Caught an episode of "The Twilight Zone" that interestingly captured a modern woman's attitude and how it can break a man. In the episode, "A Stop at Willoughby".....
"Gart Williams is an overstressed New York advertising executive who has grown exasperated with his career. His overbearing boss, Oliver Misrell, angered by the loss of a major account, lectures him about this "push-push-push" business. Unable to sleep properly at home, he drifts off for a short nap on the train during his daily commute through the November snow.
He wakes to find the train stopped and changed into an 1880s railcoach, deserted except for himself. The sun is bright outside and as he looks out the window, he discovers that the train is in Willoughby and that it's July 1888. He learns that this is a "peaceful, restful place, where a man can slow down to a walk and live his life full measure." Being jerked back awake in the real world, he asks the conductor if he has ever heard of a town called Willoughby, but the conductor replies, "Not on this run . . . no Willoughby on the line."
That night, he has one more argument with his shrewish wife, Jane. Selfish, cold and uncaring, she makes him see that he is only a money machine to her. He tells her about his dream and about Willoughby, only to have her ridicule him as being "born too late," declaring it her "miserable tragic error" to have married a man "whose big dream in life is to be Huckleberry Finn."
The next week, Williams again dozes off on the train and returns to Willoughby where everything is the same as before. As he is about to get off the train carrying his briefcase, it begins to roll, returning him to the present. Williams promises himself to get off the next time he is in the village.
Experiencing a breakdown at work, he calls his wife, who abandons him in his time of need. On his way home, once again he falls asleep to find himself in Willoughby. This time, the conductor warmly beckons him to the door and Williams discards his briefcase.
Getting off the train, he is greeted by name by various of the inhabitants, who welcome him while he tells them that he's glad to be there and plans to stay and join their idyllic life.
The swinging pendulum of the station clock fades into the swinging lantern of a train engineer, standing over Williams' body. The modern-day conductor explains that Williams "shouted something about Willoughby", just before jumping off of the train and was killed instantly. "Poor fellah", the engineer mumbles, as the conductor nods in agreement. Williams's body is loaded into a hearse and as the back door closes, we see that it was sent by the Willoughby & Son Funeral Home."Below, at the 2:45 part is the start of the scene with the wife. It is worth watching to the see selfish and unsympathetic nature of this modern woman. She could care less about her husband's well-being, about what he wants in life, about the stresses he is under; what she cares about is that he doesn't blow it and ruin his career that affords her the lifestyle she so deserves. She is clearly angry that her husband is not a natural alpha and that rather she has been stuck with, in her mind, a loser. He says its his wife's appetite that got him where he is today (meaning this negatively), she then brags about where would he be without her appetite for status and wealth as if he would be nothing without her and that those are the only things that truly matters. He then offers a very honest answer--he wants to be in a simpler time or at least live a simpler life, like his dream of Willoughby. This is where she then "ridicules him as being "born too late," declaring it her "miserable tragic error" to have married a man "whose big dream in life is to be Huckleberry Finn."
A following scene shows Gart at the verge of a breakdown at work. He calls his wife in a desperate plea for help and support; it is his only hope, but all she can do is hang up on him. This leads to a tragic ending; one that is becoming all to familiar amongst men as the women in their lives who are suppose to be with them for better and worse, to be their support, their comfort, continue to give up and abandon them just because the men are not living up to the expectation of what they consider to be a "a real man". We are told time and time again that men should share their emotions, that "holding feelings in is not what being a man is about", yet here we have a man who is doing just that, opening himself to his wife, and all he gets is ridicule and abandonment. The lesson here is that Huckleberry Finns won't do for the modern woman and men today are unfortunately learning this the hard way.
Wednesday, September 28, 2011
A Lesson about Women from The Twilight Zone
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So sad....I see it over and over again. Women not able to see their part in the destruction of their marriage.
