Fox News’ Stunningly Retrograde New Year’s Advice To Ladies

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Is it 2015 or 1815?

Fox News started the new year off with a bang by providing the women of America with some startlingly retrograde advice. The hosts of “Fox And Friends” highlighted a new book, helpfully written by men, that provided “brutally honest” advice to women.

In published excerpts (the book is released in February) the authors provide perspective on relationships. For example, “[s]omeone has to wear the pants and someone has to wear the skirt.” Also, if a man cheats, it’s always his wife or girlfriend’s fault: “A man who cheats is looking for someone to fulfill a part of him that his lady is not, plain and simple.”

The Fox segment, first flagged by Raw Story, highlights that women should “always cater to her man’s needs” including providing foot massages and cooking meals.

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http://thinkprogress.org/culture/2015/01/01/3607426/fox-news-new-years-advice-to-ladies-a-woman-should-always-be-able-to-cater-to-her-mans-needs/

[brer cat]

1. As if we need another reason to avoid FOX. nt

[daleanime]

22. +1

[jdenver_2624]

33. Couldn't agree more!

What a vile "news station". Pathetic.

[treestar]

2. They tend to have that Callista Grinch fake smile

auto changed Gingrich to Grinch, lol.

[riqster]

15. Kudos to autocorrect.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

3. Happy New Year - it's 1955!

[riqster]

16. Party like it's 999!

[catbyte]

28. ...

[immoderate]

4. What's wrong with foot massages?

Just kidding.

--imm

[Fred Sanders]

6. This particular propaganda deliverer of fundie family values is particularily of the Foxette mold.

[seabeyond]

11. ya. for some, it is always "just kidding". get me a samwich, right? just kidding. nt

[immoderate]

17. And for some others it's not.

--imm

[underahedgerow]

27. Ewwww, massaging crunchy crusty man feet?

Perhaps those republican wimmins don't mind, lol!

[immoderate]

30. I think you have feet confused with croissants.

Remember, if your nose runs, and your feet smell, you are upside down.

--imm

[underahedgerow]

34. er um a croissant shouldn't ever be crunchy and crusty!!!! Light, fluffy, delicious &

crispy & flaky with thousands of buttery layers, hello? (ok 72, but who's counting?)

But I like the last bit

Men feets gross me out. It's a peeve.

[immoderate]

37. Well, I'm not a pastry expert, so maybe I should have said scones, or something else.

In any case, without being obsessive about it, few things feel as good as a timely foot massage.

And it's possible for men (and women) to have feet that don't express some pathology. Is it possible your reaction to men's feet is more about sexual preferences than body part preferences?

Haven't had a decent croissant since Mrs. Herbst closed.

--imm

[underahedgerow]

41. Ohhhh a foot massage can be fantastic, but I'd rather get one than give one...

I like those tough Thai girls in the mani-pedi salons. They're brutal but wonderful.

I feel bad when the crunchy crusty feets people visit them though. Something about unkempt feet, regardless of men's or women's just grosses me out!! I think it's a phobia thing maybe... It's a PEEVE, okay? I can't explain it!!!

But now, a baguette must be properly crispy and the ends very crunchy.. My daughter just moved back to Los Angeles after being in Paris for several years. She is seriously missing proper croissants, but totally digging real donuts. I would commit a crime for a proper jelly donut. *sigh*

What on earth was this thread about originally? How did it go from toes to donuts? I'm so confused.

[immoderate]

42. I lived in Paris. That's why I was so dependent on Mrs Herbst.

That bakery, in Germantown, in Manhattan, made absolutely undifferentiable from Paris croissants.

--imm

[Fred Sanders]

5. The Onion? Or Talibani News, hard to tell...Roger Ailes sure loves his second tier propaganda dressed up in

short skirts does he not?

[riqster]

7. Christ on a chastity belt.

[shenmue]

8. Fuck these people

[seabeyond]

9. hence, a section of male demographics on the why they create their hate groups. rape, beat and

murder women.

cause it is their right. and that always proceeds any other right, like not to be raped, beaten and murdered.

[Brigid]

10. I'm glad I never married.

[riqster]

13. I am glad I did.

Married to a liberal feminist. We cook for each other, give each other foot rubs, etc. Partnership is awesome.

What those literary skidmarks are peddling is counter-emancipation. To hell with that.

[trumad]

12. Honestly...

The woman pictured scares the shit out of me.

[riqster]

14. Stepford on steroids. Creeped me out, too.

[yuiyoshida]

18. She could scare

Hannibal Lecter. In the made for TV movie, "V" it featured Diana who could unhinge her jaw like a snake and wolf down a guinea pig (Showing the Aliens true Reptilian form.) This woman could probably play that part.

