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		<title>By: Meltonmark</title>
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		<dc:creator>Meltonmark</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jul 2010 17:43:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Your attitude is precisely why men should never marry.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Your attitude is precisely why men should never marry.</p>
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		<title>By: Meltonmark</title>
		<link>http://www.levelwise.org/should-men-say-no-to-marriage.html/comment-page-1#comment-22634</link>
		<dc:creator>Meltonmark</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jul 2010 17:42:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>You won&#039;t meet one, my friend.  Western women are pure evil.  They only want one thing.  You are only there to be the walking wallet.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You won&#8217;t meet one, my friend.  Western women are pure evil.  They only want one thing.  You are only there to be the walking wallet.</p>
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		<title>By: Meltonmark</title>
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		<dc:creator>Meltonmark</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jul 2010 17:37:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>You&#039;re living in  cuckoo land mate.  Too late.  No man would marry a Western woman now.  They&#039;re poison.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You&#8217;re living in  cuckoo land mate.  Too late.  No man would marry a Western woman now.  They&#8217;re poison.</p>
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		<title>By: Meltonmark</title>
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		<dc:creator>Meltonmark</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jul 2010 17:34:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Its too late. White men are oppressed victimised, especially in the workplace.  No man I know has even the faintest wish to take on the responsibility and sheer financial gamble that is modern marriage.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Its too late. White men are oppressed victimised, especially in the workplace.  No man I know has even the faintest wish to take on the responsibility and sheer financial gamble that is modern marriage.</p>
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		<title>By: George Eliot</title>
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		<dc:creator>George Eliot</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jul 2010 01:50:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>You are feeling threatened. When once upon a time, your muscles were all that you needed to fend off an attack by a wild animal or a foreign enemy, now it&#039;s no longer necessary, all thanks to that lovely greenback that you up hold as god! Money! It&#039;s the thing which you complain about most that you lose in the divorce, notice, it&#039;s not the loss of time with your children that you are complaining about...it&#039;s your money. You have equated your masculinity with your earnings. Why don&#039;t you think it would be just as easy for a working woman to equate her femininity with it as you do? The woman in the 50&#039;s who you put on a pedestal were not all happy about their lots in life....they were purposfully manipulated to stay at home in a direct association with the new technological home machines which were invented at that time in history. Before the 50&#039;s, there was an upsurge of woman in the workplace, growing up all the way and being their own persons. Men are allowed to go out and discover just who they are when they grow to adulcy, but women are encourgaged to turn off their growth and stay in a state of dependence, while they act as nannies and maids. They do the job which is considered in public, or as p.c as the most important job ever, but they are paid little to nothing for it. Do you expect to get paid for your job? Then a woman who cares for a house and home should also be paid. She is feeling unfulfilled, not because you didn&#039;t buy a ferarri and take exotic vacations every year, but because she has been asked to play mommmy all day and sex kitten at night, instead of being just a person that you married. You want a wet hole to fuck, go dig one in the ground. Women are not objects any more than men are. Marriage is demeaning. It is a left over from a time when people started having personal possessions and turned people into possessions. Women were sold as possessions, and marriage is nothing more than this at the core. However, committment is still a wonderful thing. You can&#039;t grow up and be a fully mature person in an arrangment where it is inevitable where one person will always be the one to have the final say. It is not democratic to be in almost constant subservience to someone in your own home. And yes, if the world lasts any longer