Quote: (05-22-2016 01:20 PM)Sumanguru Wrote:
The guy who made the video wrote a follow-up article supporting the vid.
http://family-studies.org/maxim-masculin...evolution/
--Didn't take long for the misogyny card to come out.
--I'm seeing a lot of blaming of men here, no criticism of women. Nor do I see the criticism causing him to take a moment to self-reflect, and perhaps ask a few men about why they're so vehemently against marriage. I'm a regular lurker over at Dalrock's website, where I often read "Man Up and Marry!" screeds like this one, and they have the same problem that this one has--none of them actually *talk to* the men they are telling to man up. They talk *at* those men, and wonder why the men ignore them or tell them to STFU.
--He brings up *some* of the criticisms leveled against the video, but doesn't address them. While a guy working hundreds of extra hours a year is undeniably a good for society, and for the family he's supporting, how exactly is being a societal wage slave with no freedom a good thing *for the men himself*?
--He acknowledges that the Divorce Industrial Complex (I just realized what that acronym is, lol) takes a lot of blame for men not wanting to marry, but he doesn't actually offer any solutions for men in this regard. Nor does he temper his enthusiasm for marriage in the previous part of the article with this new revelation of danger (divorce) brought to light. Therefore by his own admission he is encouraging men to the marriage slaughter.
Like you said, his response is just a diatribe of shaming language and 'poisoning the well'.
His only real rebuttal is that married men live longer, but there's no examination of happiness or the quality of life of those men. Its all about how men getting married benefits others rather than themselves.
Just another SJW doubling down.