Bachelorette parties- immaturity and sexism

[realman]

I'm quite sure the pinata's would be used in the privacy of the host's home.

Of course the ad copy is upbeat... when was the last time you heard a bunch of women male-bashing, telling stories about "stupid men",  or making jokes with castration overtones and not laughing? The entire concept of "grrl power", "strong inddepent women", being a "princess"< "girls just wanna have fun", "rights without reponsibilities", or "stikcing it to the patriarchy" is almost always upbeat...  or at least, it is if you've got a vagina.

[The Invisible Male]

I agree with ram charger, in most cases, including my first wife.  If husbands trash talked their wives (especially in mixed company) the way quite a few wives trash talk/demean/patronize their husbands, the marriage would not even last a year, unless the wife is sticking with it for the money or the sperm.  Husbands are expected to just smile and go along with the "good natured teasing".

[realman]

ram- sometimes it does seem that way. Perhaps that is it ina nutshell- women hate men because it is outlet and a projection that takes their mind off the fact that they need men? That that need breeds contempt and resentment, and rather than accept it, it is turned against men? So until women could accept that men do in fact have their place and that they do on some level need men, they will always been trapped in a love-hate dichotomy? Sort of like a kid resenting his parents for establishing controls/limitations on him, or for coming to pick him up when he's fallen down- it's too hard to accept that he still needs his parents on some level, or that they are trying to protect him when he is "a big boy now"- so he channels that energy away from admitting his own needs and failrues and into aggression towards his parents.

[realman]

Yeah, gotta love the double standard. Sexist jokes against men= funny. Against women- YOU SEXIST PIG!!!

[The Invisible Male]

ram- sometimes it does seem that way. Perhaps that is it ina nutshell- women hate men because it is outlet and a projection that takes their mind off the fact that they need men? That that need breeds contempt and resentment, and rather than accept it, it is turned against men? So until women could accept that men do in fact have their place and that they do on some level need men, they will always been trapped in a love-hate dichotomy? Sort of like a kid resenting his parents for establishing controls/limitations on him, or for coming to pick him up when he's fallen down- it's too hard to accept that he still needs his parents on some level, or that they are trying to protect him when he is "a big boy now"- so he channels that energy away from admitting his own needs and failrues and into aggression towards his parents.

Very insightful realman, never thought of it quite like that.