It’s better to die upon your feet than to live upon your knees!- Emiliano Zapata (and others) and later Kris Humphries when talking to wimpy Scott Disick on the Kardashian show “Kourtney and Kim Take New York.”
The Kardashian women have taken something else besides New York–the dignity of their men. Have you ever watched this show? I have to admit that I have watched Keeping Up with the Kardashians for the past few years but recently, it has become nothing but a disgusting display of female bullying and male groveling, until Kris Humphries came along and decided he wasn’t having any of it. Bravo to him!
If you have watched the show, you will know that the mother of the show, Kris Jenner, has served as the emasculating matriarch to her Olympic-athlete husband, Bruce Jenner, for years. He puts up with the Kardashian putdowns, insults, and nonsense by avoiding them or playing golf. The only comforting thing about Jenner is that he is quite rich on his own, and is probably just playing along for the show. Or maybe this isn’t comforting at all, since he has fallen from Olympic-hero to hen-pecked, overlooked husband with no input into his family’s life with all the world watching.
Then there is Scott Disick who originally looked like the poster-child bad-boy who trained under Roissy on how to treat women. He ignored his girl-friend Kourtney, ran around, drank and was full of anger. Then after Kourtney had their son Mason, he starts to “settle down.” Could he have learned to be a better partner? Yes, of course, but with some backbone. Now, he is banished to his own room to look at porn while Kourtney prances around with their two-year old son. He gets no sex, sleeps alone and spends his days on Kourtney and Kim Take New York telling Kris Humphries not to do anything to agitate the girls.
For example, on a recent show, Kim and Kourtney are heading to LA for business and tell the guys they are not allowed to have anyone in the hotel suite. Kris wanted to relax and have friends over for a party but he was told that no one was allowed to be there while they were away. Kim and Kourtney had spent the previous weeks filling the house up with women, friends and a naked male yoga instructor. Kris was disgusted but no one cared.
Kris finally cared enough about himself to get out of this marriage (though it apparently was Kim who filed for divorce) and fought back to boot. Kim had tried to tell him where he would live, how he would live and how he would dress and behave. Yes, Kris, it is better to die on your feet than live on your knees. I just wish there were other men in bad relationships who had the nerve to stand up to the women in their lives the way that you did.
I once fell head over heels for a woman in my America between a few months work in two other countries; I had known her for many years but never in a romance. For 5 weeks we had a great time in her house in a city not my own and when I left she cried and sent me loving emails the entire summer.
When I came back she held my hand all the way from the airport and that night literally begged me to never leave her. 5 days later she comes home from work to where I’m sitting in the back yard with an irritated and depressed expression on her face and says she doesn’t know if we should be living together. There had been no arguments of any kind during the week.
I was on a flight out in less than 48 hours. I am not a library book and I don’t play stupid games. It was her house and I wasn’t going to be bludgeoned with that. These Kardashian “men” should adopt my attitude where I cannot be moved with promises of money nor threats to withhold it.
Dead lion, live dog sure, but not literally.
Wow, almost wich I had seen those episodes. I’ve almost completly stopped watching TV because if this crap.
Yes, I get it. Woman BAD, Man VICTIM.
I’m not sure you do get it: no one thinks men are good compared to women. At least not sane people. This is about the Oprahization of America. Confidence is practically a war crime today.
Blackgriffin,
As opposed to the other 99.9% of the time in the media when it is Man BAD, Woman VICTIM? If Kim Kardashian or any woman had been treated the way that Kris Humphries was by a spouse, I doubt you would be over here making the same statement.
Yes, men are mistreated in relationships and it is okay to state that fact and even more okay for men to do something about it other than suck it up and keep their mouths shut for fear someone will think they are not a “real man” or acting like a victim. Men are so indoctrinated into taking anything that is dished out by women, other chivalrous men and society that it is a rarity for a man to stand up for his right to be treated with a thread of decency or respect. Kris Humphries is probably far from perfect but the way he was treated as a child or property by Kim Kardashian is hardly anything to defend.
Blackgriffin DUMB. People with common sense SENSIBLE.
Personally, I think the viewers are the victims.
Masochists definitely but victims no.
They could push a button on the remote. There are quite a few that will give a good effect.
I’m shocked that anyone actually admits to watching that show. I remember Bruce Jenner winning the Olympic Decathlon in 1976. He actually accomplished something. As for the rest of them, what have they ever accomplished? Are they just famous for being famous?
From everything I’ve seen, they are all detestable people, including Kris Humphries.
Is there any family in America quite as loathsome as the Kardashians?
A child needs a role model.
A man doesn’t.
My take? Remember those fixed radio quiz programs in the 40s? If you follow “Reality TV”, you see the same story structure and hooks that’s recommended in writing class and a staple of the soap opera. The difference is that now there are people completely willing to degrade both themselves and the institution of marriage in public for lots of money. It’s the next logical step in entertainment after the WWF Superstars of Wrestling.
