How to Offend Everyone in One Simple Article

[smurasaki]

This was so ungodly annoying and offensive that I had to rant about it.

Lori Gottlieb's Marry Him: The Case for Settling for Mr. Good Enough in the March issue of Atlantic Monthly is the most offensive writing on relationships that I've encountered since The Rules.  Not many people can write something that is  so thouroughly offensive to both men

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[smurasaki]

Courtship system? What century is this? The people I know who are married met their spouses over shared interests (mainly sci-fi and RPGs and other geekly pursuits...I wonder what these authors would make of that). And most of the single people I know are quite happy. Even the ones who are looking for significant others aren't panicking like these idiots.

Real women don't have sex drives? Ooookay. Oh, sure, there are people out there who don't have sex drives, but there are also rather a lot of people out there who do. Including women. I think you're right. These people think their feelings and experiences = everyone's feelings and experiences. That would also explain why they're missing the whole spectrum of not-straight and/or not-cisgender people.

But...real women don't have sex drives? Great, my mother's an alien or something. (She once confided that she seduced my father...he just looked so cute and innocent. Which was a bit more than I really wanted to hear about my parents' relationship. Still, I'd rather hear that than "oh, I just do it with him for room and board" or whatever the hell these women are doing. Do not want!)

[shininghalf]

Oh, sure, there are people out there who don't have sex drives, but there are also rather a lot of people out there who do.

Then there are the people desperately pretending they don't. That has the potential to become really dangerous.

(Okay, that was seriously low... No relation between Republicans and serial killers, although the repression thing does seem relevant to both.)