.
Amusingly, it seems women only click with 6 feet tall males.Which means most women are sharing the same males.You know, only 20% of males are above 6 feet tall.
Strangely, in Sweden, the land of the giants, women don't care that much about male height. Guess they're already very secure in themselves. That, or they have polar bears for protection

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But I don't have the right to speak of this, this double standard of women only wanting 6 feet tall males but dishing men who only date a specific type of female; it's taboo for a man to point out this concept of a man is not how tall or how rich or how handsome he is, but what he is as a person, how he treats you, how he is to the community.
This is a personal example. I've dated a far shorter than usual(for my country) female with a few more "disadvantages".
Mainly, had AA cup breasts, a small, flaccid butt, slight amount of money(seriously ladies; European males don't pay free dates, sorry. We don't pay for anything. Except when we are in a long - term relationship and it's your birthday), had no car, had no career, had had several boyfriends and one - night stands etc.
I dated her(briefly) because I had feelings for her. Sadly for her, she was already on wallet - seeking mode(wanting to get married) and was trying to play me and some guy who had more money than me, to get married to her.
Silly her, mind my frankness. She tried to get him "sign" his life to have a relationship with her by having sex with him early on(please girls, that doesn't work). When it failed(of course it failed), she was mad, madly insane, sported all that anger and frustration over her perimeter of existence; I bailed out.
Many, many guys have to deal with insane females like this. They can accuse us of rape, they can accuse of anything. I've had that same female accuse me of wanting to hit her following an angry look from me, to her, after she was trying to entice me to "fight" this guy for her love.
Swan Lake doesn't fight for anyone: Only for his ideals.
How many guys have had their lives ruined by false rape reports?
How many of these females have had too much to drink the night before(guys, stay away from women when you go clubbing), wakes up the next day repenting what she did("I feel like a skank now"), or because he doesn't call the next day("He raped me") or because you decided you wanted a relationship whereas all he was interested in was a quick one night sex.
Myriads of ways a man can have his life ruined.
How many males have been betrayed? Do a reading on the percentage of men who are busy raising "their" kids, only to find out by accident or by smartness that the kid/kids he's raising, are not his?
Did you know that, in obedience to a law that was composed some 500 years ago, any man who is married/living with a woman, has to raise the kids he thought were his own?
IS that far? Do men have everything going for them?
Is it fair that most males have to romance, court, dine and wine, and deal with her dramas and her issues(that whole thing of women being so cast down by the male's usage of porn is getting old as the sun. Woman, whoever you are(talking to all women), I would choose porn over you. Not because I am a freak or a loser(like I've been told when I don't do what a woman wants);
But because I am a free human being. Freedom!
.. while most females can get sex? They only need to bat an eye, for a huge line of male suitors to come to fruition. I'm talking about unattractive males, attractive males, very hot males, rich males, all lining up for the female.
If a man, even if he's hot, comes to a woman and asks her if she wants to have sex, more than not, the response will be "NO!"
Change the sex that does the asking; completely different outcome.
How many females spend their youth dating what is commonly known as "the bad boy", "the thug", "the pick up artist", only to, when reaching the age of 30 want something "stable"?
A guy the female didn't stop to look twice when she was in her fertility prime?
Most of the guys I am friends with are irreverent players. They are, indeed, the 6 feet tall male with swagger that women seem to be so fond of. I sit back, observing the mating playground.
Guy approaches girl, girl falls for it, girl gets used.
