Responding to USA Today.

Good day.

It seems that the Marriage Strike is making the cover of our beloved USA Today:

Almost three-quarters of men and almost two-thirds of women in their 20s in 2006 said they had never been married, according to Census data released today that shows a sharp increase in never-married twentysomethings in just six years.

Among men ages 20-29, 73% said they had never been married in 2006, compared with 64% in 2000. For women, 62.2% had never married in 2006, compared with 53.4% six years earlier.

The data also show the percentage of those marrying in their 20s continues to decline. A USA TODAY analysis of the new Census figures shows that just 23.5% of men and 31.5% of women ages 20-29 were married in 2006. (The analysis excludes those who are married but separated.) Both the number and percentage of those in their 20s fell from 2000, when 31.5% of men and 39.5% of women were married.

"These clearly are quite dramatic changes by demographic standards," says demographer Peter Morrison of the non-profit RAND Corp., which studies public policy issues. "The amount of change in six years is quite substantial. It's impressive in terms of the degree to which the institution of marriage is evolving. There clearly is a process of social evolution occurring here, and one can speculate about where it will end."

Social regression he means.

In every respect, marriage is more desirable and more beneficial for men, women, and children. It's also a crucial element for the stability of society, and by extension, the state [1][2][3][4].

However, thanks to feminists and the policies they have crammed down the throats of Americans, only a fool would face the firing squad and say "I Do". The fact of the matter is that marriage is a death trap for a man, financially, spiritually, emotionally, and sometimes, literally.

It's a really simple analysis.

1) The Supreme Court of the United States has decreed that men have no place in the family scheme, via decisions such as Roe v. Wade [5] and Planned Parenthood v. Casey [6] .

2) The Congress of the United States, with the full support of the Executive branch, decreed that men are inferior providers and protectors of their families, and that government knows best, via such programs as the Great Society, Welfare, Child Support, and others.

All of these programs have one thing in common: They create powerful Moral Hazards that induce government agencies, and the women that rely upon them to embrace one another in a symbiotic relationship that utterly destroys the family unit. Under these Welfare State programs, men are viewed as an unnecessary encumbrance, and are ejected from the home at the earliest, most convenient opportunity.

3) The Congress of the United States has decreed that all men are violent potential abusers, and therefore, men have no place in the family scheme, via the Violence Against Women Act [7][8][9], and other related legislation that can also be found on the state and local level.

4) Courts of law across the country view men essentially as non-persons, who have no place in the family unit except as a "walking wallet" in order to comply with court ordered child support [9][10][11].

I could go on.

It is overwhelmingly clear that there is systematic discrimination, on all levels of government and society, against men when it comes to marriage (and a great many other endeavors as well). Therefore, there is no logical reason for a man to get married today, and there is every incentive for guys to stay as far away from marriage as they possibly can.

And all of this has come about because of feminism, and the men who have supported the feminist movement.

I challenge USA Today, or any other "mainstream media" publication (Wall Street Journal, anyone?), to look at this blog, look at the evidence I have presented, and write a REAL article that actually examines the REAL issues.

Unfortunately, finding out the truth of things is the last thing we can expect from our media organizations in this day and age, as most of the conglomerates are too fearful of hurting their stock price, or, heaven forbid, angering the feminist orthodoxy.

A pity.

However, as we find in history, the Marriage Strike has very ancient roots. Men are waking up to the deathtrap that is marriage. And thanks to the Internet, more and more guys find blogs and websites like these everyday.

Ladies and gents, the Men's Rights Movement is here to stay; and we are educating the men and boys of America about the reality in which they find themselves, a utopia of feminist imaginings.

(A copy of this post has been mailed to the authors of the USA Today piece.)

Kumogakure.