How to Be A Harridan (Updated)

Rachel Lucas has found the way.

Wow. And here I was blundering through life with the idiotic idea that you shouldn’t marry a man who’s not already a fully functioning, self-sufficient adult human being. Wrong! Marry any guy you like (even if he is clearly nowhere near your personal standards), make babies with him, and then treat him like a child for the rest of your life because that makes you feel powerful. That means you are not taking any SHIT from any lazy worthless no-good MAN.

Throw in a little withholding of sex and affection, and a nice dose of public humiliation with an article on MSNBC about what a dumbass he is, and you, too, will be a selfless heroine martyr. It’s so easy and I’m pissed I didn’t think of it first.

There’s more – much, much more.

The grimly humorous thing about all this is that there really are women, and plenty of them, who think this is a perfectly good way to treat a man. Yet they’re honestly baffled why men have no interest whatever in spending a second longer with them than it takes to bed them.

Ladies, I’m going to give you a huge hint. If you have any desire at all to live your life with a good man, you’re going to show yourself worthy of a good man. The men of my generation, and the ones coming along after us are not only willing, but pretty eager to prove ourselves good men, but we’re not going to expend the effort if all it earns us is ridicule and abuse. Act like you deserve someone who will treat you like a Queen, who will respect you, and who would sacrifice much for your happiness and that’s exactly what you will get.

UPDATE: You must read the Anchoress’ take on this. It is beautiful. First you get her description of the author as “a miserable toothache of a woman” which is simply genius. Then there is this paragraph:

I suspect that when The Vagina Monologues comes to town this deeply victimized woman clamors to audition as the Special Guest Vagina: the one made of steel wool that shreds the penis and then toots like a claxon horn in Rome.

Wowzers, that’s something to keep me awake at night.

But do read on because after that she talks about her husband, and that’s where the meat of her post really is. The Anchoress gives the humorless harpy a real lesson in love and what it takes for two human beings to live and work together as partners, to build a home, and to raise a superlative family.

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