From his Wikipedia page: He was married in August 2012

Snicker.

CujoQuarrel: That's disgusting

A married guy who won't disparage his spouse.

Utterly awful

I never had a bad thing to say about any of my exes for the first six months we were together either.

A man-child who says he needs a woman to be a better man.

Yeah... There ya go. Good luck with that, kiddo.

I love how he speaks with all-encompassing knowledge on every topic he deigns to enlighten us about.

You're a douchebag. Just own it.

Uchiha_Cycliste: 9th grade english. I had an old crone for a teacher that was (or acted like a romantic) and had us role play / read Romeo and Juliet in class and then write an essay. I wrote my essay on the fallacies of codependency. She was unamused =D.

12th grade English.  My  teacher wanted us to write about how The Godfather mirrors Macbeth for our final essay.  We had an option to disagree.  I wrote an entire paper--a well written one with citations and footnotes--about how they in no way  mirrored one another (besides the point that power is a corrupter, which is too vague a concept to make a declarative comparison).  I had to fight off a D, because apparently this dipsh*t had fancied himself a genius for coming up with the idea, and took my response personally.

I have yet to find an educational department more full of sh*t on average than high school English departments.

rumpelstiltskin: From his Wikipedia page: He was married in August 2012

Snicker.

They are probably still having sex, even.

eddiesocket: Why are people mad at this guy? Because he won't talk crap about his wife to strangers at the gym? What a monster.

Nobody's mad at the guy.  They're calling him out for being a glib asshole.  Nobody asked him to talk crap about his wife to strangers at the gym.  In fact, nobody asked him to talk to strangers at the gym in the first place.  Because of whatever personality disorder he has, he feels compelled to aim the only positive thing he imagines he has--a perfect marriage--at other men to make them feel more inferior than he does.  That's open hostility in its most banal form.

His wife is cheating on him.  For a guy like this, that's an automatic.
Can't wait to see him turn into Sam Kinison after he gets divorced.

mafiageek1980: Uchiha_Cycliste: NewportBarGuy: A man-child who says he needs a woman to be a better man.

There are some cases where this is true.
For instance the deal I have going with my girlfriend. Though we've only been dating since July, we've been best friends forever. And for at least the last ten years we have had a deal worked out where if she tells me to do something I do it, and if she tells me not to do something I don't. No arguing, no discussion.
When she says you need to go to the hospital right now, I skedaddle to the closest hospital. When she says, no! you can't climb on that! I don't. I seem to lack that little voice that says 'hey, maybe that's not a good idea' so she provides it for me =D

\been best friends for almost 25 years (since we were 6)
\\been pretty deeply in love for at least a couple of years before we started dating. ♥

damn, it's a bit dusty here in casa de la mafiageek all the sudden!

would the dustiness be mitigated with the unavoidable irritation from us acting like young high school sweet hearts? =P

Heh, I think it's funny that for years now we've talked about marriage and kids and stuff, mostly in general terms for all our conversations but (apparently) it was in the back of both our minds that these conversations would possibly/probably actually be bout us. Also, I know her well enough that on a little vacation we took a while ago I asked her, no that's not right, i stated, you don't want to take my name if we get married do you. Which she agreed. What was neat was that we both knew her answer but it took a long time for us to dig down into why she said no. Well, the obvious solution is that I'll take her name. All that's important to me is that were we to get married we have the same last name as a symbolic statement that we are starting a family together. I don't particularly care if we keep mine, or I have hers as long as ew share the same surname.  I know it ages down the road, but I can't wait to be married.

While I agree with the small kernal of a central principle that you shoot your own self in the foot by taking on the attitude that your partner is a pain in the ass and outwardly biatch about it....... yeah this guy is setting himself up for a world of disappointment.

A smug married of only 6 months, who only lost his virginity in the same time frame still thinks his wife hung the moon? Surely there is no other explanation for this other than that she is the world's perfect woman.

NewportBarGuy: Uchiha_Cycliste: There are some cases where this is true.

Absolutely, man. Read the rest of it. I was just bashing this guy for being a know-it-all jackass. There are no absolutes and not all situations are the same. I just hate his holier-than-thou approach. "If it works for me, you're an asshole because I'm awesome!"

I only know of a few really strong marriages where I just smile and think it would be cool to have that. It's nice to see the ones that work, but I've seen so many horror shows...

Just glad you're happy because that's really all that matters.

Thanks!
If this guy is the prick he sounds like, he'll get what's coming to him. To quote The Streets, "We met through a shared view, she loved me and I did too". She's gonne be unhappy when she realizes that he cares more for himself than her, and with any luck she'll make him miserable.

On a side note, we like to joke amongst ourselves about how backwards we've done things. Already best friends, and pretty much wanna spend the rest of our lives together, then found ourselves deeply and madly in love, and then we decided you know what, we should start dating. =P

\love her so much.

