The Proper Care and Feeding of Husbands
Here’s the link to the blob on the book:

“In talking to men and women about their relationships for over twenty-five years on radio, “Dr. Laura” has found that women no longer understand their own ability to create the relationships and family life that they truly desire. Years ago women were taught by their mothers that they needed to be wise and sensitive and “work” their men—they knew how to create and maintain a happy and well-functioning relationship using their so called “feminine wiles” in benevolent and mutually satisfying ways. Today, women have replaces these feminine wiles with disdain, hypersensitivity, criticism, bullying and nagging.”

I personally consider Dr. Laura to be only slightly better than the feminists she criticizes, myself, but I’ll have to take her side here (at least from the blob.) She clearly argues (at least in the blob) that the woman’s “wiles” should be used in “mutually satisfying” ways. This is far different than women who engage in emotional blackmail to lead men by the nose.

I’m more concerned not about the woman trying to feed her husband into buying her flowers than I am about many Eastern European women who work themselves into agony and martyrdom rather than being open and reasonable with their demands and needs. Quite frankly, life is NOT about getting what we “want”. The joke in “Office Space” about a job where we do what’s fun would result in most people never scrubbing floors or directing traffic. Men are not the only simple creaturs out there. Many women just want a few token signs of affection and a man to be reliable. Our materialistic society encourages them to set higher, unreasonable standards. That reminds me, I better pick up flowers on the way home…

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