{"id":48,"date":"2012-06-16T01:49:00","date_gmt":"2012-06-16T01:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beckypalmer.thecomputerguy.bz\/2012\/06\/in-defense-of-men\/"},"modified":"2015-11-10T04:00:36","modified_gmt":"2015-11-10T04:00:36","slug":"in-defense-of-men","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beckypalmer.me\/?p=48","title":{"rendered":"In Defense of Men"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Turn on any TV sitcom. \u00a0Almost without fail the dad is clueless and clumsy and the mom is smart and sophisticated. \u00a0And that couple’s daughters will be sm<\/span>arter than their sons to boot!<\/span>
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\nRead any women’s magazine. \u00a0You’ll find this month’s tips on getting that clueless boyfriend or spouse you have to help you out around the house, make nice with your mother and be better in bed.<\/span>
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\nDrive down the highway and look at billboards. Other than David Beckham in his underwear (Thank you God!) there are no signs of scantily clad men pitching their wares but there sure are a lot of half naked women enjoying cold beer out there. \u00a0<\/span>
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\nGet any group of normal, everyday women talking and it won’t take long for the conversation to get around to someone having a story to tell about her own hapless husband who would be broke, wearing the same pair of dirty underwear daily and having every STD known to man if not for her miraculous appearance into his life.<\/span>
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\nAs far as I can tell, in today’s world all men are morons, helpless without the tireless work of the knowing women in their lives. Really? \u00a0Is this what Gloria Steinem had in mind in the 60’s? Whatever happened to gender equality? \u00a0Men and women on equal footing, respecting each other and working together as equals? \u00a0Anyone remember that concept?<\/span>
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\nI do. \u00a0My husband is a smart, ambitious, talented man who balances me. \u00a0He’s good at things I’m not. \u00a0We have an awesome relationship based on mutual respect, trust and love. \u00a0If you don’t have that in your own marriage then I pity you.\u00a0<\/span>
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\nAre there creeps out there? \u00a0Of course. \u00a0But about half of them are women. \u00a0Saying all men are (insert insult here) makes as much sense as saying all left handed people are (insert insult here). \u00a0It’s ignorant.<\/span>
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\nSo how about we lay off the man bashing for Father’s Day weekend? And then when the sun continues to rise in the East we keep it up? \u00a0Think about it.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Turn on any TV sitcom. \u00a0Almost without fail the dad is clueless and clumsy and the mom is smart and sophisticated. \u00a0And that couple’s daughters will be smarter than their sons to boot! Read any women’s magazine. \u00a0You’ll find this month’s tips on getting that clueless boyfriend or spouse you have to help you out around the house, make nice… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[24,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-advice","category-things-that-make-you-go-huh"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/beckypalmer.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/beckypalmer.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/beckypalmer.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beckypalmer.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beckypalmer.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/beckypalmer.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/beckypalmer.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beckypalmer.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beckypalmer.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}