in this state, than the east will eventually change towards feminism as well, simply because whenever people&#039;s quality of life goes up, so do their expectations of priveledges. You are simply sour that you are being asked to give up some of your priveledges. It isn&#039;t a right to be considered the HEAD of the house. Be an equal, be a friend, or get out of the HOUSE! YOU want a virtuous girl, but I&#039;ll bet you don&#039;t consider yourself needing to be a virgin do you? SO what does that make all the women you&#039;ve slept with, SLUTS? That idea is not intelligent, it&#039;s mysoginist. You are a woman hater. There will be no peace on earth for men unless there is peace on earth for women with men. If you look, almost every single time that someone tries to justify women being subservient to men, it is based on religious doctrine. And that&#039;s because people usually say that god is a man. But, I&#039;m still waiting for him to appear, and so are all the miserable, desperately poor people in the world under torment.....it&#039;s time to evolve, ye neanderthals!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You are feeling threatened. When once upon a time, your muscles were all that you needed to fend off an attack by a wild animal or a foreign enemy, now it&#8217;s no longer necessary, all thanks to that lovely greenback that you up hold as god! Money! It&#8217;s the thing which you complain about most that you lose in the divorce, notice, it&#8217;s not the loss of time with your children that you are complaining about&#8230;it&#8217;s your money. You have equated your masculinity with your earnings. Why don&#8217;t you think it would be just as easy for a working woman to equate her femininity with it as you do? The woman in the 50&#8217;s who you put on a pedestal were not all happy about their lots in life&#8230;.they were purposfully manipulated to stay at home in a direct association with the new technological home machines which were invented at that time in history. Before the 50&#8217;s, there was an upsurge of woman in the workplace, growing up all the way and being their own persons. Men are allowed to go out and discover just who they are when they grow to adulcy, but women are encourgaged to turn off their growth and stay in a state of dependence, while they act as nannies and maids. They do the job which is considered in public, or as p.c as the most important job ever, but they are paid little to nothing for it. Do you expect to get paid for your job? Then a woman who cares for a house and home should also be paid. She is feeling unfulfilled, not because you didn&#8217;t buy a ferarri and take exotic vacations every year, but because she has been asked to play mommmy all day and sex kitten at night, instead of being just a person that you married. You want a wet hole to fuck, go dig one in the ground. Women are not objects any more than men are. Marriage is demeaning. It is a left over from a time when people started having personal possessions and turned people into possessions. Women were sold as possessions, and marriage is nothing more than this at the core. However, committment is still a wonderful thing. You can&#8217;t grow up and be a fully mature person in an arrangment where it is inevitable where one person will always be the one to have the final say. It is not democratic to be in almost constant subservience to someone in your own home. And yes, if the world lasts any longer in this state, than the east will eventually change towards feminism as well, simply because whenever people&#8217;s quality of life goes up, so do their expectations of priveledges. You are simply sour that you are being asked to give up some of your priveledges. It isn&#8217;t a right to be considered the HEAD of the house. Be an equal, be a friend, or get out of the HOUSE! YOU want a virtuous girl, but I&#8217;ll bet you don&#8217;t consider yourself needing to be a virgin do you? SO what does that make all the women you&#8217;ve slept with, SLUTS? That idea is not intelligent, it&#8217;s mysoginist. You are a woman hater. There will be no peace on earth for men unless there is peace on earth for women with men. If you look, almost every single time that someone tries to justify women being subservient to men, it is based on religious doctrine. And that&#8217;s because people usually say that god is a man. But, I&#8217;m still waiting for him to appear, and so are all the miserable, desperately poor people in the world under torment&#8230;..it&#8217;s time to evolve, ye neanderthals!</p>
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		<title>By: Ojin</title>
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		<dc:creator>Ojin</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 May 2010 08:59:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>You guys make very rational points.  But America and this westernized culture has a strong influence on other countries through globalization and the popularity of the American media.  

