Vox posted an interesting comment from JW about how men treat women and vice versa. Excerpt:

In my circle of acquaintances, and probably with yours, there are a few men that do not treat their women well. But the majority of the time, in a group setting, it is the women who disrespect their men. Every 10-15 minutes two things happen: a woman asks a favor of their man, and a woman disses her man (by insulting him, mocking him, scoffing at him, or making him the brunt of a joke). These women regularly say things to or about their man, publicly, that they would be irate about if he said the same. The ironic thing is that most of these women are otherwise decent people, but no one seems to take offense to their verbal snarls at their men--but if a man says something disrespectful there is a rallying call to support the woman.

Vox responds, displaying his usual facility with the English language. Pertinent excerpt with the money quote highlighted:

JW is correct and I am no misogynist, but being a male of unusual verbal skills, I have always enjoyed the look of utter shock on a woman's face when I turn her words around and shred her to bits in public. I'm not sure if it is my ability or my willingness to do so that is more unexpected, but on more than one occasion I have had the impression that the men around were on the verge of breaking into spontaneous applause at the verbal vivisectomy. I can't stand bullies of any kind and I derive much the same pleasure from taking down a verbal bully as I once did from bouncing a physical bully's head off a brick wall.

One of the reasons that I married Space Bunny was that she never once forced me to treat her that way; she is far too civilized to play show-the-leash games or indulge in bully-cat behavior. Such women are, in the words of the wise man, more precious than gold.

Amen to that. I count my blessing every day that I stumbled onto, and somehow convinced to marry me, a woman like that. I've been around too many eviscerating harpys in my lifetime; I can't imagine living with one.

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