I have to say, after watching last night's Wife Swap, I'm rather loathe but strangely intrigued to watch tonight's Obedient Wives: Hidden Lives
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The weird thing about all this is that the women are really quite aggressive in defence of their right to be so walked on. Barbara Cartland used to twat on endlessly about how women should always defer to men - but in doing so she came across as a real ball busting rottweiler of a woman in her quest. We teach people how to treat us. If you start asking men for permission they will run away with the false idea that it is theirs to give in the first place. Didn't see this show but have read the odd article about them
Trust me, you're better off not having seen either show.
The women were completely deluded and rather insane, if you ask me. They admitted it was going against their natural tendencies, but continued because they had fewer arguements. I've done that - kept quiet because I simply couldn't deal with another arguement, but at no time did I delude myself that I was happier for it. Just utterly and completely ground down. I couldn't be angrier with myself about that, not happy and 'at peace'!
The men were just hideous, complaining about modern, or in some cases 'English' women (yep, you guessed it - a 70 year old bloke with a young submissive foreign bride) and their lack of homemaking skills, or mistaken beliefs that they have equal power in marriage. Worst thing was, they actually believed the crap they were coming out with, and most had young children to pass these views on to.
Ok, must stop thinking about this or I shall explode!
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Barbara Cartland used to twat on endlessly about how women should always defer to men - but in doing so she came across as a real ball busting rottweiler of a woman in her quest.
We teach people how to treat us.
If you start asking men for permission they will run away with the false idea that it is theirs to give in the first place.
Didn't see this show but have read the odd article about them
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The women were completely deluded and rather insane, if you ask me. They admitted it was going against their natural tendencies, but continued because they had fewer arguements. I've done that - kept quiet because I simply couldn't deal with another arguement, but at no time did I delude myself that I was happier for it. Just utterly and completely ground down. I couldn't be angrier with myself about that, not happy and 'at peace'!
The men were just hideous, complaining about modern, or in some cases 'English' women (yep, you guessed it - a 70 year old bloke with a young submissive foreign bride) and their lack of homemaking skills, or mistaken beliefs that they have equal power in marriage. Worst thing was, they actually believed the crap they were coming out with, and most had young children to pass these views on to.
Ok, must stop thinking about this or I shall explode!
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