“You mean you are not man enough to support your own wife?”
Heh. My manhood is not threatened by my wife having a career. Not when she was enlisted like me, not when she worked after she retired.
“You are admitting, in effect, that you desire to take the work of putting bread on the table (work you, the man, by rights should be doing) and to toss half that work onto her frail shoulders,”
You’ve clearly never met my wife. She’s as frail as a bulldozer.
“ How is shifting your burdens to your woman not crass exploitation?”
She had a job before we met. Had her own money and was used to making financial decisions for herself. Neither of us expected her to junk all that to be dependent on me.
“The philosophy of the Left, which you seem to be supporting in this case, is not just evil, it is illogical.”
Depends on your premise, really. And yours seem to be heavy in toxic masculinity.
“That philosophy is illogical because you are required by your faith to criticize men who protect and keep their women”
No. I criticize fuckknuckles who think THEIR bigotry is the ONLY way that anyone should live.
“It is evil because it discourages love,”
Three kids between us says otherwise.
“romance”
She holds my hand at the ER at 0300 hours. And I hold hers. You know fuck-all about romance.
“and marriage, and encourages mutual mistrust and mutual exploitation between men and women.”
How the fuck do you have mutual exploitation by both of us agreeing that she’ll pick her own jobs to donate to the household.
“It discourages love because it makes the roles proper to true lovers impossible”
This is the fuckknuckle stance. Our roles work for us, you can fuck off.
“No husband wants his beloved wife to be independent of him —”
I used to leave her alone to make submarine patrols for months at a tme. I very much wanted a self-supporting and competent wife at those times.
" But your philosophy adds selfishness and pride to the mix. By your theory man and woman must each be too proud to be completely devoted to each other.”
41 years without either of us cheating says you’re shouting at shadows, Chicken Little.
"You can only devote to another the dregs in the cup of love left after your self-love has drunk its fill.”
Who wrote YOUR wedding vows, de Sade?
"One dare not love nor depend completely on another,”
Wrong.
"Unfortunately, it is merely a fact of reality, something no human can change, that pride and agape are mutually exclusive.”
Your reality, maybe. Pride isn’t a big motivator for me.