As if reading that Forbes.com thinks Memphis is one of the best cities in America for singles wasn’t bad enough, the responses on CA.com to Wendi’s column today REALLY make me depressed. Must be pretty bad out there in Singlesland to trigger this kind of nasty response. Oh, no you din’t, indeed.
Responses to “A good man is hard to find.”
August 28th, 2007 at 2:47 pm
It might make you good to conclude I’m a snob, but here’s another possibility: We disagree.
It’s a column. A humor column. Lighten up.
August 29th, 2007 at 4:31 pm
Humor about the lack of good men is tired, worn out, and plain lacking in inventiveness. In case no one has mentioned it, there is a silent killer present among the masses of singles, and it precludes men being available to women.
One look at the comments after the actual article tells it all, as well as the above. Men making $, driving fancy cars, and working out…those seemed to be the criteria. Strangely when one chooses the mate on superficiality, man or woman, the woman gets bored, wants to find herself, and tosses the man out, taking the kids, house, and sports car.
Oh but that tan hard body of his sure was fun to make kids with wasn’t it?
Now where can ya get a couple good cats?
With women filing 3/4 of divorces, especially in the churches where it is insidious, and then all will agree, winning the court battles, men have less and less interest in signing a contract that can be unilaterally broken.
If you want men to show up again for the long term, talk to the sistas and have em back off the divorces! (no, wrong assumption, Im happily married)
August 26th, 2007 at 7:51 pm
Well… Wendi’s list would have eliminated my husband, who’s a very presentable Prince Charming in what Memphis considers upper-echelon society, on two counts. He can discuss Kafka if anyone feels like discussing Kafka; he can dissect the difference between the performances of two sopranos in the same role; he knows what fork to use. However, he didn’t graduate from college; he spent five years in Panama as an Airborne Ranger instead. And, like every other person I’ve ever met in the extremely-high-paying field of video design (starting salary for a first job as a 3d artist is about 90 thou, which is more than the average starting salary for a doctor in Memphis), he has an extensive collection of toys. He doesn’t have Transformers, although he did as a kid, ’cause his mom sold them when he went into the army.
Sometime when you’re watching those “making of” videos for the Lord of the Rings movies, or Jurassic Park, or whatever, take note of the number of toys on and around those people’s desks. It’s usually “as many as will fit in the space.” The interest in toys is what drove the interest in getting the highly technical skills to do the job. And those people get paid far more than Wendi Thomas does at the Commercial Appeal. They don’t live in basements.
Sign me, snobs meet the men they deserve.