The REAL reasons why you are unmarried

In reply to Tracy McMillan’s bizarre article in the Huffington Post, amusingly explained by Wedding Belle, here is my outline of the REAL reasons you are not married:

Supposed equality

Men and women now have equal opportunities. The only thing stopping full equality is that men haven’t worked out how to have babies yet. As a result more and more women are turning into their ideal man; They now have careers, stable incomes, they are street wise and intelligent, and can navigate the word perfectly well on their own. They don’t need a man anymore, they just want one, and that man has to add something to their life (other than a ring and some sperm donation) to make up for the independence that is lost and the compromises that are made in any relationship. The question is; what?

The death of the ‘real’ man

I hear women around me often wondering where all the real men have gone. My friends and I agree that the sexiest scenes in movies are when a man is so aroused that he grabs the woman and makes love to her, no foreplay involved. Yet past generations of feminists and endless TV programmes telling us how to make love have had the effect of turning sex into a polite, mechanical operation during which certain moves must be made in sequential order. This has gone too far and has left many women wishing for the good old fashioned grab aka Gypsy Weddings. But what man outside the gypsy community has the courage to do it? They are a dying breed I’m afraid and with all the press about the grey areas of rape, Ulrika and John Leslie, Julian Assange, is it any wonder?

The balance of power has shifted

The ability to procreate is so much more in the hands of the woman than the man now. She chooses whether to take the pill or not, whether to have an abortion or not. There is no law that women cannot lie about taking the pill. Who is risking more by having unprotected sex? The ability to create life is now firmly in the hands of women. It’s no good playing the helpless virgin in for a good ravaging, Tess of the d’Urbervilles style. That won’t wash with men anymore. Women have moaned about things for so long that the balls are now firmly in their hands, time to suck it up. (Sorry couldn’t resist.)

Everyone thinks they are better than everyone else, including themselves

Everyone wants to be ‘a creative’ these days. And now anyone can be a DJ, a photographer, an actor or a writer, it is quite literally all about me, me, me. Everyone seems to think they are more interesting than everybody else. And a lot of us lust after the same small group of people, mainly celebrities, who project themselves as being even less human than the rest of us. Women fool themselves that when they have make up on that is what they actually look like and men fool themselves that they can bag an airbrushed woman from a magazine. Everyone is walking around thinking they are too good for everyone else and are not who they really are.

It’s time to wake up and see what is going on around us – we need to adapt the fairy tale to our time and place.

Posted 02:10 PM on Tue Feb 22 2011

By Barbie

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