It is a bit telling that The Twilight Zone aired in the late 50's early 60's. This goes to show that the rot began setting in earlier than most people realize. I can remember watching various shows on TV as child, where the proverbial hen-pecked husband was a standard joke. It was only at the behest of the sense of humor of men that anyone got away with it. I guess no one is laughing now.
If you think about it, the basic premise of death being a man's only release was a bit subversive for the time. It has become more of a frightening reality today because people laughed yesterday.
Thanks to feminism, a woman can go out and build her own future today.
More like "She BETTER go out and build a future" lest she be disparaged for colluding with the patriarchy, or some such lunacy. I find it curious that thanks to feminism, the entire ecomonic structure has changed to the point that women have just as little choice as they had in the "bad old days".
The only thing that hasn't changed is that a husband still has nothing but death to look forward to for release from a life of servitude. That's why fewer men are looking at marriage as a viable option to a happy life.
You guys are pathetic. That was a fictional TV show. It was NOT REAL. Lordie! Lordie!
Fiction is drawn from the social consciousness of the day. The story itself was fictional, but reflected attitudes present in real life.
That is a basis for folklore, and by extension is a measure of what people think. Then as now, people listen to their TVs more than they will ever listen to each other, and such shows drew attention because most viewers could identify on some personal level with the characters and situations. Selling the fantasy only works when that is in place.
Curiepoint,
All good thoughts.
I was going to say....
Art imitates life. Where does one propose we get the inspiration for such characters?
Thank you, Mrs. Robins. That's actually a much more succinct statement than I made.
I find flaw with the notion that if a story is fiction or folklore, it is 100% untrue. It's a fallacious conclusion. Our entertainment has always been a reliable yardstick of societal mores, just like art was a measure of a culture during the Rennaisance or Classical eras. While I am not prepared to call TV art of any kind, I believe the same principle applies.
Curie,
You are correct. If all fiction has no resemblance of reality then any film that depicts women as strong and empowered or kind and charitable should also not be taken seriously. If that is the mark some want to use, fine, but can't have it both ways. If one wants to declare because its fiction its not real, then good women depicted are not real either, just like the bad ones supposedly are not.
"That's why fewer men are looking at marriage as a viable option to a happy life."
Why is this a bad thing?
I think most ladies are a-OK with this.
Again, thanks to feminism, women can make their own way, and buy stuff with their own money. Marriage is nice, but not essential.
"such shows drew attention because most viewers could identify on some personal level with the characters and situations. "
Obviously, you've never seen Star Wars or Star Trek
Anon 8:30 p.m., I am sure some of the readers of this blog could identify with "from other planets" characters in Star Wars and Star Trek. I've long suspected
many of these readers are from other planets themselves. ;-)
Shows like Star Trek and movies like Star Wars only obliquely deal with issues outside normative standards. They are pure fantasy, but then so is most of what we consume in terms of entertainment. So-called reality shows are also mostly fantasy.
The point is that for all the far-reaching vision, and for all the fanciful flights of story-telling, still at the core of them all is a very human appeal, and thus identification with a character, or base-level situation. What is so different from Star Trek and all of their spin-offs? The original series had a barely believable swagger, and plenty of that oh-so-groovy hubris that was going about in the sixties. The newer shows illustrated an attitude change that was more reflective of the nineties attitudes. Still were the characters human (even the aliens) and each situation was addressed in human terms.
Same story, same attitude, same identification, same revelation of current societal thinking.
Women build their own future? Hilarious, especially hilarious because Anonymous is serious. Women can't even build their own present. I have written on this fact before. Excerpted:
Walk over to the window and look out. Everything you see out there was either made or invented by men, and usually both made AND invented by men.
The streets. The street lights. The sidewalks. The cars; trucks; and motorcycles driving by. The electric wires. The telephone wires. The cable TV wires. The water pipes under the ground. The sewage pipes under the ground. The storm sewers. Anything else you see out there that is made by humans was invented or made by men.