I witnessed this while I was in Nigeria. I saw the younger people getting away from the traditional culture and being engaged by the entertainment and influence of the US media.  The young people started to frown upon their traditional culture and thought highly of Americans and wanted to imitate the US culture.  

I say all of this to ask one question.  What happens if the whole world gets caught up under the infuence of this feministic American culture?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You guys make very rational points.  But America and this westernized culture has a strong influence on other countries through globalization and the popularity of the American media.  </p>
<p>I witnessed this while I was in Nigeria. I saw the younger people getting away from the traditional culture and being engaged by the entertainment and influence of the US media.  The young people started to frown upon their traditional culture and thought highly of Americans and wanted to imitate the US culture.  </p>
<p>I say all of this to ask one question.  What happens if the whole world gets caught up under the infuence of this feministic American culture?</p>
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		<title>By: Albert</title>
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		<dc:creator>Albert</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Mar 2010 06:14:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Right On Brother!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Right On Brother!</p>
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		<title>By: Albert</title>
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		<dc:creator>Albert</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Mar 2010 06:07:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>You obviously haven&#039;t been paying much attention.  It should have become clear to you after reading this post that the laws are not &#039;just right&#039;, and that current laws already tax men too much. That&#039;s why they&#039;re saying no to marriage and family. This is the problem I have with feminists. They claim they want &#039;equality&#039;, then they lobby for laws that reward women and punish men. They talk out of both sides of their mouths.  Since a wife&#039;s responsibilities end after a divorce, a husband&#039;s responsibilities should end also.  A mother should be legally required to support the children if she is the one seeking legal custody.  Awarding sole custody of the children to the mother after a divorce, involves forcibly severing the father-child bond and curtailing a father&#039;s natural paternal rights. And when rights disappear, duties disappear as well. I&#039;m so sick of hearing about the so-called &#039;plight&#039; of single mothers. Being a single mother is a choice for many women. So if it&#039;s too difficult for them, they have only themselves to blame. Their difficulties are self imposed.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You obviously haven&#8217;t been paying much attention.  It should have become clear to you after reading this post that the laws are not &#8216;just right&#8217;, and that current laws already tax men too much. That&#8217;s why they&#8217;re saying no to marriage and family. This is the problem I have with feminists. They claim they want &#8216;equality&#8217;, then they lobby for laws that reward women and punish men. They talk out of both sides of their mouths.  Since a wife&#8217;s responsibilities end after a divorce, a husband&#8217;s responsibilities should end also.  A mother should be legally required to support the children if she is the one seeking legal custody.  Awarding sole custody of the children to the mother after a divorce, involves forcibly severing the father-child bond and curtailing a father&#8217;s natural paternal rights. And when rights disappear, duties disappear as well. I&#8217;m so sick of hearing about the so-called &#8216;plight&#8217; of single mothers. Being a single mother is a choice for many women. So if it&#8217;s too difficult for them, they have only themselves to blame. Their difficulties are self imposed.</p>
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		<title>By: Albert</title>
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		<dc:creator>Albert</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Mar 2010 05:29:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Men should definately say no to marriage.
Women don&#039;t marry men because they love them. Women only marry men because laws allow women to take unfair advantage of men.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Men should definately say no to marriage.<br />
Women don&#8217;t marry men because they love them. Women only marry men because laws allow women to take unfair advantage of men.</p>
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		<title>By: Jason</title>
		<link>http://www.levelwise.org/should-men-say-no-to-marriage.html/comment-page-1#comment-19996</link>
		<dc:creator>Jason</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Mar 2010 00:01:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I would agree with the notion that men should stay away from marriage. I could only stand it for 10 months and got out. I was very disappointed. I really thought it would be like my parent&#039;s marriage. My mother was by no means a doormat. In fact, she was quite outspoken. At the same time, however, she was kind-hearted, practical, and valued my father&#039;s opinion and treated him like an adult and a partner.

My experience was very different. I didn&#039;t know how entitled, man-hating and mean-spirited my wife was until a week after the honeymoon. Man, did I feel conned! As soon as we got back, she was drawing up plans for kids, a new house, and she even quit her job two months after we were married. She even went as far as to blame me for her quitting her job; a disagreement that we had over the previous weekend put her into such a bad mood that it provoked her to scream at her boss and walk off the job.

&quot;It doesn&#039;t matter anyway&quot;, she said. &quot;This will force YOU (referring to me) to learn how families live on one income&quot;. As if my life before her was all selfish and void of any kind of real responsibility. She carried the attitude that serving HER wishes and demands was the only way to redeem myself, after a life of selfish male-singleness, and was the only way to attain selflessness. I guess my weekends and some weekday nights of volunteer work didn&#039;t count for anything.

She then traded her old Corolla in for a brand new Matrix. Her reasoning was that WE needed a new car to put the kids in we would be having soon. &quot;Used cars (of any kind) are dangerous to drive kids in&quot;, was her rational.