[seabeyond]

19. hey....

happy holidays.

[trumad]

20. you to Sea

Currently nursing a bit of a hangover.

[seabeyond]

21. oh, noes. lol

i had mine a week before christmas, lol. did the holidays sober. or mostly.

i have had about three of those hangovers in a lifetime. hopefully, that is my last, seeing how another 15 yrs would put me at old.

[deutsey]

36. Is that how she actually looks?

Not intentionally distorted and exaggerated?

[exboyfil]

23. My daughter is dating for the first time

She met a boy two years older as a freshman in college. They are both in mechanical engineering, and they have several classes together (my daughter is about two years ahead). He seems like a great person (never has gotten angry in front of her, hard working, fun to hang out with, a great study partner, very respectful, family very kind to my daughter). So what is not to like? Well he is a strong Christian (for example their first social outing was to a church activity). He has reacted well to my daughter doing better than him in school, but I am nervous about if their relationship leading to marriage, that he will expect her career to be subjugated to the demands of his career.

A little background. My wife always wanted to be a stay at home mom (she is still home even after my youngest is a junior in high school). I would prefer to have her work and carry some of the financial load. I want my daughters to never be dependent on someone else. My youngest is also two years ahead and looking at getting her B.S. nursing degree within two years of graduating high school. We have fun together, but my primary interaction is school based (done some homeschooling and significant support for online classes).

I just hope this young man does not think like these folks. I don't know his politics, but I suspect they tend towards Fox News.

[Freddie]

25. Just because he is a "strong Christian" dosen't always mean he expects women to be submissive

Maybe he's a Lutheran or Episcopalian or one of the other Christian denominations that don't have female inferiority as part of their theology.
My son-in-law was born/raised Southern Baptist, but my daughter made sure that if he wanted her, none of that man-is-head of household garbage. (He's not inclined that way anyway). The best way for your daughter to tell if these inclinations are there is to observe his parents' relationship. That was hard for my daughter to do as his parents were unhappily married for many years and split up right after their son's wedding.

[MisterP]

24. this is as bad as their other romance advice, which they stole from a site of pranks for kids

http://www.cracked.com/blog/10-baffling-romance-tips-from-sociopaths-at-fox-news/ (NSFW but hilarious language)

it includes stuffing his shoes with newspaper, replacing soda with dyed water, put a fake camera in the bathroom and pretend to watch him on the can, and shoving a gummi worm into his apples

[L0oniX]

26. That is one hella scary picture.

[bhikkhu]

29. The fragile male ego must be stroked...

culturally, there has always been a willingness to allow a boy, "mommy's little prince", to remain a boy; physically larger as an adult, but undeveloped.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

31. I heard all that crap about "men have fragile egos so don't do better than them"

when I was a kid. Things like "don't act smarter than they are, they will get mad". I heard this shit from my mother and grandmother, not from my dad. Since I was reading when I was three years old and always loved school and college, I thought "Why would I want to hide the real me from some guy just to get his approval? I don't."

I refuse to wait on anybody. So many of these right-wing men are so helpless that they can't even fix themselves a sandwich to feed themselves. They tend to get mail-order brides because American women are too uppity and independent. They don't want a partner. They want a servant.

Equal relationships are better. My husband and I DISCUSS things first before we make a decision. Many people cannot comprehend an equal relationship. They think the man has to tell the woman what to do. Because it says so in their bible.

So if the man cheats, then what does that say about the woman he cheats with, because it takes two? Is the woman missing something that the man she's with is lacking? They never said anything about that.

I had people tell me when I was in an emotionally abusive marriage that if he didn't cheat on me, didn't drink, didn't have a drug problem, and had a steady job then it must be okay. When actually it was hell due to the emotional and physical abandonment and emotional put-downs and abuse. He thought marriage was living in the same house with a woman and very occasionally sleeping with the landlady. That's not a marriage. Nearly killed me, literally.

[seabeyond]

32. a first thought. women cheat almost as much as men. men do it because it is biological,

or in this one, womans fault. so women cheat why?

[Manifestor_of_Light]

35. Yep, that's what I was asking.

More of that old double standard crap. Women are always pure and virtuous. But as I said, it takes two.

[Initech]

38. Happy new year! It's 846 BC!

[Blue_In_AK]

39. Oh, good lord...

[Dont call me Shirley]

40. Equality in a relationships is the way relationships are supposed to work.

WTF went wrong?

[Trillo]

43. There's something wrong with that photo

[SomethingFishy]

45. Stepford Wife.

Fake teeth, fake eyes, fake hair, fake smile, might as well be a robot.

[smirkymonkey]

44. What bullshit!

I would much rather be single forever than have to put up with that crap just to get/keep a man.

Who needs it?