The floor or carpet you walked on to get to the window was almost certainly installed by men. The window was installed by men. The wall the window is in was installed by men. The foundation of the building was installed by men.
The electrical wires in your building were installed by men. The telephone was invented by a man. The computer and its software you are using to read this was invented by men.The climate control which keeps you comfortable was invented and developed by a man.
If everything made or invented by men were removed, you would be looking at native plants from the entrance of your cave. And, you would be hungry and cold and wearing rabbit skins.
If you want to see what it’s like when women are in charge, visit your local slum, preferably at midnight if you dare. Every town over 10,000 people has a well known place like this.
The yards will be unmowed and littered with junk. Houses will be boarded up. Burned cars will be lying in the streets. Nobody has a job; except for prostitution; pimping; burglary; and dealing drugs. Every house you see is a female headed household.
Find the best part of your town, where the streets are clean, the yards are well maintained; the houses are in great shape. Most of these houses belong to male headed households.
For forty years, every male has had to listen daily to a litany of male failings and evils. Yet, everything I have written here is absolute truth.
Anonymous age 69
Anon 69,
Every day you are obeying the rules of female leaders. Your laws are created by men and women, and if you don't obey them, you go to jail.
If this displeases you, then move to a country where women are oppressed. Perhaps you will be much happier there.
As for the inventions you mention, they were created at a time when men had a huge educational and legal advantage. Who knows how quickly electric lights would have been invented if women had been on an equal playing field?
Anonymous 69, you are right. With few exceptions everything invented has been invented by men. With few exceptions everything of any size has been built by men. In fact, men built entire civilizations. Men devised political systems and formulated religion. And all that inventing and building was very nice of men to and thank you very much. So it is a man’s world we see when we look around. From cars to cathedrals it is all man’s doing.
Women did nothing throughout history to contribute to the betterment of humankind…. Oh except give birth to the next generation and raise those children staying close to the hearth in the process and keeping home fires burning while men were out inventing and building things. And because women historically were not out in the world inventing and building things like men this makes them incapable of inventing and building things? You would have us believe that.
According to you, women without men and left to their own devises end up living in slum conditions. Women are incapable of getting anything accomplished without the assistance of men. According to you, if it were not for men, women would still be living in grass huts.
Well here is something from the blog of Amy Welborn a Catholic author. She writes about nuns:
“It’s one of the great untold and unappreciated stories of American Catholic history: 19th century Catholic women – thousands of them – spreading across the United States, founding hospitals and schools where ever they stopped, building them (sometimes literally) themselves from the ground up, in an era when women did not even have the right to vote and Catholics were under constant suspicion."
"Women – in this same era when the ideal woman was delicate, insular and submissive - traveling into the wildest, most dangerous areas of the country – both the frontier and the teeming cities – fearlessly, without male protection, and with full confidence in the work that lay ahead."
"In short, it’s a story of women building much of the infrastructure of the American Catholic Church as we know it now, with its network of schools, hospitals and charities.”
From another source about the influence Catholic nuns (women) have had on the making of America:
"The U.S. Catholic school system is the largest private school system in the world, largely established and run by Catholic nuns. More than 110 U.S. colleges and universities were founded by Catholic sisters."
"Throughout periods of struggle and controversy, Catholic sisters have opened orphanages, schools, hospitals, colleges, universities, and provided other social services that have served millions of Americans."
I kindly ask that you, Mr. 69, put that in your pipe and smoke it.
P.S. You can learn more about these lovely women and what they accomplished in Sisters by John Fialka.
Thank you so much October 7, 2011 8:39 PM for twisting the lovely work of orthodox Catholic women into your disgusting modern feminist worldview. That isn't right. Also Anonymous 69 the nuclear family build society okay. It wasn't feminists (women's rights activists) and it wasn't masculinists (men's rights activists). It was the patriarchal nuclear family where men and women worked together in their own different ways and loved each other. Thanks to liberalism people only care about freedom, autonomy, rebellion against God and destruction.
