President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/donald-trump" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Donald Trump</a> shared an incredible candid snap from his wedding to first lady <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/melania-trump" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Melania Trump</a> to celebrate the couple’s 20th anniversary.
In a post on Wednesday on <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/DFI3BS6xplb/?igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ%3D%3D">Instagram</a>, Trump posted a picture of him and Melania walking down the aisle of the <a href="https://www.palmbeachpost.com/story/news/2025/01/22/melania-trump-wedding-anniversary-mar-lago-ivanka-florida-barron/77866144007/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Episcopal Church of Bethesda-by-the-Sea</a> in Palm Beach, Florida, after their nuptials on January 22, 2005.
In the picture, the couple were smiling and holding hands as they waved goodbye to friends and guests at the end of their ceremony.
The president captioned his post, “Happy 20th Anniversary to Melania!”
Other images have surfaced on social media from their wedding, including one <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/DFIq5jxPNK5/?img_index=5&amp;igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ%3D%3D">post</a> from Fox News showing a whole host of pictures from their special ceremony two decades ago.
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One of the pictures showed Melania smiling and waving from the window of the car after the services. Another showed a beautiful picture from inside the church where they got married.
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In a lengthy thread on <a href="https://x.com/mamboitaliano__/status/1882089322834428415">X</a>, there were numerous snaps from before and after the wedding, including one that showed a stunning full view of the back of Melania’s wedding dress, before she walked down the aisle to marry Trump.
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In a second <a href="https://x.com/mamboitaliano__/status/1882089386487280097">post</a> in the thread, it was noted, &#8220;1,000 hours of work were required, with 500 hours dedicated to embroidery, and 1,550 crystals and pearls. The dress used 295 feet of satin.&#8221; 
The look also included &#8220;a 13-foot train&#8221; for the dress and &#8220;a 16-foot veil,&#8221; as noted by <a href="https://www.palmbeachpost.com/story/news/2025/01/22/melania-trump-wedding-anniversary-mar-lago-ivanka-florida-barron/77866144007/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Palm Beach Post</a>.
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Exactly 20 years ago, on January 22, 2005, in Palm Beach, Florida, Slovenian model Melania Knauss married businessman Donald J. Trump, wearing a dress that weighed 66 pounds
A Thread 🧵 of small curiosities
And Happy Anniversary to the Presidential Couple! 🎉 <a href="https://t.co/QdCdqPoYBc">pic.twitter.com/QdCdqPoYBc</a>
— Mambo Italiano (@mamboitaliano__) <a href="https://twitter.com/mamboitaliano__/status/1882089322834428415?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 22, 2025</a></blockquote>
On Monday, Trump and Melania looked just as happy when they walked into one of the many Inauguration Balls in Washington, D.C., hours after Trump was sworn-in as the 47th President of the United States.
The first lady stepped out wearing a custom strapless black and pearl-colored floor-length gown designed by Herve Pierre, who later revealed some of the behind-the-scenes details about the dress, as previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/designer-reveals-behind-the-scenes-details-about-melanias-inauguration-ball-dress">reported</a>.
In his post on Tuesday on <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/DFE40bks7Tr/">Instagram</a>, the designer shared a sketch drawing of the stunning gown Melania wore to the balls. She completed the look with a black choker, which included a diamond brooch with a floral design.
The message on the sketch read, “Washington Monday January 20th 2025. Inauguration Night Gown designed for First Lady Melania Trump. Herve Pierre.”
He captioned the post, “It was such an honor to create the dress for the First Lady Melania Trump tonight &#8230; I can’t thank her enough … it was a wonderful project, a great collaboration … as always!!!”
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/president-trump-teases-melania-about-her-attire-says-she-almost-blew-away" target="_blank" rel="noopener">President Trump Teases Melania About Her Attire, Says ‘She Almost Blew Away’</a>

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Two <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/celebrities">child actors</a> who appeared together in the hit 2003 comedy “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/movies">School of Rock</a>” just tied the knot.
Caitlin Hale starred in the film as Marta, who went by the nickname Blondie. Angelo Massagli played her classmate Frankie. Their wedding celebration was announced by Rivkah Reyes, who played Katie, with a <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@rivkah.reyes/video/7456472190934994207">post</a> shared on TikTok.
“Celebrating the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/marriage">marriage</a> of CAITLIN &amp; ANGELO with my forever fam #schoolofrock #wedding,” Reyes wrote in the caption of the social media post. In the clip, several other cast members, including Brian Falduto, Joey Gaydos Jr., Rivkah Reyes, Robert Tsai, Maryam Hassan, Aleisha Allen, and Cole Hawkins, can be seen enjoying the festivities.
The TikTok video is set to the Stevie Nicks song “Edge of Seventeen,” which was featured in the movie.
Commenters were overjoyed to get a glimpse of the wedding. “The way I could still see all your little childhood faces in your adult faces and recognized all of you,” one popular response said.
“Y’all have no idea how much this means to me. School of Rock was INTEGRAL to my childhood,” another person wrote.
“It’s not tacky and I don’t hate it,” a third said, referencing a classic line from the movie. 
Actor Jack Black starred in “School of Rock” as struggling rock guitarist Dewey Finn, who is fired from his band and decides to work as a substitute teacher at a prep school. He recruits a group of fourth graders to form a musical group in a bid to win a Battle of the Bands competition, hoping to use the winnings to pay his rent. 
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Massagli had nothing but praise for his future bride when he spoke with <a href="https://www.insideedition.com/school-of-rock-stars-caitlin-hale-and-angelo-massagli-confirm-theyre-dating-18-years-after-films">Inside Edition</a> in 2021. &#8220;I remember my first audition for &#8216;School of Rock&#8217; like it was yesterday,&#8221; he told the outlet. &#8220;I get in there and the little blonde girl next to me, she gets called in first and she starts singing show tunes and just blows the roof off the place. It was excellent.&#8221;
Per <a href="https://ew.com/school-of-rock-cast-reunites-caitlin-hale-angelo-massaglis-wedding-8769666">Entertainment Weekly</a>, the pair stayed in touch via a group chat with other “School of Rock” stars. They started dating after Hale moved to Florida, where Massagli was living.
Both former child stars are no longer working in Hollywood. The outlet noted that Hale is an OB/GYN ultrasound technologist and Massagli graduated from the University of Miami School of Law in 2019.

