All women are whores, my guy friend claims. Whores incapable of truly loving and who, under the guise of teary victimization, take advantage of men. But, only by the process of elimination, by getting rid of opportunistic motives, will love remain on its own and maybe, just maybe, then we'll see what it's really worth. All rights reserved. Breaking News. Living at his expense. Women tend to rely on men financially, making couplehood a money-for-sex relationship. The woman-hater in question is a third-hand friend, whom I usually end up meeting in bars, where we can't really hear the insults we hurl back and forth at each other.
Since we have a lot in common, and mainly because we tend to like to argue until our kidneys give out, we decided to meet for coffee in the middle of the day. As empirical evidence in support of his claim that all women are whores, he recounted a newspaper interview with a woman who admitted publicly that she takes economic advantage of men. At first he was disgusted, until he realized that the only difference between her and other women is that she admits that economic exploitation is a legitimate part of a monogamous relationship.
Women are an entire sector in financial crisis. Just like there's hunger in Biafra, women have no money β a situation caused by too many factors to enumerate. Regardless of the reason, women make less. Maybe it's because women know that when they get married and have kids, they'll stop working anyway so they invest less in their career.
There are few women of my age, thirty and up, who rely on no one and still maintain a reasonable quality of life, where they can allow themselves to live truly by themselves. Most women go from being supported by daddy to be supported by their husband or boyfriend. Every woman I know, including myself, has ended up living at the expense of a man, while out of work for a time or because of an unexpected financial problem or even living in an apartment where only he paid the rent.
It's sad but legitimate in our eyes to live at the expense of men, to have sex with them in an uneven relationship of give-and-take i. Men pay, women put out. That's how it works. Maybe she's a whore, but at least she's aware of it. Most of us are latent whores. This leads to a slightly dangerous natural progression: There's a direct correlation between monogamy and women's financial dependence.