The above examples were just a couple of the outrageous behaviours of my now ex-wife. Over the next 10 months she made every attempt to wear me down to her demands through scolding, shaming, bitching, screaming, withholding sex, and conducting bitching sessions with her mother for 3 hrs on Sundays....the &quot;spoiled princess&quot; behaviours were endless.

The last months were absolutely miserable for me. I couldn&#039;t do ANYTHING right, according to her. She also threatened divorce if she wasn&#039;t pregnant in the next 6 months. There was a long pause of silence between us as I thoughtfully stared at the wall. Then turned to her and said, &quot;Okay&quot;. I got up, went to the bedroom and packed a bag. On my way out, she was still sitting on the couch, watching me leave with a look of disbelief I&#039;ve never seen on anyone else.

That night at the hotel, I got the best sleep I had had in over a year.

If I had stayed married to her, I would have been broke and in a mental institution by now!

Now, of course there are marriages out there that are not as bad as mine was. But next time you are in a department store or a restaurant and you see a family, observe how tired and beat-down the husbands look.

This feminist culture is putting more and more demands on men to rid themselves of anything masculine and to sacrifice their earnings, ambitions and soul to increasingly unappreciating women and children...and they had better not complain, either, or else!

It seems like the only real power we have left is to just say &quot;No!&quot;.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I would agree with the notion that men should stay away from marriage. I could only stand it for 10 months and got out. I was very disappointed. I really thought it would be like my parent&#8217;s marriage. My mother was by no means a doormat. In fact, she was quite outspoken. At the same time, however, she was kind-hearted, practical, and valued my father&#8217;s opinion and treated him like an adult and a partner.</p>
<p>My experience was very different. I didn&#8217;t know how entitled, man-hating and mean-spirited my wife was until a week after the honeymoon. Man, did I feel conned! As soon as we got back, she was drawing up plans for kids, a new house, and she even quit her job two months after we were married. She even went as far as to blame me for her quitting her job; a disagreement that we had over the previous weekend put her into such a bad mood that it provoked her to scream at her boss and walk off the job.</p>
<p>&#8220;It doesn&#8217;t matter anyway&#8221;, she said. &#8220;This will force YOU (referring to me) to learn how families live on one income&#8221;. As if my life before her was all selfish and void of any kind of real responsibility. She carried the attitude that serving HER wishes and demands was the only way to redeem myself, after a life of selfish male-singleness, and was the only way to attain selflessness. I guess my weekends and some weekday nights of volunteer work didn&#8217;t count for anything.</p>
<p>She then traded her old Corolla in for a brand new Matrix. Her reasoning was that WE needed a new car to put the kids in we would be having soon. &#8220;Used cars (of any kind) are dangerous to drive kids in&#8221;, was her rational.</p>
<p>The above examples were just a couple of the outrageous behaviours of my now ex-wife. Over the next 10 months she made every attempt to wear me down to her demands through scolding, shaming, bitching, screaming, withholding sex, and conducting bitching sessions with her mother for 3 hrs on Sundays&#8230;.the &#8220;spoiled princess&#8221; behaviours were endless.</p>
<p>The last months were absolutely miserable for me. I couldn&#8217;t do ANYTHING right, according to her. She also threatened divorce if she wasn&#8217;t pregnant in the next 6 months. There was a long pause of silence between us as I thoughtfully stared at the wall. Then turned to her and said, &#8220;Okay&#8221;. I got up, went to the bedroom and packed a bag. On my way out, she was still sitting on the couch, watching me leave with a look of disbelief I&#8217;ve never seen on anyone else.</p>
<p>That night at the hotel, I got the best sleep I had had in over a year.</p>
<p>If I had stayed married to her, I would have been broke and in a mental institution by now!</p>
<p>Now, of course there are marriages out there that are not as bad as mine was. But next time you are in a department store or a restaurant and you see a family, observe how tired and beat-down the husbands look.</p>
<p>This feminist culture is putting more and more demands on men to rid themselves of anything masculine and to sacrifice their earnings, ambitions and soul to increasingly unappreciating women and children&#8230;and they had better not complain, either, or else!</p>
<p>It seems like the only real power we have left is to just say &#8220;No!&#8221;.</p>
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