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/jennifer-lopez">Jennifer Lopez</a> is reportedly ready to close the door on the “crazy chapter” of her life with Ben Affleck after she and the actor finalized their divorce — after just two years of marriage.
On Monday, the 55-year-old actress and Affleck finally reached a settlement for their divorce after Lopez filed for a dissolution of their marriage back on Aug. 20, 2024, <a href="https://people.com/jennifer-lopez-wants-to-close-the-door-after-ben-affleck-divorce-source-8770430?utm_campaign=people&amp;utm_content=likeshop&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=instagram">People magazine</a> reported. 
A source close to the superstar singer is now shedding some light on how the “Hustlers” star is doing as she grapples with the end of what she had previously labeled a dream come true, as <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/love-is-patient-twenty-years-patient-jennifer-lopez-goes-all-in-with-ben-affleck-by-changing-her-last-name">reported</a> at the time.
&#8220;The fairy tale she was promised turned out to be a nightmare in the end,” the insider told the magazine. &#8220;She&#8217;s in a really good place and just wants to close the door on this crazy chapter.”
On the second anniversary of their southern wedding ceremony in Georgia, the “Selena” star put to bed rumors about their relationship troubles when she filed for divorce in Los Angeles County Superior Court without an attorney, <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/jennifer-lopez-devastated-about-ben-affleck-divorce-gave-her-all-make-work-source">Fox News</a> noted.
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Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck have settled their divorce. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/BillboardNews?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#BillboardNews</a> <a href="https://t.co/3UYNSBu5UG">pic.twitter.com/3UYNSBu5UG</a>
— billboard (@billboard) <a href="https://twitter.com/billboard/status/1876754330755207168?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 7, 2025</a></blockquote>
At the time, a source told the outlet that the actress felt she “gave it her all to make this work” with Affleck and was “devastated” that she couldn’t make their marriage work — especially after they called off their first engagement in 2004 and then rekindled their romance in the summer of 2021.
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In the divorce filing, Lopez wrote that the separation occurred on April 26, 2024, <a href="https://people.com/ben-affleck-and-jennifer-lopez-divorce-live-updates-8699009">People magazine</a> noted.
On the same day reports surfaced that Lopez had filed for divorce, the “Gone Girl” star was spotted not wearing his wedding ring.
As to why she chose the anniversary of their wedding ceremony, a source told People magazine. “She was done waiting and the date she did it speaks a ton.” 
The move “gives her control of the process,” added the source. “It’s good that she did it.”
Last June, rumors surfaced that their marriage was over and a source at the time told the outlet that Affleck “started moving out a while ago. The marriage is completely over, and Jennifer is heartbroken. She loves love and wanted this to work so badly.”
Lopez and Affleck officially tied the knot in a legal ceremony in Las Vegas in 2022, before they celebrated their matrimony at a backyard ceremony at an $8 million Georgia mansion with family and friends a month later. It all happened 18 years after the couple first got engaged in 2002, calling it off in 2004.

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Adapted from <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/ep-1645-daughters-sacrificed-for-multiculturalism" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“The Michael Knowles Show,”</a> January 6, 2024.
Today’s Music Monday song is “<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4HsZ4fbmAE" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Smile</a>,” by Morgan Wallen — of chair-throwing fame and fellow Nashvillian. 
His new song has nearly 3.5 million views on YouTube.
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I quite like this. Art is supposed to make you see. That is what the purpose of art is. Joseph Conrad wrote that the scientist has one job, the thinker has another, some deal in facts, some deal in ideas; but the primary role of an artist is to make you see something.
Morgan Wallen does this right at the beginning. He is calling your attention to something — something we can all recognize but, at the same time, are probably not all that conscious of — which is that, sometimes, our loved ones react differently when they are in a group than when it is just us. We fall into our ruts and our routines. But when they are in a group, they do not behave the same way. Instead, they behave and react a little differently, and we recognize the old person, the way they once behaved with us. Many people have probably had this experience before, and Wallen calls your attention to that in this song. That is artistic.
I like the image he describes in the chorus: It was good to see you smile. You haven’t really smiled like that with me in a while, but it was good to see you smile. Is it because we are just having fun in this bar? Is it because this is what we used to do, and we don’t really do it anymore? Or, is it simply artifice? Is it because we are about to take a picture so your muscle memory just went right back to that old smile? Is it just a habit? What is it? What that real? Is there really hope that we might recover something that has been lost that is desirable? Or are you just going through the motions? Is that just an artifact of your former self — and really there is no hope?
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His conclusion makes a good point about behavior, about how human beings really work. It implicitly addresses the question of if an action should not be performance-motivated, driven by pure and authentic desire. Or, can you “fake it til you make it”? If you just smile enough, will you eventually become happy? Wallen’s conclusion is: It doesn’t really make much of a difference to me. It was nice to see you smile anyway.
Then, Wallen sings the last couplet: “If someone were to see this they’d think everything’s alright / At least we got a pretty little moment frozen in time.” Everyone knows couples like this, couples who post pictures on Instagram looking so in love. They are all smiles in their really happy, cute photo. But because you know the behind-the-scenes, you know their life is a complete disaster and they are always at each other’s throats.
He reminds us that appearances can be beguiling. Images are beguiling. When an artist calls your attention to that, they are often calling your attention to something about their own art. Here, Morgan Wallen is dealing with moving pictures, with images he is creating in your mind that happiness, joy, and a flourishing life are not about a moment frozen in time. Anyone can fake a moment or experience an accidental smile. He is emphasizing that what matters is the course of one’s life.
A human life moves through time so flourishing occurs through time. We live in this snapshot culture that denies time. We live in the Insta-culture, the “smile for the camera” culture. But the more we focus on that artifice and the ephemeral, fleeting little smile, the more likely we are to come back to our dressing room and our lady is gone, as he does. This song sends the message that you have to reorient how you think about life.
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Morgan Wallen’s New Song Helps Us Reorient How We Think About Life

