The thing is he may be a fool but really, who teaches men on how to act with women?
They say the East brainwashes to keep control; North Korea, China, Iran, etc. Well the West brainwashes just as much if not more: Women should be worshiped, men are useless, women can do no wrong, if you don’t have a girlfriend you are a loser, if you don’t serve women you are a loser, if the sex is bad with women you are a loser, if she not happy you are a loser, if you are not married you are a loser, if you don’t have a child you are a loser, if she decides she wants out and you don’t give her half your stuff you are loser.
How can any man compete with this type of brainwashing? Add in the fact that some men have had some really bad experiences with women and are ridiculed by everyone by not having a woman, I can see a man doing that.
Not that I agree with it, but I can see the reasons behind it.
While I agree, it is too simplistic to just say this is all the fault of media and culture. As an engineer I always look to root causes of problems, then evaluate if the root causes can be addressed without creating un-intended side effects.
Why are we here and how did we get here?
We started to pander to women in western culture after WWII when we transitioned from a war based economy to peace time. To maintain the economy growth we encouraged commercialism, advertising was focused on creating the illusion of need with stuff we really didn't need. You had to own a car... you had to own a vacuum cleaner, dishwasher, a big house, a TV, telephone... since women are more susceptible to emotion based decision making (prioritizing want over need) advertising focused on them... product development focused on them. Instead of making tanks and selling them to the government, we transition to making cars and selling them to the average citizen. Then industry convinced Americans that assuming debt was a 'good thing'... this hasn't stopped, we continue to do this to the point where the Average American has $90k in debt, and our public debt is over $25 Trillion, with a "T" so every American born today already owes the government $70k.
We have been conditioned to believe
need and
want are the same things. 100 years ago, it would have been impossible to convince most Americans that taking on debt for cr@p you really didn't need was a good thing. In the 50s... you started seeing commercials on TV... and the TV shows sponsors supported all created the illusion that spending was a key component to happiness... a show that didn't do this, could not get sponsors. Likely the best and funniest TV show in the 1950s, which is STILL popular today, was "The Honeymooners"... but did you know that that show only lasted ONE SEASON. Why? Well it did not encourage consumerism, Ralph had a two room apartment, all he had was a TABLE, no TV... no telephone... and whenever his wife wanted to buy something, he flew into a rage. That show could not get ANY sponsors so it went off the air. Besides sketch comedy shows, westerns, which were popular... when you look at the sit-coms that garnered profitable sponsorship, "Father Knows Best", "I Love Lucy", "The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet", "Leave it to Beaver"... all portrayed the American family living a lifestyle that would be IMMPOSSIBLE on the single income families the father was working. A recurring theme in ALL these shows was the wife and kids, emotionally manipulating their husband/fathers into buying things that was not needed.
Without women, our economy would collapse, so it is only natural that that society and culture encourages female worship. Anyway, if we changed the way we value women, and focused more on need rather than want, or economy would collapse... and the Great Depression would look like prosperity. I'll tell when exactly this reality hit me in the face. I was a brand new 2nd Lieutenant assigned to my first unit in the late 80s... my roommate and I lived in a great apartment right on the beach. We literally had two lawn chairs and a TV in our living room, my bedroom furniture was a mattress on the floor... I think he had a real bed, but that was it. Then when we got girlfriends, and suddenly furniture because a necessity. Well... yeah... you have to have furniture, but the point is that we really didn't NEED it. We were fine, we didn't spend a lot of time in the apartment anyway. When I got home I would grab my scuba gear or surf board and hit the water. we played golf, and went to clubs at night. The apartment was a place to crash, but we didn't 'live' there.
