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by rantywoman
For once, men are told that they can be too picky (although admittedly the writer makes the single life sound a bit enviable):
http://www.jcoach.com/2011/01/too-old-to-play/
The time you’re wasting now chasing women beyond your reach and dreaming of the perfect woman who fulfills every single criteria you’ve fantasized about is precious time you could be using to build a family with a great women…NOW. No, no, no I’m not telling you to marry a woman who you aren’t attracted to and have absolutely no connection with. Seriously, you mean to tell me that you haven’t been attracted to any of the women you dated in the last few years (if that’s the case you might have bigger issues to deal with)? But she didn’t exactly fit what you feel you need…something just wasn’t there…I know the drill.
Much of what you post here, BB is projection. This quote in particular is pure gender flip. This is a woman’s thought process projected onto a man.
While you may take comfort in the idea that men have the same problems as you, the truth is they do not. The life experiences and internal dialogs of men and women are highly asymmetrical.
Women have the upper hand in a big way in their twenties. The power shifts to men in their thirties and by the time men and women are in their forties the power balance is a mirror image of that in your twenties.
A 44 year old woman experiences life as the average 22 year old man. Powerless. But a 44 year old man has many options.
I know you know this. It just seems so unfair.
Actually, the quote was from a post written by a man…me.
Your bio indicates you are a Rabbi. The idealogy Mike adheres to (misogyny or Male Supremacism, as expressed in the Manosphere) is wholly incompatible with Judaism, an ancient tradition that holds marriage and family in reverence and, moreover, teaches individual responsibility and absolute respect between the genders.
These ideals (and men like you who adhere to them) are all viewed with contempt, and routinely mocked, by men like Mike.