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A few years ago, a group of researchers and academics embarked on a bold experiment. They wanted to answer the following question: “Is it possible that people with no Ph.D. in any field could write a paper in that field every two weeks and get it published?”
In other words, they wanted to know whether they could write complete gibberish, and still have it published in a prestigious, peer-reviewed academic publication.
What they found was that, indeed, it is quite possible. In fact, it&#8217;s very easy.
For example, the researchers wrote one published <a href="https://newdiscourses.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/HootersPublished.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">paper</a> that explored the conundrum of why straight men might like to eat at Hooters. The paper delved into a fake two-year study concerning a &#8220;thematic analysis of table dialogue&#8221; at Hooters, as well as the concept of &#8220;breastaurant masculinity.&#8221; Yes, &#8220;breastaurant masculinity.&#8221; They use the term about ten times in the paper, and apparently, every time, the editors loved it.
Another hoax paper discussed &#8220;rape culture and queer performativity&#8221; at dog parks in Portland. That one sailed past the editors as well. But maybe the hoaxers&#8217; most impressive work was their article entitled &#8220;Our Struggle Is My Struggle,&#8221; which lifted passages from “Mein Kampf” and placed them in a feminist journal of social work, totally undetected.
The whole exercise was pretty entertaining. And of course it proved its point, which is that peer-reviewed publications will publish anything that sounds like something a Left-wing intellectual would write. And then the experiment ended, and the hoaxers went about their normal lives.
Or at least, that&#8217;s the official story. A <a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10806-024-09934-0" target="_blank" rel="noopener">paper</a> that was just published in the peer-reviewed journal &#8220;Springer Nature,&#8221; out of Germany, has a lot of people questioning whether yet another hoax may be unfolding in the world of academia. To be clear — for reasons I&#8217;ll outline in a moment — it doesn&#8217;t look like a hoax. But a lot of people are hoping it is, because the alternative is just too depressing to contemplate.
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A Ph.D. named Colin Wright first drew attention to the <a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10806-024-09934-0" target="_blank" rel="noopener">paper</a> the other day on social media. The paper is entitled, &#8220;Loving the Brine Shrimp: Exploring Queer Feminist Blue Posthumanities to Reimagine the ‘America’s Dead Sea.'&#8221;
The paper is written by someone named &#8220;Ewelina Jarosz,&#8221; who uses &#8220;she/they&#8221; pronouns and holds the position of Assistant Professor in the Department of Media and Cultural Research at &#8220;UKEN,&#8221; Poland.
Here&#8217;s what &#8220;she/they&#8221; came up with. The paper&#8217;s abstract <a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10806-024-09934-0" target="_blank" rel="noopener">states</a>, 
<blockquote>The article aims to transform narratives surrounding Utah’s Great Salt Lake, often referred to as &#8216;America’s Dead Sea,&#8217; by reimagining how brine shrimp are perceived in science, culture, and art. It introduces the concept of hydrosexuality to bridge these realms, thereby enriching feminist blue posthumanities and feminist biology through art-based practices and queer advocacy. &#8230; The hydrosexual perspective challenges settler science by exploring the connections between the reproductive system of brine shrimp and the economy, ecology and culture. &#8230; this cultural analysis draws inspiration from low trophic theory and Queer Death Studies.</blockquote>
The paper goes on to explain that &#8220;hydrosexuality&#8221; is a term that emphasizes the &#8220;more-than-human sensuality and sexuality emphasizing fluidity and relationality&#8221; and &#8220;deploys watery thinking to dissolve&#8221; the &#8220;hegemonic notion of the autonomous and bounded human subject.&#8221;
At this point, you can see why people thought that the Hooters guys had struck again. But then Colin Wright noticed that, in this article, the authors referenced something called a &#8220;postmedia environmental performance&#8221; that they had recently performed in the Great Salt Lake in Utah. The performance was called, &#8220;Cyber Wedding to the Brine Shrimp.&#8221; The performance, according to the authors, was intended to &#8220;express their human love towards the vulnerable yet tough brine shrimp,&#8221; by means of &#8220;a communal bath in the GSL, which some of us, including myself, perceived as making love to the lake.&#8221;
So, naturally, Colin Wright and his followers went looking for the footage. If they could find it, it might demonstrate that these authors weren&#8217;t playing a prank — or if they were, they were really, really committed to the bit.
What Colin Wright and his followers found appears to confirm that this paper is, indeed, real. And the video is very much worth watching.
To be clear, normally, I wouldn&#8217;t subject you to extended footage of eco-sexuals doing their thing. But it&#8217;s been about eight months since I last talked about eco-sexuals, in the context of that show &#8220;Naked Attraction.&#8221; So we&#8217;ve had enough of a cooling-off period, I think. And if this footage is any indication, things are deteriorating very, very quickly in that community.
Here&#8217;s how the &#8220;Cyber Wedding to the Brine Shrimp&#8221; begins. You&#8217;ll notice that the Mystery Science Theater guys have been overlaid to the front of the footage for comedic effect, by one of Colin&#8217;s followers. Watch:
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So it begins normally enough. The eco-sexuals announce their intent to marry the brine shrimp. We&#8217;ve all been there. And then, out of nowhere, we hear the voice of the &#8220;Spiral Jetty.&#8221;
That&#8217;s apparently a piece of &#8220;land art&#8221; that was constructed in 1970 by Robert Smithson in the Great Salt Lake. And as you heard, the Spiral Jetty apparently felt the need to insert himself and his personal problems into this wedding. He&#8217;s apparently dry and exposed, and he thinks that&#8217;s relevant to the wedding between these people and these brine shrimp.
So he doesn&#8217;t shut up. He keeps going and going. And eventually he devolves into reciting land acknowledgements. Watch:
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No one thinks about getting rid of this guy at any point. That&#8217;s what&#8217;s really incredible about this. Imagine you&#8217;re getting married, and out of nowhere, some effeminate voice pipes up, and starts reciting a land acknowledgement. And then he tells you all about how your wedding will benefit him. Even if you&#8217;re an intersectional feminist, it&#8217;s enough to make you root for global warming to accelerate a little bit and ruin the whole beach.
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But eventually the land art quiets down, and they&#8217;re allowed to recite the vows. And then there&#8217;s even more drama, because someone interrupts once again. This is a theme of these eco-sexual weddings, apparently. None of these people can shut up. Watch:
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So they ask the shrimp for psychic consent. And one of them says, &#8220;I don&#8217;t hear no. &#8230; My sense is not all of them, but most of them.&#8221;
And apparently, that&#8217;s good enough for these people. They subscribe to the Harvey Weinstein school of ethics over there in Poland&#8217;s eco-sexual community, I suppose. So the marriage takes place, although there&#8217;s a caveat. As the paper puts it: &#8220;To avoid potential harm to living critters, vows were made to the brine shrimp’s exponentially enlarged augmented reality image, which popped up at the lake’s shore above the humans’ heads.&#8221;
And then they consummated the marriage by walking into the water with their hands in the air. Watch:
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At this point, I have to come clean. 
I have to admit that I don&#8217;t have much of a grand overarching point to make about the wonders of feminist blue post humanities and hydrosexuality. These people are so far gone that you legitimately can&#8217;t tell if they&#8217;re mocking the very concept of humanities.
Let me simply state: We have clearly reached the logical end point of wokeness. Every &#8220;slippery slope&#8221; argument conservatives made for the past 50 years has been vindicated. When feminists are marrying the brine shrimp while a talking sculpture recites land acknowledgements in the background, it&#8217;s abundantly clear that wokeness has jumped the shark. (Although I hesitate to make that statement, because the next video might actually involve these people trying to jump some sharks. And that footage would, in all likelihood, be even more disturbing to watch than this &#8220;Cyber Wedding to the Brine Shrimp.&#8221;)
But all the same, these people (or their survivors) would probably be able to find some peer-reviewed publication to publish the footage anyway. After all, there is no bottom to modern-day academia. There are just queer women getting married to brine shrimp, all the way down. The hoaxers have become indistinguishable from the serious, credentialed feminist eco-sexual professors. And that is why eco-sexuals, peer-reviewed publications, and feminist academics who marry shrimp are canceled.