Girls grows bitter and proclaims to the world that there are no good guys left.
The only "good" think is that if you have swagger(if you are a loud mouthed guy), you can get this type of female.
You know how hard it is for a male to know the nature of any woman?
You might interact with a woman for many years, with her hiding her true nature. How easy it is to be a man again?
I have a very good friend of mine who earns around 8 thousand euros - minimum - month. Cooks, very nice to his family, responsible etc; yet, all he seems to have flowing is way are single mothers.
Henceforth, he won't be looking out for women. I convinced him to stay away from women in general. if he wants to sleep with women, fine, I'll teach him what makes women tick; I'll introduce him to my Playboy friends.
They'll either hook him up or teach him how to be like him. Trust me, I went through the whole bad boy phase. Pleasant to get the female attention and the extras; bewildered to understand these females hurting themselves, destroying any idea I had ever had of seriously dating a woman. It's not worth it. Plain glitter, the business of attracting women.
I'm not a teenager anymore. I'm done with women, now I want more important goals. I want what Ernest Hemingway had.
Should a man change himself to please a woman?
No.
Sickly, most males transform themselves to please women.
Women have to change themselves to please/get/marry a man?
No. You don't need those heels, the make up, the perfume and the expensive cloths.
Unless... you are going for the more attractive and rich of all males. That is another segment of female nature that men have to deal with.
A woman will compete with other females for the 20% of males they want. The male I so often hear of. Tall, built, rich, swaggering, charisma, confidence(guys, when a woman speaks of 'confidence' she means she wants a guy who is hot, with confidence. Not a guy who is average and with confidence).
You don't know how it feels, to see your friends getting dumped because the woman they cared for so much found a bigger better deal.
Rest assured that I am aware of reality. Women get used, dumped. Must hurt, surely.
No, no, no. You got it all wrong.
Men can sleep with whoever they want? Men can sleep with as many women as they want?
In theory only. Most males are lucky enough to get a plain looking female.
To set apart this theory of males having as much sex as rock stars, I'll tell you the tale of a friend of mine.
He's over 2 meters tall. 6'7'?, rich, works outs, many, many hours a day, is exotic looking, has his own paid house, car etc.
he's in that 20% of males. The top 20%.
You've seen castles near the water? Well, he dated a 5'4' 300 pound female, not because he loved her or was sexually attracted to her, in the likeness of the bear that will eat honey because it can; he slept with her because no woman wanted anything to do with him.
See, he lacked that swagger and arrogance bad boys have. What's he gonna do?
Younger females are in love with the bad boy. mid 20's females are interested in living together(he can't do that; he'd risk his assets and future) and older women are looking for a sperm donor/ATM machine, or a husband or they're looking for a surrogate father..
He has no choice. Most males have no choice. They can't wake up and choose the cute girl next door, despite the strangely ironic reality consisting of a country made of mostly very, very attractive females.
He's not the only case(Illustrated this on the sentence "most males have no choice".
I've seen several of those 6 feet tall, attractive males with assets dating poor/middle class females with far, far, far more pounds than them?
What's this? Does that mean that only men have feelings?
After all, women demand a minimum of height '6' whereas men have none of this concern.
If women go after the most attractive of all males, why don't the males do the same?
They're the most wise of the sexual genders?They see past fleshly beauty? They look into the heart and mind of the woman?
No. They date these females because they have to. Incredibly, many, many males cannot live without sex. They walk all over the world, kill others, kill themselves, work themselves into an early grave to get a bit of sex from a woman, regardless the woman might be

