Jay

'Work was my wife's problem, she's been at home for almost three years now and she's loving it ...'

Ooooh! That makes me go all goosebumpy!

Yet another woman has come to 'understand' that real happiness lies in being little more than the sticky glue that holds the family together, and that misery lies in pursuing her own financial independence and her own professional goals and dreams.

I guess you are too far gone to ever hope to see that your wife had little choice about where to find her 'happiness'. Many women find themselves married to men who are SO hostile to any prospect of a woman finding fulfilment outside of catering to the needs of her husband and family, that they will fall into line with the lifestyle their husband wants for them - not so much because it's what they want, but because it's the line of least resistance.

As I keep saying, a woman married to a man who sees feminism, i.e. the politicising of women's experience and the monetary value of motherhood, as a 'mental illness' or 'middle class conceit' can find no middle ground in terms of matching what she wants with what her husband demands. No wonder your wife hit the couch every night when she came home from work.

Craig

Sorry, mate, but you really are a bit of an intellectual bore. Stev seems to have some confused idea of what on earth you are going on about (or at least pretends to). But I doubt anyone else here does.

You can either decide to continue being an intellectual bore or stop being an intellectual bore.

It's your choice.

Stev

'Thanks, Killarney, for conceding my point about narratives.'

Aha! Yet another false narrative - i.e. telling someone they have inadvertently agreed with you when they actually haven't.

The basis of your false narrative is that whatever a feminist says is a false narrative and that, if you point out that their narrative is false, then whatever counter-argument they use to prove the truth of what you claim is their false narrative must be, in itself, another false narrative.

Cool. After all, you are a howling anti-feminist and that is the basis of all anti-feminist narratives

Killarney, I'm sorry you find my discussion with Stev difficult to follow. I'm sure if you think about it a bit you'll work it out, but I'd be glad to try to answer any questions you might have. There's not much that can be done about the boredom factor though, it's a pretty dry topic.

It's a lovely Sunday morning and I'm off to enjoy the cool air and the birdsong.