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/wicked" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Wicked</a> star Ethan Slater’s ex-wife, Lilly Jay, recently published an essay addressing their divorce.
Slater has been criticized for leaving Jay, his high school sweetheart, and immediately starting a relationship with his “Wicked” co-star <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/ariana-grande">Ariana Grande</a>. Before now, his ex-wife has not commented on the situation, but her essay does reference the split and how it affected her personally and professionally.
“In the countless hours I spend rocking my son to sleep, pushing his stroller, marveling at his sweaty little hands grasping a crayon, I work diligently on my private project of accepting the sudden public downfall of my marriage,” Jay <a href="https://www.thecut.com/article/lilly-jay-divorce-essay-therapy.html">wrote</a> in an essay headlined, “How Does My Divorce Make You Feel?,” which was published on Thursday. 
“This, I tell myself, is nothing to be ashamed of and nothing to hide. Slowly but surely, I have come to believe that in the absence of the life I planned with my high-school sweetheart, a lifetime of sweetness is waiting for me and my child.&#8221;
Jay, who works as a clinical psychologist, said that no couple “gets married thinking they’ll get divorced, in the same way we don’t board a plane expecting to crash. But I really never thought I would get divorced. Especially not just after giving birth to my first child and especially not in the shadow of my husband’s new relationship with a celebrity.&#8221;
“Days with my son are sunny. Days when I can’t escape the promotion of a movie associated with the saddest days of my life are darker,” she wrote about the huge marketing campaign associated with the film “Wicked.”
Jay also mentioned that she and Slater experienced “growing distance” while he was working on the movie.
“As a perinatal psychologist, I knew all the statistics — how vulnerable a marriage is in the postpartum period, how vital community connection is in preventing depression and anxiety, how new parenthood impacts a whole family — but I confidently moved to another country with my 2-month-old baby and my husband to support his career,” she wrote. “Consumed by the magic and mundanity of new motherhood, I didn’t understand the growing distance between us.”
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Ultimately, Jay said she hopes sharing her story will help others.
“Maybe we can think about my messy not-so-personal life in that way: a dose of my own loss, rage, powerlessness, sadness that helps me hold yours,” she wrote. “Knowing what you now know, I can say with both personal and professional authority, you are so much stronger than you assume. Some of what you loved most about your partner was actually your own goodness reflected back to you; it’s yours to keep and carry forward.”
Grande separated from then-husband Dalton Gomez in July 2023 after two years of marriage. Slater and Jay broke up that same month. 
The singer seemingly addressed the backlash with the release of her single “Yes, And?” in January, which included the line, “Your business is yours and mine is mine / Why do you care so much whose — I ride?”