I should be in the kitchen: If your spouse is such a horrible person, what does that say about you for marrying her/him, hmmm? I think it's natural to want to vent on occasion but if all you have to say is negative, you're a piece of shiat.

Yes this

NewportBarGuy: A man-child who says he needs a woman to be a better man.

There are some cases where this is true.
For instance the deal I have going with my girlfriend. Though we've only been dating since July, we've been best friends forever. And for at least the last ten years we have had a deal worked out where if she tells me to do something I do it, and if she tells me not to do something I don't. No arguing, no discussion.
When she says you need to go to the hospital right now, I skedaddle to the closest hospital. When she says, no! you can't climb on that! I don't. I seem to lack that little voice that says 'hey, maybe that's not a good idea' so she provides it for me =D

\been best friends for almost 25 years (since we were 6)
\\been pretty deeply in love for at least a couple of years before we started dating. ♥

JohnnyBravo: Jesus Christ, you talk more than my wife. And, like my wife, all I heard was static. You sure you have testicles?

I can't help it, I just really really love my GF. Talking about her like I have been in this thread makes me happy, because it's a whole bunch of time I get to spend thinking of her =3

I love her so much.

Wyalt Derp: A girlfriend was once shiatty with me for three days because I was mean to her in a dream.

She did you a favor by giving you three reasons why she's not wife material.

bratface: NewportBarGuy: A man-child who says he needs a woman to be a better man.

Yeah... There ya go. Good luck with that, kiddo.

I love how he speaks with all-encompassing knowledge on every topic he deigns to enlighten us about.

You're a douchebag. Just own it.

Why is he a 'douche bag'?

I think that's been studied exhaustively in this thread.

wagnerism: For those of you that want to know what it's like to be in a serious relationship with a woman - I just found out that I'm on the third day of an argument that I didn't know I was having.

A girlfriend was once shiatty with me for three days because I was mean to her in a dream.

silvervial: I think the point about not running down your spouse to other people is a very good one. The more you think and say such things about someone you ostensibly love the easier it is to see them as a "biatch" or "prick".

The point is a good one. I don't say anything about my wife to anyone that I wouldn't say to her face. But the fact the author thinks this is some sort of revelation and is bragging on the internet doesn't make him any less of a douche. A asshole weatherman might be right when he says the sun is coming up tomorrow, but that doesn't make him any less of an asshole.

Trillian Astra: I also attempted to listen to one of his stand-up shows and he sounds like a cross between Dane Cook and someone else equally as unfunny.

I agree that Dane Cook is an excellent point of comparison for "not funny." But in Dane Cook's defense (shudder) he's head and shoulders above anyone I've ever heard him explicitly compared with, this guy most definitely included.

There's a huge difference between setting the bar an inch above the ground and clearing it by a millimeter, which is what the Dane Cooks and  Two Broke Girlses of the comedy world do, and "comedians" who fundamentally misunderstand the nature of comedy. Crowder's kind of schtick is like watching someone who thinks they speak fluent Spanish because they memorized every word in a pocket dictionary. ("Hello! I be to have your morning-good! For your favor, my chestnuts is toasty this daybreak!" Actually, strike that analogy, because that sounds like it could be pretty funny.)

Damn, when I got up this morning I didn't think I'd be white-knighting Dane Cook. I need to go watch the last twenty minutes of  Mr. Brooks to cleanse the palate.

kth: Uchiha_Cycliste: Mrbogey: Uchiha_Cycliste: We were discussing the NoFx song "Don't call me white" I interpret it as don't make assumptions based on race, she thinks they are avoiding and disregarding white privilege.

How that conversation doesn't end with the car swerving into the divider, I'll never know.

we were in bed drinking the morning coffee =D. I drove us to the airport 5 min later, then she drove to work and I went home =(.

That makes me smile so very very much. I love the random conversations that happen while snuggling.

My husband and I had a long conversation a few nights ago before we went to sleep about how if corporations are people too (my friend), then can they get married? And if so, how can we be sure of gender so they don't (gasp) get gay married?  And at what point is a subsidiary considered alive? Yeah, we're dorks.

Yeah, conversations like this are really fun. Also, I consider her to be smarter than me, which absolutely means the world to me. I've had roommates and neighbors before that ranged from not so sharp to honest to god dumb. Those conversations are either very restricted on what topics we can talk about and how much depth we caI had  n continue on with and sometimes it was very lonely... I had no one to really talk to. With her we can really talk about anything, work excepted because it requires such specific knowledge that isn't easy to abstract to discuss. She makes me think and listens and I make her think and listen the best I can, just often having things repeated because of my hearing. It just means so much to me that we can talk like that and that she contribute and understands and we compliment each other so well.

Just as importantly, we can sit there and say nothing and it never becomes uncomfortable. I had a roommate for a while that couldn't stand silence, it was almost bizarre but something had to be on: radio, tv, movie in the background, or HAD to be talking. For some reason silence wasn't okay, and I really appreciated with her and I we can have silence.

technofiend: eddiesocket: I agree in general. I don't see what's wrong with what he said in this particular article, though.

