Do men like women? Twisty has her say

"This belief is a romantic disease.

"In our blighted patriarchy, fundamental inequalities require a pretty loose definition of the word like when applied to describe relationships between the oppressor and members of his sex class.

"When men "like" women enough to marry them -- because the woman has big-baby-eyes and oozes estrogen by the gallon? -- the reward for her girlish appeal is domestic drudgery, sex service, pregnancy, child-rearing, and eventually getting dumped when Mr. Dude decides he'd rather be boning his assistant. In plenty of cases, poverty attends divorce, and physical violence often obtains in addition to these indignities.

"Why any woman, particularly one who has her own dough, and especially one with enough education to grasp the political consequences of such a regressive, patriarchy-affirming act, would want to get married (particularly to a man) remains one of the greatest and most poignant mysteries with which I've ever been vexed to grapple in all my middlin-long and pointless life."

TWISTY from I Blame the Patriarchy is one of my favorite bloggers. This chick pulls no punches, and as a stylist, she's a blogger nonpareil. Check her blog out. She remains feistily upbeat even though she's lost her appetite for tacos because of the chemo she's doing after her left tit had to go.)