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'Wicked' Star Ethan Slater's Ex-Wife Breaks Silence On Divorce

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New details are emerging about the suspect in the shooting that took place at Abundant Life Christian School.
The Washington Post has <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/12/17/madison-wisconsin-school-shooter-natalie-rupnow/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> on the “troubled home life” of the shooter:
<blockquote>The 15-year-old girl who killed two people and wounded six others at her small Christian school here Monday had a turbulent home life, according to court records, which show that her parents divorced and remarried multiple times and that she had been enrolled in therapy. …
“There are always signs of a school shooting before it occurre[s],” Madison Police Chief Shon Barnes said at a Tuesday news conference, where he asked the public for patience as authorities investigated [the suspect’s] social media activity and state of mind leading up to the rampage. 
The teen is one of just nine female school shooters in the last 25 years, according to a database maintained by The Post. She is also among the younger recent shooters. … [The suspect’s] father is a Christian who often shared pictures of his dogs and his daughter, according to a review of his Facebook profile. …
But one post, from August, has attracted more scrutiny than others. In it, a photo appears to show [the suspect] wielding a gun and taking aim at a firing range. </blockquote>
Obviously, this means the Left is going to name and focus on gun control as the chief issue.
But, it seems to me, there is a bigger issue here: family turmoil.
I know these are the issues we are not supposed to discuss in American life. We are supposed to believe in a libertarian social ethos that says: When parents have a child and they break up for their own well-being and for the preservation of their own happiness, that has no impact on children whatsoever.
This has been a lie since it started in the 1950s and 1960s in the United States. The divorce rate in those days was significantly lower than the current divorce rate. Today, the divorce rate in the United States shows roughly half of all marriages end in divorce.
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Many people will divorce and remarry multiple times. According to The Washington Post&#8217;s review of court records, the suspect&#8217;s parents first married in 2011, about two years after she was born. All social science demonstrates that living together before marriage is often a bad idea because it is an indication that people are not willing to make the commitment to marry before having a child.
Marriage should be the predicate for sleeping together and then having children. I acknowledge these are old-fashioned ideas, but they existed for a reason, just as social institutions did. It was deemed a smart idea to get married before living together because it channeled sexual passions into family building.
A man had to give up his waywardness and make a commitment to a woman before getting one of the things he wanted out of the relationship with the woman. And it meant a woman would have to be pretty discerning about just with whom she chose to have sex, as doing so could result in pregnancy.
The opposite perspective has been quite bad for the West in general. We have declining birth rates, unhappy families, broken families. None of this has been a boon to the West as a general matter, despite all of the West&#8217;s promises that a libertarian sexual ethos would make everyone happier.
Zero evidence exists that a libertarian sexual ethos makes everyone happier. General happiness surveys across the West show a radical decline since the 1970s, particularly among women who are supposed to be the people most liberated by the new sexual ethos.
In this particular case, the mother of the suspect had been previously married and divorced; then, she had another daughter with a different man, to whom she was never married. Court records indicate this girl had other permanent legal guardians. The half sister is now 20-years-old. The suspect&#8217;s parents divorced for the first time in 2014, agreeing to joint legal custody of their shared daughter, but specifying she would live primarily with her mom.
From the Post:
<blockquote>The couple remarried in 2017 and divorced for a second time in 2020, again agreeing to share custody but, the court records show, dividing [the suspect’s] time more evenly between them. During this period, [the suspect] would spend two days with her father, two with her mother, then three more with her father, before reversing the schedule the following week.
Shortly after [the suspect’s] parents split up for the second time, the couple remarried once more. But by April 2021 they were petitioning for a third divorce. A judge granted it a month later but noted that “parties [were] admonished concerning remarriage,” according to court records.
After seeking mediation to determine custody of [the suspect], they agreed in July 2022 that they would share legal custody but that the girl would now live mostly with her father. By this time, [the suspect] had been enrolled in therapy, which was supposed to help guide decisions about which parent she would spend weekends with, the records show. 
The 2022 custody papers said [the suspect’s] parents were on cordial terms. “The parents report a generally positive co-parenting relationship,” the document reads, “and will continue to communicate with one another by text messages and phone conversations.” </blockquote>
Let&#8217;s get real: It doesn&#8217;t matter if mommy and daddy get along when they&#8217;re not living together. What matters is the impact on the child.
This is what happens when the actual value of marriage is substituted for a transitory perception of passion and romance. Marriage is not built predominantly on feelings. It is predominantly built on duty. 
I know this is a strange idea to many people who are living in the post-modern West. But the reality of the world is that marriage was built on commitment.
Marriage itself is an institution that requires fealty to the institution, not merely to the other person who is part of the institution. This bizarre notion that marriage was supposed to be about a sort-of formalization of romantic love as opposed to a shared value system that was capable of building the next generation is a wrong idea.
And it has been a mistake for the West to embrace that.
Romance is an enormous part of marriage. But it is not the chiefly important part of marriage when children become secondary as opposed to the primary purpose. Not only is marriage defeated, but the children are also defeated.
The idea of romance being the primary focus of marriage took hold during the Romantic Period in the 19th century. But it turned out that human biology thwarted the plans of romantic love to overcome the institution of marriage. The institution, like all institutions built by civilization, was built by human beings in order to channel human passions. Then, they were made sacred by human beings in order to civilize their passions.
We build entire civilizations in order to channel those passions in positive directions. One of the most fervent passions people have is the passion for sexual relationships. It&#8217;s very powerful.
It can also be incredibly destructive. This is why marriage is such an important institution. The institution of marriage channels that passion toward the production and rearing of children, as opposed to simply leaving little boys and girls all over the landscape without proper mothers and fathers in functioning households.
Treating women poorly is what happens in a free-love system, which is how women currently feel. They feel men treat them like trash.
And many of the men are looking at the system saying it’s a consensual system. What&#8217;s the problem?
The answer is that the consent women are typically looking for is not merely sexual consent. It is consent to a long-term relationship that is meaningful, spiritual, and purposeful.
When a society lacks these things, the result is tremendous human suffering, true human suffering.
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This belief in a concept of “free divorce, easy living, get back together, break up, get back together, break up, find new partners, and the kids will just be fine, because, you know, kids can take it,” is a blight.
The kids can take it? No, you can take it. You&#8217;re the adult.
Is what happened in the school shooting the parents’ fault? Given the fact they were living the way they lived, it’s a reasonable question.
If you treat your children like a bizarre form of chattel, shuttling them between parent and parent because you want to live your best life, guess what? Things go wrong.
Once you have kids, you are no longer first priority. You&#8217;re not even second priority. As a father, you’re third priority. First priority: your kids. Second priority: your wife. And then comes you.
A disproportionate number of people who commit these types of acts are children of broken homes. And it turns out a disproportionate number of people who commit violent crimes are also products of broken homes.
Longstanding social science data indicates delinquency radically increases when no father is present in the home. Crime radically increases; teenage pregnancy radically increases.
This is what happens when a society decides it is very important to disengage from the institutions and civilization that channeled passions and, instead, just humor those passions and let everything else be left by the wayside.
I think the American people are ready for a serious conversation about what the good life looks like. There&#8217;s a lot of talk in politics these days about the common good and what we all hold together. What is it? What is sacred? What ought to be put beyond political debate?
It used to be beyond political debate that family comes first.
I think the American people are tired of all this, tired of the deep libertarian sexual ethos. I think we are in the middle of what could be a cultural renaissance.
That kinship principle — to be with your family in your home, to raise your children so that their children will have healthy children, to build familial wealth over the course of generations, to sit on the porch when you&#8217;re 80 years old with your grandkids playing in the yard, to know you lived a good, dutiful, purposeful life and will continue contributing to future generations — that is what Americans yearn for.
Because without it, the country falls apart.

