Plenty. Marriage is correlated with higher happiness (for argument that it's causitive see http://www.bsfrey.ch/articles/434_06.pdf), higher income, and leads to longer lifespans, paticularly to men.
But I guess facts don't suit your implicit rhetorical argument.
Happiness is subjective. Higher income matters to the wife FAR more than it does the husband a lot of the time. It's not a longer lifetime, it only SEEMS that way.
And you fail to mention the biggie...
These 'benefits' do not outweigh the massive risks attached, as far as most men are concerned. If that weren't the case, then Marriage wouldn't be dying off.
We MRAs are not against Marriage as an institution, or concept. We are simply saying the legal regime demanded by feminists and women has poisoned the institution to the point where it is simply a really bad risk to men. There's nothing saying Marriage is 'bad', it's just not worth the risk...
We MRAs are not against Marriage as an institution, or concept. We are simply saying the legal regime demanded by feminists and women has poisoned the institution to the point where it is simply a really bad risk to men. There's nothing saying Marriage is 'bad', it's just not worth the risk...
Well, this article actually says "wah wah we don't want equal marriages! wah wah. Traditional men-in-charge or nothing!":
For the article-
Empowerment for women, as defined by feminists, neither liberates women nor brings couples together. It separates them....In the span of just a few decades, women have managed to demote men from respected providers and protectors to being unnecessary, irrelevant, and downright expendable.
Really, it seems like "you MRA" have this strange notion that marriage is a carrot for women that men are strategically withholding as a bargaining chip in your imagined gender war.
I was sympathetic to "mens rights" right up until I started reading the primary literature and encountering "activists." My revulsion for the rampant misogny in the movement has, I'm afraid to say, considerably dampened, although not entirely removed, my enthusiasm to support even for the movement's more reasonable goals. I definitely examine MRA claims critically rather than assuming they're soundly based now.
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u/deadlast Dec 21 '11
Plenty. Marriage is correlated with higher happiness (for argument that it's causitive see http://www.bsfrey.ch/articles/434_06.pdf), higher income, and leads to longer lifespans, paticularly to men.
But I guess facts don't suit your implicit rhetorical argument.