Superb post from Tiger Beatdown on Amy Pond-
“But when it becomes clear that a female character is defined solely in male terms, as someone to be macked on, fought over, knocked up, or rescued, there’s a problem. It’s not even that any of these cliches are insulting. It’s that they’re everywhere, and they’re boring. So much of popular culture is devoted to telling the exact same love-marriage-childbirth story over and over, as though it applies to all women in the world, and peddling the lie that deep down inside that’s all any of us really care about. And lots of us care about those things deeply, but not to the exclusion of everything else.” (RT)
This article on the differences between how men and women communicate and think packs a powerful punch. “And then, one evening when they’re driving home, a thought occurs to Elaine, and, without really thinking, she says it aloud: “Do you realize that, as of tonight, we’ve been seeing each other for exactly six months?” (RT)
“Men are called to take initiative in finding a wife. If called to marriage — and most men are — they should, when mature and ready, leave their childhood home. They should pray to God for a wife, and they should seek one with a balance of wisdom, trust and assertiveness.
So this is it. This is God’s good plan for those called to wed.” (RT Boundless)
Coffee and Irony 