So, Anon 9:48 a.m., it is a plague on both our houses, mine and Anon 69. Well!
The family is the basic and most essential building block of society. I never said otherwise. My goodness, I have a husband and children myself. I honor and applaud the institution of the family.
In giving the work the good sisters have done as an example of what women are capable of doing on their own, I was countering Anon 69's argument that women are so incapable that they would still be living in grass huts if left to themselves. Of course this is not true.
The quickest way to discredit a contributor to blogs of this nature is to call her (or him) a feminist and a liberal. I have never considered myself either one. But I am about to sign up.
You women remind me of Auel's female fantasy novels. Virtually nothing on this planet was built or invented by women, period. And, huffing and puffing does not change reality.
As far as moving to another country, I have already done so, and not having to associate with women like you does indeed make me happy there. I participate in boards which encourage men to expat for the same reason. My son, who lives in UAE, tells me 1,000,000 men left the US last year.
I understand that any day now women will began to out-invent and out-build scummy old man. But, just in case, I am not going to hold my breath until it happens.
Some years ago, a man wrote the book FUTURE SHOCK, which describes change that comes so fast that people cannot keep up with it. 45 years ago, feminism changed things so fast many men could not cope with the changes. Now, the men's movement is coming so fast women like you cannot keep up. The pumping up of women by law, not deed, will collapse the day the government simply does not have the money to force it on society.
However, feel free to keep on with your fantasies.
Anonymous age 69
Oh, I forgot to mention while your super women built a few buildings (I should say allegedly built a few buildings) men built tens of thousands of buildings. And, they were not single story buildings of dubious quality.
Anonymous age 69
Let me show you something.
http://blogs.denverpost.com/captured/2010/07/13/captured-new-york-city-from-above/2331/
This is a very tiny fraction of New York City. Just a small fraction of buildings in the city, not to mention the USA. So, point out the buildings built by women. Hint: there aren't any.
Add in the streets; the bridges; the telephone wires; the cable wires; the electrical wires; the subways under the streets; the water and sewage system connected to every building in the city; the total infrastructure, just in NYC. It boggles the mind. All built by men.
In general, I find man-haters to be rather unpleasant people. The thing I do enjoy most is their tendency to portray themselves as they do. It is not necessary to call them names, since they portray themselves that way without help.
In this case, you are so desperate to belittle the good men do, which is significant, by bringing up a handful of missionary women who cobbled up a few small shacks, which no longer exist. And, believe you have put me in my place. Thank you for the help.
There are no words I can use to make it more obvious than you do, just how preposterous your view of men is.
Anonymous age 69
The original posting by Laura reminds me of Eric. Eric was part of my lifetime circle of minority friends. He served in Desert Storm, and was a brilliant, educated man. He totally offended his racist mother by marrying a white woman. So did his brother.
Last year, we were told he was missing. Finally, they found his body in the river, not far from his car in San Antonio. As a former suicide counselor, I needed no explanation.
His wife said, well, they had a quarrel a few hours before, but nothing sufficient to drive him to the river.
Oh, really? Like most women, she obviously had no idea of the power a wife has on her husband with her angry words, and it is clear to me she was on him, morning, noon, and night about one thing or another. Men do not kill themselves because of a minor, one-time quarrel.
Unless of course, she informed him she was filing for divorce and was going to take his (adopted) kids from him. But, I am betting on the former explanation.
I am confident he was crying when he walked to that river. It makes me sick to think about.
Anonymous age 69
Question, who here has ever had the (mis)fortune of encountering an MLM? You know, network marketing, all that jazz? You sponsor your friends, they sponsor some friends and sooner or later you become a multi millionaire.
Now the reality on the ground states that MLM’s are nothing but a sham, but that doesn’t stop
What I find so humorous about the comments from people like certain Anon’s is that they sound exactly like kool aid drinking MLMers who try to malign MLM critics. They use skewed stats (gender differences in education) in order to bolster their point but sadly, there is no basis in reality for their position, just like MLM apologists.
