Saturday, May 12, 2007

Men are Pigs

Catchy title?

I read something the other day, this is not an exact quote, but this is what it meant:

"Why do men divorce women? Because men are pigs!
Why do women divorce men? Because men are pigs!"

At first I thought, "how silly." But as I explored further, I think this is mainly true in American culture.
A man will divorce his wife and move on to another life, and society will say, "That creep!"
Women will divorce her husband and move on and society will say, "Right on!" "We just want you to be happy." "We are glad you finally left that creep."

Of course, this is generalization. But my own experience and observations confirm to me that this is largely true.

Do you agree with this? If so, why is it? Please note: I'm not refering to what should be a Biblical/Christian attitude toward divorce, but what is the attitude of society in general.

I experienced this in my own divorce 2 1/2 years ago. My wife left and suddenly all of our friends, much of family and the community left with her. All of her family - that I loved much - disappeared. She moved out and suddenly I felt like a pariah in my own neighborhood. “What did he do to cause her to leave?” I could almost hear them whispering. Friendly neighbors turned distant. I knew of many that said to her something like, "We just want you to be happy. Do what you have to do."

I knew that if she had died her family would have visited me daily. They would have brought me food. Called me. Comforted me. Her/our friends as well would have done the same. My neighbors would have been at the door to help. But because she divorced rather than died, suddenly those family and friends dropped off the face of the earth.

What do you think?

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1 comment:

Anonymous said...

At first I was going to point out how wrong it was to leave unchallenged the "men are pigs" statement, but then when I read your post I saw you had, sort of. One christian blog I read once actually left unchallenged a comment by someone to the effect that testosterone was a "poison" -- the moderator simply ignored this part of her comment and addressed other things, until I pointed it out to him. There is a reason that men are not always feeling welcome in many evangelical churches - the "template" is not "how do we teach this guy how to connect with God", but rather "what we can tell this guy not to do, how do we control him." And men rebel at that, rather than against God per se. At least this is often the case.