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No, Divorce Isn’t ‘Fine For The Kids’

No, Divorce Isn't 'Fine For The Kids'

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Singer <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/lana-del-rey">Lana Del Rey</a> offered a rare glimpse into her decision to marry <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/louisiana">Louisiana</a> alligator tour boat operator Jeremy Dufrene, explaining some of the qualities she found attractive in him.
The 39-year-old celebrity made the remarks while introducing singer and songwriter Jack Antoff at the Variety Hitmakers event over the weekend.
&#8220;I’m grateful for [Antoff] for his example that he gave me in his marriage to Margaret [Qualley],&#8221; she said. &#8220;I saw the way he looked at her when he met her, and he’s a big reason why I waited so long to get married, and why I met my amazing husband. I feel like there’s a singers’ curse around meeting an honest partner who has no skin in the game, no dog in the race,” Del Rey said during her speech.
She continued, “It’s super nerve-wracking to hold on to an innocent perception of how things could go when you’re in an industry where maybe your values and your morals don’t quite match up with what’s going on. Especially when people think you probably don’t have any morals or values. I can get all twisted up.&#8221;
Followers on social media were delighted by how fondly the singer spoke about her husband, who she married earlier this year, saying she was “<a href="https://x.com/BritHugoboom/status/1865602795744969032">glowing</a>.”
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Lana Del Rey waited so long to get married because it was hard to find an honest, good man in an industry that didn’t necessarily match with her morals and values.
Always knew she was a good one. 
She’s glowing when she talks about her husband. <a href="https://t.co/v3IAieo4uV">pic.twitter.com/v3IAieo4uV</a>
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Others wondered if Del Rey could have become a conservative now despite the fact that she’s publicly shunned President-elect <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/donald-trump">Donald Trump</a> in the past, going so far as to cast a spell on him in 2017.
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The Brit Award winner made headlines for her unlikely choice of spouse when she wed the alligator tour boat captain this fall, especially as fans speculated that the Louisiana native was likely a Trump supporter.
Dufrene has set his social media accounts, including Facebook and Instagram, to private. But purported screenshots show Dufrene sharing pro-Trump content that aligns with conservative values, as The Daily Wire previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/lana-del-rey-marries-alligator-tour-guide-fans-freak-out-that-he-might-support-trump">reported</a>. One meme allegedly shared by Dufrene promotes physical action if a male were to enter a girl’s bathroom with someone’s daughter.
Dufrene, a father of three, seems to have met Del Rey in 2019 when she took a boat tour with him. The pair wed in late September on the same bayou where Dufrene operates his tours.

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/martha-stewart">Martha Stewart</a> explained how she got away with <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/marriage">cheating</a> on her former husband and never got caught.
The 83-year-old lifestyle brand founder bragged that it was “very easy” to keep her infidelity under wraps. “You have to be circumspect,&#8221; Stewart told Lee Brian Schrager while celebrating the publication of her 100th book Wednesday night, per a video released by <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-13970903/martha-stewart-easy-cheating-secret-marriage-husband.html">The Daily Mail</a>.
The affair was revealed earlier this month as part of the trailer for her new Netflix documentary, “Martha.” Stewart admitted she had an affair while married to Andrew Stewart, who she was with from 1961 until 1990. 
&#8220;Young women, listen to my advice, if you’re married and your husband starts to cheat on you, he’s a piece of s***,&#8221; <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/entertainment">Stewart</a> said in the trailer. &#8220;Get out of that marriage.&#8221; 
This declaration prompted a producer to ask, &#8220;Didn’t you have an affair early on?&#8221; Stewart replied, &#8220;Yeah, but I don’t think Andy ever knew about that.&#8221;
Stewart started dating her former husband when she was just 19, and he was 23 after being set up on a blind date. Together they have one daughter, Alexis, who was born in 1965.
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The cookbook author never married again but has been linked romantically to actor Anthony Hopkins and billionaire Charles Simonyi in subsequent years. Stewart <a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/martha-stewart-anthony-hopkins-b1997725.html">reportedly</a> broke up with Hopkins after seeing the film “The Silence of the Lambs” because she couldn’t stop picturing him as Hannibal Lecter. 
The documentary follows Stewart’s rise to fame, plus her marriage and incarceration for insider trading. &#8220;What does it mean to be the first female self-made billionaire in history?&#8221; Stewart asks at the beginning of the trailer. 
Stewart said she was &#8220;considered crazy&#8221; early on, &#8220;but it worked.&#8221; Stewart started as a stockbroker after a brief modeling stint. She founded a catering business in the 1970s that led to her first cookbook, &#8220;Entertaining,&#8221; in 1982. 
The media brand owner served time in Alderson Federal Prison Camp, a minimum security facility in West Virginia, between 2004 and 2005. She was convicted on multiple felony charges, including conspiracy and obstruction of justice in conjunction with the ImClone stock insider trading scandal in 2001.

