I’ve always thought it was weird that Whitey reads random articles about random shit to do with black people. I’d much rather him read the wall street journal and hang out with other regular white people, that way we can hang out at their lake house in the summer and go on ski trips in the winter. Either way, his affinity for Negroes led him to this article on theroot.com. The article focused on how a relationship can suffer when the woman is the bread winner. Let me start by saying that this article was very poorly written. The author should have said, when women financially support their husbands, he may feel emasculated which can lead to further problems in the relationship and ultimately its termination. The end. But that’s too easy. Instead, she takes the reader on some pointless journey constantly complaining about yet another reason why black women can’t find/get/keep a man. Here’s why.
She starts off by saying that she would in fact have a problem with financially supporting a man. She didn’t give the reader any particular reason why, just that it would be a problem. As someone who recently got laid off, I’m thinking why would any man want to make this woman his wife if she’s not willing to hold down the fort in tough times. Let’s move on.
She continues to paint a picture of men who are knight’s in shining armor with the ability to support a woman, and give her the option of being a stay at home wife. Either that, or he’s a no good, lazy, Call of Duty playing loser who refuses to get a 9-5 because his rap career is about to take off any day now. Are we supposed to extend some kind of sympathy to the woman who married this guy? She knew what kind of dude he was when the relationship started. She only has herself to blame. A man is going to be who he is. Read this slowly, ladies. You. Can. Not. Change. A. Man. No matter how good of a lay you are.
The author makes some valid, albeit shallow, points in some parts of the article; however she negates them by making asinine comments like the one below where she describes her experience on a date.
This is what she said: “ …but I noticed in that instance and others how much of a problem he had with the financial responsibility of courting a woman. In fact, he said to me that he had no desire to be rich and wanted to live a simple life. He was not the man for me.”
This is what I read: “despite the fact that I’m an independent woman who makes her own money, a man should pay for everything when courting a woman, and if he has no desire to provide me with everything I need financially then we can have no future together.”
It should also be noted that the author is 49 and single. Let’s ignore the fact that she never mentioned the guy’s personality, education, values, etc. But he had no desire to be rich, therefore it could never work out for her.
Everything about this article is one big contradiction. Does the author wish to be a new age independent woman who can provide for herself or does she have the desire to be a stay at home wife and be waited on hand and foot? You can’t have it both ways. Either way, I’m through with it. I’ll leave it up to you guys to read the article to form your own opinions, but as usual, I’m right like always.
http://www.theroot.com/views/when-she-brings-home-bacon
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