Let’s take a look at the marriage situation in America.
This is Lyz Lenz in her new look memoir and controversy“This American’s ex-wife…” “People often respond to news of divorce by saying, ‘I’m sorry.’ But I think they should say, ‘Congratulations.’ Congratulations for making yourself a priority, for having the courage, and for having the self-awareness to know when it’s time to quit. ”
Husbands and wives were engaged in a common business (but not necessarily the same job). They worked together, suffered common defeats, and rejoiced in common victories.
If you’re at all familiar with the popular narrative of divorce as self-discovery, you know who Lenz blames for her decision to break up her family (she has two young children): her husband. I wouldn’t be surprised if there are. When I wasn’t working full-time, I didn’t seem to help enough around the house.
Equitable distribution of housework is a common enough tension in marriages. But Lentz’s solution seems a bit drastic: “Do you want to know how I was finally able to get her husband to pay his fair share?” Minute custody, that’s the way.”
Lentz also blames the facility itself. It is set up to benefit men at the expense of women. “It became immediately clear,” Lentz wrote. “Maybe I’ll be successful, maybe I’ll get married.”
Interestingly, many men seem to feel the same way. For them, marriage is a trap that robs them of property and children. Even if you don’t get divorced, you’ll find that living in a longhouse drains your masculine energy and ambitions.
How did we end up in this impasse?Anyone who wants to answer this should read Nancy Piercy’s book. “A toxic war on masculinity.” In it, she approaches the issues at hand with very careful historical and philosophical analysis. idea masculinity, femininity, sex, and family. This seems to be something that has been lost in meaningless and heated “debate”. What are men and women? Who made it? What purpose?
What caused all the confusion, Percy said, was a gradual shift away from Christianity. In America’s early pre-industrial era, marriage was a space in which both sexes thrived.
[L]The ife of the thirteen colonies were characterized by the integration of life and labor. Husbands and wives were engaged in a common business (but not necessarily the same job). They worked together, suffered common defeats, and rejoiced in common victories. The husband or father is the head of a small federation, a semi-independent economic unit, which includes extended family members, relatives, apprentices, servants, hired hands, farm workers, lodgers, and (mainly (in the South) often included slaves. One historian explains that, in the language of the time, “all of a person’s household, whether related or not, was called ‘his family.'”
Under this arrangement, men and women had a common understanding of, and respect for, proper masculine virtues, which we sorely lack today.
Percy also participated.”Girlboss, interruptedThis week we explore how feminists and “Meninists” alike have been misled by Darwinian assumptions that reduce sex and reproduction to competition and scarcity, and how a return to Christian metaphysics We explain how we can help heal the rift at the heart of our civilization.
