What do you mean by "shared many male attributes (intellectual)"?
You left out shallow as a descriptive of the gentlemen who married shallow yet beautiful women. Odd that you didn't see that.
So they were insensitive and only saw the women in their lives as a utility?
I can understand the women might. Can you imagine why they might in a way that isn't a) insulting to them and b) a praise worthy reflection on the men in their lives?
I'm just wondering how thick and complete your blinkers are here.
Well, this is the family I married into and they became like my own family. I agree the men were kind of narcissistic, and the women became without hope (feeling that their own talents were being over-shadowed by the success of the men). And yes, they expected the women to simply cook and clean (which they did atrociously, possibly out of revenge). :think:
Perhaps this gave rise to the feminism, but it seemed to make them even less happy.....
By "male attributes" i mean a seriousness about books, film, music and not all the fluff which women
in our society tend to gravitate toward.
My sister-in-law was a ravishing beauty but had a kind of male way
of addressing men which put them off. (not me, but others)
It was really a kind of classic mess :think: but the females were both beautiful and profound,
so something good came of it.
But there HAS to be a better template to use than hating one's mother and worshiping one's nasty father. :idunno:
My niece by the way has described the same problems as my wife used to (with men being put off by beauty coupled with machismo)
so things must still be the same. She believes men are wired to want the wrong kind of woman. :think: