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Michael Perrone's avatar

Women who want to have 1:1, personal friendships with men after they're married are clueless. Move on with your life, it's not high school or college anymore. While my wife and I have plenty of couple friends and while I consider many women my friends *through* our marriage, and while I work and volunteer with many great women who I admire, respect, etc., I can't imagine the need or the purpose of being a personal friend of another woman without my wife around.

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Gordon R. Vaughan's avatar

This quote really nails it:

"In this vision of feminism, marriage is a trap, divorce is a superpower, and women are not so much people as Strong Female Characters."

We've now had multiple generations of American women who have grown up being encouraged to play a Strong Female Character rather than a real person, which too often results in repeated delays in starting their real, relatively hum-drum lives.

What they need to be doing is getting honest from the moment they start college, if not sooner, about how they are going to integrate these paths.

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