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Martha Stewart Brags About How ‘Easy’ It Was Keeping Affair Secret From Her Husband

Martha Stewart Brags How 'Easy' It Was Keeping Affair Secret From Her Husband

American journalists and other human folderol are claiming that Democrat men are “redefining masculinity.” And no, I’m not making that quote up. Jen Psaki psaid pso on her psucky pshow on MPSNBC. And there have been similar headlines in USA Today and other trusted news outlets or at least outlets trusted by the same sort of people who think, “Okay, this time I’m sure I know which card is the queen. I’ll bet another twenty dollars.”
So let’s take a look at the Democrat men these journalists are talking about.
One example is Doug Emhoff, who’ll be first gentleman if Kamala Harris wins the election. Which definitely does redefine masculinity if by that you mean eliminates it completely. I mean, holy crap, it’s bad enough to be married to Kamala Harris but now you have to go to parties and people say &#8220;What do you do?&#8221; and you’re like, &#8220;I’m the first gentleman,&#8221; and they sort of simper and say &#8220;Oh, how wonderful, you’re redefining masculinity,&#8221; but what they’re really thinking is: this poor guy must have a package the size of a mustard seed. So now you’re lying awake at night in the Lincoln bedroom or wherever, staring at the ceiling and wondering how you got to a place where technically you’re still a man I guess, but not only are you the king cuck of the universe, but you also have to listen to that laugh Kamala has until you start thinking, “Hey, she’s guarded by the same Secret Service that guarded Donald Trump, so basically she&#8217;s got no protection. I could still get out of this.”
Okay, I kind of went off on a tangent there and I’m not sure what point I was trying to make. But let’s remember that Mr. Doug Redefining Masculinity actually cheated on his last wife with the nanny until she got pregnant and had an abortion, which sounds to me like the same old Democrat definition of masculinity as always. And now he’s also been accused of slapping his former girlfriend after she flirted with another man at a party.
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That raises some interesting questions, right? For instance, you might ask: “Well, is it always wrong to smack your girlfriend?” And yes, of course it is! And you might ask, “But what if she’s, like, really, really annoying — like Kamala Harris level annoying with that laugh and everything?” And I would say: Still, you don’t just slap her. It’s not like she’s your wife where the occasional swat on the backside is probably cheaper than a divorce. She’s your girlfriend, you can dump her if she’s that much trouble. And you might say, “Well, okay, what if she’s a journalist, and not just any journalist, but like one of those two dames who moderated the Vice Presidential debate and sat there all night with those prissy little smiles on their faces while skewing all the questions in a leftist direction and then cutting off JD Vance’s microphone when he tried to correct their so-called fact check which was against the rules in the first place?”
And okay, look, there are always gray areas. But if you’re dating a girl who’s a journalist, you might want to take a good look in the mirror before you just get handsy with her. The problem could be you, my friend.
Anyway, the question is: are Democrat men really redefining masculinity or are they just a bunch of sleaze-balls? Because not only do you have Doug Emhoff banging the nanny then playing ping-pong-face with a flirty girlfriend. But you’ve also got Tim Walz and, oh my God, right? Talk about a guy who’s redefining masculinity to the point where it could become a capital offense. I mean, is there something creepy about that dude or what? I don’t want to go too far here. If it turned out Walz had, like, an oubliette in his basement with his next victim already down there praying to God Clarice Starling can find her before it’s too late, I would be surprised. But only maybe thirty percent surprised. Maybe twenty. If that.
So in conclusion, Democrat men are redefining masculinity. Yeah, either that or Democrat women are cucking them nutless to keep from getting smacked in the kisser.
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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/jennifer-lopez">Jennifer Lopez</a> is “devastated” over her failed marriage to actor <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/jennifer-lopez-and-ben-afflecks-68m-mansion-hits-market-amid-divorce-rumors">Ben Affleck</a> after she filed for divorce on Tuesday following two years of marriage, a source shared with <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/jennifer-lopez-devastated-about-ben-affleck-divorce-gave-her-all-make-work-source">Fox News</a>.
On the second anniversary of the 55-year-old singer’s southern wedding ceremony in Georgia, Lopez put to bed rumors about the Hollywood superstar’s relationship troubles when she filed for divorce in Los Angeles County Superior Court without an attorney, the outlet reported.
A source has since told the outlet that the actress feels she “gave it her all to make this work” with Affleck and is “devastated” she couldn’t make their marriage work after they rekindled their romance in the summer of 2021, after previously calling off their first engagement in 2004.
Another source said the “Good Will Hunting” star seems to be fine after the split, saying that the 52-year-old actor “threw in the towel a long time ago.&#8221;
While another insider told the outlet, “Ben has been his usual, high-energetic self. He&#8217;s been busy with his kids and work and seems to be doing just fine.&#8221;
In the divorce filing, Lopez wrote that the separation occurred on April 26, <a href="https://people.com/ben-affleck-and-jennifer-lopez-divorce-live-updates-8699009">People magazine</a> noted.
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On the same day reports surfaced that Lopez had filed for divorce, the “Gone Girl” star was spotted not wearing his wedding ring.
As to why she chose the anniversary of their wedding ceremony, a source told the outlet, “She was done waiting and the date she did it speaks a ton.” 
The move &#8220;gives her control of the process,&#8221; added the source. &#8220;It&#8217;s good that she did it.&#8221;
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One insider told <a href="https://people.com/jennifer-lopez-began-house-hunting-in-april-amid-ben-affleck-split-source-8699337?taid=66c64651235a150001a05460&amp;utm_campaign=peoplemagazine&amp;utm_content=new&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter.com">People</a>, “She&#8217;s very disappointed and sad, but Ben hasn&#8217;t given her any signs that he wants to continue their marriage.”
&#8220;She tried really hard to make things work and is heartbroken,” the source added. &#8220;The kids are a top priority, as they always have been.”
In June, rumors surfaced that their marriage was over and a source at the time told the outlet that Affleck “started moving out a while ago. The marriage is completely over, and Jennifer is heartbroken. She loves love and wanted this to work so badly.&#8221;
Lopez and Affleck officially tied the knot in a legal ceremony in Las Vegas in 2022, before they celebrated their matrimony at a backyard ceremony at an $8 million Georgia mansion with family and friends a month later. It all happened 18 years after the couple first got engaged in 2002 before calling it off in 2004.
The “Deep Water” star was previously married to actress Jennifer Garner for more than a decade. The two share three kids. Lopez has been married three times and shares two kids with her ex-husband singer Marc Anthony.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/jennifer-lopez-finally-reveals-whether-she-or-ben-affleck-reached-out-to-rekindle-their-romance" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jennifer Lopez Finally Reveals Whether She Or Ben Affleck Reached Out To Rekindle Their Romance</a>

