Just a bunch of Nancies.

A topic of discussion that has popped up frequently the past couple of weeks is this question of “where have all the good men gone?” Ladies, I would like to stop you right there, because a better question would be, “what have we done?”

If a man were trying to "pursue a woman", there would be a constant question of what his role was in the relationship. Does he ask her out, or wait until she makes a move? Should he open her door? Pay for the meal? Drive? Women stripped men of their roles in relationships, the household, and in the workplace. Girls, you always say, “Chivalry is dead.” Well, duh. And guess what? We are the ones to blame. Women have taken up the roles that men used to hold in society, empowering themselves and feminizing males. Where does this leave the men?

Like I said, men have been feminized, their roles scoffed at, families have been redefined so there is no traditional father figure, and male characteristics have been caricaturized as cavemen. Feminism attempted to create a goal for strong and independent females, but went too far by creating a culture that minimizes and emasculates males. And we are all worse off because of it.

“If women ruled the world there would be no war.”

Pish posh.

Some fun stats about children raised in fatherless homes:

85% portray behavioral disorders

71% of high school dropouts

63% of youth suicides

70% of juveniles in state-operated facilities

Young men are twice as likely to engage in criminal activity if he was raised without a father, and triples if he was raised in a neighborhood comprised of single parents.

Children need a dominant male figure in their lives. Statistics like these would not have even existed 50 years ago. There was a shift in the roles of men and women, and that shift threw everything off balance.

Women make up 46.8% of the work force in America, and 51 percent of all workers in the high-paying management, professional, and related occupations are women. We have gotten everything we asked for. So what are we still fighting for?

I would like to say that this is not an anti-feminist argument. I believe that women are strong, individualistic, and capable. But I do not believe that one can exist without the other.

I believe in interdependency, or at the very least an acknowledgement of the roles each person should play out. To diminish the role of one diminishes the role of the other.

In closing: women, can we just stop the complaining? If you want a good guy, stop trying to control everything and let them do their job.

Good grief.


On a side note, I would like to quickly mention how thankful I am for my wonderful boyfriend. 

Now that's a man. <3