Do young women understand how to get to a stable marriage?
Note: in this article, when I refer to women, I mean young, unmarried women who have been influenced by feminism. I do not mean all women, and especially not married women.
My good friend Tom sent me this article from the ultra left-wing Vanity Fair. Tom is a veteran of the brutal New York City dating scene.
The article contains sex and bad language. Reader discretion is advised.
Excerpt:
Itâs a balmy night in Manhattanâs financial district, and at a sports bar called Stout, everyone is Tindering. The tables are filled with young women and men whoâve been chasing money and deals on Wall Street all day, and now theyâre out looking for hookups. Everyone is drinking, peering into their screens, and swiping on the faces of strangers they may have sex with later that evening.
Tinder is a hook-up app that people use to find people to have sex with, based solely on their photograph.
The article says this:
âRomance is completely dead, and itâs the girlsâ fault,â says Alex, 25, a New Yorker who works in the film industry. âThey act like all they want is to have sex with you, and then they yell at you for not wanting to have a relationship. How are you gonna feel romantic about a girl like that? Oh, and by the way? I met you on Tinder.â
âWomen do exactly the same things guys do,â said Matt, 26, who works in a New York art gallery. âIâve had girls sleep with me off OkCupid and then just ghost meââthat is, disappear, in a digital sense, not returning texts. âThey play the game the exact same way. They have a bunch of people going at the same timeâtheyâre fielding their options. Theyâre always looking for somebody better, who has a better job or more money.â A few young women admitted to me that they use dating apps as a way to get free meals. âI call it Tinder food stamps,â one said.
Even the emphasis on looks inherent in a dating game based on swiping on photos is something men complain women are just as guilty of buying into. âThey say in their profiles, âNo shirtless pictures,â but thatâs bulls**t,â says Nick, the same as above. âThe day I switched to a shirtless picture with my tattoos, immediately, within a few minutes, I had, like, 15 matches.â
And if women arenât interested in being treated as sexual objects, why do they self-objectify in their profile pictures? some men ask. âThereâs a lot of girls who are just like, Check me out, Iâm hot, Iâm wearing a bikini,â says JasonâŠ
Men talk about the nudes they receive from women. They show off the nudes. âT*t pics and booty pics,â said Austin, 22, a college student in Indiana. âMy phone is full of âem.â
Although the article, and the women who are interviewed, try to pass themselves off as victims, itâs very clear that they are full participants in this hook-up culture. Itâs âfunâ for them to be free and independent â no responsibilities, expectations, or obligations from a relationship. They want fun right now, without the leadership of a husband, or the demands of small children.
Feminist writer Hanna Rosin says that this hook-up culture is great:
Some, like Atlantic writer Hanna Rosin, see hookup culture as a boon: âThe hookup culture is ⊠bound up with everything thatâs fabulous about being a young woman in 2012âthe freedom, the confidence.â
The Vanity Fair author comments:
âShort-term mating strategiesâ seem to work for plenty of women too; some donât want to be in committed relationships, either, particularly those in their 20s who are focusing on their education and launching careers.
Previously, I quoted a feminist professor writing in the New York Times. She also thought that it was great that women were hooking up with hot guys for fun, but staying focused on their educations and careers.
Hereâs Amanda to explain it:
âThere is no dating. Thereâs no relationships,â says Amanda⊠âTheyâre rare. You can have a fling that could last like seven, eight months and you could never actually call someone your âboyfriend.â [Hooking up] is a lot easier. No one gets hurtâwell, not on the surface.â
Who doesnât want to have sex? Well, me for one. At least, not till Iâm married.
Amanda later explains that she doesnât want to care because caring would mean that she âsomehow missed the whole memo about third-wave feminism.â She has to be independent â able to dismiss responsibilities, expectations, and obligations in order to pursue happiness with education, career, travel, and promiscuity.
I know Christian women who think they are fundamentalists who have this exact same attitude. They think that relationships are somehow compatible with doing whatever they want to do â that doing whatever makes them happy each and every moment will somehow turn into life-long married love.
Why donât women reject the men who use them like kleenexes? Why is the manâs appearance so much more important than his suitability for the marriage roles of husband and father? Well, feminism tells women that gender distinctions are âsexist,â that chivalry is âsexist,â that chastity is ârepressiveâ because it blocks having recreational sex, that marriage is boring and must be delayed, and that having lots of sexual experience makes you more attractive. They measure men by how the man makes them feel and whether he will be impressive physically to their peers. They arenât looking for a man who can perform traditional male roles like protector or provider or moral and spiritual leader â because male leadership is âsexist.â
As always, should you, as a young Christian man of some means, desire to get married, then I recommend using my checklist to validate your candidate. I know a lot of women who married without any intention of being a wife and mother. Sometimes, they marry just because their friends are all getting married. If you, as a man, do not check this womanâs reasons for marrying, you may find yourself legally bound to someone who âsettledâ for you. And who has no intention of respecting you or educating your children.
Recommended resources related to the topic:
Counter Culture Christian: Is the Bible True? by Frank Turek (DVD)
Counter Culture Christian: Is There Truth in Religion? (DVD) by Frank Turek
Is Morality Absolute or Relative? by Dr. Frank Turek DVD, Mp3 and Mp4
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