Moos upset at duh's bike obsession

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pitbullgirl1965

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selidororous
I'll probably take a lot of flack for saying this, but...


Married men are more likely to have real hobbies and interests than their wives do.

Meanwhile, the wives - who are usually Moos - want to include their husband is every single little fucking activity they engage in.

Activities that, well, men really do not want to be a part of.

Like:

Shopping
Tea and petite-fours for lunch

ad nauseum.

Meanwhile, the husbands want to spend time watching sports on tv (which is fine; it's a guy thing), bikes, fishing, whatever.

The vast majority of married men do not want to be turned into women and be their wives' best girlfriend.

No wonder the divorce rate is so high in the United States.

Way to stereotype men and women. This is the same mindset that says women all want marriage and babies and men are just lovable shlubs who need a wife/mommy figure to correct them.

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starbelly

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pitbullgirl1965

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selidororous
I'll probably take a lot of flack for saying this, but...


Married men are more likely to have real hobbies and interests than their wives do.

Meanwhile, the wives - who are usually Moos - want to include their husband is every single little fucking activity they engage in.

Activities that, well, men really do not want to be a part of.

Like:

Shopping
Tea and petite-fours for lunch

ad nauseum.

Meanwhile, the husbands want to spend time watching sports on tv (which is fine; it's a guy thing), bikes, fishing, whatever.

The vast majority of married men do not want to be turned into women and be their wives' best girlfriend.

No wonder the divorce rate is so high in the United States.

Way to stereotype men and women. This is the same mindset that says women all want marriage and babies and men are just lovable shlubs who need a wife/mommy figure to correct them.

I get what you're saying PitBull, but I tend to agree that a higher percentage of women ditch their hobbies once they get married/have babies. Just looking around at a random sampling of my friends, and I see that before marriage, none of them had any hobbies that were of any merit. Drinking and the occasional crafting don't count. Personally, I have lots of hobbies that include cycling and hiking and shit, things I don't want to give up, but guess what, I'm not married. Probably because I haven't yet found a guy that didn't want me to quit my job to follow his career around and shit out babies. I think most of us here at Bratfree are the exception to the rule, and we take additional care in our romantic relationships to maintain balance.

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starbelly

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pitbullgirl1965

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selidororous
I'll probably take a lot of flack for saying this, but...


Married men are more likely to have real hobbies and interests than their wives do.

Meanwhile, the wives - who are usually Moos - want to include their husband is every single little fucking activity they engage in.

Activities that, well, men really do not want to be a part of.

Like:

Shopping
Tea and petite-fours for lunch

ad nauseum.

Meanwhile, the husbands want to spend time watching sports on tv (which is fine; it's a guy thing), bikes, fishing, whatever.

The vast majority of married men do not want to be turned into women and be their wives' best girlfriend.

No wonder the divorce rate is so high in the United States.

Way to stereotype men and women. This is the same mindset that says women all want marriage and babies and men are just lovable shlubs who need a wife/mommy figure to correct them.

I get what you're saying PitBull, but I tend to agree that a higher percentage of women ditch their hobbies once they get married/have babies. Just looking around at a random sampling of my friends, and I see that before marriage, none of them had any hobbies that were of any merit. Drinking and the occasional crafting don't count. Personally, I have lots of hobbies that include cycling and hiking and shit, things I don't want to give up, but guess what, I'm not married. Probably because I haven't yet found a guy that didn't want me to quit my job to follow his career around and shit out babies. I think most of us here at Bratfree are the exception to the rule, and we take additional care in our romantic relationships to maintain balance.

That reminds me of something I read always on the always-loathsome reddit's red pill : This thing opined that women are "quasi humans" who have no interests or hobbies at all : That women only pretend to have hobbies because they think this will make them more attractive to 'alpha men' . It further went on to opine that women never have intellectual passions; that even when they get a ph.d , it's solely to be able to attract a better mate. (It should come as no surprise that redpillers also believe that all women want children).



I thought that was the single stupidest thing I'd ever read on the redpill ( and Lord knows there's been lots of contenders for that title), because of course I have a ton of hobbies, some of them weird or arcane , none of them of much interest to some composite entity called 'men' or 'alphas', and all the women I know have at least one or two hobbies and passions. But maybe that redpill-thing was honestly reporting what it sees in its social circle: Women with no hobbies and no interests at all, outside of being a wifeanmother. And so it extrapolated from this to believing that all women are innately incapable of intellectual pursuits and hobbies solely for their own sakes or the pure pleasure they afford.

It did get a lot of upvotes for its bloviation, and that's not the first time at all that I've seen crap like that on the redpill or other sites in the so called manosphere.Hell, John Norman opined in one of his craptacular 1980s Gor novels that women just pretended to have an interests in classical literature to get attention from men : Bear in mind that John Norman is the pseudonym for a college professor, and he must been thinking about his own female students when he was writing that. Who knows how this belief of his came into play when he was determining his female students' grades...

(Maybe a little OT, but if there is a fairly large contingent of men out there who really and truly believe that every single thing women do-what they wear, what they get a degree in, everything-is solely in order to get male attention, then that might explain why some men like to pester women who read books in public (try to read, anyway...). After all, she can't really be interested in that book, she must just be pretending to read it so A Man will see the book and come over and talk to her...It might even explain why there apparently are men out there who feel perfectly free to remove a strange woman's earbuds from her ears if SHE'S trying to listen to music but HE want to talk to her. I find it hard to believe that entitlement could be taken to such an extreme, but apparently, judging from what I've read online, this is not a rare occurence at all, to women who dare to listen to music while in public!)

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The only thing I've learned as a woman in my 40+ years on Earth is that you can never win, so I don't even play the game.

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Techie

I personally cannot say that married or single men have more or less hobbies, depending on their marriage status. What I did notice is that married men must often "report to control tower" before they are allowed to go anywhere or do anything with other men, even if it is something like going to a bar after work for an hour. The "control tower" often gets really upset and the "request" is often not granted.

Yeah, my husband noticed that at his workplace, too. He'd call me during lunch and say, "I'm going to get a beer with some co-workers after work." and most of the time I'd say something like "All righty. You gonna get dinner there, too? I'm eating at sevenish." Apparently some of the guys were stunned that he "had it that easy". I didn't think that respecting my husband's social times qualified me as the "cool wife". But apparently the capper was that that I didn't mind that the co-worker group often included women. Apparently female friends are not allowed anymore for some guys.

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There do seem to be a lot of women who fail to understand that their partner/husband is a separate entity, as are they. I couldn't live like that - if my OH started trying to dictate to me how often I was allowed to go out, who with and when I had to be back, I'd be bailing VERY quickly.