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In reply to the discussion: The Myth of Male Power - Warren Farrell [View all]hfojvt
(37,573 posts)at least not in that ten minute clip. He makes a series of sorta rambling points. Some of which are interesting, but others basically wrong. For example, his "stage 1" when "divorce leads to starvation". When the heck was that supposed to have been? In our parent's generation (whatever generation that is, seemingly Farrell is a boomer and myself an Xer). In the so-called Greatest Generation?
Well, my dad's aunt was in an unhappy marriage back in the 1920s and her little brother drove out to Washington state and brought her back home to Beloit, Wisconsin where they lived with their mother until she died in 1960, just one day after my big sister was born on Mother's Day. Their mother, by the way, was also divorced. Her husband, William, supposedly ran off with some younger woman, 13 years younger than him and had four more daughters. I speculate, though, that perhaps she kicked him out. I base that on the fact that great-grandmother's name was Alice. And great-grandfather's first daughter with his new wife was named Lucille ALICE. Now, if he had divorced her, then why would he seemingly name a daughter after her?
But anyway, neither Alice's divorce in 1903 nor Eva's in 1925 lead to starvation.
Speaking of incest though (sort of). Eva was married to a step-son one of her first cousins on her mom's side.