{"id":1844,"date":"2007-01-17T14:13:54","date_gmt":"2007-01-17T14:13:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/?p=1844"},"modified":"2007-01-17T14:15:46","modified_gmt":"2007-01-17T14:15:46","slug":"getting-what-you-wish-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/?p=1844","title":{"rendered":"Getting what you wish for &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An <a href = \"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/portal\/main.jhtml;jsessionid=MX0J11KWQJVBJQFIQMGSFFWAVCBQWIV0?xml=\/portal\/2007\/01\/16\/ftwives116.xml\">astonishingly bitchy piece<\/a> today in the <i>Telegraph<\/i> &#8211; up even to <i>Daily Mail<\/i> standards of misogyny &#8211; about how men are said to be giving up on &#8220;trophy wives&#8221; because they keep &#8220;going bad&#8221;&#8230; becoming, (add horror movie music here) <i>toxic wives<\/i>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;It is like a perversion of the evolution theory: they have evolved into creatures whose function is simply to get the most for doing the least,&#8221; whispered an exhausted husband to me recently. &#8220;I wouldn&#8217;t mind providing her with so much if she just did something for me occasionally. She&#8217;s never even once cooked me a meal.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Well if you want a woman who is 40 but looks like she&#8217;s 21, with the breasts, thighs, and face to match, she&#8217;s going to have to spend pretty well every minute of the day attending to that &#8211; and she mightn&#8217;t have time to keep up with French philosophy or gourmet cooking. <\/p>\n<p>If you seek a capable woman and turn her into your dependent, she&#8217;ll probably turn out at being good at getting things out of you, just as she was once good at her job.<\/p>\n<p>It is called getting what you wish for&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>And although it is not entirely clear from the website, I suspect that this is in the &#8220;news&#8221; section: MSM journalism really is going down the tubes&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An astonishingly bitchy piece today in the Telegraph &#8211; up even to Daily Mail standards of misogyny &#8211; about how men are said to be giving up on &#8220;trophy wives&#8221; because they keep &#8220;going bad&#8221;&#8230; becoming, (add horror movie music here) toxic wives. &#8220;It is like a perversion of the evolution theory: they have evolved [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-feminism","author-natalieben"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1844\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}