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Men put up with so much drama and mind games and pay for dates, not because it's the gentleman thing to do. They do it because society tells him that if they treat the woman like a Queen, pay for everything, are there when she needs a shoulder to cry on, is sweet and understanding; She'll get the girl!
You see this from soap operas to movies, including the macho type movies. A woman is always the main and all of all things for the giant of a man, who can bring down armies of super soldiers but can't say no to a woman

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Just the other day, I was bored to death. Turned on the tellie. A soap opera made by some 20 something year olds. This what, 5'5 tall guy, average built, poor, was head over heels for this 5'9' rich, quite good looking young woman with a background of ballet and opera.
Please? Do you understand the message males are being hit with?
Make her feel like the receiver of "Shall I compare Thee to a summers day?"
Felt, and you will get this girl? Or any other equally attractive or not so attractive girl/woman?
Don't you understand that the world is growing steadily more feminized?
That women are projecting using the tools of communication and submission, what they want men to think women want when in reality it's the opposite of that?
All they're accomplishing is turning men into Metrosexuals then, these same females will complain that there are no manly males anymore

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Women want the masculine man, and the feminine man mixed into one. They want me because I am a reflection of their own feminine beauty but if I display male traits(this will happen to any other male), they will shun me.
On the other hand, if I pull over from my teenager years the bad boy skin, they'll want those male traits and will shun any sensitivity or any other perceived to be female trait.
We have a ton of outside influences(sometimes even in our own families) to be this and that, where we see what works is not what women are saying they want; it's the what the guys they call "jerks" are doing, that works.
First I went from advising and teaching my friends how to become what women wanted to simply shrug my head at the needless complexity that this dance requires and proceed into warning all of my friends that is not worth it.
Slight return to the tellie; that soap opera.
Every girl from there is the typical average looking girl from my country. See, most females from my country are stunningly beautiful; the males do not follow that rule

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In the show, there's a far higher in terms of looks and masculine presence male. He looks like that kid from High School Musical. Honest to god, it's like he has a twin brother. Around 6'2', swagger.
In the show, he's interested in the most average looking female of the show. Again, another female projection. The most attractive of males, wanting the most average of women.
See, this is why women love The Twilight books and movies. It embodies what I am conversing of. Female Porn. Though, that's pages for another time

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Well, the soap opera has a world set a city full of attractive women(this represents reality in my country) and average guys. All of the guys have girlfriends. Step outside of the soap opera. Truthfulness ends with the Beautiful females.
That's how far they got into portraying reality. Most guys do what those soap operas tell them to do. To no avail.
And I'm getting angry at this! At the females trowing sentences like "men is a pig who sleeps with everything that moves"
Of course he'll sleep with anything that moves. Frankly, he doesn't have a chance if he has any intention of getting sex. If he's not Brad Pitt, or doesn't have the courage to distance himself from all this feminized propaganda and act like a man, or let his manly side be represented by a more sensitive concept of himself...
He'll be "lonely".
Ok, wanna know why women who sleep around are thought of as "whores", why men who get girls are thought of as studs and women aren't thought of as Cleopatra's?
Because, most women don't need to chase men. Simply go to them, say "wanna have sex?"
Heck, the bar will empty itself following the woman.
The guys who do get "Lucky" with women, have done so because they have mastered the art of seduction(sucking up to a woman), let it be through his looks, swagger, confidence, money, social status, arrogance, whatever.
Tell me.
Who's more fit to rule, to brag and to think of himself as the "man"?
The King who's father was the Prince of Persia, or the the guy who was born in a "barbaric" country and had to fight off malaria, get his lung pierced, travel through all of Asia etc to take down the greatest Empire the world has ever seen until then?
So?
Who's the stud here?
That's right.
That whole "men get paid more than woman", has been dispelled a long time ago. I won't be speaking of that. Look it up, google is your friend.
men aren't leaders of their families. Women look for security(a man should to: don't live with a woman; don't marry a woman), hence usually marrying higher earners than themselves. That comes as problem when the divorces comes; whoever has the more cash gets to pay alimony.
The laws are pretty much stacked against males.
I'd love to add a few more ideas and realities of how it's horrible to be a man. Trust me. To be a man, is awful. From the millions of young males who ended up dead, maimed; scared for life, to the guys who work their butts off to provide only to have the woman divorce him for whatever reason.
Petty, not least, romantic feelings don't last. Your woman will get rid of you when the chemicals stop being pumped into the blood stream.
Women always had it better than males. A good life. THAT is the cloud that surrounds the Male Myth. The world is not ruled by MEN; it's ruled by women.
What do you think men have been doing for the past million of years?
Building empires, coming up with space able tech, what for?
To impress a cute girl.
Women have always had the upper hand. Most males can't fight off millions of years of impression; chase a woman, make her see how worthy your genes are; reproduce.
Be a cad or be a sucker(provider). Those are the only choices you have.
Unless.
You can overcome your nature and decide what's best for you. You decide, not your hormones.
Picking up the sentiment I imprinted before: I'd love to stay and chat, chaps, but I have to sleep... I spent the last 10 hours playing Star Wars Knights of The Old Republic.
Freedom is sweet

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