I’m proud to say I’ve never watched this show, and but for the tabloids at the checkout stand would have no idea who these people are. These ho’s give women a bad name, but that’s redundant. What kind of self-respecting man would get involved with them? If they do it for the $$, they are male ho’s. The whole Kim-Kris wedding thing sure looked like a PR stunt to me. You mean it wasn’t? As for Bruce Jenner, presumably he once had a spine and self-respect. No more, apparently.
I can’t wait until the scourge of reality shows is in the distant past.
Coughing up a ring for a one-night stand with someone who has a sex-tape all over the Internet? I, thank God, always throw up before I get that drunk. Role model? NOT.
Kris Jenner is loathsome. Bruce Jenner I have respect for. And apparently most of the Kardashian spawn respect him, too.
I hatehatehate how they all refer to dead father/husband Robert Kardashian in such glowing and adoring tones. The man enabled OJ Simpson to get away with murder. I don’t care if he could get his drunk-driving daughter out of her DUI if he was still alive — he was a murderer’s accomplice.
The other thing I found particularly cringe-worthy as I paused in my channel-surfing on these episodes was Kris Humphrey’s habit of bodily picking Kim up and slinging her around. Throwing her into the water, throwing her onto the bed, throwing her into a bassinet and tucking her in. That cannot have been experienced as a loving and protective gesture, as much as it was a “be careful around mighty physical athletic me, and don’t do too much to piss me off”.
Diseck is pathetic, but then he’s sold his soul to an Armenian devil and will be a bitter, jittery sober drunk for ever and ever, listening to that Kardashian strangled vocal growl in stereo.
I wished Britney (sp?) Spears would go away.
She did, but Paris Hilton (worse) showed up to take her place.
I wished Paris Hilton would shut up and go away.
She did, but the Kardashians (worse) showed up to take her place.
Not that I’m taking the blame for any of these remoras, but I’m torn between wanting the Kardashians to shut up and go away, and my alarm at what might show up to take their place(s).
I wonder if Scott watches Kim’s video when he’s in his room?
You know, the real antidote for society is not to pay attention to these parasitical personalities at all.
I’m waiting for the new show, “Kris Humphries Takes Back His Life from No-Talent Skanks”, to be announced. Every man in America would watch.
Scott Disick is getting sex at least some of the time because Kourtney is pregnant again. And Bruce Jenner isn’t that much of a push-over. He’s stood up for himself several times on the show. Maybe for the drama, who knows, but to the extent any of this is real he has his moments. Anyway, everybody knows that if mamma ain’t happy ain’t nobody happy. Always been true, always will be true. Ask Barack Obama. He knows this better than anyone.
As Iowahawk so ably said,” Let’s all pray Kim Kardashian’s divorce won’t have an impact on her craft.”
Whoa, hang on now. Robert Kardashian was there father? Why did I always think it was Fred Gwynne?
Considering that it’s an even-money bet that you’ll be sued for divorce, accused of spousal abuse, and deprived of your children merely for acting like the man of the house, the behavior of the over-praised, over-pampered, utterly worthless Kardashian women comes as no surprise. The law and society have taught them that they hold the whip hand. The surprise is that a man with some substance to him would willingly entangle himself with a Kardashian. Well, some of us learn more slowly than others.
Until American men relearn the proper degree and display of self-respect, marriage will remain a minefield for us. It might not be a pleasant thought, but it is so.
What I don’t understand is how these people became news.
They are bad entertainment at best.
How? Females did it, sir.
A decent man will stay in a marriage to the best of his ability, within whatever bounds of reason his will can manage. A great deal can be managed through will power.
What is beyond will power is feelings of affection.
Will power can only guarantee a long-lasting marriage. It can’t guarantee a loving marriage
The problem is that women have lost their way in our culture, because we’ve transitioned from “western” to Utopian as a direct result of women emasculating men. When a man marries a woman the two become one. For each to stand strong as a beacon of the institution of marriage, both have to undergird the other in the relationship within the roles of the husband being the head of the wife. Anything else is out of order. Many men have miserably failed at this, yes, but not across the board. Sadly, those who did have paved the way for the woman to get in the driver’s seat of her own destiny, to also miserably fail at equal strength, as the Kardashians make millions to demonstrate.
I appreciate the strength, masculinity and confidence that my husband displays and live under it happily, because it represents safety and security for me. That doesn’t mean he always right and certainly doesn’t mean I can act in any manner I choose. But my job isn’t to put him in his place to suit my ends, any more than his is to put me in mine if I miss the mark from time to time. What I will not do is take him into bondage from his masculinity to suit any distorted sense of self that I might secretly have, or God forbid, parade as a normal right. Because if I did that, that security that I live under within our marriage, in its proper order and function, would evaporate rapidly to the destruction of each.
Here’s the funniest line in the entire article:
“Kim and Kourtney are heading to LA for business..”
Exactly what kind of business are Kim & Kourtney in? Creating clips for the Soup.
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