I am disgusted by this, but not surprised. As someone currently going through a divorce, I can tell you that my soon-to-be ex-wife’s friends have been very “supportive” in that they have convinced her that my financial support over the years, not to mention my doing most of the housework and ALL the yard work, has been stifling her freedom somehow. The idiocy that men face on a daily basis is staggering. No sacrifice we make is sufficient, yet they are expected. Note how even a man who continues to provide for his children after a divorce is not only expected to do this, but that it constitutes some sort of flaw; he is damaged goods, since he has this obligation to his children.
It is tempting (and probably accurate to some degree) to chalk up the difference between the two books to the author’s blatant sexism, but the sad fact is that our culture is permeated with these attitudes and there is no getting away from them.
