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The Replacement Matrix of Life
August 11, 2009 | Permalink
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oooh, boy.
I await the Feminist Backlash for that "Wife" dot.
:oP
Posted by: O Bloody Hell | Aug 12, 2009 3:40:48 AM
I'm the feminist backlash!
Very inconsiderate.
But I have to say, that I appreciate the sadness. The shortness of replacement time is probably due to the fact, that wife is so important, that you always have to have some back-up plans, if the current one fails (e.g. dies)
Posted by: Paavo Ojala | Aug 12, 2009 3:59:33 PM
It's not really a comment as it is an observation. It seems when a couple has been married a long time and the wife dies, the husband gets remarried in a couple of years. But if the husband dies, the widow can remain single for decades, it seems.
Posted by: Tom McMahon | Aug 12, 2009 6:52:45 PM
> "It seems..."
The fun part of this observation (which I concur with) is that there's two ways to take it.
1) The guy misses having a woman in his life, and so replaces her quickly, while the woman has had enough of men and doesn't need/want any more to do with them (There's a Feminist version of Vique's Law that goes: "A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle")
2) The man doesn't love the woman as an individual and so replaces her easily, but the woman loves the man and cannot replace him.
I suspect many people will assume #2, thinking (as our culture incorrectly teaches) "Women are more noble and pure than me", but I am more willing to bet that #1 is closer to the actuality.
Posted by: O Bloody Hell | Aug 14, 2009 4:26:12 AM
That was meant to say:
"Women are more noble and pure than meN"
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Posted by: O Bloody Hell | Aug 14, 2009 4:27:02 AM
There are more women willing and able to entice men to marry them than there are men willing and able to entice women to marry them.
Posted by: HorizonScanner | Aug 14, 2009 10:05:30 PM
As age increases, the population of men decreases, so that by the time a man loses his wife to natural causes, he can find himself to the Golden Girls' center of attention.
Also, young(er) women are willing to marry old(er) men, but seldom is the reverse true.
Posted by: Sparticus | Aug 15, 2009 2:31:37 AM
> There are more women willing and able to entice men to marry them than there are men willing and able to entice women to marry them.
That's because, in a modern context, marriage is much more to the female's benefit.
The older benefits to men -- progeny, property, and so on -- are less central to the life of the modern male.
Posted by: O Bloody Hell | Aug 16, 2009 2:40:29 PM
It's just practical.
I'd get a wife way before I'd get a husband...
-jjg
Posted by: J. Gravelle | Jul 18, 2011 12:50:03 PM
