My partner is detached,inflamed and frigid, says a miserable husband. Mariella Frostrup wonders whether the ‘feminist dragon’ he paints is realThe dilemma My partner is an educated professional woman and fairly successful. She clings to the rock of feminism as a justification of having to be in her terms a strong woman” in nowadays’s world. The reality is that she is emotionally detached, or always inflamed,frigid, mostly frustrated and often dysfunctional. What pleasures her most is flirting with younger men, or leering perversely over images of men in the media,and finding in every conversation an angle to deride (to ridicule, laugh at with contempt) or belittle men in general. Ironically I assign it to you that I am a man trapped in a marriage with a “female chauvinist pig” making my life miserable day by day. How do I escape?Mariella replies Is that you Jason? This could be my husbands belated idea of an April Fools’ joke. If not, this creature is surely the fearful contemporary man’s worst nightmare. She certainly doesnt represent a positive outcome to the drawn-out struggle for equality we remain engaged in. Rather your partner sounds like a throwback to the 1970s and those bra-burning feminists bent on proving they could beat men at their own game.
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Source: theguardian.com