Men

[Wayne Goodwin]

Are Men Becoming Obsolete In This Crazy World ?

[flippr 2.0]

sure seems that way sometimes.

[uno,dos,3]

We are what we are. I go my own way and the people who don't like it avoid me...which works out well for me. I've never needed to be needed. I have no interest in marrying again, I have no interest in working again....I'm not obsolete.....I'm nonfunctional.

[Wayne Goodwin]

And let them sleep in the barn ....after chores are done .....

[flippr 2.0]

rode hard and put away wet.

[Shadowman]

But women are also being replaced with robotic girlfriends:  http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-10432597-1.html 

[uno,dos,3]

She is kind of hot.....but no doubt too young for me. What was her manufacturing date?

[flippr 2.0]

[Lifesighs]

They come in handy for many things.

[dwalt]

I sure hope not!!  Nothing better than  a good man.

[Karin M Fichtner]

The statistics that were released this past week say that some 40% of working moms are the primary wage-earners in two-party working families.  I know my dil makes more money than my son does.  And 41% of all babies born in New York are born to single moms.  Many of my granddaughters' friends are raising children alone....by choice.  Women no longer need men to "take care of them".  More women are graduating from college than men today.  My son says with the divorce rate nowadays, young men are thinking twice about getting married and having children that.....in ten years or so.....they'll have to make an appointment to visit....while sending child-support checks.  In England, the average age a man leaves his parents' house is 35.  My friend's son is still living off her, and he's 40.  Psychologists say children who are raised in families without fathers are not "significantly disadvantaged".  And we all know how smart psychologists are!! 

My #3 granddaughter has been engaged to a guy for 4 years, and he just now told her he doesn't plan to be a father.  All this time, she's been waiting to get married and have a baby.  And now he tells her he never wanted one!  It would've been nice if he'd told her .....oh, maybe 4 years ago!! 

I certainly don't think men are becoming obsolete, but I do think marriage and fatherhood is. 

[crestofwaves]

Agreed, Karin--but I think it might be parenthood is becoming obsolete in the middle class caucasian race.  And my daughter, the human feline, is on her own again as well. She feels "tied down" in a relationship.  There certainly is some tying down, but it comes with the territory.  More and more are just not willing to give up their narcissism.

[Mickchick]

Not in MY world - even if I choose not to have one in my personal life (and that is under ongoing scrutiny and being re-evaluated as I write this thanks to the guy I am currently seeing), they would never be obsolete.  I enjoy the company of men far too much!

Even when I was married, and made more than my husband did, I didn't marry him for his wage earning ability  or his ability to do things I personally could not, I married him because he enriched my life in so many immeasurable ways.  Women may not "need" a man in the ways they did in the past, to protect them, to support them financially, to father their children, to take "care" of them, but nothing (in my opinion as a red blooded heterosexual female) would ever replace them or make them obsolete...