Very briefly here - I am very interested in social trends here in the UK and there is no doubt at all that there now exists a generation of young women in this country in which many of them really believe they are "entitlement princesses" who have rights but no responsibilities and are exempt from personalaccountability, and think they can do as they please and say as the please a good deal of the time.
They are often facilitated in this belief by many aspects of the law in this country, following 30 years or so of an active feminist movement, which in many ways has granted privilege to women in so many ways often at the expense of men. Cases in point are marriage breakdown, divorce settlements, child custody, child and spouse maintenance via the Child Support Agency and the blatantly discriminatory anti-male Family Law Courts. Even penal sentencing for exactly the same criminal offences is heavily weighted in favour of females.
TV advertisements regularly portray males in a very negative light - men are freqientky seen as being stupid, ignorant and boorish.
One such featured a woman boasting that her new kind of oven cleaning device was so easy even a man could use it. Thousands of complaints, mostly from men, to the UK Advertising Standards Authority were dismissed out of hand and the ad still runs on TV.
A Home Improvements company ran an ad for a domestic implement of some kind, looking as if it was quite difficult to set up and operate was in fact so easy to run that even a woman or a child could use it. After just three complaints the ad was pulled after just a couple of showings.
Many young girls entering into marriage or live in relationships have no interest in either cooking or domestic chores and as for cooking they show no inclination whatsover to learn, and most believe that all domestic diutiues should be shared "equally" between the woman and the man, whatever the circumstances.
The food problem is often solved by ready made meals from the supermarkets, which need nothing in the way of preparation other than being bunged in the microwave and having the appropriate keys pressed.
One of my colleagues has been married for almost four years now - he is about two years younger than I am and he is constantly complaining about his English wife, who is two years his junior. He works all the hours God sends, while she was madwe redundant about a year or so ago due to the recession, so he became the sole breadwinner. They have no kids, as yet anyway.
She is apparently of the opinion that he has to "take care of her" - which he does via the regular payments into their bank account of his monthly salary and other increments or whatever....anyway, he earns the dosh.
He tells me that when he gets home at the end of the day she is either watching TV or chatting to her friends on the phone and nothing has been done about his dinner, and all too often he has to start cooking it, which is probably all to the good as he says he is a much better cook than she is anyway.
He knows for a fact that she watches daytime TV a lot of the time when she isn't out in the shopping centres with her friends or having coffee and cakes or whatever.
Quite often at the weekends he has to go about doing cleaning and tidying up in the house, or so he says, something which surely has to be her domain, especially as she has neither a job nor kids to look after. But she has always maintained that all domestic chores should be shared equally between the two parties to the marriage!
Hardly a case of "equality" there you ust agree! Poor bloke - no wonder so many British men are looking to the Far East for more reasonable marriage prospects.
It's quite significant that daytime TV in the UK is largely made up of programs which largely feature women, including such programs as "The Jeremy Kyle Show" "The Trisha Goddard Show" and "Loose Women", all of which have almost exclusively female audiences in the studios, not to mention similar American TV shows on some of the other digital channels...all shown during the day.
How come so many women have the time to sit down during the day and watch all this crap on TV?
Quite honestly I cant see my colleagues' marriage lasting much longer at this rate as he tels me he is now virtually at the end of his tether, pissed up to the back teeth.
I don't think for one single nano second that HE is being the selfish one, do you?
They are often facilitated in this belief by many aspects of the law in this country, following 30 years or so of an active feminist movement, which in many ways has granted privilege to women in so many ways often at the expense of men. Cases in point are marriage breakdown, divorce settlements, child custody, child and spouse maintenance via the Child Support Agency and the blatantly discriminatory anti-male Family Law Courts. Even penal sentencing for exactly the same criminal offences is heavily weighted in favour of females.
TV advertisements regularly portray males in a very negative light - men are freqientky seen as being stupid, ignorant and boorish.
One such featured a woman boasting that her new kind of oven cleaning device was so easy even a man could use it. Thousands of complaints, mostly from men, to the UK Advertising Standards Authority were dismissed out of hand and the ad still runs on TV.
A Home Improvements company ran an ad for a domestic implement of some kind, looking as if it was quite difficult to set up and operate was in fact so easy to run that even a woman or a child could use it. After just three complaints the ad was pulled after just a couple of showings.
Many young girls entering into marriage or live in relationships have no interest in either cooking or domestic chores and as for cooking they show no inclination whatsover to learn, and most believe that all domestic diutiues should be shared "equally" between the woman and the man, whatever the circumstances.
The food problem is often solved by ready made meals from the supermarkets, which need nothing in the way of preparation other than being bunged in the microwave and having the appropriate keys pressed.
One of my colleagues has been married for almost four years now - he is about two years younger than I am and he is constantly complaining about his English wife, who is two years his junior. He works all the hours God sends, while she was madwe redundant about a year or so ago due to the recession, so he became the sole breadwinner. They have no kids, as yet anyway.
She is apparently of the opinion that he has to "take care of her" - which he does via the regular payments into their bank account of his monthly salary and other increments or whatever....anyway, he earns the dosh.
He tells me that when he gets home at the end of the day she is either watching TV or chatting to her friends on the phone and nothing has been done about his dinner, and all too often he has to start cooking it, which is probably all to the good as he says he is a much better cook than she is anyway.
He knows for a fact that she watches daytime TV a lot of the time when she isn't out in the shopping centres with her friends or having coffee and cakes or whatever.
Quite often at the weekends he has to go about doing cleaning and tidying up in the house, or so he says, something which surely has to be her domain, especially as she has neither a job nor kids to look after. But she has always maintained that all domestic chores should be shared equally between the two parties to the marriage!
Hardly a case of "equality" there you ust agree! Poor bloke - no wonder so many British men are looking to the Far East for more reasonable marriage prospects.
It's quite significant that daytime TV in the UK is largely made up of programs which largely feature women, including such programs as "The Jeremy Kyle Show" "The Trisha Goddard Show" and "Loose Women", all of which have almost exclusively female audiences in the studios, not to mention similar American TV shows on some of the other digital channels...all shown during the day.
How come so many women have the time to sit down during the day and watch all this crap on TV?
Quite honestly I cant see my colleagues' marriage lasting much longer at this rate as he tels me he is now virtually at the end of his tether, pissed up to the back teeth.
I don't think for one single nano second that HE is being the selfish one, do you?