“slowly drain the life out of her too” “sexist boys in general” “sexist behavior is manly and cool” “every dude needs a hot chick who’ll fold his clothes” “apathetic idiot assholes” “misogyny coated excuse for men” “men pretend marriage doesn’t benefit them” “douchebags” “masculinity is defined by the size of ones id” “the purchaser being the new husband” “misogynist jerks”

Wow, the hatred for men here! But all this scorn and derision directed at men kinda undercuts the criticism of the site’s sexism does it not? I mean if you’re entitled to this level of contempt and insult toward men, then…well I guess that’s just the way it is here, right?

“I got real lucky and found an actual mature adult male” Really? Gee, “an actual mature male”! Miraculous! Unbelievable! Talk about sexism. Actually, I’ve know quite a few mature males, and you may find this hard to believe, but I’ve know quite a few immature females as well. Some of the anti-male comments here are rather on the grade school level unfortunately.

“I do use the Knot (helpful for tracking RSVPs, but…” LOL, it’s okay you don’t have to apologize for the Knot. But anyway yeah, all men are sexist jerks, immature douchebags who pretend to hate weddings when they actually love them, and who all have this ridiculous idea that having aesthetic taste is un-masculine, believe that women are for cleaning toilets, and on and on, their perfidy is unending. The hate, the hate.

Ah, but see, it’s all just a game. They (sexist boys in general) pretend they don’t want to get married – that’s its the death of their fun and freedom – so that they can get women to work that much harder to snag them. Once in, women will work that much harder to keep it together. And when they divorce, he’ll get a new one and slowly drain the life out of her too.

Though it may sound like i am anti-marriage, I’m not. I’m married, but I got real lucky and found a man – an actual mature adult male. it sounds like the site in this post is for the other kind – the useless, lazy, first husbands type.

If your lady is a materialistic bitch of a princess, why are you marrying her? Oh right, every dude needs a hot chick who’ll fold his clothes and have his babies by age ____.”

And clean his toilet. Because that’s disgusting and what women are for.

Sarah, I am starting to think you can read my mind.

If you (the male audience of this site) believe that getting married will be the end of all fun and excitement, don’t get married. Really, it’s not that difficult.

damn, I am officially depressed that The Plunge is actually a serious site.

I also just read “All Dressed in White: The Irresistible Rise of the American Wedding” by Carol Wallace, which was a fascinating look at American wedding traditions and how many of them came to be. When it comes to weddings, there is a need for far more voices and points of view to enter the conversation. The creators of The Plunge have a right to their view, obviously, but it saddens me greatly, and I think it does a disservice to men and women, grooms and brides.

But I think as long as you can take both with a grain of salt, and respect that many men might be assured by the “maxim magazine” tone of that site as women are as assured by the “cosmo tone” of female wedding planning literature. Sexist? certainly, but also useful in their own ways.