tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-440967410082699790.post4003018790089078045..comments2023-12-13T23:04:18.876+00:00Comments on The Battlefield of Love: Cheating at MonopolyClaire Khawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11557436240917008429noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-440967410082699790.post-1771480709196019102011-06-23T23:41:12.334+01:002011-06-23T23:41:12.334+01:00Wow, thank you for the one and only response I hop...Wow, thank you for the one and only response I hoped to receive, but better! xClaire Khawhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11557436240917008429noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-440967410082699790.post-60563691537413644732011-06-23T18:58:26.410+01:002011-06-23T18:58:26.410+01:00You mean I could murder my hubby and get away with...You mean I could murder my hubby and get away with it..... ;-) ?<br /><br />Sounds like a nightmare situation but not unexpected given the way roles have changed. They have not all changed for the worse but I worry about men having no useful function in society. I worry particularly about the lack of support for young single men whose needs are ignored by society. I work at times with charity providing food and clothing to young men of no fixed abode. Getting housing for them is nigh on impossible. Getting housing if they are working and earning even a small amount above the minimum is definitely impossible and they are often priced out of the market in the private sector. No wonder many men still live with parents.<br />I would like to see enough in the way of change, to make housing available to men as well as women. I'd especially like to see support available for those who work but who cannot afford the huge private rents. <br />Wildly off topic, or not - your retelling of the situation could easily act as a metaphor for the way society has reduced the role of men to little more than baby provider, meal ticket provider (or both). <br />I have met plenty of good men and good women who understand this and live their lives acknowledging the strengths of each other and supporting the weaknesses ( hey - we all have em). <br />Sadly I have met men and women who have accepted the status quo and who live in the same way. This reduces men to worthless people not needing our support and women to baby producers and single parents. This is worse if the man feels as worthless as society has told him he is. <br />So we have single mothers, absent fathers and children growing up without a single supportive male role model in their lives. Sad.ClairFnoreply@blogger.com