To begin with - look at the photo of the author. A picture says a thousand words, and that guy is a disingenuous goof. The woman humiliates herself by even responding to him.
Hitman 10000, I think you're very right - values play a big part in a successful relationship. So many people make terrible marriage choices because they weren't really thinking about who they were marrying in the first place, and how the combination would impact major life decisions down the road. The more complicated our lives become - the more important the compatibility of values are. (A good way to test compatibility is by considering how solid the friendship aspect of the relationship is. Many people marry someone they could never even be friends with).
A marriage between two people with careers is complicated. Basically, life nowdays is complicated. If you are a man who believes a wife should stay home with the children, for example, then marry a woman with the same values. There are many career women out there who believe their children should be raised that way, and would be willing to give up their careers over that period of time.
To expect women not to have careers in this day and age - especially in modern society where one has to make a minimum amount of money in order to survive - is simply f*cked up and retarded. It can be difficult for even two people with careers to get ahead nowdays. If the author, and men who share similar opinions are confident that they can be the sole breadwinners and adequately provide for the wife, children, and their future costs, then good on them...but in reality, most men can't do it.
If life and society continues on the current complicated route, and if marriage / and the family unit continues to be stressed and challenged by external demands, it may more so be a refleciton that the basic set up no longer works. Either life (society) has to become simpler again...or marriages have to evolve into something more modern.
And considering the currently high divorce rate in our society, and the disadvantageous emphasis on individuality...its interesting to wonder if/ and how things may evolve in the future. Will marriages / and the family unit continue to adjust to (and fail under) a fast paced society - or will society eventually adjust to the family unit?
If its the former, then it may be appropriate to question if the union of marriage, as we now know it, will remain. How about something more suitable, like a marriage between more than two people? Similar to the futuristic arrangement as depicted by Robert Heinlein in Friday, for example....where two couples form a union; there is ample income and children are being cared for, more adequately than 2 people could provide alone. Factors like career and travel would not be such a burden on the family as it would under today's circumstance. Personally- I like the idea....and wish I could live to see the day. (Probably mainly because I don't feel comfortable with the idea of having sex with the same person for the rest of my life). And while such a futuristic arrangement may sound outlandish to us now, consider that Heinlein was a keen visionary - he predicted today's internet, amongst other things, long before they happened. The notion is not entirely futuristic...its also similar to the past, and how people and family units used to be more sharing and cooperative.
Whatever one believes, the bottom line is that our expectations today, of what two people can do alone, may be largely unrealistic and unnecessarily stressful. We can nit pick and blame the role of the husband or the wife...but to what advantage?
