An old friend emailed me this morning, complaining that her husband was laid off and is sitting at home, refusing to apply for jobs. She’s filling out and turning in applications for him. My first reaction was, “How nice that a grown-ass adult found a mommy to take care of him!” Her response was, “What do you expect, he’s a MAN!” Huh.
Now, she is about the least feminist woman on the planet, and she would be the first to say so. What struck me as funny is that feminists are supposedly the ones who hate men, and yet, here is a not-at-all feminist denigrating all men for being children, when I–the feminist–am telling her, “No, it’s not all men. Your husband is a spoiled baby, and you are enabling him. But that’s not the way men behave. It’s the way this man behaves, and he does so because you aid and abet him.”
And I’m the man-hater?
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