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Adapted from<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/ep-1548-member-exclusive" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> “The Michael Knowles Show,”</a>  August 8, 2023.
This week, a 33-year-old track-and-field Olympian woman proposed to her fiance after finishing fourth in the women’s 3,000-meter steeplechase. She finished the race, ran off the track, and knelt to propose. The story has <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KW372SBz8Dc" target="_blank" rel="noopener">gone viral</a>.
She proposed with a pin, engraved “Love is in Paris.” (Is that the proper way? Do you propose to a man with a pin? Or a ring? A Rolex?) Nevertheless, the man accepts the proposal from his girlfriend, they kiss, and celebrations ensue. This is pretty par for the course for the 2024 Olympics considering the gender-bending going on in the Paris games from the weird, decadent opening ceremonies to boxing to this marriage proposal.
So, why is this wrong? The centrists, the moderates, and even the center Right will say, “Now Michael, what is wrong with that? What is wrong with a woman proposing to a man? There is nothing wrong, you fuddy duddy, you old-fashioned radical extremist.” Yet we all know it’s a bit weird. Our intuition tells us it’s wrong for a woman to propose to a man. Intuitively, we know a man is supposed to propose marriage to a woman, even if you are unable to articulate the precise reasons why that is. We all know it intuitively.
Many of the people who will criticize me for raising any questions about this will also agree with me; they just don’t give themselves permission to admit it because they can’t write a perfectly rational treatise about why a man should propose to a woman — and not the other way around. They will deny their intuition. Still, there are perfectly rational reasons as to why the tradition of men proposing to women has come to be.
First, men tend to be the less eager party when it comes to getting married. While one might argue that is wrong, bad, and terrible, it is nonetheless true. This goes back to when we were five years old. No five-year-old boy in the history of the world has ever dreamed about his wedding day. However, most five-year-old girls dream about their wedding day.
That is simply how men and women are built; it is how we are wired. The libs complain about this — they complain about nature and reality quite a lot — and they are discontent with it. They unceasingly try to revolutionize and upend reality. But the fact remains: Men are the less eager party when it comes to getting married. Because we are the ones who must get over the hesitancy of getting married, we are the ones who take the initiative to propose.
Second, generally men take more of a financial risk when getting married. Though in today’s time it is less common, men are often the breadwinners, so they are the party who proposes because they are taking more of a financial risk when doing so.
Putting aside the matter of who the breadwinner is, men take the emotional risk to propose. Sometimes when a man gets on one knee, the woman says, “No thanks.” This exact scenario happened at a UFC fight, where a fighter proposed to his girlfriend following his fight, and she said no. He was devastated and utterly broken down. But a man takes that risk — and that is ok.
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Men and women are different. For any of the putative conservatives who criticize this stance and ask why it matters who proposes to whom, consider the issue of transing the kids. We all agree we should not trans the kids. (Not Tim Walz. Tim Walz wants to trans the kids, but the vast majority of all normal people think we should not trans the kids.) The reason we shouldn’t trans the kids is because a man cannot be a woman. So, are you also willing to agree we should not trans the adults? Because if a man cannot be a woman, then that is true at any age.
Are you willing to go further and say marriage has a distinct meaning? At its core, the defining feature of marriage is about how men and women are different. Many conservatives will not go so far as to agree with that today. Are you willing to go even further on the point of feminism? According to multiple social surveys, feminism has actually caused women to be less happy because it runs contrary to nature and reality — because men and women are different.
So if transing the kids is wrong because men and women are different, a point on which we all agree, then all of these things have to be wrong. So, maybe it is ok to admit there is something wrong with a lady proposing to a man at the Olympics or anywhere else for that matter.
On a final note, this couple had been dating for nine years. Some have responded, saying, “Well, Michael, the boyfriend had not proposed, so she took matters into her own hands. He should have manned up and proposed.” Yes, I’m sure he should have proposed or broken up with her; however, while I have great sympathy for the woman and I think the man is a total loser (as does the rest of the world because of how this whole situation played out), the woman still should not have been the one to propose.
What should she have done? She should have dumped him years ago. Or, she should have done what my grandmother did to my grandfather (who did not date for nine years) and given him an ultimatum: marry or break up. So, my grandfather proposed. They had six children, were married for 69 years, and had a wonderful life. That’s what should have happened.
But a woman proposing to a man? It’s just not quite right.
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