1 - His tone.  He's lecturing and self-righteous.
2 - His woefully ignorant point of view. Conflict is a natural part of marriage, men discuss it sometimes flippantly.  To do so is not the downfall of marriage or Western civilization.
3 - His conclusion.  He actually demands his readers rethink how they address their respective wives, but only after an article filled with a semi-coherent rant full of his opinion and no facts.
I realize his screed passes for a PhD thesis on Fox News where denying science is considered rational, reasonable and patriotic, but for anyone who wants a citation more credible than this drooling, closet knob gobbler's opinion it just won't do.

That help you any?

And let's not forget that the gym story was probably fabricated in order to justify all of the above.  How many levels of pathetic is that?

hutchkc: As for the author, thanks for the advice and after giving it some thought I don't think your advice is helpful for a healthy long term relationship over the years. Being upset about something that bothers you and not getting it off your chest doesn't strike me as the best course of action.

Can you imagine being in a gym and saying to an acquaintance, "Man oh man, gotta go back home to the wife and pretend she knows how to cook, know what i mean?."  And some gladhanding meathead goes, "No, I don't know what you mean.  My marriage's perfect."  It's a weaponized form of self loathing.

Steven Crowder is just a troll Fox gets to stand in when Dennis Miller is unavailable or they don't want to pay his fee. His goal is to agitate, not inform, educate or otherwise further the discussion of whatever topic his fishing with.

DNFTT

Paul Baumer: FTA Hold your nose though, because here comes the really cold water

Lolwut?

Waterboarding is a staple of right wing humor.

I'm sure my husband thought I was amazing for the first year we were married. 
We're coming up at 22 years now. I'm sure he knows most of my faults by now.

Zelron: Uchiha_Cycliste: NewportBarGuy: A man-child who says he needs a woman to be a better man.

There are some cases where this is true.
For instance the deal I have going with my girlfriend. Though we've only been dating since July, we've been best friends forever. And for at least the last ten years we have had a deal worked out where if she tells me to do something I do it, and if she tells me not to do something I don't. No arguing, no discussion.
When she says you need to go to the hospital right now, I skedaddle to the closest hospital. When she says, no! you can't climb on that! I don't. I seem to lack that little voice that says 'hey, maybe that's not a good idea' so she provides it for me =D

\been best friends for almost 25 years (since we were 6)
\\been pretty deeply in love for at least a couple of years before we started dating. ♥

In other words, you say "Yes dear."  There's only two ways a wife is perfect.  Either you're submissive and do everything she says.  Or she's submissive and does everything you say.  Any other way you disagree and no one's perfect.

We do disagree sometimes, but it usually results in us both learning something and coming at something from different POVs that we share. Never on important things though. With the deal we have worked out, often I'll call or text her and ask if I can do this or that, or I'll let her know if something not good is happening and ask her advice. Other times I can just ask myself, if she were here... would she let me do this? And that's kept me pretty safe (ie not severely injured and alive =D)
We have some debate about this, but we suspect because of the way we grew up, and the influence we've had on each other's tastes over time has resulted in us pretty much feeling the same about most things. Everything important at least. Likewise because of how we've pulled each other through bad times there's no one that knows each of us better than us in the whole world =D. She knows what I'm thinking and vice versa, almost like mind reading.

Interestingly, most of our disagreements occur over subjects involving race. For instance (and this happened yesterday morning, before we drove me to the airport). We were discussing the NoFx song "Don't call me white" I interpret it as don't make assumptions based on race, she thinks they are avoiding and disregarding white privilege. But pretty much there are no situations where submission is required, we are always on the same wavelength. If we differ, we argue on the merits of the situation. An engineer and a doctor are an awesome couple.

Uchiha_Cycliste: There are some cases where this is true.

Absolutely, man. Read the rest of it. I was just bashing this guy for being a know-it-all jackass. There are no absolutes and not all situations are the same. I just hate his holier-than-thou approach. "If it works for me, you're an asshole because I'm awesome!"

I only know of a few really strong marriages where I just smile and think it would be cool to have that. It's nice to see the ones that work, but I've seen so many horror shows...

Just glad you're happy because that's really all that matters.

Ambivalence: Is this the same guy who pontificated that he waited until marraige to have sex?

That guy was a royal douche.

Surprise! He still is.

mod3072: This. Sorry, but I'm not taking marriage advice from someone who is still basically on their honeymoon. I might as well take driving tips from my 14 year-old son. He has a drivers license now, so he must be an expert, right?

What maniac gave a 14 year old a drivers license?

"What kind of an idiot are you to marry a person that you think is an absolute moron?"

Somebody looking for a soul mate?

I find this alleged guy to have an extremely punchable face.

And fapable wife.