At the end of the day, people like Laura Grace Robins, Curiepoint, and Anon 69 simply have to point to reality of the situation and go about their business once more. It’s the feminized and their ilk that has to shame and belittle the messenger because they can’t disprove the message. If they weren’t so threatened by the likes of Laura (who is much more dangerous than any man could ever hope to be because she is a woman, and a happily married one at that) then why are they even here in the first place?
FYI, McDonalds’ is a powerful conglomerate, you ever see their public relations people chasing after the likes of Morgan Spurlock? They make their money regardless, so their response to “Supersize me” was a ‘healthier’ McDonalds. If feminism were as great as they say it was, then their presence here wouldn’t be necessary now would it? LGR wouldn’t be a threat, and you ladies would be able to live your lives without men.
This isn’t the case now is it?
For those who wish to argue, have at her, no really, please feel free. The reason why you are no longer a threat to the people I have already mentioned is that more and more people are seeing Feminism for what it is, and the fantasy is being dashed little by little every minute of every day. The issue with those who wish to run from reality, is that once you start running, you can never stop.
Happy Running Anons ;)
"So sad....I see it over and over again. Women not able to see their part in the destruction of their marriage."
It's very sad Lori, I've a recently seperated friend who is going through this very same thing. If you ask her she is the cat's meow, but she does leave so much to be desired as a partner. Sometimes it isn't so much that some can't see their part in the issue, is that they WON'T see.
Men and women are partners on this planet, have you checked out the reasoning behind LGR's choice behind her banner, it's very enlightineng I can assure you. Men are women are supposed to work together in making society a safe and beneficial place, this sadly isn't the case now and we are all paying the price for it.
One for the road. As a happily married man I can tell you and LGR one thing; that you can't care about yourselves without caring for the needs of your husbands and that of men as well. To not care about men, in the long run means to ignore your own needs too. I know you and LGR care, you Ladies are rarer than Platinum, keep up the good work and may your paths be overflowing with good fortune.
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I really liked this blog post especially since I'm a big fan of the Twilight Zone. I also liked the occasional feminist troll that appears on your comment section to extoll the virtues of "feminism" with some snappy little paragraph and then disappear into the digital shadows.
Let's be honest. Feminism especially its more extreme version 'gender feminism' rather than the basic equal-pay-for-equal-work deal is a blight on society. I had a friend who had a controlling shrewish wife and finally couldn't take her insanity. Example: when she would pick a fight with him she would throw out his clothes into the front yard from the second story window of their house. It came to the point where the neighbors across the street would come out onto their porches and sit with bowls of popcorn to watch 'the show.' He was humiliated and finally left. He married a Filipina lady from the Philippines who treated him like gold. His shrewish ex went ballistic. She had hoped he would kill himself "because if I reject you then you no right to get another woman". She tried calling the cops on him when he was back in town briefly, forbade him from seeing their 3 young sons and on and on. The Filipina lady (a Catholic and an anti-feminist) correctly pointed out that his ex had drank so deeply from the 'polluted well of the modern Western well' that she had forgot what it meant to be feminine. Most modern feminists are like the occasional fembot trolls who stop by here and add their two cents before scurrying off again.
Anyway long story short he invited me to visit the Philipines. I am not married and after yet another date with a "you work for XXX Inc --wow--how much money do you make" female, Im seriously thinking of visiting. Is it wrong to want a woman who wants me instead of my wallet? My grandmother says that in her day women who wanted your money were called....whores. hmm if the shoe fits...
Jonah
correction" that's "'polluted well of the modern Western woman'"
"Find the best part of your town, where the streets are clean, the yards are well maintained; the houses are in great shape. Most of these houses belong to male headed households."
That's because those parents had TWO parents, not one.
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